It is reported that the Germans have begun a terrific bombardment along most of the British front. A special correspondent of the United ...
Article : 492 wordsAmerican troops raided German troops near Toul (about 20 miles south-east of St. Mihiel), and the combatants engaged in hand-to-hand fighting. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities reported yesterday:—"Two British and three French destroyers, off Dunkirk, between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning engaged some ...
Article : 231 wordsThe following decorations have been awarded:—Bar to the Military Medal.—Sergeant J. D. McLeod. of the Auckland Rifles. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe official opening of the Oriental Carnival in aid of the Metropolitan Charities takes place at 8 p.m. on Monday next. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. H. P. Cole ...
Article : 1,252 wordsSome time ago the Minister for Woods and Forests in Western Australia (Mr. R. T. Robinson) urged upon the Federal authorities the advisability of the erection of a ...
Article : 826 wordsRumours were current yesterday with reference to the intentions of those in authority with regard to matters affecting the Fremantle Gaol. The escapes from the ...
Article : 267 wordsMessrs. T. Bretnell and A. E. Barton, advisory accountants to the Royal Commission on Naval and Defence Administration, have furnished to the chairman a reply to ...
Article : 381 wordsThe Kaiser, in a message to the Rhenish Provincial Council, said: "We are at a decisive moment of the war, and one of the greatest in German history." The ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Lloyd George (the Prime Minister), replying to a deputation from the Trade Union Congress in favour of the nationalisation of the British railways, canals, and ...
Article : 64 wordsIt has been ascertained from Roman Catholic sources that semi-official negotiations are now being conducted between Germany and the Entente, and that ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Government has taken over a sausage factory in London, in order to produce attractive foods from by-products of the slaughter houses. The directors include ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, the special correspondent of the London "Daily Express," says:—"The attack is apparently the beginning of a great offensive. I have no doubt ...
Article : 184 wordsA Commercial Committee of the House of Commons has negatived unanimously the proposal of the British Empire League to have an Empire trade mark. ...
Article : 30 wordsMajor J. W. Flood (of Australia) lectured last night in Norfolk House, London, on the voyage of the German raider Wolf. Sir Charles G. Wade (the Agent-General for ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Empire Resources Development Committee has sent to Mr. Lloyd-George a resolution expressing the hope that the German colonies will not be returned, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe by-election to fill the vacancy in the representation of the Metropolitan Province in the Legislative Council caused by the resignation of Mr. Harry Boan will be held ...
Article : 763 wordsCaptain McVicker-Smyth has received word that his son Alan has recovered from his wound and returned to the Western front. A cable message has been received by Mr. ...
Article : 116 wordsA number of petitions are being circulated in the provincial towns asking the Government to place German prisoners of war on British vessels. ...
Article : 30 wordsM. Tohitcherin, the Commissary for Foreign Affairs, denies the rumour that a German commission is controlling the denationalisation of the banks. The Soviet ...
Article : 187 wordsOn Thursday John Gerke, a resident of a northern town, who is stying at an Adelaide hotel, withdrew £121 from a bank in the city to purchase a business. He ...
Article : 128 wordsNews received from Basle concerning Monday's British raid on Mannheim shows that enormous damage was done. Many houses in several parts of the town ...
Article : 137 wordsThe newspapers regard the latest speech of Sir Eric Geddes (the First Lord of the Admiralty) as reassuring rather than disquietening, but they complain of omissions ...
Article : 277 wordsFollowing is a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Silver Chain Nursing League for the year ended February 28 1918, also a statement of receipts and ...
Article : 1,064 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Glynn), and the Postmaster-General (Mr. Webster) will leave Melbourne for Sydney ...
Article : 125 wordsThe British [?]cial Press Bureau reported yesterday:—"Exclusive of raids in Germany, the British and Australian airmen on the Western front dropped, in ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Bonar Law announced that a German infantry attack had been launched that morning from the Scarpe to the Oise (a ...
Article : 215 wordsM. Al. Marghilomun has been appointed Premier of Roumania. It is reported that the new Cabinet is strongly pro-German. [M. Marghilomum was Minister for ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Pope has instructed the Papal Nuncio in Vienna to ask the Emperor Karl to take the initiative in a movement to stop the bombing of open towns outside ...
Article : 50 wordsThe inquiry into the price of meat was continued to-day by the chairman of the Interstate Commission (Mr. A. B. Piddington) and Mr S. Mills, acting Commissioner. ...
Article : 154 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities reported on Thursday night:—"Some British monitors bombarded Ostend successfully this afternoon. A naval air squadron ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that Japan has warned China to terminate internal strife, and assist Japan in meeting ...
