The Appam case is still the sensation of the hour. President Wilson and his advisers have some knotty problems to solve, but they have done a humane act in releasing all the prisoners on board, despite German protests. The full details of the affair will not be known until the mysterious cruiser has been discovered, and captured or destroyed. Doubtless the seas are now being scoured for her. ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Greek Government has protested against the bombardment of Salonika by German airships on February 1, when eighteen Greeks were killed and ...
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Advertising : 34 wordsThere are [?]umours current in Washington that the German armoured crui[?]er Roon (9,050 tons, and a main armament of four 8.2-inch guns) is ...
Article : 39 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that the Montenegrin General Beeir, who signed the capitulation, has been murdered by his own soldiers. ...
Article : 32 wordsCaptain Harrison, the master of the Appam, states officially that he does not know the name of the German raider which captyred his liner. He says the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe State War Council are in a difficulty—a slight difficulty, and one which may be easily surmounted. The position is this: It is necessary, in virtue ...
Article : 188 wordsMr. Martin Donohue, the special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," has obtained a sensational story from Miss Lamos, an American lady, who is ...
Article : 166 wordsThe German newspaper "Cologne Gazette" states that the Appam carried guns fore and aft, and therefore was aimed to attack. ...
Article : 30 wordsYesterday the police seized "The Worker" the newspaper run by the Workers' Commuittee of the Clyde. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Acting-Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Mahon) has advised the Defence Department, that the Tasmanian Soldiers' Liquor Restriction Bill is not ...
Article : 217 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports, as follows:— The Germans yesterday directed a heavy shell fire against our trenches ...
Article : 40 wordsDr. Wilson, the President of the United States, in a speech at St. Louis yesterday, said the United States should build the greatest navy in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsFurther details of the Zeppelin air raid in England have been revealed at the inquests on the victims, and fresh narrtives have been given by ...
Article : 425 wordsYesterday evening a Zeppelin dropped bombs on the steamer Franz Fischer, 937 tons, and sank her. The Franz Fischer was formerly a German steamer, ...
Article : 158 wordsParliament House at Ottawa, the Canadian capital, is on fire. The library has been destroyed. There were two explosions after the outbreak ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Co.s correspondent at Washington states that Count Von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, will to-day admit the ...
Article : 87 wordsLast night's communique says:— Our artillery caused an outbreak of fire in the enemy's cantonments at Oehlenburg, in Alsace, yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 281 wordsThere are indications of German activity in Belgium. Many reinforcements are arriving, and it is believed that between three thousand and six ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Acting-Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that the Government had considered the dispute at Broken Hill, with a view to securing ...
Article : 171 wordsAn Austrian submarine yesterday captured near the Albanian port of San Giovanni di Medua the steamer Konig Albert (10,484 tons), which the Italians ...
Article : 96 wordsDr. Strisower, the Professor of International Law at the Vicnna University, in an article in the "International Rundschau," protests, against the ...
Article : 79 wordsSome interesting extracts from the diary of Colonel Moon, with the Australian Supply Column in France, have been published. They show that the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) has decided to establish a contral school of instruction in the vicinity of the Royal Military College at ...
Article : 181 wordsThe passengers of the liner Appam were allowed to land to-day at Norfolk, Virginia. Cheers greeted the approach of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsThe Clan Mactavish called in at Fremantle on route to London from the Eastern States early in December of last year. She shipped a fair quantity ...
Article : 258 wordsAn, attempted Austro-German offensive in the region along the Dniester is thus referred to in last night's communiquo:— ...
Article : 80 wordsThe strikers picketed the Barrier mine offices this morning, and attempfed to prevent a distribution of papers. Many of the paper sellers were assaulted, and ...
Article : 146 wordsIt is officially stated in London that a trawler has reported that a Zeppolin was seen sinking in the North Sea last night. The arrship, which was the ...
Article : 220 wordsCinematograph pictures entitled "Britain Prepared," and showing the fighting forces in training in England, munition making, and views of the ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is now announced that, as the result of questions that have been raised, the Defence Department has given a definite ruling on the subject of alien ...
Article : 95 wordsA Paris review points out that Prince Yussuf opposed the recent arrest of Deputies hostile to Enver Pasha, and was an obstacle to the ambitions of ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Agents-General have every reason to believe that the restrictions to be imposed by the Board of Trade on importations of fruit will not apply to ...
Article : 46 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Zeehan School of Mines was held to-night. Included in the correspondence was a letter from Mr. Critch[?]y Parker, offering ...
Article : 213 wordsA proclamation that has been issued fixes February 10 as the day that the Compulsion Act comes into operation. This means that single men who have ...
Article : 65 wordsThe acting-Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Mahon) has approved of the form of the statutory declaration to be made by naturalised persons desiring ...
Article : 317 wordsAt the annual meeting of subscribers of the Zeehan District Dispensary and Medical Union to-night, there was a large attendance. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe owners of the Clan Mactavish learn officially that all the European crew are safe, and are prisoners. Several of the Lascais were killed and tour ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Zeppelin reported yesterday as having evidently lost its way in the fog being discovered on Tuesday flying low over Ameland (an island off ...
Article : 62 wordsAt Buckingham Palace to-day the King decorated Corporal Cyril R. G. Bassett, of the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company, with the Victoria ...
Article : 216 wordsSir Edward Merewether relates that the raider approached the Appam, and when within 200 yards of her the forward and aft railings disappeared ...
Article : 466 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions, made a stirring speech yesterday to a body of munition workers, whose labours, he said, were now going ...
Article : 48 wordsLord Resebery, in a letter in to-day's "Times," advocates repreisals for the Zeppelin raids. He says:— "We have too long dispalyed a passive and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 5 Feb 1916, Page 5
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