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Article : 105 wordsIt is officially admitted that the bread sickness prevalent in Germany is owing to the war bread becoming infected by hay and potato bacteria. The ...
Article : 74 wordsTo-day's French communique says:- German attacks in Alsace yesterday were smashed by our fire. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted the following German official wireless message:—The Russians are preparing for a battle between the Dniester and ...
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Article : 55 wordsMr. Thomas Ashten, the secretary of the Lancashire Miners' Federation, declares that the members of the latter are solidly against attending the ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Russian Embassy at Washington has received advices from Petrograd stating that M. Kerensky has conferred unlimited power upon General ...
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Article : 41 wordsMr. W. A. Holman, the Premier of New South Wales, addressing a Labour demonstration yesterday at Attercliffe, near Sheffield, met with strong ...
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Article : 33 wordsM. Kerensky, the Prime Minister of Russia, has accepted the resignation of the whole of his Cabinet so as to facilitate reconstruction. ...
Article : 108 wordsA conference of North-West Coast butter factories was held at Burnie to-day to urge the need for keeping the interests of Tasmania to the front in ...
Article : 165 wordsThere is some obscurity as to the identity of Herr Kuhlmann, said to be formerly German Ambassador to Turkey, who has caused an outburst in a ...
Article : 136 wordsFollowing a conference which he had to-day with President Wilson, Senator J. H. Lewis, the Democratic member for [?]llinois, stated:—"The President ...
Article : 55 wordsThe political atmosphere had cleared somewhat since the State Parliament adjourned three weeks ago, and there was not so much public interest in the ...
Article : 223 wordsA deputation from the Trades-hall Council waited upon the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day, and urged that the Federal Ministry should take steps ...
Article : 214 wordsA despatch received from The Hague by the "New York Times" states that the German newspapers contain the most bitter attacks yet made upon ...
Article : 115 wordsThe following report was received from Sir Douglas Haig this morning:- The enemy attacked yesterday in the neighbourhood of Hollebeke, but ...
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Article : 71 wordsCommenting on the speech delivered on Saturday by Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the war, Count ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 8 Aug 1917, Page 5
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