It is officially announced that Mr R. E. Prothere, President of the Board of Agriculture, has appointed Col Sir Arthur Lee Director-General of Food ...
Article : 131 wordsTelegraphing from Athous, Mr J. M. N. Jeffries, the correspondent of the Daily Mail, says:—"The position in Greece is disquieting ...
Article : 153 wordsContaining the names of 84 officers and 841 men, the 273rd casualty list was issued by the Defence Department yesterday. The deaths number 84, and the ...
Article : 183 wordscable news on this page so headed has appeared in the "Times," [?]ed Australia by special permission. It should be understood [?]nions are not those of the "Times" unless expressly stated to be so ...
Article : 19 words[?]Sir Douglas Haig re [?]k prisoner on the Anere on [?]3 men [?]haves of German infantry ...
Article : 91 wordsMr T. Rowe, of Talbot street, has been notified by the Defence Department that his son. Crpl T. H. Rowe, has been admitted to the First Southern General ...
Article : 101 wordsThe "Times" political correspondent says that Mr Lloyd-George is expected to deal with restriction of imports in his speech on Thursday next. It is ...
Article : 46 wordsMr J. H. Wright, 20 Bra[?]shaw street., has received word that his son, L.Crpl N. Wright, was admitted to the Clandon Park Hospital on 5th February suffering ...
Article : 40 wordsAn explanatory note regarding the Imperial Budget for 1917, issued in Berlin announces that new war taxes will be necessary to cover the deficit ...
Article : 110 wordsPte Lloyd Norman Roy Talbot was killed in action on 31st January in France. Pte Talbot ("Paddy" as he was familiarly called) was the seventh son of Mrs ...
Article : 80 wordsThe cumulative effects of the war are manifest throughout Europe, and food and fuel restrictions are becoming more drastic. Neutrals are particularly in ...
Article : 192 wordsPresident Wilson will discuss with members of the Senate the advisability of going before Congress prior to the end of the session to get power to protect ...
Article : 67 wordsPte George M'Donald, who prior to enlisting was in the clerical staff t the local railway station, was killed in action on 21st January. Pte J. Blakeley, of ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is stated by the Official Press Bureau that the German casualties, officially reported in January, but not necessarily incurred in January, were 77,532, of ...
Article : 37 wordsNews has been received of the death in action of Pte Albert Backway son f Mr and Mrs Albert Backway, of Maryborough. He was 23 years of age. and ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Cunard Coy. has let to the Seattio Construction Company a contract for six steel steamships to cost £,250,000 ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is stated by the "Daily. Mail" correspondent at Petrograd that M. Protopopolf, Minister for the Interior, is making a law removing the restrictions against ...
Article : 67 wordsReuter's correspondent at Paris says that M. Briand, the French Premier, entertained Mr Gerard at lunch. The Allied Ambassadors were present ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsdmiralty Intercepts. Collected [?]by the Wireless l'ress.) [?]on official message says:—[?]pulof strong English ...
Article : 63 words"I heard no complaint in Great Britain regarding conscription," said Mr J. Dias, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, who has ...
Article : 592 wordsIt is stated by the "Algemeen Handelsblad," of Amsterdam, that the distribution of food rations will begin in Holland to-morrow ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Swiss Press urges the recall of the Swiss Minister from Washington if it is proved that he initiated negoliations between Germany and America. It is ...
Article : 51 wordsReuter's correspondent at Athens states that information from official sources is to the effect that Mr Francis Elliott, the British Ambassador notified the Greek ...
Article : 84 wordsA message from Amsterdam states that evidence accumulates the small-pox is widespread in Germany. Cases are now reported at Magdeburg, the capital of ...
Article : 31 wordsReuter's correspondent at Civila Vecchia states that the captain of the American schooner Lyman M. Law, which was recently sunk in the ...
Article : 116 words[?] special correspondent says battle around Miraumont was [?]est attack since Beaumont He[?] line of the attack extended ...
Article : 268 wordsWriting in the "Daily Mail" Mr Lovat Fraser states that the War Office clashes with other departments, because, though it is necessarily silent, it knows the ...
