The lull on the Western front continues, and the situation remains practically unchanged. The British have captured, the village of Ayette (north-west of Bapaume), together with 192 prisoners, and have beaten off a determined attack at Fampoux (east of Arras). ...
Article : 135 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:— There is growing artillery activity on the part of both sides on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 wordsFrom the hour of opening, at 9.30 this morning, till the hour of closing, at 3 p.m., the "tank," stationed at the intersection of Brisbane and St. John ...
Article : 383 wordsA great recruiting campaign in South Africa is being organised for next week, for the purpose of keeping the South African Brigade together is ...
Article : 151 wordsThe following United States wireless message from Honolulu has been intercepted by the Navy Department, and released through the American Consul: ...
Article : 411 wordsThe steamer Conargo, 4,312 tons, formerly the German liner Altona, which was seized in Melbourne when the war broke out, was torpedoed and sunk ...
Article : 129 wordsDuring the arrest of a Sinn Feiner in Dublin to-day the crowd cheered the Kaiser and the Irish republic, and booed passing soldiers. The police used ...
Article : 42 wordsThe President of France has conferred the Crose de Guerre on Lieutenant Frank Innes, R.N.R., for special services rendered. Lieutenant Innes, ...
Article : 42 wordsA report received from Sir Douglas Haig this morning says:— We carried out a successful raid last night to the north-eastward of ...
Article : 54 wordsIn consequence of disclosures that powdered glass has been found in bread supplied to the inhabitants of Brooklyn, opposite New York City, the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that General Lobvicky, of the Russian army, who is now serving in France, is forming a Russian legion of volunteers for ...
Article : 66 wordsThe following report was received from Sir Douglas Haig this morning: After sharp fighting last night we repulsed a determined attack in the ...
Article : 137 wordsIn November last the City Council carried a resolution expressing the gratitude of the citizens of Hobart to the British and oversea soldiers, and to the ...
Article : 215 wordsLast night's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:— Our airmen to-day harassed enemy troops and transports with bombs ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. H. Hurley, the United States Director of Shipping, has telegraphed to the heads of American shipyards as follows:—We are disappointed at the ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that trade between the Ukraine and Germany is in full swing, and that ...
Article : 102 wordsGeneral Plumer has returned to the Western front, where all ranks welcome the victor of the Messines battle, which is regarded as the most finished piece ...
Article : 46 wordsNearly £10,000 was raised as a result of an appeal made from a "tank" in Collins-street, outside the Stock Exchange, by the chairman (Mr. W. J. ...
Article : 139 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:— Our air squadrons on March 31 dropped 12,000 kilogrammes (about ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Labour Corps, which recently distinguished itself, is under the command of Major-General G. Sandeman Carey. The members of this corps, which is ...
Article : 85 wordsCaptured German prisoners report that one of the German long-range guns now bombarding Paris blew up recently, and killed five of the ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. and Mrs. Alan Combos, of Duke-street, Sandy Bay, have received information from the Military Base Records Office that their son. Private A. ...
Article : 59 wordsReports received in Peking from Tokio state that the Bolsheviks have seized all the telegraphs at Vladivostock, and have isolated the town. ...
Article : 32 wordsA German official wireless message received to-night says:—We counter-attacked and repulsed the English thrust last night against Ayette. ...
Article : 65 wordsLiverpool shipowners urge that convoyed vessels should be grouped according to their speed, thereby effecting a great saving in time. ...
Article : 56 wordsA German official message states that German warships have landed troops at Hangko, in Southern Finland, and that they are proceeding to the ...
Article : 94 wordsMrs. Sharp, of Kangaroo Valley, some little time ago wrote to the Australian Military Headquarters in France with the object of obtaining six months' ...
Article : 388 wordsAn Italian official message says:— Yesterday we destroyed an outpost in the Lagarina Valley (east of Lake Garda), bringing back a number of ...
Article : 114 wordsYesterday evening the news came in that there had been a further sharp fight on part of the front where the Australians are barring the German ...
Article : 483 wordsIt is officially announced that for the year ending March 31, 1917, the merchant vessels completed in British shipyards aggregated 692,225 tons, and for ...
Article : 136 wordsFurther addresses were delivered to-day by prominent citizens in front of the General Post Office in connection with "tank" week. The subscriptions ...
Article : 45 wordsA high authority, reviewing the military operations, says:—There is no material change in the situation. We have somewhat improved our position, ...
Article : 404 wordsThe following message was received last night from Mr. Percival Phillips:— We have succeeded in several minor offensive operations between Arras and ...
Article : 180 wordsThe new repatriation scheme which is to come into operation on April 8 is briefly summarised in a statement issued to-day by the Minister of Repatriation, ...
Article : 964 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the German newspaper "Munich Zeitung" protests against the proposal to withdraw troops from Rumania before a ...
Article : 73 wordsM. Clemenceau, the French Premier, interviewed to-day regarding the statement made by Count Czernin, the Austrian Foreign Secretary, that he asked ...
Article : 89 wordsMilitary circles declare that an Austro-German offensive on the Italian front is imminent. Enemy batteries are constantly arriving from the ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that the punitive operations against the Marris tribesmen on the north-west frontier of India continue ...
Article : 83 wordsThe following message was received to-day from the correspondent of tne United Press Association:—During the German offensive extremely gallant ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Cape Provincial Council this evening adopted a resolution which was introduced by the Administrator, and was identical in terms to the one ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Admiralty states that on Monday last a British torpedo-boat destroyer was lost as a result of a collision. All the crew were saved. ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral J. C. Smuts, the South African Minister of Defence, who is now a member of the Imperial War Cabinet, addressing members of the ...
Article : 435 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that General Sir Henry Rawlinson is to take over the command of the Fifth Army. General Gough, the general who is ...
Article : 125 wordsIn a speech at Galway to-day Mr. Stephen L. Gwynn, the Nationalist member for that city, who is a member of the Irish Convention, stated ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that President Wilson has resolved that American reinforcements will proceed to ...
Article : 233 wordsThe following return of arrivals, sailings, war losses, and unsuccessful attacks for the week ended Saturday last was officially issued to-day by the ...
Article : 143 wordsSignificant of the present state of feeling in America toward Germany is the proposition of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to its ...
Article : 195 wordsAt a meeting of the Colonial Ammunition Company Employees' Union, the recent attack made on the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) by the Trades-hall, were ...
Article : 132 wordsCalculations based on captured data regarding 15 of the German divisions that took part in the offensive suggest that the total German infantry ...
Article : 147 wordsThe United States Government has made a further loan to Great Britain of 200,000,000 dollars. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 5 Apr 1918, Page 5
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