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  2. THE ALLIES' ADVANCE.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commandant on the west front, reports: We have occupied Roisel, seven miles eastward of Peronne. A strong ...

    Article : 220 words
  3. AMERICA AND GERMANY.

    The Council of National Defence has met to consider proposals for Impressing an the country the seriousness of America's part if she enters the war for the ...

    Article : 447 words
  4. WICKHAM.

    The contest in the Wickham electorate was one of the keenest. At the general election three and a half years ago the sitting member was returned with a ...

    Article : 876 words
  5. AUSTRALIANS AT WORK.

    Early yesterday morning and during the night before, the Australian infantry rushed the Germans out of villages five miles beyond Bapaume, in some cases ...

    Article : 500 words
  6. INDIA'S LOYALTY.

    The Legislative Council has held its final meeting for the discussion of the Budget. The tone of the Indian members' speeches was a most cordial ...

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  7. IMPERIAL WAR CABINET.

    All the delegates attended a prolonged third meeting of the Imperial War Cabinet at the residence of Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister. Mr. Long, the ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. RUSSIAN REFORM.

    It is believed that all the grand dukes will resign their military posts, in order not to embarrass the Government. The Grandduke Cyril has bidden farewell ...

    Article : 343 words
  9. KAHIBAH.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 339 words
  10. IN AND AROUND NEWCASTLE.

    The members of the committees of the various candidates in the Newcastle and Wickham electorates were busy long before the opening of the poll at eight ...

    Article : 479 words
  11. HOME-GROWN FOOD.

    Lord Selborne's Committee appointed to consider means of increasing home-grown feed supplies has issued an interim report, but it is already largely out of date in ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. GERMAN STATEMENT.

    A German official report states:—On both sides of the Somme and the Olse the enemy is feeling forward hesitatingly, frequently entrenching, and seriously ...

    Article : 86 words
  13. THE TURKISH COMMANDER.

    It is officially reported from Berlin that Enver Pasha, the Commander of the Turkish Army, has arrived at the German headquarters, and conferred with the ...

    Article : 38 words
  14. BIG BATTLE EXPECTED.

    There are indications that Prince Rupprecht's army is hastily establishing itself in lines between St. Quentin and Cambral. ...

    Article : 90 words
  15. TYNE ENGINEERS RESUME.

    Mr. Hodge, Minister for Labour, with representatives of the Ministry of Munitions, and the Admiralty Shipyard Labour Department, has conferred with the ...

    Article : 166 words
  16. FRENCH SUCCESSES.

    The latest French communique states:— North of the Somme we drove back the enemy as far as the outskirts of Savy, where the enemy took up a position on a ...

    Article : 600 words
  17. GERMANY WANTS PEACE.

    The Berne correspondent of the "Observer" states that several German agents, including two prominent Socialists, during the past week approached Russian ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. THE GERMAN PLANS.

    Lincoln Eyre, the Paris correspondent of the "New York World" states that Germany is preparing to stake her existence as a military power on a ...

    Article : 77 words
  19. AMERICAN RELIEF WORK.

    The State Department announces that it has instructed Mr. Brand Whitlock, and also all American diplomatic and consular officers to withdraw from Belgium, and ...

    Article : 183 words
  20. MAITLAND.

    In the Maitland electorates the supporters of the candidates worked with treat energy. Lieutenant-colonel C. E. Nicholson, the Nationalist candidate's ...

    Article : 868 words
  21. THE ALLIES' SUPERIORITY.

    Mr. Joseph M'Cabe, interviewed by a representative of the "New York Times," said:—"I am a humanitarian, and loathe war and militarism, but as historians ...

    Article : 92 words
  22. ITALY'S EXPECTATION.

    The Rome correspondent of the "New York World" says that Italian strategists foresee the heaviest German offensive against Italy shortly. ...

    Article : 44 words
  23. GERMAN HORRORS.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, the correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," gives a vivid picture of the wreckage of French chateaux. In one case, a tabernacle was flung down ...

    Article : 295 words
  24. WARNING TO THE LATE CZAR.

    The Grand Duke Nicholas has authorised the publication of a letter he sent to the late Czar before the revolution, as follows:— "You have often expressed your ...

    Article : 184 words
  25. THE SPEAKERSHIP.

    Now that Mr. Meagher has been defeated, speculation is already being indulged in as to who will be the Speaker in the next Parliament. The consenesus ...

    Article : 44 words
  26. THE MOEWE'S RAID.

    The Admiralty states that information circulated by the German wireless press shows that in addition to the ships sunk and captured by the raider ...

    Article : 144 words
  27. VICTORIA.

    Mathew Moseby, aged 12 years, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital, suffering from a gunshot wound in the head. It is said to have been caused by his ...

    Article : 196 words
  28. GERMAN TRICKS.

    The Germans are strenuously endeavouring to strengthen the hands of those few extremists showing pacifist tendencies. ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. GERMAN THREAT.

    The Zurich correspondent of "Le Matin" says that the "Berlin Tageblatt" states that in a few days the American Government's formal declaration of war will ...

    Article : 63 words
  30. RUSSIA'S ONE THOUGHT.

    The correspondent of the "New York World" has had an interview with M. Rodzianko, who said:—"Russia's Government is now in the hands of the Duma, to ...

    Article : 169 words
  31. ST. QUENTIN DEFENCES.

    Mr. Simms, the United Press correspondent on the British front, telegraphs that the Germans drove off all the women and girls before devastating the countryside. ...

    Article : 139 words
  32. GERMAN FOOD SUPPLY.

