The excursion steamer Eastland over- turned at Clark-street Pier. ,It is believed that 2000 were aboard, and already 300 bodies have been recovered. The "Daily ...
Article : 44 wordsPresident Wilson has ordered plans for a proper system of national defence to be immediately prepared. This is believed to be an indication to Germany ...
Article : 33 wordsA White Paper announces that the national debt at the end of March was £,101,951,000. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe American Note to Germany bears out the forecast cabled to the "Examiner" on Thursday. The tone is courteous, but unyielding, and the terms are ...
Article : 121 wordsThe official recruiting meetings in the Circular Head, district have aroused great enthusiasm. The first meeting Was held in the Stanley Town Ilall on ...
Article : 1,039 wordsIt is announced at Washington that Dr. Wilson is calling a conference with the Secretaries of War and the Navy regarding the preparedness of the United ...
Article : 59 wordsThe special effort of the State Parliamentary recruiting committee, which commenced on July 5, terminated yesterday. During that period 18,201 ...
Article : 59 wordsDrastic liquor regulations proclaimed at -Barrow-in-Furness (Lancashire) re- strict the hours from noon to 2.30 and 6 to 9 in the evening. Sales of liquor ...
Article : 45 wordsIt seems that the Chicago Electric Company's employees chartered the East- land for a day's picnicking, Some a00 persons crowded aboard, while the vessel ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Government is commandeering the Scotch hay crop for the army at prices ranging from 75s to 130s, according to the date of delivery. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe "Now Yolk Sun" says "the future rests with the Kaiser. The United States does not stand suppliant. It tasks no privileges. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe following cable message was received on Saturday by the (Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:—" ...
Article : 114 wordsThe casualties issued on Saturday comprised 77 officers and 674 men. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe House of Commons passed the second reading of a bill postponing the municipal elections for this year. The preparation of this year', register has ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Dentsche Tages Zeitung" remarks that the American Note is a pure rejection of Germany's view point, and proves that British influence in America is over. ...
Article : 43 wordsPresident Wilson, in his despatch, says he considers Germany's most unsatisfactory. It fails to meet the real differences, and indicates no way ...
Article : 705 wordsThe steamer Roosevelt put out boats and rescued hundreds, whilst police- men launched boats and picked up many, but those entrapped in the cabins were ...
Article : 112 wordsAdvices from Copenhagen state that a Swedish committee has formed a ,wireless station at Karlsborg for direct communication with America, thus avoiding the ...
Article : 31 wordsThe "Vossische Zeitung" publishes an outrageous theory as to the sinking of the Lusitania by Professor Flamm, who says Captain Turner and the Admiralty ...
Article : 69 wordsFurther evidence was heard on Saturday by Mr. Justice Rich in pursuance of his enquiry as a Royal Commission into the charges made by Mr. Orchard, ...
Article : 401 wordsThe "Daily Express" says that Baron non Bissing has been interned, but tile statement is denied. His internment has been vainly demanded. or six months, and many questions were ...
Article : 54 wordsAn announcement has been made by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) that it is proposed to form the three brigades in Egypt into a second ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Chicago police arrested all the officials of the steamship company, and the crowd threatened to lynch them while they were en route to the police ...
Article : 44 wordsAccording to the Paris ' Martin," the Germans have arrested Vrancken, Cardinal Mercier's secretary, alleging that he is the leader of a big plot discovered, in ...
Article : 33 wordsSeveral London newspapers advocate the revocation of the orders-in-council regarding cotton. "The Times" correspondent at Washington urges making ...
Article : 52 wordsCavaliere Emilio Eles, Consul for Italy in Australia, wishes it to be made known that whilst Italians in Australasia eligible for military service are not ...
Article : 119 wordsThere were many remarkable escapes. One man, unable to swim, caught his coat on a projecting nail on the vessel's side, and was held up until he was taken ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is stated at Copenhagen that German Socialists are arranging a meeting at Berlin to formulate the party's policy. The newspapers indicate the creation of ...
Article : 52 wordsA fireman chopped through the sides of the capsized ship, but everyone was dead. The bodies ate piled like bales of merchandise. Pathetic scenes occur in ...
Article : 46 wordsVictoria Crosses have been awarded to the following:— Captain Jotham, of the 51st Sikhs. On January 7, at Tochi Valley, 1500 ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Government ,will forthwith issue an order-in-Council postponing Welsh Disestablishment until the end of the war. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Customs authorities have reported that the vessel carried no more passengers than the regulations provided. The survivors describe the sinking of ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Miller, Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, has prepared details showing the difference between inscribed stock and Treasury bonds in connection ...
Article : 443 wordsIn the course of a case in the King's Bench over disputed commissions for selling motor cars to the War Office, the evidence revealed that the various ...
