The Premier (Mr. Ryan) received the following radio message last night through the Naval Department from the Bingera, which arrived at Mackay ...
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Article : 117 wordsA meeting of the Hobart shipbuilding committee was held at the offices of the hon, secretary (Mr. W. J. Fullerton, M.H.A.) last evening. Mr. A. B. ...
Article : 592 wordsThere is a remarkable statement from America in to-day's cablegrams. It is that Great Britain intends to advance from Mesopotamia to Erzerum. in Armenia, and also undertake an offensive north from Jerusalem. There is no likelihood of British troops undertaking such an adventure as an advance ...
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Article : 58 wordsThe Constitution, as one of the problems that would have to be faced after the war, was discussed by the Governor of Victoria (Sir Arthur Stanley) at the ...
Article : 173 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Hobart City Council it was reported that the undermentioned members of the Australian Imperial Force, whose ...
Article : 118 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation, asking the American people to reduce their wheat consumption by 30 per cent., to observe Mondays and ...
Article : 151 wordsThis morning's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:— There is hostile artillery firing in the neighbourhood of Ribecourt ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that Herr Maximilian Harden, Germany's most famous publicist, writing in his ...
Article : 265 wordsA Swiss correspondent of the Paris newspaper "Humanite." who recently saw the Kaiser in Berlin, says that the military clique has convinced him that ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York World," after inspecting the American army in France, states that General Pershing's troops have made ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Deputy Commissioner at Rock[?]ampton wired at 2.30 this afternoon: The traffic at Mt. Morgan was again blocked to-day. The Fitzroy River at ...
Article : 244 wordsTwo hundred of the invalided soldiers who recently interrupted a meeting of the Fatherland Party (Pan-German) in Berlin have been arrested for ...
Article : 72 wordsTwo Sydney aldermen, Alderman Cuthbertson, of New Town (a son of Alderman Cuthbertson, of the Hobart City Council), and Alderman Baxter, ...
Article : 142 wordsPrivate Tanner, who left Australia last May, went through the Mesopotamian campaign, and was at the surrender of Bagdad, returned to Hobart ...
Article : 168 wordsTroops have been called out to quell the disturbances in Barcelona, where martial law has been proclaimed, owing to strikes und riote arising from the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following report was received from Sir Douglas Haig to-night:— Our anti-aircraft guns shot down a German aeroplane to-day. ...
Article : 45 wordsOwing to the prevailing political excitement all meetings have been prohibited in Germany. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Lord Mayor of Manchester told a deputation who demanded an equal distribution of food that their agitation was unnecessary, as all possible was ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. Harold Williams, the Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," states that the Bolshevik newspapers admit that the peace negotiations at ...
Article : 351 wordsA Turkish communique received by wireless to-day says:—We have rectified our lines in Palestine by an advance of two kilometres (2,188 yards). ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Hobart Regatta committee met last night at the Town-hall, when Mr. J. G. Turner presided over a full meeting. Mr. John Godfrey, of Bendigo, who ...
Article : 796 wordsMr. Robert Sticht, manager of the Mt. Lyell Company, who left Australia nine months ago to study the electrolytic method of treating zinciferous ores ...
Article : 285 wordsAt the Hobart Police Court yesterday. James O'Brien was fined 10s., in default seven days' imprisonment, for having been drunk and incapable on ...
Article : 39 wordsCount Czernin, the Foreign Secretary, informed the Austrian Delegations that the text of his speech was forwarded to President Winson before ...
Article : 432 wordsA drizzling rain set in last night, and at noon to-day it came down in torrents, and by 2 o'clock nearly 2 inches had been registered. The ...
Article : 150 wordsAn inquest was opened at the City Police Court yesterday afternoon, before the Coroner (Mr. E. L. Hall), touching the death of a newly-born ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York World" says information received by the American authorities indicates that the british are aiming a ...
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Article : 105 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, has sent the following message to the Premier of Queensland:—"The ...
Article : 289 wordsA Turkish official wireless message received last night says:—There is lively artillery activity in the Dardanelles. The fire from our guns ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "London Gazette" to-day states that bars to the Military Medals already won by them have been awarded to the following Australians:—Privates ...
Article : 56 wordsAt A conference held last week to consider a proposal regarding the curtailment of the area under cultivation for wheat, so that greater attention ...
Article : 291 wordsMr. Arthur Ransome, the Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily News and Leader," insists that the position of the Bolsheviks is critical. A ...
Article : 435 wordsThe Madrid newspaper "Sol" reports that a new Spanish steamer, the Giralda, of 4,000 tons, has been sunk by the Germans to the westward of ...
Article : 97 wordsA New Zealand soldier from Germany, who is now interned in Switzerland, spent much of his time when a prisoner at Dulmen, in Westphalia. He ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Launceston City Council, at a meeting to-day, decided to extend the city tramway system to the King's wharf immediately. The Mayor ...
Article : 112 wordsYesterday the crew of a French airship threw several bombs at a German submarine, and the hits were observed to make her unsteady. A minesweeper ...
Article : 62 wordsAdvices received by the State Department indicate that there is increasing restiveness among the Slav population of Austria, particularly the Czechs. ...
Article : 46 wordsNews received in Brisbane to-day by mail from Mackay, dated Saturday last, states that the town has been practically wrecked by a disastrous ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 29 Jan 1918, Page 5
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