South Australia has been singularly free from railway disasters, and a serious accident to the Broken Hill express at Stockport, near Hamley Bridge, on Friday ...
Article : 1,064 wordsThe Federal political situation has at last advanced definitely towards a solution. Both Ministerial and Liberal parties have expressed their agreement with the ...
Article : 1,252 wordsHarry louder, the famous song writer and entertainer, has subscribed £ 50,000 to the war loan. The Alliance Assurance Company has invested £3,000,000 ...
Article : 82 wordsConsiderable interest was caused in Adelaide on Friday by the publication in The Register of the decision on the question of recruiting of the delegates who attended ...
Article : 574 wordsQuicksands are fortunately not common along the coast of this State, but Mr. H. Jenkins, a plumber, of Canning street, Rosewater, bed an exciting experience of ...
Article : 207 wordsTelegrams from Roumania indicate that the situation of the Allies on that country is steadily improving. The Austro-German offensive has been arrested, and the ...
Article : 257 wordsCheering news from the eastern battlefield says that the Russians and Roumanians have pushed back the foe for a mile or two along the whole Roumanian front, that the enemy is leaving Braila, and that on the northern Muscovite front the foe is believed to be evacuating Mitau. In the western ...
Article : 157 wordsIt is reported that 170 British awl Hindoos, 64 French, 13 Americans, and persons of some other nationalities, from steamers sunk or captured by the German ...
Article : 348 wordsThe India Office announces the rasing of a special war loan in India in 1917/18 for an unlimited amount, to b entirely handed over in the British Government for ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Bonar Law), addressing a gathering of 4,000 people at St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow on Thursday, made a stirring appeal to ...
Article : 399 wordsThe Paris correspondent of The Morning Post says that a girl who was recently at Lille has laid a terrible indictment in reference to the German deportations from ...
Article : 175 wordsField-Marshal Gen. Sir Douglas Haig reported on Thursday evening:—"We made progress during last night northward of Beaucourt, and bombarded defences ...
Article : 132 wordsIn a criminal summons which was heard at the Mansion House to-day the Oldham Company, of which Mr. Handel Booth, a member of the House of Commons is ...
Article : 341 wordsThe new Premier of Russia (Prince Galatzin) has sent a telegram assuring Mr. Lloyd George of loyal co-operation in rendering still more intimate the ...
Article : 69 wordsA Berlin message states that a returned submarine claims that it sank 16 ships, which aggregated 26,000 tons. ...
Article : 25 wordsGen. Belaieff has been appointed Minister of War in the new Golatzin GOvernment. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt has been learned at Washington that there is more than one raider at large, awing to the transfer of guns and prize crews from the enemy craft to captured ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of The Morning Post has forwarded a description of Gen. Dmitrieff's surprise attack in the Courland operation on the eye of the ...
Article : 143 wordsa correspondent at the western front, describing one of the British raids made last Wednesday, states that it was carried out in a snowstorm. Several days of ...
Article : 196 wordsGerman placards at Tongres (Belgium) threaten that the town will be fined £2,500 for each man who crosses the frontier. The Germans insist that Belgians ...
Article : 230 wordsAccording to reliable information, the Yarrowdale, which was captured by the German raider in the South Atlantic, has arrived at St. Vincent. Cape Verde ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Agricultural Labourers' Union threatens to take action if the President of the Board of Agricultural (Mr. Prothero) carries out his expressed intention to draft ...
Article : 95 wordsWomen all over Australia are rallying to the call for help in raising recruits, and it is understood that the recruiting committee formerly working under the name ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Balkans correspondent of The Rotterdam Courant says that Bulgaria holds 90,000 prisoners, including some Australians and Canadians, and ...
Article : 82 wordsA secret session of the Norwegian thing has considered the British reply to Norway regarding the coal supply. The reply does not repeat the previous ...
Article : 61 wordsThe death is announced of the Right Hon. the ninth Earl of Elgin and Kincardine (Victor Alexander Bruce, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., P.C., LL.D., P.C.L.), who had ...
