Last night's communique stated:—"We have progressed in the direction of Dartfeld. The Austrians, in falling back, burned the village of Boro, west of the ...
Article : 110 wordsProfessor Bekhtereff, the mental specialist, lecturing in the Town Hall at Petrograd on "William II. and German Kultur," analysed the physical and mental ...
Article : 2,087 wordsA communique issued at Paris announces that the French troops secured a victory at Hartmanns-Westhopf, in Alsace. The Germans admit defeat in that particular locality, but they claim that they secured possession of territory beyond it. In the last French review, reference is made to the proved superiority of the Allies' artillery, and the abundant ...
Article : 494 wordsSpeaking at Ballarat East yesterday the Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) referred to the war and the general outlook. He said that the Victorian Government had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 240 wordsGerman aeroplanes, while proceeding towards Calais yesterday, dropped 500 darts on the Norwegian steamer Diana, bound for Shields. Many of the darts struck the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe French steamer Voages was sunk by shell fire off the Cornish coast yesterday. The chief engineer, was killed, and three others were wounded by shrapnel. A patrol ...
Article : 43 wordsReuter's Vienna correspondent states that trains full of Bavarians are continually traversing Hungray for the Carpathians, and almost an equal number are returning ...
Article : 36 words£ s d. Previously acknowledged 30,917 17 1 Persons who desire to subscribe to this fund are requested to send their ...
Article : 64 wordsGerman submarines have been sighted near of Firth of Clyde. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe garrison at Przemysl was provisioned for 40,000 men, but 100,000 men of General Dankis's retreating army were shut in the fortress land were unable to ...
Article : 184 wordsAn Exchange telegram from Sofia states that General von der Goltz has been commissioned to offer Bulgaria the Enos-Midia line in exchange for her continued ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Mayor of Perth has received the following letter from Mr. Eevelyn Wrench, hon. secreatary and organiser of the Overseas Club, London, who it will be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 764 wordsA telegram from Sofia states that General von de Goltz has arrived there. He has admitted that he has been sent on a special mission to Bulgaria, and that he ...
Article : 63 wordsAn Austrian communique states that after a violent engagement, north-east of Czernowitz (Bukowina), the Austrians drove back superior forces of Russians, Capturing ...
Article : 32 wordsA censored message from Bucharest states that large forces of Bulgarians are concentrating near Adrianople and that another army is encamped near ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Germans in Poland are carrying metal knapsacks, containing inflammable liquid, which they throw at the Russians Twenty Russians were burned alive in this ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Turks, fearing a Bulgarian onslaught, are hastily fortifying the Narikeni-Luleburghes line. ...
Article : 20 wordsIt is reported that the Balkans bloc is likely to be reconstituted, and that Servia is negotiating with Italy concerning the Adriatic. Servia and Bulgaria have agreed ...
Article : 41 wordsOsowiec (Poland); has been bombarded continuously for 34 days, but the enemy have been held back everywhere. The Germans' operations have been conducted ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Belloc, in a recent lecture at Queen's Hall, London, dealth with the Eastern theatre of war, where, he said, it looked as though a critical time had arrived. The enemy ...
Article : 503 wordsIn St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, yesterday, the Rev. Edward Lytterlton (headmaster of Eton and son of the late Lord Lyttelton) delivered a "Don't Humiliate ...
Article : 95 wordsThe crack German 21st corps in East Prusia now largely consists of raw troops, Many are ignorant of the use of arms, and are more dangerous to themselves than ...
Article : 39 wordsThe latest war review pays a tribute to the ascendancy of the Allies' artillery. It adde: "The seventy-fivers' have exceeded all expectations. Their mobility, precision and ...
Article : 83 wordsThe preliminary examination of Kemp, Van Rensburg, and 40 other rebels on a charge of treason was opened on Friday. Most of the accused were wearing German ...
Article : 86 wordsAccording to military orders dated March 19 the following procedure will be adopted in the case of all ranks invalided in A.I.F. and Australian Naval and Military ...
Article : 485 wordsAn official message from Berlin states:—"The Kaiser's son, Prince Joachim, with strong forces, expelled the Russians from Memel. The Russians lost 150 men killed, ...
Article : 64 wordsAn official Berlin message states that French aviators dropped bombs on Bapaume, near Arras, yesterday, Killing one Frenchman and wounding two. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the American Embassy learns that Mr. Powell, who is acting as captain over British prisoners in the connection camp at Ruhleben (in ...
