Germans in Samoa. Attempt to Capture Steamer
It is reported that an attempt has been made in Samoa by a band of Germans to capture a steamer trading in the islands, and utilise it for the purpose of raiding…
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Vandals in Noyon Historic Buildings Wrecked
Reuter's correspondent at the French Headquarters in a message despatched on Thursday said:— The Germans, after evacuating Noyon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Incidents of the War. Mr Hughes a Jonah "Will Wreck the Empire." (United Service Special Cable.) LONDON
Letters from Australia have been published in "The Star," attacking Mr. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, especially in regard to his economic views…
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A German submarine has shelled and torpedoed another Spanish steamer off the Canaries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Boarding Steamer Sunk. Admiralty Report
The Admiralty reports that a German submarine on the 12"th September torpedoed and sunk a British armed boarding steamer. Eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chapter Xix. Wrecked on the Road
The bells of old Berlin are just ringing out the hour of one, when Jack Warren, seated in a drosky, is being hurried through the streets…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Monday Evening. an Australian Steamer Torpedoed
The Minister of the Navy states that the steamer Tasman, which until taken over recently by the Federal Government, was running under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commonwealth Steamer Sunk Melbourne
Mr. Poynton has received information that the former Dutch st[?] Tasman, which, has been taken over by the Commonwealth, was torpedoed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American Munitions Works Wrecked
Two explosions in a trinitrotoluol magazine at Perth Amboy, in New Jersey, 20 miles from New York, destroyed the Gillespie munition works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ferdinand a Nervous Wreck
Austrian reports describe King Ferdinand as a nervous wreck. He refused to leave the train at Budapest. When reading the Hungarian newspaper criticisms tragic buffets of fate. King Ferdinand has informed his friends that he abdicated because a continuance of the German alliance would have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Other Items. a Japanese Steamer Torpedoed. 300 Lives Lost. London
The steamer Hirrano Maru has been torpedoed, and 300 lives lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Submarining Revived. Japanese Steamer Sunk 300 Persons Perish London
Portlier particulars of the finking of the Japanese steamer Hirano Maru while on a voyage from London to Cape Town show that the vessel was torpedoed at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Out to Wreck Militarism But Stable Government Essential
Lord Milner, Minister for War, interviewed by "The Evening Standard," said he believed that the German people were equally as anxious as the Allies to see the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German Steamer Strikes a Mine
Reuter's Stockholm correspondent says that the Hamburg-Amerika steamer Hapsburg struck a mine off Riga. Over 100 German soldiers were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shipping Disaster. Passenger Steamer Strikes Reef All on Board Perish. Vancouver
The steamer Princess Sofia has foundered 50 miles south of Skagway, on the Alaskan coast, 325 lives being lost. The vessel left Skagway on Wednesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Incidents of the War. Henderson, M.P. Held Up Steamer's Crew Wont Carry Him. London
The crew of the Folkstone cross channel steamer has refused to convey Mr. Arthur Henderson, Labor M.P., from England to France. Mr. Henderson was brought back…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spanish Steamer Sunk
It is reported that the Spanish steamer Chatarro has been sunk off the Atlantic coast, but it has not been determined whether the sinking was caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ten Years-old Wreck. It Mat Be Raised. Sydney
It is considered certain that the bargue Itata, which, owing to a fire among its cargo of nitrate, was scuttled ten years ago in the middle of the harbor, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Wrecked 343 Lives Lost. Vancouver
The Canadian. Pacific steamer Prin-' cesa Sophia, has been wrecked in a storm on Alaskan Reef, 268 pasaengera and soventy-five crew were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Violent Whirlwind Schweppes Factory Wrecked Sydney
Schwepps' factory at Surry Hills had the roof, weighing 100 tons, blownp off It crashed on to the roof of an adjoining three-storey bullding,…
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