The following official despatches have been made available:— London, May 24 (12.30 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"Yesterday the enemy ...
Article : 564 wordsA conference of Ukranian peasant delegates in Kieff (the capital of the Ukraine) decided to organise an army to defend the revolution and oppose General ...
Article : 145 wordsIt is reported that Finland's commercial agreement with Germany gives the latter country the economic control of Finland for 20 years. Germany will ...
Article : 83 wordsThe correspondent of the Chicago "Daily News" at the French front gives details of the new German aeroplanes. They have four motors. each of 300 horse-power, a ...
Article : 65 wordsThe first conference of the recently formed Labour Federation of New South Wales, which embraces the more moderate of the trade unions which have broken ...
Article : 268 wordsOf fifteen German sailors who were court martialled for attempted treason in connection with the British naval operations at Zeebrugge and Ostend, thirteen were ...
Article : 45 wordsThere was a large attendance in Hull on Saturday to witness the presentation of a scout aeroplane to Australia for use at the battle front. The machine was purchased ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. J. Havelock Wilson, president of the National Seamen's Union, speaking in the Royal Albert Hall, said that the seamen were adding a month's boycott for ...
Article : 94 wordsThe London "Daily Express" has published a pathetic letter from a famous Russian general, who has been called "the Lord Roberts of Russia." He is 75 years old, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe German Embassy here announces that the Dowager Empress of Russia will leave Russia shortly for Denmark, and that the Grand Duke Nicholas will go to ...
Article : 34 wordsIn compliance with a request which was preferred by Mr. N. D. Baker (Secretary for War), the Committee on Military Affairs has passed a resolution authoritsing ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Kursk council has resolved to order military mobilisation for defence, owing to the advance of the German forces, which are within 25 miles of Kursk (east of ...
Article : 50 wordsFishermen at Esberg, on the west coast of Denmark, state that they witnessed a Zeppelin brought down in the North Sea A British destroyer rescued the crew. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Government considers the forthcoming meeting of the Imperial War Cabinet will be of great importance, coming at a time when the war is likely to reach a decisive ...
Article : 125 wordsAn influential group of Russians has conferred with M. Bakhmeteff (formerly Russion Ambassador to the United States) with reference to the group's proposal to raise ...
Article : 46 wordsThe battle of Ville-sur-Ancre on Sunday morning illustrated the brilliant quality of the young Australian officers, their courage, capacity for leadership and resource in ...
Article : 510 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Overseas Club the chairman presented to Sir William Weir (the Minister for the Air Service) a cheque for £13,500, subscribed by ...
Article : 156 wordsProfessor Lomonaco, of the University of Rome, announces, after twelve years' experiments, that his method of treating tuberculosis by means of saccharine solutions ...
Article : 62 wordsA new decree annuls all testamentary bequests in Russia, making all property pass to the State after the owner's death. The State will provide for necessitous relatives ...
Article : 35 wordsWith the object of keeping a tighter hold on individual unions in the matter of declaring strikes, the Melbourne, Trades Hall Council has adopted the following ...
Article : 335 wordsNext Saturday will be the opening day of the campaign of the Western Australian citizens' committee for £22,500 in aid of the war work of the Y.M.C.A. This ...
Article : 559 wordsOfficial despatches received here say that a German division in Dvinsk (south of Pakoff, and west of Moscow) mutinied, and that 80 men were shot, and some hundred ...
Article : 91 wordsThe following official message has been issued from the British headquarters in East Africa:—"Direct communication has been established between General Edwards's ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., presiding at Labour's educational conference, said that educational reconstruction was an essential part of the social reconstruction ...
Article : 116 wordsMrs. Fisher opened a fine display of photographs and colour sketches at the Grafton Galleries, depicting Australia's part in the war, the collection forming ...
Article : 139 wordsPresident Wilson has received froming Victor Emanuel the following message with reference to the third anniversary of Italy's entrance into the war:— ...
Article : 127 wordsAccording to official despatches, the Austrian authorities inoculated Italian and Serbian prisoners of war with tuberculosis germs, and about 1,000 consumptives have ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Leipsig "Zeitung" announces that, in accordance with the expressed wish of the Lithuanian people, the Kaiser, and the King of Saxony have given their sanction ...
Article : 59 wordsA London magistrate has sentenced two Quakers to six months' imprisonment and fined a lady £140 for having refused to submit a pamphlet on militarism to the ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. F. G. Kelleway Parliamentary Secretary of Munitions, in an address to his constituents at Bedford, said that the munition factories had put up a ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is understood that the Allies are considering seriously how to re-estalish Russia. The situation is not regarded as hopeless. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe fiendish bombing of hospital huts has caused a sensation in Britain. It was clear moonlight, and the big red crosses on a white ground must have been easily ...
Article : 327 wordsThe tea ration in July will be 2½oz. weekly. The British Official Press Bureau announces that in view of the surplus of ...
Article : 54 wordsThe British Admiralty issued the following report on Saturday:—"One of our Atlantic escort submarines on return to its base reports that whilst proceeding to meet ...
Article : 121 wordsThis day will presently be done. Darkness will fall, the traffic will thin to the rattle of a cart along the roadway, or a belated football on the pavement. You ...
