The newspapers reveal the fact that 12 spies have been shot at the Tower of London during the war, and another committed suicide in his cell, while others have ...
Article : 167 wordsOf the 303 patients landed from the transport Boonah at Woodman's Point on Thursday evening nine were classified as dangerously ill, 26 seriously ill, 172 ill, and ...
Article : 313 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the second reading debate on the Wheat Marketing Act Amendment Bill was concluded. ...
Article : 2,623 wordsThe Bolsheviks have attained full power in the Duchy of Brunswick, where the President of the republic is a hunchback dwarf, normerly a tailor. His salary is ...
Article : 87 wordsIn order that no hardship should be incurred by the dependants of soldiers at present on active service through the depletion of the patriotic funds which have ...
Article : 139 wordsThe application of Edward Bertram Johnston, M.L.A., for a provisional certificate for a publican's general licence for three allotments of land at Wyalcatchem ...
Article : 1,015 wordsM. Gounaris, the ex-Premier of Greece, and Colonel Melexas, who have been interned at Ajaccio since June, 1917, have escaped. It was intended to take them ...
Article : 39 wordsThe arival of the Makura to-day with 233 passengers and a crew of about 200 was the chief event connected with the influenza outbreak. About 60 persons were ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Capetown Press supports the Government's attitude with regard to the repatriation of enemy subjects, but urges the appointment of a Commission to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "Merchant Service Review" recalls Mr. Winston Churchill's statement, "We were within an ace of the greatest victory at the Dardanelles the world has ever ...
Article : 123 wordsThe executive of the Comforts Fund desires to make public the following announcement, received by cable from the chief commissioner of the Australian ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Treasury announces that the present issue of War Bonds will be withdrawn early in January. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Bonar Law) states that ...
Article : 48 wordsBerlin messages state that the bands at the entry of the troops played "Deutschland uber Alles" and other patriotic tunes. Not a single revolutionary tune ...
Article : 101 wordsThe King has approved of the granting of a silver medal to the mercantile marine for war services. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe influenza outbreak is diminishing in Suva but is still virulent in the country districts. The European deaths number forty. ...
Article : 569 wordsThe English newspapers will publish neither on Christmas Day nor on Boxing Day. ...
Article : 19 wordsA great welcome to President Wilson is being arranged at Brest. Among those present will be MM. Pichon. Leygues, Tardieu, Albert Thomas, and Marcel ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Australian military authorities have arranged that cadets and officers in training schools passing out in November, December, and January be permitted to ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express" interviewed Minna Caver, the acknowledged leader of the German women She declared: "We are all pacifists now. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe following are the names of members of W3 reinforcements at the quarantine station:— Dangerous.—Private A. S. C. Wilson. ...
Article : 178 wordsMr. and Mrs. T. Buckenara 16 Centralavenue Maylands, have received word that their son, Corporal C. L. Buckenara, has been awarded the Military Medal. He ...
Article : 358 wordsThe Minister of Reconstruction (Dr. Addison), in a speech at the Connaught Rooms, said it would be impossible to abandon export permits so long as the ...
Article : 91 wordsAt an election held at Dresden in connection with the Soldiers and Workmen's Councils the Majority Socialists polled 177-566 votes and the Minority Socialists ...
Article : 57 wordsThe liner George Washington conveying President Wilson to France passed over the scene of the Lusitania tragedy, off the south coast of Ireland. ...
Article : 50 wordsAll the Allied officers and men are receiving a uniform war metal, with a bar for each year's service. ...
Article : 26 wordsAccording to a Berlin message, the Government has appointed January 1 for the holding of elaborate alfresco celebrations in honour of the revolution. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. J. H. Fowler, M.H.R., has been making inquiries in Melbourne regarding the possibility of removing the quarantine station away from Woodman's Point while ...
Article : 364 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes has despatched a Christmas message to the troops in France, wishing them a speedy return to their native country. "May Christmas, 1918, usher ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Evening Standard" has been authorised to state that Mr. Lloyd George will press forward the abolition of conscription in Great Britain, even if he is unsuccessful ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Spartacus group announce that there will be a general strike throughout Germany within 14 days, Dr. Carl Liebknecht declares that the New Year will ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association states that it is understood that Germany will not be asked to pay the full Allied war debt as Mr. ...
Article : 49 wordsA Swedish engineer who was long resident in Russia declares that it is not Socialism which is active in Russia, but class hatred. The populace seems to aim ...
Article : 72 wordsA message from Coblenz states that the German general, Von Tesny, exmilitary governor of Belgian Luxembourg, has arrived and has been imprisoned at Metz. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe German Press is anxiously watching the growing Allied insistence upon indemnities. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" warns the Alies to be sober enough to ...
