No votes were counted yesterday in connection with the Western Australian electorates. A few additional returns were received from the Eastern States, but these ...
Article : 112 wordsIn yesterday morning's report Sir Douglas Haig stated: "In last night's fighting at Bullecourt we made further progress through the village and reached the ...
Article : 317 wordsMr. McAdoo (Secretary for the Treasury) estimates that the war will cost America £3,298,600 a day for the first year. The House of Representatives has ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Miners' Federation has resolved to send a deputation to the Prime Minister, to point out the necessity of the Government taking over the control of foodstuffs, ...
Article : 115 wordsYesterday's Italian official report stated:—"There was bitter and prolonged fighting between Mounts Cucco and Vodice. The enemy repeatedly launched considerable ...
Article : 228 wordsThe question of reinstating to their former rank in the Australian Imperial Forces officers who on their return from active service abroad, have been discharged ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,737 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons yesterday, Sir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade) warned householders, particularly in London, that coal rationing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsIn response to proposals from the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council, the Government has made counter proposals of the following conditions:—Firstly, all treaties ...
Article : 198 wordsContinuing their tour of the munition works and factories, the King and Queen visited Barrow yesterday. The chairman of the local football club was presented to his ...
Article : 51 wordsThe State Department unofficially announces that Lord Robert Cecil's restatement regarding the Allies' war aims is generally approved by America, as it is ...
Article : 52 wordsThere was a crowded congregation at Westminster Abbey yesterday, on the occasion of an Ascension Day thanksgiving service in connection with the Red Cross ...
Article : 42 wordsLieutenant Frank Wolf, alleged to be a German spy, has confessed that Germany planned to establish submarine and Zeppelin bases on the Mexican coast, with a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 335 wordsA wireless German official message, intercented yesterday, stated: "Owing to a strong English counter attack we gave up our ground in the captured village of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Government is taking over marine insurance. ...
Article : 10 wordsThe United States Embasey at Mexico City states that President Carranza has caused a sensation by stating that those who opposed the revolution in Mexico had ...
Article : 48 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at the Isonzo front witnessed the assault on Mount Cucco. He says:—"The battle was staged like 'A Midsummer Night's ...
Article : 218 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) announced the important decision of the Imperial War Cabinet that its meetings should ...
Article : 622 wordsThe King of the Belgians recently toured the West front, including the villages of Thiepval, and Bapaume, where an Australian guard of honour was provided. ...
Article : 43 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. W. C. Anderson (Labour, Attercliffe, Sheffield), moved the adjournment of the House in order to draw attention to the ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports:—"M. Miliukoff's departure represents the heavy price the Government is paying in order to attack ...
Article : 240 wordsEscaped Russian prisoners describe the fearful conditions which obtain in Alsace. Prisoners there are barbarously treated and dying of hunger. When they become sick ...
Article : 36 wordsThe following British official report was received from Salonika yesterday:—"We heavily repulsed two counter attacks on the Kupri-Struma front to-day and took 96 ...
Article : 31 wordsMrs. G. V. Cross, Kelmscott, has received news from headquarters that her son, Private Gordon V. Cross, has been missing since April 11. He has been fighting since ...
Article : 410 wordsThe Austrian Emperor has arrived at the Austrian headquarters on the Trentino front. He issued a rescript, thanking the people, especially the women, for their ...
Article : 75 wordsAn official German wireless message intercepted yesterday stated:—"We repulsed French attacks north and north-west of Monastir." ...
Article : 23 wordsLord Esher states that he has seen a letter written from Berlin by a German officer stating that the Kaiser's abdication was mentioned at the recent meeting of ...
Article : 88 wordsIn consequence of the changes in the military commands, the Senate will sit in secret to consider an interpellation regarding the operations on April 16. ...
Article : 37 wordsNotwithstanding the German threats to overwhelm with asphyxiating gas all Russians who refused to continue to fraternise with the German troops, the Russians ...
Article : 101 wordsThe improvement in quotations for shipping shares in the Norwegian market is regarded as proof of the success of antisubmarine measures. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is officially announced that after conference between the employers and the employees' unions the omnibus strike has been terminated on the basis of the following ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the United Press Association states that Dr. Von Bethmann Hollweg is firmly in the saddle again, having by his attitude refuted ...
Article : 79 wordsLetters from British prisoners in German hands have been published, showing that they are forced to work on the Russian front under fire. ...
Article : 29 wordsAdvices from Pekin state that the Government has telegraphed to the Chinese Governors, urging the advisablity of a declaration of war against Germany. The ...
Article : 62 wordsAn official message received from Russia states:—"The new War and Foreign Ministers at [?]etrograd have declared for a vigorous prosecution of the war. The ...
Article : 66 wordsSir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade) in the House of Commons yesterday emphasised the importance of the establishment of the Trade Corporation. He ...
Article : 496 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Athen correspondent states that King Constantine, in conversing with an American recently, said that Germany's submarining would force ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsThe Austrian Foreign Minister (Count Czernin) will go to the German military headquarters on Sunday to continue the conversations with the German Chancellor ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council yesterday refused leave to appeal in the case of the Welsbach Light Company versus the Commonwealth ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Reichstag has adjourned until July 5. ...
Article : 12 wordsSeveral shopkeepers were to-day fined amounts varying from £4 to £7, with costs, for selling brass "rising sun" badges of the Commonwealth military forces in ...
Article : 56 wordsThe American destroyers arrived at Queenstown yesterday, where they escorted the White Star liner Adriatic (24,500 tons). They had a successful brush with ...
Article : 321 wordsThere are grave strikes in the munitions factories, at Bielefeld, in Prussia, and in Brandenburg. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Penfield, who was until recently American Ambassador at Vienna, stated to an interviewer yesterday that the distress in Austria was terrible, but people must not ...
Article : 236 wordsA big German industrial paper publishes an article showing the further spread of the scare regarding German trade after the war which started in the German ...
Article : 143 wordsA fairly representative meeting of cornsack importers was held to-day, when the details of the scheme drawn up by the Melbourne conference last week regarding ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day President McCawley heard an application by the Australian Sugar Producers' Association and the United Canegrowers' ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following comment was made to-day by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) on the speech made by Lord Robert Cecil in the House of Commons on the Empire's war ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Federal Cabinet met again to-day, when further consideration was given to the programme to be submitted to the new Parliament, which will assembly in ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that the Germans intend to divide Alsace-Lorraine between Bavaria and Prussia. This plan ...
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Advertising : 88 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day denied an allegation made by Mr. Catts before the Sydney Labour Council, that he had gone on board a transport and ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Argentine Government has renewed its prohibition of the exportation of wheat. ...
Article : 19 wordsAn American doctor, who has just returned from Berlin, says that crows are selling at 1s. 6d. each, and sparrows, at 4d. each in Germany. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is reported that Japanese gunboats have arrived at Marseilles. ...
Article : 20 wordsA German torpedoer was sunk last night north of Schiermonnikoog, but it is not known whether it was mined or torpedood. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 19 May 1917, Page 7
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