Reuter's special correspondent at Petrograd says:—It is rumoured that preparations are being made for the release of war prisoners. ...
Article : 147 wordsAn explosion occurred on a munition steamer at Halifax, and the near by town of Rockingham is on fire. Hundreds of persons are reported to be killed at Hallfax. Three ...
Article : 248 wordsIn the House of Commons to-night Mr. Macpherson (Parliamentary Secretary for War) stated that to November 26 the British forces had taken 180,951 prisoners on ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs ("Daily Chronicle"), describing the battle of Cambral, says:—The enemy seems to be forcing a decisive light in open country. In the battle the Germans ...
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Advertising : 221 wordsField Marshall Sir Douglass Haig reports regarding aviation that our aircraft yesterday dropped 118 bombs on an aerodrome northward of Douai village, and a machine ...
Article : 246 wordsBritish Admiralty Intercepts, collected by the Wireless Press. A wireless Russian official report states that the Armistice Conference opened on ...
Article : 344 wordsA high British military authority, in the course of a weekly review, said: There is little doubt that Ludendorff himself planned and superintended the recent counter attack, ...
Article : 174 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" Petrograd correspondent states that General Dukhonin entered a train for Petrograd, when he was surrounded by a band of sailors, who killed ...
Article : 134 wordsAn official report states that 25 enemy aeroplanes took part in a raid on England early this morning. The first group appeared at 1.30 a.m. ...
Article : 275 wordsMr. Perry Robinon ("Times") states that forty British prisoners caged across the canal swam back, arriving covered with ice, but otherwise happy. ...
Article : 51 wordsReuter's correspondent at British head-quarters this afternoon describing the great German counter attacks states that as the first wave melted the succeeding one replaced ...
Article : 176 wordsFrontier reports state that there are heavy concentrations of German troops in Flanders. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe case in which J. H. Catts, M.H.R., is charged with having made verbal statements likely to prejudice his Majesty's relations with foreign Powers was before the ...
Article : 66 wordsIn Petrograd a letter has been published from M. Kerensky, addressed to Revolutionaries, in which he states that they are being deceived. "The position," he says, "is ...
Article : 62 wordsReuter's correspondent at British head quarters in France reports that German priosnors state that all leave on the West front has been stopped, and that the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Press Bureau states that there is no truth whatever in the shameful Austrian official statement that the Commander-in-Chief of the Russo-Roumanian troops made ...
Article : 38 wordsThe ingenious report of the Bolsheviks is humorously commented upon by the Press, which regards it diplomatically as a unique affair, showing the one-eyed militaries ...
Article : 125 wordsWalter Maister pleaded guilty at the Sydney Sessions to having uttered counterfelt coin at Bateman's Bay. He was bound over to come up for sentence if ...
Article : 82 wordsFrench shipping returns indicate arrivals, 839: departures, 816. Two vessels of over 1600 tons and two under that tonnage were sunk and two were unsuccessfully attacked. ...
Article : 59 wordsA French communique reports intermittent artillery at Craonne and Moron Villieres, and violent on the Besumont and Bois de Fosse front. ...
Article : 38 wordsBritish Admiralty Intercepts, collected by Wireless). A wireless Roumanian official report states that our artillery prevented an enemy ...
Article : 34 wordsA verdict returned by a Jury in favour of plaintiff in an action brought by H. Joseph against the State Treasurer was set aside to-day by the Full COurt and entered ...
Article : 199 wordsTh? Elder, Dempster liner Apapa (7832 tons), which was sunk in British waters, had 160 passengers. Thirty-eight passengers and thirty-nine ...
Article : 62 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that our naval aircraft yesterday dropped many bombs on the Sparappelhock aerodrome and on a train leaving Engledump. Numerous ...
Article : 54 wordsA German auxiliary cruiser believed to be the Bothnia struck a mine in the Southern Sound and sank in a few minutes. It is reported that lives were lost. ...
Article : 39 wordsA semi-official report emphasises the splendid Italian resistance in the mountain fighting on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Austrians lost 50 per cent. of their effectives. ...
Article : 301 wordsThe Bolsheviks have drafted a law abolishing church marriages, substituting civil ceremonies, conferring equal rights on legitimates and illegitimates, providing for easy ...
Article : 103 words"Jack Spur's" tips for to-morrow's meeting at Rosehills are:— Hurdles.—Stokham, Sanguine, Lochnell. Clyde Stakes.—Sweet Cora, Some Boy, ...
Article : 171 wordsFour thousand Canadian soldiers have been enrolled for classes in educational subjects, including agriculture, business, English, modern languages and classics, to be held in English ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) will deliver an important declaration on the Allies' win aims and peace terms and reply to Lord Lansdowne at Gray's Inn to-day. ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, Annic Clifton was charged with having murdered her husband, charles Clifton at Paddington. ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Bourchier ("Times" correspondent at Petrograd), says that M. Trotsky, replying to a statement that negotiations were ordered nineteen hours before the ambassadors were ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. Walter Long, in presenting a motor car salver to Lady Moore with diamond pendant on behalf of her United Kingdom friends, welcomed Sir Newton Moore's ...
Article : 100 wordsCompulsory rationing has been instituted as follows: 3[?] ounces of macaroni and 2 1-3 ounces of rice on alternate days, with eight ounces of bread for the sedentary workers ...
Article : 42 wordsThe thousands of men on furlough make an official Christmas dinner impractionble, but there will be a massed Australian celebration in the Albert Hall on January 1. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Easton, of the British-Australian Immigration League, has received numerous letters from officers testifying to the soldiers' interest in the settlement scheme ...
Article : 92 wordsThe weather information received at 9 a.m. to-day at the West Maitland Telegraph Station reported the following rainfall:—Cassllis 10 points, Muswellbrook 9, Quirindi ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the inquest on the Canadian soldier, the three accused were committed for trial. Such of the cable news on this page so headed has appeared in the "Times," and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 wordsM. Clemenceau has informed a journalist that General Weygand replaces General [?] on the Allied War Council, as M. Clemenceau desires to retain General Hoch in ...
Article : 37 wordsNew South Wales.—Cloudy to showery on parts of the coast; passing thunderstorms; sultry in the north-east quarter; fine and cool elsewhere. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Times" Paris correspondent states that it is reported that General T[?] accepted the armistice, being unable to resist the army's infection of anarchy. ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Fri 7 Dec 1917, Page 5
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