Definite information was gleaned from Mr. Holman this morning regarding the election. There will be a short campaign. A proclamation dissolving Parliament will be ...
Article : 977 wordsThe cabled extract from an article in "L'Illustration," published this morning, supplies some interesting details of the work of hunting submarines. It does not, however, ...
Article : 258 wordsUnofficial reports from Brazil state that a British cruiser chased three raiders and sank one. The report of the naval engagement off ...
Article : 222 wordsThe "New York World's" Berlin correspondent says that during his visit to Vienna, the German Emperor was interviewed by the playwright, Hans Mueller, ...
Article : 268 wordsM. Raymond Lestonnat, writing in "L'Illustration," states:—The British have captured an important number of small submarines in their nets, which are of two ...
Article : 599 wordsFrench correspondents who interviewed General Sir Henry Rawlinson asked "Will the Germans anticipate the Allies in the next offensive?" ...
Article : 352 wordsThe United States formal protest against the detention of the American sailors from the captured steamer Yarrowdale, to be sent through the Spanish ...
Article : 378 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs states that the British raids are ever going on, and the guns are hammering all along the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe steamer Engadine, referred to by the chairman of the South Eastern Railway Company in one of the cable messages published this morning, played quite a prominent part in ...
Article : 422 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening, a lively incident arose when Mr. R. D. Holt entered a protest against the Admiralty refusing to issue secret instructions to a ...
Article : 276 wordsA Russian official message says:—The enemy attacked south-east of Zlotchev, and a battle is proceeding. A German communique states:—We ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the House of Lords Lord Curzon, replying to criticism as to the multiplication of office buildings and officials, pleaded the immensity and intensity of war needs. ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, writing in the "Daily Chronicle," says that a thaw has set in, the landscape revealing the first signs of spring. Cold ...
Article : 185 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Berlin, who is now at Berne, says the Germans are staking their all on the assumption that the submarines are able to ...
Article : 191 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting late on Thursday, stated: We carried [?]t a successful raid north-east of Gueude[?]rt. Enemy raiding parties north of Loos ...
Article : 221 wordsAccording to one of to-day's cablegrams, the experiment of placing boy scouts on board passenger ships is to be extended, because of their usefulness on the hospital ship Britannic, ...
Article : 289 wordsArrangements have been made to accommodate the members of the Overseas' Conferences at the Savoy Hotel. The first meetings are to be held at the end of March. ...
Article : 34 wordsAnother French loan is expected shortly. ...
Article : 13 wordsAt a meeting of Covent Garden retailers it was decided to refuse to sell potatoes on Monday, unless the wholesale price was fixed at £10/10/ per ton. The meeting complained ...
Article : 66 wordsThe experiment of placing boy scouts aboard passenger ships is extending because of their usefulness on the Britannic. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Chinese Minister, in the course of an interview with "Le Journal," says that China's Note to Germany faithfully represents Chinese sentiment, which ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that Mr. Walter Long (Secretary of State for the Colonies) has appointed a committee ot 25 members, to report on measures for settling within the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe State Department has received confirmation of the report that Mr. Brand Whitlock was compelled to lower the American flag at the Brussels Legation, ...
Article : 40 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 : 286 wordsAt the wool sales every lot of scoured crossbreds and slipes was withdrawn, under Government instructions. The remainder of the catalogue, comprising speculators' wools, ...
Article : 60 wordsEvery seat at three long tables was occupied at the citizens' luncheon tendered to Mr. Holman and the visiting Ministers and Parliamentarians to-day. The Mayor, Alderman ...
Article : 1,186 wordsA French communique concerning the fighting on the Salonica front says: An Italian counter-attack on Hill 10[?]0, east of Paralovo, recaptured the whole of the ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. H. A. L. Fisher (President of the Board of Education), replying to a trade union deputation, which submitted resolutions on education reform, said that if they were carried out ...
Article : 130 wordsAlthough several raids have taken place at various points north of the Pripet Marshes since the recent Russian offensive and counter-offensive near Riga, later activities ...
Article : 422 wordsGeneral Smuts had a most enthusiastic reception at the City Hall, which was crowded, the gathering including the Governor and members of the Cabinet. ...
Article : 138 wordsLondon made a splendid final effort to awaken laggards to a sense of duty in regard to the war loan. All the newspapers devoted much spare to the subject Public ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Government is considering the question of calling out the militia under the compulsory provisions of the Militia Act, in order to guard the American border. This ...
Article : 64 wordsLord Peel's committee, regarding the bringing of neutral vessels to British ports for search, reports thaf it has not received any complaints regarding delay ...
Article : 116 wordsThe agitation of the Russian Nobles for the creation of a Government possessing the country's confidence is unabated. Nearly all the annual assemblies of Nobles have passed ...
Article : 101 wordsThe "Westminster Gazette" recently published an appeal asking Londoners to extend hospitality to Australian soldiers on leave. A generous response has been made. During ...
Article : 59 wordsWork on the railways and in factories has been curtailed owing to the shortage of coal. The authorities are closing the ...
Article : 49 wordsBrigadier-General E. G. Sinclair Maclagan, D.S.O., commanding the Third Infantry Brigade, has been made a Companion of the Bath. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Bonar Law stated in the House of Commons that the Government had thoroughly investigated the French Parliamentary Committee system as a means of conveying ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Central News Agency reports that the Government proposes to institute further railway restrictions in order to facilitate the handling of increased naval and military ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is stated that in order to meet the interest on war loans Germany intends to levy new taxes to produce £60,000,000, including a coal tax and traffic tax. In ...
Article : 52 wordsThe report of the Dardanelles Commission will probably be completed within [?] month. The "Times" states that the interim ...
Article : 41 wordsIn accordance with the French Government's decision, morning newspapers in Paris are to constat of only two pages on two flays in the week. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the Minister for Munitions announces that a small fire occurred on Wednesday in a fac[?]ory, [?]n Hertfordshire. Two workmen ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law announced the receipt from Lord Balfour of Burleigh's committee of a resolution which concerned the Paris Economic Conference, and ...
Article : 43 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Froude Flashman died on active service from pneumonia on the 12th instant. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 17 Feb 1917, Page 13
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