There is a belief in Federal political circlos that important changes in the Cabinet are pending. It is considered inevitable that Senator Pearce will ...
Article : 429 wordsMr. J. R. Garfield, the Director of national Service in the United States, announced yesterday that as a result of the order for the closing ot all ...
Article : 88 wordsThe White Guards have totally defeated the Red Guards near Tammerford, in the south of Finland, and taken 700 prisoners. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe news of the retirement of General Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial Staff, is being received with widespread regret. It is evident that he objected strongly to the new scheme of control adopted at the Versailles Conference. There is no doubt he is one of the ablest soldiers of the day. ...
Article : 267 wordsAt the Police Court to-day Charles Deegan was charged with the wilful murder of his brother, John Thomas Deegan, at Lynchford, on Saturday, ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Copenhagen newspaper "Politiken" learns that Holland has taken the initiative at Petrograd with reference to joint action by neutral countries ...
Article : 45 wordsCorrespondents report a large concentration of German troops in Southern Bavaria and the Tyrol with the object of preventing an Italian move ...
Article : 41 wordsSir John Simon, who was Attorney-General in Mr. Asquith's Government, and who joined the army in October last, addressing his constituents at ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Russian troops on the Aland Islands, at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia, have surrendered to the Commander of the Swedish gunboat Thor, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe plague-has appeared at Paotingfu, 80 miles to the south-west of Peking, and is endangering the Chinese capital and Tientsin. So far, every ...
Article : 49 wordsThe text of the Pact of London, determining the participation of Italy in the war, and which was referred to on Thursday in the Italian Chamber of ...
Article : 215 wordsDr. Syonaga, a Japanese publicist, in a speech in New York yesterday, said Japan regarded the Russian chacs with the greatest anxiety, because it ...
Article : 70 wordsThe chairman (Mr. F. K. Fairthorne) and the secretary (Mr. J. C. Macmichael) of the meetings of mineowners and others interested in the tin ...
Article : 380 wordsA collision between two trains occurred yesterday on the railway line between Lerida and Barcelona, on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, and ...
Article : 40 wordsLord Leverhulme, in a speech in London yesterday, said Great Britain could not return a single one of Germany's colonies because it would sow the seeds ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier of Queensland, delivered his policy speech at Townsville to-night, before a very large gathering. ...
Article : 843 wordsIt is reported that the Cossack army, under General Alexieff, the former Russian Commander-in-Chief, has won a battle in the vicinity of Voronezh, the ...
Article : 164 wordsIn connection with the resignation of General Sir W. R. Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, it is recalled that questions in Parliament, and ...
Article : 920 wordsIn his Budget speech this afternoon Mr. H. Burton, the Minister of Finance in General Botha's Government, announced that the surplus for the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe members, of the Commissions of the Central Powers sent to Petrograd left the Russian capital on Friday on return to their respective countries. ...
Article : 310 wordsField-Marshal Haig, reporting to-night, says:— Our patrols in encounters last night made prisoner a few of the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe report of the Inter-State Commission on the price of meat was considered at a meeting of the Federal Cabinet to-day. The report had been referred ...
Article : 115 wordsA large quantity of bombs, grenades, and 1,000,000 copies of a manifesto have been found in a cellar of oremises in Zurich formerly occupied by Gino ...
Article : 131 wordsThe bombardment of Dover yesterday (Saturday) morning by a German submarine was a "hit and run" attack, and caused the slightest material damage to ...
Article : 100 wordsA deputation from the Victorian Master Bakers' Association waited upon the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day, with reference to the proposed action ...
Article : 151 wordsThe French communique issued to-day says:— There was fairly considerable reciprocal artillery firing last night in ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the course of an interview to-day, commenting on the speech delivered at Bendigo on Saturday by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), Sir William Irvine ...
Article : 380 wordsA wireless message received in London from Paris states that the Budget Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies has voted 110,000,000 francs ...
Article : 41 wordsWith the exception of the Chinese Premier, who has pro-German leanings, the Chinese Cabinet has expressed itself willing to agree to the request of the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that at 10 o'clock last night hostile aircraft crossed the Kent coast and the Thames Estuary, and proceeded to London. ...
Article : 342 wordsThe Belgian Council of Ministers congratulated the Flemish and Walloon Senators, Deputies, and Magistrates upon having heroically resisted the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Brisbane portmaster has received a message from the harbourmaster at Rockhampton stating that the steamer Timaru had returned from Iron Island, ...
Article : 119 wordsLord Northcliffe has been appointed Director of Propaganda for every country. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe revolt of the people of Poland against the cession of the province of Kohlm to Ukraine is seriously embarrassing the Central Powers, and the ...
Article : 197 wordsAbout 25,000 spectators assembled in Paris on Saturday afternoon, when a football match under Rugby rules was played between New Zealand and ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at French Headquarters says:— Some soldiers believe that the enemy will make a dramatic but limited coup ...
Article : 144 wordsPortion of a wrecked vessel has been found on the beach 100 miles north of Gisborne. The vessel was apparently a three-masted chooner, with a keel ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) referring to-day to the proposal of the Imperial authorities that the London Museum should have first ...
Article : 81 wordsSeveral thousands of canvassers are to be employed by the Federal Government to assist in making the new war loan a success. These canvassers, who will be ...
Article : 229 wordsField-Marshal Haig reports to-day: Our aeroplanes yesterday bombed and machine-gunned the billets of Penemy troops, and dropped five and a ...
Article : 194 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Mersey Marine Board was held to-day. The secretary of the Commonwealth Steamship Line wrote for statistics ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the Paris "Matin" states that the Central Powers have prolonged the Rumanian armistice until the 22nd inst., to enable ...
Article : 113 wordsA public welcome was to-day accorded to the new Governor (Sir Walter Davidson), and later, in the presence of a representative gathering, His ...
Article : 137 wordsOfficial intimation has been received by Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Piesse, of Hobart, that their son, John Stanley Piesse, has been killed in action at ...
Article : 344 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that at 10 o'clock on Sunday evening hostile aeroplanes crossed the Thames Estuary and proceeded towards London, and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 19 Feb 1918, Page 5
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