Over 200 factories in Holland are closing down, and many others are on half-time, owing to the shortage of coal. The street lighting in some of ...
Article : 216 wordsThere is no new development in regard to the German submarine "blockade." The neutral nations within striking distance of Germany are contenting themselves with protests and notice that they will claim compensation. They are keeping accounts, which probably they will ask the Allies to collect ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 503 wordsThe British Admiralty has received by wireless the following Russian official report:- General Kardinalovka has been ...
Article : 45 wordsBehind Lille, and especially in the region of Roubaix, Allied airmen have observed extraordinary movements of German infantry, and the Germans also ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is believed that with the utmost economy Denmark has only two and a half months' supply of coal. All street lamps are to be extinguished, the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe United States General Army Staff is drafting a Universal Service Bill for the consideration of President Wilson. It provides for the enrolment ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Nord Sud Press Agency states that recent Russian successes in Roumania have resulted in the enemy withdrawing from Braila and Foosani, in ...
Article : 77 wordsLloyd's reports that the following additional vessels are reported to have been torpedoed and sunk by German submarines: ...
Article : 533 wordsGeneral Von Biss[?]g, the German Military Governor of Belgium, has returned to Brussels tomporarily to wind up certain business. Admiral Von ...
Article : 48 wordsField-Marshal Haig, reporting to-day, says:- We carried out successful raids last night eastward of Vermelles (between ...
Article : 188 wordsThere is no confirmation of the report that two submarines attacked the Anchor liner California, but the periscope of one was seen by the survivors. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the Central News Agency states that German trains have transported recently 19 torpedo-boats in sections to the ...
Article : 36 wordsAn Italian semi-official wireless message says:—There is increasing opposition action in the Bulgarian Sobranje with a view to reducing Bulgarian ...
Article : 92 wordsThe "Agenzia Libera" of Rome states that when Germany announced her new submarine campaign she had 40 new and improved submarines in German ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Conservative newspapers in Sweden applaud the reply to America as proving that Sweden's neutrality is still active. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Admiralty has issued the following report:- Naval aeroplanes attacked the enemy aerodrome at Ghistelles on ...
Article : 44 wordsAn Austrian official wireless message claims that in the region of Gorz they gained a footing in several Italian trenches, inflicted severe and sanguinary ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that the approximate number of vessels sunk during the first week of unrestricted submarining was 43 merchant ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Admiralty has intercepted the following German report:—We have repulsed an English attack near Serre (north of the Ancre). We have l[?]st ...
Article : 90 wordsCount Tisza, the Premier of Hungary, informed the members of his party yesterday that before sending the Note regarding ruthless ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs, the war correspondent, reports:- The German abandonment of Grande-court, thus enabling our troops to walk ...
Article : 441 wordsTravellers who have returned to Switzerland from Germany state that the universal article of faith there is that England will be reduced to ...
Article : 142 wordsThe United States will not fight Germany unless an American ship is proved to have been deliberately torpedoed under circumstances admitting of no ...
Article : 297 wordsHerr Von Stumm, the German Foreign Under-Sacretary, explaining the position of Americans in Germany, says that Germany has not received reports ...
Article : 246 wordsAn official report from Mesopotamia says:- The positions we gained on Monday last near Kut-el-Amara have been ...
Article : 96 wordsThis morning's French communique states:- An enemy attack last night in the region of Vaux to Eix, east of the ...
Article : 345 wordsThe Peruvian Government has demanded an indemnity from Germany for the sinking of the barque Lorton, 1,409 tons, belonging to D. Laero, of Callao, ...
Article : 208 wordsThe German newspapers express extravagant joy over the submarine war. Naval circles, however, do not conceal anxiety as to England's new defensive ...
Article : 66 wordsThe following official message has been issued in reference to the campaign in Western Egypt:- Say Ed Ahmed Senussi main force ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is feared that a great number of German mines in the Sound have got adrift owing to the pressure of the ice. Many explode on colliding with blocks ...
Article : 42 wordsThe "Observer" states to-day:—Only the United States, by separate decision and action, can deliver the rest of the neutral world from German ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Seandinavian Scan[?]n's Unions have issued a manifesto protesting against Germany's submarine depredations and her piratical murdering of ...
Article : 55 wordsOwing to the lack of coal all the schools in Berlin have been closed. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. R. Lansing, the Secretary of State, says he has [?]t heard- of or received any communication from Germany regarding a modification of orders ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Now York Times," after citing the answers from all the neutral countries to Berlin respecting unrestricted submarining, says:—"When Germany ...
Article : 126 wordsThe British Admiralty states that a destroyer of the old type which was patrolling the English Channel struck a mine yesterday, and sank. There ...
Article : 45 wordsThere is intense indignation in Holland owing to the brutal treatment of the crew of the Dutch trawler Derik by a German submarine, which fired on the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe "Providence Journal" states that Count Von Bernstorff is personally responsible for the transfer of 300 German officers from the United States to ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Lloyd George, in a Lincoln Day message to the New York "Times," says:—"The battle we have been fighting is the same at the bottom as that ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Paris "Matin" states that the Governments of France, Great Britain, and Bolgium have discussed the provisioning of the invaded territory of ...
Article : 115 wordsThe American National Alliance, with a membership of 3,000,000, has pledged itself to support the President in his attitude towards Germany, and added ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Gerard formally protested against the German Government cutting off the American Embassy telephone ten minutes after his asking for his ...
Article : 199 wordsOnly the main doors of the Capitol at Washington will hereafter be open. Fifty extra police are guarding the building. ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. E. G. Pretyman, Civil Lord of the Admiralty in Mr. Lloyd George's Government, speaking at Oh[?]lmsford to-day, said the serious submarine ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 12 Feb 1917, Page 5
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