A sensational development in the strike occurred at a late hour last night, when the police arrested three of the most prominent strike leaders, on charges of ...
Article : 341 wordsThe British Admiralty reported on Saturday:—"Naval aeroplanes at midnight in Thursday dropped many tons of bombs on the Thourout railway station in Belgium, ...
Article : 97 wordsThe British Admiralty issued the following report on Saturday:—"Light naval forces scouting in the German Bight on Thursday sighted an enemy destroyer. Fire ...
Article : 118 wordsA telegram from Bristol, in Virginia, gives details of sensational plots by a German organised army of mountaineers to impede war preparations as disclosed at the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe following official reports have been issued by Sir Bouglas Haig:— Friday afternoon:—"The enemy twice counter attacked last night our new ...
Article : 345 wordsJapan is floating a £10,000,000 loan for the purpose of aiding Russia financially. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Lord D'Abernon asked what measures the Government contemplated to provide safe, economic, and rapid sea communication ...
Article : 190 wordsWord was received on Saturday that Private A. E. Riseley, of the 16th Battalion, had died of wounds in France. Deceased, who was well known in railway circles, was the son of he ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Minister for Foreign Affairs has formally protested to Germany against French youths in the occupied territories having been incorporated in German workmen's ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Department of Justice is sending many secret service men westward for the purpose of stamping out the I.W.W. activities and to guard the copper and ...
Article : 83 wordsA wireless message intercepted by the Admiralty shows that the Germans claim that one of their patrols attacked some of the Allies' cruisers and destroyers in the ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is announced that the publication of the American official casualty list will begin to-morrow week. ...
Article : 24 wordsSenator Lynch, who arrived by the Zealandia last week, when seen by one of our representatives, said he had made a hurried trip across on private business. He ...
Article : 1,339 wordsA Seamen's Conference, representing the Allies and most of the neutrals, was opened in London on Friday Mr. Havelock Wilson, who presided, said there would be ...
Article : 428 wordsDiscontent is increasing of the Government's inaction with regard to the lowering of food prices. Wholesale merchants are again advancing prices because of their ...
Article : 77 wordsAustralian Artillery was again involved in Thursday's very heavy fighting. German counter attacks several times during the recent fighting came under a murderous ...
Article : 599 wordsThe following Ministerial appointements have been announced:—Mr. J. Hodge (Minister for Labour), to be Minister for Pensions; Mr. G. H. Roberts (Parliamentary ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs states that the battle of Langemarck on Thursday and all the struggle to the vicinity of Glencorse Wood and Inverness Copse was one of the most ...
Article : 793 wordsMr. H. C. Hoover (Food Controller) has warned the public that a reduction of 20 per cent. in the wheat consumption will be necessary in order to conserve wheat for ...
Article : 91 wordsSix Canadians were killed and 26 more were injured by a mine explosion at a training camp at Bramshott. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Strike Defence Committee announced at a late hour that a conference had been held with the Chief Railway Commissioner on Saturday night, and this afternoon, but ...
Article : 326 wordsThe Lancashire firms propose to make a levy of £50,000 per week to relieve prospective distress among unemployed operatives consequent upon the curtailment of ...
Article : 39 wordsTwenty-seven thousand five hundred newly commissioned officers from civilian training camps will report for army duty on August 29. It is understood that 2,000 will ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Commons on Friday Mr. Balfour (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), replying to criticisms, said that any attempt to discredit the British troops ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. Hoover announces that all distillation of spirits will stop on September 8. ...
Article : 19 wordsRepresentatives of organised labour will confer at Minneapolis next month for the purpose of perfecting plans to fight the war to a finish. ...
Article : 30 wordsFrench official communiques have been issued as follow:— Friday afternoon:—"An enemy attack on our new positions on both sides of ...
Article : 492 wordsPresident Wilson has instructed the War Department to exercise greater leniency in accepting married men, for the army. There have been many complaints that the ...
Article : 87 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. W. C. Bridgeman (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Labour) said the only arrangement existing for importing ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Norwegian sailing vessels Solglimt, Majorka, Ursus Minor, and Solveig were torpedoed by a German submarine in the North Sea yesterday. Eight of the ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. MacPherson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office) announced that it was proposed to award a distinctive mark ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. McAdoo, Secretary for the Treasury, has submitted to Congress a proposal for a new bond issue of £1,507,789,000 for the purpose of providing loans for the Allies ...
Article : 42 wordsLord Robert Cecil (Minister for Blockade), when interviewed on Friday regarding the Pope's Note, said the conviction was apparently becoming general that there ...
Article : 273 wordsThe president of the Western Australian Spinning Association (Lady McMillan) has addressed the following appeal to members of the Pastoralists' Association:— ...
Article : 371 wordsThe dispute has now definitely extended to the butchering trade, and it is believed will extend to the baking trade by the beginning of the week. It is estimated ...
Article : 292 wordsMr. Charles Grasty, the New York "Times" correspondent in Paris, states:— "After a trip through Switzerland and the fullest investigation, I believe it is vain ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Government has accepted a Cuban invitation to send American troops to Cuba for training. The troops will be available in the event of pro-German efforts to ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Earl of Derby (Secretary of State for War), after visiting the New Zealand hospitals at Brockenhurst, wrote to Sir Thomas Mackenzie and Lieutenant-Colonel Wylie, ...
