More thrilling messages are to hand, describing graphically incidents of the latest great struggle in country east of Ypres. A serious menace to the British ...
Article : 338 wordsThe present restrictions in the metropolitan area in connection with the use of gas and electricity for power and lighting have caused much comment. One citizen, who ...
Article : 656 wordsThe Munich Post reports that the Kaiser has approved of the German Imperial Chancellor (Dr. Michaelis) outlining Germany's minimum peace terms in the ...
Article : 168 wordsM. Marcel Hutin writes in The Echo that the outstanding feature of the fierce fighting yesterday was the splendid unanimaty with which the English, Scottish, and ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Illawarra miners' delegate board sat all day considering the Government's terms for resumption of work at the collieries, and finally decided to refer the ...
Article : 460 wordsCorrespondents at British headquarters on the western front estimate that 40 German divisions have been exhausted in the battle of Flanders since July 31, and that ...
Article : 78 wordsMrs. P. O'Brien, of Alberton, has been notified that her second son, Lce.-Cpl. J. D. O'Brien, who was missing on April 11, has now been reported killed on that date. The late soldier was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 253 wordsLettish workmen refused to work for the German General Staff on the eastern front, and six of the leaders were shot. ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Percival Phillips reported on Thursdays:—Our latest victory has been well maintained. The German losses were even greater than was thought yesterday, but ...
Article : 415 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of The Daily Express says that only smuggled German newspapers are arriving in Holland, for in consequence of serious ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Austrian Budget shows a deficit of nearly £749,000,000. The cost of the war for the three years has been £1,162,000,000, and the estimate of expenditure for a ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Gilmour wrote from the Australian section of the Ypres front on Tuesday:— An officer relates the following incidents of the battle:—"When we went over the ...
Article : 242 wordsA committee appointed to consider the reform of the Constitution of Saxony has rejected by nine votes to seven, proposals to introduce the Parliamentary system of ...
Article : 37 wordsGen. Sir Douglas Haig reported on Thursday night:—"After all our objectives had been gained yesterday, seven powerful counter-attacks in the ...
Article : 364 wordsInformation has been received at Mount Gambier that Lieut Reginald Lansell Frew, only son of Mrs. C. M. Frew, now of Bendigo, was killed in action on the French front on ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Secretary for War (Mr. Newton D. Baker) has issued the first official American, review of the war. The document says that the definite ascendency of the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe United Press Association representative at Washington reports that the Bulgarian Minister at Washington (Mr. Panaretoff) has declared that Bulgaria was ...
Article : 189 wordsMrs. G. H. Burke, Airlie avenue, Prospect, has been notified that her brother, Pte. E. A. Simpson, of the l0th Battalion, was killed in action on August 7. Pte. . Simpson was the eldest son ...
Article : 119 wordsThe New Zealand soldiers who were killed in the railway accident near to Plymouth were buried at Plymouth to-day. The funeral was attended by a party of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Kensington District Rifle Club will tender a social to Lce.-Cpl. J. E. Yaughan (ex-Attorney-General) on the eve of his departure for active service, in the Emulation Masonic Hall. ...
Article : 546 wordsThe Shipping Board, in an official statement, announces that the Allies and neutrals have 25,000,000 tons of shipping in the Atlantic and 5,500,000 tons in the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe State Department announces that when Count Bernstorff sent to Berlin for £10,000 he was aware that Germany had decided on the campaign of ruthless ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs writes:—The menace to the British right wing on Wednesday was averted by the courage of the English and Scottish units, and the quick, skilful ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Press Bureau reports that the Irish Convention has concluded to the presentation stage a scheme for the government of Ireland. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. W. H. Taft (ex-president of the United States), in a speech, declared that the Allies must oppose all proposals for peace at present. When the war had ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Daily Telegraph states that the national housing scheme devised to meet the shortage of dwellings caused by the cessation of building operations during the war ...
Article : 81 wordsFurther restrictions on the use of fuel, gas, and electric current will become operative from next week. So short is the available supply of coals that the Minister ...
Article : 82 wordsMore than 100 Germans were arrested to-night in a series of raids. ...