Article : 817 wordsTwenty-six days have elapsed since the Germans ceased their attack on the western front. Some critics suggest that the offensive is being delayed because the Germans ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Horatio bottomely, on behalf of the Racing Emergency Committee, denounces what he describes as the "dishonest and insidious conspiracy to close down racing." ...
Article : 128 wordsIn answer to questions asked on Saturday as to when the next war loan was likely to be issued, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) said that there was no ...
Article : 102 wordsMadame Mort, a Frenchwoman, has been sentenced to death on a charge of espionage. Her son, aged 17, has been sent to an industrial school for five years. The ...
Article : 133 wordsOn Friday Mr. Lloyd George (the Prime Minister) received the freedom of the City of Edinburgh. In the course of a speech he said that the collapse of Russia had ...
Article : 939 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that the armed mercantile cruiser Moldavia was torpedoed and sunk on May 23. There were no casualties amongst the crew, but ...
Article : 242 wordsSemi-official despatches received here say that Germany's man-power has been so weakened that the Government has been forced to take drastic measures to fill up ...
Article : 65 wordsCabinet last Friday decided to immediately negotiate with Germany for the exchange of prisoners. Lord Newton Assistant Under-Secretary ...
Article : 184 wordsDetails furnished by the Victorian Lands Purchase Board on Saturday show that up to April 30, 423 soldiers had been settled on the land in this State. The total area ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Republic of Costa Rica (Central America) has declared war against the Central Powers. [The Republic of Costa Rica has an army ...
Article : 56 wordsSome progress appears to be taking place in official Labour circles towards the definition of the Labour attitude toward the recruiting problem. Mr. A. McCallum, ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs in a message from France states that heavy thunderstorms have broken the spell of fine weather, and are likely to hamper the German attack ...
Article : 130 wordsBritish airmen took photographs of a German aerodrome in Thionville which was marked with a red cross to represent a hospital. It was intended to induce a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Australian casualties to date number 249,866, the details being as follow:—Deceased, 46,957; missing 701; prisoners of war, 3,009; wounded, 128,061; sick, 70,924; ...
Article : 81 wordsAn official despatch received from the British headquarters in Palestine says:—"We raided an enemy post on the right bank of the Jordon near Ummeshshert, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Parliamentary aviation group has carried the following resolution:—"Believing that aerial operations will play a decisive role in obtaining victory, also that ...
Article : 113 wordsThe seamen who had a conversation with the Kingon the occasion of His Majesty's recent visit to the dock yeards at Chatham and Sheerness was Jack Longford who is ...
Article : 143 wordsAt the last meeting of the metropolitan council of the A.L.F. representations were received from blinded soldiers regarding their pensions, which, it was pointed out, ...
Article : 73 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau announces that Major-General Charles H. Burtchaell has been appointed Director-General of Medical Services for the British ...
Article : 71 wordsThe steamer Inniscarra. 1,412 tons, owned by the City of Cork Steam Packet Co., Limited, has been sunk by a submarine. There was no time to launch boats, and ...
Article : 68 wordsThe 403rd casualty list was released by the Censor on Saturday and is published hereunder. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers together with those ...
Article : 695 wordsThe pro-Entente demonstrations in Bohemis continue, and estates belonging to the German nobility have been attacked. A demonstration has been arranged in Prague ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. and Mrs. A. W. Goyder, of Ontramstreet, West Perth, have been notified that their second son, Alan George, was fatally wounded at Es Salt, Palestine, on May 3. ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Government has accepted America's offer to provide a squadron of her most expert airmen to take part in the defence of Paris. ...
Article : 34 wordsYesterday the Germans, at intervals, drenched the villages in the valleys of the Somme and Ancre, immediately behind the Australian front, with gas shells. This gas ...
Article : 620 wordsThe following message was received by the American Consul to-day by wireless, via Honolulu:— Washington: Success has again been ...
Article : 292 wordsThe Navy Department announces that the converted yacht Yaciva was sunk in a collision in European waters, and that two men were drowned. ...
Article : 31 wordsA sensation has been caused here by the report that M. G. O. Wallenberg, the Sweidsh Minister, and 14 prominent Swedes, have left Japan owing to allegations of ...
Article : 49 wordsTravellers, including an ever-increasing number of well-to-do German women, declare that a panic prevails in the Rhine towns owing to the recent air raids. ...
Article : 77 wordsA damaged German submarine—the U65—has entered Santander, a Spanish port on the Bay of Biscay. The simultaneous arrival of two submarines at Spanish ports ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Pekin correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that a Chino-Japanese naval convention has been signed. ...
Article : 68 wordsAlbert Bath, aged 11 years, who lived at 19 Rupert-street, Subiaco met his death in sudden and tragic circumstances yesterday evening. ...
Article : 200 wordsForty victims of the recent air raid on Cologne were buried on Wednesday at the city's expense. The Kaiser sent a telegram expressing his deep regret. Although no ...
Article : 58 wordsGerman submarines have sunk 79 Spanish ships aggregating 150,000 tons. since the beginning of the war, killing 52 Spaniards. Widespread indignation has been aroused ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Government of the United States has agreed to adopt the "hands off" policy with regard to Russia and to offer to Russia at the same time supplies and any other ...
Article : 83 wordsA British official report received from the Salonika front says:—"Naval airmen raided the Drama aerodrome on May 12, and observed one enemy machine in flames, and ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 27 May 1918, Page 5
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