In the House of Commons this afternoon, MT. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the increase in pay to the men of the army ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the District Court to-day, D. Winter, printer, of Lonsdale-street, Melbourne, was fined £20, with £5 6s. costs, on a charge of having printed a ...
Article : 92 wordsThe situation upon the Cambrai battleront is settling down. The British hold the heights in Bourlon Wood, and at any rate, part of Bourlon village. Mr. Phillip Gibbs is of opinion that the Germans must take further desperate efforts to retake the wood, but they should know by this time that it is ...
Article : 196 wordsA Russian official Wireless message says:--Artillery firing is proceeding on our northern, western, south-western, ...
Article : 68 wordsDuring the past 10 months the French have brought down 517 German aeroplanes, while 153 others fell in the German lines. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent, of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the executive council of the Soviet seriously disagrees over the peace ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 369 wordsLast month Captain Yeats a medical officer who was a member of the Samoa expedition, and claimed that he has not resigned from the New Zealand. ...
Article : 307 wordsParticulars of the Australian non-commissioned officers and men who were mentioned this morning as having won Victoria Crosses are supplied by the ...
Article : 529 wordsAn Italian official message issued this afternoon says:--Enemy masses again attacked yesterday between the Brenta and the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Allied War Council is sitting at Versailles, and is to discuss wide range of subjects, including the co-operation of the fleets of Central and ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says he understands that the Allies are making a joint protest to the Russian people against the ...
Article : 378 wordsIt is reported that a boat is off the Brazilian coast, and all navigation lights have been ordered to be extinguished. ...
Article : 40 wordsThey "New York Sun's" Rome correspondent states that, owing to the rapid recovery of the Italian armies from their retreat, the use of British ...
Article : 69 wordsThe State Department at Washington has ordered an investigation into the torpedoing in the Meditterranean of the American steamer Schuylkill ...
Article : 69 wordsThis afternoon's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:--The enemy have not repeated their attacks at Bourlon since their failure ...
Article : 86 wordsThe London, correspondent of the "New York Tribune" states that he has had an interview with General Maurice, the Director of Military Operations at ...
Article : 115 wordsIt is officially announced that Lord Rothermere, Director-General of the Royal Army Clothing Department, has been appointed President of the Air ...
Article : 53 wordsA German official wireless message says:--Yesterday we achieved local successes in the mountainous regions on the Italian front. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Herald" says that the United States will multiply the manufacture of "tanks" and develop them ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the Trocadero Restaurant to-day Mr. C. G. Wade, the Agent-Genoral for New South Wales, gave a luncheon to Sir W. E. Davidson, the Governor ...
Article : 681 wordsThe fighting continues under terrible weather conditions, the temperature being in some places 10 degrees below zero. The reports regarding the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe United Press Association's correspondent at British Headquarters telegraphs as follows:--Prince Rupprecht's position around Cambrai and Queant is ...
Article : 235 wordsA German' official wireless message says:--The British made obstinate attacks yesterday at Inchy (three miles cast of Queant), but the attempts ...
Article : 102 wordsAt the Society of Arts last evening Sir John McCall, Agent-General for Tasmania, read a paper on Land Settlement Within the Empire." Mr. ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Herald" states that the Navy Department is fully prepared to send without delay a formidable force ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is announced that the Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia, the second daughter of the ex-Tsar, has escaped from Siberia, and is on her way across ...
Article : 171 wordsThe second sale of mining shares held by enemy subjects was held at the Sydney Stock Exchange, to-day. Many lots were withdrawn from sale, pending ...
Article : 92 wordsIn a message last night Mr. G. Ward Price says:--The snow has come at last, and the mountains are covered with a whirling, blizaard of snowflakes ...
Article : 113 wordsThe King has sent the following telegram to Sir Douglas Haig:--I congratulate you and General Byng and your troops on the ...
Article : 115 wordsIn consequence of the hostility of the American public Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian violinist, who is a captain in the Austrian army, has abandoned his ...
Article : 44 wordsA sensation has been caused in Italy, by the arrest in Rome of Signor Cavalini, formerly a member of the Chamber of Deputities and the self-styled ...
Article : 86 wordsThe weather conditions to-day had a damping effect on the celebrations in connection with the recent victory of the British Army on the Western front. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe following official message has been received from the British commander in Palestine:--Our advanced patrols have been ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo, the Secretary of the Treasury in President Wilson's Government, has ordered the liquidation of all German fire, marine and ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that President Wilson has received, from Russia the proposal of the ...
Article : 93 wordsThis afternoon's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:--There is considerable artillery firing by both sides on the Passehendaele ...
Article : 102 wordsThe following message was received last night from Mr. Philip Gibbs.--There is not the slightest doubt that the Germans will make a powerful ...
Article : 444 wordsGeneral E. H. Crowder, the Provost Marshal of the American Army, in outlining the method for examining 7,500,000 men registered for service, says the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe House of Commons last night, on the report stage of the Representation of the People Bill, accepted an amendment moved by Dr. W. A. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe many friends of Sister Clare Deacon (late of the General Hospital, Hobart), will be pleased to know she has been awarded the Military Medal ...
Article : 133 wordsThe publication of the secret treaties and diplomatic documents by the Lenin Government in Russia has failed to arouse any sensation, as the substance ...
Article : 136 wordsOn November 16 the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson) sent the following cable message to the Secretary of State for the Colonies:-- ...
Article : 170 wordsThe United States Shipping Board is confident that it will meet the request of Mr. Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, for 6,000,000 tons of shipping ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Foreign Secretary, stated that the King had permitted him to announce that there was ...
Article : 87 wordsA French communique issued last night says:--A rather violent artillery action is proceeding in Belgium. ...
Article : 30 wordsMrs. J. V. Cook, of Hope-street,.'New Town. has received information that her son, Lieutenant J. V. Cook, M.C.. has been Accepted, as a pilot in the Royal ...
Article : 44 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon says:--There is great artillery east of the Meuse, in the region north ...
Article : 128 wordsOwing to the increasing number of invaded soldiers returning to Tasmania, the miltary authorities have found it necessary to accept the offer of the Board ...
Article : 126 wordsHuge crowds of people assembled in Trafalgar-square to-day at the opening of a "bank" war-bond campaign. A tank, with guns acock. was converted ...
Article : 83 wordsFifty thousand engineers at Coventry, in Warwickshire, have struck work in sympathy with earlier strikers protesting against the failure to recognise ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "New York World" states that the Russian peace move is thoroughly impregnating the German soldiers, and is ...
Article : 191 wordsAt the Tower Bridge Police Court to-day two Australian soldiers were charged, With a dock labourer named Joseph Jones, with the murder of a ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Jews of Scandinavia have communicated to Great Britain their greatest satisfaction at the British Government's. "noble decision to repatriate ...
Article : 48 wordsVincent Robert, a New Zealand trooper, 19 years of age, was charged at Lambeth Police Court yesterday with bigamy. The prosecution stated ...
Article : 90 wordsA meeting of motor-car owners in the Campbell Town Municipality was held at Campbell Town on Saturday afternoon, when there was a representative ...
Article : 107 wordsA Russian official message intercepted by wireless states:--We have repulsed strong Turkish attacks near the sea coast in the ...
Article : 42 wordsAlthough only half the time alloted for receiving subscriptions to the Canadian Liberty Loan of £30,000.000 has elapsed, that amount has already been ...
Article : 35 wordsA German official wireless message says:--A French attack yesterday on a front of four kilometres (over 2¼ miles) between Samogneux and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 28 Nov 1917, Page 5
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