There was an animated debate in the House of Commons this afternoon on the reasons for the dismissal of Admiral Lord Jellicoe from the post of ...
Article : 763 wordsThere is no change on the British front. There have been more raids by both sides, and the Australians have distinguished themselves by fine performances on Sunday and Monday nights. General Haig reports the enemy's guns busy at several points, notably at Bois Grenier (south [?]f Warneton), a ...
Article : 247 wordsThe enemy fired 2,300 shells into Rheims on Friday and 300 on Saturday. ...
Article : 26 wordsDifferences are growing stronger daily between the followers of M. Lenin, advocating the ratification of the peace terms, and influential Bolshovik groups, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Central News Agency has ascertained details of the revoling murder of a Belgian fishing skipper last week. A German submarine sighted the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe French coup-de-main at Verdun on Monday, when the enemy's trenches were penetrated to a depth of 450 yards on a 1,300 yards front, was ...
Article : 122 wordsThe act of liquidation between Russia and Finland was signed on Friday. Russia cedes territory in the Arctic Ocean, and Finland gives up the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Admiralty states that on Friday last the British armed mercantile cruiser Dalgarian was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, and that ...
Article : 205 wordsAdmiral Lord Jellicoe, in a speech at Liverpool to-day, paid a glowing tribute to the merchant service. He said his earliest experience of that service ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Americans hold eight miles of trenches on the French front. ...
Article : 22 wordsRumania has been given a week for the acceptance, without conditions, of the terms of peace, including the cession of territory to Bulgaria and ...
Article : 178 wordsThe following report was received from Sir Douglas Haig to-day:— Yesterday we bombed railway sidings to the north-eastward of Lille. ...
Article : 64 wordsLast night's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:— The Australians' raid at Warneton on Monday night met with strong ...
Article : 253 wordsThe German newspaper are violently attacking Denmark for interning the prize crew of the Spanish steamer Igotz Mendi, which was captured by ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Yananato, the Japanese Attache at Rome, states,that the Allies sank 15 German, submarinos in the Mediterranean during February. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe following message was received to-day from Mr. W. T. Massey, the correspondent with the British forces in Palestine:— ...
Article : 351 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that the Serbian Legation in London denies the German report that peace negotiations between the Central Powers and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following return of arrivals, sailings, war losses, and unsuccessful attacks for the week ended Sunday last was officially issued to-day by the ...
Article : 176 wordsThe eighth German war loan opens on the 18th inst., and closes a month later. The issue will consist of 5 per cent, bonds and 4½ per cent. Treasury ...
Article : 63 wordsA German official wireless message reseived this afternoon says:—In answer to Finland's request for assistance German troops have been landed on the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe subscriptions in London to the new war bond issue, now being collected by tanks, have reached £11,000,000, including £1,000,000 from Messrs. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that the Japanese Embassy indicates that the plans for Japanese ...
Article : 356 wordsAt midnight last night the Australians raided the German lines at several places between Warneton and east of Wytscha[?]te. The principal raid ...
Article : 1,297 wordsA high military authority reviewing the general situation to-day, said:— "The strength of the enemy's divisions on the Western front is still increasing, ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Board of Trade's fourth British Industries Fair, which is a counterblast to the German fair at Leipzig, opens on Monday next. Four hundred and ...
Article : 85 wordsYesterday the City of Cork Steamship Co.'s packet Kenmare, 1,330 tons, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Of 26 souls who were on ...
Article : 130 wordsThe disclosures in the House of Commons surrounding the circumstances of Admiral Jellicoe's retirement are causing a sensation, and particularly Sir ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Prees Association of New York states that American officials still believe that M. Trotsky, the Bolshevik ...
Article : 177 wordsIt is understood that to-day Mr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will demand a vote of credit for £55[?],000,000, making the total for ...
Article : 44 wordsThe King decorated a Leith shipmaster yesterday in recognition of courage, shown in an encounter with a submarine-cruiser. The latter fired a ...
Article : 182 wordsLord Inchcape, chairman of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Co., in his presidential address to members of the Chamber of Shipping to-day, predicted ...
Article : 154 wordsLast night's French communique says:— A fairly violent artillery duel is proceeding east of the Meuse, ...
Article : 152 wordsNotwithstanding that the treaty of peace has been signed between Germany and Russia, the Germans, from aeroplanes, again dropped bombs on ...
Article : 35 wordsThe German newspapers, commenting on the proposed intervention of Japan in Siberia, profess to belive that Japan is playing her own game against the ...
Article : 159 wordsFollowing the statement made in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon by Sir Eric Geddes, the First Lord of the Admiralty, when ...
Article : 311 wordsThe captain and five men, the only survivers of 18 of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Havna, tell a shocking story of the brutality of the crew of a ...
Article : 159 wordsThe German newspaper "Munich Neuste Nachrichten," in an Inspired article, states that there is a strong reaction in Russia in favour of the ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner of Australia, and the Agents-General of the States, waited to-day upon Mr. Walter Long, the Secretary ...
Article : 92 wordsThe following message was received on Sunday from Mr. Gordon Gilmour, the representative of the Australian Press Association:—I saw a big bunch ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 8 Mar 1918, Page 5
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