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Article : 1,011 wordsAnnouncing the capture of 9000 prisoners and 40 guns on Monday and a continuance of the great battle along the whole front in favor of the British, Field-Marshal Sir ...
Article : 598 wordsReuter's correspondent at the British headquarters in France telegraphs:—"The great offensive is gradually extending, and I hear that there was fighting on ...
Article : 202 wordsNews has been received that the American lined New York (10,798 tons), owned by the International Mercantile Marine. Company, struck a mine outside Liverpool. ...
Article : 97 wordsConscription, universal service, and the food supplies occupied the attention of Congress on Tuesday. Senator C. S. Thomas (Democrat, ...
Article : 192 wordsDefinite news has been received at Washington that Chili will remain neutral, but there are indications that Guatemala and Peru will join Brazil. Cuba and Panama on ...
Article : 39 wordsAs details of the Arras battle are unfolded two significant facts emerge. The first is the supreme spirit and behavior of the men, and the second is the superb ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Argentine Government has issued a proclamation supporting the position of the United States regarding Germany. Vast crowds have demonstrated in favor of the ...
Article : 31 wordsGood news comes from China and South America, almost the last strongholds of Hun intrigues. Reuter's correspondent at Shanghai ...
Article : 272 wordsThe New York was mined on Monday evening during dinner. A terrific explosion occurred in the fore part of the vessel, tearing a large hole below the ...
Article : 87 wordsM. Painleve, the French Minister for War, has arrived in London. ...
Article : 16 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that President Wilson and his advisers favor a "gentlemen's agreement" with the Allies to wage and conclude the war in common. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe brilliant success of the opening day astonishes experts, but it would be a mistake to regard it as easily won. We had a most valuable superiority in heavy guns, ...
Article : 141 words"The Times" suggests that the Government should stimulate recruiting in Ireland by allowing American contingents to visit Ireland and raising a new Irish force ...
Article : 50 wordsA schooner bound for Mexico, laden with ammunition, has been captured by a U.S.A. torpedo boat destroyer. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe positioned monthly meeting of this society will be held at the Town Hall next Tuesday at 3 p.m., and the next packing will be done next Thursday. Workers are ...
Article : 44 wordsSensational falls in prices in the provision market at Chicago on Tuesday led to a crash in wheat, which was sold at 8/4, or 7d below last week's rate. ...
Article : 74 wordsMrs. Hardiman. 91 Hargreaves-street. Bendigo, has received word from the Defence department that her son. Sapper M. F. Hardiman, is in hospital suffering from ...
Article : 30 wordsReuter is informed that Sir Robert [?]den, the Prime Minister of Canada, on Tuesday telegraphed to the Canadian headquarters in France as follows:— ...
Article : 196 wordsAn official report regarding the operations in Mesopotamia says:—"The Turks, who were reported on 6th April to be retiring toward Kifri, 100 miles ...
Article : 115 wordsKings-Sergeant Reginald Mills is a nephew of Mr. S. F. Mills, secretary of the Bendigonians Society in Melbourne, who has been in Bendigo during the holidays. Mr. ...
Article : 182 wordsTwo hundred women munition workers were killed and 100 other workers injured in an explosion at the Munitions plant of the Eddystone Ammunition Company. ...
Article : 48 wordsTuesday night's news from France emphasises the immensity of the British blow. It is a thousand pities that the weather is so execrable. The only consolation is that ...
Article : 217 wordsAn Ammonium message says that Field-Marshal von Hindenburg. Chief of the German General Staff, interviewed by the Berlin correspondent of the Barcelona ...
Article : 452 wordsA Russian official message says:—"In the direction of Pengjevin we dislodged the Turks from positions in the region of Nirban, south-west of Bana, and ...
Article : 48 wordsHis Majesty the King has telegraphed to Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig as follows:—"The whole Empire will rejoice at ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Collins, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury department, stated to-day that a case had been brought under his notice in which the wife of a soldier in the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe internal crisis is assuming an acute form. Labor deputies are officially publishing series of resolutions revealing the desire to upset the Provisional ...
Article : 356 wordsA French official report dealing with operations on the Salonika front says:—"A most active artillery struggle is proceeding in the Monastir to Cerna River ...
Article : 58 wordsTelegraphing on Tuesday evening, Reuter's correspondent at the British headquarters in France said:—"I have just returned from a tour of the ...
Article : 264 wordsTo-day a deputation from peace advocates waited on the Minister for Education (Mr. Lawson) and urged that several alterations should be made in the publication of ...
Article : 169 wordsThe American State department intimates that German submarines have sunk during the war 686 neutral vessels, including 19 American ships. They unsuccessfully ...
Article : 31 wordsLieutenant William L. Robinson. V.C., who brought down the first German Zeppelin at Cuffly, near London, in September, 1916, is reported as missing. ...
Article : 42 words"The Times" correspondent at British headquarters states:—"Success has attained such dimensions that I am already wondering whether the ...
Article : 377 wordsDespatches from the front state that the 1st and 3rd British armies took part in the Arras attack, while the 5th army, in which the 1st Australian and New Zealand ...
Article : 177 wordsThe third war loan issued by the Commonwealth for £18,000,000 closed on 8th February with a total subscription of £18,246,580. The date of closing was then ...
Article : 86 wordsFrench newspapers regard the Kaiser's promise of electoral reform after the war as a most significant indication of the desperate internal condition of Germany. ...
Article : 48 wordsA young man named Frederick Jose[?] Parker was killed this morning while riding a motor cycle at an open railway crossing on the Colac-Geelong road at Colac East. ...
Article : 189 wordsPrivate P. Holding, who left Castlemaine for the front in December, 1915, with the 15th Battalion, after doing a lot of hard fighting in France, has returned home badly ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Beach Thomas says:—"The great battle continues without cessation. We stormed trenches south of Arras on Monday night, and extended our ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 633 wordsA proclamation has been issued by the Provisional Government in which it is declared:—"Free Russia does not aim at the ...
Article : 96 wordsA telegram from Vienna announces that General Krobatkin (Minister for War) resigned following the revelation of extensive corruption in the army. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Dutch newspaper, "Tyd. thinks that the British success will have results of great strategic importance, especially the capture of Vimy Ridge. The paper "Ni[?]uws ...
Article : 93 wordsBrazil has broken off diplomatic relations with Germany, in consequence of the sinking by a German submarine of the Brazilian, steamer Parana (4461 tons). ...
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Advertising : 12 wordsSantiago messages say that it is authoritatively announced that Chili will remain neutral unless she is directly attacked. A message from Guatemala says that ...
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