The public will to-day have an opportunity which has not been afforded for a long time of witnessing a march through the city of troops on their way to embark at ...
Article : 327 wordsA new German offensive has been begun between Meteren and Voormezeele. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, in the preface to a volume of his war speeches, says: "Democracy and autocracy have come to ...
Article : 123 wordsThe latest communiques indicate no alteration of importance on the front in Flanders since the enemy gains on Thursday and Friday last, except for the readjustment of the ...
Article : 322 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily News" says Holland has surrendered to the German mailed fist. An agreement was reached on Saturday. It is impossible to ...
Article : 248 wordsA Stockhold message says it is reported that Generals Alexieff and Korniloff have arrived in Petrograd, where they have become masters of the situation. ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Percival Phillips confirms the report that the British line has been readjusted in the Ypres sector. The London Press admits the likelihood of Ypres being relinquished. ...
Article : 65 wordsLieutenant Thomson conducted the recruiting meeting in Martin-place yesterday. Half a dozen men responded to the appeals of returned soldiers. ...
Article : 459 wordsMr. Arthur Rae, acting secretary to the Australian Labour patty, asked yesterday whether he had anything to say regarding the attitude of the Official Labour party towards ...
Article : 125 wordsA Turkish official report on Saturday stated: We have occupied Kars (Transcaucasin). We captured 860 guns, and a large quantity of war material. ...
Article : 65 wordsSir Douglas Haig, reporting at noon on Sunday, stated: The enemy captured Voormezeele last evening, but a counter-attack early in the night drove him out. ...
Article : 280 wordsThe American Mission had luncheon in the Whitehall Banqueting Hall, from which Charles the First emerged to his execution. This is the first time the hall ...
Article : 88 wordsA remarkable contrast in views is displayed by the cabled statements of Philip Gibbs and Marcel Hutin this morning. While Mr. Gibbs states that the enemy, "thwarted at Amiens ...
Article : 296 wordsAccording to a message from Peking the "Shanghai Gazette" says that China has agreed to the following Japanese demands:- (1) Japanese control of Chinese arsenals and ...
Article : 76 wordsBuring the hearing in the Arbitration Court to-day before Mr. Justice Higgins, of the claim of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia against the Commonwealth ...
Article : 383 wordsThe Governor, Sir Walter Davidson; accompanied by Brigadier-General Lee, State Commandant, and Mr. R. B. Orchard, Minister in Charge of Recruiting, visited Liverpool Camp ...
Article : 221 wordsMr. Phillp Gibbs writes: It is fairly certain that the enemy, thwarted at Amiens and Arras, has now decided to hurl his fullest weight northwards, striking towards the ...
Article : 599 wordsVisiting correspondents declare that upon the subject of conscription Ireland is for the time being a united nation. The words, "No conscription" are boldly printed on the chest ...
Article : 320 wordsThe Press Bureau states: The King sent the following message to the Viceroy of India (Lord Chelmsford) for communication to the war conference at Delhi on Saturday: I learn ...
Article : 241 wordsThe preparations are now complete for the march of Captain Carmichael's thousand recruits to-morrow. A number of men who enlisted in country districts have already ...
Article : 497 wordsThe Legislative Council at Suva has carried the following motion:—"This Council expresses its unabated pride in the valour and self-sacrifice of the British and Allied armies, ...
Article : 91 wordsOf the two views one is inclined to attach more signifiance to that expressed by Marcel Hutin, without laying too much stress upon the "secondary" nature of the Flanders front. ...
Article : 345 wordsOn April 24 there were in circulation 17,790,967 Australian notes, representing a face value of £52,687,694. The amount of gold held by the Treasury for the Aot at that date ...
Article : 47 wordsSubscriptions that came to hand yesterday brought the "Victory Policies" Fund to over the £20,000 aimed at by Sir James Burns, by whom the campaign was initiated. But ...
Article : 382 wordsThe Admiralty, announces the following casualties in the operations on the Belgian coast:—Officers, 16 killed, 3 died of wounds, 2 missing, 29 wounded. ...
Article : 42 wordsBurns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., have received information by cable from their London agents giving the whereabouts of several of the passengers and crew of the Matunga as ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Phillp Gibbs states: The enemy's losses all along the line have been very severe. The actual figures show that some companies were reduced from 120 to 40. The average company ...
