The Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the opening session of the conference On the exchange of prisoners, ...
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Article : 346 wordsThe inaugural address delivered by his Grace the Archbishop at the opening of the Anglican Synod yesterday voiced a welcome to clerical and lay ...
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Article : 54 wordsThe captain and 16 members of the crew of the American steamer Pinar del Rio, 2504 tons, which was sunk on Saturday 73 miles off the American coast, have been ...
Article : 124 wordsA report from London states that the greatest battle of the war is ragtng. The Allies are supremely confident. The Germans are deeply engaged at ...
Article : 607 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," reports: The Germans fiercely bombarded several sectors between Villers-Bretonneux and ...
Article : 97 words"Women's Day" on Sunday in Ireland passed off quietly. Many thousands of women signed the pledge, declaring that conscription without consent was tyranny, ...
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Article : 155 wordsA German official wireless message states: Our attack penetrated the hilly district south-westward of Noyon. We captured French positions westward of the ...
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Article : 91 wordsThat returned men are mostly wounded has given use to the opinion that the unwounded returned never saw the firing line (writes a correspondent). Some, of ...
Article : 567 wordsAustrian advices through Switzerland state that the country is in the grip of a reign of terror. The Government is shooting, arresting, and banishing all on ...
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Article : 81 wordsAn Italian official message says: Our advance posts in the Val Sugana and three other sectors frustrated surprise attacks by large enemy detachments. Italian and ...
Article : 60 wordsMajor-General Maurice, the military correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," reports: General von Hutier his again taken the offensive though it is too ...
Article : 160 wordsMr. N. D. Baker (Secrectary for War) has announced that the United States has sent more than 700,000 troops to France. ...
Article : 33 wordsHerr von Payer, the Vice-Chancellor of Germany, outlined to a representative of the "Ne[?]e Frei Presse" (Vienna) an ambitious scheme for the settlement of the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe industrial situation on the Rand is becoming more serious. The Miners' Union formulated certain demands, including additional pay, and instructed ...
Article : 136 wordsWhen the attention of the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) was drawn to-day to the cable message stating that Surgeon-General Fetherstone, now in ...
Article : 163 wordsHerr Fehrenbnch the new President of the Reichstag, in a speech declared that the climax of the war is imminent He ridiculed the idea that the Americans ...
Article : 71 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon states: The German drive was continued yesterday afternoon and night with the same desperation. On our left ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Herr von Payer, in the course of an interview with a representative of the "Ne[?]e Freie Presse" (published in Vienna), said that ...
Article : 64 wordsWhile the lesser newspapers comment on the German offensive gloomily, betterinformed journals have the utmost confidence in the Allies' strategy. ...
Article : 65 wordsM. Clemenceau, the French Premier, has assured the deputies for the neighbourhood of Paris that the newly-formed committee is completing preparations, ...
Article : 44 wordsOf £50,000,000 paid in dividends in June, £16,500,000 has been reinvested in war bonds. ...
Article : 19 wordsHerr Schiedemann, leader of the Government Socialist Majority Party in the Reichstag, has accepted the position of Vice-president of the Reichstag, and has ...
Article : 52 wordsIt was stated in Labour circles to-day that the New South Wales branch of the Labour Party, in conference, had carried a resolution to the effect that the ...
Article : 118 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Bonar Law said that the Government was considering the question of holding occasional private sessions in order to ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. G. H. Perris, correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" on the French Front, telegraphs: A new phase of the Corman offensive opened this morning on a front ...
Article : 163 wordsIt transpires that the long range gun which bombarded Paris is not a new invention. Fran Krupp von Bohlen, the principal of the Krupp works in ...
Article : 87 wordsA large explosion took place in a big munition factory near Breslan. Six persons were killed and 200 injured. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Wise, in reply to Mr. Bayley, said that approximately [?]500 applications for the return of soldiers had been dealt ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Bonar Law stated in the House of Commons to-day that the Government was considering the legal position of women with respect to election to the ...
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Article : 121 wordsA French communique reports: During the second day of the offensive the enemy sought by powerful attacks, unceasingly strengthened by new effectives, to ...
Article : 203 wordsFive British seaplanes fought seven German seaplanes off Vlielund, North Holland. One German machine was shot down, and enveloped in flames fell ...
Article : 55 wordsA Portuguese East African communique states: Two enemy columns crossed the Lario River, on May 27 and 28, and three companies on May 29 attacked ...
Article : 68 wordsThe greater portion of to-night's sitting of the Labour Conference was held behind closed doors. It was stated that matters relating to the war were further ...
Article : 164 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, war correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," states: I spent two days among the French soldiers and people, and it was sad to see the drift of ...
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Article : 38 wordsMr. J. W. Gerard (the former American Ambassador to Germany), in a speech, said he was glad that America had dared Germany to make reprisals on American ...
Article : 65 wordsSir Robert Borden (Premier of Canada), Sir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), the Lord Mayor (Alderman H. S. Syer), the sherifis, and ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. J. I. Macpherson (Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office) stated in the House of Commons to-day that bombing raids by German aeroplanes in three ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 12 Jun 1918, Page 7
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