The following Russian communique was issued on Tuesday:—"We put to flight come Germans, wearing white co[?]ts, who attempted to approach our trenches at Tsargrad ...
Article : 194 wordsThe associate-secretary of the Australian Protectionist "Association (Mr. Wm. Willson) has come to Western Australian with the object of forming in this State a ...
Article : 1,850 wordsGeneral Hamilton's despatch on the Dardanelles covers 38 pages (double columns) in the "Gazette," and includes 14 appendices showing the orders of the commanding ...
Article : 2,538 wordsThe campaign organised by the State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee will be opened on January 18, and will last for a month. There was a falling-off in ...
Article : 127 wordsMajor E. Drake-Brockman, C.M.G., who left with the first Australian Expenditionary Force as an officer of the now famous 11th Battalion, and took part in the ...
Article : 444 wordsAt a meeting of the Federal Parliamentary War Council yesterday afternoon, at which the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) presided, ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Miners' Conference has decided not to send delegates to to-day's Labour Conference, but to summon a national miners' Conference for the 13th inst., to deal with ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Irish Unionist members of the House of Commons held a meeting on Wednesday, and subsequently sent to Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Asquith a resolution, declaring ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Admiralty announces that 380 members of the crew of the cruiser Natal are either dead or missing. ...
Article : 30 wordsThere was no need to doubt on Wednesday that the country was on the eve of great occasion, and that the House of Commons was on the eve of a momentous ...
Article : 2,306 wordsIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Independent Labourites and a handful of anti-conscriptionist Liberals below the gangway led the demonstration against Mr. ...
Article : 156 wordsA communique issued on Tuesday night stated:—"Our artillery inflicted heavy losses upon enemy groups working at Thelus, to the north of Arras, to-day, and ...
Article : 115 wordsOne of the large rooms at the Sydney Trades Hall was filled yesterday evening when a meeting was held under the auspices of the Anti-Conscription Society. A ...
Article : 313 wordsThe commander of the British expedition to Lake Tanganyika reports that on December 26 he attacked the German armed steamer Kingani, and compelled her to ...
Article : 68 wordsMembers of the Perth branch of the Australian Natives' Association are inclined to be pessimistic with regard to the treatment accorded returned soldiers, both now ...
Article : 169 wordsGeneral Haig, in a report issued yesterday evening, stated:—"We drove off with rifle fire the enemy's attack upon our advanced posts near Haricourt to-day. A ...
Article : 54 wordsThe following communique was issued at Berlin on Tuesday night:—"There was considerable fighting with artillery and mines along the Franco-Belgian front ...
Article : 39 wordsThe citizens of Durban hospitably entertained the 250 homeward bound wounded Australians, who arrived here on the ...
Article : 26 wordsGeneral Jofire, in a stirring army order, states:—"The Allies' strength is growing increasantly, and they are holding uncontested the command of the seas. Germany, ...
Article : 68 wordsThere was practically no change to-day in connection with the woodline trouble. The Acting-Premier (Mr. Collier) arrived this morning, and spent the afternoon in ...
Article : 303 wordsThere is much comment in banking circles upon the fact that the exchange with Germany has declined to the lowest point on record, while that with Great Britain has ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) declared in the Commonwealth Government Gazette, to-day, that the following companies come under the Trading ...
Article : 58 wordsA new Bulgarian army of 150,000 reservists and Macedonian volunteers is ready for the field, and is equipped with Mancher rifles and ample ammunition. ...
Article : 33 wordsLord Brassey has given his well known yacht, the Sunbeam, to India, for use as a hospital ship. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. Staniforth Smith, the Administrator of Papua, having passed the medical examination, is leaving Melbourne to-morrow to catch the Indarra at Adelaide for ...
Article : 256 wordsThe work of enrolling volunteers for active service continues briskly at the Drill Hall, Francis-street. Prior to the Christmas vacation the medical and clerical staff ...
Article : 330 wordsSub-Inspector O'Halloran received a telegram from Norseman to-day stating that Edith Elizabeth Long, proprietress of the Bungalow Cafe, had died from the ...
Article : 114 wordsGreat quantities of German heavy artillery are arriving daily on the Greek frontier. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe documents seized in the German, Austrian, Bulgarian, and Turkish Consulates show that a plot was in existence to transform Salonika into a centre of ...
Article : 65 wordsThe inquest was continued to-day concerning the death of Stanley Clayton, aged 7 years, who died on Christmas Day from injuries received through being ...
Article : 314 wordsThe torpedo that sank the Persia struck the vessel in the vicinity of the boilers. The second engineer believes that the forward port boiler exploded, thus ...
Article : 101 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Earl Kitchener said:—"Speaking in this House 17 months ago I stated the broad principles of the military steps I considered ...
Article : 640 wordsAt a meeting of the general executive of the Western Australian Miner's Federation to-night, it was resolved that the miners' unions throughout Australia be ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Deputy-Coroner conducted an inquiry at Gealong yesterday relative to the death of James Cartwright, a laundryman, of Little Myers-street, which took place ...
Article : 197 wordsA survivor from the wreck of the Persia states that he had a miraculous escape. He clung to a broken boat for thirty-two hours, and was rescued late on ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated yesterday that he had received Major-General McCay's report upon the training of the expeditionary forces ...
Article : 79 wordsAnother hospital ship, with about two hundred sick and wounded soliders on board, arrived at Fremantle from Egypt yesterday morning and made fast to the ...
Article : 392 wordsAlthough an official announcement has not yet been made, it has been decided by the Commonwealth military authorities, subject to the approval of the Imperial ...
Article : 158 wordsDamage to the extent of about £6,000 was caused by a fire which gutted the boot factory of Messrs. McLoughlin and Ellis at Gipps-street, Collingwood. ...
Article : 60 wordsLord Fisher "spotted" Admiral Jellieoe about 25 years ago. Admiral Jellicoe received his baptism of fire in China, when there was trouble with the Boxers in 1900. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 7 Jan 1916, Page 7
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