LONDON, Wednesday.--The Admiralty denies the German claim that the cruiser Shannon was mined and sunk off the South Coast in November. ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Reuter's Madrid correspondent says the fact that the Cabinet is remaining in office after receiving assurances of the King's confidence ...
Article : 57 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The State Ministers generally are not enamored with the new Federal National Party. Mr. Hall feels dubious as to the prospects of its success. If ...
Article : 137 wordsGRAFTON, Thursday.--At a meeting of subscribers to the Australia Day Fund to-night to consider the threat of legal proceedings by the Crown Solicitor to compel the local ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The National Liberal member, Herr Stressman, in a speech in the Reichstag, declared that Germany's war debt would necessitate about 350 mil ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--A telegram says that complete agreement was reached at the conference on the question of Mac[?]onia. The Salonika front has lost none of its ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- The " Daily Mail's" naval correspondent says that the member of the remnants of crews landed in Spain and Portugal shows that Germany's ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- Reuter's Petrograd correspondent says that Germany is vigorously repairing the Rumanian oil wells. Germany has requested the United States ...
Article : 63 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Under-Secretary to the Prime Minister's Department stated to-day that most of the Greek Consuls in Australia had already resigned. In ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. Lloyd George gave an audience at Madrid to Senor Romanones, the Spanish Premier, who declared he would never resign under foreign pressure. ...
Article : 31 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--Mr. Hughes, when interviewed in respect of Sir William Irvine's advocacy of the necessity of Australia being represented at the Imperial War ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--A Mesopotamian message says that an Indian division dashingly captured a thousand yards of trenches in the Tigris bend on the right bank ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--It is understood that during the four trying months of the war the King of Rumania never complained. Recently he said that if he had to go over ...
Article : 113 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The Labor Council to-night carried a resolution requesting all Labor Councils, unionists and Federal and State Labor members throughout Australia ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON Wednesday--Djavid Dey and two other prominent Young Turks are expected at Geneva from Berlin, probably in connection with the activities of Prince Von Bulow ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The sinkings of the British vessels Baynesk and Lynfield and the Swedish steamer Fernebo are reported. ...
Article : 28 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Minister for Defence has issued a challenge to public or private employers on the question of preference to returned soldiers. He said:-- "I ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON Wednesday.--The probability of Mr. Fisher representing Australia at the Imperial War Conference is well received in British political circles, in which he has ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The "Daily Mail's" Hague correspondent says that Field Marshal Hindenberg visited the hospital at Cambrai and became angry when he heard ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Wednesday:--A German official message states :--The Russo-Rumanians failed to recapture positions in the Susita Valley. We pressed back the enemy north ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--An Amsterdam message says that the National Committee which Prince Wiedel established last year at the Kaiser's request to bring about a ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Reuter's correspondent at Pira[?]ns anticipates that King Constantine will yield, but will first merely undertake to liberate the imprisoned ...
Article : 46 wordsHAGUE, Thursday.-- The War Minister has announced that severer regulations as regards foreigners will come into force, especially to prevent esp[?]age. ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.-- Oscar Neilsen was charged at the Police Court with failing to report himself at intervals of not more than seven days. ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Members of the Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union decided to seek an increase of wages from the Federal Arbitration Court. ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The year was profitable for the banks. Seven declared the ordinary dividends. The London City and Midland Bank's deposits increased during ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- Italy has called up the 1875 class. Italian traders have been warned that the military may requisition all necessities. ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The ultimatum to Greece expired at midnight on Wednesday. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--There is reason to believe that the Allied reply to President Wilson will indicate generally the terms upon which the Allies are prepared to discuss peace. ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- A Russian official message says:-- Eight attacks in the heights north of Kesing failed. The enemy pressed back the Rumanians south of ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.---A "Daily News " correspondent says that despite German denials the Swiss are preoccupied with the possibility of a German invasion in a ...
Article : 136 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.-- The daylight saving arrangement is to be ignored in the working of mines on the northern coal fields. ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The Ministerial changes in Russia were wholly unexpected, and are not yet explainable. ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Commenting on the German failure to surround the garrison at Foeshani, Swiss newspapers say the capture of a few more towns in Rumania will not ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- The British have achieved further successes in East Africa. During the enemy's retreat bloody hand to hand fighting occurred. Askiris thrice ...
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Unless the dispute in the trawling industry is settled before Tuesday next it is almost certain that the trouble will extend. ...
Article : 32 wordsAMSTERDAM, Thursday:--The Municipality of Berlin announces the possibility of one egg weekly for every Berliner till the 31st January. It is impossible to forecast the ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- Reuter's Salonika correspondent says that everything indicates energetic enemy action at Monastir, where it is reported that a Bulgarian ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. G. H. West, hon. secretary of the Gundurimba Soldiers' Comfort Fund Committee; has received a letter from Hubert V. Ellis, dated Egypt, November 27, in which the ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The Sydney wharf laborers are claiming 2s 6d per hour during eight hours for ordinary time and 3s 9d for overtime, with pro rata increase in special ...
Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--In the course of his address at Liverpool Camp, Archbishop Kelly said:-- The fight is not only not over, but the intensity of the war appears to be on ...
