Replying to-day to Senator Hitchcock, who characterised as preposterous the statement made by Mr. Newton D. Baker, the Secrctary of War, that ...
Article : 139 wordsThere is again reference to the expected great German offensive, and it is stated that the Allies are ready not only to resist, but also to deliver counterthrusts. These statements probably come from headquarters, and may be intended to reach Hindenburg and Luden dorf. In view of the internal ...
Article : 333 wordsThe Australian Red Cross Commissioner in Egypt reports that the Red Cross store in Palestine has followed the troops m their forward movement, ...
Article : 168 wordsAnother Hobart Cup has been run and won, and few [?] will begrudge the Tasmanian-owned Ladino the brilliant victory which he achieved at Elwick ...
Article : 5,333 wordsA wireless Russian message received at the British Admiralty states that the Lettish plenipotentiaries have issued a proclamation demanding the ...
Article : 101 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation licensing the manufacturing distributors of fuel and oil, thus extendnig the restrictions of the Government ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. W. Thorne, the Labour member for West Ham, asked whether our refrigerated fleet at the outbreak of ...
Article : 110 wordsIt is reported from Borlin that the Bolshevik troops have been defeated, and General Krilenko, the Minister on War, and all the members of his statf, ...
Article : 105 wordsPte. Syd. H. Palmer, 7 th Reinforcements, Tasmanian Battalion, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Palmer, of Woodsdale, writing to has cousin, Mr. W. ...
Article : 522 wordsThe United States and Canada have agreed not to import labourers from each other's territory without conse[?] ...
Article : 26 wordsLord Northcliffe, interviewed by the London correspondent of the "Wa[?]street Journal," says he distrusts the demand within Germany for peace. It ...
Article : 81 wordsDr. Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, states that of 2,422 Church of England chaplains who have proceeded to the front 21 have been killed, 90 ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Bolsheviks are now up against the Russian. Orthodox Church. Prior to ...
Article : 366 wordsThe following report was received from Sir Douglas Haig this morning:— Last night we successfully raided the onemy's lines at Fleurbaix (north ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Official Press Bureau narrates some remarkable war adventures which have occurred in the Arctic seas in connection with the German submarine ...
Article : 312 wordsCommander Frederick Wyatt, the chief examining officer at Halifax, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the recent ...
Article : 55 wordsThe German crime agent Rintelen, and eight others, who were charged with conspiring to blow up Allied ships, have been sentenced to 18 ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Kais[?]r presided at a conference which was held in Berlin yesterday, and was attended by several generals and the Premiers of all the States of ...
Article : 107 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation extending the scope of the Enemy Alien Act to permit the authorities to seize the property of wealthy ...
Article : 48 wordsMilitary experts in France and England are of the opinion that Germany's big effort is imminent, as Von Ludendorff's concentration of troops from ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Bavarian Socialists to-day made a hot attack on the German Government's war policy, saying the Government made perpetual promises which ...
Article : 123 wordsMrs. Wilson, the wife of the President, has issued an appeal to the women of the Allies to protect youths and girls from evil influences ...
Article : 84 wordsPrivate Michael Scott, elder son of Mrs. J. R. Scott, Raeburn, Sandy Bay, Hobart, writing from Somewhere in France," under date October 26, says: ...
Article : 1,644 wordsThe announcement has been officially made that the American troops are operating from the region to the northwestward of Toul to the neighbourhood ...
Article : 135 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon Mr. Bonar Law, the leader of the Government, stated that since the beginning of the war German ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Arthur Ransome, the Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily News," states that the food difficulties in Petrograd are acute. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe German newspapers express disappointment at the result of the Allied War Council at Versailles. They say it is evident that the Allies were ...
Article : 81 wordsMadame Melba appeared in "Faust" last night, which was the opening night of the Chicago Opera Company's New York season. This is the silver jubilee ...
Article : 51 wordsThe State Department has published the text of a pamphlet issued by the Indenendent Socialists in the Re[?]chstag on February 1, appealing to Labour to ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. T. J. Macnamara, the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, replying to Mr. R. P. Houston, the ...
Article : 65 wordsLast night's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:— Our acroplanes dropped over three tons of bombs in daylight yesterday ...
Article : 91 wordsThe House of Commons this afternoon, by 238 votes to 221, rejected the amendment made by the House of Lords respecting proportional ...
Article : 51 wordsThr trial of Bolo Pasha, who is charged with having attempted to secure control of the Paris newspaper "Le Journal" on behalf of the ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that Sir Eric Geddes, the First Lord of the Admiralty, has invited all representatives of the trades unions that ...
Article : 59 wordsGeneral Mannerheim, the Commander of the Finnish troops, is now beseiging the important town of Uleaborg, which is strongly held by the Red ...
Article : 75 wordsA message received in Amsterdam from Brest Litovsk states that, replying to the Russian demand for Polish independence, Herr Kuhlmann, the ...
Article : 157 wordsA French communique issued to-night says:— Taking advantage of the fine weather, our "chaser" acroplanes ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Albert Medal has been awarded to Lieut[?]nant-Commander Maurice McMahon. During a series of fires and explosions at Archangel (the Rucian ...
Article : 126 wordsSpeaking at a general recruiting conference at Capctown yesterday, General Botha, the Premier, said the Government would do its utmost to assist ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. G. H. Hutchinson, an American business man, has recently arrived in Melbourne after having spent four months in the Russian capital. Mr. ...
Article : 230 wordsIn conformity with the promise made in May last by Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, to hold a meeting of the Imperial War Cabinet annually, ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. J. I. Macpherson, the Parliamentary Under-Secreta[?]y to the War Office, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that the British ...
Article : 55 wordsThe tentative decision arrived at a long time ago to construct the Federal arsenal at Tuggeranong, about nine miles out of Canberra, seems likely to ...
Article : 105 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Lord Robert Cecil, the Minister of Blockade and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said the ...
Article : 136 wordsAn Italian official message says:— We brought down five enemy aeroplanes yesterday, and the British [?]ht. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the leader of the Government, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the Government was appointing a ...
Article : 49 wordsLord Rhondda, the Food Controller, indemnifies against prosecution food hoarders who surrender supplies between February 11 and 18. He points ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 7 Feb 1918, Page 5
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