Truth is sometimes found in unexpected places. The German newspaper "Vaterland" says that but for the Anglo-French offensive on the Western front the German armies would have had a mere parade to Petrograd. That is no doubt in the main[?]ture, for immediately following the revolution the Russian ...
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Article : 61 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the leader of the British mission to America, in a speech in New York yesterday, stated that the insen[?]ate policy of Germany had forced ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner of Australia, has initiated quarterly luncheons to the Agents-General of the States, at which matters ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is expected that the Conscription Bill will be introduced in the Canadian House of Commons on Friday next. It is estimated that there are nearly ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rome correspondent, in a message to-day, says:— Having lost their chief point d'appui in the Isonzo district the Austrians have ...
Article : 109 wordsAdvices received in Madrid from Badaj[?], the Spanish town about five miles from the Portuguese border, state that a popular rising has taken ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner of Australia, has called the attention of the Colonial Office to the trivial fines imposed on women for ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday, M. Ribo[?], the Premier, announced that he had received a telegram from the new Russian Government ...
Article : 169 wordsIn the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday, M. Ribot, the French Prime Minister, replying to numerous interpellations regarding the French ...
Article : 309 wordsIn connection with the death of two American Red Cross nurses on board a British liner proceeding to Europe, owing to a ...
Article : 105 wordsAfter the sentence of death had been passed upon the man Adler, who assassinated Count Stuergkh[?] the Austrian Premier, the prisoner said he had ...
Article : 97 wordsKing Victor Emmanuel of Italy, replying to King George's congratulations on the recent Italian successes, said:- I am glad my troops are fighting side ...
Article : 70 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. J. L. Baird, Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board, announced that Lord Northeliffe had been ...
Article : 98 wordsThe command or the Austrian armies on the South-Western (Italian) front has been transferred from the Archduke Eugene of Austria to Marshal Conrad. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Minister of De[?]ence (Senator Pearee) stated to-day that the Military authorities abroad had, after careful consideration, solved a system under ...
Article : 336 wordsThe "Jewish Morning Journal," a daily paper published in New York, states that it has received a report that an attempt was recently made in ...
Article : 67 wordsA squadron of Italian acroplanes has bombed the arsenal at Pola. the Austrian port on the Adriatic. The bombs caused a great fire, which has been ...
Article : 52 wordsTo-day's French communique states: The enemy to-day attacked the positions we captured to the northward of Mont Cornillet (east of ...
Article : 190 wordsA report received from Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig says:- The German artillery was active during the night to the eastward of ...
Article : 139 wordsThe threatened strike of 200,000 cotton weavers in the North of England, which was arranged to take place on Saturday, has been av[?]rted, at least ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Petit Parisien" says that the Russian Socialist party is confronted with immense difficulties. The majority of the ...
Article : 82 wordsA German destroyer has captured three Swedish steamers in the Gulf of [?]othnia, bound from Sweden to Finland. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the Savoy Hotel last night a dinner was given to General J. C. Smuts, the South African Minister of Defence, who represented South Africa at the ...
Article : 752 wordsThe German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" states that Russia will soon accept a German peac[?], and therefore it is important for the Government to ...
Article : 49 wordsLord Milner, who is a member of Mr. Lloyd George's War Cabinet, and is now on a visit to Paris, stated in an interview with a representative of ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Independent Nationalist newspaper "Irish Independent" declares that the Government has abandoned the partition remedy, and therefore it would ...
Article : 122 wordsLord Newton[?] replying to a question in the House of Lords to-day, regarding the treatment of prisoners, said that one or two German prisoners had ...
Article : 196 wordsAdmiral Koltschak, the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, who was recently mentioned as likely to be appointed Minister of the Navy in the new ...
Article : 153 wordsTo-day's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:- We have carried out successful raids to the north-eastward of Epohy (13 ...
Article : 37 wordsFor some time past a stringent oversight has had to be exercised in regard to shipping accommodation at the disposal of the Commonwealth. Until ...
Article : 327 wordsA correspondent on the British front says:—We are slowly increasing the ground previously w[?]n on the Hindenburg line around Bullecourt. We are ...
Article : 129 wordsTo-day's Italian official message states:- We have repulsed violent raids on our positions in the Cavento Pass and ...
Article : 85 wordsSince the war started Denmark has lost 150 vessels by German submarines or mines, and during the last three months 200 Danish seamon have been ...
Article : 39 wordsThe American newspapers generally approve of the Home Rule Convention. The "New York Herald" says Ireland will now have the opportunity of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph[?] states that Prince Lv[?]ff (Prime Minister), M. Terestcheneko (Foreign Minister), M. Kerensky ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Imperial Clothing Office in Berlin denounces the waste in clothing the dead before interment, and says the leaving of shoes and stockings on the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Brazilian steamer Tijuca, 2,804 tons, was torpedoed and sunk yesterday off the coast of France by a German submarine. Some of the crew were ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Le Matin" says:—The Germans, in spite of the most desperate counter-attacks, have been unable to retake an inch of the ...
Article : 92 wordsA great fire broke out last night in Atlanta City, in the State of Georgia, and resulted in 100 blocks of houses being destroyed. The damage is ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Bulgarian delegates to the Socialist Congress at Stockholm state that they are agreed upon the principle of peace without annexations, but the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rome correspondent says:—The Austrians' counteroffensive in the Trentino yesterday increased in violence, but all their ...
Article : 147 wordsDr. Irmer, a well-known German colonial authority, writing in the Berlin weekly journal "Deutsche Hans," asks the intentions of the German ...
Article : 397 wordsMr. and Mrs. H. S. Castle, Rosedale, Spring Bay, have been notified officially that their son. Private George Ernest Castle, has been reported missing since ...
Article : 150 wordsIn his report to-day Sir Douglas Haig states:- We have carried out a successful raid in the neighbourhood of ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Italian mission to the United States will reach Washington to-day (Tuesday). It is headed by Prince Ferdinand of Savoy, a cousin of King ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Sir George Cave, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in moving the second reading of the ...
Article : 117 wordsA Company, with a capital of 10,000,000 dollars, the head of which is Mr. Simon Lake, an American inventor, has been established in Philadelphia for the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "New York Times" quotes a statement in the [?]man newspaper "Vaterland" to the effect that the Allied offensive on the ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Hoover[?] who has been appointed Food Controller in America, suggests the appropriation by the United States Government of 10,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 53 wordsAn Italian official message states:- The enemy made repeated attempts during the night to drive us from a hill to the southward of Grazigna ...
Article : 58 wordsAccused of the decapitation of a whit[?] girl, after committing an assault upon her, a negro named Parsons was forcibly taken yesterday from the sheriff's ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Amsterdam "Telegraaf" states that an a[?]rial fight was witnessed at Sa[?] Van Gent (near the coast of Ze[?]land) on Saturday evening, between 12 ...
Article : 39 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Sun" says there is every indication that Norway and Sweden will be forced to break off relations with ...
Article : 39 wordsThe State Department has demanded from Germany a statement as to her tr[?]atment of Americans det[?]ined in Belgium and Germany, whose departure ...
Article : 35 wordsAt a meeting of the State War council on Tuesday last there were present Senator J. Ear[?]e (in the chair), Hon. T. Gant, Hon. J. W. Evans, Major P. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 24 May 1917, Page 5
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