The chief feature of to-day's cable news is German submarine raids on British waters, and their simultaneous appearance in the Irish Sea and the English Channel. The new ocean-going submarines are apparently capable of taking voyages of considerable duration, and carrying fuel enough to enable them to go round the north of England and return to Germany. Their [?]dacity and sucess in the Irish Sea, where they have been chasing and sinking small ...
Article : 426 wordsThe Turks seized jewels and money, valued at £2,000,000 belonging to sanctuaries in Kerbela (Turkey-in-Asia). A strong Turkish force is marching towards Ahwaz ...
Article : 40 wordsArgument was continued to-day before Judge Street in connection with the application made by August Nilsen for a continuance of the injunction directed against the ...
Article : 90 wordsWriting in the Paris "Journal," M. Servin brings forward another example of the thoroughness with which the present war was prepared by the Germans. Special ...
Article : 1,679 wordsThe Turks who were recently engaged near the Suez Canal are regulars, clad in khaki. There has been no firing since Friday last, through the rival outposts are still ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is reported that during shearing time at Glenorch, a young German stayed a night at the men's hut. He carried maps and plans, secured on his travels ...
Article : 49 words"Father Paul Bull, in a letter to the Superior of the Mirfield Brotherhood, gives a long and interesting account of his experiences as a chaplain at one of the ...
Article : 800 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Copenhagen states that the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Count Burian) has persuaded the Kaiser and the ...
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Article : 65 wordsMany German newspapers received here contain an article, believed to be inspired, in which the possibilities of peace are discussed in carefully guarded language. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the Central News Agency reports that the Chief of the German General Staff has ordered that all natives of British colonies, now in ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Kaiser's return to Berlin from the front in France was due to a throat trouble which had sometimes rendered his voice almost inaudible. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe first Sunday evening's service in conection with the Y.M.C.A. at Rottnest was conducted successfully on Sunday night, when Mr. W. E. Pickering took ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce), replying to the toast of the Federal and State Parliaments, at the A.N.A. luncheon to-day, said that, with regard to ...
Article : 754 wordsThe name of Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Mechlin and Poimate of Belgium, is well known all over Europe as the founder of the modern Thomistic system of ...
Article : 375 wordsThe shaw, Saville and Albion liner Tokomaru (6,238 tons), bound from Wellington, New Zealand, for France was sunk on Saturday in the English Channel. She was ...
Article : 129 wordsU21, which did all the damage in the Irish Sea, is believed to be the submarine which sunk the cruiser Pathfinder in the North Sea last year, and also the Malach'te ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Germans continue their activity in the La Bassee district. They have brought up heavy guns and are shelling the British positions. The Germans attribute the check ...
Article : 188 wordsAbout ten thousand visitors attended the beach at Cottesloe yesterday to participate in the sports and amusements provided by a committee of local residents. In ...
Article : 406 wordsWhen the Tokomaru left Wellington, she was a practically full ship, and carried very valuable cargo, made us as follow:—3,866 bales of wool, 89 bales of skins, 624 bales of ...
Article : 348 wordsThe following account of the sinking of the Toko-maru is given by Mr. Grinder, who was on board the steamer. He says:—"I was forward of the refrigerating engine ...
Article : 266 words"Eyewitness's" version of the fight that took place at Givenchy on January 25 is as follows:—"The Germans attacked north and south of a canal. The northern force ...
Article : 229 wordsEach morning and evening the trains from Bordeaux reach the Quai d'Orsay with their long lines of carriages filled to overflowing by returning residents, and the "City ...
Article : 1,423 words"This is the most moving letter written during the war. The writer was a French cavalry officer, and the letter was addressed to his fiancee, a young American ...
Article : 448 wordsThe extraordinary appointment of General von Falkenhayn to be Chief of the General Staff while retaining his post of Prussian Minister for War has caused ...
Article : 137 wordsBerlin municipalities have ordered the bakers to reduce the output of bread by cre-fourth. The Cologne municipality has forbidden the sale of wheaten bread, except ...
Article : 97 wordsThe steamer Icaria was also torpedoed in the same locality, but though badly damaged managed to reach port. The Icaria was bound from Brazil to Havre with a cargo ...
Article : 105 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Dunkirk correspondent states:—"The Allies' attack on the great sand dune near Nieuport on Thursday was a remarkable feat. The Germans were ...
Article : 121 wordsGreat indignation is expressed at the outrageous action of the German submarine in sinking merchant steamers without warning to their non-combatant crews. The French ...
Article : 85 wordsLord Charles Beresford, speaking at a big recruiting meeting held in the King's Hall, Hackney, London, referred to what he termed "the old touch of the Navy," ...
Article : 372 wordsA decree has been issued by the Government abolishing the frontier duty on cereals and flour and reducing the railway freight on these commodities, as well as the ...
Article : 58 wordsLast night's communique stated:—"We drove back the Germans at Lebegalen, north of Gumbinnen (East Prussia). The Germans were again repulsed in the ...
Article : 164 wordsFurther details of the raid of the German submarine U21 in the Irish Sea, where she sank the steamers Ben Cruachan and Linda Blanch, are given by the Holt liner, ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister said this morning that there had been more cases of trading with the enemy in Sydney than in the rest of the Commonwealth. Some of ...
Article : 76 wordsThe General Federation of Trade Unions has issued an appeal asking the Government to control the sale of flour and wheat and to limit the price of home-grown ...
Article : 52 words"I saw a good deal of the Indian troops out there," said a bombardier who has returned to London, from the front. "The Pathans and the Sikhs are terrible ...
Article : 183 wordsLast evening's communique stated: "The British have recaptured all the trenches which they momentarily lost at La Bassee. Our batteries destroyed two guns and a ...
Article : 61 wordsThe position in regard to wool has been the subject of representations to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, said Mr. Hughes (the Acting-Prime Minister) ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 2 Feb 1915, Page 7
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