Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:— "We drove off enemy parties westward of Queant, and carried out ...
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Article : 92 wordsAn Admiralty statement which was issued on Friday says:— H.M.S. Vanguard (19,250 tons), while anchored, blew up on the night ...
Article : 155 wordsMr.Lloyd George, the Prime Minister has written to the Chairman of the National War Savings Committee thanking the committee for its ...
Article : 196 wordsMr. Lloyd George, replying to a deputation of London Commoners, admitted that there was a special case in defending London; but the safety ...
Article : 212 wordsAdvice from Berlin state that the Kaiser has made an important concession to the democratic agitation: He has ordered that an equal ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Republican headquarters report that Chang Hsun's 3000 troops surrendered after two hours' fighting, Chang Hsun has taken refuge in the ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Chinese Legation declares that the occupation of Peking by Republican forces, following the surrender at Fung Tai on Thursday of the ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is stated by "The Times" that the Government is considering a nextensive housing, scheme for all England. ...
Article : 54 wordsA Russian official report says: "We cressed the left bank of the Lommica and captured the heights,driving back the enemy northwestward of Ehilus. ...
Article : 62 wordsSecond-Lieutenant John Young of the Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in a single-handed fight with 22 German aeroplanes in the course of ...
Article : 97 words"The Times" Correspondent at Dublin says the leading Nationalists agree that the result of the East Clare election, in which Mr. E. Devalera, the ...
Article : 67 wordsA representative of Reuter's has interviewed a Belgian woman who succeeded, in escaping through the electrified wire on the frontier into ...
Article : 377 wordsMr. W. T. Massey, the British representative at the British headquarters in Palestine, telegraphing on July 7. says:— ...
Article : 123 wordsNow that the river Lomnica, south of Stanislau, has been crossed, the eyes of General Kornlioff's Cossacks are turned to the great railway ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Chancellor, Dr. von Hollweg, asked the Reichstag on Wednesday to proceed with the vote for war credits. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe twelfth of July processions, which were abandoned after the outbreak of the war, have been resumed in Ulster, but Thursday's ...
Article : 43 wordsReuter's correspondent at Headquarters gives graphic stories of the German attack on our new front in Belgium, on our new front in Belgium, n Tuesday, regading which ...
Article : 218 wordsIn a letter to the father of Second-Lieutenant Young the young aviator's commanding officer says that his conduct strikingly illustrates the ...
Article : 138 wordsIn the House of Commons on Friday, a scene that was due to the recent imputation by Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, formerly of Tasmania, that the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe special correspondent of the United Service, in Palestine, says:— Where our Light Horse are fighting is safe from enemy depredations, still ...
Article : 72 wordsFour Conservative Ministers in the Coalition Cabinet have resigned, demanding two more Conservative seats in the Cabinet, the resignation of M. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the House of Commons the Mesopotamia debate was resumed. Mr. Asquith expressed profound regret at Mr. Chamberlain's resignation which ...
Article : 361 wordsA Russian official report states:— "In the neighbourhood of Kalusz we repulsed two attacks in the direction or Mosoxka, near Ugartsthal, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Admiralty states that the British transport Armadale with a small number of troops on board was torpedoed and sunk on 27th June. Six ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Admiralty states that a Berlin wireless message announces the resignation of Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg who will be succeeded by Dr. ...
Article : 44 wordsFrance's Day celebrations were concluded yesterday. A big meeting of citizens was held in Martin Place. The Lieutenant-Governor was present. The ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Admiralty reports: Naval aeroplanes carried out bombing raids last night on military objectives at Aertryck. Houttaven and Ghistelles, ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is stated by the "Echo do Paris" that Field Marshal von Hindenburg, Chief of the German General Staff, and General von Ludendorf, the ...
Article : 305 wordsMr. Balfour, speaking at the Mansion House, in reply to the City's congratulatory address on his success of his visit to America, said: It was ...
Article : 293 wordsPassengers who were on the British-India liner Mongara (8205 tons). which was sunk in the Mediterranean by a submarine while on its way to ...
Article : 196 wordsKing Alfonse of Spain, interviewed by "Daily Express" Correspondent, emphasised that Spain must be neutral to the end unless attacked. Referring ...
Article : 216 wordsA Belgian communique states that the enemy violently bombarded the region of Steenstraete and heavily shelled our communications. ...
Article : 20 wordsA German official report states:— The artillery duel is intense on several sectors in Flanders and Artois. We repulsed thrusts eastward of ...
Article : 152 wordsJohn Blyth, aged 45, while driving to Ballarat from Snake Valley, on Friday, was injured through colliding with an unknown person in a vehicle. ...
Article : 47 wordsA German military journal states that the latest U boats have a displacement of 6000 tons, and carry 40 torpedoes and 12 guns. They are able ...
Article : 38 wordsAn American destroyer overhauled and brought back to New York today the Norwegian steamer Conrad Mohr, aboard which the Federal ...
Article : 51 wordsA French communique reports: "Fairly violent artillery firing southeast of St. Quentin and south of Filain, particularly near Laroyers. The ...
Article : 185 wordsNews has been received that there were 1600 or 1700 deck passengers on the British-India Navigation Company's steamer. Chilka (3952 tons), ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Cuban Congress has passed a bill providing, for a bond issue of £6,000,000. to provide funds for the participation of Cuba in the war. ...
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The Warrnambool Standard (Vic. : 1872 - 1900 ; 1914 - 1918), Mon 16 Jul 1917, Page 3
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