Mr. E. J. Inchbold, farmer, of Yarrawonga, Victoria, was among the passengers saved from the Cunard liner Laconia (18,099 tons), which was torpedoed ...
Article : 49 wordsA Roman poot once declared that it was pleasant to stand in safety on the shore and watch others battling for life with the waves. One fears that ...
Article : 684 wordsCrowded galleries were the most unusual [?]ght to-day of Monday morning meeting of the Senate. Nothing more mis needed to emphasise the intense public interest in ...
Article : 3,651 wordsAfter a continuous sitting lasting 26 hours the Senate's pension lapsed at noon yesterday without the bill having been passed which empowers the President to arm ...
Article : 520 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports:—"We attacked and captured the enemy's front and support lines eastwards of Bouchevesnes on a 1200 yards frontage. We took 173 ...
Article : 125 wordsAmerica is still feebly excited over the disclosures of a German plot to bring about war between America and Mexico and Japan. ...
Article : 134 wordsA message from Punta Arenas, Chilie, says that German intriguing has extended to the Straits of Magellan. A consul and some wealthy Germans ...
Article : 76 wordsSunshine continues on the Anere front, resulting in the enemy remaining quiet while aerial observation is possible, and resuming his movements at night. ...
Article : 296 wordsA message from Peking states [?] "The Chinese Cabinet decided to b[?]ak relations with Gremany. The President of China disapproved. The Premier thereanon resigned. ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral von Stoin, the German Minister for War, speaking in the Roichstag, alleged that German prisoners in France were ill-treated and forced to work in the ...
Article : 152 wordsAn Hatian official message says:—"After a violout artillery propatation the enemy attempted to storm our positions eastward of Gorizin, but was driven ...
Article : 34 wordsA Kussian official message says:—"Our Persian detachment took the offensive in the direction of Bidjar, and occupied a village two miles to the ...
Article : 56 wordsAmsterdam reports that the German Government has begun an energetic campaign to divide the Belgian peoples. It is lavishly courtilng the Flemings by ...
Article : 74 wordsPresident Wilson has called a special session of the Sanate for Monday. The New York "Tribune" will on Monday editorially call for an immediate tra ...
Article : 65 words"The Times" correspondent at headquarters says there is plenty of proof that the German losses all the winter is the real reason for the retreat. Belentiess British ...
Article : 95 wordsA statement issued by the Admiralty on Sunday evening announces that a British destroyer was sunk in the North Sea with all hands on Thursday. ...
Article : 53 wordsA French communique says:—"Partics penetrated the ememy's second time of trenches south of Nouvison, between the Olse and the Aisne, and did great ...
Article : 132 wordsIt is currently reported, but not confirmed, that President Wilson has ordered the arming of merchantman. There is a feeling, that he could safely over-ride the ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. Bench Thomas says:—"More eloquent than words is the spectacle of ground deserted everywhere. Dead are uncared for, unburied, and unregarded for days, weeks, ...
Article : 149 wordsLecutenant-General Sir William Birdwood, Commander of the First Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, has arrived in London to give evidence before the Dardanelles ...
Article : 41 wordsThe superiatendent of the Smithfield Market reports the result of the first week's volontary rationing with supplies of 6626 tons. The market was congested ...
Article : 88 wordsA Baikan Press Agency announces that the Bulgarian Minister at Washington has been instructed to demand his passports. ...
Article : 20 wordsA Petrograd telegram says that Senator Kristsoff, President of the Commission of Inquiry into the German atrocities, vouches for the following story:— ...
Article : 106 wordsThe State department (Washington) has received a wireless message from Mr. Gerared, who is voyaging to America on the Spanish steamer Infants isabel, stating that ...
Article : 95 wordsIt is announced by the Paris correspondent of "The Times" that the British front has been extended to Rove, south of the Somme. ...
Article : 112 wordsIn the casually list issued by the Defence department on Friday, the name of Private T. Jones of Wosley Hill, Castlemaine, appeared as having died from ...
Article : 82 wordsReuter's correspondent at Rome states subseriptions to the new italian loan at present amount to 2½ milliards of fire £100,000,000), whereof 1720 millions ...
Article : 35 wordsPresident Wilson, who began his second term of office, was sworn in, taking the oath of office at three minutes past 12 o'clock. ...
Article : 61 wordsReuter's correspondent at Petrograd says an inspired statement has been issued to the effect that the Allied Conference arforded fresh proof of the increasing ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is stated by the Amsterdam correspondent of "The Times" that Germany is evidently ondeabvoring to work up public enthusiasm for the last round of the war, ...
Article : 53 wordsOwing to the statement in Senator Millen's spech that both Houses were to be brought before the country immediately, the impression may he created that a double ...
Article : 533 wordsIn connection with the State school effort to provide comforts for the sick soldiers in the Caulfield Military Hospital, a duck shoot was organised and 117 wild ducks ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. Stanley Woodburn, Commissioner for the Australian Comforts Fund, has just returned from the British front in France. In the caurse of an interview, he said:— ...
Article : 596 wordsMr. R. B. Weston has been notified that his son. Private E. L. Weston, of the Camel Corps, was admitted to te 14th Australian General Hospital on the 18th ...
Article : 44 wordsWriting in "The Matin" Vice-Admiral Fo[?] says that a month's experience of unrestricted submarine warfare shows that it will not save the Central Powers ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Noville Chamberlain, Director of National Services, speaking in London, said that the National Servive volunteers included a Minister of State, a director of ...
Article : 69 wordsMrs. H. Whire, secretary of the Huntly Patriotic League, has received a letter from Corporal E. J. Aldridge, who is fighting in France, expressing his thanks for a ...
Article : 104 wordsA bazaar organised by the Red Cross Society to augment its funds was opened on Thursday afternoon in the Public Hall by Cr. S. O. M'Crea. The stalls were ...
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Advertising : 35 wordsMr. Lloyd George, in a statement to the "Petit Parision," says:—"The British realise that civilisation is at stake. We islanders are a seafaring people. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Bendigo Red Cross Society was held yesterday, the Mayoress (Mrs. Beebe) presiding. It was reported that a little more money had ...
Article : 241 wordsAs proof of the comparative collapse of the submarine campaign, M. Mar[?]al Hutin writing in "The Echo de Paris," states that 142 vessels entered French ports on ...
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