Mr. W.A. Holman, Premier of New South Wales, had luncheon to-day with Lord Harcourt, formerly Secretary of State for the Colonies, and also ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the House of Lords this afternoon Lord Newton[?] Assistant Under-Secretary to the War Office, replying to Lord Salisbury, said that Germany had ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that Nichola Lenin, the pro-German Jew who led the recent ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Russian official reports describe the retreat in Galicia in the most candid terms. Even the rearguard fighting is failing at certain points, because some of the troops prefer to move to the rear. The dreadful part of the situation is that the commanders are not now able to rely absolutely on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 591 wordsThe war correspondent of the "Paris Matin" on the British front, e[?]logises the extraordinary energy with which the British in the region of ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York World" states that the new war budget introduced into Congress means that the American authorities ...
Article : 100 wordsDuring the recent heavy fighting on the Smorgon front, a battalion of women volunteers went into action, and set a fine example to the male troops ...
Article : 42 wordsOfficial reports issued in Madrid are more optimistic regarding the situation in Spain. "El Imparcial," Madrid's leading daily newspaper, states that ...
Article : 57 wordsThe following return of arrivals, sailings, war losses, and unsuccessful attacks for the week ended Sunday last was of[?]icially issued to-day by the ...
Article : 167 wordsDiplomatic advices received in Washington anticipate a sharp joint Allied counter offensive to relieve the Russians. It is believed that the Allied ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Howard Coffin, the chairman of the United States Aircraft Production Board, states that America will try to break all records in constructing ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following is the full text of the "London Gazette" notice of the decoration of the late Captain Cherry (of Cradoc, Tasmania) with the Victoria ...
Article : 326 wordsThe del[?]gates to the Coal Miners Federation of Great Britain, now meeting at Glasgow, passed resolutions to-day in favour of the nationalisation of ...
Article : 133 wordsSenator Reed Smoot, who is a member of the Congress Finance Committee, addressing the Senate yesterday, said he believed that America would ...
Article : 46 wordsA Rumanian official report received to-day from Jassy (the provisional capital of Rumania, states:- We launched an offensive in ...
Article : 107 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:- The Germans, after a brief but violent artillery bombardment, this ...
Article : 164 wordsAdvices received in New York state that the Cabinets of Peru and Chili have resigned owing, it is believed, to disagreements on the question of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that the armed merchant cruiser Otway, 12,077 tons (well known in the Australian trade) was torpedoed and sunk in ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Navy Department at Washington anounces that owing to an explosion of gasoline fumes on the American submarine A7, which is now at Cavite, ...
Article : 48 wordsA widespread sensation has been created in Germany owing to the "Kreuz Zeitung's" publishing a strongly-worded article showing that the ...
Article : 102 wordsAn official message issued in Berlin states that the British submarine C34 (280 tons, and a comp[?]ement of 16 officers and men) was sunk by a German ...
Article : 57 wordsA Russian official report received by wireless at the British Admiralty Office to-day states:- The detachments of our troops ...
Article : 237 wordsMr. J. R. Clynes, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fo[?]d, in outlining the policy of the Ministry, says steps are being taken to protect ...
Article : 154 wordsYesterday a submarine torpedoed and sank the German steamer Norderney, 884 tons, laden with coal, and bound from Rotterdam to Denmark. One of ...
Article : 58 wordsThis afternoon's report by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig says:- We carried out successful raids last night to the eastward and ...
Article : 199 wordsThe "Financial American," which is published in New York, says that many inquiries are being made as to the possibility of America taking the surplus ...
Article : 44 wordsSir Eric Gedd[?]s, the First Lord of the Admiralty, has been returned unopposed for Cambridge in the place of Mr. A. H. Paget, who resigned. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe narrative of the German, assault in the region of the Chemin des Dames shows that their artillery had been enormously reinf[?]rced. Fifty-two guns ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Irish Convention wa sopened in Dublin yesterday. There was a fairly numerous body of spectators, but no demonstration was made. Sir Horac[?] ...
Article : 46 wordsAt an inquest held to-day on the body of a naturalised German baker, killed in the recent air raid on London, the evidence showed that an aerial torpedo ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Cossacks held up the enemy for many [?]ours before Tarnopol, thus facilitating the removal of stores and the blowing up of [?]ridges and depots. ...
Article : 98 wordsIn the Canadian House of Commons to-day Sir W. T. White, the Minister of Finance, introduced an income tax measure for the conscription of wealth. ...
Article : 124 wordsIn introducing the vote of credit in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Mr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the ...
Article : 76 wordsAn [?]xplosion which occurred to-day at a coal mine at Sydney, Nova Scotia, resulted in the en[?]mbing of 205 men. One hundred of these were rescued, but ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of England, and Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Foreign Secretary, have congratulated General Jennart, who acted as ...
Article : 193 wordsThe German official report, picked up by wireless at the British Admiralty Office to-day, states:—The Russians have refrained from again attacking us, ...
Article : 95 wordsAn official report on the East African campaign, issued to-day, states:- The action at Nar[?]ngombe, where severe fighting took place on ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post," in a message despatched from Petrograd on Tuesday, says:—To-day the bulletins were ...
Article : 627 wordsEnglish aviat[?]rs dropped bombs on Bruges and Zeebrugge on Monday night, and again last night, and explosions and fires resulted. At Zeebrugge ...
Article : 72 wordsIt was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-night that arrangements had been completed with the Imperial Government which would ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. B[?]nar Law, the Leader of the Government, in reply to a question by Mr. W. Joynson-Hicks, the Unionist ...
Article : 94 wordsWilliam A. Cason, a retired civil servant, was charged at the Bow-street Police Court to-day with corruption and with conspiring with T. E. Wing, th[?] ...
Article : 82 wordsA wireless message received from Petrograd states that the Commissaries of the Russian armies on the South-Western front have sent a message to ...
Article : 101 wordsThe "Echo de Belg[?]" states that three German regiments have been withdrawn from the front owing to being suspected of having developed the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Web[?] ster) stated to-day that lettergrams d[?]d not pay the department for their transmission, and that, consequently, he ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York World" states that nine American officers who have inspected the Western front have returned, [?]and ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Kaiser is on the Eastern front, and has addressed officers and men, and distributed decorations. The Emperor Charles of Austria, ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Minister of the Navy (Mr. Cook) has received information that on July 14 a burnt derelict, a wooden fourmasted schooner, laden with timber, ...
Article : 86 wordsA meeting of representatives of the Balti[?] Navy, held to-day, condemned the recent demonstrations in Petrograd as "political criminalities," and passed ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 27 Jul 1917, Page 5
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