Yesterday a German submarine sank seven Dutch luggers off Ymuiden, the Dutch seaport at the end of the North Sea Canal. ...
Article : 32 wordsAs before the battle of Messines Ridge, the British guns were on Saturday and Sunday heard in England, where doors and windows rattled. Near the Dutch frontier people were prevented by the thunder of the guns from sleeping. The people of Belgium therefore must hear the British knocking ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 380 wordsA Rumanian communique issued on Thursday says:- We have enlarged the breaches in the northern portion of the enemy's ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Russian Minister of Justice is drafting a law aiming at abolishing the class privileges of the bureaucracy, and all grades of civil decorations. ...
Article : 31 wordsA German official wireless message states:—The Russian armies on both sides of Husiatyn (south-east of Tarnopol) have retired behind the frontier. ...
Article : 110 wordsWriting in the "Daily News" (London), Mr. Robert Lynd says:- "M[?]. Kerensky has leaped into the ring like a champion. There is no other ...
Article : 333 wordsMr. Robert Lansing, the Secretary of State in President Wilson's Government, speaking yesterday at Watertown to officers in the military training ...
Article : 128 wordsReplying to the declaration of the pan-German newspapers that the Socialists do not care for the safety of the German frontiers, the Socialist paper ...
Article : 83 wordsA Russian official wireless message says:- The Rumanians have made further progress in the direction of Kezdi ...
Article : 57 wordsA well-known Russian, who for 27 years has been a resident in England, and is now on a visit to his native country, has sent the following telegram ...
Article : 147 wordsA peace meeting called yesterday in Swansea, South Wales, was broken up by a crowd of seamen. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is officially stated that Switzerland has been obliged to advance a considerable loan to Germany in order to secure a limited supply of coal from ...
Article : 46 wordsAn Austrian official wireless message intercepted by the British Admiralty states:—The enemy have made some progress along the Putna Valley (in the ...
Article : 74 wordsDr. Michaelis, the German Chancellor, received a number of journalists in Berlin yesterday, and in his address remarked that the latest utterances of ...
Article : 383 wordsThe Ministry of Shipping has issued a detailed statement showing the sacrifices incurred by British shipping in connection with the war. The ...
Article : 310 wordsA report received from Sir Douglas [?]aig this afternoon says:- We carried out successful raids last night north-east of Epehy and ...
Article : 180 wordsIt is officially stated by the French authorities that enemy aeroplanes unsuccessfully attempted to reach Paris on Saturday night. Explosions were ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the funeral of the Cossacks who were treacherously murdered in the streets of ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the determining factor in the retreat of the south-western Russian armies was ...
Article : 595 wordsIn a report received last night, Sir Douglas Haig says:- There was great aerial activity on our front yesterday, the air fighting ...
Article : 98 wordsGeneral Sir Bryan Mahon, the Commander-in-Chief of the troops in Ireland, has issued an order under the Defence of the Realm Act prohibiting ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Moscow conference has been postponed until the Premier (M. Kerensky) supplements the Ministry by fresh appointments. ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the rcquest of Alderman L. H. Macleod, a return was tabled at the last meeting of the Hobart City Council, showing the number of employees of the ...
Article : 517 wordsThe British Admiralty reports:—One of our submarines on Friday captured the German steamer Batavicr II. The crew of the latter abandoned the ship, ...
Article : 70 wordsA bank corps of the British army has been formed, consisting of technical and non-technical sections. The latter will receive the same pay as the Royal ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is reported that Lenin, the loader of the extreme Socialists, has evaded arrest, and reached Stockholm. He hid in a vessel at Kronstadt during the ...
Article : 40 wordsIn a message to-day Mr. Philip Gibbs says:—There is unceasing gunfire by both sides from the Flemish coast southw[?]rds to Lens. The enemy's artillery ...
Article : 161 wordsThere are indications that the German submarine which went ashore on the coast near Calais, and the crew of which were made prisoners, intended to ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "Morning Post" states that four revolutionary members of the Russian Workers' and Soldiers' Council, who liave been on a visit to England, left ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that reports received by the United States Government from Buda Pesth, the capital of ...
Article : 144 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:- The enemy made a violent attack yesterday to the westward of ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that Count Ersberger, the leader of the Catholic party in the Reichstag, is paying a visit ...
Article : 160 wordsAdmiral Nj[?]g[?]rand, the commander of the Austrian fleet, has stated in an interview with a representative of the Vienna newspaper "N[?]u[?] Fr[?]i[?] Press[?]" ...
Article : 75 wordsTraitorous wireless operators informed the Russian troops on the southwestern frontier of the disturbances in Petrograd on July 16. The report, ...
Article : 58 wordsThroughout Saturday night heavy and continuous firing in Belgium could be heard in the towns on the southeastern coast of England. The ...
Article : 279 wordsMembers of trade union co-operative societies held a demonstration in Hydepark yesterday, and passed a resolution demanding that the Government should ...
Article : 76 wordsSo far as school teachers who are in receipt of salaries of £300 per annum are concerned, it would appear that a settlement of their ...
Article : 290 wordsThe Military authorities announce in connection with the proposed issue of medals to the female relatives of Australian soldiers that many of the forms ...
Article : 130 wordsA French communique issued to-day says:- After a preliminary bombardment this morning the enemy attemp[?]d ...
Article : 71 wordsA Russian official wireless message, intercepted by the British Admiralty, states:- We repulsed an enemy attack ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 31 Jul 1917, Page 5
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