Mr. Ransome ("Daily News" correspondent at Petrograd) states that before he went to Finland M. Lenin (Rusian Premier) stated that he feared he would be compelled to ...
Article : 245 wordsThe "Times" Amsterdam correspondent attaches importance to the announcement that Count von Hertling is to address the Main Committee of the Reichstag on ...
Article : 206 wordsHindenburg's eastern offensive plans are now the leading issue in the political tattle raging behind the scenes in Germany. Military men attach the greatest Importance to the stoppage of Bolshevik ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Superior Council of National Property has drafted a decree cancelling all national loans issued by the Imperial and Bourgeois Governments and all domestic loans of ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Odessa correspondent, of the "Times" reports that the horrors of Kronstadt have been re-enacted at Sebastopol, where there has been a two-days' butchery of naval ...
Article : 177 wordsA Toronto cable from Petrograd to the "Mail" ahd "Empire" says that amid the jeers of the once patriotic parties the Bolsheviks are preparing for war in their own ...
Article : 92 wordsEnsign Krylenko has issued a manifesto, in reply to the German peace conditions, stating that peace is endangered "The Germans," he says, "definitely ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Australian Flying Corps has achieved its cherished ambition, and has its own aerodrome in the Midlands, where the principal training will henceforth be caried out ...
Article : 214 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Stockholm correspondent statis that Sir George Buchanan, recently British Ambassador at Petrograd, has arrived at Stockholm. On being ...
Article : 85 wordsField Marshall Sir Douglas Haig reports: "We repulsed an attempted raid cast of Monday. Our aeroplanes on Saturday bombed enemy ...
Article : 74 wordsAs the crisis of the war approaches, the German military leaders show intense and increasing anxiety to keep the people spoonfed. Censored information is often ...
Article : 138 wordsThe "Times" points out that Ensign Krylenko's passionate appeal seems to supply the missing Russian answer to the dramatic turn of events. Baron Kuehlmann's point-blank ...
Article : 116 wordsThe "Daily News" Petrograd correspondent states that the Turks have broken the armistice, and have landed 20,000 troops between Trebizohde Rize. ...
Article : 34 wordsOver 500 election returns for the Constituent. Assembly have, been received. The elected representatives include 261 Social Democrats and 158 Maximalists. The Russian Central Executive of the ...
Article : 123 words"Field Marshal Sir Doughs Haig reports.—We repulsed a raid southward of Armentieres, and dispersed working parties south-eastward of Monchy-le-Preux. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Times" Rome correspondent states that President Wilson's address was road at the Vatican with pleasure and almost jubilation. The Pope realised the justice of ...
Article : 77 words"Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that a Brest-Litovsk telegram, via Berlin, states that at the plenary sitting on the 12th of January, General Hoffmann, ...
Article : 146 wordsA French communique reports that in the region of St. Quentin, the artillery duel was intense. ...
Article : 21 wordsA new public meals order will shortly be issued prohibiting meat, poultry, and game for breakfast in hotels, restaurants, and clubs, and totally abolishing the sale of ...
Article : 273 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent on Saturday wired:—Leaders of the Cossacks in the Don are disagreeing M. Kaledin is supported my a majority of the troops and the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that yesterday at noon our aircraft "bombed a dump at Engel. Bursts were observed among the sheds, a direct hit and a cloud of smoke ...
Article : 41 wordsPresident Wilson's proposition for the freedom of the seas is provoking questions and unfavourable comment. Lord Sydenham states that the idea would ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Berlin press says that an important conference between the High Command and the politicians was inaugurated on Saturday, when the Kaiser received the Crown ...
Article : 159 wordsA French communique states: Between, the 1st of January and the 10th of January we brought down 15 enemy aeroplanes, and destroyed twelve others most probably, ...
Article : 46 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent, telegraphing on Saturday, stated:—At Brest-Litovsk, M. Trotsky said the Russians desired to continue the peace negotiations, ...
