The effect of the recent advances of the British north of the Ancre from Boaumont-Hamel and from Beaucourt is noxv apparent. It is announced by General Haig that his troops liaae occupied without opposition a thousand yards of enemy trench at Grandecourt, in the valley of tho Ancre. The ...
Article : 358 wordsThe Admiralty has intercepted the following official Italian report issued last night by wireless:- The enemy last night made surprise ...
Article : 68 wordsOwing to the stoppage of shipments of Scandinavian and Dutch butter and margarine, the prices for colonial butter have been raised about 8s. per cwt., ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Greek Government has formally denied the report that the German agents expelled by the Allies are returning, and has given a new assurance that it will ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Press Bureau reports that the Admiralty has intercepted a wireless message sent by George Barthelme (the Washington corresspondent of the ...
Article : 336 wordsThe Norwegian Consul-General at Wasington announces that all sailings of Norw[?]gian vessels to America have been suspended. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe economic position of Spain is becoming increasingly grave. Barcelona and Valen[?]ia are thea[?]ened with ruin, and the people of the Canary Islands are ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Board of Trade's allied executive committee for chartering steamers has requested Messrs. Anderdon, Anderson and Co., David Bruce and Co., Elder ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Swedish Government has proposed the establishment of a joint S[?]andinavian mail and passenger and noncontraband service with England. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Newton D. Baker, the American Secretary of War, has ordered the immediate purchase of army supplies. No limit is placed to the funds available ...
Article : 672 wordsThe case in which Alice Wheeldon, William Wheeldon (her son), Harri[?]t Wheeldon (her daughter), Winnie Mason (her married daughter), and ...
Article : 92 wordsThe shortago of coal in Denmark, is acute. The schools are being closed temporarily, and also some of the theatres and other amusement places. ...
Article : 43 wordsNo restrictions against women and children travelling by sea to other than what are known as the danger zones are being enf[?]reed by the Commonwealth ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Central News Agency states that Mr. J. W. Gerard, the former American Ambassador to Germany, has left Berlin, and is expected to reach ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Romo correspondent of the "Morning, Post" states that the Vatican is anxiously watching the attitude of Spain, by which the Popo is likely to be ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Petit Parisien" states that an agreement has been reached by all parties in the 'Russian Duma for the formation of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Reichstag will meet on the 22nd inst., when Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, will make a declaration respecting Germany's ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, addressed a crowded meeting at Westminster to-day on the inauguration of the national service scheme of ...
Article : 784 wordsLieutenant W. G. Drew, whose death in France has been notified by the military authorities, was one of the most popular members of the Sandy Bay ...
Article : 244 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle," points out that the recent string[?]nt railway restrictions ar[?]se from an urgent demand for rolling-stock in France. The Railavay ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. Hooker, who has been superintending the distribution of relief forwarded from America to the Belgians, announces that, in the event of war ...
Article : 138 wordsDispatches receivcd in New York from Berlin state that Dr. Helfferich, the Secretary of the Imperial Treasury in the German Government, stated in ...
Article : 201 wordsThis morning's French communique states:- The enemy, after a violent bombardment, attacked to the north-west ...
Article : 135 wordsField-Marshal Haig- reportcd last night:- We have advanced our line in the neighbourhood of Grandeccurt (in the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Jockey Club, an response to the request of the Government, has agreed for the present to restrict horse-racing to Newmarket only. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe report of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, the High Commissioner of New Zealand, on the assistance rendered to New Zealand prisoners of war, shows that, in ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Dutch newspapers do not attempt to disguise the difficulty of Holland's position. They re[?]ognise that President Wilson's invitation to break off relations ...
Article : 441 wordsTo-day the King received Mr. Frank Wild, who was second in command of Shackleton's Trans-Atlantic Expedition, and congratulated him on the rescue of ...
Article : 109 wordsThe American Consul at Quee[?]town has notified the State Department that he has r[?]eived confirmation that William Wallace, an American negro ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Admiralty reports:—Our naval [?]eroplanes attacked Bruges Harbour (canal), in Belgium, on Friday. They bombed German torpedo craft there, ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Provost-Marshal attended the Licensing Bench at Woolhampton today, and announced that the Aldershot command considered that at least ...
Article : 121 wordsLloyd's reports that the following additional vessels have been torpedoed and sunk by G[?]rman submarines:- Port Adelaide, s.s. (British). ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Commandor-in-Chief in Mesopotamia reports:- As a result of our successful attack west of the Tigris on Saturday the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Legislative Assembly met tonight. The Home Secretary secured leave to introduce a bill to make provision for ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs, the war correspondent, reporting from France, says: —Snowfall and frost have compelled us to adapt our methods of warfare to the ...
Article : 358 wordsThe Czar of Russia has summoned a conference, to be hold to discuss the future organisation [?] of Poland and her relations with the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Rome newspaper "Idea Nazionale" states that Germany has addressed a Note to neutral countries, inviting them to a conference on shipping ...
Article : 36 wordsA deputation from the Anti-German League of Victoria waited on the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day, to present resolutions agreed to by the central ...
Article : 342 wordsAll th[?] members, except one, of the Commission appointed to inquire into the Dardanelles campaign, have signed the interim report. Mr. Andrew Fisher, ...
Article : 104 wordsPresident Wilson is a[?]uoyed at the persistence of reports that he is seeking a way to avoid a conflict. He takes objection particularly to dissemination ...
Article : 274 wordsA new scheme of war insurance for neutral vessels begins to-day, and greatly reduces the rates on vessels carrying [?]oodstuffs[?] munitions, and ...
Article : 45 wordsThe military authorities are taking over tile Royal, Automobile Club in London as a club for naval and military officers. The idea originated in [?]he ...
Article : 71 wordsThe British Admiralty states that-the captain of the American steamer Westwego, 5.275 tons, belonging to the Union Petroleum Co., of Philadelphia, ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Russian communique issued last night states:- We to-day repulsed an enemy attack near the toxin of Kisselin, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Government of India has ordered the compulsory military training of all Europeans in the dependency. ...
Article : 24 wordsSeveral thousand people in Amsterdam went on a hunger march through the city on Monday, but the police disposed the procession. The sufferings ...
Article : 122 wordsEr. Wakefield, the Bishop of Birmingham, has arranged with his bankers to advance lum £1,000, which he offers to lend to the poorer clergy of ...
Article : 161 wordsAn explosion took place yesterday at Nobel's munition works at Schlebusch, near Cologne, and resulted in the destruction of the buildings. Two hundred ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 8 Feb 1917, Page 5
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