Article : 287 wordsGen. Allouin has bean appointed to the French Headquarters Staff to study preparatory questions dealing with the general conduct of the war, in preparation for ...
Article : 42 wordsHis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, presiding over a meeting of the Soldiers' Graves Committee, stated that 150,000 British soldiers' graves were registered in ...
Article : 141 wordsRich coal seams have been discovered close to the surface in the Russian province of Bessarabia. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Berlin financial weekly, Plutus, says that the obtaining of on indemnity is an imperative necessity to Germany If the war should find by June, it will have cost ...
Article : 109 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, writing to the press, says that when the peace maneuvres failed, the enemy concentrated large forces in the direction of the Swiss frontier. The ...
Article : 126 wordsThe prosecution in a bomb explosion enquiry stated that an Anarchist organization known as "The Blastera," had threatened to assassinate President Wilson. The ...
Article : 57 wordsAn official telegram from Constantinople states that Gen. Townshend, the British leader who surrendered at Kut-el-Amara, has been removed to a fresh place of ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. B. J. Doe, the Independent Labour candidate for the Start seat in the Legislative Assembly, addressed a meeting at the town hall last night—at least he tried ...
Article : 232 wordsThe minimum rate of discount of the Bank of England was to-day lowered to 5½ per cent. Previously the rate was 6 per cent to which it was advanced on July 12 ...
Article : 114 wordsOfficial information to hand dhows that as the result of the war conditions in Turkish territory 110,000 persons have died of hunger in Syria, and that hundreds of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe New York Times emphasizes the profound importance of Mr. Balfour's Note, and asks—"Can Germany fail to reply to the charges retarding the worthlessness ...
Article : 36 wordsA neutral passenger who was captured on board a Dutch mailboat, which was seized by the Germane, has given interesting details of life on the German ...
Article : 268 wordsThe Premier of New Zealand (Mr. Massey), at the dinner of the Junior Constitutional Club in London, said, the war had taught the British Empire to think ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Cape Times, discussing the omission of any direct reference to the lost German colonies in the Allies' reply to the Note from President Wilson, says:—"The ...
Article : 120 wordsThe estate of the late Sir Joseph Beecham has been provisionally sworn not to exceed £1,000,000. The bulk of it is divided among the children. The American ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Rome representative of The Daily Telegraph announces that, in accordance with the Entente's ultimatum, the Greek Government has remived Gen. Callaris ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Marine Underwriters Association of Victoria has received a cable message from the Institute of London Underwriters, stating that the steamer Port Nicholeon ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Duke of Sutherland, who owns about 1,358,600 acres in the United Kingdom, is offering for sale 7,500 acres of his Lilleshall House Estate, Newport ...
Article : 70 wordsThe town bellringer at Whitehaven urged the public not to pay more than 1/ for 14 lb. of potatoes. A crowd of women, carrying flags, compelled the sellers to ...
Article : 47 wordsIn an accident to a British troop train, nine miles from Paris, 10 soldiers were killed and 40 were injured. The train contained 1,300 rank and file and 210 ...
Article : 141 wordsThe bellicose spirit which animated counsel for the prosecution (Mr. W. G. Manchester) and for the defence (Mr. M. Lazarus) respectively during the hearing of ...
Article : 253 wordsAn Italian communique states:—"We completely defeated 5,000 rebels at Zoara (Tripoli) on January 16, and the losses against the vanquished were at least 1,000. ...
Article : 34 wordsLloyds reports that the British steamers Manchester Inventor (4,247 tons), and Wragby (3,641 tons) have been sunk by submarines. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of The Doily Chronicle reports that 11 brothers members of the German raiding crew—perished in the recent destruction of e Zep ...
Article : 38 wordsWe understand that the ship Glenaros (570 tons register), now in port, has been chartered to carry wheat to England, and that the rate of freight will not exceed 1/4 ...
Article : 50 wordsThe British Bar Council has, by an overwhelming majority of votes, defeated a motion proposing the admission of women to practise at the Bar. The ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of The Petit Parisien says that many meetings urging increased submarine ruthlessness are being held in Germany. At Dresden a resolution ...
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