The Federal Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) presided over a compulsory conference of representatives of the partied concerned in the coal strike, called under ...
Article : 1,668 wordsThe battle on Monday and Tuesday north and south of the Anere was fie[?]ly contested at some points, but General Haig reports that our losses were not excessive. That the enemy had not much fight in them at the finish is shown by the fact that after Beaucourt had been taken them was neither bombardment nor counter-atteck to disturb the British. General Haig statos that on Wednesday a further advance was made north of the Anere, and ...
Article : 473 wordsIn the House of Lords this afternoon Lord Sydenham, formerly Governor of Victoria, asked the Government for a definite declaration of policy on behalf ...
Article : 318 wordsIn an address on the "Stability of Great Britain," delivered to the members of the Royal Society of Arts today, Dr. Dugald Clerk, the well-known ...
Article : 377 wordsThe coal si[?]ation has become grave. Already the City Council has decided to notify users of electric energy that such service can no longer be continued, and ...
Article : 228 wordsThe 109th Prussian division from Dvinsk has been identified on the Jiul front. ...
Article : 22 wordsTo-day's communiue states:— We have made progress on our whole front in Dobrudja, and have occupied the village of Boas-Htchik, on ...
Article : 39 wordsA wireless message received in London from Bucharest, the Roumanian capital, states that two companies of Serbian volunteers, all magnificent men, ...
Article : 58 wordsOwing to the coal strike the streels of South Brisbane are in darkness to-night. The South Brisbane Gas Company is doing everything possible to provide gas ...
Article : 349 wordsTo-day's communique from Salonika says:— After a brief lull fierc[?] fighting has been resumed in the Cerna ...
Article : 132 wordsReplying in the House of Commons yesterday to Sir Henry Dalziel, Liberal member for Kirkealdy Burghs, Mr. T. J. Macnamara, the Secretary to the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Saxon Government has decided that girls who were engaged to soldiers killed in action shall be allowed the title of fran if it is proved that they ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Board of Trade "Labour Gazette" states that the average retail food prices on November 1 were 5 per cent. higher than a month earlier, including ...
Article : 71 wordsLieutenant J. H. Macgnire, of the Commonwealth Military Forces, has been cashiered. ...
Article : 21 wordsLloyd's reports that the British steamer Sarah Radeliffe (3,333 tons), and the Danish steamer Ragnor (2,123 tons) have been torpedoed and sunk by ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— We have advanced to the northern spur of St. Peirre Vaust Wood (northeast of Rancourt) after a most ...
Article : 171 wordsTo-day's report from General Haig says:— The ground won yesterday north of the Anere was secured last night. ...
Article : 181 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, the Liberal member for Hanley, asked Mr. Bonar Law, the Secretary of State for ...
Article : 85 wordsThe War Office has received the folowing despatch from Salonika:— We shelled and dispersed a body of the enemy who were concentrating on ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, the Seeretary of State for India, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that he was in communication with ...
Article : 55 wordsOwing to the shortage of coal, and the refusal of the minens to handle the itocks at grass, which are required for transports the Minister of the Navy ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times," in a message sent by wireless telegraphy, states that in an interview with Herr Zimmerman, the ...
Article : 115 wordsA Russian communique published today says:— We hhave driven the enemy from the trenches they occupied at the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "New York Times," in an editorial on the reply forwarded to the American Government by Lord Groy. the British Foreign Secretary, in the ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the House of Lords heard to-day counsel for the appellants in the appeal from the decision of the New South Wales Prize ...
Article : 77 wordsThe continuance of the coal striko is having a sericus effect upon Launceston. Yesterday the Marine Board's dredging plant, the use of which is ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Paris nowspaper "Liberte" says that the battle for Beaument-Hamel will go down in history as one of the bloodiest of the war. The Germans ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Amsterdam newspaper "De Tijd" states that all German citizens will be mobilised for army and factory work in December, and that the preparations ...
Article : 302 wordsTo-day's French comniunique says:— The Germans have strongly counter-attacked the positions captured by us on November 7 from the sugar ...
Article : 191 wordsThere is much semi-official comment in Washington over the renewal of German submarine activity. The subject has been discussed by Dr. Wilson, the ...
Article : 57 wordsTo-day's Italian official message says: We have driven back five determined attacks on our salient at San Marco (two miles east of Gorz), with ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Percival Gibbon, the war correspondent, telegraphing on Tuesday, says:— The attackers north of the Anere, in ...
Article : 599 wordsAs a reprisal for the enforced sale by the British Government of enemy property in Nigeria the German Government has put up for sale he palace of ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. W. A. S. Hewins, the Unionist member for Hereford, moved in the House of Commons this afternoon that it was the duty of the Government to ...
Article : 808 wordsA New York correspondent in France states that during the fighting on the Anere 500 Germans surrendered in a tunnel 1½ miles long, which connected ...
Article : 55 wordsIn retaliation on the Germans for the ill-treatment of captured Russian officers, General Polivaneff, the Minister of War, has ordered all interned ...
Article : 91 wordsTo-day's communique says:— Our aircraft have successfully bombed the floating hangars at Proseeco (six miles north-north-west of ...
Article : 35 wordsA German communique published today says:—Yesterday there took place a great battle on the Anere, equal to that of Monday. The English ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsNinety persons were killed during the Austrian air raid on Padua. ...
Article : 20 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique says:— We are pursuing the enemy beyond the frontier in the Slanic and Oitoz ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Russian Duma resumed its sittings yesterday. The speeches delivered in both ...
Article : 177 wordsIt is officially announced that yesterday another aeroplano attack was made by the British on the Turkish camp at Bir-el-Magdhaba, to the south of El ...
Article : 85 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that yesterday morning squadrons of naval aeroplanes and soaplanes heavily bombarded the harbours and submarine ...
Article : 91 wordsArising out of the suppression of the peace meeting at Cardiff on Saturday last, when Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, the Labour member for Leicester, and Mr. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 17 Nov 1916, Page 5
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