At Pretoria, Gen Botha, the Prime Minister, in a great speech, delivered before the South African Party's Congress, dealt, at length with the ...
Article : 495 wordsMr Herbert Samuel, who occupied the position of Home Secretary in 1916, asked in the House of Commons on Wednesday is any change contemplated in the status ...
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Article : 179 wordsAdvices from Rome report that daily aerial scouting, coupled with the admissions of Austrian prisoners, confirms the fact that the Austrians are massing great ...
Article : 179 words[?] cable news on this page so headed has appeared in t he "Times," [?] to Australia by special permission. It should be understood [?] are not those of the "Times" unless expressly stated to be so ...
Article : 39 words[?] Sir Douglas Haig in an [?] received on Wednesday [?] an attempted raid north [?] We successfully raided ...
Article : 529 wordsAccording to a message from Dublin, it is estimated that from 50 to 70 per cent. of the adult Irishmen, including over half of the military eligibles, are ...
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Article : 261 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr R. P. Houston, Unionist member of Liverpool, asked for information regarding "the successful operations in capturing and ...
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Article : 86 wordsGen Gillain, Chief of Staff of the Belgian Army, in the course of an interview, referred to the German peace propaganda in Belgium. ...
Article : 146 wordsIn the House of Lords, Lord Newton, referring to the France-German agreement regarding the exchange of war prisoners, disputed the contentions that we ...
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Article : 385 wordsA Moscow telegram states that, in replying to the German demand for the immediate surrender of the Russian Black Sea fleet to be Germans at Sebastopol ...
Article : 103 wordsSir Arthur Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, stated in the House of Commons on Wednesday that 12,500 sailors of the mercantile marine had lost ...
Article : 125 wordsVancouver reports that news has been received that enemy aeroplanes bombed Paris. There were no casualties. Reuter's correspondent at Paris says ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr Stanley foreshadowed steps for the reduced consumption of coal domestically and industrially during next winter, the formation ...
Article : 104 wordsAn article in the "Frankfurter Zeitung" contrasts very unfavorably to Germany her system of financing the war with the methods adopted by Britain. ...
Article : 121 wordsReuter has received from the U.S. Consul in Melbourne the following wireless from Honolulu:—It is announced by the United States ...
Article : 205 wordsThe United States Consul at Melbourne has furnished to Reuter the following wireless from Honolulu:—Washington reports that an additional ...
Article : 185 words[?] wounded in the Morlancourt [?] enthusiastically of the series [?] between the Australians [?] Germans. A Sydney captain said ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Minister of Reconstruction has appointed a committee to investigate the desirability of establishing State and municipal housing banks with a view of ...
Article : 41 wordsA Paris message states that a lively controversy is taking place there concerning the efficacy and expediency of the Luxury Tax, the abrogation of which ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening a letter was received from the Minister of Lands stating that the State Government is responsible for ...
Article : 444 wordsIn the Prussian Diet, the third reading of tire Electoral Reform Bill has been carried, but with tile clause granting equal suffrage deleted. ...
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Article : 237 words[?] Phillips, the "Daily Express Correspondent, states that the at[?] the Australians south-west of [?] completely broke down. ...
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Article : 110 wordsUnder a regulation gazetted to-day persons who have served with satisfactory record in the A.I.F. are eligible for appointment to the Commonwealth Public ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. J. L. Macpherson, vice-president of the Army Council, announced in the House of Commons that no successor to Lord French as Commander of the Home ...
Article : 67 wordsAmsterdam reports that, while the Reichstag was debating the estimates of the Department of Justice the Socialist member, Herr Cohen, denounced the ...
Article : 60 words[?] Liberal War Committee carried a [?] urging the Government, in [?] the contradictory statements re[?] the 5th Army's retreat, to ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr Stanley said arrangements whereby t he Government purchased the whole of the exportable Australian concentrates would ...
Article : 61 wordsThe functions of the newly-appointed Business Board of the Defence Department were set out in regulations issued to-day. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Free Churches' manifesto does not wish the exemption of ministers from any [?] of national service. SCULLER TRAINS SOLDIERS ...
Article : 57 wordsThe "Times" welcomes the sign of a more effective Allied economic co-operation. Nothing it says, produces a greater fear ...
Article : 73 wordsAdvices to hand state that the Nelson Steamship Navigation Company's steamer Highland Scott (7604 tons) has been wrecked off Rio Janeiro, capital of ...
Article : 36 wordsReading British Ambassador, has [?] the public against false op[?] especially with regard to the [?] He says that the crisis ...
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The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1900; 1914 - 1918), Fri 17 May 1918, Page 3
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