Article : 67 wordsSince the declaration of war 1,300,000 men have volunteered for the fighting services. The total number of American volunteers now on active service both on ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Durbam miners have instructed their delegates to the Labour Congress to oppose the sending of representatives to the Stockholm Conference. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Roumanians have restored the situation at the Oitoz Pass, and have pushed back the enemy, whose losses have been stupendous The Russo-Roumanians fought ...
Article : 79 wordsThe British Socialist Party, in a manifesto, declares that Mr. Henderson's expulsion from the Ministry is an affront to the whole Labour movement. It urges the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Matin" reports:—"On Thursday, after the Premier (M. Venizelos) had delivered his speech dealing with the German propagandist ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the Bow-street Police Court yesterday, William A. Cowson, a retired civil servant, was committed for trial on a charge of corruption. The hearing of a similar charge ...
Article : 53 wordsA report from The Hague states that the persistent failure of the Entente to seek peace greatly puzzles the pan-German press, which, in commenting upon the Pope's Note, ...
Article : 135 wordsAt Newcastle to-day Mr. Badeley, president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, said that the executive officers were not much alarmed at the action of the ...
Article : 234 wordsAustrian aeroplanes at dawn on the 14th instant dropped 11 bombs in Venice. One damaged the valuable ceiling of a salon near St. Mark's, while another killed two ...
Article : 81 wordsSilver war badges approved by the Imperial authorities for issue to officers and men who have served in the naval forces at home or abroad since the outbreak of ...
Article : 74 wordsA wireless Russian official message received on Friday night stated:—"In the direction of Kharput to-day we occupied a series of villages. The Turks made an offensive ...
Article : 34 wordsThe following German wireless official message was intercepted by the Admiralty on Friday:—"The second day of the Flanders battle was decided in our favour. The ...
Article : 126 wordsFor some time past the Red Cross Information Bureau has been in the habit of accepting donations from relatives and others for the benefit of specified prisoners ...
Article : 356 wordsThe United Press Association correspondent states that heavy night fighting developed on the outskirts of Lens, the Bavarians charging and counter-charging ...
Article : 145 wordsM. Kerensky, replying to Mr. Lloyd George's war anniversary message, reiterates the hope that Russia will carry the war on in close union with the Allies. ...
Article : 32 wordsWhile many German comments disclose determination not to relinquish Belgium, other newspapers, including the "Cologne Gazette," accuse the Governments of the ...
Article : 57 wordsSeveral weeks ago the British Press Bureau issued a notification that arrangements had been concluded with the German Government for the withdrawal of all ...
Article : 110 wordsThe "Corriere d'Italia," in a semi-official rejoinder to the criticisms of the Pope's Note, says:—"It was purposely couched in language that left a margin for additions ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Russian Red Cross Society has successfully negotiated with Austria to mitigate the condition of prisoners of war, but it has been unable to secure relief from ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Press Burean announces that to-day's German official wireless message contains a series of mis-statements. It is untrue that we attacked between Ypres, ...
Article : 154 wordsIt is officially announced that the military and naval air services will be amalgamated under the direction of an Under Secretary of State. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe position of the mines as regards coal supply has become serious. Mr. Horwood, president of the Mining Managers' Association, announced to-day that as the stocks ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Paris journal "Liberte" estimates that 5,000 Germans were killed and wounded in the course of the counter attacks to the northwards of Lens. ...
Article : 98 wordsM. Shepperd, the Moscow correspondent of the United Press Association, states:— "The conference, which will be opened here next Wednesday, will mark the end of the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe 331st casualty, list was released by the Censor on Saturday, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 590 wordsDutch gunners on Friday shot down a German aeroplane which was flying over Holland. Another German aeroplane was forced to land in Dutch territory owing to ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Rome says that the despatch of the Papal Peace Note to Italy constitutes the Vatican's first official recognition of the Italian ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Cabinet on Friday afternoon discussed the Pope's Note, and it decided to take no action with regard to it, pending an exchange of opinions with the Allies. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Parliament of British Columbia has passed a law prohibiting the sale of strong drink in the province as from the first of next month. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe strike outlook in Victoria depended on the decision of a mass meeting of the Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union, which was held to-day. Over 2,000 members of ...
Article : 423 wordsM. Marcel Hutin says that aeroplanes and artillery are playing the premier role in the British methodical advance, which is directed at small objectives, the surprise ...
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Advertising : 34 wordsThe following German wireless was intercepted on Saturday:—"There is an increased artillery duel from the coast to the north-east of Ypres. The enemy launched ...
Article : 72 wordsAt Subiaco recently a branch of the 11th Battalion lady workers was formed, with Mrs. S. R. Roberts as president, Mrs. Shotter as secretary, and Mrs. Cox as ...
Article : 89 wordsAll the leading Argentine newspapers oppose the Pope's proposals as favouring the Teutons. ...
Article : 21 wordsTrading in wheat futures will be prohibited after the end of the present month. ...
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