The most interesting item of war news is the statement that the Italians have begun an offensive in Albania, a large army being on the march from the coast (on the Adriatic), with a view to turning the position of the Bulgarians near Monastir. That is exactly the movement which would have been ...
Article : 409 wordsA cablegram from Rome states that Italy is assured of sufficient food for the coming winter, owing to an excess wheat crop. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Franklin K. Lane, the Secretary of the Interior in President Wilson's Cabinet, speaking to-day at Atlantic City before a Businessmen's War ...
Article : 181 wordsIt was persistently stated in the Federal lobbies to-day that Mr. N. C. Lockyer, a member of the Inter-State Commission, was to be appointed as ...
Article : 55 wordsCables from Rome state that the Italian offensive on the Isonzo front cannot be considered at an end. Preparations are going on to advance ...
Article : 47 wordsArrangements are being made to remove Australian units from the more exposed camps on Salisbury Plain to spots affording more comfort during the ...
Article : 36 wordsM. Painleve, the Premier of France, addressing the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, said the duty of the Government was to gather the material and ...
Article : 215 wordsSick and wounded Tasmanian soldiers were landed at Burnie this morning, and welcomed by a large crowd. Fifty cars were in waiting, and the men were ...
Article : 771 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" declares that the Italian provinces of Allessandria, Genoa, and Turin are within the war Zone, and ...
Article : 100 wordsIt is expected that the first 100,000 men under the conscription scheme in Canada will be selected before November, and that 25,000 of them will be ...
Article : 53 wordsSir R. L. Bordon, the Prime Minister, stated to-day that it the Conservatives were returned with a majority at the forthcoming elections lie would ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Argentine Government has been advised by its Minister in Berlin that Germany has officially notified that she disapproves of Count Luxburg's words ...
Article : 146 wordsGeneral J. C. Smuts, the South African Minister of Defence, who is now a member of the Imperial War Cabinet, interviewed by the London ...
Article : 374 wordsWilliam Moloney, a second-lieutenant in the Munster Fisiliers, and over 50 years of age, has been awarded the military cross for leading a charge by ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Holman, Premier of New South Wales, visited Washington to-day, and was the guest of Sir Cecil Spring Rice (British Ambassador, Mr. L. D. ...
Article : 346 wordsThe "Amsterdam Telegraal" says that Germany's demand that Holland should subscribe to the German War Loan in [?] for coal supplies has ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Germans are constructing aerodromes throughout Flanders, particularly large ones at St. Denis and Westrem. The Allies continue their raids, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe official report issued this morning by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig says:- There are only patrol encounters in ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Argentine Labour element continues to seize the advantage created by the disclosures concerning Court Luxburg, and further rioting took place ...
Article : 93 wordsCaptain A. Macdonald an officer in the Australian Infantry, has been tried by court-martial, and dismissed the service. ...
Article : 31 wordsA newspaper published at Maastricht, in Holland, states that in the British aerial raid on Roulers in the middle of August a bomb fell on a large building ...
Article : 51 wordsIn order to stop the breeding of dogs and the [?]ubsequent consumption of food, the Kennel Club has ceased to register dogs whelped after September ...
Article : 40 wordsThe British light cruiser Glasgow (4,800 tons, and main armament of two 6-inch guns) will arrive at Buenos Ayres to-morrow (Thursday, and an elaborate ...
Article : 61 wordsThe correspondent of the "Morning Post" at the British headquarters in France writes:—The German Higher Command is showing great ...
Article : 231 wordsThe United States Consular building at Dunkirk was wrecked by a German bomb on the 7th inst. ...
Article : 27 wordsYesterday Second-Lieutenant K. Billing, an Australian, who was attached to an aerodrome in the Midlands, ascended to a height of 2,000 feet, and looped ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Norwegian steamers Asklang (1,116 tons) and Reime (1,913 tons) have been tonpedoed and sunk by German submarines. Eleven members of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Ko[?]nische Volkszeitung," which yesterday repeated the statement that Germany has given up her idea of supremacy in Belgium, and that this ...
Article : 142 wordsPrince Henry of Prussia, brother of the Kaiser, in a speech at the launching of the cruiser Graf Von Spee yesterday, made a remarkable appeal to ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Russian official report received by wireless at the British Admiralty Office this morning says:- Our advance guards are ...
Article : 80 wordsThere is much comment in Norway over German financiers endoavouring to persuade Norwegian shipowners to grant charter of their vessels to ...
Article : 73 wordsThe arrest of generals, and other supporters of General Kornilaff continues everywhere in Russia. The Cossack military administration has telegraphed to ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Swedish Socialists have decided to postpone the Stockholm Peace Conference until the end of the year. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that the Pope will not publish the German reply to his peace proposals ...
Article : 85 wordsA sensational court-martial has opened in connection with the blowing up of a dynamite factory at Genoa in February, 1916, when there was a terrible ...
Article : 210 wordsA Russian official report received at the British Admiralty Office to-day states:- The Rumanians captured a sector of ...
Article : 77 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:- To the south of the River M[?]ietto a tributary of the Aisue) after a violent ...
Article : 123 wordsA Board of Control has been established in Great Britain for the woollen and worsted industries whereby the Army Council will determine the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that Count Erzberger, the leader of the Roman Catholic Centre party in the Reichstag, ...
Article : 352 wordsAt the Imperial on Tuesday evening Mr. A. G. Kemp, the new proprietor of Kemp and Denning, gave a dinner to Mr. E. V. Denning, who is retiring from ...
Article : 246 wordsUnited States officials continue to receive reassuring advices from Russia. There is now every reason to believe that the military and political situation ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the United States House of Representatives to-day, Miss Rankin, the only woman member of Congress, recommonded the Government to take ...
Article : 52 wordsA cablegram from Rome says a heavy new offensive has been launched by the Italians in the Balkans. The Italian Embassy also advises ...
Article : 78 wordsThe chairman of the South African Nationalist party executive has issued a warning to members of the party not to partake in movements of a rebel[?]ous ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the request of King Alphonso of Spain, Germany has released from prison M. Max, the burgomaster of Brussels in 1914. ...
Article : 116 wordsThe following awards to Australasian soldiers are gazetted:- Distinguished Conduet Medal.—Sergeant T. P. Johnston of the Australian ...
Article : 85 wordsA correspondent of the "New York Times" with the Italian army says the King of Italy lives among his troops in a modest villa, and is unceasing in his ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Swiss newspapers are urging the Government to prevent the continuous influx of thousands, of rich, hungry Germans and Austrians, who are eating up ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 20 Sep 1917, Page 5
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