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Advertising : 33 wordsThe Compulsory Military Service Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons, and carried by 328 votes to 36. ...
Article : 804 wordsA great deal of fighting is not reported in yesterday's cables, but the French offensive near Verdun has already resulted in a gain, and the German positions taken have been consolidated. It is significant that the civil population should be leaving Metz, but as this fortress is only 30 miles distant from Verdun the Germans are apparently apprehensive, and wish to prepare for any emergency. Activity has been shown along the British front, and on ...
Article : 180 wordsSome Austrian and Hungarian officers, in their own army uniforms, surrendered with the rebels at Dublin. Two Austrians were, arrested at ...
Article : 116 wordsAs has been previously intimated in our columns, the operative bakers of Australia are once again demanding the introduction of baking by day, instead of ...
Article : 234 wordsMr. Thomas Page, the American Ambassador to Italy, reports that there is no immediate prospect of peace in Europe. It is believed, however, that ...
Article : 116 wordsLord Meath asked in the House of Lords yesterday afternoon whether, despite warnings, Sinn Feiners were permitted to remain in the service of the ...
Article : 65 wordsNo bread will be baked by members of the Operative Bakers' Union except between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. after tomorrow. The union has decided to ...
Article : 169 wordsSir Roger Caement is to be charged before a Civil Court with high treason. He was arrested before the proclamation of martial law in Ireland was ...
Article : 80 wordsAt a luncheon given to-day by the members of the Unionist War Committee to Sir Edward Carson, the latter stated that he was glad the Compulsory ...
Article : 145 wordsGeneral Sir [?]ouglas Haig, in his official report [?] the British War Office last night, states:— There is activity in different parts ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 460 wordsThe King has sent the following telegram to General Sir John Maxwell:— Now that the lamentable outbreak has been finally quelled, I wish to ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Attorney-General (the Hon. W. B. Propsting) paid an official visit to the Hobart Gaol yesterday morning, and made a thorough inspection of the ...
Article : 262 wordsA French cruiser chased the Zeppelin L20, which was wrecked in a storm off Stavangar, on the west coast of Norway, and several of her crew lost. ...
Article : 247 wordsMr. B. R. Wise, the Agent-General for New South Wales, has returned to London from the Paris Parliamentary Conference. Prior to Mr. Wise speaking, ...
Article : 94 wordsSir William Beardmore, chairman of directors of Messrs. William Beardmore and Co., engineers and ordnance manufacturers, presiding at a meeting of the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe official communique issued this afternoon says:— We have extended and consolidated the positions north-west of ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Hughes lunched to-day with Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, of Kelvestone, at the latter's town residence in Berkeley-square, and conversed with ...
Article : 134 wordsIn the House of Lords this afternoon, Lord Kitchener, the Minister of War, warmly eulogised General Townshend and the defenders of Kut-[?]l-Amara who ...
Article : 164 wordsAn open-air meeting was held at Foley's Corner last evening as a protest against the new regulations of the Hobart City Council in the matter of the removal of ...
Article : 531 wordsSpeaking at the annual meeting of the Belgian Relief Committee, which was held at the Mansion House to-day. Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, said ...
Article : 116 wordsIt has been officially confirmed that the Brazilian steamer Rio Branco, 2,258 tons, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, and the ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. Lloyd George had so long been silent that his speech was awaited with intense interest. He spoke for three— quarters of an hour, and was full of ...
Article : 212 wordsA part altogether from the question of the incidence of the Customs tariff, which has been in operation since the end of 1914 without legislative authority, ...
Article : 148 wordsThe civilian population is quitting the town of Metz, in Lorraine. Motz is situated on the Moselle River, 31 miles north of Naney, ...
Article : 153 wordsThe German reply to the United States in response to the latter's' demand for a cessation of attacks on merchant vessels has been completed, and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Cairo newspaper "Mokatam" states that Turkish officers stabbed to death General von der Goltz, the German general who commanded the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 235 wordsArgument was opened yesterday before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of the Attorney-General of Queensland versus ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Danish newspaper "National Tidende" narrates, that on October 7 last eight German minesweepers, under the protection of the auxiliary cruiser ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Economic Conference of the Allies, which is to open in Paris next month, continues to agitate the German newspapers, though they assure ...
Article : 126 wordsWithout her propeller the steamer Waratea reached the South Wharf early to-day from Launceston. The agents for the vessel stated that the loss of the ...
Article : 169 words"Attrition and economic pressure will be factors in the defeat of the Germans in France and Flanders, but the most important factor will be the British ...
Article : 549 wordsThe French newspapers welcome the introduction in Great Britain of the Compulsory Military Service Bill. The Paris "Journal" attributes the ...
Article : 202 wordsMr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier of Queensland, conferred yesterday with Sir F. E. Smith, the Attorney-General, on certain Queensland matters of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe undermentioned men were medically examined by Drs. Moore and Hodgkinson at the Anglesea Barracks yesterday, and passed as fit:—E. J. ...
Article : 63 wordsA British warship has captured the German steamer Telde, 2,073 ton[?]. She was interned at Teneriffe, and was anchored outside the bay. Fearing a ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 6 May 1916, Page 7
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