After two years the British again hold Hill 70, to the north of Lens. It will be remembered that in the battle of Loos, the Highlanders rushed beyond the village and reached the summit of Hill 70 but were unable to hold the position. Our army was neither so well organised nor led then as now. ...
Article : 331 wordsThe German Socialist paper "Vorwaerts" interprets Great Britain's refusal to issue passports to the Stockholm delegates as the clearest evidence ...
Article : 78 wordsThe following Russian official wireless message has been received:- The enemy have occupied heights to the westward of Okna. ...
Article : 66 wordsReports from Prague state that 90 per cent. of the munition workers and 70 per cent. of the other workers in Bohemia have been on strike during, the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Miniser of Education (Prof. Herbert Fisher), speaking at Bedford yesterday, said there should be one great memorial to those who have fallen in ...
Article : 52 wordsFour of the Russian Socialist delegates recently in London and Paris are now in Italy,' and are ignored by the Government and the people. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo, the Secretary to the Treasury, has informed members of Congress that it will be necessary to vote, an additional 9,000,000,000 ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Sir A. H. Stanley, the President of the Board of Trade, said that the Board was unable under war conditions to ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Liberal War Committee gave a luncheon to Mr. W. A. Holman, the Premier of New South Wales, at the House of Commons yesterday. The ...
Article : 1,241 wordsA German official message says:- Russian attacks yesterday south of the Trotus Valley failed. We pushed beyond Soreja and are pursuing the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Japanese mission, headed by Viscount Ijechi, has arrived at a Pacific port. In a speech at a reception, Viscount Ijechi pledged Japan's efforts on ...
Article : 80 wordsChina's first action since the declaration, of war against the Central Powers has been the taking over of all AustroGerman shipping, and the repatriation ...
Article : 57 wordsThe majority and minority replies to the speech from the Throne were submitted in the chamber on Monday. The majority in their speeches hailed ...
Article : 84 wordsFive hundred persons, including doctors, teachers and priests, are awaiting trial for treason in Cernowitz. The charges arise out of the friendly ...
Article : 50 wordsSeven naval.captains have been made rear-admirals. ...
Article : 16 wordsIn his report last night, Sir Douglas Haig says:- The Canadians this morning stormed the German positions to the ...
Article : 164 wordsTwenty or thirty trainloads of wounded pass through Liege every day on the way to Germany. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe United States Government has issued a statement announcing that nothing has occurred to change America's war aims, which are substantially the ...
Article : 141 wordsWhen the threatened reactionary movement in Russia was successfully overcome in July, the ex-Tsar and his family were secretly exiled to Tobolsk, ...
Article : 127 wordsThe following return of arrivals sailings, war l[?]s, and unsuccessful attacks for the week ending Sunday last was officially issued to-day by the ...
Article : 147 wordsAn Anglo-Turkish Conference will be held shortly to discuss the better treatment of prisoners in Turkey. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn his despatch this afternoon Sir Douglas Haig says:- The French have gained further ground to the north-westward of ...
Article : 144 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rome correspondant says the Vatican is annoyed at the premature publicity given to the Note. The Pope intended to issue it ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, Minister of Munitions in securing the omission of the dilution of labour clause from the Munitions Bill, explained that the ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Austrian shipping companies have notified their captains that they must prepare to resume their duties in the winter. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" says:—Austrian and German troops have been sent to Anatolia to form the nucleus of a combined ...
Article : 52 wordsCommenting on the Pope's Note, the "Daily Chronicle" says:—The Pope overlooks one vital point—that the abolition of war depends not only on the ...
Article : 341 wordsDuring the week ended August 12 arrivals at Italian ports numbered 550 and departures 509. Six steamers and five sailing vessels were sunk. Only ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Cyril Brown, a "New York World's" correspondent at Stockholm, states that Bulgaria is one of the stumbling blocks in the road of peace, ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Danish Sailors' Union are supporting the demand of the British Seamen's Union that Germany shall pay for all shipping damaged or sunk, and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Food Controller (Lord Rhondda) has fixed the maximum prices for British wheat for delivery before December at 73s. 6d. per 504lb.; December and ...
Article : 109 wordsIn a message to-day Mr. Philip Gibbs gives a vivid description of the capture of Hill 70, and the mining suburbs of St. Laurent and St. Emile ...
Article : 265 wordsIn a message to-day the "Petit Parisien" says:—The ruins of Westhoek would not suffice to shelter a single soldier, which makes still finer the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that an important statement is forthcoming concerning the naval command in the Mediterranean (now held by a French ...
Article : 31 wordsThe publication of "Zukunft," the newspaper conducted by the German Socialist, Herr Maximilian Harden, after being suspended for six weeks, ...
Article : 55 wordsA group of enemy aeroplanes bombed Venice at daybreak on Tuesday. One bomb fell in a hospital, killing two and wounding 21 of the patients. The ...
Article : 80 wordsThe D.S.O. has been awarded to the following Australian officers:- Major A..G. Bolingbroke, who displayed great dash and initiative in ...
Article : 436 wordsA German semi-official message has been issued, stating that nothing is known of the circumstances of the sinking of the steamer Belgian Prince, as ...
Article : 171 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, the French war correspondent, says the artillery of all the Allies appears to be striking in unison. The unfavourable weather in ...
Article : 54 wordsThe German newspaper "Vorwaerts" says Mr. Honderson's resignation is the prelude to the downfall of Mr. Lloyd Georges's Cabinet, and adds that the ...
Article : 63 wordsAn Austrian official wireless message says:—As a reprisal for the aerial attack on Pola, numerous Austrian aeroplanes attacked the maritime arsenal ...
Article : 58 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:- We have made appreciable progress west of the Dixmude road. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe text of the Note, sent by the Pope to the heads of the belligerent peoples is now published. It is prefaced with the statement that the Pope's aim ...
Article : 706 wordsThe South Wales Miners' Federation supports the Labour executive, and has endorsed the application for passports for British delegates. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe United Press Association's correspondent on the British front, describing the capture of Hill 70 by the Canadians, says they carried everything ...
Article : 103 wordsAnother army of American soldiers has landed in England. They marched through the streets of London to-day, and aroused the warmest popular ...
Article : 266 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon says:— There was a very active artillery duel last night on both banks of the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe "New-York Times" Berne correspondent states that America's embargo on exports to neutrals has had a marked effect in Germany. Even the ...
Article : 213 wordsTo-day's German official message states:—A violent artillery duel is proceeding between Hulluch and Lens. We have shot down 20 aeroplanes and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 17 Aug 1917, Page 5
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