Although the enemy attack continues, the latest advices from the West Front show that he is being firmly held up at all points by the Allied forces. In some cases the British and French troops have carried out successful counter-attacks, ...
Article : 119 wordsIt is understood that influential members of the Government support the feeling in the lobbies in favour of securing a definite Government promice that men ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Irish Catholic hierarchy, after the meeting at Maynooth (Kildare), passed a resolution that the Irish people possess the right to resist conscription by all ...
Article : 485 wordsThe Premier (Sir Robert Borden), who is taking steps to call more men to the colours, says the battle on the Western Front is likely to continue for months, ...
Article : 196 wordsSpeaking in the House of Assembly, the Minister of Railways and Harbours and of Finance (Mr. Henry Burton, K.C.) declared that the republican ...
Article : 373 wordsA British-Italian official message reports: The Manchesters and South Staffordshires both successfully made raids last night, killing 30 Austrians and ...
Article : 91 wordsProbably tea and lard will be rationed shortly. ...
Article : 15 wordsIt is officially announced from Vienna that the appointment of Baron Stephen Burian as the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs in succession to ...
Article : 66 wordsDespite the misgivings of the Socialist and Progressive Parties regarding the effect of the submarine warfare there is a general demand among members of the ...
Article : 78 wordsIn his noon report Field-Marshal Haig states: We repulsed hostile attacks reported to be progressive yesterday morning southward of Kemmel. Our artillery ...
Article : 449 wordsA report from London states that Italian troops are moving to France, and a later statement says that they have arrived in Alsace sector. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that his Majesty the King has expressed his high approval of the extension of the operations of the Munitions Ministry and of ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the "Daily Chronicle" correspondent, states: Thursday was a black day for the enemy, between Robe[?], and Givenchy, and especially at Givenchy ...
Article : 393 wordsThe British War Office reports that the German Admiralty claims that its submarines sank 12,000,000 tons of the world's shipping in the past year. The ...
Article : 42 wordsThe bulk of the Matunga's passengers and crew were taken to Germany by the raider Wolf, and were interned at Gustrow, the remainder being interned at ...
Article : 65 wordsGovernment organs criticise the Cabinet changes, particularly Mr. Chamberlain's inclusion, and also demand an immediate assurance that Lord Milner will retain ...
Article : 345 wordsThe House of Representatives has rejected the Senate proposal to increase the price of wheat to 250 cents per bushel. The price remains at 220 cents. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Stuttgart group of Independent Socialists is calling on the German Governmental Socialist majority party, which is led by Herr Schiedmann, to sever ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "New York Times" says that it still remains a secret what are General Foch's resources, but the indications are that General Foch his planned a ...
Article : 61 wordsA joint session of the Senate and Assembly was resumed this morning. The Minister of the Interior moved the second reading of the Electoral ...
Article : 116 wordsIntercessory services in connection with the war have been held in the "Methodist Church, Sherwood, for a few months past, every Wednesday evening ...
Article : 194 wordsWomen farm workers, carrying farming implements, pigs, lambs, and poultry, made a demonstration in Hyde Park for the purpose of aiding recruiting. Thirty ...
Article : 37 wordsBritish military of finals estimate that Germany has still 840,000 fresh troops on the West Front. NEW YORK, Saturday. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe State Department has received an intercepted wireless message from the Bolsheviks Commissary for Foreign Affairs to Berlin, complaining of German ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Home Secretary (Sir George Cave), speaking at Kingston, said that the pacifists were realising the determined spirit of the people in this crisis, and ...
Article : 41 wordsCommenting on the Irish situation the "Spectator says: The anties, threats, and mock heroics of Nationalists, Sinn Feiners, and Irish bishops are not a ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" has had an interview with the French general who intervened at Noyon on March 23, and blocked the ...
Article : 275 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, the war correspondent for the "Daily Express," states: "A lull followed yesterday's German defeat, and exhausted enemy divisions, ...
