Telegrams from the western front in Europe show that the British and the French have scored signal successes over the Germans—the British in Flanders, and the French in the east of France, as well as in Alsace. A leading Dutch journal announces that the inundations along the Y[?]er Canal have subsided, and that the fighting in Belgium has become livelier. British warships are engaged in bomarding the German positions along the Belgian ...
Article : 341 wordsA German fleet has laid a minefield in the vicinity of the Aland Islands, in the Baltic, off the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, to prevent communication between ...
Article : 39 wordsA Russian aviator reports that the Turks have concentrated in great strength on the coasts to the north and the north-east of Gallipoli, and have brought great ...
Article : 67 wordsSome members of the crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich (interned in an American port) have reached Copenhagen en route for Berlin with the ...
Article : 38 wordsAt a largely attended meeting of the South Australian Chamber of Manufactures to-day the following motions were carried—(1) That in the opinion of this chamber the ...
Article : 283 wordsThe South African Union forces which recently captured Aus, on the inland railway from Luderitz Bay, in German South-West Africa, has made a further advance. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Turkish account of the sinking of the British submarine U15, in the Dardanelles, states that the vessel left Tenedos at midnight. She dived after entering the strains ...
Article : 104 wordsIn spite of the remonstrances of their leaders the South Wales miners have decided to support a national strike to secure a 20 per cent. war bonus. ...
Article : 75 wordsCount Ramoneones, formerly Liberal Premier of Spain, in an important public speech here yesterday, strongly urged Spanish adherence to the Triple Entente. ...
Article : 56 wordsRecollections of the bombardment of Hartlepool by German warships on December 17 were revived by the arrival at Williamstown to-day of the steamer ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to the following British soldiers for signal gallantry in fights in France and Flanders:— Private Barber, 1st Grenadier Guards, ...
Article : 213 wordsThe British delegates to the Women's International Peace Conference are unable to reach The Hague, owing to the steamer service between Holland and England ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is announced in Japanese diplomatic circles in London that Japan is materially augmenting her navy. She is now building two first-class battleships. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe hearing was concluded to-day of the case in which Harry Goldman, trading as D. Bernard and Co., the H. Goldman Manufacturing Co., and the Swiss Studios ...
Article : 1,061 wordsAn official communique issued this evening stated: "The British troops in Flandera have attacked and captured German trenches, 200 metres in length, near ...
Article : 205 wordsDetails are now made public of the recent desperate battles in the Carpathians at Telepoich and Zuella. The Russians began their advance on the night of April ...
Article : 205 wordsAn officer on the Meteor, the destroyer which sustained some damage in the recent North Sea battle, supplies a wonderfully vivid account of the great fight. The ...
Article : 894 wordsThe Chinese Government has received a note from the United States pointing out that the latter has certain treaties with China from which she does not intend to ...
Article : 56 wordsFour English officers, motoring to Ram[?]gate last night, disregarded the challenge of a sentry, who called upon them to stop. The soldier fired, and shot dead ...
Article : 61 wordsA Berlin telegram denies that Herr Ballin, who was recently interviewed by the New York "World," was authorised by the Kaiser to express his views on the war, ...
Article : 161 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" war correspondent in Flanders states that after the defeat by Belgian troops of the German force which last week crossed the Y[?]er near ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Berlin "Lokalanzeiger" states that 13 British officers, held as prisoners of war at Cologne, have been ordered into solitary confinement in revenge for the segregation ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 271 wordsThe United States Ambassador, Dr. Page, has handed to Sir Edward Grey, a protest sent through him by Germany, against the seizure of the German steamer Hakalat ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Germans have fined the City of Brussels 500,000 marks (£25,000) for refusing to re-name the leading street Berlinstrasse. The Germans threaten to shoot 100 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsThe "Novoe Vremya" states that General von Hindenburg, the leader of the German operations against Poland, has fallen into disfavour. The German General Staff has ...
Article : 51 wordsA Berlin telegram reports the issue of a German communique claiming to have repulsed with heavy losses a British attack on a position in Flanders, near the Ypres to ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is notified that the German Government has absolutely closed all frontier communication between Holland and Belgium. Not even consignments of food are ...
Article : 41 wordsThe "Telegraaf" stated this morning: "British warships are bombarding the German positions from Middelkerke to Ostend. The inundations on the Yser are subsiding ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Grimsby trawler Fermo reports that a submarine yesterday torpedoed the trawler Stanilla in the North Sea. The Stanilla was almost shattered to pieces, and she sank ...
Article : 83 wordsCount Julius Andrassy, the Austro-Hungarian Envoy, has admitted to a Hungarian newspaper interviewer at Buda-Pesth that the recent conference he attended in ...
Article : 100 wordsA "Daily News" war correspondent reports from the Belgian frontier that great activity is shown by the entire German naval and military air services. Large quantities of ...
Article : 163 wordsFurther details of the great fight in Montmare Wood, reported on the 10th inst., state that the German troops received peremptory orders to recover the ...
Article : 192 wordsAccording to Major Durand, a French military officer, who took part in the early operations of the French army at Verdun, and who is now proceeding on a military ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsThe relations between Italy and Austria have become acute, owing to the frontier skirmishes and the failure of Austria to make the territorial concessions ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Admiralty states that the torpedoing of the Stanilla and the killing of the fisherfolk for no military purpose will not escape attention. This is the second ...
Article : 58 wordsThe capture of Hill No. 60 was an important step in the task of swinging the German right around. The blowing up of the hill resembled a volcanic eruption, and ...
Article : 149 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states:—"If the Government is unwilling to enforce the law of hostages by placing a number of Germans in penal prisons reprisals for the sinking of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 964 wordsA Berlin official report received in Amsterdam states that the Germans have captured the famous French aviator Garros, who has performed so many serial ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Daily News" telegraphs:—"Italy's neutrality must expire before May 12, when the Italian Parliament meets. The date of ...
Article : 123 wordsTen weary weeks of hard training in this sandy wilderness has sufficed to discount any predilection the A.I.E.F. may have entertained for the "flesh-pots of Egypt." ...
Article : 2,417 wordsThe Dutch steamer Olando (2,136 tons), bound from England to Rotterdam with a cargo of coal, was sunk by a German mine in the North Sea yesterday. Her crew ...
Article : 38 wordsM. Venizelos, who resigned the Premiership of Greece because the King declined to accept his proposal to take up arms against Germany and Austria, arrived here ...
Article : 68 wordsIn anticipation of the birthday of Admiral von Tirpitz, the originator of the submarine piracy policy against the merchant shipping, large quantities of postcards, ...
Article : 57 wordsAn official communique reports signal and continuous successes in Southern Alsace, where the French troops are fighting their way down the valley of the Fecht, a ...
Article : 153 wordsThe "Figaro" states: "It is rumoured at Rome that Italy has fixed to-day as the last day for receiving a definite Austrian answer to her demands." ...
Article : 36 wordsThe scores in the Gray-Inman billiard match are:—Gray, 10,501; Inman, 10,327. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 21 Apr 1915, Page 7
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