Discussing Lord Jellicoe's overseas trip the London "Times" says:—"The whole problem of the Dominions' naval policy has been altered owing to the disappearance of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,326 wordsThe Fourth Australian Light Horse Regiment from Victoria captured the great garrison at Damascus by rounding up nearly 12,000 exhausted and dispirited Turks. ...
Article : 1,169 wordsMany National Kitchens are being closed. They were unsuccessful after the first rush. owing to the mild nature of the winter and the general sufficiency of food ...
Article : 35 wordsApparently a general mobilisation is being arranged in Russia. The People's Commissaries have ordered to the colours all officers under 50 years of age, all colonels ...
Article : 47 wordsReports received from Berlin give details of the riots which took place on Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Eight hundred sailors who were guarding ...
Article : 214 wordsSenator James D. Phelan (Democrat. California) has introduced a resolution proposing that the American peace delegates ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the Paris "Matin" says that the German Government will publish shortly sensational revelations proving that ex-King Ludwig of ...
Article : 57 wordsAlthough the streets of London were quiet, particularly when the omnibuses and trams were withdrawn at 4 o'clock this afternoon, it was agreed generally ...
Article : 448 wordsThe London correspondent of the Chicago "Tribune" says that the American Shipping Board officials have informed the British shipping authorities of the terms on which ...
Article : 259 wordsThe Allies have decided that the neutral nations shall not be represented at the Peace Conference, and that the neutral nations shall submit their claims to the ...
Article : 46 wordsGermany will surrender shortly 50 submarines which were unseaworthy or unfinished when the others were surrendered at Harwich. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is expected that the Peace Conference will begin in the latter part of January. Already much progress has been made in the course of conversations between M. ...
Article : 137 wordsGeneral Monash. through the Australian Y.M.C.A., has sent the following message to the Australian troops in the field:—"My close association with you since May is a ...
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Article : 119 wordsA woman was charged in the Westminster Police Court (London) with having committed double bigamy and defrauded the Commonwealth Government of separation ...
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Article : 31 wordsRioting commenced at 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning when marines, who hold extreme Socialist views, occupied the Imperial Palace and stables. The Republican ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says—"The news from Germany shows that the spirit of Christmastide is entirely absent. There is ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Entente Powers will confer in Paris at the new year for the formulation of an air law code. The decisions arrived at will be imposed on Germany as part of the Peace ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Allied Air Conference to be held in January will devise means for converting German commercial machines into "bombers" at a moment's notice. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Arno Dosch Fleurot telegraphs to the New York "World" from Berlin:—"With the exception of about half a dozen men who are too ill to be removed, ...
Article : 189 wordsMadame Bennett-Wilkinson is in receipt of letters from the Premier (Mr. Lefroy) and the District Commandant (Col. Courtney) expressing their appreciation of her ...
Article : 41 wordsOn Wednesday evening the situation was most dangerous to the Government. The Alexander and Franzen regiments openly joined the sailors, and it is reported that ...
Article : 98 wordsThe London representatives of the Australian Red Cross Society have arranged for the transport of come 400 convalescents in addition to a number of ex-prisoners of ...
Article : 147 wordsMrs. E. McKenzie, of 67 Cantonment-street, Fremantle. has received word that her husband, A. G. McKenzie, died of influenza while a prisoner of war in Germany. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Victorian Cross has been awarded to the following Australians:— Major B. Wark (32nd Battalion), who displayed great bravery and initiative in ...
Article : 394 wordsThe street fighting continued throughout Tuesday and until Wednesday morning. It is estimated that 100 persons were killed. A large number of the Berlin guards ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Paris correspondents of the New York "Evening Sun" reports that Mr. George Creel. chairman of the American Committee on Public Information, who accompained ...
Article : 50 wordsOld Captain Rugg, the commander of the sailing vessel Dee (1,16[?] tons), sunk by the German raider Wolf during her voyage from Mauritius to Australia, has arrived ...
Article : 115 wordsThe London "Star" says that, though official confirmation is not available, a report is current to the effect that Britain has demanded the use of the River Scheldt ...
Article : 61 wordsInformation received by cable message from Great Britain by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) indicates that the provision of tonnage for Australian needs in ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Coblenz correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that a "questionnaire" among officers and enlisted men of the American army of occupation ...
Article : 51 wordsMessages received from Berlin state that the disturbances have subsided somewhat, and that the soldiers and sailors declare that the trouble is over. The sailors ...
Article : 84 wordsThe executive committee of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution urging the earliest discontinuances of the State control of trade. ...
Article : 40 wordsBudapest newspapers report that, owing to the Hungarian Government's failure to agree with the military representative of the Czecho-Slovaks, the Entente Powers' ...
Article : 99 wordsTen American battleships, headed by the Arizona, and commanded by Admiral Mayo, received a tremendous welcome in New York Harbour on returning from European ...
