Mr. Ozanne, exLabour member for Corio, was accorded a great reception on his arrival at Geelong. Hundreds of people assembled at the station, and Mr. Cranne ...
Article : 350 wordsSplendid nows has come from Bullecourt, where the Australians, after more than holding their own against picked German troops, have widened the bite in the ...
Article : 994 wordsThe Balfour Mission arrived at New York on Thursday. General Joffre has visited Washington's house at Newburg, from which place Geo ...
Article : 613 wordsThere was a great and unique gathering at the Newspaper Press Fund dinner last evening, at which Lord Northeliffe presided. General Sir William Roberson (Chief of ...
Article : 691 wordsIt is officially announced that the House of Commons during the secret session considered the report on the credits vote of £500,000,000 which was agreed to in ...
Article : 392 wordsA wireless German official report intercepted yesterday stated: "German light forces on Thursday sighted at 5.40 a.m. east of the Nord Hinder lightship, three small ...
Article : 169 wordsLieutenant Purves, a Scottish international footballer, has been killed in France. This makes the twenty-first international player to die for his country. ...
Article : 30 wordsA deputation, headed by Lord Islington waited on Mr. Massey (Premier of New Zealand) and Sir Joseph Ward, with a request that they would consider the ...
Article : 68 wordsA Bulgarian communique issued on Thursday gives a very long description of the Macedonian fighting, which it describes as exceeding in extent and violence all ...
Article : 139 wordsSir Edward Parrott, a supporter of Mr. Asquith, has been elected unopposed for South Edinbergh, in succession to Mr. C. H. Lyell (Liberal), who resigned. ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is believed that the Australian troops east practically a block vote for the Nationalist candidates. ...
Article : 78 wordsFrench and English newspapers make vailed announcements that the Allies during the past week have got a grip on the submarine situtation and can face the ...
Article : 40 wordsA wireless German official report intercepted yesterday stated:—"The artillery fire has reached the greatest violence on the whole of the Arras battle front. The ...
Article : 247 wordsThe "Star" States that the Government's is closing Southwold to all vessels, other that those belonging to Britain and the Allies, with a view of excluding Dutch ...
Article : 47 wordsAn official German wireless message intercepted on Friday stated:—"We completerly repulsed France-Serhian attacks between the Cerna and the Vardar rivers. ...
Article : 37 wordsGerman newspapers declare that the commerical submarine Deutschland is safe in a German harbour. ...
Article : 19 words"One instructive lesson to be learned from the election results," said the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) on Saturday "is that the Germans in Australia, ...
Article : 183 wordsThe executive of the workmen's and soldier's delegates has issued an extraordinary manifesto, convening an international Socialist peace conference. The executive ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Austrian Emperor, i na recent letter deeply sympathised with the people of the Dual Monarchy in their present difficulties. He urges them to preservence. as ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is officialy announced that the Italian navy has sunk 13 Austrian submarines in the Mediterranean during the past three weeks. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that Lord Developort (Food Controller) has imposed rations for cereal foodstuffs for horses, except horses used by the Army Council, ...
Article : 70 wordsA message from New York says that the State Department has learned from a source which cannot be disclosed that a high German navel authority has admitted in the ...
Article : 96 wordsThe War Office announces the opening withing a week of two new groups for voluntary attestation; one for men, married or single, not over 45 years of age; the other ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Tientsm correspondent of the "Morning Post" telegraphs that there is intance excitement in Pekin, where the Lower House is holding, a secret session ...
Article : 77 wordsWith the exception of the soldiers votes, which are not expected to arrive for some days, the counting of the votes in connection with the Federal elections has been ...
Article : 64 wordsSwedish war insurance reports show that 77 steamers and 34 sailing ships, aggregating 114,000 tons, have been sunk by German submarines. ...
Article : 28 wordsModerate estimates put the German losses in killed, wounded and prisoners in the present French offensive between April 16 and May 1 at 200,000, and the figures ...
Article : 42 wordsA special meeting of the local branch of the National Federation was held yesterday, with Mr. P. St. Barbe Aykuffe (president) in the chair. The business of the ...
