The remarkable story of how Russia recovered from her munition, crisis last year is related by M. Polivanoff, the Russian War Minister. ...
Article : 344 wordsTo-day 59 men volunteered at Adelaide for active service and 39 were accepted. ...
Article : 40 wordsLieut. Repington, writing in the "Times," estimates that Germany commenced the war with 9,000,000 men, and that she has 3,600,000 men now in the field and 2,700,000 ...
Article : 129 wordsMrs. Cusworth, hon. secretary to the Westonia committee which despatched a number of billies to the men, has received acknowledgments from about a score of the ...
Article : 1,631 wordsTwenty-eight men were accepted for active service at the Drill Hall in Francis-street yesterday, whilst 25 were rejected as medically unfit. A further batch of men will ...
Article : 35 wordsThe following is an extract from a telegram received yesterday by Mr. Walter Dwyer, Mr. O'Donnell's solicitor, from Senator Needham:—"Have urgently ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Federal Executive Council to-day approved of a regulation under the War Precautions Act, making it compulsory for all enlistment cards to be returned to the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Hampton Cloncurry Copper Mines Company reports having sold through Messrs. Elder, Smith and Co., 5,000 tons of copper to the British Munitions ...
Article : 45 wordsA deputation representing the master tanners of Australia waited upon the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) to-day, and urged that the embargo on the export of ...
Article : 172 wordsThe economy campaign is proceeding space throughout the United Kingdom. The Royal Commission on the Sugar Supply urges all classes to reduce ...
Article : 271 wordsAt a meeting of the general committee of the W.A. Spinning Association held at the Technical School on Tuesday, Mrs. Southern, the originator of the movement ...
Article : 121 wordsEarl Curzon presided yesterday at a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute which Mr. J. L. Garvin, editor of the "Observer," addressed on the subject of the ...
Article : 509 wordsThe applicants for passports to leave Australia have shown an appreciable increase during the last few days, but the Department for External Affairs, which controls ...
Article : 80 wordsThe first meeting of the new council formed under the constitution adopted by the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society took place to-day at Federal ...
Article : 837 wordsThe Commonwealth Statistician, Mr. G. H. Knibbs, has compiled figures dealing with Australian male residents of enemy birthplace or parentage between the ages of 18 ...
Article : 327 wordsThe 140th casualty list of Western Australian members of the Australian Expeditionary Forces was made available last night, and is published below. Where not ...
Article : 1,015 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) stated this afternoon that at a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday it was decided to ask the Interstate Commission ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that tens of thousands of pounds of English money are yearly finding their way into Germany ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Government having called for all available men, and being in need of all the money the country can spare, the Governor-General will no longer attend race or ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Premier, M. Briand, will shortly visit Italy to confer with Signor Salandra, the Italian Premier, with a view of co-ordination in order that the total strength of ...
Article : 68 wordsThe miners' unions are holding a conference at Leicester to discuss, in camera, the attitude they shall adopt towards the Military Service Act, which will come into ...
Article : 33 wordsWith regard to the recent offer of the Commonwealth Government of 50,000 men, to be formed in three divisions, and reinforcements to bring the Australian ...
Article : 865 wordsA mass meeting of the men on strike was held this afternoon. After long discussion it was agreed to accept Senator Pearce's proposal for going back to work. ...
Article : 314 wordsA German wireless message states that Dr. Karl Helfferich, Secretary of the Imperial Treasury, at Berlin, has issued a reply to the analysis of the British trade ...
Article : 285 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Claremont Council was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening. There were present the Mayor (Mr. G. P. ...
Article : 709 wordsCinematograph war films have proved immensely useful to the French General Staff. The photographers, who are volunteers, have nerves of steel, and take great risks. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe French Admiralty, in a report of a naval action in the Adriatic last Sunday evening, states:—"A British cruiser and a French torpedo boat which were covering ...
Article : 97 wordsA German communique issued yesterday evening claimed:—"To-day we counter attacked and recovered the position last [?]th of the Somme on Sunday night. Our ...
Article : 57 wordsAn illuminating article in the "Daily Chronicle" on the Allies' sea power states —"Captain Perseus in the 'Borliner Tagehatt' has received the naval and maritime ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Indian Government has issued a communique with respect to the Mesopotamia campaign. It states: — "Major-General Townshend is holding Kut-el-Amara, as a ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Commonwealth High Commissioner (Mr. Fisher) and Mrs. Fisher yesterday inspected the Horse-ferry-road and Great Peter-street depots, and the Peel House ...
Article : 156 wordsAbout 8.45 o'clock last evening Albert Crews, railway telephone linesman, was travelling on a railway motor tricycle between South Bunbury and Bunbury when ...
Article : 154 wordsThe amazing story of a deserter from the Australian Imperial forces, who declared, upon examination, that he was a German, and did not want to go to the ...
Article : 887 wordsThe Vatican authorities have placed on the Index Expurgatorium, the "War Prayers" poem written by the Italian poet, D'Annunzio. They aroused much ...
Article : 50 wordsSir George Reid, M.P., who during his political career in Australia was the unwavering advocate of freetrade against protection, made a significant admission ...
Article : 115 wordsAn inquest into the death of Henry William Smith, a tramway conductor, who died as the result of being crushed between two cars in King William-street, ...
Article : 224 wordsTelegrams from Germany report renewed food riots in the Moabiter district of Berlin. The police charged the crowds, and wounded many. Similar riots occurred at ...
Article : 46 wordsCity shippers, in discussing the German capture of the Appam, point out that a Dutch steamer recently arrived at a South American port after having taken six ...
Article : 58 wordsThe report published in the Press that negotiations were proceeding with the Imperial Government which, it was hoped, would result in the purchase by Great ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Kaiser has composed the words of a new national anthem for Germany, and has commanded Richard Strauss, the conductor of the Royal Opera House, Berlin, to set ...
Article : 60 wordsA splendid response has been made by the men of Queen's Park to the call to arms, and another squad of 24 will enter camp immediately. A general desire ...
Article : 871 wordsLieutenant Berg, the German officer in prize command of the Appam, has given information with respect to the survivors of the Clan Mactavish, which was sunk in the ...
Article : 92 wordsThere was no change to-day in the position brought about by the refusal of members of the Miners' Union to work with enemy subjects. The treatment plants on ...
Article : 91 wordsThe German Consul-General, Herr Bopp, has been indicted for conspiracy to originate a military expedition against Canada, and also to blow up munition plants. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 10 Feb 1916, Page 7
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