The Central News Agency confirms the report that Monte San Gabriele has been captured by the Italians. It is stated that the Italians took many ...
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Article : 387 wordsThe Ministor of the Mercan[?]ile M[?]ine in France proposes to lay down, for the current year three times the annual tonnage which was laid down ...
Article : 37 wordsA correspondent on the Italian front, in a message last night, says:- On Wednesday the fighting northeast of Gorz restarted with violence, ...
Article : 242 wordsThere was, a great demonstration in New York to-day, when drafted m[?]n from all cities in the United States paraded. President Wilson, Cabinet ...
Article : 41 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon says:- Last night the Germans again bombed Bar-le-Duc, where some ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo, the Secretary of the United States Treasury, announced to-day that he is issuing for war oxpenditure 300,000,000 dollars' ...
Article : 103 wordsAn air battle, characteristic of the recent fighting on the Western front, is recorded. Six British machines oncountered 15 Germans above the clouds. ...
Article : 95 wordsEx-King Constantine of Greece, who was last reported to be in Switzerland, has issued a proclamation denouncing M. Venizelos, the Premier of Gree[?]. ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Roosevelt, in a speech at New York to-day, stated that there must be no peace except through the complete defeat of brutalised, Prussianised ...
Article : 67 wordsAn Italian official message says:- Our air fleet effectively bombarded Pola last night. All our machines returned safely. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe following Turkish communique has been received:- The enemy are bombarding our positions at Gaza with intense vio ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Official Press Bureau at Vienna says the Austrian divisions on the Italian front have done their whole duty, but have been crushed by the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe following return of arrivals, sailings, war losses, and unsuccessful attacks for the week ending Sunday last was officially issued to-day by the ...
Article : 171 wordsA Russian official wireless message received by the British Admiralty states:- Our retirement along the Gulf of ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Labour organisations of the United States opened their first great convention to-day at Minneapolis, and passed a resolution pledging unswerving ...
Article : 98 wordsThe following message has been received from the British Commander in [?]t Africa:- The Anglo-Belgian column ...
Article : 155 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" to-day expresses the opinion that a further retirement by the Austrians may be expected. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Petrograd newspapers report that several Russian Grand Dukes have been arrested in consequence of the discovery of a counter-revolutionary plot. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe members of the Japanese mission now visiting America appeared before Congress to-day, and were enthusiastically received. Count Ishii, the leader ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association of New York says he has learned that the Allies are likely to undertake a new and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe food crisis in Petrograd is serious. There is only a bread reserve sufficient for three days, and soldiers and civilians are suffering privations. The ...
Article : 112 wordsIt is officially announced by thp British Admiralty that an enemy submarino appeared last evening off Scarborough, the undefended watering-place in the ...
Article : 131 wordsAlthough Brazil is in a state of war with Germany, General Caetana da Faria announces that no Brazilian troops will be sent to Europe, and that ...
Article : 56 wordsIn his report this n[?]orning Sir Douglas Haig says:— We drove off enemy raiders last night in the neighbourhood of ...
Article : 142 wordsA German official wireless, message states:—The operations at Riga further developed yesterday. A number of heavy coast defence guns, including ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is officially stated by the British War Office authorities that last night (Tuesday) a considerable number of enemy aeroplanes crossed the south-east ...
Article : 641 wordsLord Chelm[?]ford, the Viceroy of India, speaking at the opening of the Legi[?]ative Council to-day, made the longest and most important speach over ...
Article : 1,216 wordsA Russian official wireless message states:- We counter-attacked yesterday, and drove the enemy from the heights ...
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Article : 115 wordsThe following semi-official statement has been published: The catastrophe at Riga was not wholly unexpected, and measures for ...
Article : 292 wordsSurvivors of the four German minesweepers which were attacked and sunk last Saturday by British war vessels off the coast of Jutland, describe their ...
Article : 128 wordsA French communique says:— After a lively bombardment, the Germans attacked last night on Casemates Plateau (west of Cr[?]onne). Our ...
Article : 78 wordsThe following statement was issued by the Admiralty tp-day:- Our naval aircraft [?]ffectively bombed the bridge and railway ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "London Gazette" to-day announces that the Victoria Cross has been awarded to nine soldiers, including Corporal Leslie Wilson Andrew, of the ...
Article : 179 wordsOver 100 mines and much wr[?]kage have been washed up recently on the coast of Jutland. The Germans are scattering a new kind of floating mine, ...
Article : 53 wordsAn Italian official message issued tonight says:- The battle on the Julian Alps front was renewed with great violence ...
Article : 118 wordsA French ocmmuniqu[?] issued last night says:- The artillery struggle continues violently on both sides of the Meuse. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe crew of a Norwegian torpedoboat have discovered a German sub[?]rine lying on the sen bottom near Hammerfest, in Finmark. The submarine, ...
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Article : 42 wordsThe State Department at Washington announces that the Kaiser's military power must be utterly broken before America will discuss peace with ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent has forwarded the following telegram:—The position at Rig[?] is most serious. For a fortnight the Mo[?] ...
Article : 196 wordsThe following statement was issued By the Admiralty at noon [?]ay:- We carried out a raid on Monday night on the docks at Bruges and the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 7 Sep 1917, Page 5
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