Article : 596 wordsGeneral Joffire and M. Vivianl addressed the Federal Parliament here on Friday. They were accorded seats near the Speaker. Tremendous enthusiasm was displayed at ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Secretary of State for War (Lord Derby) speaking at Liverpool on Friday night, said that he defied anyone to say that any nation had complete air ...
Article : 152 wordsM. Zaimis, the new Premier, after receiving certain persons connected with Athens society, appealed to their patriotism, and asked them to leave Athens ...
Article : 52 wordsAn extensive aerial bombardment of Zeebrugge took place at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning, and subsequently there was a heavy naval bombardment lasting 90 ...
Article : 49 wordsGeneral J. C. Smurts, who represented South Africa at the Imperial Conference speaking when receiving the Freedom of Manchester on Friday, said that he had ...
Article : 153 wordsLetters show that the monarchical party has absolutely disappeared, leaving no single supporter of its cause. Professor Farbman writes that M. Lenin has renounced ...
Article : 44 wordsAccording to the "Berliner Tageblatt," the German Chancellor will reply in the Reichstag to questions concerning the Government's was aims, by declaring that the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Federal Treasury on Saturday made available figures which showed to what extent the public is subscribing to the war savings certificates. Although the scheme ...
Article : 220 wordsBritish bombs yesterday blew up two submarine sheds at Zeebrugge Sixty-three German sailors and soldiers were killed in the explosion and 100 more were ...
Article : 37 wordsThe "Daily News" Petrograd correspondent says:—"It seems clear that a coalition Ministry will be formed. M. Lenin and other extremists, encouraged by the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe "Gaulois" declares that the Hindenburg position is no longer merelly two or three paralled continous trenches, but a fortified zone composed of a series of ...
Article : 50 wordsSome traders have expressed the opinion that the Government is seriously reterding inter-American trading by diverting American ships and money to the Allies. The ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Frankfurther Zeitung," reviewing the the situatution, says "It is essential that we should conquer, and it is equally essential that the war should end before the autumn. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), in an Empire Day message to the Overseas Club, said:—"The recent meetings of the Imperial War Conference and War Cabinet ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Government has exhibited in the centres afficted by the strike the following notice:—"The serious stoppage of work by the engineers engaged in the manufacture ...
Article : 549 wordsA message from Petrograd states that a revolt has broken out among the munitions workers of Schuesslburg (a town 21 miles east of Petrograd, situated on an ...
Article : 161 wordsThe House of Representatives has adopted an emendment to the Army Bill, empoering Mr. Roosevelt to form a division for service in Europe. This will necessitate ...
Article : 42 words"Le Journal" describes a grim scene during a gas attack by both sides on the Western slopes of Fresnoy. Whole regiments of masked men fought in the dead ...
Article : 84 wordsThe German Post Office announces the stoppage of the mail service to Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America, China, and Siam, owing to the impossibility ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Senate threw out a measure empowering the President to establish a war cemsorship over the newspapers. ...
Article : 28 wordsCaptain Cherry, who had been awarded the Military Cross and now the Victoria Cross, was an orchardist, whose parents reside at Cradoe, near Hobart. Before his ...
Article : 213 wordsCaptain Clive Durden, and Australian medical officer, died of injuries owing to being run over by a train at Victoria Station, It was stated at the inquest that ...
Article : 75 wordsSir Thomas Robinson (Agent-General for Queensland), who has returned from France, where he supervised the polling of the Queensland troops for the referendum ...
Article : 97 wordsA new camp, formed at Freiburg, for the accommodation of prisoners, is occupied exclusively by British and French prisoners. Some officers are permitted to lodge at ...
Article : 35 wordsPresident Wilson, addressing the Red Cross Society yesterday, said:—"The heart of the country is in the war. We do not look for profit, and will not accept any ...
Article : 86 wordsFinnish newspapers state that no grain has been received from Russia for two months, and the population is on the verge of famine. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Food Dictator (Herr Batocki), speaking in the Reichstag, said that he was convinced that the food supplies would last until the harvest, but the Government must ...
