Every transport, telegraphs Mr. Adam, who is visiting the Americans, discussed an appropriate name for those soldiers. It was agreed that the old name "Doughboy" was ...
Article : 197 wordsM. Venizelos, the new Greek Premier, acting with his. characterisitc vigour and decision, has taken over the Greek fleet from the Allies, and has invited General Sarrail ...
Article : 124 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—There is considerable enemy artillery activity in the Valley, in the neighbourhood of Lens, and ...
Article : 71 wordsFighting has flared up on the west front more extensively than at any time since the Battle of Champagne with the pertinacity and strength of the German attacks ...
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Advertising : 389 wordsGeneral Sir William Birdwood and Mr. Holman, Premier of New South Wales, spent Saturday with a New South Wales brigade. They spoke in connection with the ceremony ...
Article : 109 wordsReuter's correspondent at Aliens success that M. Venizelos (Premier of Greece) has invited the chiefs of the army corps in the Peloponnesus to come to Athens to discuss ...
Article : 147 wordsAlthough the American force in France is only the advance guard of a million men its size makes the achievement of the American navy in bringing it without mishap across ...
Article : 217 wordsReuter's special correspondent with the British army in France, describing the operations around Lens, says that down to Thursday evening we had been systematically pushing ...
Article : 226 wordsA French communique says: In the Cerny-Ailles sector the big calibre shell bombardment, redoubled in intensity towards the end of the night. Shortly afterwards a most ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Times Aliens correspondent success pending decision concerning the Archbishop of Athens, the Holy Synod has suspended the Archbishop, who conducted an anathema ...
Article : 126 wordsA French communique reports most active and reciprocal artillerying in the Cerny Ailles sector. We made a brisk counter-attack last evening on both sides ...
Article : 60 wordsReuter's Zurich correspondent saps that the German press and military authorities betray discomposure at the arrival of the American troops, and weigh the question of the ...
Article : 110 wordsReuter's correspondent at Stock[?] states that the general indignation in Sweden over the Reutenfels incident is voiced in the "Dagbladet," which appeals for the ...
Article : 165 wordsOn the whole, the enemy has not been fighting well although there have been intsances to the contrary. He knows he is going backwards and whether he is told that this ...
Article : 235 wordsRear-Admiral Fiske, a prominent authority declares that the Allies must go in after the German Fleet before the lack of oil ties up the British ...
Article : 67 wordsReuter's The Hague correspondent says that the Government has drawn the attention of Great Britain to the new regulation extending the danger zone in the North Sea, ...
Article : 62 wordsReuter's correspondent at French headquarters telegraphing to-day says that the sudden return of the enemy to the offensive on the Chemin-des-Dames and on the left ...
Article : 163 words"The Times" correspondent at Copenahge[?] states that a German agent named Pehrsson, a Finlander, has been arrested. He is believed to have caused the destruction of the large ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. Thompson, editor of the "Clarion," writing to the "Mail" from Petrograd, says that after interviews and conversations he is convinced that the revolution is not only ...
Article : 157 wordsThe young Emperor, Hsuan-Tung, has announced his resuccession to the throne. (A Chinese Republic was established, on Feb. 12, 1912, on the abdication of the ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the opening of Mrs. T. Hall's hospital for Australian nurses yesterday afternoon. Mr. Fisher, High Commissioner, said that he had received striking and grateful official ...
Article : 60 wordsA British aviator, who has arrived at New York, states that the Germans are in a frightful condition as a result of the British drives, under Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. ...
Article : 34 wordsReuter's correspondent at British headquarters states that M. Serge Basset, a French war correspondent with the British army, was killed by a sniper's bullet while ...
Article : 47 wordsA Berlin official report gives the text of the Note which the Greek Minister handed the Government on Saturday: "In consequence of the, happily effected union of the ...
Article : 88 wordsAn Italian report states that the enemy is very active between Lake Garda and in Ledro Valley. Attacks between San Giemvanni and Biascesa, northward of ...
Article : 44 wordsEleven persons were Killed and ten others injured when the crowded passenger steamer Christopher Columbus rammed the wharf loosening the foundation of a fifty ton water ...
Article : 133 wordsA wireless German official report states that an English attack near Lens failed. Russian attacks near Konyucby, also between, Milotalipe Narajovka, occasioned new ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Chinese coup d'etat seems to have been carried out with dramatic swiftness. The Secretary at Peking to General Chang-Sun, the leader of the military party, which ...
Article : 95 wordsA message from Ottawa says that Sir william Mackenzie, President of the Canadian Northern Railway Co., was aboard the official train with Parliamentarians early this ...
Article : 65 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent says that the Pan-Russian Soldiers' Congress passed a resolution that the Provisional Government should promulgate laws securing the various ...
Article : 55 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that serious disturbances have occurred at Dusseldorf. Crowds of workers wrecked and looted shops, and especially bars. The local ...
Article : 67 wordsReuter's correspondent, who has visited the American contingent in France, telegraphs:— "Our new Allies are fine, hefty young follows, mostly recruited from the farm lands of Texas, ...
Article : 152 wordsOfficial advices from Peking state that the restoration of the Manchu dynasty, was demanded of the President by General Chang-Sun and other military leaders. ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the House of Commons, in reply to a question by Mr. Lynch. M.P., Mr. H. W. Forster, of the War Office, stated that no Australians had fallen in the Balkans. ...
Article : 39 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent says that reports from Budapest state that the damage through the franchise demonstrations is estimated at a million cronen. The ...
Article : 45 wordsReuter's correspondent at Rome states that the Chamber of Deputies having concluded a ten days' secret sitting, has resumed its session in public. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that in connection with the report by the Mesopotamia Commission the Government is preparing a scheme of administrative reform in India, ...
Article : 104 wordsFrom Amsterdam it is reported that messages from Rome state that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is frightened, and is demanding that Field-Marshal Mackensen shall ...
Article : 99 wordsAn Austrian official message says:—During the recapture of Monte Ortigara, in this Sugana Valley, we took 53 machine guns, two mine-throwers, seven guns, and 2000 rifles." ...
Article : 37 wordsA message from Washington states that the navy has almost doubled its personnel since war was declared against Germany. It now needs less than 25,000 men to reach ...
Article : 44 wordsAfter a week's campaigning the Red Cross contributions throughout the United States amount to more than £20,000,000. Loans to the Allies passed £200,000.000, with the new ...
Article : 56 wordsQueen May this afternoon opens the great Exhibition in connection with "Baby Week," a movement throughout the country intended to promate infant welfare work to fill up ...
Article : 42 wordsThe death of Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, M.L.C., of Sydney, was due to over-exposure and overstrain from rowing to the shore from the sunken Mongolia. His funeral took ...
Article : 39 wordsThe bone-dry law, which forbids the possession of liquor, became effective in 23 States from midnight. ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 7 Jul 1917, Page 2
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