Latest reports indicate that enemy resistance is increasing on the Western front, and the British advance is being impeded by snowstorms. The British have carried out a successful raid north-east of Arras, but to the northward of Ypr[?]s the Germans enter ed a British trench, but were quickly ...
Article : 286 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Bonar Law, the Leader of the House, moved, on behalf of the Government, the s[?]nding of fraternal ...
Article : 951 wordsThe workers at five munition factories at Dusseldorf, in Prussia, have struck since Monday last as a protest against short rations. There are over ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day received the following cable message from the British Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) regarding his ...
Article : 93 wordsThere are 30,000 cases of small-pox in G[?]rmany, according to a report received by the State Department of a speech made by Herr Hoffman, a ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the members of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council are gradually falling into line ...
Article : 1,069 wordsThe Chinese Government will not make any further payments for the German Boxer indemnity, and will discontinue the payment of interest on the German ...
Article : 40 wordsA Russian offical wireless message says:- After a long bombardment the enemy to-day attacked our positions ...
Article : 122 wordsA meeting at the Queen's-hall to-day demanded the prohibition of the liquor trade for the period of the war. Sir Alfred Booth declared that there ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated yesterday in an interview with a representative of the "New York Sun" that 8,000,000 British ...
Article : 174 wordsSpeaking in the Reichstag to-day o[?] behalf of the Foreign Office, Dr. Kreig declared that the condition of German prisoners now interned, at the Alexandra ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "New York Times" say[?] that he has learnt from confidential German sources that Germany intends to initiate a ...
Article : 40 wordsTo-night's report from Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig states:- The enemy's resistance is increasing on the whole front from the region ...
Article : 119 wordsAt New York to-day Albert Saunders and Carl Wunn[?]nb[?]rg, who were accused of sending spi[?]s to England, were sentenced to two years[?] imprisonment and ...
Article : 41 wordsA German wireless official message says:—Prince Friedrich Carl of Prussia to-day fl[?]w over the British lines between Arras and Peronne, and has not ...
Article : 60 wordsThere is a strong neutral movement in America, with a view to keeping the United States and Germany from hostilities. The movement is headed by ...
Article : 79 wordsA Russian official wireless message states:- The enemy's aeroplanes and artillery are extremely active in the ...
Article : 31 words[?]n the German Reichstag to-day, Dr. H[?]lff[?]rich, the Minister of the Interior, stated that negotiations were proceeding with shipowners for the reconstruction of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that the Ministry of Munitions has prohibited dealing in spelter except under license. ...
Article : 27 wordsTo-day's French communique states: After a lively struggle to-day we succeeded in extending our positions east of the canal between [?]am (on ...
Article : 334 wordsThe American steamer [?]ealdton, 4,489 tons, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Seven of the survivors have reached Terschelling, in ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies to-day unanimously passed a vote of confidence in the new Government. ...
Article : 26 wordsA Bulgarian communique says:— Enemy attacks cast of Lak[?] Prespa (south-west of Monastir) and west of Monastir have been repulsed with ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Asq[?]ith tabled a motion in the Housa of Commons this afternoon in favour of the introduction of prompt legislation for the purpose of carrying ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Capetown correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that General Botha, the Prime Minister of South Africa[?] replying in the Union Assembly ...
Article : 146 wordsThe "Morning Post's" correspondent at British Headquaters in France says that the open warfare with cavalry skirmishes and occasional ...
Article : 159 wordsAmerican correspondents in Berlin say that they understand that Germany expects a state of war with the United States within 48 hours. ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade, said the Government was unable to publish the minute ...
Article : 88 wordsAmericans are now facing the international situation with quiet, determination. There is the greatest relief and widespread satisfaction at President ...
Article : 921 wordsThe full text has been published of remarkable confidential instructions officially issued to the German newspapers, telling them not to discuss the ...
Article : 205 wordsLord Devonport, the Food Controller, says it may be necessary to reduce the sugar allowance from [?]b. to ½lb. a head weekly, and he will shortly make ...
Article : 237 wordsThe following Tasmanians have been mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatch for distinguished and gallant service and devotion to duty: ...
Article : 421 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pea[?]ce) to-day received the following message, dated March 2[?], from Lieut.-General Sir William Birdwood: ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent says that the German newspapers are at great pains to prove that the German retreat is a means to ...
Article : 298 wordsMessages received at The Hague from Petrograd state that the Russian Government has ordered the Tsarina to be kept under st[?]ct surveillance at ...
Article : 250 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that the auxiliary cruis[?]r Moewe has returned home to Germany, after a second cruise in the Atlantic. ...
Article : 54 wordsLast night's French communiique states:- A fairly heavy artillery bombardment is proceeding in the Woevre. ...
Article : 45 wordsSpeaking at a meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce to-day[?] Mr. J. Hodge, the Minister of Labour, said that Great Britain must have ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Edward [?]andler, the war correspondent with the British forces in Mesopotamia, in a despatch forwarded to-day from Azizie (south-west of ...
Article : 352 wordsThe French official report states that for the week ending March 18 the arrival in French ports of merchant vessels of over 100 tons, excluding ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Amsterdam "Telegraaf" states that the British and French Ministers at The Hague have demanded the admission of armed merchantmen to ...
Article : 90 wordsThe War Cabinet met again to-day. Much interest centered on the appearance of the re[?]sentatives of India[?] the representatives of which are not likely ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 24 Mar 1917, Page 7
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