Engineers at the Clyde works will probably strike. They declined to handle railway locomotives sent in by the Railway Department for repairs. Employees at Hudson Bros., timber yards in ...
Article : 315 wordsA British communique issued at 12.30 p.m. states:— "We advanced our line north-eastward of St. Jullen, and successfully raided ...
Article : 42 wordsThe communiques respecting the operations on the Western front state that the Germans have made several attacks on British and French positions, all of them ...
Article : 254 wordsAs far as the military situation is concerned, interest has been temporarily diverted to the Eastern front, where the enemy's recent activities are beginning to bear fruit. At ...
Article : 261 wordsA Russian official message on Monday stated:—The Riga region has been abandoned owing to the threatening situation westward of Riga. We retired to a line ...
Article : 466 wordsAn official Italian report, issued at 3 p.m. on Monday, stated: "We advanced further eastward of the Brestovizza Valley, capturing several dollnas (clefts in the ...
Article : 380 wordsA further instalment of the telegrams which passed between the German Emperor and the ex-Czar, have been published in the New York "Herald." The Emperor on July 29, ...
Article : 675 wordsThe developments on the Russian right flank, which have been followed with some anxiety during the past week, have culminated in the complete withdrawal of the ...
Article : 377 wordsIt is reported in Washington that the Nippon-Yusen Kaisha, one of the leading Japanese steamship lines. is planning extensions, including new services between ...
Article : 46 wordsThe enemy officially announces that he has taken Riga, and the Russians admit that they have abandoned the Riga region. The Russians at first retired to a line from Bilderlingshof to Dahlen, but the Germans crossed the Dwina below Dahlen, captured Uxkull, and pushed north and north-eastward, penetrating the Russian positions on the Jagoi River, and threatening to surround Riga. The heavy black line on the above map represents the approximate position of the front on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 100 wordsPresident Wilson has published an address to the men selected for service abroad. "Soldiers of the National Army," the ...
Article : 153 wordsEngineers in the employ of the Clyde Engineering Co, Ltd., after consulting with the executive of their union, declined yesterday to carry out the work of repairing certain ...
Article : 401 words"About 420 of our members have been rendered idle in consequence of the industrial unrest," said Mr. Jackson, secretary to the Shipwrights' Union, yesterday. "We are a ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Sydney Ferries, Ltd, were officially notified yesterday of the finding of the Roya[?] Commissioner, Mr. Yarwood, who inquired into the company's financial condition. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Paris edition of the "New York Herald" publishes a series of sensational. telegrams copied from the Russian Imperial Archives covering the German Emperor's effort during ...
Article : 558 wordsA New York message says that the Secretary for Labour (Mr. Wilson), in a speech at the Labour Day meeting, said that there was no labour union in (the United States ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsThe Krupp organ, "Rheinisch West[?]aclische Zeitung," argues that Germany's duty is to make her enemies uncomfortable. It adds, referring to Belgium: "A country is invaded, ...
Article : 88 wordsIn past days in the country "Jack" has. been termed "as good as his master." Both have worked good humoredly together in the paddocks or on the run, and when there has ...
Article : 514 wordsIt is reported from Paris that all the public buildings in Riga were evacuated many months ago, and the inhabitants have diminished to 100,000. It is stated that ...
Article : 50 wordsA German official message issued on Monday afternoon stated:—We repulsed the French north-west of Monastir. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe capture of Riga is a most useful gain to the enemy, and we may expect him to take full advantage of it. It will extend his sphere of influence in the Gulf of Riga, ...
Article : 423 wordsA cable from Rome, received by the Italian Embassy in Washington, states that an Allied war council will be held in Paris to consider "the greatly altered military ...
Article : 37 wordsA Berne message says that the Bulgarians have refused to send Austria reinforcements, and that the relations between these nations are strained. The disagreements concern ...
Article : 41 wordsA British official report says:—Enemy aeroplanes crossed over to the south-east coast at 11 o'clock on Monday, and dropped bombs in various places. No reports of casualties or ...
Article : 81 wordsThe employees engaged at the Australian Glass Manufacturers' Co., Ltd., Waterloo, went on strike yesterday morning. The employees complained that the coal at the ...
Article : 82 wordsA message received from Port Pirie last night stated that the waterside workers had resolved to maintain their previous attitude not to resume work. No work was ...
Article : 159 wordsA message from Paris says it has been estimated that the British and French latest offensives in Flanders and at Verdun used up 40 German divisions. Ten ...
Article : 62 wordsPetrol has advanced 8½d per gallon, owing to the increase in the insurance on tank steamers, and it will now be retailed nt 4/4 per gallon. It is expected that this will ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Hill, representing the Boilermakers' and Shipbuilders' Union, presiding at the Trades' Union Congress, sitting in Blackpool, urged the workers to hold the ...
Article : 162 wordsThe whole of the employees of Messrs. George Hudson and Son, Ltd., timber merchants, Blackwattle Bay, Glebe, came out on strike yesterday, and the owners propose to ...
Article : 178 wordsThe "Corriere Della Sera," of Milan, states that several thousand Austrians were concealed in caverns on the Carso Plateau, and instructed to remain there until the Italians ...
Article : 133 wordsDr. Kent Hughes, of Melbourne, has been appointed Surgoon-in-Chief of the AngloRussian Hospital in Petrograd. Ethel Sidgwick, whom Edmund Morel is ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Defence Committee, in an official statement, reported that it had been announced that the smelters at Port Kembla had closed down. ...
Article : 44 wordsAt 1.15 this morning Night-watchman Yates came upon the body of a man lying on the footpath in Young-street, alongside the Hotel Metropole. It was later identified ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) stated this afternoon that he had made arrangements for the despatch on Saturday of the steamer Wodonga from Brisbane to North Queensland ...
Article : 83 wordsAlfred W. Foster, barrister, has been charged under the Unlawful Associations Act, 1916, with having, at Melbourne, on July 29, encouraged the taking of human life and the ...
Article : 56 wordsInformation has come to hand of a further deliberate attempt to derail trains on the Main Western line. Near Wentworth Falls on Tuesday last, about 3 o'clock in the ...
Article : 70 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Higgins, the new plaint of the Builders Labourers' Federation against, employers in different States was adjourned ...
Article : 48 wordsM. Ribot, the French Premier, is consulting the leaders of all groups in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, with a view to reconstituting the Cabinet. ...
Article : 33 wordsAlthough a close study of the Russian communiques for some days past has shown that all was not well on the Russian right flank, the fall of Riga appears to have come as a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 5 Sep 1917, Page 9
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