The Princess Iren e, a C.P.R. liner takes over by the Admiralty as a mine layer, was blown up accidentally at Sheerness. The explosion was more violent than that of the Bulwark, and only one man of the crew survived. The total death roll is about 400. ...
Article : 218 wordsIt is officially announced that he Government is considering seaming a South African contingent to Europe. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the House of Representatives, the Minister for Custom s gave notice that next Wednesday he would ask leave to bring in a Bill to am end the ...
Article : 1,073 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Hon J. [?] Ogden) leaves by this morning's express for Newcastle, having accepted the invitation of the Broken Hill ...
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Article : 57 wordsThe French authorities have promulgated throughout China drastic regulations against Frenchmen trading with the enemy. The hope is expressed ...
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Article : 79 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, as Minister for Munitions, yesterday presided at a meeting of the Munitions Committee, Including Lords Kitchener, Crewe, and ...
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Article : 114 wordsThe Press Bureau at Cairo issues General Birdwood's (commanding the Australasian Corps report, stating that during the suspension of hostilities ...
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Article : 79 wordsThe Federal Labor party had before it to-day the sugar question. There is said to be n difference of opinion amongst members of the ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Admiralty announces that an enemy submarine has sunk the battleship Majestic off Gallipoli. Most of the crew were saved. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Princess Irene, an auxiliary naval vessel, was to-day accidentally blow n up in Sheerness harbor. It is believed that over 290 men aboard the ...
Article : 1,059 wordsThe “Daily Express” to-day states a t Lord Fisher intimated that he would only return to the Admiralty on his own terms, namely, the inclusion ...
Article : 121 wordsThere was a Zeppelin raid on South end last night Several Zeppelins dropped twenty Incendiary bombs. Two houses were set on fire but the ...
Article : 221 wordsReuter’s correspondent with the British headquarters says that the only result the G ermans achieved by Monday’s gas attack at Ypres was to Inflict ...
Article : 248 wordsReuter’s correspondent says it is reported that a French submarine has torpedoed a Turkish destroyer not far from Constantinople.. ...
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Article : 290 wordsThe Minister for Defence staled today, regarding the charges made in the House by Mr. Anstey , who described the court-martial field at Sydney as a ...
Article : 211 wordsAt is officially announced that Admiral Sir H. Bradwardine Jackson is appointed First Rea Lord. Admiral Sir Arthur K. Wilson remains in an ...
Article : 38 wordsA German submarine which stopped a Danish and a Swedish scooper in the North Sea allowed the Danish to proceed, but burnt the Swedish. The ...
Article : 91 wordsThe High Commissioner and the Australian Agents-General to-day Carewelled Mr. Lewis Harcourt, who is [?]ing the Colonial Office for the ...
Article : 87 wordsAn official statement has been issued in Berlin decaying the British Eyewitness" report that the German Artillery fired into the Saxon troops ...
Article : 58 wordsThe steamer Morwenna, bound from Montreal to Cardiff in ballast, was torpedoed and sunk 160 miles off St.Ann's Head (Wales). T he crew have been ...
Article : 51 wordsA large meeting of Australians was held a t the Troca[?]ro to-day to devise means to help the Australian wounded coming to England. Sir George Reid ...
Article : 264 wordsCount Revent[?]w, in the "Tagest[?] describes a submarine hunt" by British destroyers as follows:—The light-conted torpedo boats either cruies ...
Article : 437 wordsIn connection with the German aeroplane disaster on May 21 “Eyewitness" states that the machine fell headlong on to the parapet of a German trench. ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Admiralty announces that submarine ELL has sunk a vessel in the Sea of Marmora which was carrying a great quantity of heavy gun ...
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Article : 61 wordsA Turkish official account of the sinking of H .M .S. Triumph states that on Tuesday a t mid-day the ship passed slowly before Uri Burns, accompanied ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Danish steamer Betty has been torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea. The crew was landed at Shields. ...
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Article : 59 wordsThe New York newspaper are reserving their Judgment whether the American steamer Nel[?]tra was mined or torpedoed. They point out ...
Article : 76 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Zeeban district Dispensary Medical Union to-night, Mr. F . W. Wathen presided. The medical officer reported having ...
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Article : 98 wordsPresident Arrange, the President of the Portuguese Republic, has resigned. ...
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Article : 506 wordsHerr Ballin, the president of the Hamburg America Steamship line, and one of Germany’s chief apologists, has gone to a clinic at Frankfurt am Main ...
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Article : 105 wordsA Petrograd communiqué states that very stubborn battle is taking place on both banks of the San River between Przem[?]sl River and Litbas[?]. It ...
Article : 279 wordsThe Hungarian Premier Count Ti[?]xa). speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, said in reference to Italy's interventions:—The Hungarian nation ...
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Daily Post (Hobart, Tas. : 1908 - 1918), Sat 29 May 1915, Page 5
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