The Rome newspaper "Il Messagero," describing the Italian offensive, states that the Austrians placed live wires behind their, advanced troops in order to ...
Article : 39 wordsThere is in this world war a contra account of which we cannot yet see the sum. An item of this account will be found in the bald announcement that the [?]nited States has undertaken to feed the Be[?]gian people, and that no further appeals will be made to the British Empire. Men and nations ...
Article : 438 wordsIt is offi[?]lly announced that M. Raymond Poincare, the President of France, has awarded the following honours to Australian and New Zealand ...
Article : 116 wordsDaymon, J. P., Evandale, severely. Perger, A. G., St. Mary's, previously reported ill. Barrett, H. S., Lefroy. ...
Article : 127 wordsIn order to conceal losses, the commanders of all German submarines are instructed on return not t[?] enter the port from which they started. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Rome newspaper "Il Messagero" states that the Austrians suffered 30,000 casualties during the first four days of the Italian offensive. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. T. O. Jacobson, the Liberal member for Hyde, speaking yesterday at Norwood[?] in Surr[?]y, said:—"We have discovered a way—the submarine ...
Article : 116 wordsAn Italian official message states:- The Austrians yesterday attempted to create a diversion in the Trentino by means of a heavy bombardment ...
Article : 49 wordsViscount Harcourt, formerly Secretary of State for the Colonies, in a letter to a correspondent, warmly approves of the prop[?]sal for the holding ...
Article : 103 wordsMajor Lewis, E. St.L., Hobart, thir[?] occasion. [?]arter, C. W., Longford. Kaine, J. M., Wynyard, seriously. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsIn his speech at Edinburgh yesterday, Mr. Kennedy Jones. M.P., Assistant Food Controller, after stating that, thanks to the ingenuity of the navy ...
Article : 259 wordsA Russian wireless official message states:- The enemy made an attack yesterday to the eastward of Kalntsem ...
Article : 39 wordsThe United States Government has assumed the financial responsibility for the relief of the Belgians, and as a result the committee has suspended issuing ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-day's French communique states: A very violent artillery struggle is proceeding in the region of the Chemin des Dames, along the whole ...
Article : 263 wordsTwo enemy crim[?] agents named Von Rintclen and Lamar Martin were found guilty in New York to-day of conspiring to prevent shipments of munitions ...
Article : 42 wordsRelatives and others desiring news of sick, wounded, returning, or missing soldiers are invited to write or call at the Red Cross Information Bureau, 115 ...
Article : 31 wordsA Russian communique says:- Our artillery fire has dispersed an enemy attacking force to the eastward of Mont Koverla (south of the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe German newspaper "Arbeiter Zeitung" states that grave strikes are now taking place among the men at the war factories and [?]val dockyards at Elbing, ...
Article : 39 wordsAt a meeting of the City Council last night it was decided, on the motion of Alderman Cuth[?]ertson, [?]o send a letter of condolence to the relatives of the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe programme of the new coalition Government in Russia is welcomed with profound satisfaction in all quarters, and particularly its rejection of all ideas ...
Article : 119 wordsTo-day's German communique says:- The enemy made several attacks to-day on a hill to the eastward of the Cerna River, but were beaten off with heavy ...
Article : 34 wordsLast night's r[?]p[?]t from Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig states:- As the result of an attack early this morning[?] we occupied a further ...
Article : 195 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent says:—A curious com[?]en[?]ry on the official claim of the Germ[?]ns that they voluntarily ...
Article : 179 wordsThe following (the 3[?]1st) casualty list has been released for publica[?]ion. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, a[?]e those of privates. The localities ...
Article : 270 wordsTo-day's Russian communiqu[?] states: A combin[?] force of Turks and Kurds attacked us yesterday, north of Bitlis (west of Lake Van, in ...
Article : 37 wordsM. Thomas, the Minister of Munition[?] in th[?] Fre[?]ch Government, is leaving for Petrograd, and will remain there as Ambassador until a successor ...
Article : 41 wordsThe political correspondent of the "Sunday Times," referring to-day to the strike of engineers in Great Britain, which was settled yesterday, states that ...
Article : 240 wordsDr. Weizman, presiding yesterday at a meeting of the English Zionist Conference, said he thought it was premature to talk of the establishment of an ...
Article : 95 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent with the French says:—The 32-mile sector of the French front between St. Quentin a[?]d Laff[?]ux (north-east of ...
Article : 204 wordsM. Tenestchenko, the new Foreign Minister in Russia, defines the Government's programme as the re-establishment of universal peace as soon as ...
Article : 215 wordsA report received from Sir Douglas Haig th[?]s afternoon states:- Last night the enemy attacked our advanced posts to the south-eastward ...
Article : 49 wordsPrivate William P. Duggan, mentioned in the 298th casualty list is being wounded, is a son of the late Mr. Jere[?]i[?]h Duggan, of Richmond, who was ...
Article : 535 wordsM. Tude[?]q, the French war corre[?]pon[?]ent, says the Germans are hastily digging switch trenches in Artois and Champagn[?], which indicates that they ...
Article : 109 wordsIn addition to the contingent of 25,000 men to be despatched to Europ[?] under Br[?]gadier-General Pershing, the United Stat[?]s War Department is ...
Article : 82 wordsThe correspondent on the British front of the Paris "Matin" states that extracts from letters of captured Germans testify to the, dismay of the ...
Article : 95 words{No abstract available}
Family Notices : 265 wordsTo-day's report from Sir Douglas Haig states:- There were encounters between patrols last night in the ...
Article : 180 wordsAn Italian official message says:- Yesterday we extended our p[?]sitions at Mt[?] Vodice (seven miles north of Gorz), and drove back dense masses ...
Article : 94 wordsA correspondent at British Headquarters says:—The fighting for Bullecourt and R[?]eux continu[?]s to be intense, equalling in violence the battle ...
Article : 256 wordsThe German newspapers are publishing the political testament of the late General V[?]n Bis[?]ing, military Governor of Belgium. In this document he says: ...
Article : 524 wordsThe following vessels were torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea yesterday by German submarines:- Ve[?]terland, s.s., 3,832 tons (Swedish). ...
Article : 99 wordsThe British Government has decided to call up all men in the coal-mining industry, except engineers and mechanics, who have been medically classed ...
Article : 48 wordsThe trial was concluded in Vienna yesterday of the man Adler, who in October last assassinated Count Karl Stu[?]rgkh, the then Austrian Premier, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent a[?], Italian headquarters, telegraphing on Sunday, says:—The battle on the Upper Isonzo for the range of heigh[?] ...
Article : 177 wordsThe French auxiliary cruiser Colbert, 5,394 tons, was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on the 30th of last [?]onth. Fifty-one of those on board ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the official German figures give th[?] number of casualti[?]s for April at 42,838, including 11,979 men killed. The total number ...
Article : 67 wordsAccounts of recent fighting on the British front have referred to the deadly work of our Stokes gun. A "sin[?]ster weapon," the special correspondent of the ...
Article : 419 wordsIt is reported as a fact that the German submarine U boats are now able to fire torpedoes when submerged with an increased accuracy of from 50 to 75 ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 22 May 1917, Page 5
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