An emphatic pronouncement was made yesterday by the Acting Premier declaring that the Government would refuse to enter into any further negotiations with representatives of the strikers for a settlement of the strike. ...
Article : 274 wordsField-Marshal Haig reports:— There has been fierce fighting southward of Lens. We hold the German trenches north-westward of Green ...
Article : 63 wordsThe optimism displayed by General Maurice in summing up the military situation as it stands to-day is all the more welcome when we realise that military men usually show a ...
Article : 386 wordsA Russian official message issued on Thursday at 4.25 p.m. stated: We retired under pressure in the direction of Tukkum (in the Riga district). ...
Article : 245 wordsAn Italian communique issued on Thursday afternoon says: We made progress north and south on the Iso[?]zo front. Our troops are repulsing counter-attacks. ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that a fresh political crisis has developed in Germany, and threatens the position of Dr. Michaelis, the new Chancellor. ...
Article : 981 wordsThe British have made slight but important advances north-east of Ypres and south of Lens. The battle north of Verdun except for artillery activity has died ...
Article : 416 wordsA report from Rome says that the Austrian resistance on the Carso is most stubborn along the whole front. The Carse sector is enormously valuable to the enemy, and is ...
Article : 81 wordsLong lists of the first recipients of the Order of Companions of Honour, and of the various classes of the Order of the British Empire, have been issued. The men and ...
Article : 563 wordsThe great trial of strength between the Italians and Austrians continues along the front beyond the Isonzo, but, while it still shows fresh results in the shape of a growing ...
Article : 438 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" reports that an important series of all-Russia conferences will be held in Moscow. The most important will open on ...
Article : 217 wordsAdvices from Athens state that 150,000 people are without shelter through the fire in Salonica. The French are caring for 25,000. ...
Article : 195 wordsYesterday morning the train service into Sydney consisted of 69 trains, says the official report of the Chief Commissioner. The whole of the suburban trains arrived practically to ...
Article : 545 wordsA splendid response has been made to the advertisement calling for outside labour," said Mr. Nicholls, secretary to the Master Butchers' Defence Committee yesterday. "If ...
Article : 249 wordsDissatisfied with the apathy of the State Government in dealing with the Northern railway strike, the Farmers' Union has convened a public meeting for to-morrow at ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association says that, following a conference between President Wilson, the Cabinet, and M. Bakhmetieff (Russian ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Morning Post's" correspondent at British headquarters reports that the Canadians are still closing around Lens. They attacked, on Thursday morning, the southern ...
Article : 127 wordsThe position on the Eastern front continues to prosent many interesting features. Away up on the northern flank, near Riga, there has evidently been more activity than the ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Admiralty reports that naval aviators on Wednesday morning bombed the shipping and batteries at Zeebrugge, and also the Ghistelles aerodrome. All our machinen returned safely. ...
Article : 65 wordsInformation was supplied to the Attorney-General yesterday which shows that the Meat Industry Employees' Union has taken up a most extraordinary attitude with regard to ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Admiralty reports that yesterday morning the Naval Air Service carried out a raid on the Belgian coast, and dropped bombs on the ammunition dumps at Middlekerko and ...
Article : 43 wordsGeneral Maurice (Director of Military Operations) states that the recent British advances have all been carried out according to programme. Mud rendered the Langemarck ...
Article : 234 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says that neither the excutive of the National Railwaymen's Union nor any responsible body intends to break the new railway truce. The ...
Article : 65 wordsA French shell, on the Verdun front, blew up a German gas-shell dump, asphyxiating the men of three German batteries. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe latest demand of the South Queensland railway unionists is that luggage should be declared black. This request has been made in respect of luggage arriving at Wallangarra ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Australian convalescent soldiers at Lords beat the New Zealand convalescents by 263 to 116. ...
Article : 18 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a letter was read from the Stevedores' Assoiation enclosing a copy of a communication received from the Coal-trimmers' Federal ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Press Bureau says the Irish Convention continued the discussion of the scheme of self-government based on the principle observed in the Dominions. Subsequently Sir ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Press Bureau announces:—The total casualties occasioned by the German aeroplane raid on Ramagate and Dover were 11 killed and 26 injured. ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is reported from Athens that the authorities at Gorakis, in Laconia, arrested a German naval officer. He was disguised as a peasant, and was carrying much money. He ...
Article : 46 wordsIn Southern Moldavia the Roumanians have more than hold their own, and their official communique, which is the first intelligent message issued by them for some time, ...
Article : 292 wordsThe Trades-union Congress proved abortive. The Premier, in a statement to-night, said it now became their duty to fix upon a time during which the northern men would be ...
Article : 47 wordsA Washington report states that the Senate has amended the Revenue Bill. It now provides for a graduated tax on incomes —1 per cent, on incomes of £1000 to 50 per ...
Article : 65 words"In every fairness to my brave comrades, who so gallantly sacrificed their lives in the fight for Gaza on April 19 last," writes a trooper attached to the Imperial Camel ...
Article : 195 wordsThe "Evening News" criticises the Commonwealth loan as an extravagant method of raising money. It repeats the old suggestion that the British Government ought to finance ...
Article : 81 wordsThe majority of the men in Newcastle are becoming very tired of the strike, and would be glad to get back to work if they could be shown an "honourable" way out of ...
Article : 210 wordsGeneral Royston has conferred with the Commomvealth authorities and Mr. Bertram M'Kenual respecting the erection of a memorial to fallen Anzacs. The Suez Canal ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "New York Evening World" states that the British steamship Harrington Head reported that a British warship sank the German raider See Adler in the Atlantic, a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsThe condition of Earl Grey is causing grave anxiety. Mr. Hubort Davies, dramatist, is missing. It is supposed he fell off the cliffs at Whitby, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe cabled announcement that the Commonwealth intends to float a loan in London was confirmed to-day by the Federal Trensurer. Sir John Forrest, who stated that the ...
Article : 99 wordsIt is expected that 692 delegates, representing 3,100,000 unionists, will attend the trade union annual congress on September 3 at Blackpool—the largest numbers on record. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe harvest prospects in England, which hitherto have been described as good, have been seriously affected by excessive rain, which has beaten down the growing corn in ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is understood that Lord Rhondda (Food Controller) is pressing for imprisonment in bad cases of "profiteering." Fines often do not act as a deterrent when compared with ...
Article : 36 wordsMrs. W. Durham, late of Singleton, has been advised that her daughter, Sister Sophie Durham, has been mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatches. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 25 Aug 1917, Page 11
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