Sydney was as some city at the Orient. Because the War Chest had appealed for £100,000 to carry on its work among our soldiers this city of ours was suddenly ...
Article : 960 wordsAt a mass meeting of the Western Miners Federation, hold in the Trades Hall this afternoon, the position in regard to the Government's proposals was explained by the ...
Article : 238 wordsIt is reported from Washington that the Government will requisition on October 15 every American merchantman of over 2500 tonnage. This will affect 458 vessels, aggregating ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the New York United Press Agency says the Vatican has announced that the restoration of Riga and all other Russian territory is explicitly and ...
Article : 362 wordsK. Marcel Hntin, the Frnch critic, writing on Thursday, says:—The outstanding feature of yesterday's fierce fighting was the splendid unanimity wherewith the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Australians took 600 prisoners on Tuesday, the majority being of excellent physique. The Australian casualties were extremely ...
Article : 747 wordsTelegraphing early on Thursday marning, Mr. Bean, the Commonwealth official war correspondent, says:—Despite terribly heavy fighting on the southern slopes of ...
Article : 922 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports: After all our objectives had been gained yesterday seven powerful counter-attacks in the afternoon and evening were repulsed with heavy ...
Article : 505 wordsA great convention of [?]ankers which is sitting in Atlantic City is inaugurating a winthe-war campaign. Lord Northeliffe, in the course of a speech to the gathering, said: "We ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Percival Phillips writes:—"Wednesday's attack was commenced in heavy mist and semidarkness, and involved a number of new German divisions in fighting of the most ...
Article : 586 wordsThe Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. M'Adoo) has announced that a new Liberty loan of £600,000,000, at 4 per cent., will be raised. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Premier states that he hass arranged for the steamer Mallina to run north with a cargo of 2500 tons of coal. This would relieve the Allinga and allow the latter vessel to carry ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of the "New York World" says that the "Tidning," the most influential paper in Sweden, writes:—It is reasonable to ask how many Swedish ships ...
Article : 46 wordsThe New South Wales Labour Connell has requested the Painters and Decorators' Union to withdraw Mr. R. H. Adam (its secretary and delegate) from the council. ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Holland Commission has given a denial to the statement taken from the Von Igel records which was thought to indicate suspicious confidential relations between the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Correspondence Militaire" published in Madrid, announces that Germany is inaugurating new submarine methods. Vessels will be grouped in squadrons instead ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "New York Times" says that when Dr., Michaclis suddenly decided to make no speech in the Reichstag after being in conference with military ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Invincible colliery, Chillen Bullen, is the first colliery in the western district to commence operations, in the great industrial upheaval of 1917, with loyal workers. ...
Article : 734 wordsA mass meeting of the Wharf Labourers' Union was held in the basement of the Town Hall yesterday afternoon. At the conclusion it was stated that the men were as solid as ...
Article : 35 wordsSaturday's papers will contain a. "Gazette" announcing that the following have been awarded bars to the Military Medal:—Australians: Sergeant D. MacPhali (Artillery), ...
Article : 77 wordsAn important announcement was made last night by the secretary of the Steamship Owners' Association in connection with the method to be adopted in the employment of ...
Article : 365 wordsMajor-General Bridges's leg has been amputated. Major-General Bridges, when a major, was the here of an incident at Saint Quentin, when he was sent back to raily 250 stragglers ...
Article : 84 wordsA Berne message reports that postal communication with Germany has been stopped owing to the outbreak of disorders, The correspondent of the "Daily Express" ...
Article : 54 wordsInformation has reached Amsterdam that the Austrian budget shows a deficit of nearly £749,000,000. The cost of the war for three years has been £1,162,000,00, ...
Article : 37 wordsBuenos Ayres reports state that the general strike has become worse. The food shortage is acute, and violent clashes have occurred. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that a national housing scheme has been devised to meet the shortage caused by the cessation of building during the war. It will probably ...
Article : 79 wordsCorrespondents at British Headquarters estimate that 40 German divisions have been exhausted in the battle of Flanders since July 31. Ten have been broken up ...
Article : 43 wordsThe officials at the Town Hall were engaged in counting money collected in the city until a late hour last night, and it was announced the total reached was £15,451/10/6. This, ...
Article : 430 wordsMrs. F. M'Kay Howatson, of Dumfries, Campsie-street, Campsie, has been notified that her son, Colin, who was previously reported missing, was killed on July 19, 1916. ...
Article : 311 wordsA conference of the Miners' Federation of Britain decided to accept the Coal Controller's offer of an increase of 1s 6d daily, for workers over 16 and 9d for workers under that age. ...
Article : 53 wordsSir Donglas Haig, in his Thursday night report on the aviation work, says: Despite the mistiness and a strong west wind our scroplanes all day long machine gun fired ...
Article : 214 wordsIt was stated yesterday by the shipowners that a large number of the members of the old Wharf-labourers' Union had registered for work under the new conditions. One of the ...
Article : 243 wordsDutch newspapers condemn the breach of neutrality committed, by three German seaplanes off Zealand in seeking to provent the internment of a disabled German ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Gilmour, writing on Tuesday, says:— An officer relates the following details: "When we went over we found the ground heavy going, but most of the men were smoking. ...
Article : 219 wordsA message from Petrograd states that Lettish workmen refused to work for the German General Staff, and six of the leaders were shot. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the Irish convention has concluded the stage in its proceedings for the presentation of a scheme for the government of Ireland. ...
Article : 213 wordsThe newspapers appland the British air raid on the St. Denis aerodrome, pointing out that it stopped a raid on London before it started. ...
Article : 53 wordsA meeting of the Transport Workers' Federation was held yesterday, but no official information was disclosed. It was stated that a large number of the members were ...
Article : 61 wordsAll male citizens of the United States of America between the ages of 21 and 31 years are requested to forward to the American Consul-General at Sydney, or report in ...
Article : 58 wordsA representative deputation from the Railway and Tramway Officers' Association yesterday asked the Acting Premier to legislate so as to allow salaries up to £500 per ...
Article : 165 wordsA French communique issued on Thursday afternoon stated: After a violent bombardment of our positions from LesVauxmeron to the west of Cerny, the enemy ...
Article : 89 wordsLieutenant Guynemer was killed on the 11th inst., after he had brought down his fifty-third enemy aeroplane in French territory. Eye-witnesses of his last light say that ...
Article : 112 wordsA report from Pekin says that the unprecedented floods now being experienced threaten the destruction of Tientsin. It is estimated that already a million folk have been rendered ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Crocker, manager of the city electricity and gas department, states there may be total cessation of the gas supply three weeks hence it no further supplies of coal come to hand. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Paris newspaper the "Petit Parisien," says the capture of Polygon Redoubt, to which the Germans attached much store, is one of the most glorious feats of arms to the ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. H. Y. Braddon, president of the War Chest Fund, when interviewed last night, said that the magnificent enthusiasm which had been displayed by all who, by their ...
Article : 150 wordsGradually but surely the strike in Victoria is breaking down. Unions are ready to compromise freely, but employers find themselves obliged to go slowly in re-engaging men, en ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Coal Board, at its meeting yesterday, decided to extend the time during which holders of stocks of coal and coke exceeding five tons should be permitted to use restricted ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 29 Sep 1917, Page 13
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