Field-Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commandant on the West Front, reports:—There has been local fighting in the neighbourhood of La Vacquerie, but ...
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Article : 322 wordsThe latest Italian official report states:—The enemy, after the failure of the frontal attack, attempted to carry our lines from the rear with crushing numerical ...
Article : 72 wordsA French munition ship lying in the harbour of Halifax, in Canada, was collided with by an incoming steamer. A terrific explosion ensued, which caused a great fire ...
Article : 342 words"The British Red Cross Society needs no words of mine to recommend it to all loyal and Christian people in the comunity, who have hearts to feel ...
Article : 727 wordsMr. C. E. W. Bean, the Australian official correspondent at the British front, telegraphs:—The voting upon the referendum began among some of the infantry ...
Article : 154 wordsIn the presence of a crowd which steadily grew to large dimensions, Brigadier-General Jobson and Colonel Nash, M.L.C., spoke in favour of the referendum ...
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Article : 23 wordsMr. Percy Hunter, Dalton House, made the following statement to-day:— "Mr. Rae is making a strong point of the fact that conscription is only ...
Article : 444 wordsMr. Julius Price states that General Conrad's thrust north-eastward of Asiago continues with great intensity, disregarding losses. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Central Powers report that Russia agreed to the suspension of hostilities between the 7th and 17th instant. It is reported from Petrograd that the ...
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Article : 34 wordsThe Admiralty reports:—British aviators on Wednesday dropped many bombs on Sparappelhoek aerodrome, and on a train leaving the Engel dump. ...
Article : 47 wordsPRIVATE WHITE.—Mrs. T. Smith, of Nerong-road, Lambton, has received word that her son, Private J . L. (Jim) White, previously reported missing, was killed ...
Article : 542 wordsThe Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has adopted the resolution declaring war against Austria. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the American United Press states that the news that the United States is declaring war against Austria has created enthusiasm ...
Article : 48 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press states: The evacuation of the Bourlon Wood-Noyelles salient did not surprise those who visited them. ...
Article : 242 wordsMr. A. R. Gardiner, M.P., in an address to the electors last night, from the balcony of the Hotel Rawson, declared himself against the Government's ...
Article : 1,177 words"Le Martin" states that the Rumanian Government snubbed the Russian General Tcherbatcheff, who advocated Rumania's participating in the armistice. ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York World" says that the creation of a Supreme Naval Council will result in the diversion of some of the ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Arthur Rae writes: "The conscriptionists have published a leaflet with the title, 'Think,' a very excellent title, too, but that is the only good thing in ...
Article : 319 wordsColonel Roosevelt states that President Wilson's message is a solemn pledge that America will put forth every energy to win the war, and will not accept peace ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is reported from Washington that Mr. Henry Flood, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives, answering demands ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking in the House of Commons, said: "The munitions and guns which we sent to Russia have been used ...
Article : 68 wordsCorrespondents at British headquarters admit that the loss of Bourlon Wood and Noyelles is regrettable, but Sir Julian Byng's net gains are still large. Bourlon ...
Article : 330 wordsTo War Savings Day was observed in Adelaide to-day, and judging from the enthusiasm displayed the appeal is likely to be eminently successful. The many helpers ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Grasty, the correspondent of the "New York Times," telegraphing from Paris, states that he has interviewed a high allied authority, who states that the ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Steel Maitland, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Colonial Office, describing in the House of Commons the objects of the new Commercial ...
Article : 117 wordsCopenhagen reports that the German auxiliary cruiser mined was the Botnie, formerly captured from the Russians. ...
Article : 19 wordsA well-attended meeting of the Newcastle League of Honour was held last evening at the league's rooms, King-street, Dr. May Harris, the president, in ...
Article : 331 wordsWashington reports that Mr. London, a Socialist representative, has introduced resolutions instructing Congress to initiate the organisation of an international ...
Article : 48 wordsThe adjourned hearing of the case, in which James Howard Catts, M.H.R., was proceeded against under the War Precautions Act on a charge of having made ...
Article : 570 wordsThe tenders for the erection of wheat silos were further considered by Cabinet to-day. There was a full attendance of Ministers. Matters were not quite ...
Article : 423 wordsSir Chiozza Money, on behalf of the Ministry for Shipping, stated in the House of Commons that the percentage of wheat lost in transit to Britain was ...
Article : 59 wordsForty of the passengers of the s.s. Apapa, which was sunk by a submarine, were drowned, including eight women, but the children were saved. ...
Article : 117 wordsA heated debate has taken place in the House of Commons on the Government's proposal to include Ireland in the Redistribution Bill. ...
Article : 167 wordsButton Day, in aid of the people of Servia, Syria, and Armenia, was favoured to-day with fine weather, and a large sum was collected. ...
Article : 216 wordsA report from Tokio states that the now Budget includes a six-year naval programme, costing £30,000,000. It will add two battle cruisers and also submarines ...
Article : 39 wordsThe latest French communique states: Artillery activity was lively on the right of the Mouse, and in Upper Alsace. Three enemy aeroplanes were brought ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. C. G. Wade, the Agent-General for New South Wales, in a letter to "The Times," sharply controverts its criticisms, and says that New South Wales has been ...
Article : 110 wordsAt the Newcastle recruiting depot yesterday three volunteers were accepted and one was rejected. ...
Article : 17 wordsMr. and Mrs. Albert Marchant, of "Dalmeny," Denison-road, Lewisham, have been advised of the promotion of their son, Sergeant Sidney Dent Marchant, to the ...
Article : 115 wordsM. Clemenceau, the French Premier, in an interview accorded to the representative of the "Daily Express," stated that Lord Lansdowne had made a mistake. If ...
Article : 81 wordsA German official report states: We stormed trenches southward and south-westward of Moecuvres, and pressed forward over the Bapaume-Cambral road. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 8 Dec 1917, Page 7
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