Sir Rosslyn Wemyss (Second Sea Lord) has been appointed to succeed Admiral Sir John Jellicoe as First Sea Lord. Admiral Jellicoe has been elevated to the peerage ...
Article : 304 wordsA wireless Italian official message states:—The struggle on the Asiago Plateau recommenced at dawn yesterday. The enemy has concentrated powerful forces ...
Article : 90 words"We are in the war to the limit." It was Dr. Albert A. Snowden, of America, who said that to an interviewer at the South Australian Hotel on Thursday ...
Article : 1,366 wordsThe Canadian Army has telegraphed to Sir Robert Borden from the front expressing the gratitude and appreciation of the soldiers at the outcome of the elections. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsMr. Harold Williams, telegraphing from Petrograd, "says" that the People's Commissaries are forming a new calendar, abolishing Christmas and Easter. The ...
Article : 375 wordsPeace overtures are to be associated, not with Christmas, but with the dawn of the sow year. An official message from Vienna intimates that the Central Powers ...
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Advertising : 6 wordsSnow is falling abundantly throughout Italy, and the city of Rome is mantled in white. Gen. Conrad's offensive on the Asiago plateau is considered to have failed. ...
Article : 94 wordsAn official communication from Vienna save that the Governments of the Central Powers agree that the principles of the Russian proposal can form a bask for the ...
Article : 68 wordsThere will be a special holiday matinee it the Tivoli Theatre this afternoon, when the William Anderson Dramatic Company will present "The Ever Open Door." The ...
Article : 212 wordsSemaphore Tides.—Friday, Dec. 28.—High water, 9.30 a.m.; low water, 3.30 p.m. ARRIVED.—Dec. 27. Dimboola 2041, W. Millar, Western Australia. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 610 wordsThe Washington Government has announced that it will take control of all railways in the United States as from December 28 inst. The Secretary to the ...
Article : 50 wordsA Vienna official message says:—The Central Powers join with Russia in condemning the continuation of the war with the sole object of conquest, and [?] ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Food Controller (Mr. Hoover) has issued a statement that the sugar famine in the United States is due to sending 140,000 tons of the ...
Article : 52 wordsM. Trotsky has ordered the immediate arrest of the persons who invited Chinese troops to enter Harbin. The Germans have asked the Leninites to postpone peace ...
Article : 110 wordsAs an entertainment rendezvous, the Pavilion Picture Theatre enjoye all-round popularity. There were crowded houses at every session at yesterday's change of ...
Article : 177 wordsThe British Attorney-General (Sir Frederick Smith) has arrived from (London to deal with the question of the conscription of Britons living in the ...
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Article : 44 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says that the decision was conveyed to Admiral Jellicoe before Christmas that it had been decided to ...
Article : 699 wordsThe authorities arc seeking a mysterious "Madame H.," who is the central figure of a [?] system. It is believed that she is implisated in the conspiracy for the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Bolshevik Administration, in view of the probability of the failure of the peace negotiations at Brest Litovsk, are feverishly active in regard to the Supply of ...
Article : 56 wordsThe French labour Federation Congress las urged the working classes of every country to insist on their respective Governments stating their peace conditions. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe greatest indignation has bee aroused by the report of the first Germa atrocity against the American troops. I sentry's throat was cut after his capture. ...
Article : 44 wordsFive thousand persons witnessed a Rugby match at Northampton between Australian Headquarters and the New Zealand Field Artillery. The Australians ...
Article : 103 wordsThere trill be a special matinee at West's Olympia to-day, when "Trilby," in which Clara Kimball Young appears in the title role; and "The Tar-Heel ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Council of the People's Commissaries has assigned £100,000 for Revolutionary propaganda in foreign countries. The municipal employes at Petrograd ...
Article : 63 wordsOne of the military secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association on service for Australian soldiers, reports that the Royal Engineers at one of the raitheads on the Suez Canal ...
Article : 72 wordsA large ana appreciative audience greeted the new programme given by the Jesters at Austral Gardens last night. Particularly fine was the vocal work, in which this ...
