Mr. Keith Murdoch, United Service representative, under Wednesday's date, writes:— It was a somewhat disappointing night. The German counter attacks at dusk ...
Article : 461 wordsMr. Beach Thomas ("Daily Mail"), in his account of the fight says:— The enemy is now forced to oppose our advance with flesh and blood instead of ...
Article : 488 wordsWar correspondents at British headquarters in France, under Thursday's date, stale that the recent strong rapid British blown are having a cumulative effect which is daily ...
Article : 452 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent slates that the Ministry of Marine learns that eight Dreadnoughts, 12 light cruisers, 40 torpedo boats and 30 mine sweepers took part in the ...
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Advertising : 421 wordsA Russian communique states that the enemy landed one or two divisions on Oesel and Dago, in the Gulf of Riga. The debarkation was carried out with extraordinary ...
Article : 142 wordsA wireless Russian official report says:—We repulsed an attempt to capture the pier on Moen Island. The fight for Oesel Island continues, and the enemy is pressing us back ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Percival Phillips ("Times" correspondent at British headquarters) telegraphs:— Prisoners state that the officers are exhorting them to be patriotic and recover their ...
Article : 78 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports as follows:— Saturday morning: Our aviators on Thursday took every opportunity to ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Dutch Foreign Minister has issued a statement to the effect that he cannot (satisfy the British desire to stop the transit of sand and gravel through Holland to Belgium until ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Government's industrial policy, embracing legislation for the prevention of strikes, and the establishment of a system of insurance against unemployment, was ...
Article : 1,358 wordsMr. Pierre Robinson ("Times" correspondent) telegraphs from headquarters:—There has been desperate fighting since the morning, and the battle still rages along the ...
Article : 305 wordsA message from Washington says that an Austrian torpedo-boat destroyer has been captured by an Italian ship of war. The fact has been announced at the ltalian ...
Article : 95 wordsAccording to the Rotterdam journal "Maasbode," in consequence of the Anglo-Dutch difference all Dutch, shipping to England has been stopped. ...
Article : 25 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that the President of the Netherlands Overseas Trust on being interviewed, referred to the seriousness of the British action ...
Article : 78 wordsFrench communiques have reported as follows:—Artillery was most active in the sector of Laffaux Mill, and in the region of Craonne. Enemy raids at Sounia and ...
Article : 148 wordsReuter has learned from a reliable source that there is a strong and growing disinclination amongst German seamen to serve on the U-boats Several ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Swedish Government has received Germany's reply to Sweden's protest in the Luxburg's affair. The reply admits having received Luxburg's telegrams cabled on ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Kaiser and Baron Kuhlmaun (German Foreign Minister) have, arrived at Sofia for the conference of sovereigns of the Central Powers. The streets of the Bulgarian capital ...
Article : 39 wordsA wireless Gorman official report states that the English yesterday penetrated between Station villages and Poelcapelle. We threw the enemy back on both sides of ...
Article : 110 wordsAn official report from East Africa states: —On the right a column of troops from Kilwa occupied Ruponda, an important junction of tracks at the north-western end ...
Article : 97 wordsReuter's correspondent at headquarters, telegraphing on Friday evening says:— This mornining's battle developed into bitter lighting, of which the news is at present ...
Article : 144 wordsLord Rhondda is appealing for the appointment of local committees throughout the country to undertake a fresh Food Savings Campaign. He states that the world's ...
Article : 69 wordsViolations by Germany of the Red Gross is now an old story. We have recently been told how German snipers and machine-gunners fire on the wounded and ...
Article : 214 wordsA message from Petrograd states that General Alexieff at his headquarters informed a Moscow newspaper that he would refuse to go to Paris to attend the conference of the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Government has issued a proclamation calling out unmarried men and childless widowers between 20 and 34 years, comprising class I. The men are to report ...
Article : 56 wordsA German official message says:— The battle is still in full swing on the Langemar[?]k-Zonnebeke front. Flighting continued in some places where the English ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Brazilian Government will utilise the seized German steamers for international steamship lines, flying the Brazilian flag, and for the use of the Allies. ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 20 Oct 1917, Page 14
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