The Minister of Defence (Mr. Pearce) made the following announcement to-day:—It has been decided by the Government that in future the consent of parents ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 474 wordsThe British War Mission at Washington, summarizing the situation on the western front, says the British casualties since March 21 total approximately 250,000. ...
Article : 534 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that Viscount French, who was Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in: France in 1914-15, and is now in his 66th ...
Article : 84 wordsGen. Haig, in his night communique, says:—The French prisonered a number during local night lighting in the neighbourhood of Locre. To-day there has been ...
Article : 130 wordsM. Le Bourcq (Controller of the French Army Commission) has confirmed the recent announcement of, the destruction of an enemy long-range gun, which was used ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Colonial Secretary, in a message reviewing the operations in the eastern war area during the week ended May 2, which he has telegraphed to the Acting Prime ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Dutch foreign Minister has notified the Parliament of the Netherlands of the conclusion of an agr ement witih Germany in connection with the Berlin claim for the ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs says—Nearly a week has passed without a German attack. The enemy is reorganizing his divisions and preparing for another offensive. He has ...
Article : 194 wordsA Turkish communique states:—Heavy fighting continues east of the River Jordan. On the Irak front the British advanced south of Kerkuk. ...
Article : 28 wordsA correspondent of the United Press says:—One of Gen. Hindenburg's armies Flanders has for six days been kicking heir soles. The enemy tea been held in ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Colonial Secretary, in a telegram to the Acting Prime Minuter (Mr. Watt), detailing operations during the week ended May 2, says:—In East Africa our ...
Article : 82 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in hie aviation report on Sunday night, says:—The mist yesterday cleared off slightly in he afternoon, and we dropped nine tons of ...
Article : 108 wordsThe freight steamer Tuckahco (5,500 tons) has been launched at Philadelphia, 27 days after the keen had been first laid down. The speed of construction ...
Article : 40 wordsOne hundred and seven repatriated prisoners of war reached the St. Pancras Station on Sunday. There were remarkable scenes on the platform. In some cases the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Mayor of Belfast (Mr. James Johnston) has received a letter from Gen. Gough, in which tribute is paid to the very gallant conduct of the Utter Division ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of the United States Press has learnt that the Russian Bolshevik Premier (M. Lenin) and Foreign Minister (M. Trotsky) have come ...
Article : 94 wordsThere are no fewer than 16,532 American physicians now on active service. ...
Article : 19 wordsTwo naval German prisoners of war, who escaped from Larkhill Camp on April 17, have been caught at Dead, while attempting to escape in a small open boat to ...
Article : 62 wordsLe Matin states that the enemy is concentrating large forces of infantry and artillery of all calibres in the neighbourhood of Bailleul and Ypres. ...
Article : 105 wordsCorrespondent with the American Army in France state that the German [?] south of Halloville, in the Lorraine sector, were raided on a 600-yard front ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following official cablegram, covering the war operations on the western front for the week ended May 2, has been received by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 512 wordsThe Senate has passed the Sedition Bill, which provides for a maximum punishment of 20 years imprisonment and a £200 fine for persons found guilty of disloyal action ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. [?] Philips says:—The Harassing fire which has been maintained upon the German trenches and communication; during the past three days has had the ...
Article : 350 wordsRecent arrivals from Russia believe that the chief aim of the Germans in the north £ Russia is the restoration of the honarchy, while maintaining a separatist ...
Article : 112 wordsThe most reliable estimates in reference to the Liberty loan place the probable aggregate subscription at £800,000,000, instead of the £60O,000,000 originally asked. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe [?] of the application by the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia against the Common wealth Steamship Owners' Federation, Broken Hill ...
Article : 346 wordsThe [?] [?], having [?] to get the British against the French, has begun a campaign to set the overseas troops against the British. It says:—"The ...
Article : 359 wordsThe Appeal Court has dismissed the Peninsular and Oriental Company's appeal against its assessment for stamp duty on the Union Steamship Company's shares ...
