The following message has been received from Captain Davis, of the exploring ship Aurora, dated February 5, 1917: ...
Article : 559 wordsMr. Lloyd George[?] the Prime Minister, in concluding his speech to his constituents at Carnarvon on Saturday said: ...
Article : 460 wordsThe 66 American citizens who were amongst the prisoners captured recently by the German raider[?] in the South Atlantic have been released. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe British have again advanced north of the Ancre River, having moved forward from Beaucourt for 500 yards on a half-mile front. They repulsed two counter-attacks. This gain of ground brings the British just north of the Ancre up to the Beaumont-Hamel line, where they have had gains ...
Article : 303 wordsThe German censor has stopped German newspapers entering Holland, also telegrams referring to the effect of America's action. Diplomatic circles ...
Article : 259 wordsFive hundred representatives of Austrian and German societies in New York, with a membership of 100,000, have sent a petition to President ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that Major-General J. G. Legge was being invalided back to Australia, and when again fit ...
Article : 62 wordsA German official statement issued to-day announces an alteration in the blockade of England, allowing neutral vessels to use a channel 20 kilometres ...
Article : 54 wordsThe average American in London has received with quiet satisfaction the news of the break in relations with Germany. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe hearing was commenced to-day, at the Central Court, before Mr. Love, S.M., of the case of Lieut.—David Clayton Howell Price, who was charged with ...
Article : 615 wordsTo-morrow Mr. Britain will introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives asking for a voto of 119,000,000 dollars to complete 113 war vessels now ...
Article : 191 wordsMr. Vandy[?]k, the ex-American Minister at the Hague, interviewed in London to-day, said that he was aware of the recall of Mr. Gerard, the American ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Dutch Government has prohibited all men between the ages of 19 and 48 years to leave Holland if they are liable to b[?]ar arms. ...
Article : 34 wordsKing Gustaf of Sweden and King Christian of Denmark had a conference to-day at the Amalienborg Palace. COPENHAGEN, February 5. ...
Article : 42 wordsA German wireless official message intercepted by the British Admiralty states:—We have repulsed several Russian attacks on the Aa River. ...
Article : 30 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported last night as follows:- We to-day drove off an attack in the neighbourhood of Rancourt (north ...
Article : 91 wordsThe White Star liner Adriatic, 24,541 tons, sailed from New York today for England. She had on board 44 passengers, who gave cheers for ...
Article : 62 wordsExtraordinarily severe weather is being experienced on the Eastern front. Seventy degress of frost have been recorded. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Sailors' and Stevedores' Unions are holding a conference shortly to discuss a proposal to boycott German shipping in Swedish ports in ...
Article : 97 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday on the body of John Cyril Chambers, formerly a Queensland farmer, who was found shot in a bedroom of the ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. H[?]ver, who has been supervising the relief of the Belgians almost since the war started, says the Belgian relief transportation has been ...
Article : 171 wordsMr. Th[?]odore Roosevelt has offered to raise a division of troops if war is doclared against Germany, when he and his four sons will enlist. ...
Article : 36 wordsA Turkish communique asserts that the British, in their attack on the Turkish trenches in the region of Kutel-Amara on Thursday, suffered the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe view is taken by the Minister of the Navy (Mr. Jensen) that the Commonwealth has not the power to deal in shale by-products. A recent telegram ...
Article : 189 wordsSunday's newspapers say they were not surprised at President Wilson's decision. Its promptness is interpreted as meaning that America's amour ...
Article : 111 wordsTo-day's report from Field-Marshal Haig states:- We to-day twice entered the German trenches to the south-eastward ...
Article : 36 wordsSir George Reid, formerly High Commissioner for Australia, in an address this afternoon at His Majesty's Theatre, said:—"What a genius we have ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Danish Government is constantly conferring with commercial and financial leaders with reference to the dangers arising out of the blockade. A ...
Article : 96 wordsA telegram received in Brisbane from Charleville states that 9 inches of rain fell there during the 48 hours which ended at 9 a.m. on Sunday. The ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Paris newspaper "La Liberte" states that artillery activity has now extended to the whole British front. ...
Article : 26 wordsUp to the present, the only German comment on America's action that has been received comes from the Dusseldorf "General Anz[?]iger," which declares ...
Article : 100 wordsA German wireless official message intercepted by the British Admiralty states:—English attacks to-day to the northward of Beaucourt-sur-Ancre broke ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is estimated that there are 10[?]000 German spies in the United States. The Secret Service admits that the Germans have endeavoured to secure plans ...
Article : 57 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Madrid says that though the text of the Spanish reply to Germany has not b[?]en decided on, the reply will ...
Article : 89 wordsA special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" who has recently arrived in New York compares the American temper to that of Great Britain's in ...
Article : 371 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" has been informed that riots recently occurred at Ki[?]l, Lubeck and Munich. The Ger man troops refused to fire on the rioters ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Federal Liberal party, at a meeting held at Parliament[?] House to-day, considered the question of appointing a direct representative of the farmers on ...
Article : 77 wordsIn diplomatic circles here it is stated that there has been a secret conference between the German Imperial Chancellor (Dr. Von Bethma[?]n-Hollwegg) and ...
Article : 153 wordsDr. Ellery Cory Stowell, Professor of Law at Philadelphia University, urges the seizure of all interned Germen liners. ...
Article : 144 wordsLast night's French communique [?]tates:- Our artillery has effectively bombarded German works at various ...
Article : 36 wordsThe German blockade seriously imperils the food supplies of Switzerland, and the exemption of Port Cette, the French seaport in the department of ...
Article : 49 wordsSeveral trade unions in Great Britain are considering the making of a levy of 1d. per week per member for the purpose of creating a fund to meet ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Federal Minister of Works (Senator Lynch) has received from the executive of the Australian Labour Federation in West Australia an official ...
Article : 120 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon says:- Our aeroplanes have heavily bombarded enemy cantonments and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe United Press Association co[?]espondent at Buenos Ayres states that opinion in South America [?]ding the break in relations between America ...
Article : 113 wordsSir F. E. Elliot, the British Minister at Athens, and M. Guillemin, the French Minister, have conferred with the Greek Foreign Minister, and ...
Article : 63 wordsThe hearing commenced, before Mr. Justice Isaa[?]s, to-day o[?] a plaint brought by the Australian Journalists' Association ag[?]inst the proprietors of ...
Article : 68 wordsLloyd's reports that the following additional ships have been torpedoed and sunk by German submarines:- Ymer, s.s., 1,123 tons (Norwegian). ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the Exchange T[?]legraph Company states that Congressional opinion is that the United States will not take further ...
Article : 171 wordsAt the Police Court to-day, before the Police Magistrate (Mr. E. L. Hall), a case, adjourned from November 18 last against John Powell, licens[?]e of ...
Article : 127 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted the following Russian official wireless message:- We have repulsed several attacks ...
Article : 77 wordsIt was stated to-day by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce), that in view of recent developments in matters relating to the expenditure of public ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Italian newspapers enthusiastically congratulate President Wilson on the action he has taken. The "Giornal[?] d' Italia" says the step ...
Article : 73 wordsA public meeting under the auspices of the Launceston branch of the National Federation was held to-night at the Mechanics[?]-hall. There was a fair ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Press Burean states that the Army Council is assuming control of all stocks of soft sawn timber, including sleepers. Dealing in these classes ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 6 Feb 1917, Page 5
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