Further light, following upon the disclosures at the recent sitting of the Moora Licensing Court in connection with applications for country liquor licences, was ...
Article : 919 wordsThe following official reports have been issued:— London, Sept. 10 (10.5 p.m.).—"Except for local fighting in the Epehy and ...
Article : 183 wordsColonel Repington, writing from France, urges that the recent great improvement in our position in France demands the reconsideration of our plans for 1919. He says ...
Article : 103 wordsOne of the most complete pictures of Russian anarchy and ter[?]m is contained in an official cocument when has been issued by the Austrian Propaganda ...
Article : 488 wordsThe Bolshevik Government has informed the Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian Consuls in Moscow that it is willing to exchange Mr. Robert H. B. Lockhart (the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe strike of gas workers in the south-western district of London has been settled. It is understood that the gas companies concerned have agreed to recognise ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Edmond Howard Lacam Gorges, C.M.G., Administrator of the Protectorate of South-West Africa, has presented one of the most sensational reports over issued in ...
Article : 1,375 wordsAfter several stirring patriotic speeches from Indian members of the Council of the Governor-General, Sir William Meyer's resolution in favour of India taking a larger ...
Article : 119 wordsMrs. F. Card of 47 St. George's-terrace, has received word that her son, Harold George, was killed in action on August 22, after one year and ten months of active service. ...
Article : 676 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that the State Department has received official messages to the effect that ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. G. Gilmour, special representative of the Australian Press Association, telegraphed on Sunday:—"The policy adopted to the castward of Peronne, namely, ...
Article : 630 wordsInformation has been received from Turkey that the Young Turks have sent large forces to the Bulgarian border in consequence of the Bulgar ill feeling arising ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. W. F. Massey (the Prime Minister of New Zealand) says in the course of an article which he contributes to the "Pall Mall Gazette":—While the adoption of a ...
Article : 122 wordsThe House of Representatives has passed unanimously the Senate's resolution empowering the President to establish prohibition zones around munition factories, ...
Article : 40 wordsAccording to a Russian wireless message which has been intercepted by the British Admiralty, 37 additional executions have taken place, comprising officers of the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Italian Government has protested to the Government of the United States against the prohibition amendment providing for the barring of imported wines. The ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. J. Havelock Wilson (the general President of the National Seamen's Union) is appealing for funds to enable the Merchant Seamen's League to fight the ...
Article : 74 wordsParis, Sept. 11 (11 a.m.) (from Marshal Foch).—"During August, in the daytime 269 tons of bombs were dropped on objectives on the battlefields between the ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Arthur Ransome, M.A., who has been supplying to the London newspapers interesting reports concerning the condition of Russia, and whom our London ...
Article : 104 wordsAccording to a report issued by the National City Bank of New York, the value of the foreign trade of the United States amounted to 29,232,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 52 wordsRepresentatives of Labour and Socialist organisations in the Allied countries will meet in London next week at a conference which Mr. Samuel Gompers (the president ...
Article : 135 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted the following German wireless official message:— Berlin, Sept. 11 (4 p.m.).—"The enemy ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Herald" says that Mr. John R. Farr (Republican). one of the members for Pennsylvania in the House of ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Roger Simmons the American Trade Commissioner, has cabled an account of his experiences in Russia to the New York "World," through Mr. Arno ...
Article : 316 wordsMr. Arno Dosch Fieurot, the Stockholm correspondent of the New York "World," and formerly the Petrograd correspondent of that newspaper, has just arrived in ...
Article : 341 wordsField-Marshal Haig, in his special order of the day issued to the troops in France, says:—"Already we have pressed beyond the old battle lines of 1917, and made a ...
Article : 242 wordsSeveral jam manufacturers waited to-day upon the Minister for Price Fixing (Mr. Massy Greene), and discussed the terms on which they could purchase sugar for ...
Article : 104 wordsAfter the heavy programme with which they were confronted on the day of their arrival, the members of the French Mission must have welcomed the programme ...
Article : 506 wordsThe Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Judicature has reversed the decision of a Magistrate declaring a man named E. King to be liable for military ...
Article : 91 wordsA new regulation under the Defence of the Realm Act enables the Government to restrict the movements of aliens not only for the safety of the realm but also in ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt), speaking to-night at a meeting at Bendigo to inaugurate the local repatriation fund, said it should not be imagined that, ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Prisoners of War Committee arranged for a special train from France to Geneva and Constantinople with sealed waggons which will carry large supplies of ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Hindenburg line is only an element of the enemy's multifarious defensive works. The second line of withdrawal is called the Hinding line. It starts south ...