Article : 39 words[?] by the Farmer of the the death in action of her husband, Lieut, [?] Owen Farmer, of the 9th LIght House Regiment. The deceased soldier, who was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 241 wordsOne hundred Anzacs marched on to the stage of the Hippodrome at a patriotic rally, and the audience enthusiastically cheered them. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Paris correspondent of The New York Times states that the allied official who are returning home from Russia take gloomy view of the Russian situation ...
Article : 93 wordsThe appointment of 19 new members of the Legislative Council was announced to-day, including several former members of the Council and ex-members of the Lower ...
Article : 49 wordsAmerican Headquarters in France reports that Germany is using new liquefied gas contained in bottles. When the bottles burst thick white fumes arise which cause ...
Article : 43 wordsThe following news by wireless telegraphy has been made available by the American Consul-General:—LIBERTY LOAN. ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. Hermann Bernstein, Stockholm correspondent of The New York World, says he has obtained an original letter from M. Trotsky to M. Lenin during the separate ...
Article : 88 wordsThe recruiting boom has continued, and up to 1 p.m. to-day 70 men had offered their services. Lost week in New South Wales there were 876 volunteers, of whom ...
Article : 62 wordsLieut L. Storch. of the flying corps, has been killed in action. The young soldier was for some years employed at the Lameroo Post Office as a telegraph operator. He was a universal favourite ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. J. E. Isaacson, of [?] [?] has received information that hi s elder son, Pte, W. [?] Isaacson, has been killed in action in France. The deceased soldier was a native of Undalya. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe afternoon French communique reports reciprocal artillerying north and south of the Avre, and also in the Douau-mont-Flirey sector. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Government has decided to enlarge the State Aviation School and to doable the output of aviators. Arrangements for carrying out this decision bare been ...
Article : 59 wordsA Turkish communique says:—The Germans, when they occupied the Russian port of Sebastopol, found in the harbour the greater part of the Russian Black Sea ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Pearce) stated yesterday that in future six of the cadet vacancies at the Royal Military College, allotted annually for candidates under ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says the German General Staff is making still greater demands upon the Allies. A large number of Austrian ...
Article : 84 wordsFinal arrangements were made to-day for the taking over by the Commonwealth of the State shipbuilding yards at Williamstown. The original tentative agreement ...
Article : 107 wordsThe new recruiting scheme was launched to-night at the Town Hall, when the attendance was very large, and several thousands were unable to gain admittance. At ...
Article : 482 wordsA Government inspector, after a tour of the Pacific coast, stated that 3,826,000 tons of new shipping were being built or had been contracted for prior to April 1. ...
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Advertising : 474 wordsAdvices have been received that the first train load of grain from the Ukraine has arrived in Germany, and the redaction of the German bread ration has been ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Committee of Public Information has received the following from its London office:—The American Navy is making the same fine record in the air as by its ...
Article : 396 wordsPte. Charles E. Taylor, of the 8th Machine Gun; Company, who died in the First Southern General Hospital, England, was the only son and child of Mr. J. and Mrs. J. M. Taylor, of ...
Article : 127 wordsReinforcements bound shortly for the front were wished godspeed on Saturday by citizens of Melbourne. The men taking part in the march consisted of Australians ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Paris newspapers declare that the Allies know what value to attach to the German pacifist maneuvres. The Petit Journal says the German pacifist offensive ...
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Advertising : 182 wordsMr. and Mrs. Tom Johnson, of Pillana, near Port Lincoln have been notified that their youngest son, Pte. H. M. Johnson, has been wounded in France (second occasion). ...
Article : 31 words(On reading the [?] [?] the Register of [?] of "The Loss of the Mary Rose," and the "invincible lightheartedness" shown by all.) The mary Rose was converging some [?] ...
Article : 321 wordsSeveral efforts were made to inaugurate peace meetings in England yesterday, but all of them failed. In one instance, at Finsbury Park, there were disorderly ...
Article : 145 wordsAn official summary of casualties to mem-bers of the A.I.F., issued by the Defence Department, shows that the casualties up to yesterday were as follow:—Deaths, 45,097; missing, 497; prisoners of war, 2,935; wounded. 122.133: sick 70.433: casualties not ...
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