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Advertising : 423 wordsThe German imperial Treasurer (Dr. Karl Helfferich), in an interview regarding Genraftiv's economic terms to be submitted to the Brest Litovsk Peace Conference ...
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Advertising : 193 wordsBritish Labour organizations aim at raising £300,000 by a shilling levy, on trades [?] for the purpose of building National Labour Headquarters in ...
Article : 43 wordsGen. Haig reported on Thursday noon:—Hostile artillerying is in progress north, eastward of Ypres. ...
Article : 23 wordsA Swedish banker who has returned from a visit to Petrograd, whither he went to enquire into tho financial position of Russia, interviewed at the Russian capital ...
Article : 140 wordsOn Boxing Day at Rocky Point, three miles below Mildura, Mr. M. Whatty (manager of the Mildura branch of Swallow & Arlell, Limited). Percy Leug (24) ...
Article : 133 wordsTo-day marks the last presentation pi "High Finance," the remarkable picture in which George Walsh is starring at the Theatre Royal. The famous athletic Fox ...
Article : 101 words"Nothing to report" was the announcement contained in the midday bulletin issued from British headquarters. Gen. Haig reported at midnight:—The ...
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Advertising : 137 wordsMalcolm McEachern, the famous basso; Orphea, "the musical marvel;" and the Dentines, sensational equilibrists, wild make a farewell appearance at the ...
Article : 124 wordsA wireless German official message reports that the artillery firing is intense south-east of Ypres, and in the neighbourhood of Moeuvres and Marcoing. ...
Article : 31 wordsErnest George Broker (27) and his sister, Hilda Muriel Brewer (18¼) were drowned this afternoon at Mount Waverley, near Oakleigh, while bathing in a ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of The Daily Chronicle reports that the gravest significance is attached to a consultation which was held between the Japanese Emperor ...
Article : 68 wordsThe French midnight communique says:—On the right bank of the Meuse, despite a most violent bombardment, a double attack by the enemy on our positions in ...
Article : 36 wordsPrance Rupprecht of Bavaria, who has been in command of a section of the German armies on the western front, is suffering from a nervous breakdown, and he ...
Article : 43 wordsRollicking, rousing, and refined are three wards which can be justly applied to the English Pierrots, who perform nightly at the Exhibition Gardens. Since their ...
Article : 385 wordsA Russian engineer has submitted to the People's Commissaries a perfected design for a guillotine to be electrically worked, and capable of decapitating 500 victims ...
Article : 33 wordsFrederick William Jeffry, James Price, and Charles Ernest Shiel were charged at the Fitzroy Court to-day with haying unlawfully assaulted Arthur Leslie ...
Article : 222 wordsMr. and Mrs. Edwin Moss, of Grove Crescent, Salisbury, have been advised that their son, Pte. Wilfred J. Mess. who was previously reported missing was killed in action on April 8. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 wordsGerman newspapers severely criticise a recent speech by the Colonial Minister (Dr. Golf), in Which he stated the intention of Germany to create a great central Empire ...
Article : 170 wordsThe most striking feature of the Christmas season bus been the acute distress and mieery of the people. Ill-olad women and children were seen openly begging food in ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. James F. Masslin, of Carmoola Smtion, [?] New South Wales, has received word that his youngest sort, Dvr. Frederick James (Jim) Maslin, was killed in action on ...
Article : 127 wordsThe French sinkings comprised one vessel over, and one under 1,600 tons. The Italian sinkings were three steamers over 1,200 tons, one sailer over that tonnage ...
Article : 47 wordsHack's Point Run, Cooroog, in the Hundred of Glyde, having an area of three square miles—an annual lease, renewable for seven years, in accordance with ...
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Advertising : 36 wordsSurgeon Capt. Walter Leonard Smith, whose none appeared in The Register on December 19 as hiving was the Military Cross, is a eon of Mr. Arthur Smith, of Martindale, Gawler, Capt. ...
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Advertising : 240 wordsThe happiest of times must come to an end, and so the last five nights are announced in connection with Wirth's Circus at Frome roaod. In order that young ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 28 Dec 1917, Page 5
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