Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commandant on the west front, reports:—We progressed at night time northward of Beaucourt, and bombarded ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is reported that the German raider left Kiel under the Danish flag, ballasted with iron, and carrying four officers and a crew of 250 men. ...
Article : 245 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressing 4000 people in St. Andrew's Hall, in Glasgow, made a stirring appeal to Scotsmen to support the war ...
Article : 332 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that General Dimitrieff's surprise attack on the eve of the Russian Christmas almost recaptured ...
Article : 120 wordsAt the Mansion House, yesterday, John Gruban, a naturalised German, and managing director of Haigh, Gruban, and Company, Limited, manufacturers of ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Colliery Employees' Federation was informed by Mr. Justice Edmunds during the week that it was his intention to proceed with the hearing of the ...
Article : 179 wordsAt the conclusion of the party meetings to-day, Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, and Mr. Cook, made statements as to the business that had been transacted. ...
Article : 679 wordsA German official report states:—We evacuated, an advanced position on the Serre last Friday, but the British attacking there on Wednesday sustained heavy ...
Article : 29 wordsThe dispute at the Stockton-Borehole Colliery in connection with the brushers, upon the question as to whether these employees should receive 7½ per ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Director-General of Recruting, Mr. Donald Mackinnon, left Newcastle by train yesterday morning. He would, he said, possibly revisit Newcastle ...
Article : 332 wordsA Russian communique states:—Our fire arrested attempts at an offensive southward of Oituze. The Rumanians repulsed the Germans ...
Article : 72 wordsA correspondent, describing one of Wednesday's raids by the British troops, says that it was carried out in a snowstorm. ...
Article : 110 wordsSenator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, states that the British Government has asked for further drafts of skilled men from Australia for work in ...
Article : 67 wordsAccording to reliable information from Rio de Janeiro, the Yarrowdale has arrived at Sao Vicente, in the Cape Verde Island., with the crews of eight ships ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Alliance Assurance Company has invested £5,000,000, including conversions; Mr. H. R Morton, £250,000; Manchester City, £1,000,000; and Lysaght's, of Bristol, ...
Article : 51 wordsA meeting of the management committee and trustees of the Newcastle Trades Hall was hold on Thursday evening in connection with the proposed additions to the ...
Article : 120 wordsCorporal Harald ("Snowy") Bay has been awarded the military medal for bravery on the battlefield. This gratifying information is contained in a ...
Article : 178 wordsTelegraph from Rumania indicate that the situation is steadily improving. The Austro-German offensive has bean arrested, and the Russo-Rumanians are ...
Article : 79 wordsM. Marcel Hutin says that when the peace manocuvres failed, the enemy concentrated large forces in the direction of the Swiss frontier. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" learns that there is more than one raider, owing to the transfer of guns and prize crews to captured ...
Article : 119 wordsPrince Galitzin, the Prime Minister of Russia, telegraphed to Mr. Lloyd George assuring him of loyal co-operation In rendering more intimate the Anglo-Russian ...
Article : 56 wordsOfficial telegrams from Constantinople state that General Townsend has been removed to a fresh place of internment, as a precaution. ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the beginning of the present month the number of unemployed in the Newcastle district totalled, in round figures, 960. ...
Article : 394 wordsA German official message states:—The Russians, attacking with tenfold superior numbers, penetrated an advanced post north of Crashin, but were driven ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Indian Government has decided to presently raise a special war loan in India on practically the same terms as the British loan. ...
Article : 76 wordsOfficial information has been received that 110,000 people have died from hunger in Syria. Hundreds of exhausted inhabitants of ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Adrian, S.M., in the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, intimated very plainly that the conviction of friendly neutrals and allied subjects for failure ...
Article : 371 wordsA neutral who was captured aboard a Dutch mail boat gives interesting details of the life on German submarines. The men suffer greatly from cold ...
Article : 122 wordsFor the week 181 recruits were accepted at Victoria Barracks, and 116 deferred. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe German war correspondents in Rumania are now enlarging on the difficult conditions existing, especially frost, snow, and fog. ...
Article : 35 wordsUnder the War Precautions Act there is a regulation forbidding the use of crude coal tar without the permission of the Minister for Defence. The object ...
Article : 333 wordsAn accident happened to a British troop train nine miles from Paris. The train contained 1300 rank and file, and 210 officers, of whom 50 were colonels. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the London "Dally Telegraph" states that in accordance with the Entente's ultimatum the Greek Government has removed ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, at a dinner given by the Junior Constitutional Club, said the war had taught the British Empire to think ...
