When the inquiry by Mr. Justice Street into the conduct of the police in connection with the I.W.W. prisoners was resumed yesterday morning every inch of space in No. 3 Jury ...
Article : 8,909 wordsAs soon as the Legislative Assembly met yesterday afternoon Mr. Levy presented the petition which, he said, was signed by 25,000 mothers, wives, and relations of soldiers. ...
Article : 683 wordsGeneral Mangin's second blow along the front between the Oise and the Aisne is clearly the most important development on the Western front reported this morning. His ...
Article : 1,107 wordsSir Douglas Haig in his noon report of Wednesday says: We attacked at 4.55 this morning on a wide front northward of the Ancre. The attack ...
Article : 53 wordsThe French armies, under General Mangin, between the Oise (southward of Noyon) and a point northwards of Solssons, on a front of 15 miles, attacked between ...
Article : 469 wordsMr. Gordon Gilmour (correspondent of the Australian and New Zealand, Press Association), telegraphs from Australian headquarters in France:— ...
Article : 1,001 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press, telegraphing this evening, says:— Whether it is because the Germans' fighting spirit is gone, or because the High ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. Novinson, the war correspondent, referring to General von Marwitz's order warning his troops against the Australians' "wily bush methods," says:—Certainly, in the great ...
Article : 66 wordsAdvices from Tientsin state that the advanced Czech forces on the Ussuri front, meeting with desperate resistance from German-led Bolsheviks, have been compellod to retire ...
Article : 341 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph," discussing the Madrid report that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is dying and that the proclamation of a Bulgarian republic may be expected, says that ...
Article : 142 wordsGeneral Byng made a surprise attack on a nine-mile front. They have captured Courcelles and Achlet le Petit. General Byng's attack was a complete ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British have captured Ablainzevelle and many hundreds of prisoners. The local British attack on the Lys salient threatens the German hold on ...
Article : 28 wordsJohn Costello, a resident of Malvern and a member of the Seventh Battalion, was among those repatriated from Holland. He was made a prisoner at Zonnebeke last ...
Article : 140 wordsA French communique issued at noon on Tuesday says: South of the Avre, after a bitter struggle, we captured Beauvraignes. In the course of yesterday's advance ...
Article : 161 wordsThe railwaymen employed by the Swansea Harbour Trust have struck owing to dissatisfaction with the Government wages award. The work of the port is at a standstill, and ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Solicitor-General, in reply to Mr. Ryan, said the estates of soldiers who die on active service were exempt from probate duty, irrespective of the amount. Since the passing ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the Central News Agency says that German working-class discontent is seriously increasing. The agitator Dresse, who is a friend of the Bolshevik ...
Article : 224 wordsThe president, Mr. George Nankervis (Tamworth), was the chairman yesterday at the fifteenth annual convention of the Country Traders' Association of New South Wales, ...
Article : 636 wordsA German official wireless message says: We repulsed attacks northward of Vieux [?]erquin. We withdrew eastward of Merville, which the enemy occupied. We re ...
Article : 90 wordsSir Douglas Haig reported at midnight to-night:— There has been local fighting on both banks of the Scarpe. ...
Article : 284 wordsBrigadier-General Calthrop, Coal Controller, speaking at a conference of the Miners' Federation at Southport, said the country was faced with a coal shortage of 36,000,000 ...
Article : 233 wordsInteresting details of the establishment of a lithographic printing press by the Australian Army Headquarters are contained in a recent despatch received by the Minister for Defence ...
Article : 155 wordsAdvices from Rome received in Washington indicate that the Austrain army is being reorganised preparatory to a new offensive against Italy. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe following are included in the appointments made in the Royal Australian Naval Forces: Staff-Surgeon Leonard Darby, M.B.Ch.B., to H.M.A.S. Penguin, at Sydney, ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Louis C. M. Reed, of Chicago, addressed members of the New South Wales Ad. Men's Institute at the club rooms, Culwullachambers, last night on "Advertising and ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. Percival Phillips says:— Covered by temporary belts of wire the German Sixth Army is still retiring slowly across the Lys plain towards Armentieres. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Coal Controller announces that the surface workers in certain Yorkshire collieries have threatened to strike, primarily over disputed hours of work. The underground ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is reported from Ottawa that as a result of the Imperial War Cabinet meetings Canada now possesses full control over her oversea troops, except in matters of discipline and ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Minister for Price Fixing, Mr. Massy Greene, has announced that on the recommendation of the Assistant Chief Prices Commissioner (Mr. G. F. Martin), who made an ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Blackburn and Wolverhampton municipalities, on their own initiative, have given the tramway women an extra 5/ per week. The strike has spread to the East and ...
Article : 132 wordsThe New South Wales Board of Trade, presided over by his Honor, Mr. Justice Heydon, will sit in the No. 1 Court (Court of Industrial Arbitration), this morning, at 10 a.m., for the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Press secretary of the Local Labour League has resigned his position, owing to a motion having been passed to censor all reports before publication. The mover of the ...
Article : 68 wordsSir Joseph Ward (New Zealand's Postmaster-General) visited the New Zealand Military Post-Office and expressed pleasure with the excellent organisation, which, he said, was ...
Article : 57 wordsSir Owen Cox gave a luncheon yesterday at the Australia Hotel so that the qualities of frozen meat might be demonstrated. Among the guests were Mr. G. S. Beeby, Minister for ...
Article : 145 wordsA message from San Francisco states, that the French Mission, of which General Pau has been appointed head in place of M. Metin, whose sudden death occurred there, has ...
Article : 84 wordsThere has been hard fighting in the last few days on wide fronts on the Australian portion of the battlefield, but it has all been fighting between patrols and not regular ...
Article : 188 wordsSince the war commenced there has been an abnormal increase in the circulation of Australian silver coins. The secretary to the Commonwealth Treasury, Mr. J. R. Collins, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Provost and Corporation of Edinburgh entertained the Australian Press Delegation. ...
Article : 14 wordsMr. Beeby, M.L.A., Minister for Labour and Industry, will speak at a recruiting meeting in Newcastle on Friday night. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 22 Aug 1918, Page 7
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