Article : 92 wordsTrooper Alex. O'Neill, of the 10th Light Horse (who has been wounded on three occasions), writing to his mother, Mrs. E. O'Neill, of Mt. Barker, says:— ...
Article : 809 wordsAccording to the Amsterdam "Telegraaf," the Prime Minister in the course of a speech in the Second Chamber on Wednesday declared that Holland was ...
Article : 97 wordsThe "Dagens Nyheter" says that M. Trepoff, the ex-Russian Premier, who is now in Stockholm, is negotiating with other Russian moderates with the view of ...
Article : 102 wordsThe remarks by the President of the Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice Northmore) regarding the cause of the dissatisfaction of the officers employed in the railway and ...
Article : 162 wordsIn Johannesburg yesterday, there was a spectecular commemoration of the signing of the armistice. The Governor-General, in an address to the troops, paid a tribute ...
Article : 64 wordsThe ex-Kaiserin is seriously ill with beart trouble, and a specialisty is coming from Berlin. ...
Article : 27 wordsA German wireless message reports that the Grand Duke Nicholas commands the Cossacks on the Southern Russian front, his headquarters being at Kautemirovka. ...
Article : 34 wordsA White Paper has been issued which contains correspondence from the chiefs of the captured German colonies, who state that they are unanimous in their desire to ...
Article : 59 wordsSaturday next will be the last day upon which the War Patriotic Fund may appeal to the public to assist towards raising the amount of £30,000. It cannot be stressed ...
Article : 299 wordsThe desire to be inoculated as a precautionary measure against pneumonic influenza was more pronounced among the residents of the metropolitan area ...
Article : 224 wordsA telegram from Prague states that large mobs have plundered and wrecked the shops at Aussig, in Bohemia. The rioting continues despite all the efforts ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Christiania "Aftenposten" states that the Norwegian Legation has left Petrograd for Norway, and probably the Bolshevik representatives will be ordered to leave ...
Article : 53 wordsIn connection with the appeal being launched at Fremantle to provide funds for the continuation of the work of the Fremantle Public Hospital, the special appeal ...
Article : 195 wordsThe trouble between the management of the Fremantle Tramways and the Tramway Union which threatened to become serious owing to the dismissal of a ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Brest correspondent of the New York "World" states that the Orizaba arrived on Monday with newspaper men. The vessel had on board a delegation of ...
Article : 54 wordsA message from Berlin states that the Royal revenues for December were paid to all the ex-princes remaining in Germany. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe British cruisers Centaur and Coventry have arrived at Danzig from Libau. A general strike has broken out in Libau. [Libau is a seaport in Courland, with a ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, interviewed, denied a Press report cabled from Melbourne that Senator Pearce is coming to London to replace Sir Joseph Cook. Mr. Hughes says ...
Article : 94 wordsThe aggrieved Australians at Devonport are men who enlisted in 1915. They complain that wheress the 1914 men were given numerous privilges, they only had, ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to Mr. George Haven Putnam, the American leader of the English-speaking Union, urges the creation of an Arbitration Court ...
Article : 145 wordsThe ladies of the Fremantle Ladies' Auxiliary are making every effort to cheer the men confined to camp and ship. In conjunction with the Perth headquarters, ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Japanese delegates to the Peace Conference sailed on Tuesday last. ...
Article : 18 wordsDuring the debate on the third reading of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Bill in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Minister for Education said that stock ...
Article : 205 wordsJames Jobling (50), residing with his wife and five children on a selection at Parkhurst, seven miles from Rockhampton, murdered his wife last night and then ...
Article : 129 wordsTemperatures registered at Perth Observatory were:—Mox. 84deg.; min., 55deg. Yesterday's weather chart indicated that the high pressure bank which appeared off ...
Article : 158 wordsSurprise was expressed by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day at the announcement made by the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Holman) that as a result ...
Article : 185 wordsAfter conferring with the men at Newcastle yesterday, the iron and steel trades employers' representatives decided to recommend their association to concede the ...
Article : 37 wordsViscount Grey, speaking at Dewsbury yesterday, said that an Anglo-American rivalry in naval construction would be fatal to the good relations of the two ...
Article : 67 wordsThe troopship Wyrema arrived to-day with Australian troops homeward bound, the Wyreema left Australia in October with troops for Europe, but after passing ...
Article : 87 wordsBritain on September 30 was building 383 ships with a total capacity of 1,746,933 tons including two over 20,000 tons. On the same date the world was building 2,144 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 14 Dec 1918, Page 7
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