Article : 258 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- The Entente's reply to President Wilson's Note has been handed to Ambassador Sharp at Paris. No information as to its nature was given. The ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--General Lyall's Nigerians captured a howitzer. A German who attempted to destroy the gun blew himself up. The Askiris broke and ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- A neutral eyewitness declares that three incendiary fires have occurred in Zeppelin sheds at Kiel during the last five weeks, the latest destroying ...
Article : 46 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--The dispute with the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. in South Australia is still seriously indefinite. The worst fears are entertained. ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Swiss reports show that a reign of terror exists in the captured Rumanian towns. Germany is deporting the inhabitants wholesale. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--Grave developments are feared among the tramway men in Adelaide as the result of the presentation by the Trust of a new Sunday roster. The men ...
Article : 57 wordsPARIS, Thursday.--M. Briand this afternoon handed the American Ambassador the Allies' reply to President Wilson's Note. ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--There is commotion among licensed holders in England as the result of the announcement of measures contemplating the purchase of the whole ...
Article : 81 wordsJOHANNESBURG, Thursday. --Twenty-five men of General Northey's column dispersed 250 Germans and Askiris. The battle lasted the whole day. Ultimately the Askiris ...
Article : 68 wordsMiss Lofts, of Chilcott's Grass, who sent a tin of tobacco through the Red Gross, has received a letter of acknowledgment from Sergt. A. C. Young, in England. ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The Allies' reply to President Wilson is really addressed to the American people in a spirit of frankness and cordiality. It constitutes a ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--It is reported that Von Batocki, the German food dictator, in an interview admitted local difficulties, but declared that Austria's share in the ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. Fitzpatrick (Assistant Treasurer), when asked if N.S. Wales. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The military authorities in Ireland suppressed a film entitled, "Ireland a Nation," which was nightly cheered by crowds in Dublin. ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The French correspondent Marcel Hutin says that General Russky's offensive in the Riga area has been arrested at least temporarily. ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. --Brown, the "Times" correspondent at Jassy, says that the Sereth line has been very strongly fortified during recent weeks. The first ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Herr Michaelis, one of the German State Under-Secretaries, warns those who desire peace because they want food, that peace would not mean more ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--A sensation was caused at Sunny Corner to-day by the arrival of a prospector with a rich bunch of quartz, which was more than half gold. The ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The regulations for food production in Ireland indicate the quantity of arable land in the possession of any occupier which must be cultivated for food ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The "Strassburger Post" says there is great nervousness on the whole of the German Eastern front owing to constant movement of troops. A ...
Article : 46 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. -- Mr. MacKinnon, Director-General of Recruiting, says he is quite certain that as far as Victoria is concerned the people are thoroughly in earnest ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.-- An inspired statement in the "Times" says:-- The Rome Conference was unanimous in the determination to secure peace by victory. The ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The agenda paper of the Labor Conference to be held at Manchester on 23rd January includes resolutions favoring the retention of the Government control ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--A Russian official message says :--The battle west of Riga continues. We captured a position between Pirul Marsh and the River Aa. Since 5th ...
Article : 56 wordsAMSTERDAM, Thursday.--The Governor-General of Belgium in a decree states that 100 Belgians, some of whom were armed, attempted to cross the frontier by force ...
Article : 84 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--When the appeal by the Australian Sugar Producers' Association against the Arbitration Award in the Queensland sugar industry came before the High ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The insurance companies operating in policies against damage to wheat crops by hail have been particularly hard hit, during the season the estimated ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--At the opening of the new church for soldiers at Liverpool Camp. Archbishop Kelly made a strong appeal for recruits. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The '' Times'' in a leading article says :--The obvious course was an agreement between Mr. Hughes and the Liberals. Britain has appealed to Australia ...
Article : 105 wordsAMSTERDAM, Wednesday.--It is reported from Berlin that the Russian offensive in the Riga area is considered serious. The artillery fire is unparalleled in previous ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Germany claims that 70 per cent. of the wounded return to the front, six per cent. being unfit for service, and 24 per cent. being relegated to ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Richmond River district holds a foremost place in the number of men who have volunteered for the front, and the Drill Hall at Lismore has periodically been the scene ...
Article : 198 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The Department of Agriculture has arranged for a lecture on winter fodder and silage by Mr. G. C. Sparks (Inspector of Agriculture) at Comboyne on ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The British seized and consolidated a section of trench eastward of Beaumont Hamel, 140 prisoners being taken. They also entered the trenches ...
Article : 40 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--At the inquest on the body of Ernest Murray, aged 16, the evidence showed that deceased hanged himself in a fit of grief over the death of a girl a year ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--It is reported that the German Ambassador at Madrid will shortly be replaced. ...
Article : 21 wordsHAGUE, Thursday.--A Bill has been introduced into the Chamber for preventive arrest and other drastic measures against smuggling. ...
Article : 27 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The estate of the late William John Lane, grazier, of Kameruka, has been valued for probate at £22,300. ...
Article : 24 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. Cohen, Acting Consul-General for Greece, has resigned, owing to the situation in the latter country. ...
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