    Dr. Helfferich privately informed Ministerialists that the 1917 harvest in Germany would be very bad, but that the war would be decided before August. ...

    Article : 80 words
  33. BRITISH FOOD SUGGESTION.

    In the House of Commons last night Mr. H. A. Watt urged that, owing to the submarine campaign and the serious position of food supplies the Government should ...

    Article : 412 words
  34. DISORDERLY PEACE MEETING.

    An emergency Peace Federation meeting was held in Madison Square Garden. There were several disturbances and three free fights. There were many Germans in the ...

    Article : 53 words
  35. NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL.

    The medical report, which is embodied in the general report of the Newcastle Hospital for the year 1916 shows that 1948 patients were admitted. Of these ...

    Article : 198 words
  36. DESTRUCTION OF CHAUNY.

    Correspondents state that the Germans systematically destroyed Chauny. In one of the most important streets not a single thing has been loft standing, ...

    Article : 152 words
  37. MEMORY OF JACK CORNWELL.

    Sir Edward Carson, the First Lord of the Admiralty, at the Mansion House, receiving on behalf of the admiralty, a portrait of the brave midshipman, who lost his life ...

    Article : 122 words
  38. GERMANS ENTER MEXICO.

    Officers of the Norwegian steamer Vera report that thousands of Germans are entering Mexico with the object of waging sear on the United States in the event ...

    Article : 37 words
  39. PRISONERS IN THE WAR ZONE.

    Despite Anglo-French warnings, Germany continues to enforce her threats of reprisals. A large number of prisoners have been sent to the war zone. ...

    Article : 46 words
  40. ALL RUSSIA UNITED.

    The Grand Duke Nicholas, who was commander-in-chief in the Caucasus, in taking a cordial farewell of his troops and the inhabitants of the Caucasus, ...

    Article : 139 words
  41. SINKING OF THE HEALDTON.

    The steamer Heraldton was an oil tanker on her way to Rotterdam. The captain states that two torpedoes were fired at the ship within the so-called ...

    Article : 154 words
  42. AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS.

    During the recent severe weather, the Australian Red Cross in France made special efforts to ameliorate the conditions of the men by supplying them ...

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  43. FRENCH BATTLESHIP SUNK.

    It is officially announced that the battleship Denton, of 18,028 tons, was struck by two torpedoes while she was cruising in the Mediterranean on March 19. ...

    Article : 51 words
  44. THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

    The Parliamentary correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says that there is anxiety among the brewers at a prospect of immediate Government action in ...

    Article : 179 words
  45. ROBBERY BY GERMANS.

    On the eve of departing from Noyon the Germans visited the banks and ordered private safes to be opened. They seized securities and jewellery ...

    Article : 35 words
  46. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents have been lodged at the ...

    Article : 152 words
  47. PRODUCE FROM AUSTRALIA.

    The Government has appointed Lord Devonport, Mr. Prothero, General Atkins, and Sir Thomas Robinson, the Agent-General for New Zealand, a committee ...

    Article : 128 words
  48. STEAMERS BLOWN UP.

    A British steamer that arrived here from Archangel recently reports that two steamers were blown up in the Russian, sort. ...

    Article : 43 words
  49. THE KAISER STEALS.

    "Le Journal" says Madame de la Charlonnay, the owner of a chateau at Noyon, states that German Generals removed anciert oak fittings. ...

    Article : 53 words
  50. RUSSIA REORGANISING.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent states that the reorganisation is being hurried up with the utmost earnestness. The idea is widespread that the ...

    Article : 119 words
  51. AID TO FRANCE.

    The "New York World" has made a suggestion that America should give a billion dollars to France, which is generally supported by the press. ...

    Article : 50 words
  52. INSURANCE OF DIAMONDS.

    Mr. Sol Joel is forming an insurance company, with a capital of £2,000,000, mainly to insure diamonds and gold in transit to Europe, because Lloyd's is ...

    Article : 44 words
  53. POISONED WELLS.

    Mr. Macpharson, the Parliamentary Under-secretary to the War Office, speaking in the House of Commons, officially confirmed the report of arsenic being ...

    Article : 34 words
  54. WAR INSURANCE.

    Ten million dollars insurance have been placed at Lloyd's against damage to buildings by aircraft and naval bombardments if America goes to war. ...

    Article : 38 words
  55. VAIN-GLORIOUS KAISER.

    A German official message states that the Kaiser has sent a letter to the King of Bavaria in which he states:—"We owe the brilliant carrying out of a great army ...

    Article : 76 words
  56. IRISH REFORM.

    The "Manchester Guardian" states that It understands that the Government's solution of the Irish question contemplates applying the Home Rule Act, with ...

    Article : 117 words
  57. BRITISH POTATO SCARCITY.

    A Stepney woman was fined £1 for paying more than the official price of 1½d per lb for potatoes. The salesman was fined 10s. ...

    Article : 41 words
  58. Advertising

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    Advertising : 57 words
  59. GERMAN CRIMES.

    The Germans pillaged and ignited many Rumanian villages, end parts of the towns of' Kalarasch, Djurdino, and Orsova. Children were murdered, women ...

    Article : 33 words
  60. MONASTIR FRONT.

    The enemy has been reinforced on the Monastir front, and strongly counter-attacked lost positions on the north-west of the town, but were repulsed. ...

    Article : 28 words
  61. GERMAN ZINC COINS.

    The German Federal Council has resolved to favour the minting of ten pfennig coins of zinc. ...

    Article : 24 words
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