The attack against Riga had been anticipated for a considerable time, and the evacuation of the principal offices and institutions had been already carried out. This decision ...
Article : 176 wordsAt the conclusion of a Cabinet meeting this morning the Government replied to the Lord Mayor, stating that after the fullest consideration Minister concurred in the view ...
Article : 292 wordsMr. Keith, Murdoch writes that the continued soaking rains made the battle ground an [?]ful mud field, worse than the Somme in winter. Porridge mud is [?] ...
Article : 128 wordsA French communique reports that our fire smashed up an attack in the region of Hur[?]bise Farm by enemy detachments which sustained heavy losses without result. ...
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Advertising : 277 wordsField Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We advanced our line north-eastward of St. Jullen and made a successful raid north-ward of Lens. We drove off raiders south ...
Article : 40 wordsAt a lawyers' meeting to-day Senator Elihu Root sounded a cry of alarm throughout the States for help to prosecute the war. Ho said: "We are in a war, the stake ...
Article : 108 wordsA British official report states that six aeroplanes took part in last night's raid. They proceeded [?] far as Chatham, and dropped bombs on the Is[?] of Thanet, and in the ...
Article : 249 wordsA wireless Russian official report states that we evacuated Riga yesterday morning, blowing up the fortifications and bridges at the mouth of the Dvina. Our ...
Article : 113 wordsThe complete text of telegrams between the ex-Czar and the Kaiser regarding the Baltic Sea and Denmark mentioned this morning have now been received. They ...
Article : 365 wordsThe State Department announced to-day that the position of the United States is that Hohenzolernism must go, but not necessarily the Hohenzolloerns themselves. ...
Article : 61 wordsAs expected, a busy day was experienced in the goods-yard at the West Maitland railway station to-day. A considerable quantity of vegetables and other produce ...
Article : 145 wordsGermany is frantic with Joy over the capture of Riga. There is an orgy of flagwaving and of official congratulation, and speechifying. Grandiloquent newspaper articles ...
Article : 112 wordsThe United States Board of Exports Council has shut down on shipments of wheat to any country contiguous to Germany. No neural countries will get wheat before ...
Article : 48 wordsPresident Wilson to-day reviewed the new national army, which goes to the general [?]campment to-day. He urged the soldiers to set a high standard and fulfil the American ...
Article : 43 wordsA meeting of the Women's Patriotic Committee (War Cheat, branch) wan held at the depot in High-street on Monday evening at which there was a fair attendance. ...
Article : 317 wordsMajor Bannatyne, D.S.M. had a terrible experience which flying Gloucestershire; His engine stopped in mid-air. The machine caught fire and fell. The major [?]pt out ...
Article : 69 wordsLodu[?] one of the anti-conseriptionists who exploded a charge of dynamite at the residence of Lord Athelstan, committee suicide when he was s[?]rounded by the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Kaiser telegraphed to Prince Leopold of Bavaria: "Captor of Riga, congratulations. The fine success is due to far-seeing leadership. The steelyard will incline to victory. ...
Article : 40 wordsAn Italian official report states that 30 aeroplanes bombed Austrian military works and the fleet at Polo harbour and Fasa[?] Canal. Nine tons of bombs wore dropped, ...
Article : 37 words"The Times" in a leading article points out that Herr Emil Zimmermann's plan of combining Central Europe, None Asia, Central Africa, and Central and South American ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "Times," commenting on the fall of Riga, says: "With the Riga-Dvinsk railway cut, and the Riga-Petrograd railway directly menaced, the Russians had no choice ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "Times" Dublin correspondent states that the Irish Convention meets at Belfast today. The change was previously regarded as a risky experiment but is now ...
Article : 64 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent states that it is reported that the Government has decided to banish General Gourko. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe "Times" in the course of a leader commenting on the disclosures made by the "New real interest of the present disclosures is the proof which ...
Article : 86 wordsA wireless Germany official report states we threw out the English who penetrated our line north-westward of Lens. We bombed Dover Chatham, Sheerness, ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Trade-union Congress at Blackpool took a vote on the question of the Stockholm Conference on the committee report, as cabled yesterday. ...
Article : 236 wordsA big advance is reported in the price of petroleum, which is now quoted at 20[?]. Petrol is selling at 41[?] a gallon being an in[?]reas[?] of 5d for petrileum and 8[?] for ...
Article : 66 wordsA Committee of employers and men in the shipyards on the Tyne, has been formed to ac[?]lerate shipbuilding and avoid wastage of man power. ...
Article : 42 wordsAt 1. 15 this morning Night-watchman Yates came upon the body of a man lying on the foothpath in Young-street, alongside the Hotel Metropole. It was later identified ...
Article : 136 wordsThe general food situation in the capital is not satisfactory. Fruit and vegetables are search and dear at a time when they should be plentiful and cheap. Young carrots are ...
Article : 194 wordsReuter's Agency learns authoritatively that frequent Russo-German attempts to seduce the Roumanian army by inciting peasants to revolt and seize the land utterly failed. The ...
Article : 302 wordsThe "Times" states that latest reports from the Food Production Department of the Board of Agriculture are more optimistic than was expected. The damage done to the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Press Bureau publishes an app[?] from all the Allies for help to save the unfortunate Serbian population. It is state that internal conditions are deplorable. The enemy ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsThe King of [?]avria in a speech at Na[?]mberg announced that the construction of the Rhine-Dan[?] Canal had been agreed upon and it would be navigable for vess[?] ...
Article : 54 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that naval aircraft on Sunday night bombed docks, submarine shelters and railway sidings at Bruges causing a fire to break out in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsThe Can[?] Government has introduce a measure for the coming election to disfranchise all of German and Australian birth even though naturalised. Their Canadi[?] ...
Article : 63 wordsA Reuter's message from Petrograd announces the death of Baron Stu[?]rmer. ex-Premier a notorious pro-German intriguer. ...
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Advertising : 95 wordsA Bulgarian communi[?] reports very violent day long enemy bombardment on the Ma[?]don[?]an front on Sunday, continuing through the night with great fury. ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Tuesday. Twenty-one Norweg[?]an ships were sunk during the month of August. ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Wed 5 Sep 1917, Page 5
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