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Advertising : 216 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "New York Times" says that Dutch shipowners are unwilling to send ships Americawards to carry [?]ain as they do not ...
Article : 108 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his despatch on aviation this morning, said: Last night we dropped nine tons of bombs on Bapaume, Armentieres, ...
Article : 230 wordsA German wireless message states that in view of the reports of the formation of revolutionary committees in war prisoners camps in Russia, notably at ...
Article : 215 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" on the French Front states that yesterday's attack was only a small operation, but it put our line forward ...
Article : 85 wordsThe federal idea suggested in the Irish Conventions report is attracting considerable attention as a possible method of reconciling the divergent views on ...
Article : 414 wordsAccording to diplomatic advices from Berne, Prince Hohenlohe (Austrian Ambassador in Germany) has gone to Vienna, to take part in conferences ...
Article : 58 wordsThe resignations of Major-General Trenchard (Chief of the Air Staff) and of Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson (Director-General of Military ...
Article : 54 wordsThe long-range gun has not shelled Paris for the past two days. PARIS, Saturday. The long-range bombardment of Paris ...
Article : 62 wordsThe United Press correspondent says: General von Quaist is doggedly, but unsuccessfully, endeavouring to get round from the north-eastward of Bethune, the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe French communique received this afternoon states: There was a somewhat violent reciprocal bombardment in the Castel-Mailly-Raineval ...
Article : 218 wordsIt is reported that Viscount Montono. Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, has announced his intention to resign from office on account of ill-health. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe War Department has received advices which state that the Germans have been compelled to greatly reinforce the army fighting the Red Guards in ...
Article : 71 wordsDuring the week over 100,000 shells have fallen on Reims. The city is still burning, and is becoming a wilderness of scorched and blackened ruins. The roof ...
Article : 56 wordsA wireless German official message states that after yesterday's failures, the French did not renew the attacks northwest of Moreuil. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" reports that official advices say that the Dutch and German Governments came to an agreement ...
Article : 79 wordsThere have been sanguinary riots at Cracow, in Galicia, A mob looted the Jewish quarter. There were conflicts between the mobs and the troops, and 21 ...
Article : 43 wordsGeneral Bridges who has arrived here, predicts that the German offensive will continue into June either on the West Front, or in Italy. He expects the most ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Admiralty reports: British monitors on Wednesday night bombarded Ostend and batteries in the vicinity. Owing to bad weather it is not ...
Article : 104 wordsThe new Trench tax on luxuries is yielding revenue at the rate of £40,000,000 yearly. LONDON, Saturday. ...
Article : 45 wordsA Rugby football match to-day between teams representing the New Zealand Military Headquarters and the Great Public schools was won by the former ...
Article : 33 wordsThe "Morning Post's" Amsterdam correspondent states that Dr. Karl Helferich is the coming man in Germany, and that he will probably succeed Dr. von ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Anzac Day commemoration in London on Thursday will include services at Westminster Cathedral and Central Hall, Westminster, and concerts in the ...
Article : 46 wordsM. Tardieu (High Commissioner for France), in the course of a speech, stated that the total number of French soldiers killed in the war was 1,300,000. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "New York Times" condemns the expression of a high British military authority, for "What happened to Blucher:" as peevish and in ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Government Committee reports that British cement exported to Holland during the war has not reached Germany for use in the construction of pill boxes ...
Article : 62 wordsA wireless Turkish official message says: We are approaching Kars. We have occupied Tsuhorukshujii. The prisoners taken at Batum included 600 ...
Article : 37 wordsLady Roshmore has been fined £10 in a police court on a charge of having attempted to telegraph home that the Germans were marching on Cala[?]s, and that ...
Article : 51 wordsDespatches received at Ottawa say that the British lines in France are now more secure than for days past. ...
Article : 32 wordsLord Robert Cecil, in a speech at Hitchin, said we had reached the gravest crisis of the war, but he did not fear for the ultimate result. He had been told ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 22 Apr 1918, Page 7
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