Article : 80 wordsA section of the Berlin garrison joined the revolting sailors, and it was believed that there was a danger of the whole garrison revolting and leaving the Government ...
Article : 77 wordsThe War Office authorities announce that they are unable to confirm the allegations that Germans tattooed certain prisoners of war. ...
Article : 33 wordsRepresentatives of the coastal and goldfields branches of the National Labour Party met in Kalgoorlie today. Several matters of importance were discussed, but ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" says:—"It is understood that the Imperial War Conference has settled the question of representation at the Peace Conference. and has ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Australian Y.M.C.A. is supplying material for extensive Christmas and New Year festivities among the Australian troops in France and Britain. The ...
Article : 133 wordsAbout 150 leading Bolsheviks in Vienna have been arrested. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe marines on Monday night invaded the Chancellery in Berlin and imprisoned Herr Ebert for a time. The Government was forced to bring the ex-Imperial Guard ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is expected that the peace pageant in London will be composed of all the services, and it is hoped that every unit will be represented, but the difficulty is to keep ...
Article : 73 wordsTemperature readings at the Perth Observatory yesterday were:—Maximum, 95.9deg.; minimum, 67.7deg. Reports received at the Weather Bureau ...
Article : 526 wordsThe Coblenz correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that large quantities of food supplies have been stolen by the German population from the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) has interviewed Herr Philip Scheidemann, who said:—"We are all heartily in accord with President ...
Article : 81 wordsFor eight hours yesterday the Fremantle lumpers were practically on strike again. They turned out in force at the monument on Victoria Quay at 8 a.m., but would not ...
Article : 393 wordsM. Litvinoff (the Bolshevik Government's former representative in London) has, on behalf of the Russian Government, sent to the Allies a Note proposing peace. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe British Navy has received 517 new vessels since the outbreak of the war—seven battleships, five battle cruisers. 26 light cruisers, 17 monitors, 230 destroyers, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe steamer Brunhilda has arrived in Algoa Bay, after all hope that she was afloat had been abandoned. It was believed that the vessel had sunk on ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen "Politken" says that the Spartacus group is determined to separate completely from the Independent and the Majority ...
Article : 37 wordsThe immense machine gun department in Vickers's works in Brayford has been converted into a sewing-maching factory. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Paris "Matin" says: "The reported intention of the Allies to intervene in Russia does not represent the intention of the British Government. Though the ...
Article : 183 wordsMr. Frederick Smith, the special correspondent of the Chicago "Tribune," who has spent a fortnight travelling in Germany, and who was the first American ...
Article : 154 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau, announced last night:—"Mr. J. H. Thomas has sent to Lord Robert Cecil a letter stating that a feeling exists that strenuous ...
Article : 266 wordsThe heavy cost of her submarine warfare was hidden from the world by Germany for as long as possible. The British Admiralty, although in full possession of the facts, was ...
Article : 236 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau notifies that dealings in timber in the United Kingdom will not the restricted after January 1 next. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Crown Prince of Japan will visit the Allied countries directly the peace agreement has been signed. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Queen assisted by the Duke of Connaught and Princes Albert and George, distributed personally the Queen's Peace Christmas card among some three ...
Article : 68 wordsHuge bonfires were lit on a large number of the hills and mountain tops throughout the Union on Christmas Eve to celebrate victory and peace. ...
Article : 38 wordsMessages received from Turkey say that Turkish agitators in the outlying districts are stirring up the mobs against the Allies, and urging massacres of the Armenians. ...
Article : 48 wordsThere have been fresh strikes among the Silesian miners. They have been organised by Dr. Liebknecht, who has reduced the coal output by half. In the Rhenish ...
Article : 62 wordsIn view of the representations made in the Australian Parliaments of the effect that Australian soldiers in Palestine and Egypt ought to have an opportunity of ...
Article : 128 wordsDespatches received from Vladivostok say that General Semenoff (the Cossack leader in Siberia) has agreed to recognise Admiral Koltchak's regime provided that ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Gidseos struck a mine off Newcastle (England), and sank. Six persons perished. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Berlin "Vossische Zeitung" says that Germany's relations with Turkey have been broken off. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Admiralty authorities announce that Lord Lytton has been appointed deputy to Sir Eric Geddes at the Admiralty in all matters arising from the Peace Conference, ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is reported that Mr. Roger Treadwell, American Consult has been arrested in Tashkent (in the Russian Governor Generalship of Central Asia), at the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe gun "big Bertha," which bombarded Dunkirk, has arrived in Bruesels. Another gun of a similar carlibre will be presented to Dunkirk by the Government ...
Article : 36 wordsA telegram received from Berlin states that the Czench troops have reached the border of Saxony, and the Government has appealed to Berlin for assistance. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Union Castle liner Briton (10,248 tons) has left Plymouth for New Zealand with some twelve hundred returned [?]. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 28 Dec 1918, Page 5
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