One of the first of many important questions which was discussed by the Premiers with the Acting Prime Minister on Thursday was that relating to the employment ...
Article : 1,214 wordsThe Premiere opened their arms on Thursday to receive the Federal delegates to the conference. They were welcomed like lost brothers, and before them was ...
Article : 2,495 wordsThe Czar of Russia, accompanied by the Czarina and the Czarevitch, reviewed the Muscovite troops in Bessarabia, and then proceeded southward to the Black Sea port ...
Article : 50 wordsA remarkable story of married life was told the Chief Justice (Sir John Madden) in a case in which Ada Holdsworth (56), of Balaclava, sought a judicial separation ...
Article : 1,026 wordsThe Fatherland, the organ of the German-Americans, published at New York, contained in its issue of March 16 last an extraordinary and amusing article, by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsThe French communiques in reference to the Verdun area admit that the Germans have captured the ruins of the village of Cumieres, north-westward of the fortres town, and that they have recaptured the portion of Fort Douaumont which the French secured from them recently. Many other ...
Article : 357 wordsA captured Austrian officer states that 350,000 Austrians participated in the Treatino offensive. They used 2,000 guns, including 16½ in mortars, and naval 15 in ...
Article : 110 wordsNew South Wales.—85 offered; 60 accepted. Victoria.—124 offered; 51 accepted. Queensland.—18 accepted. ...
Article : 25 wordsOn Tuesday the anniversary of the declaration of war against Austria-Hungary by Italy was celebrated with tremendous enthusiasm throughout King Victor ...
Article : 85 wordsFollowing are the names of the men who, enlisted in Adelaide and went into the Exhibition Camp on Thursday:—S. A. Bird, W. C. Cummings W. Dixon, T. E. kirkby, W. C. Norton, J. R. ...
Article : 69 wordsAn Austrian communique says:—Our troops are advancing on both sides of the Sugana Valley. The Italians precipitatedly evacuated Borgo, and great booty fell into ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. McLeod) has received a letter from Capt. Pedersen, master of the barquentine Puako, seating that William King, the notorious negro ...
Article : 234 wordsTelegrams from Zurich, Switzerland, state that wireless advices have peen received there to the effect that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has urgently ...
Article : 56 wordsAn Italian communique states [?]urious bombardments of the Lagarina Valley are proceeding. Elsewhere minor Austrian attacks have been repulsed. The ...
Article : 115 wordsThere is indignation at Athens on account of the fact that Austro-German submarines have torpedoed three Greek steamers. British underwriters are increasing ...
Article : 51 wordsGen. Sir Douglas Haig has reported that small parties of British troops pushed forward on the Vimy Ridge, and engaged in hand-to-hand fighting with the Germans. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe sanguinary conflict around Verdun shown no signs of slackening. During the past two days it is estimated that 75,000 Germans have been engaged against the ...
Article : 223 wordsA semi-official Italian report states that the Austrian offensive in the Trentino, coupled with Germany's fierce onslaught on the Verdun front, is interpreted as a ...
Article : 92 wordsKing Nicholas of Montenegro has written strongly disapproving of the visit of his son, Prince Mirkos, to Vienna. He says:—"I hasten to assure our Allies that ...
Article : 94 wordsAt a meeting of business men held this afternoon, under the auspices of the Employers' Federation of New South Wales, it was resolved to form a Traders' Defence ...
Article : 79 wordsThe German submarine U22 collided with a mine, and was heavily damaged aft. She was towed to Ostend. ...
Article : 24 wordsNever was such prominence given to Empire Day in Great Britain us to-day. This was due to the growing Imperial Feeling that has sprung out of the war, and ...
Article : 460 wordsThe Berlin newspaper Vossische Zeitung states that the Reichstag will shortly be asked to vote another war credit of £500,000,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Parliamentary Under-Secretary for War (Mr. Tennant), in the Commons to-day, stated that the evidence of returned prisoners had shown that Germany had ...
Article : 87 wordsThe enemy pushed through the woods, fringing the base of Hill 304 (one and a half miles east of Deadman's Hill), and occupied the northern, north-western, and ...
Article : 137 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day a remarkable debate arose on the war credit vote of £300,000,000. Mr. A. A. Ponsonby (Liberal, Stirling) declared that the House ...
Article : 246 wordsThe City of Westminster to-day presented Mr. Hughes with an address of welcome, framed in gold, upon his return to the ancient city in which he had spent his ...
Article : 410 wordsDouaumont fort, on the north-eastern side of Verdun, was the storm centre on Wednesday. Against the French, who had recovered portion of the fort, there were 12 ...
Article : 143 wordsA French communique, issued on Tuesday night, states:—"The enemy, under cover of a cloud of gas, attacked westward of Navain, but our curtain of ...
Article : 449 wordsThe Foreign Minister (Sir Edward Grey) said he was not prepared to moke a comprehensive reply, but if he believed the German Government and nation had ...
Article : 431 wordsThe Perth branch of the A.N.A. discussed the question of conscription at a meeting on Tuesday night. A motion was carried that no further drafts of soldiers ...
Article : 90 wordsThe President of the French Republic (M. Raymond Poincare) sent an Empire Day message to the King, conveying the good wishes of France towards ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Government has introduced an amendment to the War Pension Act increasing the allowance to children from 5/ to 7/6. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe French Government has not yet fixed a date for the economic conference. The British are anxious that the time selected will be one that will enable the ...
Article : 53 wordsYesterday's Empire celebrations in Perth were confined to school demonstrations and church services. ...
Article : 19 wordsQuestioned to-day in the House of Commons, the Minister of Blockade (Lord Robert Cecil) denied that Great Britain had consented to the safe passage to ...
Article : 83 wordsThe subscribers to the Mechanics' Institute last night decided to close the institute and sell the books. It was stated that the institute, was unable to compete with ...
Article : 41 wordsRegarding temporary employment under the Defence Department, Mr. T. Trumble Secretary for Defence points out that the instructions in force that preference shall ...
Article : 117 wordsCapt. James Robert White, D.S.O., son of the late Field-Marshal Sir George White, was to-day charged at Aberdare, Glamorganshire, with having been ...
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Advertising : 451 wordsThe Westminster Gazette complains of the scantiness of the British official report from the western front, and contrasts them to the French communiques ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 26 May 1916, Page 5
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