The "Petit Parisien" says:—"The German general military staff aims at a victorious rush, followed by a decisive war of movement. The enemy has organised mass ...
Article : 160 wordsIn connection with the Pittsburg explosion, it is estimated that the dead number at least 200. A large area of ground has been wrecked. The rescuers were ...
Article : 109 wordsSix Allied aviators raided Cologne, and did much damage in the centre of the city, especially in the market place. Fourteen persons were killed and 40 injured. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Acting Treasurer (Mr. R. T. Robinson), in speaking to a "West Australian" reporter yesterday, dealt with criticisms of the taxation proposals at present before ...
Article : 1,155 wordsPresident Wilson reviewed the Red Cross parade on Saturday afternoon. In the evening he addressed a Red Cross mass meeting in the Metropolitan Opera House, ...
Article : 2,138 wordsA Moscow telegram notifies that negotiations are proceeding for settling the ex-Czar and his family in Switzerland, and that the will travel from Russia, via ...
Article : 55 wordsThe New York "Journal of Commerce" learns that the International Mercantile Marine Company is negotiating for the sale of 100 of its British vessels to British ...
Article : 90 wordsA wireless Russian official message intercepted by the British Admiralty authorities points out that the Germans, despite the agreement for a cessation of hostilities, ...
Article : 133 wordsThe following wireless message has been received from Honolulu:— Washington.—It is announced officially that the Americans are holding a trench ...
Article : 191 wordsThe principal of the Christian Brothers' College has received word announcing the death of Captain Derwas Morning Cumming, M.C. who had won distinctions at Messines, ...
Article : 181 wordsThe following official despatches have been made available:—London, May 19 (12.40 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"We carried out a ...
Article : 384 wordsSeveral attempts have been made lately in Kieff (the capital of the Okraine) against the occupying authorities. Street fighting has occured. The German command, in ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Paris "Matin's" Stockholm correspondent reports that on Saturday the Russians evacuated Fort Ino, the last defence guarding Petrograd. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau notifies:—"His Majesty the King telegraphed to President Wilson:—'On the eve of the second appeal for the American Red Cross ...
Article : 133 wordsThe following Italian official message has been received:—"There was considerable local fighting along the whole front and we repulsed completely an attack at Mount ...
Article : 64 wordsInformation has reached Russian diplomatic circles to the effect that the forces of General Semenoff (the Cossack leader) are moving steadily towards Irkutsk, and ...
Article : 171 wordsMilitary headquarters advise that no definite time of disembarkation of returning invalided soldiers in list Y can yet be given. ...
Article : 21 wordsSoldiers Relatives' Association.—The social committee of the Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses' Association will hold a social gathering in Victoria Hall, Fremantle, to-night. ...
Article : 311 wordsGeneralissimo Foch has telegraphed as follows to the American Red Cross headquarters:—"America brought generously to the aid of the army in France her ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is announced officially that France offered to Switzerland 850,000 tons of coal a month at the price of 150 francs a ton, as against the German demand of 180 ...
Article : 103 wordsA Budapest official message says that the German and Austro-Hungarian military convention provides for a unificated command of the two armies in troops reserves, ...
Article : 39 wordsBefore Mr. T. F. Davies, P.M., in the City Police Court yesterday, Arthur Rapley (46), an engineer, pleaded guilty to two charges of having stolen a quantity of ...
Article : 879 wordsThe leading officials here disbelieve that, in the event of an emergency, General Semenoff, the Cossack leader, will co-operate against Germany. ...
Article : 31 wordsAccording to a Munich newspaper, the National Court in Frankfurt has instituted proceedings against Houston Chamberlain for having alleged in an article in the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company says:—"The Germans have apparently completed their preparations for a new attack, and it is likely ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Committee on National Expenditure has expressed dissatisfaction over the staffing of the War Office, the personnel of which has increased from 218 at the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the London "Morning Post" says that there is much rejoicing in Germany and Austria over the capture of the Dowager-Empress of ...
Article : 177 wordsLeading officials here point out that Germany is using her influence through Turkey in order to strengthen the Teutonic power with the Mohammedans. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe special correspondent of the New York "Times" with the French army reports:—"The blow may fall at any hour. There is evidence that the Germans have ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. H. C. Hoover (the Food Administrator) announces that the German meat ration has been reduced from 225 grammes to 150 a week for each person. The wheat ...
Article : 96 wordsProgress is being made in connection with the shipbuilding scheme as the result of which it is hoped that at least half-a-dozen sailing vessels, with auxiliary ...
Article : 204 wordsThe State Department has been informed that China and Japan have made an agreement for the purpose of mutual protection against German aggression in the Far East, ...
Article : 53 wordsA message received here from France reports that the Australians captured Villesur-Ancre and took 230 prisoners and 20 machine buns. Their own casualties were ...
Article : 73 wordsThe following cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies has been received by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt):— ...
Article : 1,253 wordsA meeting was held to-night in the Executive Buildings, between the advisory committee of the Soldiers' Institute and the committee appointed by the War Council. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe following French Eastern communique has been issued:—"The French and the Italians carried out between May 15 and 17 a series of operations westward ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Navy Department has received information to the effect that Field Marshal von Hindenburg is trying to force the German navy to co-operate in the second great ...
Article : 39 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau reported this morning:—"Hostile aircraft crossed the coasts of Kent and Essex at 11 p.m. on Sunday, and flew in the direction of ...
Article : 109 wordsThe part that cardboard played in the life of a dilapidated, decayed looking shoe worn, it was stated, only nine weeks, and broken at the heel and riddled with ...
Article : 253 wordsThe special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) at the American front says:—"The Germans are perfuming various new gases, and endeavouring to ...
Article : 79 wordsThe 401st casualty list was released by the Censor last night, and is published hereunder. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 467 wordsOfficial messages received from Rome say that Professor Lomonaco has discovered a cure for tuberculosis. ...
Article : 25 wordsFollowing on a steady decline in pressure during Sunday, conditions yesterday morning showed decided signs of becoming unsettled. In the north-western corner of ...
Article : 266 wordsThe New York "Times" says that Americans who have arrived from Europe declare that Allied Government officials fear that the situation on the western front ...
Article : 100 wordsA violent thunderstorm caught the German airmen who were proceeding to Paris on Friday night. The airmen began immediately to drop bombs in an aimless fashion, ...
Article : 48 wordsAn official statement has been issued to the effect that the subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan amounted to 4,170,000,000 dollars (about £834,000,000). ...
Article : 33 wordsThe special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) telegraphs from the British front:—"Captured German pilots declare that the German aeroplanes ...
Article : 147 wordsFull Court.—Before the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Burnside, at 10.30 a.m.: Soarling (defendant, appellant), and Balbarry (plaintiff, respondent), reserved ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is announced officially that one wooden ship has been launched every day since May 1, the total tonnage being 60,000. Mr. Bainbridge Colby, a member of the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 21 May 1918, Page 5
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