The First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Edward Carson), in the House of Commons to-day, stated that [?]rman destroyers bombarded Broadstaire and Margate ...
Article : 274 wordsIt has been omially announced at Washington that Germany recently proposed all alliance with Mexico and Japan to make war on the United States in the ...
Article : 148 wordsField-Marahal sir Douglas rung, reporting on Wednesday afternoon said:—This morning we captured a portion of a German trench north-east of Sailly-Saillisel, ...
Article : 134 wordsRussian official:—The enemy attached on both sides of the Jacobeni to Kimpolung high road, and occupied heights two miles south-west of Valeputna. We ...
Article : 69 wordsMrs. Mills, of Toronto, a saloon passenger, said, toe experience was terrible one. The women were in the drawing-room when toe torpedo struck. They instantly ...
Article : 111 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that naval aeroplanes raided ironworks at Brebach, south-east of Saarbrucken, in the extreme south of the Rhine province of Prussia. ...
Article : 63 wordsPresident wilson is reported to have told a group of pacifist representatives, "I have done, I am doing, and I will do everything I possibly can to keep the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Paris Petit Journal states that the retreating Germans blew up a number of large-calibre guns. The fact that the Germans abandoned strong positions and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe deaths of Mrs. and Miss Hoey have been confirmed. The survivors include Messrs. G. Wood and J. Newman, officials of the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe British Press Bureau has issued shipping figures, which constitute the first return in accordance with the promise of the First ...
Article : 123 wordsAn official message from Mesopotamia states that the close pursuit of the Turks has been Steadily maintained. On Monday our advanced troops engaged the enemy in ...
Article : 121 wordsUneasiness is felt in Germany owing to, the British advance on the Ancre. The newspapers are not allowed to comment i on the German retreat, which ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Cunard Liner Laconia (18,099 tons, built in 1912). bound from New York to England, and carrying passengers, was torpedoed to-day by a German submarine ...
Article : 148 wordsLaconia survivors relate that the submarine went from boat to boat seeking the captain of the liner, but all refused to betray him. Before the Laconia sank, Capt. ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs says:—On Wednesday the Germane abandoned Gommccourt during the night. We took possession of the salient which follows the line of the ...
Article : 325 wordsThe Post Office states that all letter mails for the United Kingdom which reached New York between February 14 and 18 were lost in the Laconia. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Edmund Candler, the war correspondent with the British forces on the Tigris, reports that a British regiment at dawn crossed the Tigris at the Shumran bend, ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Nieuwe Robterdam Courant states that the German Government has promised Holland an indemnity for the seven torpedoed vessels, and permission to use ...
Article : 48 wordsIt was announced in the House of Commons to-day that Kut-el-Amara bad been captured by the British from the Turks. An official message from Mesopotamia ...
Article : 218 wordsA Berlin message Bays:—The Italians strongly attacked hill positions in the Cerna salient eastward of Paralovo, but failed with sanguinary losses. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Cunand Steamship Company state that practically all on board the Laconia were saved. The list of those on the vessel, included a crew of 220 souls, and about ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the Reichstag Herr Spahn (Leader of the Catholic Party) declared his delight at the results of the campaign. Herr Seherdemann hoped that the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Cunard Company state that the Laconia carried British officers and crew. Among the passengers were nine Americans, including a war correspondent. ...
Article : 52 wordsA mutiny recently occurred at the German internment camp at Gorlitz, where the kidnapped Greek army corps, taken from Kavalla, is held. The soldiers ...
Article : 101 wordsAmong the mails carried by the Laconia were some from Australia and New Zealand. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe tension in the relations between the United States and Gennany has been increasea by Germany's procrastination in releasing the American sa[?]ors of the ...
Article : 442 wordsA report from Berlin states that a German submarine on February 12 lavishly bombarded works at Forges de la Dour, near Bayonne (on the French Bay of ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day, in reply to Lord Crewe, Earl Curzon said a further telegram stated:—"The retreating Turks at Kut-el-Amara are being pursued. An ...
Article : 171 wordsThe new pensions list for disabled soldiers and sailors and the dependants of killed men, allows privates disabled to the highest degree, such as mental ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Evening Standard understands that the delay in publishing the Dardanelles report is due to the necessity of referring certain passages to the allied Governments. ...
Article : 57 wordsAn English war correspondent at the British headquarters on the western front says that the Australians were responsible for a brilliant raid near Armentieres on ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Germans are making efforts to prevent a rapture with China. They nave unsuccessfully attempted to distribute substantial bribes, and have offered to wipe ...
Article : 39 wordsA message from Gorunna, Spain, states that Mr. Gerard had sailed for America in the steamer Infanta Isabel, although he was specially warned at Berlin not to ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Foreign Attains Committee -of the House of Representatives has decided to report the Bill empowering the President to provide guns and gunners for American ...
Article : 58 wordsIn view of persistent rumours man the official death roll published in connection with the London munitions explosion was inaccurate, the Coroner has reiterated ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Berun Lokal Anzeiger, in commenting on Dr. Hollweg'e speech, lays stress on "the terrible effect of the blockade on England." ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. C. Bathurat (Secretary to the Food Controller) said a soheme of compulsory rationing of the nation boon outlined, ...
Article : 42 wordsA conference has been field at Calais between the French Premier (M. Brand), Gen- Lyantey, Gen. Nivelle (French Commander-in-Chief),Mr. Lloyd George, Gen. ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 3 Mar 1917, Page 36
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