It is officially announced that Mr. G. N. Barnes (Minister of Pensions and Labour member for Blackfaiars) has been invited to become a member of the War ...
Article : 46 wordsA Berlin bulletin states that fighting activity has increased on the east front, and that Russian and Roumanian attacks are expected. ...
Article : 50 wordsGen. Haig reported on Tuesday morning:—Britsh forces drove off raiders southwest of Lens and west of Messings. We successfully raided north of the ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Secretary of State (Mr. Lansing) has disclosed that shortly before the American declaration of war against Germany the Germans attempted to ...
Article : 87 wordsMany people were surprised recently to learn that sparrows and starlings—two feathered pests that have caused untold mischief to orchardists and others in ...
Article : 688 wordsThe largest fire that has occurred in Adelaide for a long time broke out in Wakefield street on Wednesday midnight in the promised used as bond and free ...
Article : 1,224 wordsDuring recent times the liquor trade in this State has had a troublous series of experiences, and it has been stated by many hotel keepers that since 6 o'clock ...
Article : 581 wordsIt seems impossible to obtain a clear judgment of the situation in Petrograd. On the one hand, to-day we have the report that the Socialists are dissatisfied with the ...
Article : 411 wordsThe Minister for Munitions (Dr. Addison) has recommended that the industrial agitators who were reported from the Clyde shall be allowed to return to their ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Russian Minister of Justice (M. Kerensky), in a message to the troops, contained in an order of the day, enjoins the army and navy to be in readiness to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Senate finance committee has unanimously struck out from the £360,000,000 revenue Bill the clause inserted by the House of Representatives imposing a 10 ...
Article : 38 wordsMany comments are being made in the German press regarding the after war economic schemes of the Allies. The general tendency of the articles is to argue ...
Article : 159 wordsA wireless Russian official message says:—Our ships landed a party at Chivi, on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor, eastward of Samsun. They destroyed a ...
Article : 56 wordsThe investigations put in hand by the United States Federal authorities have disclosed the existence of many anti-conscriptionist organizations. Some officials ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Italian salient towards Hermada (the last considerable buttress before Trieste) has been increase. The communications between the fortresses of ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of The Daily News says that the official organ of the Soldiers and Workmen's Council, discussing the statement in allied newspapers ...
Article : 154 wordsAmong the visitors at the Recruiting Depot on Wednesday was a lad bearing the familiar name of "Jack Johnson," 14 years of age who was anxious to enlist ...
Article : 648 wordsMr. John D. Rockfeller has promised to build and equip at his own expense a military hospital in the United States, to cost £200,000. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Food Control Bill now before the United States Congress provides a maximum penalty of three years' imprisonment for undue price raising and speculation in ...
Article : 61 wordsGen Sir William Birdwood has sent a message through an Australian correspondent who interviewed him on the western front yesterday. He says:—:It is a ...
Article : 137 wordsSwiss reports declare that revolts against the invaders have occurred in Poland, Serbia, and Montenegro, ...
Article : 23 wordsAdvices from Syra disclose that there is much alarm on the part of the supporters of the Venizelos Nationalist Government, due to the prospect that Kins Constantine ...
Article : 89 wordsAn Italian official message says:—"We repulsed an attack along the railway eastward of the San Giovanni to Duino read. We broke up an attack against the summit ...
Article : 103 wordsDespatches from Tokio state that Professor Bakhmetieff, special Russian Ambassador to the United States, has arrived in Japan on his way to America. He is ...
Article : 86 wordsOn Sunday Roy Cecil Stanley Bass (25), a medical student, who, it is understood, resided at Bundaberg, Queensland, and who was [?] from the ...
Article : 165 wordsAn American ambulance section has been sent to the front, and other United States units are expected shortly to proceed to the battle line. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe French communique of Tuesday morning says:—Following a violent bombardment in the region of Hurtebise 10 German attacks were completely repulsed ...
Article : 129 wordsAn official message from Egypt says:—Our fire has destroyed several Turkish guns before Gaza. ...
Article : 23 wordsOne New York banking house has subscribed £25,000,000 to the United States "Liberty" war loan, and several individuals have each purchased more than £200,000 ...
