Replying to questions in the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Works (Mr. Ball) said the reason why one shift only was being worked at the Walsh Island ...
Article : 225 wordsA sensational disclosure concerning the influence in Australia of the Irish Republican Brotherhood was made by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) to-day, when he ...
Article : 449 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Bonar Law), in moving a credit of £500,000,000, said that the daily average expenditure for ...
Article : 644 wordsThe following Italian official message was issued on Tuesday evening:—"The violence of the battle has somewhat decreased on the mountain front, but is increasing along ...
Article : 370 wordsAn action to test the legality of strike levies for the purpose of assisting strikers in other industries, or the wives and children of strikers, was begun in the Supreme ...
Article : 727 wordsThere have been fresh risings by armed peasantry in the Keiff district against the German requisitions, and demobilised soldiers in other parts of the Ukraine, ...
Article : 59 wordsIt transpired during the debate in the House of Commons yesterday that General-issimo Foch has been definitely appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces. ...
Article : 29 wordsGeneral Desperay has been appointed to the command of the Allied army at Salonika. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Government officially announces that a division of the National Guard is fighting in Alsace. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the Syria and Palestine relief fund needs £100,000 more during 1918. The fund is playing a great part in the reconstruction ...
Article : 121 wordsMany stories are told of the individual bravery and devotion of Australian officers and men during the last advance of the Australians along the ridge between the ...
Article : 746 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Lannon moved that the House at its next sitting resolve itself into Committee as a whole to consider the desirableness of ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Shipping Board announces that the ships completed during the first two weeks in June include sixteen of 89,162 tons total dead weight. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt), having through the Governor-General and the Secretary of State for the Colonies cabled to General Sir William Birdwood the ...
Article : 484 wordsJeremiah O'Leary, who has been indicted for alleged treason, is linked with Maria de Victorica, an alleged German spy, in the trial of John O'Leary, brother of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe following have been listed for return to Australia, and are actually enroute from abroad. No further information can be supplied except the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe officers of an American submarine state that they saw a U-boat on Friday off Virginia Capes. The American submarine discharged a torpedo, and later saw ...
Article : 49 wordsFurther progress was made by the Court of Arbitration yesterday in the hearing of the application by the South-West Clothing Trades Union for an award. Mr. J. W. ...
Article : 492 wordsThe British Admiralty intercepted the following wireless Austrian official message on Tuesday evening:—"General von Wurms gained ground at numerous points in ...
Article : 109 wordsMrs. M. Lee, of 24 Church-street, has received word that her son, Private William Lee, who was gassed, has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field ...
Article : 315 wordsThe following will form part of the delegation of newspaper proprietors and editors who will visit England and France at the invitation of the British Government:— ...
Article : 561 wordsAn incoming steamer reports the destruction of a U-boat, which received direct hits from a ship's guns. ...
Article : 27 wordsCaptain Bartholomew replaces Rear-Admiral Halsey as Third Sea Lord of the Admiralty, and Mr. R. S. Horne replaces Sir Alan G. Anderson as Controller. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe present position is as follows:—The Austrians have reached the right bank of the Piave from the Conegliano railway to the Zenson bend, advancing about a mile. ...
Article : 204 wordsThe following official reports have been issued:— London, June 18 (1.20 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"We repulsed a raiding ...
Article : 385 wordsThe British Admiralty yesterday issued the following report:—"Our aeroplanes from June 13 to June 16 dropped 24 tons of bombs with good results on Zeebrugge, the ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Honorary Minister for Lands (Mr. F. E. S. Willmott) evidenced keen resentment yesterday concerning the actions of Mr. Pickering, M.L.A., at the recent fruit ...
Article : 415 wordsSome time ago information was received to the effect that the attendance of members of the Australian Imperial Force abroad at officer cadet schools had been ...
Article : 62 wordsRead and Coward, British aviators, were bombing Zeebrugge when their motor failed. Their oil tank leaked, but they managed to reach Holland, where they were ...
Article : 104 wordsMrs. W. Gregson of Burges Siding, has received word that her son Lee-Cpl. W. J. Gregson, has been wounded and is in hospital in France. Mrs. Percy Heal of Fitzgerald-street, West ...
