In the Senate Senator Robert L. Owen introduced a resolution authorising the President of the United States to call a league of Allied nations. He urged that ...
Article : 228 wordsA Presidential proclamation was issued on Wednesday authorising the Navy Department to take over vessels of the Netherlands registry in American territorial ...
Article : 1,311 wordsThe Bulgarian and Turkish newspapers have fallen out over the Dobrudja. The Turks favour the re-establishment of the equilibrium in the Balkans, whilst the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following official despatches have been made available:— London, March 22 (1 p.m.).—"The fighting continued till last night along the ...
Article : 801 wordsThe Minister for Foreign Affairs (Dr. I. London) made a final protest in the Chamber against the Enteute's "unjust action" in ordering the seizure of Dutch vessels. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe following French official report has been issued:—"A division of Franco-British destroyers fought a detachment of German torpedo boats in the North Sea ...
Article : 199 wordsFive hundred waggon loads of shells exploded at a railway station near Mons, Belgium, killing 30 and injuring 100 German soldiers. ...
Article : 29 wordsGerman aeroplanes are appearing on the western front in larger formations than any seen since last summer's fighting. Nevertheless there is a marked reluctance ...
Article : 325 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the London "Morning Post" asys that undoubtedly Germany will demand far-reaching compensation It is suggested that the ...
Article : 59 wordsBerlin telegrams show that the nows of the German offensive was received quietly, the public generally believing that the present fighting will be of a decisive nature ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "World" says that the Allies expect that Germany will allow Dutch vessels to reach their home ports, and then ...
Article : 42 wordsThe French Commission which is to leave shortly for Australia will also visit Canada and Japan. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is announced that the navy has captured a small bessel in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico. There is no information, so far, as to whether she is a commerce ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Berlin "Vorwaerts," the leading Socialist newspaper in Germany. says that it is undeniable that Prince Charles Max Lichnowsky's secret and private ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Lloyd George (the Prime Minister). in a straight talk to miners, said that chaos and Bolshevikism would result if the Government altered its recruiting ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Berlin newspaper "Tagliche Rundschau" says: "The German people will follow the offensive with feverish interest. We have now entered upon a battle for decisive ...
Article : 63 words287 interned British prisoners of war have left for England. ...
Article : 21 wordsGeneral V. Zuppelli, who held the port folio for War in Signor Salandra's Ministry some years ago, has succeeded General Alfieri as Minister for War. The latter ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following official report has been issued:—"The enemy is shelling Paris and the suburbs at a long range with a 240 millimetre gun, which is fired every ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports that news has been received from Switzerland to the effect that Germany is massing troops continually ...
Article : 71 wordsThe British Admiralty's story of the German raider Wolf shows that when she met the steamer Dee in Australasian waters it was not intended to molest her, ...
Article : 247 wordsThe following official despatch has been received from the British headquarters in Palestine:—"On Friday morning our parties crossed the Jordan, despite the strong ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. H. H. Asquith (the ex-Prime Minister), in an address to the Liberal Federation in Derby. said that the only way in which they would be able to meet the ...
Article : 152 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, the well-known military critic, writes in the "Echo de Paris":— "Prince Ropprecht of Bavaria has considerable reserves. including the finest ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Australians and the New Zealande have not yet taken part in the titaui[?] struggles around Cambrai and St. Quentia Together with every other fighting unit on ...
Article : 477 wordsThe Alhucemas Government having resigned. Senor Maura (Conservative) has formed a new Cabinel with Senor Date (a Conservative leader and an ex-Premier) ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Percival Phillips (the special correspondent of the London "Daily Express") telegraphed on Friday Evening:—"Our heavy guns before Bullecourt were ...
Article : 508 wordsThe Congress has passed a Bill establishing the War Finance Corporation with a capital of 500,000,000 dollars (about £1,000,000). The corporation will assist ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following military awards to Australians are announced:— Bar to D.S.O.: Lieut-Colonel J. C. Stew are (Infantry). When his battalion was ...
Article : 320 wordsNewspaper correspondents at the front emphasise our men's splendid "morale," confidence, and ability to break down the German attack. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Taya Company's steamer Guadalquiver, laden with cotton, from America, has been torpedoed. The Taya Company had already asked the Government to hand ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) says that serious differences have developed between Austria and the Ukrainian Rada regarding ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is reported that a mail service has been established between Berlin, Vienna, Cracow, Lemberg, and Kieff, and that it will be extended at a later date to Odessa ...
Article : 40 wordsThe British public is delighted that the German offensive has materialised and it is convinced that the British lines are impregnable, and that we shall take a heavy ...
Article : 107 wordsA German transport has been mined at the Aland Islands, in the Baltic, where the Hindenburg sank. A transport Conveying Admiral Meyrer was mined and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe German newspapers announce that a typhoid epidemic has broken out at Constantinople. There were several hundreds of victims on the first day. ...
