The statements of prisoners, together with information gathered by Russian Scouts, indicate that the Germans lost an army corps in the Riga operations in ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) has announced that in order to save freight space, in view of the submarine menace, it is necessary to restrict imports of all but essential items, and the policy has been put into force. The British have made further good progress in France. The Germans have ...
Article : 194 wordsThe German Minister of Finance (Herr won Roedern), in introducing the Budget in the Reichstag, with ks proposal for a war credit of £750,000,000, said the ...
Article : 269 wordsGen. Haig reported on Saturday evening:—As the result of unceasing pressure by the British, the enemy vacated important positions on the Ancre brook. We progressed ...
Article : 84 wordsItalian official:—The Austrians seized an outpost at Col di Lana, but an Italian counter-attack drove him out, and we took prisoners. One of our airships dropped a ton ...
Article : 56 wordsA submarine in the Mediterranean sank the Italian transport steamer Minas (2,854 tone). Allied ships came to the rescue and saved portion of the troops and crew. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Athens Government has drawn up a reply to the Entente demands, promising the appointment of a committee of two Ententists, two Greeks, and one ...
Article : 59 wordsThe first American ship to defy the German submarine, blockade for several weeks past is believed to be on the eve of arriving safely at her outward destination. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes liner Athos, bound from China far France, with a large number of Senegalese tirailleurs and colonial labourers, was torpedoed on February ...
Article : 134 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his Friday report, states:—We improved our position north of Gueudecourt, capturing a portion of a trench and 30 ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Anglo-Hellenic League states that 8,000 Greek troops, whom the Bnlgars took from Kavalla, and who were interned by the Germans at Goriitz, are in a pitiable ...
Article : 60 wordsIn addition to the articles which Mr. Lloyd George mentioned, a Gazette notice prohibits the importation of agricultural machinery, antimonyware ...
Article : 175 wordsThe war correspondent of Le Journal states that the losses of the Germans have been heavy considering the nature of the actions in which they nave recently taken ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Germans have ordered the evacuation of the population at several places behind the firing line, and particularly in the regions of Comines, La Bassee ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is reported that the Austrian Archduke Friedrich lias been imprisoned in a palace at Vienna, a secret Military Court having found him responsible for the lack ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Echo de Paris says that between February 1 and February 19 French marines had 22 fights with enemy submersible craft, and that several of the latter ...
Article : 71 wordsA White Paper just issued shows that the British Government has 5,000,000 troops on its home and colonial establishments, exclusive of those serving in India. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe King and Queen entertained the following wounded officers at Buckingham Palace to-day:-Australians—Lieut.-Col. Flintoff, Majors Woodcock and Plant ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Lloyd George made his promised statement in the House of Commons to-day. The Chamber was crowded, and the Prime Minister was loudly cheered. He ...
Article : 320 wordsAn official message says that the British in Mesopotamia have secured and consolidated two lines of trenches at the southern end of the Sannaiyat position. The ...
Article : 47 wordsGermany has decided to impose a tax of 20 per cent, on the value of the output of her collieries, which will yield £25,000,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsWherever it has become known among the Australian troops that Australian party quarrels arc being dropped and personal differences and jealousies abandoned ...
Article : 323 wordsLloyd's report that during Thursday night the Dutch steamers Zaandijk (4,189 tons), Noorderdijk (7,166 tons), Eemland (3,770 tons). Gaasterland (3,917 tons). ...
Article : 131 wordsThe essential commodities were food, clothing, the maintenance and equipment of the civil and military populations here and abroad, raw material for munitions ...
Article : 154 wordsThe German Governor-General of Belgium has closed all the schools of that country. He alleges that, this has been done owing to the shortage of coal. He ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Ring and Queen to-day opened a School for Oriental Studies at Finsbury Circus. Crowds watched the ceremony of receiving: the sword from the Lord ...
Article : 99 wordsImporters of Australian apples are surprised at the total prohibition of imports, but they accept the situation with resignation in view of the urgent need for ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Lloyd George's prohibitions and restrictions of imports are estimated to represent a caving of 5,000,000 tons in freight space, and thus 125 more vessels of 5,000 ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London has decided to adopt one meatless day a week. The Official Press Bureau says thai the Food Controller (Lord Devonport) has ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Rotterdam Courant points out the serious fact that on February 22 the Germans cave the seven vessels opportunity to leave Falmouth. ...
