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The Admiralty announces: Our light forces patrolling the North Sea, not far from the Dutch Coast, on Monday night met a division of enemy destroyers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The altitude of the annual conference of the British Labour party, now in session at Manchester, is in such striking contrast to that displayed in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Swiss correspondent in Berlin estimates that the war has cost Germany £2,500,000,000. He points out that a large indemnity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →According to a Russian soldier who escaped from a German camp, and who, after some time spent in Berlin, reached Holland, the German working classes are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lord Derby has informed Mr. Prothero, the President of the Board of Agriculture, that the urgent military situation requires the taking of men under 25 years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. J. Hodge (Minister for Labour) is forming a committee of employers and employees. With 500 local committees, to deal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"To say that I am disappointed is to beg the question." Thus Mr. Dempster, the newly appointed recruiting organiser of the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Labour Conference resumed its sittings yesterday. Mr. Wardle, M.P., read a telegram which Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following letter from Private W. G. Smithers, written from Perham Downs amp, Wiltshire, England, was yesterday received at the depot, Scott's, Limited,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, referring to-day to the complaints relative to the eases of returned soldiers, states that, from inquiries he had made, he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A correspondent writes, commenting vigorously on the delay shown by the miltary authorities in providing for the three young children whose mother was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six volunteers were accepted and none rejected at the Drill Hall, Newcastle, yesterday, and five who offered themselves on Wednesday were accepted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Speaking in Bristol, Mr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a notable reply to President Wilson. "This is a war of naked aggression," he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PRIVATE GOLDIE.âOfficial information has been received by Mrs. T. Laverick, of Plattsburg, that her eldest son. Private J. H. Goldie, was killed in action on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PRIVATE BRYANT.—Mrs. M. E. Bryant, of Devon-street, Plattsburg, has been informed that her son, Private S. P. Bryant, of the Light Horse, was admitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By his masterful definition of the relations the war as created between Great Britain and the Dominions, Mr. Lloyd George has added a poignant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No one ought to be allowed to make a profit out of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →This war is a war waged by free peoples for the defence of the rights of nations and of civilisation; and it is imperative upon us to crush the ferocious…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, Friday.—A conference of representatives of representatives of local authorities, trade unions and co-operative societies will meet in London to-morrow to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There are three events on the happening of one of which this war will terminate, and three only: A knock-out blow for Germany; a knock-out blow for the Allies;…
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