Article : 57 wordsDivers are recovering many 'bodies, and the whole city is in mourning. The disaster is compared to that of the [?]quols. It is impossible to ascertain the ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the shooting matches between schools of the Empire, Wellingborough (Northanto) won the senior competition with a score of 490. Auckland Grammar ...
Article : 42 wordsGeneral Lukin will command the first South African brig de destined for Europe. Instead of military pay the Government allows Civil servants and ...
Article : 55 wordsThe national patriotic organisation has arranged meetings in all the chief centres for August 4. At them citizens will be coked to record their inflexible ...
Article : 54 wordsAmong those awarded the Distinguished ervice Order are Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, of the Fifth Royal Scots for boldly recapturing a trench at ...
Article : 51 wordsInterviewed to-night, the Premier said:—"A; already reported in the press, the bakers have found that they can no longer proceed with the existing ...
Article : 280 wordsAn Aberdeen trawler has been submarined in the North lea. The crew landed at Stromness. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe rebel Kemp has been sentenced at Pretoria to seven years' imprisonment, and a fine of £1000. Mr. Justice Lange in imposing sentence, emphusised the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe majority of the Clyde shipyard employees engineers continue to ignore the Admiralty's request to curtail their holiday. Forty per cent. have ...
Article : 44 wordsThs "Spectator" if it is necessary to have indirect taxation, suggests a national octrol, instead of a [?]riff. 'To add 5 per cent. to the port duties would ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is stated at Amsterdam that 300 'were arrested at Ghent on Belgian National Day, after colli[?]ons with the German military. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe cotton operatives have been granted an advance during the war of 5 per cent, ea the result of a reference of the dispute to the Government for ...
Article : 39 wordsA hand grenade which a soldier brought from the trenches exploded at Trowbridge. and seriously injured his two children, and partially wrecked his ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Transvool coal owners have offered the Imperial Government 100,000 tone of coal. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe King. continues his tour of the munitions works in the Birmingham n area At a Junchcon his Majesty made a speech to the munitions committee. He had ...
Article : 96 wordsCaptain Manger, of the Fifth Battalion, lied in wandsworth Hospital, and was buried at Wandsworth, with full military honours. Captain Buckley, ...
Article : 143 wordsThe anti-slavery society, in a letter addressed to the Colonial Secretary (Mir. Bonar Law) urges the liberation of any forced labour found in German ...
Article : 65 wordsCount Bernstorff, the German Ambassador at. Washington, has received a copy of the Lusitania note. He considers the situation may still be adjusted ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Capetown University h conferred Doctorships of Laws on Generals Botha and Smuts and Mr. Merriman. The students accorded an uproarious ovation ...
Article : 90 wordsThere has been a serious spread of strikes in the eastern states. The gravest factor is the suspicion that German propagandists are planning an industrial upheaval. ...
Article : 93 wordsAn important announcement with regard to the Australian metal position was made on Saturday by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes), who ...
Article : 127 wordsA conference took place yesterday between the Premier and the Mayor with regard to the necessity of some proper supervision of the various funds which ...
Article : 117 wordsA report on the Orduna incident has been drawn up, and it is stated unofficially that it supports the allegations of submarine attacks. It is considered ...
Article : 41 wordsAlarm has been caused by the repeated reconnaissanes of what apparently are foreign aeroplanes in prohibited districts. The military hive failed to ...
Article : 37 wordsAccording to New York statistics the exports of explosives from the United states for the 11 months ending may were only twenty-four million dollars in ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Benalla has arrived at Durban 'at well." When the hatches of No. 2 hold were uncovered it was found that the cargo ...
Article : 85 wordsNelson Brothers have declared an interim dividend of 4 per cent. ...
Article : 16 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Launceston Branch Australian Federated Stage Employees' Association, there was a good attendance 1o members. The ...
Article : 168 wordsThe London newspapers comment on the sternness of President Wilson's language. The "Westminster Gazette" chameterises it as the strongest words ...
Article : 38 wordsThe number of men accepted for active service who tool: advantage of the otter of the Launceston Rifle Club to assist them in rifle practice was below what ...
Article : 184 wordsA correspondent in the "Economist" complains of the injustice inflicted on investors in the New South Wales loan by the issue of the war loan and the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe State Governor (Sir Gerald Shriek land), in responding to the toast of his health at the annual dinner of the Commercial Travellers' Association on ...
Article : 267 wordsThe lecture that will be delivered this evening at the Mechanics' by Mr. J. II. Humphreys on "Proportional Representation" should be very full of interest. Mr. ...
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Advertising : 103 wordsLloyd's representative at Durban state that the Benalla fire has been extinguished, and the water is being pumped from the second hold. The first and third ...
Article : 41 wordsWhat is the use of telling anyone to stop coughing when they cannot help coughing. It is a better plan to give them something that will stop it, and ...
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