Announcing the successful launching of a great offensive on the Verdun front, a French communique, issued o Monday afternoon, stated: ...
Article : 263 wordsThe Government has issued a prod[?]mation authorising the commandeering of all horses and horse-drawn vehicles, when necessary, in order to ...
Article : 170 wordsAbout 7 o'clock this evening a passenger train from Croydon to Box Hill collided outside Ringwood station with a stationary goods train. ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Wilton, "The Times" correspondent with the Russian armies, reviewing the situation yesterday, said" The sobering influence of the ...
Article : 469 wordsGreat success has marked the initial phases of the Italian offensive on the [?]sonzo front, and the prisoners already counted number 7600. ...
Article : 426 wordsMr. Charles Tower, writing from Amsterdam, says that arrivals from Ghent report that incessant train[?]oads of German wounded, mostly in ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Campbell. "The Times" correspondent on the French front telegraphs: "The French attack north of ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Local Government Amending Bill was passed with amendments, including ones providing that a councillor should not vacate his seat if ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Allies would ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Purnell was introduced by the Premier and Mr. Hutchinson, and took his seat behind the Government. ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. Cook, Minister for the Navy, states users of coal, gas and electricity will be allowed to use them until August 25, after which the ...
Article : 78 wordsA private meeting of the British Miners' Federation yesterday reversed its previous decision in favor of sending delegates to the Stockholm ...
Article : 147 wordsVery heavy fighting on the Verdun Carso. Julian, Roumanian and Flanders fronts is promised throughout the week. ...
Article : 28 wordsRouter's correspondent at the British headquarters, telegraphing on Monday afternoon, says that the aerial activity between battles has never been ...
Article : 142 wordsThe steamer Wyandra left Brisbane to-day for Sydney with a large cargo and a number of passengers, and the Mor[?]ta left for Cairns. ...
Article : 114 wordsEarly this morning the newspaper train crashed into a horse and cart at Sunshine. The latter were both destroyed, and the driver's body was ...
Article : 65 wordsA German official message says: "At the opening of the battle before Verdun the French occupied, without fighting, Talou, Ridge, ...
Article : 129 wordsLord Robert Cecil Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question by Li[?]ut-Colonel Sir John Norton Griffiths in the ...
Article : 82 wordsA return issued by the Federal Treasurer to-day shows that up to 11th August 60,040 war certificates, representing a face value of ...
Article : 39 wordsThe new regulations under the liar Precautions Act, by which the Government is commandeering all coal throughout the Commonwealth, ...
Article : 266 wordsA Garman official message says: "After the failure of the English attacks yesterday southward of Langemarck, the firing was of less intensity. ...
Article : 34 wordsReuter's correspondent at the French headquarters telegraphed on Monday: "At dawn to-day the French began ...
Article : 329 wordsSnow fell to-day at Ballarat ...
Article : 10 wordsMr. Robinson says "We have pr[?]sonered 3,400 in Flanders and 85 officers since Wednesday. They are a mixed lot. Some good later captures ...
Article : 43 wordsA German official message says:—"The Austro-Germans drove bac[?] the stubbornly resisting Roumanians on both sides of the Oitoz Valley, ...
Article : 63 wordsField-Marshal the Duke of Connaught Inspector-General of Overseas Troops, visited Salisbury Plain yesterday and inspected three of the ...
Article : 76 wordsA Serbian official message, received on Monday afternoon, says: "The Bulgarians violently bombarded Monastir. A great many ...
Article : 44 wordsMr H. Arnott, of Arnotts Ltd., of Sydney, who has just returned from America, said to a Sydney 'Sun" reporter:— ...
Article : 207 wordsReuter's correspondent at the British headquarters telegraphs: "The appearance to-day of 'tanks' operating on ground which a few ...
Article : 388 wordsIt is announced by the Official Press Bureau that the King has sent a message to the Chinese President, congratulating him on China's ...
Article : 51 wordsRouter learns that a disastrous fire occurred at Salonica on Saturday. The city inside the walls was half destroyed, and 80,000 people are ...
Article : 55 wordsReuter's correspondent at Zurich states that the German Government has doubled the price of hay in order to reserve as much as possible ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, is initiating plans to double the contracts for the building of destroyers. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn Italian seaplane dropped bombs aboard a submarine in the mid- Adriatic and sank her. MERCHANT OFFICERS KILLED. ...
Article : 71 wordsReuter's correspondent at Madrid says the Cabinet has decided to disband the troops called up during the recent disturbances, and has also ...
Article : 54 wordsHospital egg and flower day. Weekly stock sales, Corporation Yards. Sale of household furniture at the ...
Article : 54 wordsDamage estimated at £250,000 was caused by a fire at a Brooklyn pier early yesterday morning. Spontaneous combustion is ...
Article : 54 wordsSpeaking at the Melbourne Town Hall at the mid-day recruiting meeting Sir Robert Best, M.H.R., denounced the industrial troubles as ...
Article : 76 wordsTelegraphing prior to the capture of Dead Man's Hill, the correspondent stated a terrible task was set the French infantry. He added: ...
Article : 206 wordsGiving evidence to-day before the Interstate Commission on the price of foods question. Mr. Harold Darling, of Darling and Sons, grain ...
Article : 58 wordsHigh water at Warrnambool:—This day:—2.34 a.m.; 2.49 p.m. ...
Article : 10 wordsMessrs. Archibald Macfarlane and Co. and Silvester and McConachy will hold a sale of 150 head of dairy, store and young cattle, at the sale yards, ...
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The Warrnambool Standard (Vic. : 1872 - 1900 ; 1914 - 1918), Wed 22 Aug 1917, Page 3
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