A British official message issued on Friday stated:—"Yesterday we continued our march towards Cologne and the Rhine, and reached a line from Blankenheim to the ...
Article : 268 wordsCaptain Carmichael, M.L.A., of New South Wales, sails for Australia in a fortnight. He is investigating the construction of workmen's houses in England, and ...
Article : 147 wordsAvailable wireless news indicate that the outbreak of pneamonic influenza on board the troopship from South Africa, which is expected to arrive at Fremantle about the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe United Press Association's correspondent at Washington says that he learns on good authority that if President Wilson does not succeed in inducing Britain to ...
Article : 96 wordsEfforts to prevent the strike of cotton workers in Lancashire have failed, and 100,000 empleyees have ceased work. The strike is over the question of wages. The ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Westphalian "Allgemeine Volkszoitung" reports that Dr. Liebknecht declared that he had Berlin in his hands, and that in a few days the people would be amazed ...
Article : 77 wordsAfter a long and painful illness Mr. Frank Wilson, C. M. G., ex-Premier of the State, died at his residence at Claremont at 6.15 p.m. on Saturday. Mr. Wilson had ...
Article : 1,374 wordsMr. James Mitchell, M.L.A., a colleague of Mr. Frank Wilson's for over twelve years, expressed his keen regret last night at the death of his former leader. ...
Article : 444 wordsReports from Berlin state that at a meeting of soldiers from the front a soldier announced that the executive committee of the Berlin Soviet had been ...
Article : 169 wordsThe railway trouble has been settled, the Board of Trade having conceded the men's demand for an eight hour day, which will be applicable to all railway ...
Article : 132 wordsPresident Wilson has asked permission to delay his arrival, and to disembark at Bres, on December 13. ...
Article : 26 wordsA large number of Australian and New Zealand soldiers will arrive home in March. ...
Article : 26 wordsOrganised business men throughout the United States have decided to despatch a Commission to Paris to advise the American peace delegates on economic subjects if ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Colonial Secretary and Minister for Public Health (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) when spoken to last night regarding the precautions being taken in this State to cope ...
Article : 571 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) denied yesterday that the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) was going to London as Minister in charge of ...
Article : 32 wordsThere is no confirmation of the report of a Bolshevik outbreak in Berlin. On the contrary, a message received in Amsterdam from Berlin states that the Ebert ...
Article : 53 wordsPresident Wilson has been invited by the Cologne authorities to meet a German delegation in order to determine Germany's status. ...
Article : 28 wordsLady Rhondda, on behalf of the Women's Industrial League, sent a memorial to the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) on the subject of the claims of ...
Article : 88 wordsMilitary crosses have been awarded to the following Australians:—Captains D. Chalmers, W. L. Domeney, J. Loughman, D. A. Twining, Infantry; J. M. Boyd, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette," admitting the effectiveness of the British blockade during the war, arrogantly says that Germany intends to submit a counter claim to the ...
Article : 53 wordsAn English correspondent in Berlin says that he real Government of Germany is in the hands of a National Council elected by district council of workmen and soldiers, ...
Article : 84 wordsThe members of the London Metal Exchange have unanimously passed a resolution against re-admitting enemy aliens. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Leader of the Opposition (Mr. P. Collier) said yesterday that he had learned with deep sorrow of Mr. Wilson's death. "Although we stood at opposite poles of ...
Article : 171 wordsFearing an Allied Invasion of Russia, the Bolsheviks are again murdering civilians, and plundering and burning houses. The Petrograd correspondent of the Paris ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Finance Sub-commitee of the Armistice Commission at Spa (Belgium) has intimated that Germany must not alienate the gold in the Reichsbank or the ...
Article : 62 wordsA war correspondent states that although the first stage of the march through Germany was completed without any untoward incident, the air is full rumours of ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. David Davies, Liberal member for Montgomeryshire since 1906, is donating £20,000 to the University of Wales for the establishment of a Chair of International ...
Article : 46 wordsThe London correspondent of the United Press Association interviewed the ex-Premier of Russia (M. Kerensky), who said:—"I believe that the German revolution, ...
Article : 95 wordsLord Robert Cecil, who recently resigned the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, owing to his disagreement with the Government over the ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is announced that the roll of the Order of the British Empire will be closed after the final list of honours is announced. ...
Article : 32 wordsPolish troops have occupied Brest Litovsk also the districts south of Lemberg, Galicia, defeating the Ukrainians. ...
Article : 27 wordsAs a mark of public appreciation of the late Mr. Wilson's services to Western Australia the ex-Premier's remains will be accorded a State funeral this afternoon. A ...
Article : 267 wordsThe German National Assembly elections will be held on May 15. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe King and the Princes have been visiting the First Army. They were welcomed at Mons, Valenciennes, and many other towns, and received an ovation from ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Peking correspondent of the New York "Times" states that Lou Cheg Hsiang, the head of the Chinese peace delegation, has left for France, accompanied ...
Article : 35 wordsReports from Petrograd state that the terrorist commission at Mohileff, alleging the discovery of a counter-revulutionary plot, murdered 14 persons, including Prince ...
Article : 41 wordsReports from Berlin state that 4,000 officers and non-commissioned officers have resolved to establish a corps for the upholding of the Ebert Government. ...
Article : 91 wordsIt is announced that the American army under General Dickman is advancing 12 miles daily towards the Rhine, and that the American headquarers are at present ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is rumoured that the Government Committee, of which Mr. W. M. Hughes is the chairman and Lord Cunliffe (governor of the Bank of England) one of the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the Cassandra struck a mine in the Baltic on Thursday, and was sunk. Eleven of the crew are missing. The Cassandra was a ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Federal Ministry recently appointed a special committee to arrange a complete programme in connection with the celebration in Australia of the declaration of ...
