The British repulsed many fierce enemy attacks on Saturday and Sunday, and Sir Douglas Haig reports that the Lys battle front remains intact. The enemy storm troops are apparently held, with Bailleul and Hazebrouck still in the ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Secretary of State (Mr. R. Lansing) has made a statement replying to the Dutch Government's disapproval of the seizure of Dutch ships, pointing out ...
Article : 87 wordsThe "Tagliche Rundeschau" (principal German journal supporting the party on the right) save that the Government has definitely annulled ...
Article : 71 wordsIt is announced that the naval collier Cyclops, 19,000 tons, is believed to have been lost, with 293 of the crew and passengers. The vessel is a month overdue. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,328 wordsThe "Sunday Times" states that Mr. Lloyd George intimated to his colleagues that he considers that the passing of a generous measure of Home Rule a ...
Article : 94 wordsIn a cablegram received by Senator Pearce (Minister for Defence) from the Commandant at the A.I.F. Headquarters in London, the Commandant states that ...
Article : 414 wordsThe firing of the long-range gun on Paris has entered upon a new phase. After firing during the day, it renewed the bombardment in the midnight hours, but ...
Article : 42 wordsEx-President Taft addressed the New York Legislature, and said that America within two years should send five millions of men to the West Front, and ...
Article : 214 wordsIt is generally understood that the Government is rapidly framing the new Home Rule measure. The "Daily News" says a serious ...
Article : 57 wordsGerman official wireless messages state: We have had successful engagements between Nieuwekerke and Vieux Berquin. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe "New York World" says that the Irish plan of self-government is doubly disappointing, because the old lines of cleavage have been emphasised. A divided ...
Article : 70 wordsSenator Harding, in the course of a speech on the submarine, said the losses of the world's shipping up to January 4 totalled 4,000,000 tons. If the present ...
Article : 78 wordsIn his midnight report Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig stated: We repulsed, after heavy fighting throughout the evening, attacks from Meteren ...
Article : 162 wordsA Ministerial decree places General Sarrail, who was in charge of the Allied forces in the Balkans, on the second reserve list. ...
Article : 32 wordsSpecial services and prayers in connection with the war crisis on the West Front have been held in churches and chapels throughout England. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe mine-sweeping fleet is now nearly forty-fold larger than in 1914. The work has developed from a rough and ready method into a science. The average ...
Article : 90 wordsIn view of the grave crisis on the Western Front yesterday was observed as a day of continuous prayer at St. John's Cathedral. The public were not slow to ...
Article : 377 wordsIt is rumoured that three German cruisers have been sunk westward of the Maas lightship, Holland and that a German torpedo hoat was mined and sunk ...
Article : 60 wordsFor many years an area of 1150 acres has been reserved for the protection of bird life on a large lagoon at Boonara, in the Burnett district, about 10 or 12 ...
Article : 221 wordsAn official statement replying to the Vieinna official message, states that Promce Sixte showed M. Poincare the original from the Austrian Emperor, as ...
Article : 296 wordsMr. John Hodge (Minister of Pensions), speaking at Hanley, recommended the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation to promote the establishment of a trade ...
Article : 90 wordsField-Marshal Haig reports: After many hours' obstinate fighting during the night and this morning about Neuve Iglise we remined in possession of the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe map covers the quadrangle Armentieres-Ypres-Poperinghe-Hazebrouck, within which the heaviest fighting has occurred during the past few days. It also indicates the relative position of the coastal centres, and shows how near to the sea the German thrust has brought the enemy. The main railway line from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 86 wordsSir,—As a war worker on a visit from another State I was surprised to find Queensland vas 30 far behind in making some provision in the way of a ...
Article : 487 wordsThe United Press special correspondent at Buenos Ayres has had in interview with Mr. Hypolite Irigoyen, the President of the Argentine, who said: "The ...
Article : 481 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his report on aviation, states: Our low-flying machines reconnoitred the battle front, dropping 1200 bombs on the enemy's troops ...
Article : 60 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, the French military writer, says: The British efforts in Flancers are making themselves more and more felt in the bitter fighting. Our ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 265 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association reports: The storm troops are apparently held, with Buillcul, Hazebrouck, Lillers, and Bethune still in Sir ...
Article : 212 wordsM. Maurice Barres, Deputy in the "Echo do Paris," utters a warning against unduly judging the situation, whish is essentially local, and adds that French ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is reported from Finland that the Germans are now outside the fortress of Helsingfors, a large German fleet co-operating. It is expected that the ...
Article : 43 wordsA French communique states: There were fairly lively artillery actions between Montdidier and Noyon. Out reconnoitring parties here brought back ...
Article : 101 wordsA sensational shooting affray is reported from a pleasure resort 10 miles from Oamaru. A young married farmer (George Burke) and two sisters were shot ...
Article : 139 wordsA Berlin official message states that the Council of Livonia, Esthonia, Riga, and Oesel have jointly passed a resolution expressing their desire to become, ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle." telegraphs: Sir Douglas Haig's order of the day should reveal to the world what is ...
Article : 759 wordsSapper Stanley V. Wood, of the Field Engineers, writing from Oxford to his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Wood. Powerslyn, Rosecliffe-street, ...
Article : 183 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association on the American Front reports. The Germans on Saturday made a terrific artillery gas shell attack, and then ...
Article : 62 wordsMessrs Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., have been advised that a telegram has been received in London from Captain Donaldson, of the Matunga, which was ...
Article : 130 wordsA correspondent in the Midlands states that the bombs dropped during the aeroplane raid on Friday night wrecked three houses, killing a man a woman, and a ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association reports that France nnd Great Britain are again urging a greater speeding up of American ...
Article : 159 wordsThe question whether there are too many hotels in the city of Adelaide was discussed to-day by the Licencing Court. The President intimated that it was proposed ...
Article : 200 wordsThe secretary of the War Savings Committee (Captain R. H. Cottam) reports that the State Treasurer has agreed to and the Minister for Public instruction ...
Article : 200 words"Lieut.-Colonel" H. J. Sharp advises that the Salvation Army has just received the following message from Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig:—"I am glad ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Foreign Committee of Austrian Delegations has been summoned to meet on April 20, to permit Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign ...
Article : 48 wordsLord Rothermere (President of the Air Board), in replying to a correspondent, declares that the air force staff officers are much too numerous He deplores the swollen ...
Article : 78 wordsGeorge H. Radcliffe, belonging to Birmingham, who was discharged from the Australian forces, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment in London for ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 16 Apr 1918, Page 7
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