"Probably within a week or ten days we shall announce the dissolution of Parliament, and call upon you to return us stamped with the record of ...
Article : 747 wordsIn the House of Commons Sir George Cave (Home Secretary) answering suggestions regarding pronibition, said that if it became necessary in order to carry on the war to ask ...
Article : 492 wordsNewspapers in England and France are giving prominence to Sir Douglas Haig's interview with French journalists accredited by British headquarters. It was ...
Article : 225 wordsSir Douglas Haig expresses the utmost confidence that the Allies will be completely successful in the coming ...
Article : 162 wordsThe following s[?]kings are reported:— The British steamer F. D. Lambert, 2195 tons, the Spanish steamer Josef Araich, 2654 tons, and the American schooner ...
Article : 467 wordsAmsterdam advices report that an official message from Berlin says that Germany, through Switzerland, expresses every rendlncss to negotiate on condition that ...
Article : 245 wordsA semi-official message from Paris says that French war correspondents who interviewed Sir Douglas Haig asked him whether a grent offensive was imminent. ...
Article : 455 wordsCount von Bernstorff arrived at Hoboken and boarded the Frederick VIII. He posed for motion pictures, but declined to see reporters. The most stringent police ...
Article : 187 wordsLord Peel's committee regarding the bringing of neutral vessels to British ports for search,, reports that it lins not received any complaints regarding delay ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Ackermnn, of the United Press Association who has arrived from Berne, reports that the Germans in Belgium compelled Mr. Brand Whitlock (American ...
Article : 83 wordsThe situntiou is steadily becoming more acute. President Wilson may consult Congress on the question of arming ships. The growing irritation in the Press at the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Copenhagen newspaper, "National Tidende," on the authority of a high official at the Vatican, states that the Pope is preparing a Note to neutral State, with ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following vessels have been torpedoed:—Inishowen Head, 3050 tons; the barque Eudora, 1991 tons; and the C[?] cla, 3750 tons. ...
Article : 44 wordsA German semi-official report states that if the American ships Rochester, Orleans, or St. Louis are encountered in a prohibited zone they will he sunk without mercy. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that an American who has just' left Germany after a residence there during the period of the war, states that, in ...
Article : 231 wordsA French communique concerning the fighting in "Macedonia says: Following a most violent bombardment on the 12th inst. important German forces attacked ...
Article : 101 wordsThe American Consul in Home states that an Austrian submarine sank the Lymann M. Law. This increases the tension between Austria and the United States, ...
Article : 97 wordsThough General Maude's reports do not mention a direct attack at Kut-elAmara, it is evident the Turkish forces are hemmed in in the Dahra Bend, ...
Article : 161 wordsVienna newspapers announce that the first 80 waggon loads of Roumanian grain has arrived in Hungary. The Government announces that it is impossible to ...
Article : 136 wordsThe State Department has been informed that the American schooner Lyman M. Law, 1300 tons, carrying an American crew of nine, was sunk in the ...
Article : 198 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas H[?]g reports: [?]e captured a strong point south-enst[?] of Grandcourt, and some prisoners. We penetrated 250 yards of defences ...
Article : 342 wordsMr. Holman, who was cordially received, spoke of his presence as a mission for the future. He hoped to give a clear exposition. of the policy agreed upon by the National ...
Article : 4,149 wordsIt is stated Unit in order to meet the interest on war loans new-taxes will be levied to produce £60,000,000, including a coal tax and traflic tax. In addition, ...
Article : 46 wordsA communique states:—At 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon an enemy submarine fired six shots on the coast near the mouth of the Adour (Bay of Biscay). Our ...
Article : 53 wordsThe report of the committee appointed by the Labour Council to deal with the unemployment problem was considered at last night's meeting of the council. ...
Article : 379 wordsThe "Gazette" announces a number of decorations and medals which have been awarded by the Allies to Australians and New Zealanders for distinguished services ...
Article : 297 wordsThe arrest of members of the Munitions Committee is attributed to M. Protopopoff (Minister for the Interior), who had already announced his belief that all ...
Article : 151 wordsA. Russian official message states:— The Germans, after a bombardment with chemical shells, penetrated our trenches south of Drisvlat Lake, but were driven ...
Article : 134 wordsA publicity campaign on behalf of the war loan, and also wide country appeals to small investors, are producing excellent eleventhhour results. The contributions to-day were ...
Article : 194 wordsMr. Will Thorne has given notice of motion in the House of Commons drawing the attention of the Government to the projected extensive post-war operations ...
Article : 160 wordsAddressing a meeting in London yesterday, Lord Derby (Secretary for War) said that there were many anxious months before us, but he was not pessimistic. He ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Admiralty report that aeroplanes dropped a number of heavy bombs on the shipping in Bruges Harbour on Thursday., Large fires were observed. A ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Kherson Municipality has leased the island of Carantine to a Russo-British association for important factories, dockyards, shipbuilding works, harbour works, huge elevators ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. T. H. Henderson, hon. superintendent of the Randwick division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, states that on the 12th inst. a letter in the following terms was sent ...
Article : 252 wordsLieutenant J. B. Partington, of the Devon Regiment, was killed on February 2. He was one of the officers who went to Australia in 1915 with the guard escorting some ...
Article : 39 wordsIt has been discovered Bucharest that General Socecu, the [?]anian officer was condemned by court-martial at Jassy to five years' penal servitude for ...
Article : 36 wordsLord Balfour's committee on trade policy after the war has submitted an interim report to the Government. It is understood the committee is unanimous in ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. W. F. Massey (New Zealand Prime Minister) opened a temperance club at Poplar, financed by an anonymous benefactor in memory of the East-Enders defending the Empire ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Germany realises that the whole Lumanitarian world is against submnr[?]ngs. Dr. Von ...
Article : 150 wordsThe proposal to license women taxi-cab drivers has aroused strong resentment among men drivers, though the proprietors of taxi cabs welcome the proposal. ...
Article : 50 wordsNotices have been posted calling [?] youths of 19 and 20 in [?] classes, which will give Russia 1,000,000 more effectives in a few months. ...
Article : 14 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Balfour (Foreign Secretary) said that as far as was ascertainable all the Veniszelist prisoners in Athens had been released. ...
Article : 33 wordsBrisbane Y.M.C.A. National appeal, in which £21,000 was asked for, has met with a very generous response, £23,563 being already subscribed, in addition to amounts that have still ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Department of Food Control explains that under voluntary rationing guests must share their hosts' allowances, with the exception of soldiers, who should not be stinted. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 16 Feb 1917, Page 7
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