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Article : 46 wordsIt is stated from Amsterdam that the Kaiser in a proclamation to the German people says the enemy has dropped their mask after refusing with scorn the peace ...
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Advertising : 354 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports that the prisoners captured in operations northward from the Auoro now number 201. ...
Article : 116 wordsThe "Times" has been authoritatively informed that the Allied Governments regard the Greek Note as revealing a tendency to play for time, as it evades ...
Article : 75 wordsReuter's correspondent at Stockholm states that the Swedish steamer Lngeborg, from England, has arrived at Gothenberg. She was stopped in the North ...
Article : 61 wordsMessage received in Petrograd from Riga state that the Russian offensive is developing despite the sodden ground. The water is level with the soil. ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is stated by the "Pall Mall Gazette" that the destruction of two Italian Dreadnoughts is believed to have been due to a widespread plot, in which ...
Article : 86 wordsReuter announces that the Allies consider the Greek reply to their demands insufficiently precise. The Greek Government will be told ...
Article : 81 wordsReuter isues a statement, which may be taken as expressing the views of the Allies on Germany's Note. It emphasises that it was Germany who refused a ...
Article : 146 wordsA Paris official communique reports:— "The day was quiet on the whole front. There was cannonading in Belgium, south of the Somme, and in Lorraine ...
Article : 33 wordsA French general on the Somme ceremoniously presented the military medal and cross of war to a British private. His battalion relieved the French ...
Article : 122 wordsThe members of the British colony in Athens arrived in England last night. They state that as a result of the Allied blockade food tickets have been ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Turkish Government has made a mass levy of all men for the Front, replacing them with females and children. Bulgaria has mobilised boys of 17. ...
Article : 35 wordsParticulars have been received of the death of Frederick Celous, the famous big game hunter, who was recently killed in action in East Africa. It appears ...
Article : 67 wordsThe "Daily Mail" in allusions to Ireland and the Beer Republics, says:— Have Germans forgotten that ex-Boer leaders, Botha and Smuts, have ...
Article : 60 wordsA well-known neutral who has returned from Germany says that the economic conditions are steadily becoming worse. Everywhere there is a scarcity, ...
Article : 283 wordsReuter learns that the latest evidence of Germany's continued efforts to raise a Polish army is that 60 Russian Polish officers, who were prisoners in Germany, ...
Article : 99 wordsIt is officially stated from Rome that the battleship Regina Margatrima struck two mines in the open sea on the night of the 11th, and sunk in a few minutes. ...
Article : 67 wordsCommenting on the Allied reply to the American Note the "New York Herald" says:—Can Germany now refuse to follow the Allies in explaining the terms and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe "Gazette" announces that Victoria Crosses have been awarded to the following:— Pte John Cunningham, of the East ...
Article : 91 wordsReuter's correspondent at Petrograd states that Gen Dmitrieff, the Bulgarian officer who is commanding the Russian forces, has issued an order to his troops ...
Article : 135 wordsA German wireless message reports that a British cruiser of the Juno type was destroyed by direct hits in Port Meys. The British Admiralty states that no ...
Article : 53 wordsA message from Cairo says that the weather in Sinai is inclement, but the Australian Light Horse is in the finest fettle, while the Turks are thoroughly ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Washington says that public opinion in the United States is generally pleased at the candid character of the Entente reply, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Allies are confident of their ability to hold the enemy everywhere, remaining free to choose their own time and place for offensive movements. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe British steamer Excellent has been sunk. (United Service.) The Greek steamer Evangelos and the ...
Article : 30 wordsThirty-one officers were wounded in the fighting at Rafa, not 41, as at first reported. ...
Article : 17 wordsLt-Gen Sir William Birdwood, Commander of the Anzac First Army Corps, has called upon Mr Lloyd-George, the Prime Minister; Lord Derby, Minister for ...
Article : 64 wordsIn all quarters in America the opinion is held that while the Entente's reply to President Wilson's Peace Note is a complete answer to the President's request ...
Article : 127 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Cape Town says that the Union Government is sending a Minister to the Imperial Conference. There is a strong movement ...
Article : 49 wordsNewspaper references to the Riga offensive continue guarded, but M. Marcel Hutin, who is well informed. writes in the "Echo de Paris":— ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, stated to-day that four railway sections were to be sent to France. It was known that a section was ...
Article : 356 wordsAs a result of the disclosures made at the meeting of the Berlin Council a few days ago, in regard to the food situation in the large German towns, a controversy ...
Article : 193 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Amsterdam states that the German and Austrian newspapers express satisfaction that Mr Hughes, the Australian Prime ...
Article : 52 wordsA new order for Imperial service is to be instituted. It will consist of five grades, including Grand Cross and Knight Commander. It ...
Article : 58 wordsAll the leading Dutch papers express approval of the Allied reply to President Wilson's Peace Note. The Amsterdam "Telegraaf" expresses ...
Article : 153 wordsA Russian official message received this afternoon says:— "The enemy pressed us back a short distance south of the Oitoz River. ...
