Advices from the fronts are, on the whole, more cheerful than for some time past. Gen. Haig reports the completion of the capture of Westhoek, and positions ...
Article : 336 wordsAn industrial trouble, which may result in the closing down of construction works on the eastern section of the East-West railway line, threatens if a section of the ...
Article : 326 wordsSomething approaching a sensation was caused on Saturday morning among those concerned in the spirit trade by the publication of the new excise and import duties. ...
Article : 1,890 wordsNo longer is it possible to doubt the truth of the recent boast of a Labour politician that the cessation of work on the part of the railway and tramway ...
Article : 1,607 wordsAn Italian official message says:—We have rectified our front in the Trentino between Boscomalo and Castagnavizza, by including some Austrian positions in our ...
Article : 105 wordsThe official Press Bureau says that additional Japanese naval units nave joined the allied naval forces in European waters. ...
Article : 56 words"As the twig is bent so is the tree inclined" is an adage that particularly applies to the Children's Library in Adelaide. An astonishing, number of people ...
Article : 899 wordsReports from Russia indicate that a noticeable regeneration of the army has been observed, and the belief is general that discipline will soon be restored to the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Press bureau states that His Majesty King George has telegraphed to the Russian Premier (M. Kerensky) as follows:—"At the moment when you are ...
Article : 92 wordsAn official Italian message announced that large flights of bombing planes attacked the Austrian port of Pola on Wednesday night, and effectively dropped eight ...
Article : 50 wordsA wireless Russian official message says:—"Dense enemy waves attacked our south western positions in the direction of the Brody region, near the villages of Dub and ...
Article : 253 wordsA despatch received by the American State Department says that Capt. Persius, the German naval expert, writing in The Berlin Tageblatt, warns the Germans that ...
Article : 127 wordsA cablegram received from the French. Information Bureau says that the Very Rev Mgr. Frederic Tedochini, the new Papal Secretary, in an interview with the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Admiralty has announced that during Thursday night naval airmen dropped several tons of bombs in Belgium on the Ghistelles aerodrome, the Zuidwege ...
Article : 82 wordsA German patrol ship collided with a German minefield on the Baltic and sank. Thirty men were killed. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Washington correspondent of The New York Times says that authentic information has reached American diplomatic circles that trouble is threatening ...
Article : 117 wordsThe British Commander-in-Chief reported on Friday morning:—We launched an attack, which completed the capture of Westhoek, and secured the remaining positions ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Empire Settlement Committee has recommended the appointment of a central board of control of the emigration of ex-service men, the board to consist of a ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Lord Chancellor of England (Lord Finlay of Nairn) has expressed an interesting opinion about the legality of Germany's submarine campaign. He says ...
Article : 87 wordsA Gunman wireless message reports:—There has been a revival of fighting in the neighbourhoods of Dvinsk, Sinorgon, and Brody. ...
Article : 93 wordsHis Majesty the King has telegraphed to the Commonwealth Government expressing his gratification at receipt of its war anniversary message assuring His Majesty ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Mayor of Lens has reached Paris, and an an interview has stated that the Germans, on the pretext that the French were holding communication with the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Karlsruhe Volks Freund, in an article, recognises that it is impossible for Germany to compel her enemies to pay indemnities or surrender territory. The ...
Article : 127 wordsA Roumanian communique issued from Jassy, reports reports that the Russo-Roumanians are maintaining their positions in the various areas, and are inflicting heavy ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. H. A. L. Fisher (President of the Board of Education) introduced an Education Bill for England and Wales. He said the ...
Article : 184 wordsThe French Friday morning communique narrates:—We have continued our progress in Belgium. We occupied in the night several farms east of Bixschoote and west ...
Article : 409 wordsThe United Press correspondent at at head-quarters reports that the British attacked on a two-mile front at daylight from the Ypres to Zonnebeke road near Freezenberg ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Germans have removed all the private and public artistic treasures from Bucharest, and have pillaged the royal palace and churches. ...
Article : 29 wordsInformation received from the mokst reliable neutral sources says that Germany is confronted with three insoluble problems necessitating an early peace, which are ...
Article : 117 wordsAllied warships are bombarding Turkish forts on the Asia Minor coast. British monitors silenced one battery and destroyed an aerodrome. ...
Article : 27 wordsGen. Korniloff (Russian Commander-in-Chief) has ordered the Guards Regiments which ran away at Tarnopol to forfeit all their privileges, and says he will replace ...
Article : 53 wordsThe by-election for Kilkenny, consequent on the death of Mr. Patrick O'Brien, has resulted in the return of Mr. Cosgrove (Sinn Feiner), who received 772 votes ...
Article : 42 wordsConfidential despatches received at Washington state that both Bulgaria and Turkey are distrustful of Germany, and intend to east off the Teutonic influence at ...
Article : 39 wordsThe cricket match between the English Public Schools and five Hornchurch New Zealanders, played yesterday on the Kenington Oval, resulted in the New ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Greek Minister of Finance has made sensational revelations in the Chamber of Deputies, which showed that ex-Premiers M. Skouloudis and M.. Gounaris, while in ...
Article : 90 wordsCommenting upon the prohibition of luxuries, the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Glynn) stated that in these times, of course, various opinions were ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Trade Department at Berlin has informed Swiss export firms that they can no longer send goods to Germany unless they agree and accept payment in marks. ...
Article : 42 wordsHeavy rains have been general over the fatterring grounds of the Campaspe and Goulburn Rivers. More than 2,00 has fallen at certain points in less than 24 ...
Article : 59 wordsAfter having been successfully refloated at Gabo Island, where she had been beached, following upon two internal explosions which blew a terrific hole in her ...
Article : 410 wordsThe State Department has received a decree from the Republic of Uruguay decla[?]ing, during that it does not regard the United States as a belligerent. This means that ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to Capt. William Bishop, a Canadian aviator. He went out alone and visited an enemy aerodrome, but, finding no machines ...
Article : 159 wordsProceeding this morning to a house in St. Kilda road, detectives executed a warrant for the arrest of Frank Walter Abbott, 36 years of age, a solicitor on a charge ...
Article : 61 wordsField Marshal Sir Douglas Harg, in his Saturday noon report, said:—Our rifle and artillery fire beat back six enemy assaults for the possession of the important ground ...
Article : 154 wordsJudging from a statement made on Saturday by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Jensen), further action by the Ministry is to be expected in regard to the ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Mr. Bonar Law) introduced a War Loan Bill in the Commons to-day. He said it was not intended to issue a loan during recess ...
Article : 102 wordsThe French communique on Saturday afternoon reported:—"North of St. Quentin we regained the greater portion of the trench elements in which the enemy ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe Saturday night report stated:—"The Germans made a fresh attack this morning on our new positions northward of the Ypres to Menia road. After heavy ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Mon 13 Aug 1917, Page 5
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