There was much anxiety in Glasgow, to which place most of the officers and crew of the Tuscania belonged. Many weeping women awaited news, but ...
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Article : 298 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General has received the following cablegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— ...
Article : 1,092 wordsSenator Lee S. Overman, one of the Democratic Senators for North Carolina, introduced a bill in the Senate yesterday, the measure having been ...
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Article : 152 wordsThe Canadian newspapers, commenting on the statement made by Mr. W. F. Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, that Germany will not be ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following are the names of the Tasmanians included in the 382nd casualty list, which has been released for publication. ...
Article : 376 wordsThe following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending today:— Coin, £57,478,000. ...
Article : 247 wordsThe news of the sinking off the coast of Ireland of the transport Tuscania, with American troops on board, caused a great sensation. The evening papers ...
Article : 359 wordsYesterday the Convocation of Canterbury passed a resolution recommending the people of the Empire to sympathetically consider the formation of ...
Article : 85 wordsIn his report to-night Sir Douglas Haig says:— Our aeroplanes to-day dropped over a ton of bombs on targets behind the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that he had drawn up a memorandum on the report upon the Defence Department's ...
Article : 352 wordsGeneral Alexieff, with 34,000 Cos[?]cks, is advancing northward in the direction of Kharkoff to meet the Bolsheviks. ...
Article : 185 wordsAn Italian official message published to-day says:— Our airships yesterday dropped a ton of explosives on an aviation ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Petrograd Soviet has sent a wireless appeal to the workers of Berlin and Vienna asking them to do their utmost to see that the negotiations at ...
Article : 59 wordsThe trial of Bolo Pasha on a charge of attempting to purchase the Paris newspaper "Le Journal" on behalf of enemy Powers, was continued ...
Article : 236 wordsAn official message received from the British Commander in Palestine says: On Sunday our aeroplanes bombed enemy camps at Miskeh, obtaining 47 ...
Article : 58 wordsThe capture at Mohileff of General Krilenko, the Bolshevik Commander-in Chief, and his staff, was a precautionary measure, as a result of the Bolsheviks ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Tuscania was attached to a convoy. She received no warning or sight of the submarine, but just at dusk a torpedo struck her full amidships, and ...
Article : 778 wordsAs already stated, the Bolsheviks for three days have received no communication of any kind from Brest Litovsk, where M. Trotsky is isolated. As a ...
Article : 268 wordsA British official message from Palestine says:— The Arabs of Hedjaz (in western Arabia) routed 11 battalions of Turks ...
Article : 92 wordsThe International Red Cross is appealing to the belli[?]erents to abolish the use of poisonous gas. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) said to-day that he had found it necessary to warn again, not only the public, but also public and ...
Article : 121 wordsThe question of finance generally, and the details of the new loan to be issued shortly, were again under consideration by the Federal Cabinet ...
Article : 76 wordsThe French Admiralty return for the week ended Sunday last is as follows:— Arrivals............... 938 Sailings............... 897 ...
Article : 50 wordsThe deeds for which the Australians had bars added to the Distinguished Conduct Medal in November are detailed in yesterday's "Gazette." ...
Article : 366 wordsGeneral Mannerheim, the leader of the Finnish troops, has captured Kemi, on the river of the same name, which flows into the Gulf of Bothnia. Kemi ...
Article : 112 wordsH. Treen, a jockey, who was fined £20 at the St. Kilda court recently for assault, as the outcome of a midnight brawl in a garage, was to-day ...
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Article : 307 wordsThe German newspapers contain sensational reports as to the decisions of the Austro-German Headquarters' staffs and the two Central Governments, ...
Article : 226 wordsBaron Von Dem Bussche-Haddenhausen, formerly chief of the AngloAmerican division of the German Foreign Office, interviewed by the Berlin ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Inter-State Commission to-day resumed inquiries in regard to trade in kerosene, petroleum, and lubricating oils. ...
Article : 272 wordsThe German newspapers announce the death, in Petrograd, under mysterious circumstances, of the Grand Duke Nicholas-Nicholaievitch, uncle of ...
Article : 42 wordsArthur Cooper, secretary of the Seamen's Union, speaking to-day on the message from Melbourne to the effect that Mr. Hughes, Prime Minister, had ...
Article : 169 wordsCount Andrassy, the Hungarian Premier, addressing the House yesterday, denounced the idea of a peace at any price. He added:—We must finish ...
Article : 90 wordsThis morning's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:— We successfully raided the enemy's lines yesterday to the eastward of ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. Arthur Ransome, the Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily News," states that the opponents of the Bolsheviks are continually taunting the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian," which is publishing documents from Russian Foreign Office archives, gives the text of despatches from M. Krupensky, the ...
Article : 176 wordsCaptain William Keverall McIntyre, M.B., fourth son of the Honourable John McIntyre (late Pulsine Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania), ...
Article : 224 wordsThe King of Bavaria is about to visit the German headquarters. A semi-official statement is to the effect that the visit is of political importance, and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 9 Feb 1918, Page 7
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