Article : 35 wordsLater particulars received regarding the operations of the British monitors in the Gulf of Trieste show that their bombardment has battered the Austrian coastal ...
Article : 86 wordsInstructions have been issued to District Commandants to act under the powers conferred upon them by the Amended War Precautions Regulation, and to order the ...
Article : 262 wordsAffecting scenes occurred at the inquest on the victims of the German air raid on Folkestone. The Coroner said the people might congratulate themselves on the ...
Article : 143 wordsThe speech by the British Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) on the success of the Allies' submarine operations has greatly puzzled the German press. Most ...
Article : 119 wordsConstable McGrath, stationed at Rosewater, was notified on Wednesday afternoon that Mrs. Ruby Florence May Wood, aged 30 years who rested with her ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the Paris newspaper La Journal says that the Austrians are evacuating Trieste, and have sent the town archives to Vienna and the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe polling in the Division of Angas was such that it was not until the majority of the soldiers' votes were received that the result became apparent. Mr. O'Flaherty, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 272 wordsAn official announcement has been made to the effect that MM. Ribot, Cambon and Painleve, Gen. Foch, and military and diplomatic advisers, had a series of conferences ...
Article : 60 wordsCLARE, May 30.—A fire occurred at the Clare Dried Fruits Association's establishment last night. When the manager (Mr. F. G. Hicks) left the premies at 9.45 p.m. ...
Article : 104 wordsIn Queensland last week 137 men were accepted for active service, against 100 in the previous week. This increase not withstanding, the enlistments in the ...
Article : 57 wordsAn official announcement has been issued in Berlin to the effect that Austria-Hungary has formally assured Germany that the Ministerial changes in Hungary will ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Admiralty reports that the hospital ship Dover Castle was torpedoed without warning at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, in the Mediterranean, and was again ...
Article : 72 wordsFrance and Germany have signed a new agreement through the intermediation of Switzerland in regard to the direct repatriation or internment in Switzerland of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Kaiser, during his recent visit to the Arias front, addressed the troops. He said—"Our enemy, relying on his experience in the Somme battle, and his ...
Article : 143 words—The Unspoken Word.—She will not speak— Our glorious Motherland—Nor call us to her aid ...
Article : 129 wordsMOUNT.TORRENS, May 29.—A serious accident occurred here yesterday to Mr. Niegel, of Littlehampton. While employed carting for the Balhannah-Mount Pleasant ...
Article : 91 wordsA telegram received from the Shetland Islands announces that the members of Dr. Donald Macanjllan's arctic expedition, which failed to find any trace of ...
Article : 111 wordsThe mercantile cruiser Hilary has been torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea. Four men were killed by the explosion. A British destroyer has been sunk in a ...
Article : 39 wordsA paris Socialist congress has decided to send delegates to the Stockholm gathering. The Russians will send 16 delegates, representing serious [?] of the [?] ...
Article : 103 wordsFollowing is a list of hospital ships and similar vessels previously attacked or suNk by deliberate act of the enemy:— On March 30, 1916. Russian hospital ship ...
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Advertising : 906 wordsA remarkable incident occurred at the International Commerce Conference. The proceedings were conducted with such rapidity that the Japanese delegates were ...
Article : 64 wordsAn East Africa official, despatch states that the dry season is approaching, and is favouring renewed activity. The first days of May were marked by a general ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Scottish Local Government Board, because of the scarcity of supplies is permitting the sale of meat from tuberculous beasts if it is properly sterilized. The ...
Article : 55 wordsLord Masham's estate is valued at £1,005,489. The will directs that all his horses, including racehorses, shall be destroyed. [The direction has probably been ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Chinese Parliament has approved the nomination of Li Ching Has for the Premiership. Li was formerly closely associated with the leaders of the Chinese ...
Article : 47 wordsA general strike has occurred at the Uruguay capital, Monte Video. The army has taken over police duties. The newspapers have suspended publication. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe operator in charge of the switchboard at The Register Office was kept busy for more than an hour satisfying the [?] and allowing the fears of ...
Article : 127 wordsSir Ernest Shackleton has returned to England from Buenos Ayres. It has already been announced that he will join the fighting forces. ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Thu 31 May 1917, Page 5
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