Article : 129 wordsSporting journals and several other newspapers strongly urge the Government to reconsider the decision to stop racing. They point out that the amount of oats ...
Article : 102 wordsThe "Dagens Neyheter" states that a Polish National Conference is assembling at Stockholm, there being many representatives of the various parts of Poland, in ...
Article : 118 wordsA census of the United States shows that there are 10,000,000 men between the ages of 21 years and 30 years. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe German Commandant, General Glows, who was administering 25 communes in the St. Quentin region, issued a decree in 1915, which has just been discovered. compelling ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, states that the majority of the owners of boats suitable for coastal defence refuse to sell except at ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) had a private conference on Saturday with the Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. McKinnon, M.L.A.). The ...
Article : 82 wordsThe proprietors and printers of the "British Australian," and Mr. Chomley, the editor were summenced to appear at Bow-street Police Court, on a charge of ...
Article : 121 wordsReplying to a question in the Rechistag, Herr von Zimmermann (Foreign Minister) said that the allegations of the existence of a German factory for making economic ...
Article : 56 wordsThe election for the Rockhampton seat in the Legislative Assembly took place on Saturday, and resulted:—Ford (Labour), 2,282; Grant (Nationalist), 1,633. There are ...
Article : 115 wordsThe night before last there was heavy artillery fire on the Hindenburg line and Bullcourt, mostly due to the apprehension of the Germans that we were ...
Article : 321 wordsThe Board of Trade has ordered the discontinuance of trading in May wheat, following upon the Government's suggestion, in order to precent inflation of prices ...
Article : 74 wordsGeneral Dragomirof succeeds General Russky as commander of the northern Russian army. General Dragomirof was a brigadier-general when the war began, and ...
Article : 40 wordsAn official report of the British operations in Mesopotania received yesterday stated:—"Our mobile columns operating in the basins of the Shatt-el-Adhaim and Diala ...
Article : 46 wordsThe 295th and 296th casusalty lists were released by the Censor on Saturday, and are published below. They contain the names of Western Australian soldiers, ...
Article : 1,562 wordsThe Independent Labour Party has selected Messrs. J. R. Ramsay Macdonald and F. W. Jowett, M's.P. as delegates for the Labour mission to Petrogrand. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn reply to the Socialist member. Herr Kuhne's, questions in the Rechstag, it was stated that the War Office had instructed German commanders to dismiss any ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is probable that the United States will agree to a loan to Serbia. ...
Article : 20 wordsReplying to two deputations, one urging the State purchase of the inquir trade, and the other prohibition during the war, Mr. Lloyd George said:—"My personal opinion ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Legislative Council referendum figures now stand:—Against abolition, 156,902; for abolition, 101,168; majority against, 55,734. ...
Article : 21 wordsAn official Russian wireless message received yesterday stated:—"There companies of Turks and Kurds attacked on Thursday on both sides of the Euphrates, south-west ...
Article : 121 wordsIt is reported that Turkey, through a neutral agency, recently offered Russia a separate peace on the basis of opening the Strits to Russian merchantmen and naval ...
Article : 75 wordsA telegram from Berlin states that Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollway (the Imperial Chancellor) and Dr. Helfferich (Minister for the Interior) are spending the week-end at the ...
Article : 36 wordsA British official report from Salonika received on Friday stated:—"The enemy attacked on Wednesday night south-west of Lake Doiran and obtained a momentary ...
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Advertising : 52 wordsThe Northern Connties Weavers' Society has instructed 200,000 members of the society to cease work on the 26th if the cotton manufactures have not previously ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the New York "Times" quotes Count Reventlow as stating in the "Tages Zeitung" :—"I learn that Von Bethmann-Hollweg stated that if ...
Article : 99 wordsAn official Russian wireless message received yesterday stated that the enemy made a gas attack south of Lake Narves. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Agent-General for Queensland (Sir Thos Robinson) has arranged, on behalf of the War Office, a new [?] of suppy to France of Australian mutton, which ...
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