Article : 76 wordsThere vere large stocks of coffee and cocoa in the United Kingdom, 60 that importation in those lines must be Stopped. We must also prohibit a large number of ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Washington Administration has submitted to Conferees, without recommendation, and to the Army General Staff, a Universal Training Bill, providing for the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe British steamers Longhirst (3,053 tons), Beneficent (1,963 tons), Trojan Prince (3,106 tons), Grenadier (1,004 tons), Wathfield (3,012 tons), and Belgier (4,588 ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Daily Telegraph describes Mr. Lloyd George's speech as a full and frank acceptance of the war situation, and an abandonment of the policy of letting things adjust ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Dutch Gazctte, commenting on me submarine situation, says:-The last shadow of doubt regarding Germany's intentions has been swept away. War has ...
Article : 305 wordsTimber consumed a great bulk of tonnage last year. We imported 6,400,000 tons, of which 2,000,000 tons consisted of pit props, and the bulk of the remainder ...
Article : 202 wordsA New Zealand Rugby team from Godford Camp on Saturday beat the New Zealanders at Hornchurch by 17 points to 8. Roberta (international) and Muir were ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Maastricht News says that 40,000 of the employes of Krupp's armament works at Essen are out on strike. Their main grievance is that the food allowed them is ...
Article : 54 wordsThe German submarine B30, in the North Sea, to-day became stranded on the Zeeland coast, but was not damaged. It was towed to Flushing, where its crew of ...
Article : 63 wordsThe short supply of potatoes in London on Saturday led to selling in restricted quantities in many districts. Wholesale dealers attributed the shortage to array ...
Article : 167 wordsThe French communique at 4 p.m. on Saturday reported:—After a violent bombardment the Germans attempted an unsuccessful coup de main against trenches ...
Article : 165 wordsA Dutch trawler in. the North Sea noticed what appeared to be a floating German waterplane. On nearer approach it proved to be a sham, with a dummy ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Prime Minister, referring to meat and other feeding stuffs, said:—"I think we can mow to a much larger extent than before depend on home-grown meat ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Hoover, who is in marge of the American Belgian relief, announces that Great Britain, and Germany have agreed that the Belgian Relief Commission's ...
Article : 60 wordsThe newspapers m their editorials to-day refer to Mr. Lloyd George's address. The New York World calls it "an epoch-making speech," and says the compliment paid ...
Article : 200 wordsThere had been a lamentable neg[?]ect of agriculture in Great Britain and Ireland. About 70 to SO per cent, of important foodstuffs came from abroad ...
Article : 393 wordsWhen war was declared among the first South Australians to "join up" were Sgnlr. W A. Snow and Lce.-Cpl. Frank Snow, two of the sons of Sgt. A. Snow, an old ...
Article : 465 wordsIf it were conceivable that the nation was not prepared to endure the restrictions, then he said with all solemnity that he knew no body of honourable men who ...
Article : 158 wordsAn officer belonging to one of the seven Dutch vessels, when interviewed at Paddingtin station, said:—"We had picked up, about the western approaches to the ...
Article : 143 wordsThe police at the Spanish capital have tracked the German agent, whose "plant" of supplies for German submarines was recently discovered attached to a buoy off ...
Article : 195 wordsThere are in the United State many signs of uneasiness at President Wilson's inaction in reference to meeting the German submarine menace. A hot debate occurred ...
Article : 161 wordsAt the London School of Economics "Mr. E Hitchcock, of the raw materials branch 31 the War Office, read a paper dealing with "The importance of Imperial wool." ...
Article : 189 wordsThe German Legation at The Hague, "in order to prevent wrong impressions," joints out that the seven torpedoed Dutch vessels were previously made aware that ...
Article : 69 wordsIt was known in the lobbies that the policy of the Government was the outcome of much discussion with the Allies and overseas representatives in the past few ...
Article : 403 wordsPrivate cable advices received from London, dated February 20, indicate that there lias teen no alteration in the cargo war risk rate under the British war risk ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Dutch Socialist Organ Het Yolk, in reply to German Socialist appeals, says:—"The German Socialist press tries to expound to us and to other neutrals ...
Article : 227 wordsA Madrid correspondent of the Amerian prees states that Mr. Gerard forwarded a cablegram to Washington insisting that the Government should obtain a ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Providence (Rhode Island) Journal says that American high officials have intercepted letters showing that the German spy plots now being investigated in the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe London representative of the New York Times lias interviewed the editor of The Economist, who said:—"If America, with her great wealth, were to join the ...
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Advertising : 251 wordsA thousand food rioters stormed the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Fifth avenue, Sew York, to-day. Fifty persons were trampled upon and injured. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Secretary for India (Mr. Austen Chamberlain), speaking at the Baltic Exchange said the time had come when every run must do more than previously. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Rio de Janeiro correspondent of The Observer, an influential London Sunday newspaper, says that an armed band of Germans, apparently sailors who had been ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Mon 26 Feb 1917, Page 7
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