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Article : 91 wordsGeneral Maurice, reviewing the situation at the end of the fourth phase of the German offensive, states that the Allied line has been lengthened by 70 ...
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Article : 157 wordsOwing to their opposition to an anticonscription resolution, six members of the Wicklow Town Council have been boycotted, and the vendetta has forced one ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. R. Lansing (Secretary of State), commenting on the cables from England, says that America has not yet been notified of Germany's plan to declare a ...
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Article : 111 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Lady Davidson visited Tenterfield yesterday, and inspected the public school, convent school, and the hospital. They were also ...
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Article : 110 wordsThe Admiralty reports that a British squadron dropped bombs on aerodromes and enemy works at Drama and other places on the Turko-Bulgarian coasts. ...
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Article : 112 wordsOn several occasions recently, English naval critics have forecast that the German Fleet would shortly be compelled to give battle. ...
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Article : 28 wordsMr. J. R. Clynes (Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food), in informally discussing the food situation with the Lobby correspondents on the occasion of the ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. James W. Gerard (formerly United State Ambassador to Berlin) said, in the cource of a speech: "Before I left Berlin I learned that Germany's aim was to ...
Article : 83 wordsThe seamen's organisation held services in memory of the 970 Norwegian sailors killed by submarines and mines. During the war 698 Norwegian ships have been ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is generally accepted that Sir George Cave will be the chairman of the now domestic Cabinet, to be called the Committee of Ministers on Home Affairs. It ...
Article : 63 wordsThe British Admiralty states that the area within five miles of the position in which the Dutch hospital ship Koningen Regentes was sunk on June 6 has been ...
Article : 209 wordsCommenting on the boast of General von Stein that the Allies' armies are beaten, Mr. N. D. Baker (Secretary for War) says: "That is von Stein's opinion; but the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe returned invalid soldiers listed "D" are expected to arrive by the Sydney mail train to-day, at 6.40 p.m., at No. 4 platform, Central Station. Two passes ...
Article : 107 wordsDuring Monday the Bohemo-Slavs advanced towards Ouffa. It is reported that all the towns on the Siberian railway from Teherlabinsk to To[?]sk, formerly ...
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Article : 86 wordsOfficial fresh despatches from France say that the German Press is pessimistic about the situation in the United States. Newspapers say that President Wilson ...
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Article : 233 wordsDuring the suffrage debate in the Prussian Parliament, M. Korsansky, a Polish deputy, declared that the suppression of the Poles forms part of the ...
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Article : 60 wordsThe Governor of New South Wales (Sir Walter Davidson) and Lady Davidson arrived here yesterday afternoon, His Excellency, in the course of a speech, ...
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Article : 60 wordsPresident Wilson's letter to the women's suffrage leader says that he endorses the national women's suffrage amendment, and hopes that it will pass ...
Article : 122 wordsA Belgian memorandum presented to Mr. R. Lansing (Secretary of State) shows that on March 27 100 Belgians were taken from East Flanders for military work on ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Victoria Sporting Club is opening a fund to provide hostels in London and the provinces for soldiers and sailors while being taught useful occupations. ...
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Article : 81 wordsSir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade), addressing a gathering of users of dies, said: We will probably be independent of Germany by the ...
Article : 84 wordsAn official message from East Africa states: Our nursuing columns, after minor encounters, entered Malema unopposed on Wednesday. The enemy retreated south ...
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Article : 37 wordsMore repatriation men have arrived in London from Switzerland, including the following Australian officers, Captain D. Wells, and Lieutenants W. D. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Chief of Staff of the united States Army (General March) announces that over 800,000 American troops have been sent oversea. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 17 Jun 1918, Page 7
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