Article : 19 wordsDespite the terribly heavy fighting on the southern slopes of Polygon Ridge yesterday the British-Australian attack went over this morning punctual to the second ...
Article : 533 wordsThe Washington correspondent of The Sun reports that the State Department has handed to the Argentine Ambassador a complete file of the messages to ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Committee on Foreign Affairs has approved of a Bill to declare the Wallia Islands a French colony. These islands, which, have hitherto been under French ...
Article : 40 wordsGradually, but surely, the strake in Vic-toria is breaking down. The unions are ready to compromise freely, but employers and themselves obliged to go slowly in ...
Article : 132 wordsThe French Appeal Court has confirmed the death sentence for espionage, passed an July 28, upon Marguerite Zelle, the divorced wife at a Dutch officer, formerly ...
Article : 121 wordsA wireless German official message reports:—The battle in Flanders has continued without cessation all day and night. At least 12 British divisions, often ...
Article : 187 wordsAn advertisement elsewhere notifies that owing to the shutting down of the Glanville refinery through the lack of coal the Colonial Sugar Refining Company is unable ...
Article : 158 wordsIt has been decided to call the new Commonwealth, war loan, which will close on November 2, the "liberty Loan." Preparations have been made to give it wide ...
Article : 38 wordsAfter a terrific shelling on Tuesday the enemy launched an attack at 6 o'clock against the Carlisle Farm and Black Watch Corner, and forced the British to fall back ...
Article : 173 wordsThe British Government'e new war-borrowing proposal consists of the issue of an unlimited amount of national war bonds, saleable daily over the counter. The prices ...
Article : 82 wordsFrom The Register, Saturday, Sept. 28, 1867.— In the Assembly on Friday, Mr. Everard moved the second reading of the Fire Brigades Bill, and restarted that there were 15 or 26 insurance ...
Article : 709 wordsAdvice was received by the military authorities on Friday morning that returning South Australian soldiers, numbering 8, and comprising list No. 18, which ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. Justice Rolin made some caustic remarks in the Industrial Court to-day when ordering the cancellation of the registration of the Australian Society of ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain has decided to accept the Coal Controller's offer of an increase of 1/6 daily for workers over 16 ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Admiralty reports that British naval aircraft dropped many tons of bombs an Tuesday night on Tuesday the Thourout, Lichtervelde, and Cortemareq junctions in ...
Article : 152 wordsAn extraordinary letter from defendant to plaintiff was read at the Supreme Court to-day, during the hearing of the case in which Mrs. Lovelle, divorced wife of A. G. ...
Article : 256 wordsThe fallowing awards of military distinctions are gazetted:— BAR TO MILITARY MEDAL. Australians.—Sgt. D. MacPhai ...
Article : 98 wordsThe United Press correspondent in a despatch emphasizes the ferocious nature of the German counterattacks, which ended fruitlessly. Heavy shelling forced the ...
Article : 175 wordsSeveral months ago indignation was aroused through the reprinting in The Register of a message which has been inserted in a parcel sent to soldiers in Egypt ...
Article : 282 wordsFrank Owen, Secretary of the Federated Liquor Trades Employes' Union, was committed for trial today on a charge of having conspired with Francis Frost and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe city council last night spent much time listening to, and discussing, the request of a deputation from the A.M.A., which asked for relief for the sufferers by ...
Article : 433 wordsThe French communique on Thursday night reported:—There is intermittent artillery firing against the greater part of our front. It is most marked south of Allies ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Correspondence Militaire, Madrid, announces that Germany is inaugurating new submarine methods. The U-boats will in future be grouped in squadrons, instead ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Germans made at least four counterattacks on various parts of the line which the British and Australians seized yesterday. At noon they began to conae out ...
Article : 468 wordsA cable message has been received by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) from the Imperial authorities in reply to his offer of a quantity of butter and cheese. ...
Article : 66 wordsA newspaper report states that during the war 23 Swedish steamers have been lost without any tidings having been received regarding their fate. ...
Article : 30 wordsDutch newspapers condemn the breach of neutrality perpetrated by German seaplanes in seeking to prevent the internment of the crew of a disabled German ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Sat 29 Sep 1917, Page 7
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