Article : 30 wordsA British armed trawler has captured the German steamer Valerie, which was laden with ore. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe newspapers pay a tribute to the wonderfgul accuracy of the Intelligence Department of the army in foretelling precisely the time and place of the German ...
Article : 48 wordsThe American Ambassador says officially that President Wilson suports all Italy's territorial demands. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe State Department notifies that the attitude of the United States towards Russia is unchauged, and that America still regards Russia as a co-belligerent ally. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe steamer Flixton, while voyaging from Havre to Newport, Monmouth. encountered a submarine off Portland, and saw a torpedo approaching. The torpedo became ...
Article : 65 wordsTwo Roman Catholic priests have been executed in Brussels on suspicion of having been spies. Eight other priests have been sentenced to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 34 wordsTo-day's London "Observe" says:—"The best thing that can happen for pulling the country together and roueing it for tremendous efforts to support the army is to ...
Article : 160 wordsM. Trotsky, who now presides over the military organisation in Russia, has denied emphatically that the Bolsheviks are arming Austrian and German prisoners of war ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Senate has voted to fix the minimum price of the wheat crop for the year 1918 at 250 cents a bushel. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe keel of the first Irish concrete ship has been laid in a new north-western shipyard, the site of which was virgin soil, about six weeks ago. There are now six ...
Article : 81 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (the High Commissioner for New Zealand), interviewed Dr. H. A. L. Fisher (the President of the Board of Education), who agred to ...
Article : 108 wordsReports from Siberia state that the Maximalists, with German aid, intend to break up the railway along Lake Baikal in the event of the Japanese advancing. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe following German official wireless messages have been intercepted by the British Admiralty:— Berlin, March 22 (4 a.m.)—"The strong ...
Article : 323 wordsThe latest messages from France are reassuring. The British resistance throughout is solid. Numerous attacks during the night were repelled, and several ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearcel) stated to-day, for the information of the relatives and friends of the war workers and reinforcements who had embarked a ...
Article : 47 wordsThe British Ambassador here announces that since the war began the Allied tonnage lost has been 11,827,572, and the Allied tonnage built 6,606,127 ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent states that the German offensive is welcomed in diplomatic and military circles, which share the confidence prevailing along ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the New York "Herald" learns that disguised German officers continue to arrive in Irkutsk (the "Paris of Siberia") for the purpose of ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, special correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle" telegraphs from the British front.—"An intense bombardment was opened early in the morning ...
Article : 1,067 wordsLord Rhondda (the Food Controller), addressing members of the insurance faculty, contended that a Ministry for Health was an urgent war necessity. A ...
Article : 134 wordsIt is reported officially that several enemy aeroplanes flew over Paris at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday. There were several casualties. The enemy machines were chased off by ...
Article : 54 wordsThe military authorities drain to communicate with the following soldiers' next-of-kin:— No. 5827 Private W. Darroch, 27th Battalion; sister, Mrs. E. Harwood, 13S. Wittenoom-street, ...
Article : 96 wordsAccording to a correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.), there has been hard fighting at Croisilles, Ecoust. Noreuil. Bullecourt, Lagnicourt, and ...
Article : 507 wordsThere is a concensus of military opinion in America that nothing but the strongest internal pressure would induce Germany to attempt a big offensive on the western ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the New York "Times" telegraphs that the Elder Statesmen will meet shortly to consider the Siberian situation. and that subsequently ...
Article : 154 wordsGerman aeroplanes bombed Compiegne. Others proceeded southwards, but the artillery drove them off, and none reached Paris, where a warning was given. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe death is announced from Berlin of Major Moraht, the German military critic. [A New York cable message of December 28 said:—The Rotterdam correspondent of ...
Article : 329 wordsForty-six Dutch vessels have been seized here, and many in other American po[?] Members of the American Naval Reserve boarded the vessels and hoisted the ...
Article : 55 wordsMrs. Carter of 30 Brace-street, Leederville, has received word that her husband. Private V. J. Carter is ill, and has been admitted to Spalding Hill Military Hospital. England. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that the railway restrictions will probably include travel permits, which will be granted only to those engaged in imperative business. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe aviation officials say that by September the United States will have completed more than double the number or battleplanes which are now being used by ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is stated unofficially that at a conference of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers threats were made that the union would strike on April 6. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the Reichstag yesterday Herr Matthias Erzberger asked the Government to state its views on the Entente's action with regard to Holland. The Deputies ...
Article : 150 wordsThe following aviation reports have been issued by Field-Marshal Haig:— London, March 23 (1 a.m.).—"Owing to a must the fight was suitable for only low ...
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Advertising : 72 wordsThe following British-Italian official report has been issued:—"Our aeroplanes without loss destroyed eight enemy machines, and brought down another in an ...
Article : 34 wordsAn Army Council order prohibits manufacturers from using jute without a permit. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe British Army authorities intercepted yesterday the following wireless German official message:—"The Roumanian armistice has been prolonged for three days." ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 25 Mar 1918, Page 5
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