At the present time war in the air is absorbing attention. Gradually its importance has grown, until now it is almost a military axiom that supremacy aloft is a condition precedent to victory on earth. There is a desperate aerial battle proceeding between the coast and Lens, in which both ...
Article : 392 wordsThe Governor, Sir Francis Newde gate, held a levee at the Town-hall yesterday afternoon, which was largely attended. Numerous addresses of welcome ...
Article : 3,975 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Le Petit Parisien" states that the Kaiserin accompanied the Kaiser to the conference at Vienna with the Emperor Charles of ...
Article : 46 wordsKing Alexander of Greece, addressing a large deputation yesterday of National Defence officers, who are supporters of M. Venizelos, acknowledged ...
Article : 67 wordsThirty-one French aeroplanes participated in the air raid on Essen on Saturday. Several bombs were dropped with ...
Article : 124 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation placing a drastic embargo on the export of wheat and other products to neutral countries. The embargo, ...
Article : 363 wordsColour-Sergt.-Major William Herbert Farrell, Derby. Sergt. Peter Mclnnes, Scotland, 2nd occasion. ...
Article : 486 wordsFurther details of the German air raid on London yesterday morning show that at one establishment in the vicinity of the explosion 100 girls were ...
Article : 1,088 wordsTo-day's communique says:- We attacked this morning on the western bank of the M[?]use, and brilliantly carried three strong salients, ...
Article : 115 wordsThere is uneasiness in Stockholm over the fate of 50 Swedish fishing-boats, which have not returned from the North Sea. It is officially reported ...
Article : 80 wordsA report received from Sir Douglas Haig this afternoon says:- We carried out successful raids last night to the south-eastward of ...
Article : 268 wordsThe following Italian official message was issued to-day:- We to-day drove off a party of the enemy attempting to capture our ...
Article : 67 wordsThe French Admiralty report for the week ending yesterday (Saturday) is as follows:- Arrivals........................ 947 ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. W. C. Redfield, the United States Secretary of Commerce, says the Shipping Board will probably request an additional 500,000,000 dollars in ...
Article : 83 wordsA new German torpedo-boat has struck a mine and been destroyed off the coast of North Ameland (off the coast of Holland. There were two ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent says the strength of the Russian offensive-has surprised the German press. ...
Article : 187 wordsThe following statement has been issued by the British Admiralty:- Our naval aeroplanes carried out a raid last night on the German ...
Article : 58 wordsThere is an acute political crisis in Germany. All day yesterday the Reichstag committee, in secret sesssion, heatedly debated Germany's war aims, the ...
Article : 544 wordsLord Rhondda, the Food Controller, is recommending the Government to grant a subsidy of £12,000,000, so as to reduce the price of bread. He also ...
Article : 101 wordsA French communique issued to-day says:- All last night the enemy kept up an intense bombardment from the ...
Article : 284 wordsIn connection with the death of General Holmes, of the Australian forces, and the narrow escape of Mr. W. A. Holman, the Premier of New South ...
Article : 695 wordsButler, Claude Arthur, The Nook (severely). ...
Article : 7 wordsA German official wireless message received this evening states:—The Russians attacked yesterday near Zborow and Stanisla[?], and in the Upper ...
Article : 52 wordsColonel Smitt, a high officer of the Swedish General Staff, was murdered under sensational circumstances by an unknown visitor at his flat at 2 o'clock ...
Article : 53 wordsOfficers. Others. T[?]. Killed in action...... 1 89 Died of wounds......... — 5 Died other causes... — 1 ...
Article : 87 wordsMessrs. Chesterton Hall and Gaffney, the two American Socialists who were allowed to proceed from Sweden to Germany, have reached Stockholm from ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the Finns are causing grave embarrassment to the Provisional Government, for they ...
Article : 173 wordsAt the meeting of the Richmond Council on Saturday the Walden (Mr. N. J. Brooks) referred to the death of Private Aubrey Burn (eldest son of ...
Article : 210 wordsThe following (the 320th) casualty list has been released for publication. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The localities ...
Article : 188 wordsGerman minority Socialists returning home from the Stockholm conference state that they do not believe that any pressure exerted by England secured a ...
Article : 62 wordsIntense interest was taken in the debate in the Chamber of Deputies today on the last military offensive. M. Augagneur, a former Minister of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 10 Jul 1917, Page 5
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