The Senate passed the Espionage Bill without dissent. Senators characterized food gamblers and speculators as parasites, robbers, and pirates. who should be hanged ...
Article : 166 wordsCommenting upon the soldiers' vote, the Prime Minister (Mr.Hughes) to-day said: —"The soldiers" vote so far is one of the most gratifying features of the appeal to ...
Article : 196 wordsIt is understood that the Australian Wheat Board at its meeting this week discussed a proposal to divert shipments of wheat and floor from England to America, ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Germans have recently brought heavy levies of troops from the eastern front, where the pressure has been eased on account of the Russian revolution, and is exerting such force against the Allies in France that the British have had to move back a little at Bullecourt. The French have also ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 338 wordsThe Petit Parisien states that heavy levies have been made of the German troops on the eastern front, in order to reinforce the western lines. Many of the ...
Article : 139 wordsSr. Elihu Root, who is about to lead the American mission to Petrograd, has had an important conference with President Wilson and members of the ...
Article : 181 wordsGen. Haig, reporting on Tuesday morning, said—There have been small night outpost engagements south-east of Epehy. The enemy heavily bombarded this morning our ...
Article : 341 wordsPresident Wilson has approved of plans for the expansion of the regular army to a war strength of 293,000 officers and men. Forty-five new regiments of infantry, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe American Commission which is to visit Petrograd will consist of Sr. Elihu Root, Dr. John R. Mott (General Secretary of the World's Student Christian ...
Article : 38 wordsAn urgent Deficiency Bill has been reported by the Senate Committee, providing £80,000,000 for the construction of merchant shipping and £40,000,000 for the ...
Article : 131 wordsAccording to the cabled returns received to-day at the Commonwealth Electoral Office, the soldiers votes received up to date show 1arge majorities for the ...
Article : 757 wordsThe United Press Agency's correspondent at Petrograd states that the workmen and soldiers committee has decided to enter on a coalition with the ...
Article : 127 wordsFears are expressed by Mr. W. H. Clarke (Commonwealth Prices Commissioner), in a report to the Minister in charge of Foodstuffs (Mr. Russell), that if ...
Article : 217 wordsA wireless message from Berlin states that the German Chancellor (Dr. Hollweg), in the Reichstag, replying to interpellations, declined at the present ...
Article : 542 words"Time is working for us. We are entitled to believe in an approaching successful termination of the war. Then will be the moment to negotiate concerning our war ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 11 wordsMr. Edward Glavin has been summoned to appear before a United States Naval Board and explain his invention whereby it is claimed that the course of a torpedo ...
Article : 46 wordsOrderly proceedings characterized the declaration of the poll for East Torrens at the Norwood Town Hall on Wednesday evening. The returning officer (Mr. P. ...
Article : 600 wordsAnother instance of German overtures is recorded from the region of MarmaroSziget, near the Carpathian border of Hungary. A German officer entered the ...
Article : 89 wordsGen. Hugh L. Scott (Chief of the United States General Staff) has reported that the United States has more than enough rifles and ammunition for 1,000,000 troops, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Copenhagen newspaper Dagens Nyheter states that the majority of the workmen's and soldiers delegates favour holding a Russian peace conference. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Morning Post states that the enemy is still fighting hard for his lost Hindenburg trenches. The Third Prussian Guards know no rest at Bullecourt. Two ...
Article : 182 wordsThe German legation in Holland has announced that certain British, ships painted with red-and-white stripes will attempt to-day to attack German submarined ...
Article : 87 wordsThis morning Mr. Guy (Chairman of the Butter Advisory Board) and representatives of the principal butter importers waited upon the Federal Treasurer (Sir ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of The Daily Telegraph is of opinion that the Russian situation does not warrant a feeling of excitement. He believes that ...
Article : 92 wordsNorwegian shipping circles are protesting about spies informing German submarines of the dates of sailings of Norwegian merchant ships. Many messages from a ...
Article : 130 wordsIt is noteworthy that the German censorship deleted from the official wireless message relating to Dr. Hollweg's address the following extract which has been ...
Article : 190 wordsA sensation has been caused by the Council of Ministers having appointed Gen. Petain to be the new Commander-in-Chief of the northern and north-eastern ...
Article : 56 wordsA Serbian communique states that there is great activity along the whole Serbian front in Macedonia. The Serbs have made a fresh advance near Vetrenik and ...
Article : 41 wordsAfter prolonged deliberations extending over a portion of the time of three meeting, the State Cabinet to-day decided to allow the law to take its course in the case ...
Article : 66 wordsA French Macedonian communique says:—Venizelist troops in conjunction with French troops in the region of Jumnioa successively captured two works north of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe survivors of the troopship Arcadian, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on April 15, have reached England. They say that the sea was perfectly smooth. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe French communique of Tuesday afternoon says:—The artillery struggle has been continued in different sectors. It is confirmed that the Germans sustained ...
Article : 36 words"Regarding Russia, she would appear to decline all plans of conquest by violence. Whether Russia will and can influence the Allies in the same direction I am unable ...
Article : 285 wordsThe referendum figures now stand at:—Against the abolition of the Legislative Council, 161,214; for abolition, 102,763. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York Times says that Mr. Chitney Warren, an eminent American architect, who reported on the ...
Article : 116 wordsA wireless Russian official message states.—In the region of Kellerk and Amaikbaba southward of Erzinghan (Armenia) a counter attack dislodged the Kurds ...
Article : 51 wordsThe New Zealand Commandant on the western front has issued in orders Mr. Massey's message to the troops, which says: — "Our gallant ...
Article : 101 wordsThe estimated population of New South Wales at the end of 1916 was 181,673, thus showing a decrease of 21,908 for the year. The excess of emigration over immigration ...
Article : 95 wordsAn Italian official report says:—There has been an intense artillery duel between Tolmino and the sea. Our raids led to considerable progress on the slopes of ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Amsterdam Telegraaf had an interview with one of the crew of a German submarine which attacked the seven Dutch grain ships in February. He stated ...
Article : 156 wordsAmbassador Jusserand has forwarded to the French and Belgian Governments, on behalf of the United States, an offer by Americans to assist in rebuilding the ...
Article : 53 wordsYesterday the Cabinet considered the question of forming a National Government, and agreed upon a course of action which has not yet been disclosed, as it is ...
Article : 61 wordsSir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, lecturing on Monday, said the most recent figures showed 980,000 venereal cases in the British Army. Public ...
Article : 49 wordsFollowing upon appeals for Government assistance to bore for petroleum in this State, the Minister for Mines (Mr. Robinson) states that he will obtain the services ...
Article : 49 wordsAn official pronouncement states that Austria proposed to exchange Capt. Stanley Wilson, a member of the House of Commons, who is a prisoner. The ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Choate died suddenly. He took a prominent part in last week's reception of the allied missions. Many sympathetic references to the ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Bonar Law, in the Commons to-day, denied that the Government had reached a decision with the breweries. ...
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