The British continue their pressure upon the Germans between the An[?]re and Arras. They have now taken Gommecourt and Thilloy, and have advanced a thousand yards to the north-east of the former place. A French report says that the new German line is not so strong as that just ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 361 wordsMr. J. W. Gerard, the American Ambassador to Germany, has sailed for America on the Infanta Isabel, although specially warned by the authorities in ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day the Earl of Crawford (ex-President of the Board of Agriculture), speaking on behalf of the Government, said the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe War Office has received the following official message from the British Commander in Me[?]opotamia:- A close pursuit of the enemy was ...
Article : 130 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day a motion to observe in the refreshment rooms of the House the restrictions on the sale of liquor which have been ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is stated that investigations are now proceeding into the report that three American Consuls and two Consulate cl[?]rks were detained in Germany ...
Article : 77 wordsAt a meeting of Covent Garden salesmen and distributers to-day[?] a deputation was appointed to ask the Government to reconsider its prohibition of the ...
Article : 45 wordsSenator Frederick Hale, who has just returned from England, says that while there he met the Premier (Mr. Lloyd George), Mr. Asquith, the Secretary of ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Edmund Candler[?] in a message to-day, describes how a British regiment at dawn crossed the Tigris at Shumran B[?]nd, seven miles above Kut, and ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Bordeaux correspondent of the "New York Times" has interviewed an American Consul who returned with Mr. J. W. Gerard (the former ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Post Office authorities state that all letter mails which reached New York between February 14 and 18 for transit to England were lost on the Laconia. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. P. F. Warner, speaking at a cricket club conference in London, paid a high tribute to the Australians. "I was convinced," he said, "that they ...
Article : 135 wordsFollowing is the text of Germany's proposal to Mexico, which is in the possession of the United States Government: ...
Article : 216 wordsThe "Ni[?]we Rotterdamsche Courant," says that the German Government has promised Holland an indemnity for the seven torped[?]ed vessels, and has ...
Article : 55 wordsDuring the debate on the speech by the German Imperial Chancellor (Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg), in the Reich[?]ag to-day, Dr. Peter Spahn, the ...
Article : 237 wordsThe new scale of pensions for disabled soldiers and sailors, and the dependents of those killed, allows privates disabled in the highest degree, ...
Article : 159 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted the following German wireless official message:—The Italians to-day strongly attacked our hill positions in the Cerna ...
Article : 37 wordsTo-day's report from Field-Marshal Haig states:- This morning we captured a portion of a German trench to the ...
Article : 426 wordsA correspondent with the British headquarters in France states that the British are now within a short distance of the southern edge of Bapaume. The ...
Article : 110 wordsDr. Andrew Dow, an examining officer of the White City recruiting office in London, who was arrested on November 30, 1916, on a charge of ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the following report on shipping:- The arrivals during the week ended Sunday last of merchantmen over 100 ...
Article : 127 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted the following Russian official wireless message:- The enemy to-day strongly attacked ...
Article : 69 wordsThese disclosures are the climax of the operations of Count Ber[?]storff, who has been associated with passport frauds, dynamite plots, and intrigue far ...
Article : 242 wordsMr. Frank Simonds, the "New York Tribune's" war expert, has visited the Western front, and says he believes the war will last another year. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Petr[?]grad correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says it is understood that a conflict reigns in high bureaucratic circles. One section favours ...
Article : 82 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted the following German wireless message:—An enemy attack has been repulsed between L[?] Transloy and Sailly. ...
Article : 71 wordsIn the House of Representatives, the Foreign Affairs Committee has decided to report the bill empowering President Wilson to provide guns and ...
Article : 68 wordsA German wireless official message intercepted by the British Admiralty states:—We have captured several Russian heights in the Wooded ...
Article : 37 words(1) It has been decided that, in the event of a minor succeeding in enlisting in the A.I.F. either (a) by forging the consent to enlistment of his parents, ...
Article : 239 wordsA mutiny recently took place at the camp at Gorlitz, in Prussia, where the 4th Greek Army Corps was interned after being kidnapped at Ka[?]ala (on ...
Article : 262 wordsIn his report to-day, Field-Marshal Haig states:- We to-day entered the enemy's positions to the north-eastward of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Butchers Guild of London entertained Mr. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister of New Zealand), Sir Joseph Ward (Treasurer), and Sir T. ...
Article : 227 wordsA fantastic German account of th[?] destroyer raid in the English Channel on Sunday last, officially made in Berlin, has been received via Amsterdam. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Germans are making an effort to, prevent a rupture with China, and have attempted to distribute substantial bribes without success. They have ...
Article : 98 wordsA British correspondent at headquarters says that the Australians were responsible for a brilliant raid at Armentieres on Tuesday. They attacked on a ...
Article : 80 wordsPresident Wilson to-day told a group of Pacifists: "I have done, am doing, and will do everything possible to keep the United States at peace." ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the German newspapers state that it must not be assumed from the arrival at ...
Article : 76 wordsThe British Admiralty has issued the following statement:- Our naval aeroplanes on Sunday made a raid on the German iron works ...
Article : 51 wordsA good deal of interest will centre in a case to be heard at the District Court on Tuesday. Frederick A. Holland, who acted in the capacity of secretary ...
Article : 138 wordsA German official message states:- One of our seaplanes has successfully bombed an enemy transport in the north of the Æg[?]an Sea. A German ...
Article : 64 wordsThe military police to-day paid a surprise visit to the London office of the Commonwealth B[?]nk, where there is always a numerous congregation of ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Petit Journal" says that the retreating Germans blew up a number of large calibre guns. The fact that they abandoned strong ...
Article : 103 wordsIt was officially announced to-day that Germany has proposed an alliance between Mexico and Japan to make war on the United States in the event ...
Article : 440 wordsA conference has taken place at Calais between M. Brian[?], the French Premier; General Ly[?]ntey, the French Minister of War; General Niv[?]lle, the ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is not yet definitely known whe[?] the[?] any Australian mails were lost when the [?]unard liner Laconia was torpedoed. The secretary to the ...
Article : 101 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Captain Charles Bathurst, Parliamentary Secretary of the Food Control Department, said the scheme of ...
Article : 50 wordsSurvivors from the Laconia relate that the German submarine went from boat to boat seeking the captain of the liner, but all refused to betray ...
Article : 54 wordsA French communique issued last night states:- There is artillery activity on both sides of the Avre. ...
Article : 87 wordsA correspondent at British headquarters in France says that nothing is left of Gommecourt except the foundations of a chateau, where enormous ...
Article : 131 wordsThe "Evening Standard" says, it understands that the delay in publishing the report of the Da[?]danelles Commission is due to the necessity of referring ...
Article : 80 wordsFrau Von Zaldern, daughter of Admiral Von Capelle (German Minister for the Navy) and wife of an interned German officer, was murdered in her home ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Lloyd Gibbons, a member of the staff of the "Chicago Tribune," was a passenger on board the Laconia. He has sent his paper a realistic ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 2 Mar 1917, Page 5
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