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Article : 77 wordsThe figures given below are final for the Senate and House of Representatives elections in Tasmania. In every instance the Nationalist candidates have ...
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Article : 153 wordsThe English newspapers welcome Brazil's entrance into the war, and express the hope that her sister States in South America will follow her example. ...
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Article : 192 wordsGeneral Alexieff, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian armies on the Eastern front, has resigned his position, and has been succeeded by General ...
Article : 41 wordsMrs. F. Young, of Southport, has received news that her son. Private W. W. Young, was killed in action on May 3, making it the second loss in four ...
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Article : 97 wordsSir Edward Carson, the First Lord of the Admiralty, in an interview to-day with a representative of the Paris "Matin," stated that the entry of ...
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Article : 44 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon says:- The artillery duel in the region of Froidmont Farm (south of Laon) ...
Article : 241 wordsA report from Sir Douglas Haig this afternoon says:- We have recaptured the post we lost on Saturday night to the ...
Article : 210 wordsIt was announced by the Marine Underwriters' Association of Victoria to-day that the war insurance rate on vessels travelling from the United ...
Article : 77 wordsGeneral Enoch Crowder, of the United States War Department, in a statement issued to-day, says the first call under the conscription law has ...
Article : 148 wordsThe owners have su[?]d Lloyds, as underwriters, for £80,000 as compensation for the damage of 15 Old Masters aboard the steamer Mississippi, sustained in ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Swiss newspaper "Basler Zeitung" states that since Germany began her unrestricted submarine warfare on February 1, 15 submarines have not ...
Article : 59 wordsIn connection with the statement made in the press that married munition workers who went to England are being paid as low as 50s. per week, the ...
Article : 205 wordsHerr Hunfi, one of the Hungarian delegates to the Socialist Conference at Stockholm, says there is a possibility of a democratic revolution in Middle ...
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Article : 171 wordsM. Kerensky, the Russian Minister of War, reviewing troops at Odessa today, said he could certify that in spite of outward appearances of weakness ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. W. G. McAdco, the Secretary of the Treasury in President Wilson's Government, in an address at New York to-day, says he hoped that when ...
Article : 285 wordsA supplement to the "London Gazette" to-day states that the Royal Red Cross (Second Order) has been awarded to the following: ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Launceston Council has reiterated its decision that returned soldiers are not to be allowed to ride free upon the trains. The matter was before the ...
Article : 311 wordsThe United Press Association's correspondent at British Headquarters says:—The Canadians were heavily engaged on Saturday and Sunday. Their ...
Article : 271 wordsAt a secret session of the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday a resolution was passed by 453 votes to 55 demanding that in the terms of peace ...
Article : 63 wordsBombardier R. Conacher, of 10th Battery, 4th Brigade, whose name appeared in yesterday's cablegrams amongst those receiving decorations at ...
Article : 276 wordsAn interesting statement covering the operations of the Federal Film Censor Board was made to-day by the chairman (Sir Harry Wollaston). Since ...
Article : 268 wordsThe Chinese Military Provisional Government which has been established at Tientsin, to the south-east of Peking, of which it is the port, has ...
Article : 224 wordsAn Italian official message states:- The enemy's artillery fire became more intense last night to the eastward ot Gorz, the bombardment ...
Article : 107 wordsSix thousand clerks in clothing stores in Petrograd recently struck work, and demande ddouble wages, the increased rates to be retrospective since war was ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that it is evident that the United States will remain in the war to a finish, and will ...
Article : 79 wordsDestructive fires, which are believed to have been caused by incendiaries, broke out yesterday in the Minsk region, and destroyed 3,000,000 bushels ...
Article : 41 wordsGeneral Ferrero, the Italian Commander in Albania, has proclaimed the unity and independence of the whole of Albania, under Italian protection. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe British Admiralty has issued the following statement:- A f[?]t of seaplanes, under the commod[?]re in command at Dunkirk, ...
Article : 53 wordsAfter lasting seven weeks, the hearing of the claims of the Australian Workers' Union against the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia was ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Swedish Government has expelled an Austrian agent-provocat[?]ur named Kerlin from Stockholm, on the ground that he attempted to per[?]u[?]de Russian ...
Article : 45 wordsGeneral Joffre is to co-operate with General Pershing[?] the Commander of the American Expeditionary Force, in organising the American troops ...
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Article : 96 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Hobart City Council it was decided, on the motion of Alderman Davis, seconded by Alderman Shield, that letters of ...
Article : 170 wordsProfessor Sefton Delmer, an Australian who was interned in Germany, has arrived in London. He left Germany on May 23, after being interned at ...
Article : 143 wordsA Russian official wireless message states:- Our scouts yesterday made their way through four rows of barbed-wire ...
Article : 40 wordsAn explesion which occurred to-day at Aube[?]villiers, one of the suburbs of Paris, destroyed two factories, injured four People and caused factories damage to the ...
Article : 42 wordsAll the German ships seized in American ports have been given American names. The Mecrantile Marine Co.'s profits for the year amounted to ...
Article : 71 wordsThe publication of President Wilson's message to Russin on the war aims of America, which, it was thought, had been in[?]ercepted by German agents, has, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 6 Jun 1917, Page 5
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