The following official despatches have been made available:— London, May 23 (12.35 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig),—"we made a number of ...
Article : 461 wordsThe publication this morning of the report that a proposal to form a new labour council was being seriously considered by a number of unions, which had agreed that ...
Article : 583 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) continned the second reading debate on the War Loan Bill, on which Mr. Tudor had ...
Article : 896 wordsThe first business on the notice paper of the Legislative Council yesterday was a motion by Mr. Kingsmill, as follows:—"That it be an instruction to the Standing Or ...
Article : 1,200 wordsFailures to obtain the departmental adoption of the reforms recommended by the Hobart congress, have caused unrest in the ranks of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' ...
Article : 156 wordsThe following message was received by the American Consal to-day by wireless, via Honolulu:— Washington: The United States ...
Article : 618 wordsThe newspapers continue to publish numerous articles concerning the bad treatment of British prisoners of war in Germany, and urging the immediate necessity ...
Article : 85 wordsLord Beaverbrook, the Minister for Information and Propaganda, has invited a delegation of Australian and New Zealand editors to visit Britain and the Western ...
Article : 201 wordsThe death of Lance-Corporal Ernest James Mead, husband of Mrs. Mead, of Gosnells, which was recorded in yesterday's issue, occurred on April 24 last. ...
Article : 1,010 wordsThe following official message was issued yesterday:—"Enemy aeroplanes were reported to be approaching Paris last evening. We kept up a violent barrage, and ...
Article : 75 wordsFollowing upon the announcement in the House of Representatives last week that there was a quantity of enemy owned wool in Australia, a War Precautions ...
Article : 98 wordsAfter two disappointments owing to shore leave not being granted to soldiers returning on transports, the ladies who comprise the comforts branch of the above ...
Article : 563 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) states that a German airmen bombed a large number of hospitals in their latest raid on France, ...
Article : 149 wordsIt was mentioned at the recent inter Allied conference in connection with the after-care of disabled soldiers that some twenty thousand men suffering from ...
Article : 59 wordsSome difficulty still exists with regard to the control of the New Zealand Red Cross work. The Red Cross Committee is agreeable to Mr. R. H. Rhodes (the Red ...
Article : 324 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau reports that the number of casualties in Sunday's air raid in all districts was;—Killed, 44; and injured, 179. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" telegraph:—"Since last. Saturday's daylight raid Cologne has been in a state of intermittent panic. A ...
Article : 138 wordsThe annual conference of the Graziers' Association considered to-day the proposal for the establishment of a special labour department, or in the alternative a ...
Article : 135 wordsThe French newspapers praise warmly the Australians' splendid work in capturing Ville-sur-Ancre (between Dernancourt and Morlancourt). ...
Article : 123 wordsThe following Italian official bulletin has been made available:—"We captured an outpost north-east of Monte di Val Bella and advanced into the village of ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. F. G. Kellaway (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Munitions) in a speech in Whitechapel yesterday, said:—"It is now clear that we have reached material ...
Article : 78 wordsA verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury in the case of Doris Bland, 22 years of age, of St. Kilda, who was charged with child murder, and whose trial took ...
Article : 138 wordsThe newspapers accept the submarine statistics as definite evidence that Hun piracy has failed and that the U-boats are being sunk faster than they are built. The ...
Article : 156 wordsMr. Cyril Brown, the New York "World's" Amsterdam correspondent, says that the "Lokalanzeiger" interviewed the Kaiser, who is reported to have said:—"We ...
Article : 103 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (the High Commissioner for New Zealand) addressed a meeting of members of the Edinburgh and Leith Chambers of Commerce and the ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Germans are using a new giant bombing plane, called "Reise Gotha" It is believed that it was employed in the recent raids on London and Paris. It ...
Article : 93 wordsThe main issue in the action to upset the will of Henri de Baere was decided by the Chief Justice in the Banco Court to-day, when the validity of the will and the ...
Article : 236 wordsNews has been received at Kalgoorlie that Lieut.-Col. Raymond Leane, who left Boulder with the rank of captain under Lieut.-Col. Johnston, and who was in ...
Article : 48 wordsField-Marshal Haig, reviewing one of the Australian divisions which spent many days in the line along the Somme. and the brigades of which ...
Article : 150 wordsFollowing upon the gradual development of unsettled conditions for the past few days, good general rains fell throughout the S.W. quarter of the State on ...
Article : 636 wordsAccording to a Russian wireless message, the Bolshevik Government complains that not only is Germany attacking Russian warships in the Black Sea, but German ...
Article : 80 wordsDetails of the number of honours and awards granted to members of the Australian Imperial Force, which had been gazetted up to April 30, 1918, were made ...
Article : 177 wordsAlfred Greenway (28), of Millen-street, Boulder, died in the Government Hospital, Kalgoorlie, this evening as the result of injuries received in an accident in ...
Article : 173 wordsMrs. M. Knight of 15 Kimberley-street, West Leederville, has received word that her son Tom (Curly) has been specially mentioned in despatches by Sir Douglas Haig ...
Article : 735 wordsIn the Mansion House, London, yesterday at a luncheon which was held to celebrate the anniversary of Italy's entry into the war, Lord Robert Cecil (Minister for ...
Article : 197 wordsThe London "Daily Express" says:—"In spite of the Franco-German agreement for the exchange of 350,000 prisoners, the British authorities doubt the advisableness of ...
Article : 206 wordsAn immediate investigation of all organisations and schemes to raise money for patriotic purposes has been decided upon by the Department of Repatriation. It is ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to the following British heroes for brilliant conduct in the war; the recipients were mostly leaders of "forlorn hopes," who ...
Article : 483 wordsIn furtherance of the new voluntary recruiting campaign Mr. Pilkington, M.L.A., and Lieutenant Heppingstone addressed a meeting at the Midland Junction ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Ryan), referring to the recent developments in connection with the Soldiers' Institute, said that he thought that the Government had been very ...
Article : 205 wordsIt is reported that a significant feature of the forthcoming appeal of the Western Australian citizens' committee of the Y.M.C.A. for £22,500 from this State ...
Article : 373 wordsIn a speech which he delivered here Mr. Josephus Daniels (Secretary for the Navy) declared that before another summer came round America would have sufficient vessels ...
Article : 120 wordsMessrs. Hughes, Martin, and Washington, of Sydney, have entered into a contract with the Federal Government for the construction of six large auxiliary schooners. ...
Article : 127 wordsTo-day light was thrown by the Premier (Mr. Lawson) on the circumstances surrounding the release of the Italian, Antonio Soro, who three and a half years ago ...
Article : 196 wordsIt is rumoured that negotiations will be opened shortly at the hague between the German and the British Governments regarding the exchange of prisoners of war ...
Article : 33 wordsA deputation of Tasmanian members of the Federal Parliament waited upon the Acting Prime Minister to-day, and represented that the operations of the war time ...
Article : 156 wordsOwing to the fine weather, there have been numerous escapes of prisoners recently, mostly French and occassionally Australians, as the British Camp is further ...
Article : 165 wordsMajor-General Anoch H. Crowder, Provest Marshal-General of the United States Army, who is directing the military enrolment of American citizens under the selective draft ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Government has settled the terms of inquiry of Mr. P. A. Anthony, general manager of the Federated Malay States Railway, who as a Royal Commission will ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Government has refused to comply with Holland's request that three requisitioned Dutch ships should be released for ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 24 May 1918, Page 7
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