Article : 69 wordsThe equinoctial gales that have been blowing in the Dardanelles have ceased, and mine-sweeping has been renewed. There are 25 first line warships at the ...
Article : 131 wordsA communique issued at Berlin on Friday evening stated:—"The Russians attempting to raid Tilsit to-day were defeated with heavy loss." ...
Article : 30 wordsA communique issued on Friday night stated: " After several days' of energetic engagements we to-day captured and summits near Hartmans-Westekopf, and ...
Article : 71 wordsA German officer who is a prisoner in the hands of the South African troops, declares that Maritz, the rebel Boer leader, who turned traitor to the Germans, and was ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "Times," in emphasising Lord Milner's warning to the Government against entering upon peace negotiations without consulting the Dominions, states:—"The Government's ...
Article : 68 wordsDr. Charles Macdonald, of the United States Army, who has just returned from Budapest, reports that the Hungarian capital is a pesthouse owing to the absence of ...
Article : 79 wordsGeneral Joffre, speaking to an interviewer yesterday, said: "The long war in the trenches has enabled the Allies to increase their resources, and we undoubtedly now ...
Article : 119 wordsSpeaking in the Legislative Council on Friday the Viceroy said there was every sign that an unusually large surplys of grain would this year be available for ...
Article : 236 wordsThe military authorities, acting under the Defence Act, are restricting the hours for the sale of drink in various parts of the country. All the public-houses near the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Budapest correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that 120 men of wealth and position have been arrested for supplying the Hungarian army with bad food ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Germans have transported long-range guns to Smyrna. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsAccording to Reuter's Vienna correpondent, large numbers of German officers who have returned from Constantinople report that the position of Turkey is desperate. ...
Article : 55 wordsOne of the men of the moment is Mr. Graeme Thomson, to whom Mr. Churchill paid recently a glowing tribute. Mr. Thomson, who is 39, is the youngest Director of ...
Article : 388 wordsSkilled Government dockyard employees have been granted 3s. a week increase, and unskilled 2s., while piece-workers have been awarded 7½ per cent increase. The trouble ...
Article : 56 wordsIn an interview granted to an American journalist Sir John French stated that the most crucial moment of the war for the British ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Vienna people and newspapers are very despondent. The "Neue Freie Presse" States:—"We prevented the German Empire from being struck at the heart, and have ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Jonson) stated to-day that it was the intention of the Defence Department to take steps against any person who used or made ...
Article : 125 wordsIt is officially announced that the British losses at Kubri, on the Suez Canal, were three men killed and 16 men wounded The Turks lost 50 killed, and they carried their ...
Article : 55 wordsFollowing upon a stirring address by Mr. A. Sanderson, M.L.C., under the auspices of the Church of England Men's Society, an excellent entertainment, arranged by Mrs. ...
Article : 991 wordsA German submarine sank the British and Chilian S.S. Co.'s steamer Delmira (3,459 tons), in the Channel yesterday. The crew were saved. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Following is the statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the art union organised by the staff of Messrs. Brennan Bros. for the relief of the Belgian ...
Article : 311 wordsTelegraphing from Rome Dr. Dillon, the "Daily Telegraph" correspondent, states:— "The whole of the Itlaina frontier, from Lugano to the Lake of Garda, has been ...
Article : 130 wordsAccording to the "Petit Journal's" Dutch correspondent, Holland and the United States have signed a treaty for the mutual protection of each other is colonies. ...
Article : 30 wordsVisitors from Germany state that the Crown Prince is in a Potsdam nursing home suffering from nervous breakdown, but that his conditions is not serious. ...
Article : 32 wordsA Taube aeroplane dropped two bombs on Estories yesterday killing two children A German aeroplane dropped bombs on Willer, north-west of Thann (Alsace), and ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Belgium fund "flag day" appeal, organised by the Lady Mayoress of Melbourne (Mrs. D. V. Hennessy), will yield about £7,000, or more. Melbourne proper ...
Article : 143 wordsThe police on Thursday raided a Polish. Lutheran church in the city, and found 200 Germans and Austrians drilling with dummy rifles. The police allege that an ...
Article : 45 wordsTen French airmen dropped bombs yesterday on the aviation sheds at Fresseoy, the railway station at Motz. and the barracks at Strassbury. All of them returned safely. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe sinking of the Dutch steamer Medea greatly aggravated the irritation in Holland against Germany. Newspapers decalre that this act exceeds all previous acts, as the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 29 Mar 1915, Page 7
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