There is a remarkable paucity of news from the European fronts. Field-Marshal Haig reports a single trench raid only, though the struggle for the capture of Miraumont must be in progress. The Germans also do not report, which fact may have significance. The French report artillery activity ...
Article : 161 wordsThe German newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung" urges that it is an error to suppose the submarine campaign will end the war rapidly, and urges the ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas, the Labour member for Derby, criticised in the House of Commons yesterday the action of the Government in allowing the ...
Article : 296 wordsWriting to friends in Hobart, a member of the 40th Battalion says:— This expedition of ours has certainly taken us into some very strange places, ...
Article : 918 wordsA Munich newspaper states that General Von Hindenburg declares that theoretically the war could continue indefinitely, because the German losses ...
Article : 106 wordsAdvice has been received of the death of Sergeant F. G. Tuck, who was for 14 years in the employ of the Hobart City Couneil, and was chief ...
Article : 341 wordsAnswering Mr. Asquith in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the Government had decided to take ...
Article : 189 wordsThe German Socialist newspaper "Vorwarts" states that Mr. Samuel Gompers, the President of the American Federation of Labour, cabled to ...
Article : 345 wordsThe Hamburg newspapers give an idea of the death roll caused by the explosion at the German munitions factory near the town recently. They ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief in Mesopotamia reports as follows:- Yesterday we occupied two of the enemy's front lines of trenches at ...
Article : 92 wordsField-Marshal Haig reported last night as follows:- We carried out a successful raid to the south of Souchez (north of ...
Article : 47 wordsA conference of representatives of South Wales miners held at Cardiff last week rejected the combing-out scheme by 813,000 votes to 54,000, and then ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that since the outbreak of the war 13 steamers, with an aggregate of over 70,000 tons, have been built for the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe secretary Red Cross Information Bureau has asked us to publish the following with reference to the prisoners of war department in London: ...
Article : 364 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon the answer to the question tabled by Mr. P. Snowden, the Labour member for Blackburn, regarding the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Paris "Temps" says that reliable narratives from Serbia state that 40,000 people have been torn from their homes and sent to Hungary. Troops ...
Article : 115 wordsThe report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the Dardanelles campaign will be issued in a few days. The report includes a statement made by a ...
Article : 84 wordsThe French c[?]mmunique issued last night says:- There was lively artillery fighting to-day, on the Avocourt (west of the ...
Article : 81 wordsIn connection with the departure for England of Sir Edward P. Morris, the Prime Minister of Newfoundland, to attend the Imperial Conference, and ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Petit Parisien," who has had an interview with Lord Milner, a member of Mr. Lloyd George's War Cabinet, ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is officially slated that last week 108 vessels daily entered French ports. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe German newspapers announce that an epidemic of smallpox has broken out at Essen, Magdeburg, Hamburg, and Berlin. The infection is ...
Article : 42 wordsHerr Helfferich, the German Minister of the Interior, addressing the deputation of farmers yesterday, said:— England sees herself in a position ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. A. Henderson, the Labour member of the War Cabinet, speaking at Manchester last week, spoke very optimistically as to the outlook for the ...
Article : 167 wordsThe terms for financing in America a huge munition contract for Russia have been settled. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation is placing 50,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 237 wordsInformation received in Switzerland shows that to February 15 Germany had lost 115 submarines and Austria 13. The losses were the heaviest ...
Article : 39 wordsSir George Cave, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, moved the second reading in the House of Commons yesterday of the Criminal ...
Article : 91 wordsThe following is a list of sick and wounded soldiers returning shortly to Tasmania:- 4002 Private McGarry, W. T., 1st ...
Article : 163 wordsThere was great artillery and aerial activity on the part of the British on the Salonika front on Saturday. The Allies in the Monastir district ...
Article : 43 wordsLloyd's reports that the following vessels were torpedoed and sunk by German submarines yesterday:- Dalemoor, s.s., 4,124 tons (British). ...
Article : 61 wordsThe German newspaper "Taglische Rundschau" describes a wonderful apparatus which has been invented for the saving of the crews of submarines. The ...
Article : 68 wordsAlbert Sander and Charles Wunnenberg have been arrested in New York and charged with conspiracy to employ agents to obtain military information, ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Entente [?]egations at Athens explain that the continuation of the blockade of Greece is due to the incomplete fulfilment of the terms of the ...
Article : 240 wordsThe captain of the Danish steamer Thor II., 269 tons, which was sunk by a German submarine, narrates that after his vessel was torpedoed he and ...
Article : 147 wordsA number of ships sailed to-day from New York for Europe. The vessels included one American steamer, the crew of which received a 50 per cent. bonus. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe following 18 men have entered the Claremont Camp:- Cullen, R. A., clerk, Hobart. Johnson, K., clerk, Launceston. ...
Article : 534 wordsA cable message was received from the Agent-General of Victoria in London (Sir peter McBride) by the Director of Agriculture (Dr. Cameron) ...
Article : 60 wordsDr. Addison, the Minister of Munitions, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that th[?], Government did not admit liability for the recent ...
Article : 61 wordsYesterday morning we were looking across a bare, shallow valley at the opposite knuckle of hillside, mound the foot of which the valley doubled back ...
Article : 1,222 wordsThe Acting Collector of Customs (Mr. J. L. Harbroe) last night received an important communication from the secretary of the Department of Home ...
Article : 145 wordsSpeaking at the Governor's farewell dinner last night, Archbishop Riley recounted in a most interesting manner his experiences at the various war ...
Article : 206 wordsDr. Oswald, the Superintendent of the Glasgow Asylum, reports that war worries have not increased insanity, as was feared. This has been largely due to ...
Article : 74 wordsThe State Department announces that a Note was sent by America on Saturday to Germany demanding the release of the American [?]risoners taken ...
Article : 73 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that the number of applications received for the new ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 21 Feb 1917, Page 5
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