The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that advices which have been received by the United States Government show that the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "New York Times" states that there is irrefutable evidence that the Germans compel prisoners of war to work behind the ...
Article : 185 wordsIt is no secret now that Australian troops are fighting in the northern as well as the southern battle. Australian Infantry put in one day digging a trench ...
Article : 860 wordsThere were no infantry operations of importance on Saturday or Sunday, but the Allies' guns were very active in bombarding the enemy's lines of communication. It is stated that the German troops went into the battle on the Lys River with a week's rations, and that they find it difficult to get fresh ...
Article : 358 wordsRecently a public welcome was given in the Bream Creek-hall to Private Howard I. Kingston, who has returned from France. Professor R. L. ...
Article : 1,076 wordsSixty-six Japanese steamers, aggregating 500,000 tons, are to be made available to the United States for the period of the war. Twenty-four will ...
Article : 59 wordsThe communique issued last night says:— There was reciprocal artillery fire to-day (Sunday) on the eastern bank ...
Article : 47 wordsIntercession masses to avert conscription were celebrated in the Dublin churches to-day. The clergy notified the congregations where the ...
Article : 267 wordsThe following official German wireless message was intercepted to-day by the British Admiralty:—We have opened a way into the Crimea, after ...
Article : 38 wordsThe cost of the war to Austria up till the end of June last was 42,299,-000,000 kronen (about £2,000,000,000). The cost to Hungary is unofficially ...
Article : 43 wordsThe following official wireless message from the United States radio station at Honolulu has been intercepted by the Navy Department in Melbourne, ...
Article : 853 wordsOfficial French despatches received in Washington state that the Executive Committee of the Prussian House of Lords will ask authority to prosecute ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent on the French front states that the conflagration at Rheims has nearly exhausted itself. Probably not a house in the ...
Article : 71 wordsField-Marshal Haig, reporting this afternoon, says:There was local fighting to out advantage this (Sunday) morning in the ...
Article : 180 wordsThe following are the names of the Tasmanians included in the 391st and 392nd casualty lists, which have been released for publication. ...
Article : 473 wordsThe German long-range guns, in their bombardment of Paris, have in 29 days killed 118 persons and wounded 236. In the bombardment of Paris in 1871, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Morning Post's" Paris correspondent says:—The German masses, by their very numbers, are now bottled in a narrow stretch of country, where ...
Article : 208 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports to-night:— Twelve tons of bombs were dropped at daytime yesterday on the Menin-Armentieres-Thourout railway ...
Article : 80 wordsDuring celebration of the mass yesterday the priests announced from the altars that the people must assemble at certain halls and schoolrooms and sign ...
Article : 307 wordsYesterday two aeroplanes collided in Yorkshire at a height of 2,000 feet. Three occupants of the machines were killed. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following official Italian message was issued to-day:— Yesterday Allied artillery in the Asiago Basin carried out repeated ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, in his latest message, says—Since the enemy's offensive began a month ago to destroy the British armies and divide us from the ...
Article : 402 wordsThe "Petit Parision" states that after 30 days' furious fighting the Germans have failed to sever the Allied line, and General Von Hindenburg now finds ...
Article : 48 wordsThe United States Senate Military Affairs Committee, after a conference with the War Council, has issued the following statement:—The tide has ...
Article : 55 wordsA wireless Turkish official message intercepted by the British Admiralty states:—On Saturday last, protected by strong artillery fire, several English ...
Article : 63 wordsThe communique issued this afternoon was as follows:— There was sustained artillery fire this morning on the left bank of the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe American War Department, in a statement issued to-day, says the Germans sacrificed an enormous number of men in the recent fighting in Flanders, ...
Article : 81 wordsAt a meeting of 700 discharged soldiers, which was held at Sheffield yesterday, a resolution was passed demanding the thorough combing-out of all fit men ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Admiralty reports that on Saturday British light forces, in sweeping the Heligoland Bight, encountered enemy light forces, who retired behind ...
Article : 61 wordsTwelve hundred members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps went in a procession to St. Paul's Cathedral to-day to attend a memorial service held ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York Sun" states that as a result of negotiations between Germany and Bulgaria Bulgarian troops will probably be ...
Article : 44 wordsField-Marshal Haig reporting, to-night, says:— The enemy's artillery was active last night on the Somme and Ancre ...
Article : 31 wordsThe American steamer Lake Moor, 4,500 tons, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in Europeon waters. Of her crew of 62 only ...
Article : 68 wordsAdvices received in Washington show that there are approximately 200 enemy-controlled banks or firms in Denmark, the Dutch East Indies, Holland, ...
Article : 41 wordsDocuments scized from German officer prisoners show that the Germans for six days had been preparing then operations against the Belgians. They ...
Article : 153 wordsAfter a terrific bombardment yesterday, German storm troops attacked the Americans to the north-west of Toul, in Lorraine, along a mile front, ...
Article : 221 wordsLast night an earthquake occurred at Los Angeles, in Southern California, and caused extensive damage. There were panics among the people ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. Percival Phillips writes:—This is a quiet week-end. The enemy are busy shifting their divisions, and preParing their next blow. Raids create ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Labour men of a large American delegation to England are now visiting the provincial towns, shipyards, and munition works, and several have made ...
Article : 64 wordsThe American steamer Florence H., [?],000 tons, has been blown up in a French port, as the result of an internal explosion. Of 75 persons on ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 23 Apr 1918, Page 5
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