The conscription controversy In England bids fair to cause a Government crisis, and according to some politicians is already a national calamity. According to newspaper statements a minority in the Cabinet who favor compulsion are endeavoring to force a general election. Mr. Thomas’, the railway men’s M.P., warning that the attempt to bring in compulsory service will cause an industrial revolution ...
Article : 1,410 wordsThe following statement has been issued by the Press Bureay:— At the request of Sir J. A. Simon, the Home Secretary, and impartial ...
Article : 3,183 wordsA communique Issued to-day states: Our aviators have bombed and damaged the Trieste railway near Gabrovica. An enemy aviator bombed our ...
Article : 153 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, addressing the munition workers at Enfield to-day, said that it was difficult for a public man to speak on any topic at ...
Article : 1,275 wordsSeveral newspapers have refused an advertisement of German origin calculated to prejudice the Allies’ Joan by, stating that a financial trust is ...
Article : 318 wordsThe “Daily News” states that a minority of the British Cabinet, representing those in favor of conscription, intend to resign, with a view to ...
Article : 2,108 wordsTelegrams from Switzei.. state [?] French aviators recently surprised a German troop train between Donaueschingen and Villingen, in ...
Article : 342 wordsThe New York sterling exchange has now reached 4 dollars 73 cents. This is regarded as an indication that the Anglo-French Commission’s work is ...
Article : 239 wordsThe journal “Motor Ship and Motor Boat’ estimates that 20 German submarines have been sunk, of which 15 were large sea-going vessels. Germany ...
Article : 344 wordsIt is the almost unanimous opinion among the leading bankers that half a billion dollars (about £104,000,000) will be sufficient, and it is expected ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Secretary of State, Mr. Launceston, has received Germany’s note denying the responsibility for sinking the Allan liner Hesperian, which it is ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Allies has presented a joint Note to Bulgaria asking her to declare her position, whether she is on their side or that of the Central Powers. ...
Article : 142 wordsIt is reported that the Montenegrins have repulsed a violent Austrian attack along the Bosnian frontier, and have dismounted several batteries at ...
Article : 155 wordsAt the Motherland’s request the Union Government is raising a Central African Imperial Service Contingent. ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Serbian Premier, M. Paerirch, in an interview published in the “Petit Parisien” says that Serbia will consent to the concessions suggested by ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that a prisoner who was charged with espionage on august 20 was shot to-day. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe workmen at the Standard Collieries at Yuys, in Wales, who came out on strike owing to the employment of non-unionists, have decided to ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Congress of the Cape division of the Nationalist party has unanimously requested the Government to release De Wet and other political ...
Article : 154 wordsThe conference of employers and men engaged in the munition output and Mr. Lloyd-George, representing the Ministry for Munitions. To-day ...
Article : 452 wordsMilitary experts say that thirteen German cavalry divisions are operating in the Sventziony region (east of Vilna) with guns, quickfirers, and ...
Article : 425 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated: The enemy has crossed to the right bank of the Stchara t[?] tributary of the Niemen south-east of ...
Article : 626 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that the fighting is assuming the character of a general battle unequalled since the ballet of Warsaw. The German ...
Article : 295 wordsThe French steamer Sant Anna, which was reported on fire In mid-Atrantic has arrived here. It has transpired that eighteen dynamite ...
Article : 175 wordsNearly ten thousand Dutch born subjects have been gazetted as disqualified for holding certain offices under the Union and provincial ...
Article : 170 wordsA Paris communique issued yesterday stated: In the Vosges our artillery has directed a destructive fire on the electrical works at Turikheim (a mile ...
Article : 122 wordsOwing to the suspicion that food-laden steamers ostensibly for Swedish, are really intended for German ports, the Swedish Government has decreed ...
Article : 194 wordsThe captain of the Sant Anna attributes the fire to German propagandists, There were many explosions on the ship on the 13th and unexploded ...
Article : 416 wordsThe “Pall Mall Gazette” in communing upon Mr. Thomas’ speech in the House on Thursday, protests against the State paying blackmail, and urges ...
Article : 642 wordsAccording to news from the south-[?]rn theatre the Russians on the Sereth River completely encircled the Third and Fourth German Divisions. The ...
Article : 276 wordsThe “Daily Telegraph’s” Rotterdam correspondent says that he has received reliable information which indicates that Austria and Germany are ...
Article : 873 wordsA Turkish communique states: Our coastal batteries have successfully bombarded the enemy’s mine layers and important positions in the district ...
Article : 150 wordsDr. Biggar, the personal physician of Mr. Rockefeller, states that Mr. Rockefeller is utterly opposed to doing anything to continue the war. He ...
Article : 221 wordsA German communique claims the capture of a portion of the advanced positions near the bridgehead at Dvinsk. The Russians are retreating ...
Article : 222 wordsThe prorogation of the Duma till November 1. against which the President. M. Rodzianko. unavailingly protested to the Premier, M. Goremykin, ...
Article : 837 wordsA letter found on a German soldier Killed in Poland says:—The losses sustained by the Germans have been frightful. Before Warsaw the dead ...
Article : 385 wordsA comminique issued to-day states: The Turks on Friday attacked at Several points on the Dardanelles front by mining, a method which they had not ...
Article : 199 wordsThe correspondent of the “Berliner Tageblatt” on the eastern front admits that the Austrians on the right bank of the Strypa have been compelled to ...
Article : 309 wordsThe Liverpool Munitions Court, under the provisions of the Munitions Act, yesterday heard summonses against employes of the engineering ...
Article : 269 wordsThe executive of the National Railway Men’s Union has unanimously congratulated Mr. Thomas upon his speech, and instructed him ...
Article : 183 wordsA traveller from Constantinople says that at least 200,000 Turks have been put out of action during the campaign, There are 125,000 wounded in ...
Article : 132 wordsA Berlin communique station [?] Von Hindenburg has occupied Vidzy (30 miles south-east of Dvinsk) early this morning after severe ...
Article : 186 wordsThe German press comments show disappointment, at the prospect of the British Government taking the momentous decision of conscription, as ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Franco-Italian conference which sitting at Villa Desti to discuss industrial, monetary, and customs reciprocity, has also discussed the question ...
Article : 60 wordsA Turkish division is being formed at Adaua (south-east Asia Monir) and it is believed that a new Egyptian campaign is projected, or that the ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Russians have repulsed attacks north of [?]lukst (a few miles east of Dvinsk), and have buried many Germans who were lying in heaps in front ...
Article : 152 wordsFireman J. S. Green, who recently displayed great bravery In rescuing people from a fire in London caused by a Zeppelin bomb, has succumbed ...
Article : 101 wordsA communique issued to-day states: squadron of our hydroplanes from Port Said has bombarded the Checkaldere bridge, which constitutes an ...
Article : 69 wordsAn Austrian communique states: We have made 1900 Russia prisoners to the southward of Zloczow (north west of Tarnopal). The Russia troops ...
Article : 117 wordsLord Lansdowne’s committee which is Inquiring Into recruiting possibilities is making a schedule of trades and Industries from which recruiting is ...
Article : 69 wordsThere is great anxiety in Sweden over the non-arrival of coal from England. The gasworks and private factories are in a desperate position. It ...
Article : 71 wordsLord Selborne, speaking yesterday at Norwich, said that Lord Kitchener had consented to exempt skilled agriculturists from enlisting. He warned ...
Article : 46 wordsAccording to the newspaper “Telegram” the latest arrivals of German recruits at the Flanders front, it states, include a unit if deaf mutes, who are ...
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Daily Post (Hobart, Tas. : 1908 - 1918), Mon 20 Sep 1915, Page 5
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