The "Morning Post" states:—"The Germans are moving towards Petrograd at the rate of fully fifty miles a day by motor car, capturing everything and spreading panic ...
Article : 362 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) made an important announcement to-day on the subject of recruiting. In responding to the loast of his health at a function arranged ...
Article : 606 wordsThe Collie miners have decided to resume work at 12 o'clock to-night. and coal supplies will be available immediately. This decision was arrived at this morning, when ...
Article : 397 wordsThe following French communique was issued on Sunday:—"There is fairly great artillerying in the regions of Vauxaillon. Chavignon, Butte-de-Mesnel. and on the left ...
Article : 178 wordsAt a special general meeting of the members of the Insitution of Surveyors in the early part of the month the possibilities of settlement along exisiting railways was ...
Article : 749 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation fixing the minimum price of 1918 wheat at 220 cents, and is urging the formers to serve humanity by hastening ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Pan-German newspapers are demanding that the Socialist deputy Cohn be prosecuted for high treason owing to a speech the delivered in the Reichstag. He declared ...
Article : 61 wordsThe War Trade Board announces that as a result of the American embargo, the food exports from Northern European neutrals to Germany had been cut down by ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs says that the enemy are preparing to bring tanks into action, and have been training their troops to attack behind them We may see tanks ...
Article : 58 wordsFr. O'Donnell, who took a prominent part in the two conscription referendum campaigns in Tasmania, arrived in Melbourne yesterday in pursuance of his military ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Press Burean announces that the Food Controller (Lord Rhondda) was issued the following message to the troops:—"Be of good heart about the home folks. The ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Premier Wang Shih Chen, has resigned owing to the party in favour of hostilities against Germany having caputred the Government. Tuan Chi Jui may ...
Article : 38 wordsThe advance of the Germans has aroused the masses who are rapidly enrolling to defend the Capital, where martial law has been proclaimed. A drastic Press ...
Article : 162 wordsIn the course of his statement on the Collie trouble, as published in the "West Australian" that Saturday, the Premier said— ...
Article : 409 wordsA telegram from St. John's Newfoundland, states that the British steamship Florizel. 3,081 tons, white bound from St. John's to New York, ran ashore at Cape ...
Article : 76 wordsLance-corporal Pitts and Private Choate, Australian soldiers who recently escaped from Germany, belonged to a working party of forty prisoners near Dusseldorf. ...
Article : 726 wordsLient William Hamilton-Fisher, Aust. Inf., of Western Australia, who was wounded in France, is at No. 3 L.G. H., Wandsworth. His son, Lient. Hurts ...
Article : 213 wordsDriven desperate by the fear of prosecution arising out of the disappearance of funds belonging to the Iromoulders' Union of which he was secretary, John ...
Article : 421 wordsMr. J. E. Fenton, M. H.R., addressed a well attended open air meeting at Midland Junction last night, Mr. T. H. Barrd, president of the Midland District Council of ...
Article : 758 wordsThe American Ambassador, Mr. D. R. Francis, has cabled from Petrograd that the Bolsheviks are preparing to defend Petrograd. The Diplomats are ready to ...
Article : 37 wordsA wireless German official message intercepted by the British Admiralty states:—"We advanced by forced marches into Esthonia, the enemy resisting at some ...
Article : 113 wordsThe secondary school scholarship scheme for the children of fallen and incapacitated soldiers was first projected by the Friendly Union of Soldiers' Wives, who, invoking ...
Article : 660 wordsSir Auckland Geddes, the Minister for National Service, addressing a number of discharged soldiers and sailors, said there was never greater need for man power. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "Matin" states that the so-called ethnographical map published in Berne in 1917 by German propagandists shows a delimitation of the Ukranian and Polish ...
Article : 83 wordsMrs. A. F. Reynolds of 437 William-street, Perth. has received word that her husband, Private Alick Reynolds, has been killed in action. He was previously reported, wounded and ...
Article : 119 wordsNews was received in Perth yesterday that the miners at Collie had decided to return to work, and the notification that operations on the coalfields were to be ...
Article : 225 wordsThe following military honours have been conferred:—Second Bar to Minitary Medal: Sergent A. N. Vallance. Bars to Military Medal: Servants A. F. Bellinger, W. J. ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. N. D. Baker, Secretary of War, in a communique, declares that the Germans plan is to seize Esthonia, Lvonia, Petrograd, and part of Finland. ...
Article : 34 wordsAn appeal from the decision of the Supreme Court of Queensland relating to the application of Thomas William McCawley, President of the Court of Industrial ...
Article : 289 wordsMr. Asquith, addressing a meeting of the Liberal agents yesterday, referred to the necessity for preparing for an inevitable general election with the completion of the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe White Guards drove back the Red Gaurds at many points in Finland, and captured Bjorneborg and Tammenfors. They are now advancing towards an important ...
Article : 37 wordsCommencing on March 4, the price of the "Daily Telegraph" will be twopence for the duration of the war. [The "Daily Telegraph" was established ...
Article : 49 wordsInformal peace negotiations between Baron von Kuehlmann, Count Czernin, M. Radoslavoff. Premier of Bulgaria, and General Averesco (Roumania) began on ...
Article : 74 wordsThe chief traffic manager of the Government Railways (Mr. W. Lord) advices that commencing to-day, the full suburban service will be restored, and the express to ...
Article : 101 wordsReferring to the recent Inter-Ailied Socialist Congress in London the "Daily Telegraph's Labour correspondent says he is doubtful whether all the delegates endrose ...
Article : 277 wordsIn the Essendon Police Court to-day an elderly woman named Mary Elizabeth McMurtrie, alias Toms, alias Doyle, was charged with having unlawfully married ...
Article : 119 wordsThe most important thing to be remembered in estimating the present situation in Russia is that "Bolsheviam" is a tendency quite independent of the personality ...
Article : 929 wordsIt was announced last night that the full normal service in connection with the Government tramways will be resumed as from to-day. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 wordsWhen the Premier (Mr. Bowser) announced that the subject of the dispute between the doctors and lodges would be left to the decision of Parliament. it was ...
Article : 145 wordsThe announcement that the Collie coal miners has decided to return to work was received in the city with feelings of relief, and the expedition with which the normal ...
Article : 659 wordsThe reported shipping merger was widely discussed in shipping circles to-day. The Sydney offices of the companies concerned denied any knowledge of the proposed ...
Article : 187 wordsA wireless Turkish official message states:—"We were unable to repulse all the enemy's attacks in Paleatine and took up previously appointed positions." ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier promised Mr. Lang that this week he would make a full statement regarding the refund of superannuation payments to ...
Article : 147 wordsMr. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labour, announces that he was received messages from Karl Legien, the head of the German trade ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. W. T. Massey says that the capture of Jericho was a most brilliant exploit. The Australian and New Zealand mounted troops moved eastward over the hills, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 26 Feb 1918, Page 5
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