The most important information to hand is that within two months Greece will have mobilised 400,000 men, and that there will then be a million men available for the operations in Macedonia. Such a force is not likely to remain idle, and a thrust northward or north-eastward from Salonika would ...
Article : 224 wordsArising out of a licensing prosecution at the Hobart Police Court recently the conduct of a constable, and also the question of police methods, came in for ...
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Article : 280 wordsThe Foreign Office has informed Germany through the Dutch Government that unless Lieutenant Wookey and Lieutenant Scholtz, the two British ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is reported that Germany has sent an ultimatum to the Maximalist Government in Russia demanding the acceptance of her peace conditions, and ...
Article : 225 wordsSir Edward Carson, speaking at a luncheon in Belfast to-day, said no part of Ireland was more anxious to secure an immediate settlement of the Home ...
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Article : 34 wordsTo-day's Italian official communique states:— Enemy aviators dropped bombs on Venice, Padua, Trevis[?], and Mehtri, ...
Article : 40 wordsThere are signs of the strike movement on the Clyde weakening, and probably it will not materialise at the week-end. Many adults and apprentices ...
Article : 69 wordsThe French newspapers give prominence to the part taken by General Foch in the meeting of the Allied War Council. They glowingly describe his career, ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Washing correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that official cablegrams received from Athens show that the ...
Article : 73 wordsAt the Old Bailey to-day Count De Bosaderi, an Italian nobleman, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for forging bills of exchange for ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the strike organised in Holland by the Revolutionary Socialists owing to the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Non-Ferrous Bill, which provides for the control of the metals produced in the British Empire, was read a third time in the House of Lords to-day. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Victorian State Parliament opened to-day. The Premier (Mr. J. Bowser) stated in, the course of a speech:—The present Ministers in ...
Article : 256 wordsA portion of a Greek infantry regiment stationed at Lamia mutinied yester day, with a view to hindering the mobilisation of the army, but the ...
Article : 86 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— After violent artillery preparation, German troops last evening ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner of Australia, and the Agents-General of the States, are endeavouring to secure the admission into Great ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Electoral Reform Bill was again before the House of Lords this afternoon. Lord Selborne moved that the House ...
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Article : 139 wordsThe registration of aliens throughout the United States is proceeding rapidly. Already the finger prints of 62,000 Germans in New York City have been ...
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Article : 47 wordsIn his aviation report to-night, Sir Douglas Haig states:— Our aeroplanes yesterday dropped four and a half tons of bombs on ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the United States Senate to-day Senator Hitchcock characterised as preposterous the statement made by Mr. Newton D. Baker, the Secretary of ...
Article : 95 wordsAt the Oxted Police Court to-day, Mr. W. J. McCaw, the Unionist member for West Down, was charged with food hoarding. The articles found on ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Commission appointed by the Canadian Government to inquire into the disaster which occurred recently at Halifax owing to the explosion of the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe seventh annual meeting of the Tasmania Lodge Royal Ark Mariners, No. 274 B.C., was held at the Masonic-hall last evening, the occasion being the ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Admirilty issued the following report to-day:— Our aircraft yesterday dropped bombs on an enemy aerodrome at ...
Article : 52 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that the submarine E14 proceeded up the Dardanelles on the 27th of last mouth in order to complete the destruction of ...
Article : 194 wordsTwo West Australian motor[?], J. L. Burton and T. Smith, completed a transcontinental motor run from [?]mantle to Sydney this afternoon, and established a ...
Article : 107 wordsIn reply to a question to-day, the Federal Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) said there was no intention of dropping the War Times Profits Act. The ...
Article : 65 wordsAllied airmen dropped bombs on Zeebrugge on Sunday, and also operated there for three hours on Monday morning. There were many air fights. Two ...
Article : 57 wordsThe report of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association criti[?]ises the Government control of shipping, which; it is alleged, has involved disastrous ...
Article : 120 wordsThe members of the German Union of South Sea firms have addressed a memorandum to the Reichstag stating that [?]f at the peace conference the German ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 6 Feb 1918, Page 5
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