The workers in British munition factories show a wonderful achievement since the German offensive started on March 21. Despite the relea[?]ng of ...
Article : 75 wordsThe unveiling of the Honour Roll for the municipality of Evandale took place in the Council-chambers, Evandale, on Friday night. The Warden ...
Article : 617 wordsAn American transport proceeding to France has rammed and sunk a German submarine. The transport, which was proceeding at the rate of 25 knots an ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is again reported that there are signs of the coming offensive, the Germans having heavily bombarded the northern battlefront, and also the lines north and south of the Somme, notably Villers Bretonneux, with gasshells. On several occasions there have been similar premonitory signs, and ...
Article : 262 wordsIt is understood that the Allies are seriously considering how to re-establish the Russian situation, which is not regarded as hopeless. The United States ...
Article : 154 wordsA French official communique issued this afternoon states:— After a lively bombardment the enemy raided our posts in the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe French Minister of Marine told the Parliamentary Army and Navy Committees yesterday that during April Great Britain and America had built ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Havelock Wilson, the general secretary of the Sailors' and Firemen's Union of Great Britain, speaking in the Royal Albert-hall yesterday, said ...
Article : 94 wordsA Belgian official communique says: During last night, after a violent bombardment, German shock troops attacked the Belgian advanced ...
Article : 66 wordsThe losses of the Australian Force from the first day when, by forced marches, it came into this battle, on March 26, to the present, amount to ...
Article : 1,722 wordsA released Italian officer states that 350 Italian prisoners of war died at the Sigmundsberg camp, in the Austrian Tyrol, during the 15 months ...
Article : 79 wordsA Russian wireless message received in London, referring to the fact that Germany has agreed to the appointment of a special commission to clear up ...
Article : 112 wordsThe French official communique issued this afternoon states:— The enemy failed in attempts to raid our lines last night in the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe following official cable covering the operations for the week ended May 23 has been received by the GovernorGeneral from the Secretary of State ...
Article : 1,379 wordsAccording to the Austrian newspaper "Arbeiter Zeitung" a great Austrian Socialist congress will meet at Vienna on the 30th of the present month. ...
Article : 31 wordsBands of Russian peasants are travelling districts in T[?]hernikost, Dieshin, Volnynia, and Podolia, in Western Russia, and destroying crops and ...
Article : 85 wordsTo-night's aviation report by Sir Douglas Haig states:— Flying was only possible during fine inteivals in the weather ...
Article : 102 wordsAdvices received in Copenhagen from Berlin announce the death of Dr. Johannes Kaempf, the President of the German Reichstag. He was in his 79th ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Board of Trade has closed down 507 German businesses in Great Britain. The capital of these enemy businesses ranged up to £2,000,000. ...
Article : 35 wordsFood riots have broken out in several Russian provincial towns. There has been serious rioting at Nishni Novgorod, where 10,000 employees at ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Newton D. Baker, the Secretary of War, has asked the American newspapers not to speculate on the number of American troops going overseas. He ...
Article : 545 wordsSixty Church of England clergymen belonging to the London diocese are joining the combatant services of the army. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe recent Allied air raid at Liege destroyed German military works and railways, and also the Longwy station. Twenty-six persons were ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Paris edition of the "New York Herald" states that it has received undeniable evidence from Antwerp that Germany resolved to take violent ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs writes:—Heavy enemy shelling in the Ypres-Kemmel-Poperinghe-Lens region, and also from Albert to Villers Bretonneux, seems to ...
Article : 66 wordsThe correspondent of the "New York Times" with the French Army has interviewed the commander of an important aviation unit, who said:—"German ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. and Mrs. Mark Marshall, of Macquarie Plains, have received word from Base Records, Melbourne, that their second son, Private Thomas J. ...
Article : 297 wordsEvidence which it is expected the British Government will shortly publish as showing the traitorous Sinn Fein connection with (Germany is likely to ...
Article : 338 wordsIn his report issued this morning Sir Douglas Haig states:— We raided the enemy's trenches to the southward of Bucqnoy (north of ...
Article : 113 wordsTo-day about 20,000 Roman Catholics in London, headed by Cardinal Bourne, the Archbishop of Westminster, Dr. Ward, the Bishop of Brentwood, and ...
Article : 69 wordsA British official report from the Italian front has been issued to-day, as follows:— Since May l8 our air force has ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. John Devlin, Nationalist member, in a speech at Duncannon on Saturday, asked why the war was being continued. He said:—Both sides say ...
Article : 74 wordsRichenbacher, the American aviator, brought down his third German aeroplane yesterday. ...
Article : 22 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— Fairly great artillery activity is in progress at Hangard Wood and to the ...
Article : 58 wordsA revolt has broken out among Turkish troops in Asia Minor, and is spreading to the garrisons. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe State Cabinet has abandoned the idea of calling Parliament together for a short session to deal only with the case of deregistered unions. There is ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Genova Red Cross Society has published the principles governing the Franco-German convention for the exchange of prisoners. In addition to ...
Article : 84 wordsAmerican troops are active in France. They inflicted losses on the enemy, and took prisoners in a silent raid in the Somme sector. ...
Article : 53 wordsA sensation was created in Tipperary yesterday owing to the police detaining Mademoiselle Bruns, an Austrian subject, who had been acting as secretary ...
Article : 41 wordsAdmiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, First Sea Lord, interviewed by an American newspaper correspondent, yesterday, stated:—Sea power to-day means ...
Article : 112 wordsThe statement is confirmed that the Cuban Government has informed Mexico that, being in a state of war against Germany, she has passed many ...
Article : 73 wordsThis morning's report by Field-Mar shal Haig states:— We carried out a successful raid last night to the southward of ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Acting Minister of the Navy (Mr. Poynton) has under consideration an offer from a firm which has branches in Sydney and Melbourne for the ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. H. Hoover, the American Food Controller, in a statement issued today, says the people of the United States must continue to save wheat ...
Article : 71 wordsWidespread hospitality and entertainment are to be extended to American troops when on furlough in Great Britain. Thousands of residents have ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 28 May 1918, Page 5
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