The following official despatches have been made available:— London, May 29 (10 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"We drove off a ...
Article : 1,250 wordsIt has been estimated officially that since the year 1916 about 250,000 acres have been added to the tilled land in England and Wales. 30,000 acres in Scotland, and 150.000 ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that the "Deutsche Volks-Zeitung" has published en Austro-German treaty of seven clauses. The first ...
Article : 313 wordsThirty thousand miners in South Wales Wales are idle, as the result of a dispute which began with the stoppage of the pay of a few men who ceased work after a ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that the Government is considering a scheme requiring all or the younger munition makers to volunteer for work wherever they may ...
Article : 46 wordsPresident Wilson has given an audience to Mr. W. M. Hughes (the Prime Minister of Australia). ...
Article : 28 wordsLord Beresford, has given notice of a series of questions in the House of Lords respecting the manufacture of the Madsen machine gun, a Danish invention, which is ...
Article : 229 wordsThe 405 casualty list was released by the Censor yesterday, and is published here-under. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those of ...
Article : 924 wordsThe Kaiser, who is watching the battle from the Crown Prince's headquarters at Saarbrucken, telegraphed to the Empress, saying:—"Wilhelm attacked the British and ...
Article : 59 wordsThe American Red Cross authorities have accepted the British Red Cross Society's offer of a fully-equipped hospital of 500 beds which will be erected in the Windsor ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following American wireless message has been received by the American Consulhere from Honolulu:—Washington.—The Shipping Board ...
Article : 385 wordsThe American success at Cantigny is regarded as a brilliant achievement, the "Sammies" displaying fine dash, aided by tanks. The Americans advanced 600 yards ...
Article : 59 wordsA verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind has been returned in the case of Captain William Charles Page a New Zealander, at an inquest held at Brockenhurst. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Colonial Institute, by a large majority yesterday passed Lord Brassey's motion that the separation of Imperial matters from domestic affairs is urgently ...
Article : 80 wordsA German attack on Festubert has been beaten. The British are holding the Germans north-west of Rheims, and bitter fighting is proceeding. ...
Article : 66 wordsOfficial reports have been received here to the effect that the Pan-Germans have proposed new peace terms. including the retention of Belgium, Poland. Esthonia, ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. G. H. Perris, in a further message from France, says that the British divisions bore the brunt of one of the fiercest assaults on the Aisne front on Tuesday. ...
Article : 469 wordsThe following have been listed for return to Australia and are actually en route from abroad. No further information can be supplied excepting the approximate time ...
Article : 101 wordsIn view of the payment on Saturday of over £50,000,000 in interest on war loans, Mr. Bonar Law (the Chancellor of the Exchquer) has arranged with the banks in ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Zinc Corporation's report mentions that though the company's claim against Hirsch was finally decided in the company's favour, the British Courts refuse to order ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung" (which is published in Essen, and is an organ of the wealthy Westphalian ironmasters and mine-owners) urges the ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. G. H. Perris, the "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at the French front, says that Field-Marshal von Hindenburg has scored another spectacular success. After ...
Article : 318 wordsThe British Admiralty transport Liasowe Castle was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean on May 26. Nine of the ship's company ...
Article : 67 wordsThe W.A. Spinning Association are gratified at the response by the public to the invitation to take lessons in wool spinning on Mondays. June 3 being a public ...
Article : 744 wordsMr. Henry Morgenthau, a former United States Ambassador to Turkey, writes in the June issue of the American edition of the "World's Work" to the effect that ...
Article : 183 wordsIn the House of Lords last evening, Lord Newton (Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs), referring to the negoti[?]tions regarding an exchange of British and ...
Article : 149 wordsA Danish shipping mission has arrived in America. It has been learned from it that Germany virtually sent an ultimatum to Denmark to withdraw immediately from ...
Article : 52 wordsTHE GERMAN ABVANCE. THE DOTTED LINE SHOWS THE FRONT PRIOR TO THE GERMAN ATTACK ON MAY 27; THE BLACK LINE—APPROXIMATELY THE LINE AS IT NOW IS. THE GREY BLOCKS BEHIND THE PRESENT LINE REPRESENT THE FRENCH FORCES WHICH ARE IN LIAISON WITH THE BRITISH AT JONCHERRY THE BRITISH FORCES (BLACK) OCCUPY THE LINE FROM JONCHERRY, VIA ST. THIERRY, TO BELMONT. NOTE.—LATER CABLES ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsA Turkish official report says:—"We occupied Kerkuk, in Mesopotamia, and the British troops withdrew to the south ward." ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. G. Ward Price, the British official war correspondent at the Italian front, says:—"The Alpini opened the fourth year of the war with a neat victory in the ...