Article : 55 wordsLord Rothermere, the Air Minister, was cross-questioned sharply in the House of Lords last evening and admitted that the Government had spent £420,000 ...
Article : 69 wordsThe annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce was concluded to-day. The following motions were agreed to:—"That this conference protsts against ...
Article : 241 wordsIt is not clear whether the Dutch Parliament's acceptance of the Allies' ultimatum merely referred to its approval of the Foreign Minister's statement. Holland's ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Germano-Polish agreement has reached Germany. It renounces all annexations and allows to Poland autonomy and the power to constitute her own army. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe following official despatches have been made available:— London, March 21 (12.45 p.m.).—"The enemy opened a heavy bombardment ...
Article : 568 wordsA number of British seaplanes have bombarded Heliogland. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe annual conference of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association of Australia was concluded at Hobart yesterday. Mr. Miley (Hobart) was installed ...
Article : 89 wordsThe State Department notifies that the American Consul in Moscow has telegraphed the information that the Russian Odessa fleet has escaped towards ...
Article : 34 wordsField-Marshal Haig issued the following despatch this morning:—"The weather yesterday hindered flying operations. Our night fliers dropped about three hundred ...
Article : 48 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities intercepted yesterday the following wireless German official message:—"We have captured the town of Kherson, in the Ukraine." ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Donad Mackinnon) stated to-day that he proposed to remodel the existing recruiting organisations with a view to giving ...
Article : 132 wordsAt the fourth conference of the Federated Retail Jewellers' Association at Hobart to-day Mr. Butterfield (Hobart), the president, proposed that wholesale manufacturers ...
Article : 155 wordsFollowing the Revolutionary Socialists repudiation of the Brest Litovsk peace treaty, several leaders have gone south to organise a guerilla warfare against the ...
Article : 36 words"In discussing the Treasury Estimates," the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. James Gardiner) remarked to a "West Australian" reporter yesterday, "the member for North Perth ...
Article : 314 wordsStartling allegations regarding the extent of the pillaging in the railway service and the existence of an organised gang of thieves engaged in depredations ...
Article : 304 wordsIn the Senate yesterday Senator Robert L. Owen (Democrat) urged that a League of Nations should be established to isolate Germany commercially for five years unless ...
Article : 81 wordsThe speaking to the minutes of the award in the matter of the Federated Mining Employees' Association and another v. the Edna May Gold Mining Co and ...
Article : 227 wordsIn the House of Assembly yesterday General Hertzog, the leader of the Nationalist Party, questioned the Premier (General Botha) concerning the statements which had ...
Article : 242 wordsIn connection with the sensational theft of bank notes from a customer at the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank recently, Vincent Cook (30), a labourer, was ...
Article : 81 wordsThe protest made by loyal citizens on Thursday against the unadulterated treason" of Dr. Mannix and the manifestations of the Sinn Fein, was considered by the ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is reported that the British have captured three additional towns in Palestine. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe operations of the 51st Battalion Trench Comforts Fund (Cottesloe-Claremont branch) have been continuously carried on, and at the end of December last ...
Article : 594 wordsA fire broke out early this monring of an American schooner from which lumber is being discharged in the Victoria Dock. When the alarm was given the fire had a ...
Article : 63 wordsSince the beginning of February the oyster lessees around Port Stephens have collected and consigned to the soldier lessees at Manning River 200 bags of immature ...
Article : 61 wordsAs the result of a raid late this afternoon by the police on Record Chambers, Castlereagh-street, nine men, including four of Sydney's well-known bookmakers, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe following official report has been received from the British headquarters in East Africa:—"We are in contact with a strong enemy force near Medoboma. in the ...
Article : 52 wordsA verdict of guilty was returned to-day in the case of the railway guard. John James Cadley, charged with having, together with another person, stolen £748. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Government is making inquiries in the House of Commons as to whether a scheme of Federal Home Rule for England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales would be ...
Article : 59 wordsFour residents of German descent, H. A. Paesch, John Wenke, E. Wenke, and E S. Hopner, of Walla Walla, were arrested by the police, acting under ...
Article : 71 wordsThe special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) telegraphs:—"Picked storm troops were hurled against the British right flank in thick waves, ...
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Advertising : 106 wordsThe "Echo Belge" reports that a German tribunal has sentenced M. Capelle, Belgian Director of Foreign Affairs, to 15 years' imprisonment. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League has opened an investigation branch to deal with the complaints of members regarding pay, pensions, or ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 23 Mar 1918, Page 7
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