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Article : 72 wordsOfficials of the Australian War Comforts Fund state that the evacuation of Bailleul, which was the main forward base of their stores, does not ...
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Article : 132 wordsAustrian papers are urging that the Rumanian province of Dobrudja should be ceded to Bulgaria, on the condition that the Bulgarian Army is used in ...
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Article : 71 wordsAdvices received in Washington state that in accordance with an agreement with the Socialists and Radicals the German military leaders are prepared ...
Article : 40 wordsThe following official message has been received from the British commander in East Africa:— Since April 1 Colonel A. H. ...
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Article : 67 wordsThe following message was received last night from Mr. Percival Phillips:— The withdrawal from Passchendaele and the other positions in the Ypres ...
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Article : 51 wordsThe King, in a letter congratulating "The Times" upon its Red Cross Fund reaching £10,000,000, says that he is especially proud of the noble generosity ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Man Power Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords this afternoon. During the second reading debate Lord Lansdowne expressed ...
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Article : 594 wordsThe following return of arrivals, sailings, war losses, and unsuccessful attacks for the week ended Saturday last was officially issued to-day by the ...
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Article : 127 wordsIn his report this morning Sir Douglas Haig says:— Last night we drove out German parties that had entered our trenches ...
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Article : 70 wordsWe are requested to state that Private Coppleman (not Koppleman, as previously given) is 16 years of age, not l8, as stated by a speaker at a function ...
Article : 1,930 wordsThe newspapers give Prominence to the arrival of French reinforcements at Meteren, and attribute the turn of the battle on Tuesday to their presence. ...
Article : 50 wordsThere were riotous scenes in Vienna yesterday, about 10,000 people in the market demanding meat, the supplies of which were only sufficient for 1,000. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 19 Apr 1918, Page 5
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