Article : 234 wordsThe "Morning Post's" correspondent on the French front says that the attack between Vauxaillon and Brimont was of extreme violence. It had been known for ...
Article : 143 wordsReports from Tientsin and Tokio state that the Chinese and Japanese Governments are not publishing the terms of the recent agreement, owing to strategic ...
Article : 38 wordsSweden is suffering from an epidemic resembling dropsy, supposed to be due to insufficient food. There are several thousand cases. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe following French Eastern communique has been issued:—"There was great artillery activity along the whole of the front between Lake Doiran and Monastir, ...
Article : 41 wordsApart from the now customary German methods of the swift secret concentration of special troops, and an initial short, fierce bombardment, followed by a sudden rush ...
Article : 76 wordsAn official message reports that an American destroyer captured seventen members of the crew of a German submarine after they had torpedoed the British ...
Article : 83 wordsA Bill relating to civil employment in the Defence Department, which has been introduced in the Senate, is intended to carry out the recommendations of the Defence ...
Article : 181 wordsThe State Department has expressed sympathy officially with the Nationalist aspirations of the Czech-Slovacs and the Jugo-Slavs for freedom, and has endorsed the ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the special correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," telegraphed from the British Headquarters on Tuesday:—"It is now fairly clear that the ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. H. C. Hoover, the Food Controller, in the course of an interview with a representative of the Australian Press Association, said he believed that trade between ...
Article : 532 wordsForty persons have been arrested in London on charges of having stolen food cards. The arrests were made in a coffee house near a printing office where food cards had ...
Article : 56 wordsAccording to British military despatches Allied airmen on the western front have brought down and destroyed 252 aeroplanes. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Government Actuary eatimates that the pensions and gratuities payable for the current year as the result of known and imminent casualties will amount to ...
Article : 126 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities intercepted the following Russian wireless message:—"The Central Committee of the Finnish Workmen protests against the ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Thos. Buckingham, of 18 Dyer-street, West Perth has received word that his son, T. A. Buckingham, of the 10th Light Horse, has been admitted to the 24th Stationary ...
Article : 381 wordsThe following French official report has been issued:—"Enemy aeroplanes were espied at midnight on May 27-28 westward of Rouen. They were attacked ...
Article : 54 wordsMajor-General F. B. Maurice, writing in the London "Daily Chronicle," says:—"The latest estimates of the German reserves on the Western front are 80 divisions of which ...
Article : 220 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier (Mr. Ryan), in reply to questions relating to the State butcheries and State cattle, said that arrangements had been ...
Article : 112 wordsGerman prisoners say that British bombs dropped on Douai early in May killed about four hundred Germans and wounded about three hundred. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe London "Daily News" announces that the Government has agreed to the provisions of a Bill for a Ministry for Health. This new office will absorb several ...
Article : 50 wordsLieutenant Cyril Whelan (son of Mr. Albert Whelan, the entertainer) and Lieutenant Levy (son of Mr. Bert Levy, the Australian caricaturist) have been killed in ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Defence Department has not been able, for various reasons, which have from time to time been explained, to arrange for the return of large numbers at a time ...
Article : 319 wordsCecil Humphries, of the Cornwall Regiment, a New Zealander, has been awarded a bar to the Military Cross. and has been promoted to be lieutenant-colonel. He ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Daily Express" declares that it is almost incredible that the Germans had the effrontery to request the British Government through the Pope to grant the Rhine ...
Article : 85 wordsMadame Botchkareva, the leader of the Russian Women's Battalion of Death, who arrived in America recently from Siberia, has appealed to Mr. N. D. Baker (the ...
Article : 64 wordsAfter many reinforcements for our fighting forces overseas have been allowed to depart without any more semblance of public farewell than is contained in the ...
Article : 491 wordsThe "Petit Journal" says that on both wings the French and British troops victoriusly resisted terrific assaults and barred the enemy's passage to Soissons and ...
Article : 231 wordsQuartermaster-Sergeant Edwards, of Mount Bryan, a member of the 51st Battalion who served in Gallipoli and was wounded and captured at Mouquet Farm in ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 31 May 1918, Page 7
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