Article : 621 wordsOfficial reference is made to the excellent work of the motor launches at Zeebrugge, attention being drawn to the splendid services of these craft throughout the war. ...
Article : 142 wordsThe British Vice-Consul at Boston (U.S.A.) states that the British authorities are preparing to arrest hundreds of Canadian and British army deserters in the ...
Article : 30 wordsAn aeroplano flying over the city yesterday caused many of the people who saw it to become unnecessarily alarmed. It was officially explained that the aeroplane was ...
Article : 62 wordsA report from Paris states that the Marquis Laurent Decquevilley has been arrested on a charge of treason and espionage. The marquis served for several years in French ...
Article : 93 wordsThe attention of the Minister for Railways was directed this morning to Mr. Holman's speech at Grafton with reference to the proposed linking up of the coast railway from ...
Article : 156 wordsCaptain Spain, of Victoria Barracks, will receive applications from men over 27 years and under 50 for service in the tropics. Successful applicants will receive the same rates ...
Article : 53 wordsIt would now appear that the serious position which Holland was said to be faced with has been relieved, but if the cabled message announcing that an economic ...
Article : 276 wordsLord Rhondda has withdrawn his resignation for the post of Food Controller. The Bishop of Exeter, preaching at Cambridge University, suggested that the Church's ...
Article : 245 wordsSir,—Having read the official published account of the Governor-General's Conference, would you kindly allow me space to express my opinions. As a true Briton, ...
Article : 304 wordsThe eighth death in London within a week has resulted from botulism, a disease caused by a germ attacking the nerve-contres. The germ is found in under-cooked meats, tinned ...
Article : 40 wordsNews has been received that King George, and Tuban II. of Tonga, died of tuberculosis on April 5, and was buried in state the following Wednesday. ...
Article : 88 wordsAdditional offers to provide policies of £200 each under the scheme inaugurated by the Chamber of Commerce to insure the lives of recruits have been received from the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe France-German agreement with regard to the treatment of war prisoners, interned civilians, and French bostagas, as well as dealing with the position of the population ...
Article : 47 wordsAn Admiralty official report states: inquiry shows conclusively that the hospital ship Guildford Castle was struck by a torpedo in the middle of March. The first missed, and ...
Article : 81 wordsQueen Mary has sent the following message to the nayy, army, and air force; "I send this message to tell every man how much we women of the British Empire at home watch ...
Article : 231 wordsAt an enthusiastic meeting held in the Wavverley Council-chambers last night it was decided to provide insurance policies for men with dependents who enlist from the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "New York Times" says unofficial advices from Berlin state that since the beginning of the war three million German soldiers have been ...
Article : 44 wordsHarry Christian Watson was convicted at the Essendon Police Court to-day on a charge of having pretended to be a medical practitioner at Mooneo Ponds, though not ...
Article : 150 wordsA Copenhagen report says the Prussian Upper House has authorised the prosecution of Prince Lichnowsky, formerly Ambassador to Britain, whose memorandum stating that ...
Article : 54 wordsTAMWORTH.—Ten business men in Tamworth have offered to insure for £200 each ten men enlisting in Carmichael's Thousand, provided they have dependents. Mrs. S. A. ...
Article : 78 wordsSentences of imprisonment ranging from one to eighteen months were passed at Fiji on fifteen Fijian natives who were arrested on charges of seditious utterances. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe following American official information by wireless is supplied by the American Consul-General:—A Pacific coast shipyard that built the first concrete ship of 5000 tons has ...
Article : 99 wordsAt an Anzac celebration concert on Sunday night the following resolution was moved by. Mr. J. Hebbard, president of the Returned Soldiers' Association, and ...
Article : 99 wordsA Paris report says the Inter-Allied Naval Council has arrived at important decisions to ensure closer coliaboration and intensification of naval action. ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. A. W. M'Kibbin, of Esk-street, Lithgow, has been notified that his brother-in-law, Sergeant A. J. Cox, has been awarded the D.C.M. for gallantry on the field. Sergeant ...
Article : 64 wordsThe New York "Times" correspondent at Washington says information has been received that Germany has completed six supersubmarinos of 1500 tons capacity each, and ...
Article : 38 wordsBy "Government Gazette" notice yesterday, the State Parliament was further prorogued until May 8. Members are not likely to be called together untill July next. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 30 Apr 1918, Page 7
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