Article : 135 wordsYesterday an impressive service was held in the Cathedral at Amiens, when the Bishop of Amiens, in an address, thanked the Australian troops for their special share ...
Article : 67 wordsMany German newspapers are excitedly discussing a circumstantial report emanating from Viennese diplomatic circles that a radical change in the German Cabinet is ...
Article : 439 wordsMr. W. G. Higgs (member of the Federal House of Representatives for Capricornia), in a letter to the London "Star," criticises Mr. W. H. Hughes's suggestion for the ...
Article : 94 wordsAmerican negro troops in the Vosges greatly alarmed the Germans. The negroes captured a village and released French civilian prisoners. The latter declared that ...
Article : 49 wordsTelegraphic communication has been opened between Vladivostok and Omak (Western Siberia), indicating that the Czecho-Slovaks and the Allies control the ...
Article : 278 wordsThe authorities announce that no wounded or sick soldiers are expected to reach Fremantle to-morrow (Friday), the report published on Tuesday being premature. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, in a message from France, says:—"The chief labour of our men at present is to mend the roads across the desolated area and to improvise ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Australian soldiers who have been repatriated from Holland include Private W. H. Wells (of Perth) and Private E. J. Lane (of the Pioneers). They say that they ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the London "Daily News" reports that the continued advance of the Allies in France is making a profound impression in Austria and ...
Article : 65 wordsA large body of lumpers assembled near Victoria Quay at the early-morning "pickup" yesterday, but, in accordance with their decision of the previous day, they, ...
Article : 321 wordsMr. and Mrs. Williams of Edmondstreet, Beaconsfield, have received word that their sons S.Q.M.S. Will Williams, and Sergeant Syl. Williams, have received ...
Article : 494 wordsThe whole country is indignant at the story told by the sole survivor of a submarined Norwegian sailing vessel, the barque Eglantine (339 tons). The German ...
Article : 73 wordsThe examination of Henry Christopher Scully was resumed at to-day's sittings of the Royal Commission, which is inqurring into the conduct of the police in ...
Article : 402 wordsThe announcement of the engagement of the Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria to Princess Antoinette, a sister of the Grand Duches of Luxemburg, has met ...
Article : 155 wordsWell-informed opinion does not credit Marshal Foch with the intention to endeavour to reduce the Hindemburg line by direct frontal attack. All Paris is on ...
Article : 192 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities report that a British destroyer was sunk on September 8 as the result of a collision in a fog. There were no casualties. ...
Article : 39 wordsCarl Pauer, a well-known wine merchant, who is the son of a naturalised German, has been sentenced to pay a fine of £100, and to serve a term of six months' ...
Article : 60 wordsThe State Department has sanctioned the publication of the following statement from Mr. Ira N. Morris, the United States Minister in Sweden:—"The German people still ...
Article : 117 wordsAn explosion which took place in the Ukraine munitions depot in the Dalnik quarter of Odessa (on the Black Sea) resulted in a great fire, which lasted two ...
Article : 98 wordsAn American oil tank steamer reports having sunk a U-boat 400 miles east of Sandy Hook. A shell from the steamer landed square on the submarine's hull. ...
Article : 31 wordsSentence of death was passed to-day on Alfred Snow 52), who in the Central Criminal Court was found guilty of attempted murder. The accused, it was said, had ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Webster) is doubtful whether there would be sufficient business in Australia to enable an serial service to be worked successfully. The ...
Article : 115 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities reported yesterday:—"Members of the Royal Air Force, co-operating with the Navy from September 1 to 7, attacked on four ...
Article : 115 wordsThe United Press Association announced on Tuesday:—"The British are nearing St. Quentin, and have established an outpost near Fresnoy-le-Petit three miles from the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe following Italian official communique was issued on Tuesday evening:—"In the Dossocassino region to the north of Maltissimo repeated hostile attacks failed ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the Toowoomba Circuit Court to-day Nelson Campbell McLean was sentenced to three years' hard labour in connection with the charge of embezzlement from the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Bolshevik Government has issued a proclamation to the whole world accusing Britain and France of having instigated attempts against the People's Commissaries ...
Article : 48 wordsCollections of art treasures looted by the Huns in Belgium and France are being offered for sale "sub rosa" in Switzerland—reputedly on behalf of the German ...
Article : 40 wordsGerman war correspondents report that Douai is being evacuated, and that the civilians have left the town. ...
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