Article : 96 wordsReuter's Stockholm correspondent on Sunday telegraphed that the Red Guards terrorising Finland, and threaten to dissolve the Diet and to create a "Red Diet." ...
Article : 34 wordsA disastrous colliery explosion occurred at Halmerend in Staffordshire. Many are entombed and some dead have been brought to the surface. ...
Article : 168 wordsAn official report from East Africa states that the small exhausted German force is short of food and ammunition. It has moved up the Lugenda Valley into Portuguese ...
Article : 83 wordsA Maximalist News Agency statement shows that the decree of the executive of the Soldel, mentioned by wireless, is intended, to bring about the recall or ...
Article : 73 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent says that M. TrotsKy and Dr. Kuehlmann have agreed that the Ukraine should act as an independent Republic at the peace ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Petrograd, giving the Russian, delegates' version of recent events at the Brest Litovsk conference, states that the Russians announced that they ...
Article : 197 wordsA British-Italian official message states:—Our aeroplanes attacked seven Hostile p.a chines, destroying two and driving down two. Our losses were nil. It is freezing hard. ...
Article : 38 wordsAlthough the Bolsheviks apparently have not replied to Dr. Kuelhmann and Count Czernin's latest proposals those well-informed are inclined to the opinion that the ...
Article : 38 wordsA despatch from Rostoffdon reports that the station of Debaltzovo on the Ekaterinoslav railway, three times changed hands on Thursday night. The Cossacks learning ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Clyde district committees of societies affiliated with the engineering and shipbuilding federations conferred at Glasgow yesterday. They resolved to demand that ...
Article : 143 wordsCamouflage and bluff tire covering Trotsky"s and the Centralists' negotiations and prevents a clear conception of events. The London "Observer" frankly states that ...
Article : 166 wordsAn Italian official message states:—Artillerying was active on the Asiago Plateau eastward of the Piave at Vecchia. The British batteries made ninny direct hits on ...
Article : 46 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent reports that the Chamber of Deputies by 397 votes to 145 passed a vote of confidence in tge Government following on the debate on the ...
Article : 212 wordsThe "Times" Amsterdam correspondent states that Berlin claims to have been informed by wireless that 1,700 German and 9,600 black and trained troops have penetrated ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Fatherland party is spreading in Austria. Numerous meeting have adopted resolutions urging Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, to arrange for a ...
Article : 71 wordsIn his speech at the American luncheon Mr. Winston Churchill, Minister of Munitions, said that the reception of Mr. Lloyd George and Dr. Wilson's speeches showed ...
Article : 109 wordsAn S.O.S. message has been received from the tank steamer Texan, which has been lost. The crow abandoned her after a collision. A message from Washington announces ...
Article : 59 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that at the plenary sitting at Brest-Litovsk on January 10, Herr Kuhimann reviewed the whole course of negotiations. He said that ...
Article : 306 wordsM. Litvinoff is conducting the business of Russian Plenipotentiary from his home a small maisonette at West Hampstead. He is assisted by his wife. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the destroyer Racoon, was wrecked and foundered on January 9, during a show storm off the north coast of Ireland. There were no survivors. ...
Article : 77 wordsReter's Petrograd correspondent reports hunger and rioting at Kolomna. The Govenment or Moscow has demanded the disarming of the Red Guards and the handing ...
Article : 128 wordsThe latest bate sentence recordes by the German press is that passed on two British prisoners employed in a starch factory, who threw stones into a crushing machine. They ...
Article : 44 wordsA bandit this morning killed four officers of the Army Bank at Camp Funston, and escaped past the sentries with £1000 worth of booty. The robber was dressed in a captain's ...
Article : 41 wordsLiving conditions in Petrograd are growing daily more dismal. Fuel is exhausted, and the city has been left in darkness. The thermometer, registers 20 degrees below zero. ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 19 Jan 1918, Page 2
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