President Wilson has made a speech, in which he says that a lasting peace can be only a peace without victory, an impossible condition. When war has once begun, there is never a moment at which the balance between the opposing sides is even. In this war the balance has oscillated in the most remarkable way, except on the British front. There, since December, 1914, the British have never lost permanently a yard of ground, and have gained a ...
Article : 258 wordsThe following official message from East Africa has been received by the War Office:- Considerable progress has been ...
Article : 136 wordsThe trial has concluded in Vienna of Dr. Kramarz and other Czech leaders, who have all been sentenced to various terms of penal servitude. The trial ...
Article : 117 wordsAnnouncement is made in the advertising columns of the Federal Government's intention to send further men to England with the view of assisting in ...
Article : 42 wordsNo developments in connection with the Federal political situation are expected until shortly before Parliament meets early next month. No date has ...
Article : 1,098 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for India, has selected Lord Mostyn, Sir Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, members of the Viceroy's ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the German newspapers are hysterically jubilant over the successes of the raider in ...
Article : 243 wordsThe trial commenced to-day of William Burns, the famous detective, who successfully investigated the dynamite outrages in San Francisco some years ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Cabinet has instructed Lord Derby, the Secretary of State for War, to call up all [?]ds on attaining the age of 18 years and train and employ them ...
Article : 75 wordsDr. Addison, the Minister for Munitions, addressed a meeting at the Mansion House to-day, and in his speech referred to the great disaster which had ...
Article : 1,535 wordsTo-day's report from Field-Marshal Haig says:- We to-day took a number of prisoners in an engagement in the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "New York World" states that the Jews will probably be given complete civil liberties in Russia before the ...
Article : 41 wordsAt San Francisco to-day Herr Bopp, the German Consul, Baron Brinken, the Military Attache; and others were sentenced to two years' imprisonment and ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Kaiser has decorated Field-Marshal Von Hindenburg and Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, with a new cross, for national ...
Article : 58 wordsA new and authoritative version of the heroism of[?] Marcelle Semm[?]rs, in August, 1914, was given at the Paris Sorbonne to-day. Semmer was then ...
Article : 180 wordsField-Marshal Haig reports to-day as follows:- Raids attempted by the enemy north of Arras and north-eastward of ...
Article : 86 wordsDriver William Richard Campbell, of the Australian Artillery, was arrested in York yesterday as an absentee. He arrived in York with a party of ...
Article : 143 wordsLloyd's states that the following vessels were reported yesterday as having been either mined or torpedoed and sunk by German submarines: ...
Article : 88 wordsFollowing England's example, Germany has prepared cin[?]matograph films of the fighting in the Somme. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Hoover, who has been the chief organiser of relief for the Belgians, has arrived in New York on a visit. He says he requires £40,000,000 for Belgian ...
Article : 65 wordsTo-day's French communique states: After a violent bombardment the Germans yesterday attacked north of Caurieres Wood (north of Verdun). ...
Article : 57 wordsIn Paris yesterday a football team from members of the Lutetia Sports Club defeated an Anzac team by three tries to nil. ...
Article : 30 wordsOfficials at Washington express the opinion that Germany is seeking a loop-hole for breaking her pledge not to sink merchant vessels without warning ...
Article : 73 wordsIn connection with the advertisement appearing in "The Mercury" on Friday calling for applications from lodging-house proprietors desirous of ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. G. Sutherland Thomson has proposed to the High Commissioners of Australia and the Agents-General of the States that a certain number of ...
Article : 73 wordsTo[?]night's French communique says: A very violent artillery engagement is proceeding on the right bank of the Mouse, more particularly at ...
Article : 44 wordsA Russian official wireless message intercepted by the British Admiralty says:- Our submarines have sunk a ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) has received a report from the secretary of Austra[?]an Prisoners of War and Australian Red Cross ...
Article : 210 wordsTo-night's French communique says: A heavy bombardment is proceeding in the V[?]sges, in the region of Chapelotte. ...
Article : 33 wordsEcclesiastical circles in Rome affirm that the Pope has expressed strong disapprobation of the atrocities committed by Germany and Austria. ...
Article : 58 wordsDr. Wilson, the President of the United States, addressed the Senate today on the question of peace. In has speech he advocated the formation of ...
Article : 1,244 wordsA Russian official wireless message intercepted by the British Admiralty says:- Enemy attempts to advance in the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe French Government is introducing regulations for the lowering of the prices of sugar and butter, and restricting meals in restaurants to two ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," in a message to-day, says:—The political situation here is full of dramatic interest, but there ...
Article : 423 wordsAn official Russian wireless message intercepted by the British' Admiralty states:- The enemy to-day took the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe War Office has received the following official message from Mesopotamia:- Our aeroplanes have dropped six ...
Article : 51 wordsEarly this morning a soldier named Arthur Patrick Murray died in the Sydney Hospital from the effects of a fractured skull. The deceased had been ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Russian Government has established 115 savings banks on the various frontiers in order to encourage soldiers to subscribe to the new war loan. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn incident probably unparalleled in the history of the British Army took place on the Review Ground, Moore-park, at an inspection of ...
Article : 119 wordsAn Austrian official wireless message intercepted by the British Admiralty says:—We have raided the enemy's trenches to the eastward of Nielniva, ...
Article : 41 wordsThe White Star Line Shipping Co. has subscribed £2,000,000 to the war loan. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 24 Jan 1917, Page 5
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