Captain A. C. Carmichael, M.C., Chairman of the State Recruiting Committee, yesterday issued the following appeal:- I want a thousand Australian-born men to enlist by the first of May and come with me to France in answer to the appeal that has just come ...
Article : 321 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in his midday report, states: We advanced our line slightly at night time on the south bank of the Somme eastward of Viresous and Corbie. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Australian units have been involved to-day and yesterday in two separate attacks, fighting most desperately with such magnificent tenacity and fiery spirit in ...
Article : 944 wordsThe heavy black line represents the position on the sector of the front east and south-east of Amiens, as indicated by recent cablegrams. The principal alteration effected by the enemy's attacks since the recent lull in the offensive has been an extension of the advance immediately southward of the Somme, at the angle ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsSince the fighting last week there has been another lull on the Western front. Sir Douglas Haig's report states that there has been heavy rain. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe New York Press is unanimous in its praise of President Wilson's Baltimore speech. The New York "World" says: "The reply to the Germans' military masters is in terms ...
Article : 112 wordsThe conference called by the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) to consider the appeal for reinforcements made by the Imperial Government, will ...
Article : 457 wordsA Petrograd message states that by occupying Ekenas and Reval the Germans have secured control of the whole of the naval defences of Petrograd. ...
Article : 336 wordsPresident Wilson, replying to the King, expres[?]es warm gratification at his generous message, and assuring His Majesty that it is with the greatest satisfaction that the people ...
Article : 187 wordsSir Douglas Haig, reporting at mid-day, says:—Counter-attacks yesterday successfully re-established our positions at Aveluy Wood, and yielded 120 prisoners and ...
Article : 527 wordsNever in the history of banking have such scenes been witnessed in Australia as were enacted yesterday at the Commonwealth Bank. There have been stampedes to take out ...
Article : 288 wordsLieut. Godfrey, M.C., told Her Majeaty's audience last night that he knew of a mother who had lost two sons in the war. Their joint estate was £40, which she put into the ...
Article : 280 wordsDr. Ablass, a member of the extreme section of the German Liberals, in a speech at Herschberg, in Silesia, said that even the Liberal parties no longer considered the ...
Article : 233 wordsLieut. Moore was introduced at the Tivoli Theatre last night by Mr. Arthur Rickard, and made a four-minute appeal for subscriptions. The following investments were ...
Article : 156 wordsMr. J. Barnes, president of Tattersall's Club, introduced the Lord Mayor (Alderman Joynton Smith) and Mr. J. Kell, deputy-governor of the Commonwealth Bank, to members during ...
Article : 636 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) says in a message to the Viceroy of India: At this time when the intention of Germany's rulers to establish tyranny not only ...
Article : 283 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs says that the Germans are struggling hard to bring up heavy guns and complete the organisation of their divisions before attempting another drive on a big ...
Article : 297 wordsMr. Percival Phillips writes:—Repeated attacks along practically the entire front are yielding the enemy such scant gain of ground that his position has in no wise improved since ...
Article : 264 words"I am sanguine that the commercial travel— lers of New South Wales will be responsible for over £100,000 for the war loan," said Mr. A. A. Hall, secretary of the C.T.A., ...
Article : 65 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" learns that the Government, in anticipation of a settlement of the Irish question, proposes to include in the new Military Service Bill its intention ...
Article : 189 wordsThe honorary organiser of the Australian Air Squadron's Fund, Mr. C. Alma Baker, although only a visitor to Australia, yesterday subscribed through the Union Bank £10,000 to ...
Article : 35 wordsThe following additional subscriptions to the Sixth War Loan were received at the Commonwealth Bank yesterday:- Edwards, Dunlop, and Co., Ltd., Tooth and Co., ...
Article : 382 words"Personally, I think it is about the best step that could have been taken in the circumstances," remarked the Minister in charge of recruiting (Mr. R. B. Orchard) yesterday, ...
Article : 227 wordsPolish newspapers state that Polish legions consisting of several thousands of soldiers have been dissolved owing to treason, and interned in the interior of Hungary. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe great recruiting campaign to fill the ranks of the South African Brigade officially opens to-day throughout the union. There will be special intercessory services in the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Morning Post" correspondent on the French front sends interesting details of the German tanks used in the present offensive. The Germans modified the construction and ...
Article : 218 wordsThe United Press Agency's correspondent on the Western front says:—President Wilson's decision to hasten America's armed support to the Allied troops did not come an ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Arthur Rae, acting secretary to the Australian Labour party, and who was also secretary to the recent anti-conscription campaign, commenting on the matter yesterday, ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Tangier correspondent of the "Times" says that Germans in Morocco have attempted to persuade Raisuli and others to inaugurate a revolution of tribesmen against the French, ...
Article : 91 wordsAll the banks of the city and district reported that they had been kept busy to-day with inquiries and payments to the war loan. The total amounts of the contributions now ...
Article : 87 wordsA large number of trade union officials have accepted the Lord Mayor's invitation to a function on May 1, when his Excellency the Governor will be afforded an opportunity of ...
Article : 86 wordsWashington advices state that the War Department's weekly summary says that the American transport sections took an active part in the great battle. The aviation ...
Article : 99 wordsA Turkish communique states: On April 6, after violent fighting we occupied the region of Erdiscach, on the north shore of Lake Van (in the Caucasus). We ...
Article : 70 wordsIn Moore-strect yesterday the tank attracted a tremendous crowd, and four-minute speakers made appeals for the loan from noon until 2 o'clock. There were 77 investors, whose ...
Article : 210 wordsThe War Loan tank met with further success to-day, and in the morning the sum of £325,000 was secured as the result of a visit to the Stock Exchange. ...
Article : 69 wordsCaptain Carmichael, M.C., the new chairman of the State Recruiting Committee, is leaving no stone unturned to give an impetus to the recruiting movement. One of his ...
Article : 103 wordsMadrid advices state that Spain and Germany have reached an agreement whereby Switzerland, acting as intermediary, will supervise shipments as a guarantee that the ...
Article : 53 wordsMajor Civrieux, writing in the "Matin," says the Germans are being crowded into the corner of an angle eastward of Amiens, giving them the advantage, of shorter distances ...
Article : 61 wordsA Paris message states that Bolo has petitioned for a reprieve. President Poincare refused to grant a pardon, and Bolo will therefore be shot. ...
Article : 37 wordsGerman newspapers are publishing semiofficial warnings threatening severe penalties on persons spreading alarmist tumours regarding the army's losses on the Western front. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 9 Apr 1918, Page 7
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