The Russians are most successfully pushing their offensive in Galicia. The advance on Sunday and Monday from Stanislau was so great that the leading detachments were able to cross the Duiester west of Halicz, and also the river Lomnica (running roughly north and south) was passed. Halicz was attacked ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 38 wordsThe members of the Italian Mission to America have safely returned to a French port. ...
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Article : 130 wordsThe War Department has announced that the Government has changed the height for recruits, making available thousands of additional men. The ...
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Article : 191 wordsThe State Department has announced that the American steamer. Kansan (7,913 tons) has been sunk. Four persons lost their lives. ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe Australian War Records Department has already secured a large and interesting collection of battlefield relics. Will Dyson, the Australian ...
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Article : 364 wordsGeneral Jonnart, the Commissioner of the, Allied Powers in Greece, has had an interview with M. Veniz[?]los, the Greek Premier, who stated that ...
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Article : 114 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says:—A significant feature of the crisis in Germany is that it is no longer turning on war and ...
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Article : 65 wordsOne hundred soldiers, under a sergeant-major, at Tripolis, in Peloponn[?]ssus, revolted to-day, and seized the arms and munitions at the regimental ...
Article : 48 wordsThe survivors of the American vessel Orleans, which was torpedoed by a German submarine, state that when the vessel sank the captain was drawn ...
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Article : 218 wordsThe following report was received from Sir Douglas Haig this afternoon: The enemy, after an intense bombardment lasting 24 hours, made a ...
Article : 288 wordsOwing to an excessive crop of potatoes in Lincolnshire and elsewhere, a glut is expected in the market. ...
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Article : 72 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that the Navy Department has revealed the fact that the United States ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Leader of the Government (Mr. Bonar Law) announced in the House of Commons to-day that those impugned in the report of the Mesopotamia ...
Article : 414 wordsIt is notified in to-day's "Gazette" that Temporary Second-Lieutenant J. Stanley, of the Australian Infantry, has been dismissed the service by a ...
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Article : 42 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" says Herr Harden has been called up under the Civilian Conscription Act, and the publication of his weekly review, the ...
Article : 44 wordsFixed prices for meat will come into operation on September 1. ...
Article : 22 wordsAdvices from Berne set out that on the Russian offensive starting General Von Hindenburg rushed eastward and took personal charge of the situation in ...
Article : 45 wordsSpeaking in the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Walsh characterised the elaborate official account of the encounter between the American ...
Article : 51 wordsThe statement regarding the Commonwealth Government's metal policy made on Tuesday by the chairman of the Australian Metal Exchange has ...
Article : 265 wordsThe following return of arrivals, sailings, war losses, and unsuccessful attacks for the week ended Sunday last was officially issued to-day by the ...
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Article : 342 wordsThe Press Bureau states, that General Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the General Staff, has sent a message to General Brusiloff, the Russian ...
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Article : 115 wordsThe Allied Conference that is to meet shortly in Paris will deal principally with the Balkan situation. The date of the conference has not ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 13 Jul 1917, Page 5
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