The Austro-German invasion of Italy, which has resulted in the occupation of a considerable area of territory and the regain in a week of all the Austrian territory ...
Article : 1,674 wordsAn Italian official report on Tuesday stated:—"The battle on the Asiago Plateau continued fiercely and sanguinarily all day long yesterday. Our counter attacks ...
Article : 396 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in a special order to the armies in France, states—"Our victories and successes have been very considerable. They might well have led to an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,193 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" telegraphs:—"Correspondents are sometimes reproached for failing to present the real facts of the Russian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 wordsMILDURA.—A distressing boating fatality occurred three miles down the River Murray from Mildura on Boxing day. Mr. H. E. Whatty, manager of the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe body of a woman was seen floating in the Yarra near Heyington-bridge at noon yesterday by a boy named William Smith, of Fraser-street, Burnley, and it ...
Article : 398 wordsDiscussing the position of voluntary recruiting yesterday, the Director-General at Recruiting (Mr. D. Mackinnon) stated that if the various political parties could make ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 387 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in acknowledging the King's Christmas message, assured his Majesty of the determination of his forces to fight in defence of the integrity and ...
Article : 397 wordsAlthough the German Christmas markets present a sad spectacle, the newspapers are proclaiming that "this is the last war Christmas" They do not recall ...
Article : 216 wordsRecruiting during the holidays did not show the improvement hoped for by the Director-General of Recruiting, and the enlistments for the year are unlikely to ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Bowser, the State Premier, has been spending the last few days in hospital, and is reported to be recovering steadily from the effects of a severe chill contracted ...
Article : 682 wordsThe Rome "Giornale d'Italia," commenting on the Pope's allocution, in which his Holiness regretted the failure of his last peace initiative, says that the failure was ...
Article : 95 wordsThe recruiting depot at Melbourne Town Hall was kept open yesterday, and 10 volunteers offered, for enlistment, but only 2 were enrolled. ...
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Advertising : 21 wordsMelbourne made holiday yesterday with something of the zest of pre-war days—now sufficiently remote to come within the description of the "good old days." The ...
Article : 342 wordsMr. E. N. Hurley chairman of the United States Shipping Board, reports that the shipping programme provides for 8,000,000 tons, of which one-fifth has been ...
Article : 140 wordsSir Arthur Yapp, Director of Food Economy, is making an appeal for specially drastic food economy in the first week of the New Year. He describes the week as ...
Article : 66 wordsOfficial advices state that Sir Edmund Allenby's troops have advanced to a line nine miles north-east of Jaffa and are driving towards the Jordan. The campaign in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following message has been received by the Prime Minister from Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Chauvel, Cairo, in reply to a cablegram containing Christmas ...
Article : 91 wordsA [?] at an American port found several hundred rifles and revolvers and a quantity of ammunition concealed in a cargo steamer. The cartridges were ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Coal Conservation Committee, in an interim report concerning post-war reconstruction, recommends the establishment throughout the country of sixteen super ...
Article : 116 wordsWELLINGTON.—The sales of war loan certificates for the past year are regarded as most satisfactory. The total sales to 15th December amounted to £2,873,000 the ...
Article : 45 wordsOn Christmas day many entertainments were provided for the Dominion soldiers in London, Sir John M'Call presided at a dinner and concert to over 1000 ...
Article : 156 wordsThere will be a general resumption of training in the A.I.F. camps to-day. Christmas leave expired at midnight yesterday, and the late trains to Broadmeadows' and ...
Article : 76 wordsA total eclipse of the moon will take place on Friday evening. "Totality" will last only seventeen minutes. As the moon will rise quite eclipsed, and there are mists ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 478 wordsBENDIGO.—Ideal weather for holiday makers prevailed on Boxing day. The principal attraction in the city was a carnival held in the municipal ...
Article : 141 wordsThe judicial proceedings against M. Caillaux were began in Paris on Monday. Two counts have been filed against him, charging him with having exchanged intelligence ...
Article : 49 wordsFrank Moline, 38, and William Jansen, 40, members of the crew of a sailing vessel lying at South Wharf, had an altercation on board shortly after ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 27 Dec 1917, Page 5
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