The New York "Sun's" Washington correspondent says that the United States is sending 70,000 troops to France monthly. The tonnage available is now double what ...
Article : 46 wordsMessages from Haparanda (Sweden) state that negotiations are proceeding between Roumania and the Central Powers for a separate peace on condition that ...
Article : 42 wordsMany enemy aeroplanes were concerned in the raid, which was the most prolonged yet made. The first attack lasted two and a half hours, and was renewed three or four ...
Article : 878 wordsYesterday was private members' day in the Legislative Assembly and after the disposal of formal business, the sitting was devoted to the discussion of motions ...
Article : 2,850 wordsIt is reported from Berlin that the strike leaders have elected a committee of nine to negotiate with the Government. Their demands include peace, equal suffrage, new ...
Article : 50 wordsFlourishing the leg of a table in his right hand, Alfred Richards, a man of strong physique, made his way into a Nedlands home in the early hours of ...
Article : 1,377 wordsThe steamer City of Cork (not the steamer Cork, as telegraphed yesterday) had 42 passengers and crew, and carried about 400 cattle and about 1,000 sheep. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe military authorities notify that the following soldiers have been listed for return to Australia and are actually en route from abroad. The approximate time of ...
Article : 380 wordsSir Edward H. Holden (chairman of the London City and Midland Bank Ltd.) says that Germany's total borrowings amount to £5,100,000,000, and Britain's to ...
Article : 50 wordsIn forwarding to the Prime Minister an intimation that from January 27 be ceased to be Consul-General for Russia in Australia, Mr. A. N. Dabaza says that in ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is reported that Dr. von Seidler (the Premier of Austria) has withdrawn his resignation. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities intercepted the following wireless German official message:—"We brought down thirteen aeroplanes on January 28 on the western ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Chicago "Daily News" correspondent at Harbin, Manchuria, states that the reliminary session of the Constituent Assembly at Tomsk to discuss Siberia's ...
Article : 84 wordsFood riots have occurred in Prague (Bohemia). A number of shops have been pillaged. ...
Article : 22 wordsSir Leo Chiezza Money, M.P. (Parliamentary Secretary to the Controller of Shipping) says that the ocean convoy system for ships has proved satisfactory. ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is announced that a detailed report of Count Czernin's recent speech has not yet reached the Allies. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities report:—"The armed escort vessel Mechanician was torpedoed and stranded subsequently in the English Channel on ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" (edited by Theodore Wolff) says that the strikes in Austria continue. Every mining district in the ...
Article : 65 wordsPresident Wilson has made the following statement to the United Press Association (U.S.A.):—"The United States was never the aggresser in connection with the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe following official despatches have been issued:— London, Jan. 29 (12.35 p.m.).—"We drove off enemy raiders in the ...
Article : 245 wordsOn Wednesday afternoon Mrs. J. T. Althorpe entertained about 25 merchantmen cadets who recently arrived at Fremantle, at her residence at West Guildford. The ...
Article : 362 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities report:—"A reconnaissance made on Sunday night showed that the Goeben was no longer ashore at Nagara Point." ...
Article : 30 wordsAddressing the Soviet Congress at Petrograd, M. Trotsky said that he doubted whether the negotiations would have any result as the Central Powers delegates ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Cunard liner Andania, which was torpedoed off the Irish coast, sank on Sunday night. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Government of Persia announces that owing to the Russian and Turkish Governments have expressed their willingness to withdraw troops. Persia has ...
Article : 68 wordsDespite the air raid, General Smuts (the South African statesman and soldier) delivered his promised address last night before the members of the Royal ...
Article : 339 wordsThe New York "Times" says that during 1917 Germany torpedoed 69 American ships, whose tonnage was 171,000. In the same period America seized 107 Austrian ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Russian Terrorist Committee, consisting exclusively of women, has sentenced to death M. Lenin (the Bolshevik Premier), M. Trotsky (the Bolshevik Minister for ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), writing to the German Lost Colonies Committee of the British Workers' National League, thanks it for its recent resolution ...
Article : 293 wordsDr. Harold Williams, the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says:—"A delegation from the Ukrainian garrison in Kieff visited Petrograd in order ...
Article : 154 wordsThe London correspondent of the New York "World," referring to Mr. Medhill McCormick's evidence before the Senate's committee on Military Affairs, says that ...
Article : 130 wordsFederal and State intervention having failed to effect a settlement of the dispute between the Victorian branch of the British Medical Association and the Friendly ...
Article : 401 wordsThe following Italian official bulletin has been issued:—"We stormed on January 28 the heights east of the Asiago basin, and broke through positions at several points, ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Bolshevik armies have attained considerable success in the Kieff region, weakening the influence of the Ukraine Rada. It is reported from Keiff that the ...
Article : 56 wordsAdmiral von Tirpitz, who was interviewed yesterday by a representative of the "Niewe Rotterdamsche Courant," said:—"Germany desires the military occupation of ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" reports that civil war has broken cut in Finland. The Red Guards organised a revolt to overthrow the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the New York "Times" says that the "Frankfurter Zeitung" (the principal journalistic organ of the German financial classes) has ...
Article : 80 wordsThe following official messages have been issued:— Tuesday (5.40 a.m.).—"In last night's air raid 14 men, 17 women and 16 children ...
Article : 250 wordsIn the House of Commons last night a debate took place on the Expenditure Committee's report. Mr. Bonar Law (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) said that he ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Senate Committee has adopted on amendment to the Railroad Bill providing that Government control shall terminate a year after the war. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Red Guards, assisted by sailors from the Russian warships, have effected a coupd'etat in Helsingfors. The Bolshevik Minister for War ...
Article : 68 wordsAddressing a gathering of rejected volunteers to-night, the Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon) said that he had felt appalled when he had heard ...
Article : 145 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day a motion of Mr. Arthur's, "That in the opinion of this House the Federal Government should, in view of the desperate need of ...
Article : 369 wordsThose who are on strike in Berlin number about 100,000, and they include many women. The German Electric Company's mammoth works have been closed down ...
Article : 129 wordsThe three Warspite boys Adams. Blogg, and Gurr have been committed for trial. The defence suggested that the boys had revolted against the practie of flogging. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe United States General Staff announces that Germany is breaking the Russian armistice pledge by transporting troops from the east to the west. ...
Article : 42 wordsMrs. Rose, of King-street, Adelaide, at the Adelaide Police Court, pleaded guilty to having, on January 12, knowing Private Donald McCarthy to be a deserter from the ...
Article : 286 wordsDr. Harold Williams, the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says:—"Roumanians complained recently in a bitter manner that the disorganised ...
Article : 219 wordsMr. J. Hodge, Minister for Pensions, speaking at Battersea, regretted that we had been slow to give the Germans some of their own medicine. It was 18 months ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the Paris "Matin" reports that the German Government considers that the strikes in Germany are based on the alarm of the working ...
Article : 71 wordsSpeaking yesterday in the Aldwych Club, London, Lord Derby (the Secretary of State for War) referred to the small break which occurred in the British line at ...
Article : 183 wordsBy the last mail lists were received showing goods distributed by Australian Red Cross representatives in France. Warm clothing and foods were in large demand. ...
Article : 177 wordsIt is understood in political circles that a proposal is to be made to extend the life of Parliament for a further period, probably until the middle of next year. ...
Article : 90 wordsOne touching incident of the raid was the death of a clergyman well-known in a crowded parish, whose custom during the air raids was to tour the shelters and ...
Article : 97 wordsCount von Hertling conferred yesterday with the military commandant in Berlin, and in view of the strikes, it was decided to confine the troops to the barracks: but ...
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