Article : 73 wordsFrench naval experts state that the German submarines, after a fort night at sea, must be drydocked to have the engines overhauled. They were sent out ...
Article : 101 wordsQueensland.— Ptes Atkinson, J. B., Nundah: Brooks, H. V., Ipswich; Jamieson, M. T., Netherby; Jenkins, J. J., Toowoomba; M'Donald, M., Scotland; ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Win the War procession, to be held in Melbourne on Saturday, is becoming so immense that the Recruiting Committee have had to refuse same entries which ...
Article : 234 wordsRenter's correspondent at Salonika describes a highly successful raid on the strongly defended advantageously placed Petit Couronne Hill west of Lake ...
Article : 112 wordsExperts, discussing the rapidity of the arming of merchantmen state that experience increasingly proves that even a single gun astern forces the submarine ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 wordsMr G. Ward Price, British war correspondent at Salonika, states that heavy fighting occurred in the Italian sector of the Balkan front. The Germans used ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 words[?] correspondent at the French [?]ters throws light on the German [?]16th February in the neighbor[?] Malson de Champagne. He says ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsForty-six Australians and nine New Zealanders have been awarded the Military Medal. Cpl J. O'Brien; of the Australian Engineers, has been awarded a ...
Article : 40 wordsFor the week ended 17th February the following recruits enlisted:—Metropolitan—Balaclava, 5; Batman, 5; Bourne, 25; Fawkner, 14; Henty, 7; Kooyong, 12; ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is reported that the steamer Worcestershire (7715 tons), owned by the B[?]by Steamship Company Ltd., of Liverpool, has been sunk ...
Article : 62 wordsThe special correspondent at Amsterdam of the "Pettit Parisien," telegraphing recently, stated that he had just met a great Frankfurt banker, whose ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Rome says that the Italian Government has ordered a censorship of gramophone dises ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 457 wordsThe "Times" naval correspondent says that a very large number of German submarines have been destroyed. some of the new measures have already had good ...
Article : 62 wordsIn connection with Messrs Graham Bros.' offer of the use of 700 nacres of land to he worked for the assistance of returned soldiers, Mr H. V. M'Kay, of ...
Article : 61 words"Times" correspondent at the headquarters states that the Gerar[?]ried a line on a two-mile front presents a gain of 800 yards. The ...
Article : 57 words(British Admiralty Intercepts: Collected by the Wireless Press.) A Russian official report received this afternoon says:— ...
Article : 69 wordsMiss C. J. Alroe, secretary, Sebastopol Red Cross Society, acknowledge the sum of £3, per Mr.T. Hughes, from the intercession service held in the Methodist ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Vatican announces that Germany has not satisfied the Pope regarding the submarino campaign ...
Article : 19 wordsFor more than two years the woollen mills at Sydney have been turning out nothing but khaki. In the early stages of the war the Federal Government ...
Article : 245 wordsmuch communique says:— [?] have patrol encounters, [?]ly in the sectors of Troyon [?]yard of Vordun), Les Chambrettes [?]ard of Verdun), and north-west ...
Article : 78 wordsThe German civil mobilisation includes the establishment of huge ereches and Mothers' Help Bureaux, because the majority of mobilised women must forego ...
Article : 67 wordsLoss of appetite is a suro sign of ill- health. Those who take Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People is a tonic ...
Article : 209 wordsA feature of the British War Loan subscriptions has been the unearthing of extraordinary hoards of gold. Three thousand sovereigns were paid ...
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Advertising : 523 words[?]states by the "Times" correspotent [?] Amsterdam that the German [?]bers are excited over the activity West, and forecast a great battle ...
Article : 102 wordsNews from Vienna states that Vice-Admiral Njedobar has been appointed to command the Austro- Hungarian fleet ...
Article : 22 wordsA new Sunday newspaper, the "National News," is selling widely. The chief item in its platform is advocacy of a permanent non-party ...
Article : 65 wordsMr Asquith's son, Arthur, of the R.N.V.R., has been again wounded ...
Article : 15 wordsSummer time begins in Holland on 16th April, in France on 1sr April, and in Britain on 8th April ...
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The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1900; 1914 - 1918), Tue 20 Feb 1917, Page 3
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