Article : 265 wordsThe National section of the Parliamentary group in Paris is urging the appointment of an inter-Allied General Staff to control the direction of the ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the speech from the Throne at the opening of the Norwegian Storthing, it was stated that the difficulties of neutrals seemed to be becoming greater. The ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is announced by the Government Wool Committee that all wool not required for Government purposes will be used for the Imperial export trade. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Master of Balliol, addressing the Historical Association, said the time is ripe for thought of the future of Imperial relations, and the settlement of ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is announced officially that two British aeroplanes were reconnoitring in the Eastern Mediterranean recently, and on arriving at their destination they found ...
Article : 91 wordsBerlin has established on official Adoption Bureau for war babies. Already 10,000 babies are inmates. ...
Article : 23 wordsAn Austro-Hungarian Note to neutrals and the Pope, with reference to the Allies' replies to the peace offer of the Central Powers, closely follows the German ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Paris reports that the venue of the conference of enemy sovereigns has been changed to Bucharest in order to throw out a ...
Article : 80 wordsMrs C. Johnson, of 105 Wills street, has received word that her son, Pte W. H. Johnson, is in the First Australian General Hospital with influenza. ...
Article : 38 wordsViscount Hythe, addressing a thousand Canadians at Hastings on the problems of the Empire, forecasted the realisation of Imperial Federation. He said that the ...
Article : 68 wordsAn explosion at the Dupont Powder Works at Haskell, New Jersey, America, destroyed 400,000lb of powder. Only two members of the night shift are missing. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at The Hague states that German attacks on Dr Von Bethmann-Hollweg have recommenced with much bitterness. Count ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" comments on the absence of any British demand in the Allies' reply regarding the conquest of colonies. This self-effacement is bound ...
Article : 71 wordsMrs Bulluss, of Raglan street south, has received word from the Defence Department that her husband, Pte Jack Bulluss, has been wounded. ...
Article : 27 wordsTelegrams received in Copenhagen from Sofia state that the Germans and Bulgars are violently bombarding Galatz. A great part of the town has been ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Beaufort relatives of Pte W. J. Baulch, of Lexton, have received tidings that he was died of wounds. He was recently reported to have been killed in ...
Article : 77 wordsThe loss caused by the destruction of the Canadian Car Company's munition plant at Kingsland, New Jersey, is now estimated at £3,200,000. Officials of the company state that the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Berne reports that Herr Von Jugow, the ex-German Minister for Foreign Affairs, has joined Prince Von Bulow in ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is stated by the "Berliner Tageblatt" that the Austrian Cabinet will probably resign shortly, if it does not succeed in arriving at an agreement with the other ...
Article : 46 wordsAllied newspapers, in supporting the reply to President Wilson's Peace Note, lay emphasis upon its palpable good faith, and say that it inspires confidence. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe English and Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Societies have purchased 10,000 acres of Saskatehewan wheat land, for wheat growing for co-operative mills. ...
Article : 38 wordsCol Les. Backway, son of Mr and Mrs A. Backway, of Maryborough, has been killed in action in France. His brother, Albert, is also at the Front. ...
Article : 148 wordsMrs H. Jones, Bennett street, Stawell, put up a splendid performance last year for the Red Cross Society. She completed and handed in to the local branch 14 ...
Article : 65 wordsReuter learns from Stockholm that numerous meetings are being held in Sweden to protest against the Belgian Deportations. ...
Article : 26 wordsA Geneva telegram says that the Hungarian Parliament opened in the rowdiest fashion. There was an unprecedented number of interpolations. Deputy ...
Article : 62 wordsReferring to operations on the Salonika front, a German official message says:— "The enemy fruitlessly attacked the Austro-Bulgarians behind Cerava, south ...
Article : 96 wordsThe fire at Jassy oil works, Ducharest works, is still burning. The smoke was a pall, darkening the valley for 20 miles. ...
Article : 29 wordsProfessor Delbruck, of the Berlin University, in the course of an article in the "Deutsche Korrespondenz," in which he declared that the evacuation of Belgium ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Amsterdam "Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant" states that the reply of the Entente to President Wilson's peace Note indicates the firm intention of ...
Article : 41 wordsMr Garvin, in the "Observer" commenting on the silence of the Allied reply to President Wilson's Note on the subject of the German colonies, says that ...
Article : 140 wordsIn connection with the calling for tenders by the Navy Department for the supply of dynamos, switchboard, motors, balances and control gear for the power ...
Article : 112 wordsOfficial figures show a great revival in wooden ship-building in the United States and Canada as the result of the war, including many fitted with engines. ...
Article : 47 wordsWord has been received from the Defence Department by Mrs Phillips, of Baringhup, that her eldest son., Pte Alex. Phillips, had been killed in action. Deep ...
Article : 88 wordsBerlin newspaper: published the Allied reply to President Wilson's Peace Note in special noon editions. The neutral correspondents state that ...
Article : 43 wordsBelgian deportees continue to return home from Germany in a shocking condition, being thin, emaciated, consumptive, and scrofulous. ...
Article : 49 wordsReports received in Rome from Berno [?] that Field-Marshal. Von Hindenburg is seriously ill. ...
Article : 19 wordsShipyard workers in England are asking for a 10 per cent advance in wages. ...
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The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1900; 1914 - 1918), Mon 15 Jan 1917, Page 3
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