Article : 67 wordsA correspondent describes the Belgian entry into Aix-la-Chapelle, and says that the proclamation prescribing the behaviour of the troops was an exact translation of, ...
Article : 184 wordsThe British Farmers' Red Cross Fund exceeds one million sterling. ...
Article : 18 wordsA message from Munich states that the elections for the Bavarian Diet will be held on January 12. All male and female subjects who are over the age of 20 years ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. W. H. Taft, in the course of a speech yesterday, said that until Britain was satisfied that a league of nations would safeguard her interests she was ...
Article : 55 wordsWith the knowledge that within the next few days a ship with nearly 100 cases of pneumonic influenza aboard will arrive at Fremantle, and the patients and contacts ...
Article : 986 wordsIt is understood that the Government has decided to accelerate demobilisation, and it is hoped that many thousands will return to civil life before Christmas. The ...
Article : 44 wordsAttention was drawn by the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Millen) yesterday to a complaint that a widow, who had applied for a grant of £500 to build a home, had ...
Article : 132 wordsThe secretary of the A.W.U. (Mr. A. J. Watts) stated yesterday that as the result of a letter received from the Minister for Railways (Mr. C. A. Hudson), the terms ...
Article : 190 wordsA telegram from Berlin states that the Prussian Government has formally withdrawn from the Hohenzollern family its immunity from law. ...
Article : 148 wordsThirty-three cases of art and historical treasures, collected at the Palace of Justice, Munich, were stolen from the north of France. Each case was labelled "Prince ...
Article : 43 wordsBritish Day was observed throughout the United States on Thursday, and there were many great demonstrations. New York and Wahsington were smothered with flags. ...
Article : 277 wordsReports from Zurich state that General [?]on Below, formerly commanding the German forces in the Lons-Cambrai sector, is dead. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Heidelberg Workman and Soldiers' Council says that it is expected the French will occupy Mannheim, also Heidelberg, owing to "a regrettable incident wherein ...
Article : 41 wordsMrs. J. W. Allen, of 10 Quarry-street, Fremantle, has received word that her husband, Lieutenant Allen, has been awarded the Military Cross. He left Australia on ...
Article : 623 wordsThe West German Football Players' Union has prohibited affiliated unions from playing football with teams of the armies of occupation. ...
Article : 27 wordsGeneral Peyton C. March, American Chief of Staff, announces 20,000 men are on route from France. Five additional divisions have been sent by General ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Cunard line contemplates a new trans-Atlantic service to Antwerp. Belgian business men suggest that the Cunard Company be offered the Norddeutscher Lloyd's ...
Article : 39 wordsAccording to the figures made available by the Prime Minister's Department yesterday, the traffic on the Pacific cable has almost trebled. During the war the cable ...
Article : 135 wordsThe "Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung" states that a British squadron under the command of Admiral Browning arrived at Wilhelinshaven last Wednesday, and owing ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Berlin "Lokalanzeiger" declares that Holland must emphatically decline to extradite the ex-Kaiser to the Allies. The British speeches demanding his ...
Article : 40 wordsAll the French cities and principal towns will celebrate the British Navy's share in the victory on December 28, when it is expected that British warships will ...
Article : 42 wordsA grass fire broke out at Mt. Pleasant in the Mt. Lofty Ranges yesterday, and rapidly spread with extremely disastrous results. Many farmers sustained heavy losses ...
Article : 158 wordsSir John Simon, a former Attorney-General, speaking at Manchester, contended that the peace terms should include a German undertaking to produce ...
Article : 38 wordsThe King and Queen of Belgium were accorded an ovation upon their arrival in Paris on Thursday. Speeches of a most cordial nature were exchanged by President ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Bruce Bielski, the Government Alien Investigator, in giving evidence before the Senate inquiry into pro-German activities, said that Count Bernstorff formerly German ...
Article : 233 wordsBerlin messages state that Marshal Foch has directed the president of the German Transport Department to proceed to Cologne on December 11 to give the Allied ...
Article : 49 wordsThe United States is standing aloof from the question of the extradition of the ex-Kaiser from Holland. According to the State Department the United States has ...
Article : 36 wordsCount Karolyi's Cabinet has prepared a Bill guaranteeing the widest autonomy to all Hungarian nationalities in order to prevent territorial disintegration. If the ...
Article : 44 wordsWhen spoken to last night regarding the death of Mr. Frank Wilson, the Premier (Mr. H. B. Lefroy) paid the following tribute to his one-time Ministerial chief:— ...
Article : 208 wordsThe executive councils of Berlin and Bavaria have decided instantly to retire Dr. Solf and not to permit Herr Erzberger to take part in the Peace ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Weser Zeitung," a Breman publication, says that the President of the Soldiers' Council at Hamburg declares positively that he knew that 20 bags of ...
Article : 41 wordsBerlin reports state that the Ukranians have defeated the Poles and Captured Lemberg. ...
Article : 23 wordsA disastrous fire occurred early this morning at Killarney, which resulted in the total destruction of the Imperial Hotel, J. Spreadborough's butcher's shop, Wall's ...
Article : 94 wordsA message received from Berlin states that a short document has been published and was signed by the ex-Crown Prince at Wieringen on December 1 renouncing his ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Jewish Press Bureau states that altogether 956 victims of the recent pogrom in Lemberg have been buried, but it is impossible to estimate the number that ...
Article : 48 wordsGerman aerial mail passenger services have commenced between Berlin. Munich, Cologne, Konigsberg, and other cities. The passengers' fare is two and a half marks ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 9 Dec 1918, Page 7
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