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Advertising : 7 wordsIn moving the second reading of the Military Service Bill in the House of Commons, Sir George Cave the Home Secretary referred to the threatened ...
Article : 349 wordsMr Dillon said that the military results hoped from the bill could not in any way redress the recent military misfortunes. He was opposed to ...
Article : 146 words"The enemy in the night time undertook a series of local actions at several points along the front. The Germans yesterday evening, after a strong ...
Article : 713 wordsOur line at Wyts[?] and Ploegst[?] averages 2500 yards behind the [?] line, including the zone whereon the Australians lavished trenches, wire, and ...
Article : 74 wordsReuter's correspondent at Zurich says that the German demands for indemnities have been revived by Minister Seydewitz, speaking at Dresden, ...
Article : 72 wordsColonel J. A. Murdoch, Australian Red Cross Commissioner, fears that the offensive will cause a strain on the financial and other resources of the ...
Article : 46 wordsProvincial newspapers, with a few exceptions, support the main, principles it the man power scheme. The "Westminster Gazette" says:— ...
Article : 208 wordsMr Phillips' states that the intensity of the attack suggests that the enemy attaches equal importance to it as to the first advance on the Somme. His ...
Article : 114 wordsField-Marshal Haig reports:— Following the bombardment already reported the enemy this morning attacked in strength between ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsTransatlantic tonnage was increased by 20 per cent. in March. A total of 390 American ships, with a tonnage of 2,700,000 tons, is now engaged, without ...
Article : 39 wordsMr Hamilton Fyfe says:— The new battle developed northward, extending in the morning up above Messines. There was heavy fighting ...
Article : 194 wordsFrench shipping returns show that during the week the arrivals in French ports number 1045, and the sailings 1045. Two vessels over 1600 tons were ...
Article : 40 wordsBy 299 votes to 80 the Military Service Bill was read a first time. The vote on the third reading will be taken on April 16. ...
Article : 89 wordsField-Marshal Haig, in an aviation report, says:—"The mist yesterday morning hampered flying. When the weather improved our airmen bombed ...
Article : 70 wordsMr Richard Hazelton, an Irish Nationalist member of the House of Commons says:— "I cannot believe that the House of ...
Article : 131 wordsThe reduction in the sinkings is associated with the German offensive. It is recalled that Hindepburg tacitly admitted the failure of submarinism when ...
Article : 166 wordsA wireless German official message says:—"Between Armentiers and the La Bassee canal we attacked the ...
Article : 90 wordsAn impressive service took place at St. Paul's Cathedral in memory of the nurses who have died from various causes during the war. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe commander of a Portguese battalion at Lacounture refused the suggestion to retire. "We remain according to orders to resist to the last." The ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr Asquith said that the proposal for conscription in Ireland had already been twice considered, and twice ...
Article : 465 wordsA French communique reports:— "North of Mondidier and in the region of the Oise the artillery duel was violent. We took 30 prisoners in ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the House of Commons the motion for the second reading of the Man Power Bill was agreed to by 328 to 100. ...
Article : 38 wordsAmerican casualties number 447 between April 2 and 8. ...
Article : 19 wordsMr Perry Ro[?] says that the second phase of the German offensive seems more threatening in the north than in the south, where, owing to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsExtreme opposition by the Nationalists is expected, but the general feeling is that Ireland will not go to extremes against conscription. Many Irishmen ...
Article : 164 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at The Hague says that Bulgarian and Austrian troops are replacing German garrisons. An endless succession of ...
Article : 130 wordsLatest news states that the Germans gained a footing at Messines, Estaires, and Ploegsteert Wood, but counter-attacks drove them out. ...
Article : 33 wordsTelegraphing from the British headquarters this evening, Reuter's correspondent said:— "Throughout the day the struggle ...
Article : 131 wordsReading the numbers on the West front, the actual facts are that the Germans have a few more divisions than the Allies, but the Allied ...
Article : 85 wordsZurich advices state that the sudden decision of Baron von Hertling, the Imperial Chancellor, not to deliver his important address in the Reichstag, as ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Government is consulting the heads of the churches to ascertain what classes of the clergy can best be called up with the least inconvenience ...
Article : 39 wordsWounded Australians are arriving here, and are being comfortably ens[?]ohced in the Wandsworth Hospital, London. They are cheery, though ...
Article : 361 wordsThe gravity of the happenings in France had a restraining influence on the debate in the House of Commons but there were outbursts of passion on ...
Article : 83 wordsReuter's correspondent at the British headquarters reports:—This morning the Germans are reported to be in the village if Messines and in P[?] Wood, ...
Article : 198 wordsA message from Amsterdam states that it is reported from the frontier that an extensive mutiny occurred on Tuesday in the German camp at ...
Article : 20 wordsA high British military authority, in reviewing the situation, said:— "We improved our positions locally north and south of the Somme. The ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Fri 12 Apr 1918, Page 1
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