Correspondents at the British headquarters state that hourly our pressure grows stronger against the enemy's lines. The Germans are not going willingly, but the only alternative is to wait and be broken. Bapaume is now seriously and directly threatened. The Germans may ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. J. I. Macpherson, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, said the average British weekly air casualties in six weeks were ...
Article : 223 wordsGreat excitement prevails in the wool trade regarding the Government's control. One prominent trader says it means a complete disorganisation, and ...
Article : 209 wordsRight Hon. W. H. Long, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies, visited the west front, and addressing the New Zealanders, said he felt confident that ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Unionist newspapers hotly condemn the Northecliffe press attacks on the late Lord Kitchener. They declare there has been nothing more ...
Article : 76 wordsA Mesopotamian official message reports:—We maintained a close touch with the enemy southward of Bagdad On Saturday evening the enemy ...
Article : 138 wordsAn order-in-Council has formally postponed the operation of the Home Rule Act for another half-year. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Lloyd George received a deputation of Lancashire members of the House of Commons concerning the Indian duty. The proceedings were private, but ...
Article : 76 wordsIn moving the second reading of the bill to deprive enemy Princes and Peers of British titles, the Lord High Chancellor (Sir Robert Finlay) said the ...
Article : 275 wordsGermany has protested against Americans continuing relief work in the occupied districts of Northern France Mr. Herbert Hoover has departed for ...
Article : 32 wordsField Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports that owing to a bombardment the enemy abandoned his main defences along the forward crest of a ridge west. ...
Article : 105 wordsA communique reports that the Germans west of Maison do Champagne last evening violently counter-attacked against Hill 185. Our barrage and ma. ...
Article : 207 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Parliamentary representative says there is no longer any danger to the Government in to-morrow's cotton division. Mr. ...
Article : 72 wordsLady Northcote opens an Australian officers' club in Piccadilly on Thursday. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs in the House of Representatives to-day moved the second reading of a bill to give votes to soldiers on active service. He ...
Article : 248 wordsThe "Koelnische Volks Zeitung" says the occupation of Bagdad is an undeniable success, especially as the British expelled the Turks from Sinai. The ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Asquith to-morrow, in the House of Commons, asks Mr. Bonar Law to afford him an early opportunity to make a statement on the Dardanelles. ...
Article : 35 wordsTelegraphing from headquarters yesterday, Mr. Philip Gibbs reported the enemy had made another important retreat, Loupart Wood was heavily ...
Article : 359 wordsMar Wari, a merchant, has subscribed £600,000 sterling to the Indian war loan. ...
Article : 21 wordsOne of the diplomatic offices states it has received information that the Turkish army in Western Persia, numbering 15,000, has been captured by the ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Right Hon. A. Bonar Law) unexpectedly announced that a new vote of credit would ...
Article : 79 wordsGerman naval engineers have decided lb scrap the Goeben. which has become hopelessly unseaworthy. ...
Article : 21 wordsA Berlin official message says a British attack on a wide front south-ward of Arras failed with heavy losses. There was lively fighting on the Ancre, ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Krupp firm has subscribed £2,000,000 sterling to the sixth German war loan. ...
Article : 23 wordsRight Hon. W. F. Massey, Premier of Now Zealand, read a paper before the Royal Colonial Institute, detailing the present condition of the primary ...
Article : 209 wordsThe discussion in the House of Commons on the Trish proposal to appoint a Minister instead of a Director-General of National Service in Ireland, was ...
Article : 41 wordsThere are several interesting features of the Amending Electoral Bill, which were not set out by Mr. Glynn. One clause provides that any person who has ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Chinese Senate has confirmed the action of the Lower Chamber in authorising the breaking off of relations with Germany. ...
Article : 30 wordsLloyd's list gives prominence to the proposal of the New Zealand Farmers' Union to establish a line of steamships, with a capital of £5,000,000. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt has been ascertained that all ships will be armed, irrespective of whether they carry munitions or otherwise. The President considers the Prussian treaties. ...
Article : 52 wordsCount Bernstorff in an interview complained that the British held up his ship at Halifax twelve days, and rummaged unsystematically. ...
Article : 168 wordsArrangements for the enlistment of men in the Australian Army Reserve being now complete, the Minister for Defence hopes that all men of the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe details of the sinking of the Norwegian ship Dalmata in the Atlantic on February 12 show she was torpedoed 150 miles from land. The crew, with ...
Article : 67 wordsA meeting of delegates from the National Union, the Australian Women's National League, the People's Party, the People's Liberal Party, and the National ...
Article : 135 wordsAccording to the Rome correspondent of the "New York Times," the Pope is preparing a new and important statement on the international situation. ...
Article : 36 wordsPrincipal Selbic, in his presidential address to the council of evangelical Free Churches, warned them against assuming that the war would end in ...
Article : 102 wordsThe commission enquiring into the enemy's violations of international law has published the evidence of Dr. Krilov, who states that during an epidemic ...
Article : 145 wordsThe United Press assert that authoritative reports reaching here estimate that 60 German submarines were destroyed between January 1 and ...
Article : 32 wordsSir T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, presided over a meeting of the Cool Storage and Ice Association, when Dr. Howard, the officer of ...
Article : 91 wordsThe "Shipping Gazette" reports that the large Norwegian steamer Lars Fastenaes was sunk outside the blockade zone without warning, while on a ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the Central Police Court this morning Thomas Leslie Batlurst (25), secretary of the Returned Soldiers' Association, was charged by warrant that he ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Government and the brewers' industry have had a number of conferences as to the beet way to snake ten million barrels of beer suffice for the year. It ...
Article : 110 wordsA German submarine has been stranded on the coast. ...
Article : 16 words3 p.m.—Hospital Board. 8 p.m.—Pictures at Academy of Music, Princces and National. 8 p.m.—Municipal Band Concere, ...
Article : 25 wordsThe "London Daily Telegraph's" Athens correspondent says a Government communique states that the missing 91,000 ries have been discovered and ...
Article : 70 wordsThe "Telegraaf" says a hunger riob occurred at Banmen, a manufacturing town in Prussia. The crowd smashed hundreds of shop windows, and destroy. ...
Article : 71 wordsJustice Younger ordered the final winding up of the Australian Metal Company, upon the Board of Trade's petition that owing to the extensive ...
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