In the House of Commons on the debate on the question of Britain's food supply Mr. W. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, stated that the strain upon Britain ...
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Article : 31 wordsThe "Petit Journal" states that the attack of Beaumont-Hamel was launched at dawn. The reverberating of the guns ceased for a moment. silence reigned, and then ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent says that one of the foremost French correspondents at British headquarters, telegraphing from Amiens, says:—The army showed yesterday ...
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Article : 100 wordsA correspondent of the Paris journal Matin" states that the British division carried the fourth line in 18 minutes, although in many places the men were in water above ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. MacNamara stated that the net loss of British steamers over 1000 tons during the war, from all causes, to September 30, was ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral Chauvel, who is in London, upon being interviewed as to the work of the Australians in Egypt and Sinai, says they are in the best of health and spirits, and ...
Article : 149 wordsFrench war correspondents state that Beaumont-Hamel was carried on Tuesday morning, after furious hand to hand contests, and the heights beyond were threatened ...
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Article : 27 wordsThe German communique of yesterday reports a great battle on the Ancre, equaling that of Monday. The English attacked in heavy masses and captured ...
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Advertising : 13 wordsNew South Wales: Unsettled, with more showers over the Riverina and on the west slopes; improving in the south-west; fine and cloudy elsewhere; a hall storm or two ...
Article : 42 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that squadrons of naval aeroplane and seaplanes heavily bombarded the harbours and submarine sheltes in Zeebrugge and ...
Article : 73 wordsPreparations are being completed by the Australian Wheat Board for the financing of the new wheat crop, and an announcement will be made soon regarding the first, advance, which ...
Article : 125 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent states that owing to the particularly severe treatment meted out to Russian officers, who are prisoners in Germany, the Russian War ...
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Family Notices : 55 wordsAn Anzacs' private of the First Division, slightly wounded in the wrist, states that his battalion reached the front line at 7 o'clock in the evening of November 4. ...
Article : 135 wordsPressure is being brought to bear on the Government by Toronto and Montreal to have Major-General Francis Louis Lessard appointed Minister of Militia. General ...
Article : 69 wordsThese Peace Leagues are now springing up all over the Empire. There was first of all the "German National Committee" presided over by Prince Wedel and under the ...
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Advertising : 122 wordsThe State Department has instructed the United States "Charge d'Affairs" in Berlin to inform the Imperial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg to the effect that the ...
Article : 64 wordsAn Italian official report says:—We drove back determined attacks on the salient it Sun Marco, eastward of Gorizia, with heavy enemy loss. The Austrians ...
Article : 67 wordsHarry Gosling, the English delegate to the American Federation of Labor, told the convention to-day that a million and a half organised workers in Great Britain were ...
Article : 74 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent reports that General von Blissing. Governor-General of Belgium, in an interview with the "New York Times" correspondent, ...
Article : 86 wordsThousands of prisoners brought in feature the extreme kindness of the Anzacs in supplying them with cigarettes and food, and lifting the footsore to their horses. The ...
Article : 69 wordsAn authoritative statement made to-night by officials, says the United States will abandon the position that the British black list violates international law. Administration ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has received a cable message from General Birdwood, intimating, with regret, that Brigadier- General Duncan John Glasfurd, ...
Article : 159 wordsAs a result of efforts to vary the diet for the soldiers a new army sausage has been produced after conferences between the Army Medical Service and the Local ...
Article : 74 wordsAn official report from Egypt states that a further air attack was made on Maghaba last night, when four explosives, weighing 100lbs, were dropped in the enemy camp ...
Article : 48 wordsThe city of Winnipeg, intends fighting the high cost of living. The municipality has entered the bread baking, dairying, and fuel businesses. The dairy scheme ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Deputy Chief Commissioner for Railway Mr. Fraser, made a statement regarding the position of his department. He said that they had better stocks than anybody else, ...
Article : 297 wordsLord Robert Cecil announced in the House of Commons that the Allies had provisionally advanced the Venizolist Government £100,000. ...
Article : 41 wordsColonel Repington, "Times" military correspondent, estimates that the German forces in the field are now 4,330,000, while their reserves number 2,000,000, sufficient to supply ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. R. Hazieton, M. P. (Nat.) and Mr. R. L. Outhwalte, M.P. (Lib.), asked questions concerning the Australian military service referendum, ...
Article : 159 wordsThe following steamers have been torpedoed and sunk:—Rugnar (Danish), Aserib (Swedish), Polpen (British). With regard to the Arabia, Colonel Colgate relates that ...
Article : 107 wordsAt the Tamworth police Court, four men, who escaped last month from Tamworth Gaol after they had seriously assaulted Warder Hoare, were charge with escaping from law ...
Article : 155 wordsM. Marcel Hutin is of opinion that Germany is telling the truth of the losses at the Ancre in order to justify the mass levy. The "Temps" states that the Allies must ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the House of Commons, the Rhodes Scholarship Bill which debars Germans from benefiting by such scholarships, was road a third time. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is officially reported that 14 were killed, of whom four were Europeans, and four Europeans injured in the air raid on the 13th of November. ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Thu 16 Nov 1916, Page 5
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