Article : 624 wordsThe din of battle is now loudest on the Piave River, having lessened on the mountain front, where the enemy losses were stupendous. Along a 25-mile front between ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Australians recently repatriated include Private S. Noell, 51st Battalion, of Collie, Western Australia. He was wounded and captured at Mouquet Farm in ...
Article : 200 wordsThe 410th casualty list was released by the Censor last night and is published hereunder. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with ...
Article : 727 wordsThe Mayor of Perth at a civic receptions to visiting members of Parliament from the Eastern States mentioned that "a great inheritance involves great ...
Article : 447 wordsThe German newspapers report that the Italians bombed Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance, but they are not allowed to refer to the damage. ...
Article : 29 wordsBritish and French military critics are of the opinion that the Italian situation is excellent. The principal battle is raging for the Montello crest, which is crossed ...
Article : 79 wordsA Turkish official communique issued yesterday states:—"We occupied the town of Tabriz, in Persia, and both shores of Lake Urumiah, with the view of ...
Article : 61 wordsThere was a large attendance of women as the Town Hall yesterday to hear the business men's committee's views, and the basis determined on for the War Time ...
Article : 435 wordsThe following official message was issued from the British Headquarters on the Italian front to-day:—"The situation on the British front is unchanged. Particular ...
Article : 122 wordsIt was recently announced that the Federal Government had arranged to purchase this year's Queensland sugar crop, and part of next year's crop, at £21 per ...
Article : 240 wordsM. Marcel Hutin states that after instructing the Crown Prince to take Compiegne and then march on Paris, Field-Marshal von Hindenburg is now planning ...
Article : 51 wordsAn inquest at Southampton revealed the fact that Lance-Corporal Ernest Poole, a Sydneyite, dived from a breakwater in France in order to save a child. He was ...
Article : 75 wordsThe German Government has officially recognised Ernest Kienets's book on the value of the German South Sea Islands, which replies to the suggestions that they ...
Article : 221 wordsA gallant feat was performed by Lieutenant La Rochefoucault. While acting as observer, his aeroplane fell abruptly 20 metres from the German lines, the pilot ...
Article : 80 wordsAn Italian semi-official message lengthily details the heroism of various British units, who resisted magnificently on front lines which had been destroyed by the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Boilermakers' Society will submit a resolution to the Trades' Union Congress limiting the hours of manual workers to 44 weekly; also that systematic overtime be ...
Article : 53 wordsEscaped French refugees in Northern France state that the German troops even in the first line are now very short of rations. The morale of the army has been ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Trade Boards Bill was read the second time in the House of Commons yesterday. The debate showed a general approval of the Act of 1909, the principles of which the ...
Article : 42 wordsAllegations have been made in New Zealand that a shipping company trading between Australian ports and the Dominion had raised the freight charges to an extent ...
Article : 115 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30, in No. 3 Court, before Mr. Justice Rooth: W. Howell (plaintiff) and the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Federated Miners' Industrial ...
Article : 47 wordsSan Francisco: The Mayor has named a committee to welcome Messrs. Schwab and Bainbridge, of the Shipping Board, when they arrive for the launching of nearly ...
Article : 399 wordsSentence of death was to-day passed on Daniel Burke, who was convicted of the murder of Mary Burke at Coolamon on April 12. The Crown alleged that the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Austrian Cabinet has resolved to lower the Vienna bread ration from 1,260 to 630 grammes weekly, owing to the Ukraine fiasco. The new ration begins to-day, and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe newspapers are giving prominence to a curious court-martial. Lieutenant Canning was accused of criticising his commanding officer because he allowed ladies ...
Article : 92 wordsBy the defeat of the German attack on Xivray in the Toul sector on June 16 the Americans gave a brilliant demonstration of their capabilities. The enemy ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Cologne "Volkszeitung," referring to Mr. Lloyd George's speech, in which he is alleged to have characterised Germany as a nuisance which must, be exterminated, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 20 Jun 1918, Page 5
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