The Allies in France and Flanders are largely occupied in consolidating their gains, the intense heat not interfering with the methodical ...
Article : 376 wordsIn the House of Commons, yesterday, Mr. Asquith moved the adjournment of the House, to enable members to debate the resolutions of the Paris Economic ...
Article : 1,064 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Messagero" states that the Bulgarians have abandoned their attempts to drive the Serbians from their new positions and ...
Article : 39 wordsTo-day, the second anniversary of the war, will be celebrated, partly by public gatherings at which the people will record their inflexible determination to bring to a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 531 wordsThe Crown Prince of Serbia has landed at Salonika to take over the command of the Serbian army. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. J. Macfarlane received word yesterday that his son, Captain A. H. Macfarlane, A Company, 11th Battalion, had been killed in France. ...
Article : 1,010 wordsA high authority, reviewing the results of the two years of war, states:—"The Allies occupy 1,071,000 square miles of fresh territory against the Central ...
Article : 125 wordsA Berlin communique issued yesterday morning. stated:—"Since the beginning of the Anglo French offensive on the Somme, which the English call the 'great sweep, ...
Article : 216 wordsSix or seven Zeppelins raided the eastern and south-eastern counties last night. No military damage is reported, and at least one airship was hit. ...
Article : 193 wordsThere is fighting of the most furious character on the whole Stokhod front. The Germans, driven to Stokhod front. The Germans, driven, to desperation, are launching counter attacks without cases ...
Article : 110 wordsGermany refuses to assist in relieving starving Poland on the grounds that impractionable conditions have been laid down and that Britain will not give sufficient ...
Article : 107 wordsA communique issued yesterday morning stated:—"We captured a fortified position between Hem, Wood and Monacu Farm, and occupied an enemy trench at Estrees. The ...
Article : 162 wordsA sum of £2,540 has been realised in aid of the Russian Red Cross Fund by the matinee operatic performance given by Madame Melba this afternoon, at Her ...
Article : 42 wordsEight recruits entered Blackboy Hill encampment yesterday. This together with the 53 announced on Wednesday makes a total of 61 for the past three days. ...
Article : 26 wordsA cablegram, received at the District Military Headquarters yesterday, announced that Colonel Bruche, formerly State Commandant, has arrived in ...
Article : 30 wordsImportant action has been taken by the Federal Ministry under the Trading with the Enemy Act, which brings Australia into line with the decision of the British ...
Article : 58 wordsA Berlin communique issued yesterday afternoon stated:—"We completely repulsed the Russians in the Pinsk region. Our curtain of fire stopped several ...
Article : 32 wordsThe news that Captain B. H. Walther had been killed in France towards the end of July was received by that officer's colleagues in the Colonial Secretary's ...
Article : 338 wordsSir, Doughes Haig reported yesterday afternoon:—"Last night we made further progress eastward of Pozieres. Small detachments are fighting at close quarters. A ...
Article : 98 wordsAmerican munition makers state that Britain is now making all the small shells she needs, but she is placing orders in the United States for six-inch, eight-inch, ...
Article : 55 wordsA Blue Book of 86 pages has been issued giving details of German atrocities in Africa based on reports from the Cameroons, East South, and West Africa. It includes ...
Article : 280 wordsTwenty-five recruits were accepted in Queensland to-day. ...
Article : 40 wordsBritish warships yesterday bombarded for five hours Cape Maulemben, in Asia Minor and set fire to the village of Mykali. The Turks replied with gunfire, and a ...
Article : 40 wordsStop work meetings of the colliery employees were held on all the coalfields of the State to-day, to hear expounded the tentative agreement come to at the ...
Article : 277 wordsYesterday morning's communique stated:—"The Russians, in a bayonet charge at Auberive last night left many dead Germans on the field. In our attacks at Vaux ...
Article : 42 wordsThe German military authorities have suspended the publication of the "Berliner Tageblatt," probably owing to its comments on the Government's prohibition of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe 189th casualty list of Western Australian members of the A.I.F. was released yesterday, and is published below. Where not otherwise stated the names are ...
Article : 1,008 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs reviewing the month's fighting, states:—"It has been a stupendous month. The finest flower of our race have flung themselves upon the ...
Article : 368 wordsColonel Gaedke states that the Germans must prepare for fresh fighting, with a slow, almost imperceptible, change in favour of one side or the other. unless they ...
Article : 87 wordsThe German submarine Deutschiand, which left Baltimore on Tuesday, passed Cape Virginia in territorial waters, and dashed out to sea on Tuesday evening, ...
Article : 142 wordsAn interesting sidelight is thrown on the work of the Australian Navy in some correspondence from Saint Lucia (West Indies), which the Minister for the Navy ...
Article : 209 wordsOf medium build, alert and very pleasant spoken, Captain Douglas Bayly, now in Bunbury, shows by his fast-greying hair, and an intermittent twitching of his ...
Article : 564 wordsOne of the latest and most ingenious applications for the rapid restoration of wounded soldiers is the "whirling" or "whirlpool" bath (says a London ...
Article : 390 wordsLord Robert Cocil stated in the House of Common's yesterday that the Government had asked the United States to ascertain the constiution of Captain Fryatt's ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Western section of the trans-Australian line has now reached the 430-mile post, and 375-miles of the Eastern section has been completed. The distance ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the second reading of the War Charities Bill was carried. The measure provides for the compulsory registration of war ...
Article : 52 wordsAntonio Picone was committed for trial by the Coroner to-day, on a charge of having murdered Joseph Lauricella at the Victoria Market, on July 25. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn Italian communique issued yesterday confirmed the seriousness of the Austrian defeat at Astiko on Monday. It stated:"The Australians, after a violent ...
Article : 89 wordsPozieres has been quieter lately, but I have not the slightest doubt that the statement that the fighting there has been as intense as at Vaux is leterally correct. ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Belgian Relief Fund now amounts to £1,900,000. ...
Article : 14 wordsIt is believed that the Imperial and the Commonwealth Governments have reached an agreement under which the Home Government will not object to the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe State War Council to-night gave its sanction to an appeal by the Salvation Army to raise £30,000, to provide for war orphans' homes and for the work of the ...
Article : 46 wordsColonel Hawthorn, commanding the Nyasaland forces, in a despatch, mentions that Captain H. G. Collins, son of Captain Muirhead Collins (Secretary to the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe inquiry into the escape of six German civilian prisoners of war from Holdsworthy, on July 20, was continued at the German concentration camp to-day by the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 4 Aug 1916, Page 7
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