Article : 150 wordsTwo girls, while bathing at Sandringham to-day, got into deep water. A school boy brought them ashore, but one, May Crichton, 15 years of age, the daughter of ...
Article : 236 wordsA rumour is current of the existence of a secret German base at an uninhabited coastal spot. Captain Days, of the French schooner ...
Article : 77 wordsA Berlin message states that a returned submarine claims to have sunk sixteen ships, with a total tonnage of 26,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsCongress is preparing to accord funeral honours to the late Admiral Dewey equalling those granted to martyred Presidents. ...
Article : 158 wordsAn Italian communique states: We completely defeated 5000 rebels at Zoara, in Tripoli, on Tuesday. The enemy's losses totalled 1000. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Petit Parisien's" Zurich Correspondent says that meetings urging increased submarine ruthlessness are of widespread occurrence in Germany. ...
Article : 49 wordsGerman placards at Tongres, in Belgium, threaten that the town will be fined 50,000 marks (about £2500) for each man who crosses the frontier. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Balkans correspondent of the "Rotterdam Courant" states that Bulgaria holds 90,000 prisoners, including all the Allies and some Australians and ...
Article : 65 wordsPresiding over the Soldiers' Graves Committee, the Prince of Wales stated that 15,000 graves were registered in France and Belgium. Sixty of 400 burial grounds ...
Article : 100 wordsWith the object of considering the claims of the coal-lumpers employed in loading coal at Mortlake Gasworks, the Coal Lumpers' Wages Board met this ...
Article : 194 wordsThe State Labour caucus will meet in Brisbane on Tuesday morning, the 30th instant, prior to the reassembling of Parliament. It is understood that the ...
Article : 160 wordsSERGEANT KENNEY.—Mr. J. Kenney, of Now Lambton, has been advised that his son, Sergeant R. Kenney, of the Headquarters Stuff, has been reported wounded. ...
Article : 28 wordsA secret session of the Norwegian Storthing considered the British reply to Norway regarding the coal supply. It does not repent the assertion that ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Rome says the German Emperor has summoned to general headquarters the reigning Kings, Grand Dukes, Princes, and ...
Article : 200 wordsThe funeral of Mr. A. F. Costa took place Yesterday afternoon from his late residence, the Pilot Station, King's Wharf, Newcastle. The interment was in ...
Article : 361 wordsPRIVATE SIMPSON.—Mr. A. Simpson, of Young-street, Carrington, has received word that his son. Private Simpson, who is in hospital, is improving. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is definitely announced that Count Sazanoff will succeed the late Count Benckendorff as Russian Ambassador to London. ...
Article : 22 words"Will Germany be forced to capitulate this year, and peace be established ?" Writers in the periodicals contribute, directly and indirectly, to the answer ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Agriculture Labourers' Union threatens action if Mr. Prothere, the President of the Board of Agriculture, carries out his intention to draft ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. W. Field, of Park-street, Morewether, yesterday received a message tram his son through a third person under somewhat unusual circumstances. The ...
Article : 221 wordsRich coal seams have been discovered in Bessarabia, close to the surface. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe death is announced of the Earl of Elgin and Kineardine, formerly Secretary of State for the Colonies. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent states that eleven brothers perished in the recent destruction of a Zeppelin in England. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn view of statements made at the meeting of the Labour Council, Mr. Ball, the State Minister for Works, was questioned this afternoon regarding the ...
Article : 393 wordsThe town bellman at Whitehaven, in Cumberland, urged the public not to pay more than is a stone for potatoes. A crowd of women carrying flags ...
Article : 46 wordsSir Joseph Beecham's estate Is provisionally valued at £1,000,000. The bulk is divided among his children. His American business la bequeathed to ...
Article : 59 wordsThe appeal of Ciro's Club against a conviction for supplying liquor after hours has been abandoned. ...
Article : 21 wordsGeneral Belaieff has been appointed Minister for War in Russia. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsThe "New York Times," emphasising the profound importance of Mr. Balfour's Note, says :—"Can Germany fail to reply to the charges of the worthlessness of her ...
Article : 36 wordsIn response to the Pope's request to Germany for permission to restore Rheims Cathedral under satisfactory guarantees, the Kaiser has expressed his ...
Article : 33 wordsThe hon. treasurers Newcastle Hospital and Benevolent Day Fund acknowledge receipt of the following sums:—Amount previously acknowledged, £3943 10s 6d; ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Bar Council has overwhelmingly defeated a resolution proposing the admission of women to practice at the Bar. Sir Frederick Smith, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsGeneral Allouin has been appointed to the Headquarters Staff to study proparatory questions dealing with the general conduct if the war. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 20 Jan 1917, Page 5
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