An official statement says: A small unidentified German vessel approached the Suffolk coast last night and fired shells, without causing casualties, and doing ...
Article : 85 wordsSir,—The great question at issue of the day is 'Who will Go.' The Imperial Conference must have a representative from Australia to watch its ...
Article : 220 wordsThe political situation remains unchanged, and as the day for the reassembling of Parliament approaches it becomes more apparent that the three political ...
Article : 291 wordsA wireless message received by the Admiralty gives the following Russian official announcement. Between the Tiru swamps we took the ...
Article : 180 wordsThree Sweden have been arrested for attempting to take a sleigh filled with high explosives across the Finnish frontier. The explosives were packed as preserved meat. ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Redmond, in a letter welcoming the battalion of Irish Canadian Rangers touring Ireland stated that half a million of the Irish race had voluntarily joined the ...
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Article : 90 wordsIt is officially stated that Lieutnant-General A. R. Hoskins will succeed General Smuts as Commander of the Forces in East Africa. ...
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Article : 257 wordsGerman papers featuring the Emperor's birthday emphasise that Germany will follow the Kaiser through thick and thin until the end of the war. ...
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Article : 286 wordsGeneral Smuts, who has been conducting the campaign against the Germans in East Africa, has arrived at Pretoria, where he had a magnificent reception. Huge crowds ...
Article : 108 wordsPresident Wilson has forwarded birthday congratulations to the Kaiser. ...
Article : 15 wordsAt a meeting of the town council of Neukoeld, a Berlin suburb, Herr Heitmann, a Socialist protecting against the action of the Government in further diminishing potato ...
Article : 122 wordsBaron von Rochenberg, a former Governor of Gorman East Africa, writing to the "Nordunsud" says the Fatherland must have a colony which we can defend in the ...
Article : 122 wordsAfter six hours' fighting gendarmes captured Palvo Crisapi,k a noted Sicilian brigand, who terrorised Caltanissetta for 12 years. He continued 22 murders. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. von Wiegand, the most famous American correspondent in Germany, paid a brief visit to New York. In an exclusive interview with the Australian Press ...
Article : 483 wordsA furious battle is being fought at Riga along a 50 kilometre front. Rivera and ground are frozen, the temperature being twenty degrees below zero. Germans with ...
Article : 68 wordsOn Saturday evening the annual prize distribution in connection with St. Luke's Sunday School was held in conjunction with a concert. In the afternoon a heavy ...
Article : 497 wordsLieut. Belt the 20-year-old son of Otto Beit, the South African millionaire suicided at York because fellow officers in a rough and tumble ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Tribunal" at Benthlim, Hanover, in imposing a fine of fifty marks for smuggling butter and margarine into Germany, stated that while they were compelled to ...
Article : 69 wordsSpeaking at the Australians' corroboree to-day, Sir Joseph Ward regretted that the Entente's note to America did not mention the German colonies. Australia and ...
Article : 43 wordsAdvices from Petrograd report that great German reinforcements are arriving at the Riga front, and Marshal von Hindenburg is generally directing the operations. ...
Article : 33 wordsRussia is calling for quotations in the United States for 800,000 tons of rails and trucks. Russia contemplates spending 10,000,000 ...
Article : 40 wordsThe New York "Times" has received an authentic story of German rule in Poland. Since the conquerors took possession of Vilna the death rate has increased ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Swiss frontier contiguous to German is rigorously closed. ...
Article : 18 wordsA Roumanian communique says that despite snow we attacked and repulsed the enemy southward of Valleys Cashin and Sushitza, after eleven hours' desperate ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Navy League deputation submitted proposals for a more vigorous suppression of submarining, but Sir Edward Carson's and Admiral Jellicoe's explanations ...
Article : 38 wordsFive workman have been sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the North Midlands for endangering the lives of thousands of fellow workers at a ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is understood that the opinions of members of the Dardanelles Commission are pretty evenly divided on the question of issuing any report before the conclusion of ...
Article : 85 wordsLloyd's report that the British steamer Tabasco, 2,987 tons, and a small Nonwegian steamer have been sunk. The steamer Jotutunfeldt has reached port in a damaged ...
Article : 39 wordsTwo German officers state that the German cruiser Bremen, 3350 tons, exploded in Kiel Harbour, causing the destruction of the ship and her crew and damaging ...
Article : 45 wordsCecil Cheesman, employed at Rustralian headquarters, Horseferry Road, has been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, and Sergt. James Ahearn ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Corriere d'Itali's Berne correspondents says General Mackensen has intimated that unless he is speedily reinforced bis armies in Roumania wll soon be critically ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Greek Government has accepted a list of Allied officers who are to be stationed in twelve of the principal towns, exercising military control. ...
Article : 64 wordsNew British regulations affecting shipping in the North Sea have been published. While not greatly affecting Danish shipping they gravely affect fishing, as new ...
Article : 42 wordsAn official message from Mesopotamia says:—By a determined assault under cover of an intense bombardment we seized and ...
Article : 143 wordsAgain on Saturday afternoon the wet weather interfered with play on the West End bowling green, and a large number failed to put in an ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Committee of Inquiry into German atrocities on prisoners published a statement by a private of the Dublin Fusiliers who saw at Mannheim a group of Russian ...
Article : 114 wordsEarl Derby, speaking at the annual meeting of the Liverpool Working Men's Association, said: 'We will fight until we have won. We entered the war in a ...
Article : 379 wordsAn official communique issued to-day states:—The Germans last evening attacked at four points from Avocourt Wood to east of Morthomme but our fire drove ...
Article : 260 wordsA special meeting of the Town Council was held this morning to elect the Mayor for the ensuing year. There was only one nomination received and Mr. Alec Hunter ...
Article : 97 words"Le Matin's" correspondent on the British Front says that a German officer who wa taken prisoner in a recent raid declared that the Germans never discharged ...
Article : 78 wordsField-Marshal Sir Doughs Haig reports. We carried out raids eastward of Loos and north-eastward of Vermelles, taking prisoners. A number of dug outs were destroyed. ...
Article : 221 wordsThe captured crown of the vessels sunk by a German submarine off the coast of South America state that the Saint Theodore kept the raider company until she ...
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Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1881 - 1922), Mon 29 Jan 1917, Page 5
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