There again is very little news of active operations on any of the fronts. As a change, the Germans, after heavy bombardment and using flame-throwers, have captured an advanced post of the British south of Le Transloy. Nothing is said of tab operations at Miraumont, but it may be taken for ...
Article : 151 wordsThe "New York Herald" says that a German submarine was sighted yesterday off Newport News, Virginia, and an American warship was ordered to ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Bolivian Government, in a Note to the United States, proposes that America and all neutral countries should make a joint declaration that ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Germans recently sentenced Dr. Gossenaerts, professor of the Ghent Royal Athen[?]m, to a year's imprisonment for Germanoph[?] propaganda. ...
Article : 50 wordsTho War Department at Washington officially announces that a net more than a mile long and 60ft, deep now closes the entrance to Hampton Roads, ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Swedish newspapers are indignant at the sinking by the Germans of the Swedish ship Hugo Hamilton, which was laden with a cargo of saltp[?]tr[?] ...
Article : 37 wordsThere has been cousiderable activity on the London Stock Exchange since subscriptions to the war loan closed. Imperial consols were quoted to-day at ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the Reichstag, when it meets on Thursday, will be faced with the necessity of v[?]ting a ...
Article : 202 wordsMr. Arthur Pollen, the well-known naval writer, in an article in the "Daily C[?]onicle" on December 26, contended that all ships should be a[?]ed. ...
Article : 582 wordsAdvices received in New York state that the Germans claim that among recent victims to their submarining attacks is an 8,200 ton st[?]amer, which had ...
Article : 165 wordsField-Marshal Haig reports to-day as follows:- Under cover of a heavy bombardment, which destroyed our trenches, ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Government of Egypt has issued the following official report:- We have captured the Turkish posts at Nakhl (80 miles due east of Suez, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe committee on the commercial and industrial policy of the United Kingdom, of which Lord Balfour of Burleigh is chairman, recommends that ...
Article : 1,072 wordsLicutenant-Colo[?]l Cohey, commanding the 17th Battery, has written as follows to Mr. F. E. Turner, of Battery Point, "regarding the death of his ...
Article : 468 wordsThe Admiralty has received by wireless a Russian official message, stating that a Russian submarine had entered the Bosphorus and sunk a Turkish ...
Article : 39 wordsThe German newspaper "Taglische Runds[?]hau" states that the loan by the Government of 300,000,000 marks (£15,000,000) to German shipbuilders is ...
Article : 44 wordsSecond-Lieutenant Ernest Pearse, son of Mr. A. W. Pearse, the managing director and editor of the "Pastoralists' Review" and of the "Meat Trades ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that Mr. J. W. Gerard, the former American Ambassador in Berlin, instead of going to ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following official report was issued to-day:- The enemy on Monday night entered one of our tren[?]hes near ...
Article : 81 wordsScottish bankers announce that only 20 per cent, of the deposits in British banks were affected by the Victory war loan, and that if another loan is ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Norwegian newspapers welcome the British and Norwegian agreement for the removal of the coal embargo as restoring the good relations of the two ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Rome newspaper "Message[?]" says 14 Italian trans-Atlantic vessels, with cargoes including coal and cereals, arrived at Naples and Genoa on the ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exche[?]er, replying in the House of Commons this afternoon to the question tabled bv Mr. P. Snowden, the ...
Article : 197 wordsOnly British and Allied vessels will be allowed, until further notice, to enter Plymouth Harbour. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe "New York World" states that an authoritative statement issued in Merlin runs as follows:—"We must repeat again and again that whoever ...
Article : 88 wordsThough it was estimated that the yield of the excess profits tax in Great Britain for the financial year ending March 31 would yield £86.000,000, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe newspaper "Aeroplane" states that a new and gigantic British machine, which was tested recently, attained a height of 7,000ft, with twenty ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York World" says that Dr. Helfferich, the German Treasurer, states that the Government is to take ...
Article : 121 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. C. B. Stanton, the Labour member for Merthyr Tydvil, asked Mr. W. Long, the Secretary of State for ...
Article : 170 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, on the motion for the third reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill, Mr. A. A. W. H. Pon[?]onby, the Liberal ...
Article : 728 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Times" states that Sir Edward Carson, the First Lord of the British Admiralty, will make his first ...
Article : 118 wordsThe French communique issued to-day says:- There has been lively artillery fighting between the rivers Oise and the ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. R. Lansing, the Secretary of State, and Mr. T. W. Gregory, attended a meeting of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate to-day, and urged the ...
Article : 325 wordsIn connection with the arrest in New York of Albert Sander and Charles Wunnenberg, who are charged with conspiracy to employ agents to obtain ...
Article : 89 wordsNEW YORK, February 20. After riotously destroying to-day the stock of vegetables of, pushcart pedlars in New York, hundreds of women, with ...
Article : 86 wordsCaptain Ensor, the master of the American liner Housatanic, 3,143 tons, who arrived in New York to-day, says the German submarine U53 sank his ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the manufacture of malt suitable for the br[?]wing of beer from barley and other cereals has been prohibited, except ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Sanator Pearce) stated to-day that Mr. L. E. Groom, M.H.R., would fill the position of Assistant Minister of Defence until ...
Article : 39 wordsThe British Embassy at Washington states that Germany's rut[?]less submarining has resulted in the less o[?] only one in every 100 ships arriving or ...
Article : 40 wordsThe French newspapers to-day make a great display of accounts of the anniversary of the opening of tho German offensive at Verdun, and the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe committee ot the Returned Soldiers' Association, who have taken up with vigour the matter of arranging a great public demonstration in Hobart on ...
Article : 202 wordsRecently it was decided by the Commonwealth military authorities that men who had served in this war should receive preference in the appointment ...
Article : 103 wordsThe vessels of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., of San Francisco, earned 83 per cent, on its capital during the year 1916. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe State Department at Washington has asked Turkey for assurances for the safety of an American vessel which is proceeding to Beyro[?]t, in Syria, for the ...
Article : 63 wordsTho Canadian Government has issued regulations authorising the fixing of prices for paper for newspaper printing purposes. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Admiralty has received by wireless the following Russian report:- We have repelled an attack by the ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Nevil[?]e Chamberlain, the Director of National Service, addressing a [?]ceting of members of the London Stock Exchange to-day, said the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Minister of the Navy (Mr. Cook) has received information by cable that the Australian transport Berrima was torpedoed in European waters on ...
Article : 75 wordsAn interesting report has been received by the Commonwealth military authorities from the police in England regarding the conduct of Australian soldie[?] in ...
Article : 547 wordsThere is a general impression in Government circles in Washington that Austria will, support the submarine policy of Germany, and therefore a ...
Article : 51 wordsAn Italian force has occupied Koritza (to the south-west of Monastir). ...
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