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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsEarly 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 wordsThe Legislative Council has held its final meeting for the discussion of the Budget. The tone of the Indian members' speeches was a most cordial ...
Article : 792 wordsAll 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 wordsIt 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 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 339 wordsThe 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 wordsLord 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to consider means of increasing home-grown feed supplies has issued an interim report, but it is already largely out of date in ...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 wordsA 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 wordsIt 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 wordsThere are indications that Prince Rupprecht's army is hastily establishing itself in lines between St. Quentin and Cambral. ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Hodge, Minister for Labour, with representatives of the Ministry of Munitions, and the Admiralty Shipyard Labour Department, has conferred with the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe 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 wordsThe Berne correspondent of the "Observer" states that several German agents, including two prominent Socialists, during the past week approached Russian ...
Article : 121 wordsLincoln 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 wordsThe 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 wordsIn the Maitland electorates the supporters of the candidates worked with treat energy. Lieutenant-colonel C. E. Nicholson, the Nationalist candidate's ...
Article : 868 wordsMr. 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 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "New York World" says that Italian strategists foresee the heaviest German offensive against Italy shortly. ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. 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 wordsThe 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 wordsNow 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMathew 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 wordsThe Germans are strenuously endeavouring to strengthen the hands of those few extremists showing pacifist tendencies. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsDr. 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 wordsIn 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 wordsAn 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 wordsThe 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 wordsCorrespondents state that the Germans systematically destroyed Chauny. In one of the most important streets not a single thing has been loft standing, ...
Article : 152 wordsSir 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 wordsOfficers 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 wordsDespite 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsDuring the recent severe weather, the Australian Red Cross in France made special efforts to ameliorate the conditions of the men by supplying them ...
Article : 50 wordsIt 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 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says that there is anxiety among the brewers at a prospect of immediate Government action in ...
Article : 179 wordsOn 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 wordsMessrs. Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents have been lodged at the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Government has appointed Lord Devonport, Mr. Prothero, General Atkins, and Sir Thomas Robinson, the Agent-General for New Zealand, a committee ...
Article : 128 wordsA British steamer that arrived here from Archangel recently reports that two steamers were blown up in the Russian, sort. ...
Article : 43 words"Le Journal" says Madame de la Charlonnay, the owner of a chateau at Noyon, states that German Generals removed anciert oak fittings. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "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 wordsThe "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 wordsMr. 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 wordsMr. Macpharson, the Parliamentary Under-secretary to the War Office, speaking in the House of Commons, officially confirmed the report of arsenic being ...
Article : 34 wordsTen 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that It understands that the Government's solution of the Irish question contemplates applying the Home Rule Act, with ...
Article : 117 wordsA Stepney woman was fined £1 for paying more than the official price of 1½d per lb for potatoes. The salesman was fined 10s. ...
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Advertising : 57 wordsThe Germans pillaged and ignited many Rumanian villages, end parts of the towns of' Kalarasch, Djurdino, and Orsova. Children were murdered, women ...
Article : 33 wordsThe 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 wordsThe German Federal Council has resolved to favour the minting of ten pfennig coins of zinc. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Mon 26 Mar 1917, Page 5
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