The following official despatches have been made available:— London, June 7 (11 a.m.) from FieldMarshal Haig).—"We raided a post last ...
Article : 790 wordsA German submarine shelled the Glasgow steamer Ellaston (3.796 tons) in the Atlantic. The Ellaston fought until her ammunition was exhausted, and the crew ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Lloyd George, responding to the toast, "Success to the Allied Arms," at the annual dinner of the Printers' Pension Association, said that he had just ...
Article : 212 wordsReports received from Tiflis (in Georgia, Russian Transcaucasia) say that the Turks have masacred over ten thousand Armenians during the last fortnight. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe condition of ex-King Constrantine of Greece is again reported to be serious. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, the special correspondent of the "Daily Express," says that enemy raids constitute the sole activity on the British front, and all are ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Marine Department announces that the shipping tonnage destroyed by enemy action during the first five months of 1918 was only one-half of that for the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Echo Belge" reports that a Belgian who escaped recently from Mechlin (Malines) asserts that 10 Belgians were starved slowly to death because they refused to ...
Article : 38 wordsAddressing a meeting of the Northam Agricultural Society this afternoon, the Colonial Secretary (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) said that he desired to say a few words in ...
Article : 1,157 wordsThe following official message was issued on Friday:—"Our troops entered trenches fronting Monte di Valbella, and took 50 prisoners and six machine-guns. A French ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has purchased the whole of the dry docks and workshops at Falrmouth, and is extending them to form an ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following American wireless message has been received from Honolulu by the American Consul here:—San Francisco.—Great rivalry has ...
Article : 219 wordsOn the evening of 6th inst. an excellent dinner, followed by a concert, was tendered to second reinforcement "W" and special quota A.M.C., by the Mayor of Subiaco ...
Article : 215 wordsIn the House of Commons on Friday Mr. J. R. Clynes, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, made a statement regarding the food situation. He said that ...
Article : 269 wordsEarly yesterday morning the Germans attempted a large raid on the Australian lines on the top of Morlancourt Ridge. About 2.45 they crept along the small gullies ...
Article : 288 wordsMr. Gosling in his presidential address to the National Transport Workers' Federation in Newcastle, said that the present tendency of organised labour was to create ...
Article : 143 wordsAccording to a London message five British aeroplanes fought seven German machines over the North Sea. The Germans retired, losing one machine, which fell into ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is announced on good authority that in May British aircraft brought down 398 German aeroplanes and drove down about 100. British anti-aircraft guns brought ...
Article : 48 wordsOwing to the affitiation of the Amalgamated Engineers' Society with the General Workers and Ironfounders' Union, the jubilee congress in September will represent ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Frank Sparrow, of Beaufort and Brisbane streets, received a communication from the military authorities on May 29 that his son, Private V. C. Sparrow, of the ...
Article : 1,214 wordsReplying to the toast of "The Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Government of Victoria: at the "Smoke night" concert held in the Commerical Travellers' Club on Saturday ...
Article : 419 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" says that Baron von Hertling (the German Imperial Chamcellor) is expected to contribute to the new "peace offensive" by making a startling ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Secretary of State, Mr. Robert Lansing, in the course of a speech on Friday said:—"Prussia wickedly sought war, and shall have war, and yet more war, until ...
Article : 72 wordsColonel Cripps, who commanded the Bucks Hussars in Palestine, has written a letter to Lord Burnham, honorary colonel of the regiment, contradicting the ...
Article : 175 wordsProbably few Australian fighting units have received so many general inspections in such a short time as were recently paid in compliment to a certain Australian ...
Article : 704 wordsOne million youths who have attained the age of 21 years have become automatically registered. These are in addition to the men who have been called up. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Central News Agency (London) reports that people arriving in Switzerland from Vienna assert that the impression prevails in that city that Austria is likely ...
Article : 102 wordsNews froms Russia shows that the position continues to be one of the utmost uncertainty and disorder. The Petrograd correspondents are silent and nothing is known ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Labour conference which is to be held on June 26 will consider the executive's recommendation to terminate the political truce forthwith. ...
