The immense and wonderfully equipped armies which have gathered in the West to decide the fate of Western civilization are still waiting for each other to begin ...
Article : 451 wordsPierre Giraud, a hero of the loattle of Charleroi, escaped from Germany after being concealed for some time in a coffin. He appeared before the Paris Assize Court ...
Article : 346 wordsThe official communique issued by the French on Sunday afternoon stated:—There has been fairly considerable reciprocal artillerying north of the Cherin des ...
Article : 233 wordsDelegates from all the States were present at the opening at the town hall to-day of the fifteenth annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of ...
Article : 469 wordsLatest London files record the award of the following decorations to Australian soldiers:— BAR TO D.S.O. Lieut.-Col. (temporary Brig.-Gen.) W.Grant ...
Article : 328 wordsAfter a tiring rail journey we are night marching with full kit to a distant rest camp. The road is a rough, uncouth track skirting a plain flanked by low hills, Above ...
Article : 926 wordsAt noon on Sunday Sir Douglas Haig reported:—Successful raids have been conducted in the neighbourhoods of Epehy and Gavrelle. We repulsed a raid north of ...
Article : 257 wordsAccording to a Vienna message, Admiral Niegovan has been relieved of the command of the Austrian Fleet owing to revolts among the crews, and other officers ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Austrian censors have endeavoured to suppress nows of serious strikes which have occurred in Vienna and other cities and towns. The employes in workshops of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 566 wordsThe United States Minister for the Navy (Mr. Daniels) has made the important statement that the world's shipping construction now exceeds the sinkings by the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe French communique on Sunday night reported:—The enemy bombardment on the right of the Meuse became intense, and was followed yesterday by a series of strong ...
Article : 153 wordsLet me describe a town to which it is confidently asserted that within 12 months it is will be possible to build a thousand air engines daily. The figures may sound ...
Article : 572 wordsThe Governor (Sir Arthur Stanley) to-day refused the request of the Premier (Mr. Bowser) for a dissolution of the Legislative Assembly. Upon receiving His ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Greek Government is introducing a Bill to fix the King's emoluments at £63,500 instead of £79,000, the Dowager Queen Olga's annuity at £11,875, and ...
Article : 50 wordsThe early morning Belgian communique intimates:—During the last two days the artillery activity has been particularly intense in the districts of Nieuport, Dixmude ...
Article : 49 wordsM. Abel Ferry, in an article in The Petit Parisien, suggests that the Government, in agreement with the Allies, should, through neutral Powers, notify the limitation of ...
Article : 78 wordsIn a despatch written on Friday Mr. G. L. Gilmour, the war correspondent, wrote:—Drunk with brandy; the Germans suffered a greater defeat at the hands of the ...
Article : 262 wordsThe terms of peace with Germany were ratified late at night. M. Lenin, in a two hours' speech,(pointed out that the opponents of the ratification were suffering ...
Article : 138 wordsA little red-whiskered man with a family of five children shared my shelter under a portico during Sunday morning's blizzard. We stood under the portico for nearly an ...
Article : 635 wordsLYNDOCH, March 17.—Mr. R. Cands, of the poet office, was riding a young horse on Sunday, when it took fright and bolted. The rider was thrown heavily to the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Press Bureau has announced that Great Britain, in behalf of the Allies, has arranged to take over the Egyptian cotton crop from August next, and the residue ...
Article : 40 wordsThe eighth annual interstate conference of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association of Australasia was opened to-day at the Trades Hall, Hobart. ...
Article : 500 wordsThe State Recruiting Committee writes:—The recruiting for the week ended March 16 showed a drop of 11, having been 28 against 39 enlisted during the ...
Article : 214 wordsCOWELL, March 15.—On Thursday Mr. J. H. Cleave (oversers of works for the Franklin Harbour District Council) met with an accident while proceeding to ...
Article : 125 wordsThe final voting in reference to the peace terms was as follows:—In favour of ratification, 704; against, 261; abstained from voting, 110. Those who abstained from ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Australians again raided the German lines east of Messines at two places early on Friday morning. The southern raid penetrated the support line, and in ...
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Advertising : 120 wordsPORT PIRIE, March 18.—A smelter employe named Roy Hales, aged 30 years, was seversly burned about the body while at work early on Saturday morning. He ...
Article : 42 wordsA section of the Revolutionary Socialists in withdrawing their support from the Government has decared that it will not lay down its arms, but intends to organize ...
Article : 144 wordsMOUNT GAMBIER, March 17.—A few days ago Mrs. W. J. Deark, a resident of Marie street, was feeding ducks in her yard when she made a misstep, and falling ...
Article : 50 wordsI had urgent need to pass over the Finnish Railway, which a month ago was working irregularly on account of a strike. I was told I could not leave Petrograd ...
Article : 743 wordsAmong the hundred and one jobs that a girl can do to help win the war ploughing is one of the best and healthiest. If you are an efficient ploughman you ...
Article : 714 wordsCapt. Carmichael, M.C., M.L.A., who is endeavouring to recruit 1,000 men for service in France, will-leave Sydney for Melbourne to-day. Ten days ago he proposed ...
Article : 102 wordsNURIOOTPA, March 18.—On Sunday morning, while motoring to Blanchetown, Percy Pollard, aged five years, who was accompanying his father, met with a ...
Article : 87 wordsThe concert party of the Alberton Cheer-up Society visited the Mitcham Camp and provided a musical programme recently. The party was received by the Y.M.C.A. Secretary (Mr. ...
Article : 79 wordsMonday.—Adelaide volunteers, 17; men accepted, 9. ...
Article : 9 wordsRemarkable evidence was given at the North Melbourne Court to-day, when Eliza-beth Webber, married woman, was charged with having knowingly sent through the ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Daily Chronicle announces that Lord Pirrie has accepted the post of Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding, nominally under the First Lord of the ...
Article : 179 wordsJ. REIDY, farmer; J. W. O. ATKINSON, engineering draughtsmen; J. B. McGREGOR, clerk. J. WHITFORD, grocer; F. JOLLY, labourer; K. G. ATTIWILL, journalist; W. H. BOBRIGE ...
Article : 34 wordsBack in the days when the war was young, and we did not realize the awful magnitude of the disaster that had befallen the world, with the lightheartedness and ...
Article : 729 wordsLady Brown writes:—Letters from France, dated December 18 and January 9, expressed "the thanks of officers and men of two of our units for the socks again received, the gift of South ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs points out that the enemy operations are still limited to raids and gas bombardments. "There is very little about the enemy organization ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the request of the Government of Victoria, Mr. Smith (President of the New York Central Railway) has forwarded to Melbourne several nominations for the ...
Article : 44 wordsI'm here, and there, and everywhere, and yet I never seem To be in just the very place the other nories deem ...
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Advertising : 148 wordsMr. Perelvel Phillips has telegraphed from the western front:—"The delay in the German offensive is probably due to the failure of the enemy gunner to gain ...
Article : 161 wordsThe War Trade Board at Washington has explained that the Allies calculate that Holland's shipping needs aggregate 550,000 tons. The balance of the tonnage ...
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Advertising : 16 wordsInvestigations made at the instance of the United States Government have revealed that German agents in the United States have purchased wool from ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 19 Mar 1918, Page 5
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