Fighting is reported at various places, including Rostoff, where General Kaledin is opposing the Maximalists, who are said to be supported by a detachment from the Black ...
Article : 89 wordsField Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:— Accounts of yesterday's fighting show that the enemy after heavy preparation attacked from the north of our positions on the ...
Article : 151 wordsIn the House of Commons, Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that since the Admiralty Controller was appointed in June the output of ships ...
Article : 512 wordsMr. Murdoch, war correspondent at Britiish headquarters, under date Dec. 11, telegraphs:—"I spent two days living with the men in the trenches, and can testify that ...
Article : 1,001 wordsThe "Times" Copenhagen correspondent states that news from Russia indicates that the days of the Bolsheviks are numbered, as their opponents ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Perry Robinson, "The Times" correspondent on the west front, states that the infantry only attacked portion of the front bombarded, covering 1500 yards, east of ...
Article : 90 wordsDuring the last week various statements have been made in Petrograd newspapers that the Lenin Government intends to repudiate the State debts. This story was ...
Article : 46 wordsA message from Washington states that the United States Consul at Vladivostock cables to the State Department reporting rioting, but denying the presence of Japanese troops ...
Article : 80 wordsA French communique reports violent artiliery fictions in the regions of Maison de Champagne and east of Suippes in Alsace. ...
Article : 28 words"Unquestionably the result of the German attack (says General Maurice, in his weekly review of the war) was a great disappointment to England. It was the first reverse ...
Article : 107 wordsEnsign Krylenko telegraphs that General Tcheremisoff refused to come to see him at Phkoff, and was removed from his command. The Commissioner of the Fifth ...
Article : 113 wordsAn Italian official report says:—We regained a great part of the trenches in the Col Del Labretta region, which we were unable to reoccupy on Tuesday, and ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Bolshevik News Agency announces that in the event of a majority of the Constituent Assembly not favouring the authority of the Soviet, it is proposed to ...
Article : 106 wordsReports from Zurich state that the determination of the Allies, as voiced by Mr. Asquith and President Wilson and others, is increasingly exasperating the German ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Japanese occupation of Vladivostock is much commented on. The "Echo de Paris" points out how impossible it would be for the numerous Austro-German ...
Article : 98 wordsBritish Admiralty Intercepts, collected by the Wireless Press. LONDON, Thursday night. An Austrian official message makes the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "Morning Post" correspondent at Petrograd says it is untrue that the Bolshevist forces were victorious at Bielgorod. Their attempt to intercept Korniloff proceeding to ...
Article : 142 wordsBritish Admiralty Intercepts, collected by the Wireless Press. A wireless German official report says:—We captured several shelters east of Bullecourt. ...
Article : 58 wordsReuter's correspondent at Italian headquarters telegraphs:—The enemy continues to mass troops and artillery in the Trentino, especially on both sides of the Brenta River. ...
Article : 91 wordsA German official report states that the Russian delegation arrived at Brest Litovsk on Wednesday for continuation of the armistice negotiations. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe German press is full of hints and open threats of the impending decisive blow preparing on the West front. The "Cologne Gazette" says: "Events in ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Chief Rabbi in London has sent a letter to King George on behalf of the Jewish community congratulating tho British army on its victories in the Holy Land. He says ...
Article : 153 wordsKaledin is besieging Rostoff. The Red Guards and Bolsheviks are holding the city and port supported by naval guns. There is heavy fighting near ...
Article : 42 wordsReuter's Rome correspondent gives details of the raid on Trieste, mentioned on December 12, which show that two torpedo boats at night time cut eight chains and removed ...
Article : 87 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Bonar Law (Leader of the House) said that the movements in Mesopotamia and Palestine were by no means ...
Article : 180 wordsReuter's correspondent at Petrograd reports that the Government delegate telegraphs that Maximalist troops occupied Tamarovka and Kalugad, disarmed and arrested ...
Article : 56 wordsReuter's Agency learns from well informed quarters that the Government know for a certainty the German maximum submarine losses, also their maxium output. It is ...
Article : 154 wordsReuter's correspondent at Petrograd states that the Maximalists have forcibly dissolved the Senate. The Red Guard has arrested more ...
Article : 177 wordsField Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:— We successfully attacked a post southward of Sillers Guislain this morning. The garrison was either killed or taken prisoner. ...
Article : 162 wordsA message from Dublin states that the Grand Orange Lodge, in expressing confidence in the Ulster representatives at the Irish Convention, declared that "recent ...
Article : 67 wordsA German official explanation regarding Mr. Balfour's statement in the House of Commons on December 11 says that Germany received a communication through a neutral relating to ...
Article : 115 wordsThe "Times" Amsterdam correspondent states that Countess von Platen was charged at Arnheim with smuggling. Travelling to Germany from Holland her luggage included ...
Article : 100 wordsColonel Repington, the "Times" military expert, says that there are now 150 German divisions on the west front, and 79 on the east, but the latter has been denuded of all ...
Article : 187 wordsMr. Bourchier, the correspondent of the "Times" at Petrograd, states that the Assembly was not opened on December 11, as had been intended. This was fortunate, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsReuter's correspondent at British headquarters in France says that the Bavarian attack east of Bullecourt resulted in bitter fighting all day long. The enemy retained ...
Article : 225 wordsThe joint meeting of the Labour Party executive and the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress has passed a resolution demanding an early statement ...
Article : 110 wordsFor the week ending December 8, French arrivals were 845, sailings 967. One vessel of over 1600 tons was sunk, and none under that tonnage. Three vessels were ...
Article : 34 wordsA message from Vienna states that Czechs are infected with the- Bolshevik propaganda and are bringing in a Bill in the Austrian Lower House to distribute the lands among ...
Article : 37 wordsThe supply of meat at Smithfield market is 1000 tons weekly below that of last year. The Director of Meat Supplies urges fasting and not feasting at Christmas. A meeting ...
Article : 84 wordsA French communique reports that since [?]day nine enemy aeroplanes have been [?]ught down. Our aeroplanes dropped ten thousand kilograms of explosives, especially ...
Article : 76 wordsThe new Cabinet has been constituted. Dr. Paes is Premier, Foreign Minister and War Minister, and Deputy Barboza, Minister for the Colonies. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Red Cross in distributing 50,000 Christmas boxes, of which 20,000 are from Australia. Twenty thousand parcels have been sent to 3000 prisoners. Other distributions ...
Article : 57 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that our [?] aircraft bombed the docks at Bruges Tuesday night. The visibility was bad, of our machines is missing. We downed ...
Article : 47 wordsM. Cailleaux, ex-Premier, in an interview, said he was not afraid of the charges made against him, which were a mere mass of twaddle. ...
Article : 48 wordsReuter's correspondent at British headquarters sends particulars of the determined German attach upon the sector east of Bulle- ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 22 Dec 1917, Page 12
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