Article : 31 wordsAltogether 14 vessels, of a tonnage of 20,000, have been sunk. A new feature is the sinking of neutral vessels. The Norwegian steamer Eidsvold (not the Gibbs) ...
Article : 251 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Zinc Corporation, Ltd., Mr. F. A. Govett (the chairman) said that the output of lead in the near future was likely to decrease, and ...
Article : 55 wordsCaucasian committees are mobilising all men between 19 and 42 years of age, and detachments are already concentrating in the Tiflis area. The German occupation of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Albert Medal (gold) has been awarded to Lieutenant Thorner. He was examining hand grenades in a dugout in France when one began to fizz. Realising ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Finnish Government is proposing to send some 70,000 Red Guard (Bolshevik soldiers) prisoners to Germany to work in the war industries. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt a special meeting of members of the Queensland branch of the Printing Industry Union of Australia. held in the Trades Hall, Brisbane, on Saturday night, a ...
Article : 121 wordsGermany has informed the Russian naval authorities that Constanza (on the Black Sea) is now open and offers coal and agricultural implements in exchange for cereals, ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Henry Murray, the author, has been fined £100 for criminally libelling Sir William Francis Marwood, Joint Secretary of the Board of Trade. Mr. Justice Darling ...
Article : 109 wordsThe following American wireless message has been received from Honolulu by the American Consul here:— American marines in their first big land ...
Article : 279 wordsM. Van Vrendenburg, the Dutch Minister in Stockholm, says that in Petrogred hundreds of Russian military officers have been reduced to starvation, and that some are ...
Article : 85 wordsThe number of casualties in the A.I.F. to date is as follows:—Deceased, 47,830; missing, 421; prisoners of war, 3,191; wounded, 131,471; sick, 71,316; casualties ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Dutch hospital vessel Koningin Regentes was mined and sunk about fifteen miles from the Leman Bank in the North Sea. Sir George Cave (the British Home ...
Article : 320 wordsThe "London Gazette" contains 1,500 appointments and promotions in connection with the various grades on the Order of the British Empire for war services. There ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Berlin "Voerwaerts" (the leading Socialist newspaper in Germany) publishes the Russian Government's proclamation admitting that the food situation in Russia is ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Federal Ministry has under consideration the question of allowing sick pay in certain instances to returned soldiers who are in temporary employment in the ...
Article : 121 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association learns that the enemy's progress has been checked for the time being, and that all immediate ...
Article : 145 wordsThere is much satisfaction in American circles at the King's promise to take part in the celebrations in London on July 4. His Majesty will attend a baseball match ...
Article : 38 wordsThe chief reason why Japan asked China to expel the Germans is that the German Consuls and others have been indulging in propagande against the Allies, and the ...
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Advertising : 189 wordsWar experts are insisting on the far-reaching significance of the appearance of American forces in the new battle of the Marne. The Supreme Allied War Council, ...
Article : 330 wordsA number of pacifists are preparing a memorial urging Lord Lansdowne to respeat his efforts for peace, declaring that a large section of the people believe that the time ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Defence Department notifies that on February 23 No. 2899, Private J. J. Foran, of the 49th Battalion, was courtmartialled for desertion and ...
Article : 103 wordsMarjor-General F. B. Maurice, the military correspondet of the London "Daily Chronicle," commenting on the recent declaration of the Supreme War Council and ...
Article : 149 wordsAccording to the British Official Press Burean, it is anticipated that the meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet and the Imperial Conference will begin within the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe 407th casualty list was released by the Censor on Saturday, and is published hereunder. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with ...
Article : 1,383 wordsIn the House of Lords, Lord Beresford drew attention to the capabilities of the Madsen machine gun, and he contended that it would be worth while to ...
Article : 281 wordsSenator Claude A. Swanson (Democrat, Virginia), the acting chairman of the Naval Committee of the Senate, says that the Allies have destroyed 60 per cent. of all ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) constradicts the report that Japan is seeking a "post bellum" pact with Germany. A number of ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 10 Jun 1918, Page 5
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