The following official despatches have been issued:— London, Dec. 13 (12.30 a.m.).—"In the morning the enemy delivered a strong local ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) made a triumphant entry into Geelong to-day. He motored from Melbourne, and when a few miles from Geelong he was met by no ...
Article : 1,721 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening Mr. Lloyd George read a telegram to the effect that General Alenby entered Jerusalem at noon on Tuesday, and was ...
Article : 145 wordsThe following official shipping reports for the week which ended on Sunday last have been issued:— British. ...
Article : 74 wordsIt has been learned from authoritative sources that the Russian outlook is brighter. The pro-Ally party among the Bolsheviks has been strengthened considerably by ...
Article : 76 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation of war against Austria, and he declares that Austrians in the United States will be allowed full liberty if they obey the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Senate has passed a Bill permitting American exporters to combine for foreign trade. President Wilson approves of the measure. ...
Article : 33 wordsA few words of warning to the farmers of Australia were uttered by the Prime Minister in the course of his speech at Geelong to-night. Mr. Hughes said that ...
Article : 649 wordsThe Russian Embassy here says that since the revolution the supervision of Austro-German prisoners in Russia has been merely nominal and the fully half of them have ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the meeting yesterday of the P. and O. S.N. Co., Lord Inchcape (the chairman) said that he was convinced that nothing which the enemy could do in submarining ...
Article : 84 wordsReferring to-day to the Bill now before the House of Commons to prevent German interests ever again obtaining control of metals, particularly spelter, lead, copper, ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Patiarch of Jerusalem has telegaphed to the Pope that the city has not been damages, not a shot having been fired against it by the British. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) asserts that Siberia will declare its independence shortly. It repudiates any alliances with the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe following official despatch has been received from the British headquarters in Palestine:—"Our line has been advanced midway between Jerusalem and Jaffa. The ...
Article : 47 wordsIn connection with the disaster which befel the American destroyer Jacob Jones, it has been ascertained that the torpedo struck the vessel on the starboard side, ...
Article : 83 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Eric C. Geddes) in a letter to a prominent Sydney worker in connection with the Citizens' War Chest, dwell upon the futility of any ...
Article : 347 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) at the British front says:—"Prince Rupprecht's apparent aim this morning was to pierce General Byng's ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Manchester "Gurardain's" correspondent at Petrograd states that messages from Jassy, the temporary capital of Roumania, show that the chief ancxiety of the Roumanian ...
Article : 136 wordsMouktar Bey, a Turkish delegated, is conferring with British delegates in Berne for an exchange of prisoners of war. He has asked the authorities in Constantinople ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening sir George Cave, K.C. (Home Secretary) admitted that the police raids on pacrificist organisations had not produced direct ...
Article : 94 wordsAn interesting paper on Palestine was read at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (London) by Dr. E. W. G. Masterman who has [?]resided on and off ...
Article : 520 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the special correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" at the British front, telegraphs:—"The enemy's attack east of Bullercourt on a front of a ...
Article : 256 wordsAccording to the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Morning Post" the Bolsheviks declare that power must remain in the hands of the self-appointed commissaries, ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Y.M.C.A. has been informed that Mr. J. J. Virgo's mission to America has been successful, he having secured 50,000,000 dollars (about £10,000,000) in aid of the ...
Article : 85 wordsBefore Mr. Notley Moore, P.M., at the Prahran Court to-day, John William Billson, M.L.A., was charged with having, on November 30 made statements likely to ...
Article : 74 wordsAt a conference between the masters and the workmen in the engineering trades, it was agreed that recognition should be given to the shop stewards, and a scheme was ...
Article : 67 wordsThe British Admiralty reported to-day:—"Naval aircraft bombed the Bruges docks on Tuesday night, but the visibility was bad. One of our machines is missing. We ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,187 wordsBrigadier-General Jobson, in an address which he delivered here to-night, said that on one part of the Australian front 40 men had been doing the work of 200. "The ...
Article : 69 wordsA message received from Haparanda (Sweden) says that travellers who have arrived there from Petrograd report that the Winter Palace was on fire when thy left the ...
Article : 42 wordsSpeaking at the Colonial Institute yesterday, Sir Edward Carson said that he was astonished that Germany ever went to war, since she had possession of three-fourths of ...
Article : 155 wordsA high military authority observes:—"The readjustment at Cambrai has been accomplished, and on the balance we have a considerable area in our favour. More ...
Article : 380 wordsSerious disturbances have taken place at Harbin between the extreme pro-Germans and the Allied Nationalists. The Chinese authoritie, have telegraphed for troops to ...
Article : 32 wordsSome time ago Mrs. Williamson of Queenstown, wrote inquiring wheather her sons, who have been at the front for a long time, could be given leave to return home ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer), in moving in the House of Commons for a vote of credit for £550,000,000, said that this amount would sufficen to carry ...
Article : 486 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" publishes to-day an interesting description of the recent fighting on the Dials River in Mesopotamia. It states that the British surprised ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) received yesterday a deputation from the Trades Union Congress. In reply to the requests made. he said that one of the ...
Article : 187 wordsA handsome monument to the patriotism of the parishioners of Christ Church, Clarement, in the form of a tastefully carved jarrah honour board, was unveiled by the ...
Article : 404 wordsIn the course of his speech at Geelong to-night the Prime Minister read the following cable message which has been received from Mr. Boyd Cable, the ...
Article : 539 wordsIt is reported from Halifax that seven dead men were found on board of the Canadian cruiser Niobe. Five men who were afloat in a boat were drowned. The Niobe ...
Article : 173 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (the High Commissioner for New Zealand), speaking at a meeting of the Society of Arts, contended that it was imperative, in the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following official bulletin has been issued:— Rome, December 12 (6.30 p.m.).—"Yesterday between the Brenta and the Piave Rivers the Austrians attacked violently Col della Baretta and Col della Orso. The ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Government of France has conferred the order of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour upon Sir Thomas Robinson (Agent-General for Queensland), in ...
Article : 155 wordsOn Wednesday the Rev. H. A. Brewer left by the Great Western Express at the call of the National Y.M.C.A. Committee to serve as a Y.M.C.A. secretary abroad. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Milan "Corriere della Sera" says that the Austro-Germans have made the Piave line secondary to the mountain front, whither heavy reinforcements have ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. J. Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, in a speech delivered yesterday, said that America entered the war, not because of prejudices or passions, or because she ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Paris "Petit Journal" says that plots attributed to M. Caillaux in Rome have stirred the Italian Government to the highest degree. M. Caillaux is accused of ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. and Mrs. T. Spencer, of 152 Stirling-street, South Perth, have learned that their youngest son, Ernest, has been reported missing since October 12. ...
Article : 138 wordsFive British iron and steel companies which have an output of about 20,000 tons of steel weekly are amalgamating. ...
Article : 27 wordsSir Edward Carson (a member of the War Cabinet) presided at the meeting held in the Colonial Institute yesterday, when Mr. F. Fisher, of New Zealand, read a ...
Article : 82 wordsA message received from Rome says that Congressman Geroge Holden Tinkham, one of the Boston members of the House of Representatives, fired a shell against the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Rev. Father T. J. O'Donell, who intends to go on active military service, left Burnie on Wednesday night for Melbourne. He will speak in the Australian capitals. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 14 Dec 1917, Page 7
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