We have to-day a most interesting discussion in the House of Commons respecting the submarine campaign. Adopting the strict code of the Navy, Sir Edward Carson stated that he did not know how many German submarines had been captured or destroyed, because it could not be always proved ...
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Article : 1,599 wordsLloyd's reports that the. British steamer Centurion, 1,828 tons, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine yesterday. ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the House of Lords this afternoon Lord Bryce sought a statement regarding the condition of Persia. Lord Curzon, President of the ...
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Article : 79 wordsField-Marshal Haig, reporting to-day, says:- We have seized a portion of the enemy's trenches to the north-east ...
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Article : 157 wordsAn article in the Paris "Figaro" declares that the British phase of the war is opening, and everything indicates the forthcoming preponderance of the ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that he had an open mind as to the propriety of a ...
Article : 54 wordsForty Americans, including the Consuls from Dresden and Hamburg, arrived to-day at Zurich, in Switzerland, from Germany. The first words of the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Buda Pesth correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that Austrian and German naval exports have revised their calculations of the ...
Article : 87 wordsSir Edward Carson, the First Civil Lord of the Admiralty, introduced the Navy estimates in the House of Commons this afternoon, and in doing so ...
Article : 1,717 wordsThe big thunderstorm that broke over the city about noon yesterday was nearly as severe as the one on January 2. The rain fell in great shoots, and caused ...
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Article : 187 wordsThe French communique issued to-day says:- There was reciprocal artillery firing to-day in the region of Butte de. ...
Article : 92 wordsLord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India, at a meeting of the Council to-day, said the time had arrived for the Empire to make a united and ...
Article : 407 wordsMr. W.H. Taft, formerly President of the United States, in a speech at New York to-day, stated that Germany's invasion of American rights ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following Russian communique, dated February 19, has been received: There have been weak artillery and patrol encounters along the whole ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Archibald Kurd, the well-known naval writer, points out in the "Daily Telegraph" to-day the misleading nature of the British. ...
Article : 198 wordsA semi-official message received in Berne from Vienna states that the situation between, America and Austria is extremely grave. The "Pesther ...
Article : 173 wordsSenator Pearce, Minister of Defence, is continually receiving from elderly citizens offers of personal services at the front, but he is reluctantly ...
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Article : 40 wordsMr. Edmund Candler, the war correspondent with the British forces in Mesopotamia, states that the losses of the Turks in the fighting last week ...
Article : 73 wordsThe new German budget includes a clause for preventing people quitting Germany before guaranteeing the payment of War taxes. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe German newspapers demand that Mr. J.W. Gerard, the former American Ambassador in Berlin, should disprove the charge made against him by Count ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian," referring to-day to the report of Lord Balfour of Burleigh's committee appointed to inquire into the commercial and ...
Article : 564 wordsFor the latest Italian war loan £80, 000,000 has been subscribed. ...
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Article : 224 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that the report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the Dardanelles expedition will be published to-day ...
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Article : 131 wordsPresident Wilson, in a letter to Senator Stone, the chairman of the United States Foreign Affairs Committee, urging the ratification of the Colombian ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon Mr. George Lambert, one of the Parliamentary Secretaries to the War Office, announced that the Turks ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 23 Feb 1917, Page 5
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