There were great crowds in Sydney yesterday-the second anniversary of the famous Anzac landing. Memorable scenes marked the occasion. Freely and ...
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Article : 65 wordsGeneral Maude (who is in charge of the British forces in Mesopotamia) reports:— The battle on the right bank of the Tigris, between Samara and Istabulat (about 60 ...
Article : 226 wordsWhile recruiting is glow, vigorous opposition to conscription has developed in both Houses. The Speaker, Mr. Champ Clark, ...
Article : 386 wordsA MoscoW newspaper has published private telegrams which passed between the Czarina and the Czar in December and March, while the Czar was at the front. ...
Article : 560 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his midday report of Tuesday, says:- Severe fighting was continued on Monday evening and night along the whole ...
Article : 603 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, writing from British headquarters in France on Tuesday night, says:- The Hindenburg line is not a German ...
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Article : 859 wordsAn official message from Egypt says:— The Turkish forces in Southern Palestine, which have been reinforced, hold a strongly entrenched position from Gaza towards ...
Article : 54 wordsThe report received from General Maude this morning regarding the operations of the British forces in Mesopotamia is exceedingly satisfactory. It shows that the Turks are ...
Article : 409 wordsThe London Stock Exchange will close on Saturdays to enable members and clerks to engage in national service. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Bonar Law's second son, Lieutenant C. J. Law. of the Scottish Borderers, was wounded [?] Palestine, and is reported to be missing. ...
Article : 34 wordsLord Calthorpe proposes that the allied aeroplanes drop firebails in the Rhine Valley and on the Hungarian Plain, and so destroy the crops. These are like tinder when they ...
Article : 57 wordsCorrespondents at British headquarters in France say that St. George's Day witnessed terrific fighting. Many troops were red and white favours in honour of the ...
Article : 126 wordsA Washington despatch announces the arrival of Marshal Joffre and the French Minister for Justice, M. Viviani (heads of the French mission which has gone to ...
Article : 294 wordsEvery fresh report from the British front ou either side of the River Scarpe confirms the earlier statements regarding the determined nature of the enemy's resistance to the latest ...
Article : 363 wordsMr. Kennedy Jones (Director-General of the Food Economy Department) declares that the submarine menace is greater than ever, and unless people further reduce the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe military authorities state that a limited number of officers of the Citizen Forces, who have not had an opportunity of attending a school of instruction for the training of ...
Article : 82 wordsBritish airmen had a record day on Monday. Forty Gorman machines were brought down. Fifteen were seen to crash to the earth. Ouly two British machines ...
Article : 117 wordsThe British Admiralty reports:—Three British naval aeroplanes attacked five destroyers steaming between Blankenburge and Zeebrugge on Monday afternoon. The ...
Article : 70 wordsLidcombe, 8 p.m., [?]lm "Why Britain Went to War." Neutral Bay, Southern Cross Picture Theatre, 8 p.m., Lieut, Doull (lantern lecture), ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Mackinnon, Director-General of Recruiting, arrived in Brisbane by the Sydney mail train on Tuesday night. He was met at the station by Captain Dash and others, ...
Article : 85 wordsA German wireless message on Tuesday stated: On the Arras battlefield, British troops standing on French territory yesterday delivered the second great thrust ...
Article : 425 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" declares that the socialist paper "Vorwaerts," in an article, insists that Germany must ...
Article : 167 wordsIf the enemy is in as serious a position as these correspondents suggest, it is easy to realise his desire to obtain supremacy of the air, and thus, hide from his opponents the ...
Article : 283 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday Mr. R. E. Prothero (President of the Board of Agriculture), when moving the second reading of the Corn Production Bill ...
Article : 279 wordsThere were pathetic scenes at Dover at the funeral of the British and German sailors killed in the Channel fight on Friday night. An old market hall was ...
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Article : 323 wordsStanding with bowed heads around the great ring enclosure of the Show Ground, twentyfive thousand men and Women, yesterday, offered up prayer "in remembrance of ...
Article : 1,337 wordsThe Canadian Budget shows that the war expenditure to date is £120,000,000. The Canadian national debt is now £180,000,000, and at the close of the ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is stilted in Rotterdam that two German aeroplanes 20 miles north of Zeebrugge brought down the British airship, with eight men in its car. which was ...
Article : 45 wordsWe have repeatedly drawn attention in these notes to the various distortions of facts which appear in the German communiques. While it is quite legitimate for the German ...
Article : 403 wordsThe night sessions of the Imperial Conference have begun. The members hope that they will be able to complete their work within a week or ten days. ...
Article : 32 words"Alas! our little Australian army, which we are [?] proud of, is becoming weakened and exhausted," Said Major Lynch, speaking in the Repertory Theatre last night. "Probably ...
Article : 121 wordsAn Amsterdam mebsage announces that Hie Queen of Sweden (who[?] before her marriage in 1881, was Princess Victoria of Baden) has telegraphed the Burgomaster ...
Article : 42 wordsA diplomatic settlement has been arranged with Britain in respect to the embargo imposed by Argentine on the export of wheat. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 26 Apr 1917, Page 7
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