There were exciting scenes at Scotland Yard on Friday. Five hundred strikers, headed by cyclists and a piper, marched towards Tower Hill, singing "Fall in and Follow Me." When ...
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Advertising : 8 wordsThe Press Bureau publishes details of the week's air activity, which show that over 200 tons of bombs were dropped on enemy organisations in the battle area alone. We also ...
Article : 524 wordsMr. Phillp Gibbs (correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," telegraphed on Friday: Since the 23rd London troops fighting in the battle have made astonishing progress. They ...
Article : 305 wordsPresident Wilson announces that it is the solemn purpose of the United States to secure a decisive victory of arms, and it is proposed deliberately to devate a larger part of the ...
Article : 107 wordsA dushing night attack by the Australians gained possession of Mount St. Quentin, north of Peronne, which commands that town. Peronne is outflanked, and its fall is regarded as a ...
Article : 95 wordsA Russian official message on Friday stated: As the result of an attempt on his life at Moscow, Lenin was wounded. Later reports say Lenin was hit twice ...
Article : 257 wordsAt a luncheon to Mr. Samuel Compers (President of the American Federation of Labour), Mr. Lloyd George paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Gompers' energies before and since the ...
Article : 417 wordsSir Douglas Haig, reporting at noon on Friday, stated: Despite the destruction of river bridges, our advanced troops crossed the Somme south and west or Deronne. ...
Article : 1,387 wordsThe Australian Press Association on Saturday afternoon learnt that the French made a small advance in the Allotte neighbourhood, and occupied the southern outskirts of a wood ...
Article : 261 wordsAt dawn this morning New South Welsh, Victorian, and Tasmanian infantry, by a sudden, swift stroke north of the River Somme, seized the bluff promontory north of Poronne, ...
Article : 951 wordsAn Amsterdam report says cholera has broken out in Belgium. There wore 30 deaths in a week in one village. The Commonwealth Bank is opening a branch ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that Lieutenant-Genora. Sir Cecil Macready succeeds Sir Edward Henry as Commissioner of Police for the metropolis. The King has conferred a ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Australian Agents-General entertained the Australian Press Mission at dinner at the Automobile Club. Sir Charles Wade, who presided, said the most urgent problem in ...
Article : 674 wordsAn Italian report states: We penetrated deeply the enemy's positions on Monte Malo, inflicting heavy casualties. We tbok 25 prisoners. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt the August meeting of the Australian Red Cross central council it was reported that the monthly remittance of £19,000 had been forwarded to the commissioners. ...
Article : 468 wordsThe "Evening Standard" publishes a series of German telegrams of a pessimistic and conciliatory nature, showing that Germany is beginning to realise that she has ...
Article : 321 wordsReports from an Atlantic port state that an unarmed Brazilian liner with 350 passengers aboard was shelled by a U-boat for two hours 150 miles off Virginia Capes. The U-boat, ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Paris "Matin" states that the French traversed Noyon at the double. No soldiers are now there, it being impossible to stay for the present. Dense clouds of smoke ...
Article : 98 wordsBy Friday the Canadians had advanced 12,000 yards since Monday, capturing the advanced German positions of the Drocourt-Queent line. They took 2500 prisoners, in ...
Article : 103 wordsAccording to a Copenhagen message additional provisions of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty provide that Esthonla and Livonia shall be independent, but Russia is secured commercial ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that in replying to the congratulations of Slg. Orlando, Premier of Italy, regarding the British successes on the Western front, Mr. Lloyd George ...
Article : 84 wordsA message from Madrid states that a special Cabinet meeting will be held to consider the situation arising out of the sinking by a U-boat of the Spanish steamer Carasa after ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that M. Tardieu has cabled from Paris a summary of the military events of the past five months. As bearing on the ...
Article : 153 wordsAccording to a report from Washington, General March (Chief of Staff) announces that the United States troops are being withdrawn from the British and French brigades in order ...
Article : 339 wordsNotwithstanding that the last financial year —July, 1917 to June, 1918—yielded a record revenue, there are substantial indications that the current yeal will show figures well ahend ...
Article : 256 wordsAn Amsterdam message states that 30 Belgians armed with rifles and revolvers rushed the electrified wire barrier on the Dutch frontier during the night. Two of the ...
Article : 51 wordsGeneral Eustin, head of the South African Government sheep division, in a statement on the wool question to a meeting of prominent breeders at Bloemfontein, stated that the ...
Article : 71 wordsAccording to an Amsterdam message the German authorities are employing thousands of 17-year-old boys from Westphalia, Hanover, and the Rhine provinces, also Belgians, ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Australians are closing in upon Peronne, which is merely a broken ruin. After its demolition by the Germans last year hardly an habitable house remained. It now ...
Article : 768 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the King has degraded Sir Joseph Jonas fruin the degree of Knight Bachelor. Jonas, a prominent Sheffield steel ...
Article : 65 wordsA New York message states that Mr. Beaumont Alexander, Vice-President of the Allied Industries Board, is leaving for England to submit a plan to Viscount Furness and the ...
Article : 79 wordsAn increasing number of German desertors, including Prussians, are coming to the Allied lines. Austrian officer prisoners say their men held the line only because Germans were ...
Article : 42 wordsCompared with last year, the State revenue for August shrank by £64,311. For the first two months in the financial year the reduction was £5805. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Hughes' Scottish tour concluded with a visit to the Grand Fleet. He lunched with Admiral Beatty aboard the flagship, and after wards inspected the various naval units. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Minister in Charge if Price Fixing, Mr. Masby Greene, stated in reference to the revocation of the order fixing the price of bacon in New South Wales that this action ...
Article : 76 wordsA Paris report says the mystery of the disappearance of the famous airman Vedrdness since early in the war has been solved by the "Petit Journal's" announcement that he has ...
Article : 59 wordsMessages received in New York from the United States Minister in Persia say that 40,000 Christian refugees from Urumia, in the Persian province of Azerbaljan have arrived ...
Article : 51 wordsBelize, the capital and chief seaport of Brirish Honduras, has been partly destroyod by fire. The Governor, Mr. Hart Bennett, was injured. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states that the British in the Bullecourt area took 1700 prisoners on Friday, making 3695 in four days. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 2 Sep 1918, Page 7
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