It is stated in a circular issued by the State Recruiting Committee that Australia is so many thousands of miles from the actual scene of hostilities that it is difficult for the ...
Article : 341 wordsThe New York "World" says that, although the German Emperor, who is wedded to rapacious war gods, is unable to perceive danger signals at home and ...
Article : 49 wordsEvidences of a distinct shortage of food in Germany and Austria, as compared with previous years, continue to accumulate. One report-purports to quote an Austro-German ...
Article : 360 wordsThe roughest weather on the Roumanian front hinders operations. All the Austro-German efforts have been checked during the past fortnight with ...
Article : 178 wordsThe "New York Times" states that a well-informed London correspondent says that the intense, if unadvertised, activity on the part of the Admiralty supports ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "New York World" interviewed Prince Nicholas Galitzin the Russian Premier, who said that the Entente would not ...
Article : 204 wordsRough weather on the Roumanian front is hindering operations. All the Austro-German efforts during the ...
Article : 166 wordsAt a committee meeting of the Australian Women's Service Corps, the following resolution was carried unanimously, viz.:—"That if women are to be of assistance in recruiting ...
Article : 88 wordsAdvices from Petrograd state that reports from many parts of the country emphasise that the breakdown of the transport and the dislocation of the ...
Article : 172 wordsThe attention of the organising secretary of the State Recruiting Committee has been drawn to a circular letter addressed by Mr. R. J. Stuart Robertson, M.L.A., to the ...
Article : 129 wordsAn official message from Mesopotamia states: On the nights of the 25th and 26th inst. the enemy made renewed attempts but failed to recapture the ground lost on ...
Article : 55 wordsAn official statement issued by the Imperial German Food Office declares:—Despite the favourable corn crop, Germany's position is worse than in 1916, owing to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsThe executive of the local recruiting committee has decided to bring the following matters before the conference of the Darling Federal electorate recruiting committees, ...
Article : 174 wordsThe submarine Deutschland is overdue, and the agents are anxious concerning her. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe White Star liner Laurentic, 14,892 tons, has been sunk off the Irish coast. The vessel was employed in the Government service. ...
Article : 192 wordsThe notorious unreliability of the reports which come from neutral sources makes it most difficult to gauge accurately the position of Switzerland at present in relation to the ...
Article : 329 wordsA Russian official message says: We repulsed two attacks west of Riga. The Germnns [?]ed in disorder. A German official message states: ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Federal situation is no clearer than it was a week ago. The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) and the leader of the Liberal party (Mr. Cook) were both in Melbourne to-day, ...
Article : 257 wordsTo-day's recruiting figures were:—Volunteered, 39; accepted, 20. ...
Article : 13 wordsMr. W. T. Willington (president of the Chamber of Manufactures), in the absence of the Premier, presided yesterday at a meeting of the State War Council. The other ...
Article : 69 wordsM. Jansen, a Danish engineer, has invented a torpedo shock absorber. It consists of an armoured belt placed around warships and merchantmen, ...
Article : 84 wordsSpeaking at the conference of War Service committees, held at Cooma on the 23rd, instant, Mr. Austin Chapman, M.P., stated that it was vitally necessary for the ...
Article : 118 wordsMiss Langer Owen was the first speaker at the recruiting rally at Randwick Town Hall last night. She said she had come to the meeting without any excuse for so doing, ...
Article : 273 wordsThe United States Embassy in London cables that Britain has enlarged the North Sea area which i[?] dangerous for shipping. ...
Article : 73 wordsIn order to meet the expenses of the Werriwa Federal electorate executive committee, it was agreed to start a fund, of which Alderman Wood, Mayor of Goulburn, was to ...
Article : 66 wordsA violent explosion occurred in a mellnite factory near Paris. The fire, which spread rapidly, reached depots containing explosives. ...
Article : 39 wordsWhen the Franco-German war of 1870-71 was nIts end a French army of 150,000, under General Bourbaki, marched from a point near Orleans to relieve Belfort, the French ...
Article : 251 wordsA military order states that returned soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force and Naval and Military Tropical Force, who have re-enlisted or are appointed to a military ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Paris "Matin" considers it is improbable that Germany will carry out a spring offensive. Rather she is preparing for a vigorous defensive on all fronts ...
Article : 201 wordsDuring the course of his address at the annual meeting of the directors of the Royal North Shore Hospital last night, the chairman (Major Carey) spoke strongly of the ...
Article : 204 wordsA number of Danish and Swedish harbours in the Cattegat and Baltic are icebound, and it is feared all traffic will be stopped if the intense cold continues. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Central News Agency's correspondent in Zurich states that the Rothschilds, of Paris, have withdrawn £8,000,000 from the Swiss banks in view of the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe work being done by the Soldiers' Entertainments Committee is very much appreciated by officers and men in all camps. A few days ago Colonel Lamrock. V.D., ...
Article : 156 wordsThree pronounced anti-conscriptionists, Mr. John Storey, M.L.A., Senator Grant, and Mr. Peter Bowling, spoke strongly in advocacy of recruiting at a meeting held in Balmain Town ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Empire Resources Development Committee has issued a statement advocating the conservation of the natural resources which are under the ownership ...
Article : 160 wordsTwo German aviators landed in Normandy. A farmer, whose eldest son had been killed in the war, was working in a field at the time. Arming himself with a ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Director-General of recruiting, Mr. Mackinnon, M.L.A., states that the urgency of the call for men was set out in a letter dated November 2, from Brigadier-General ...
Article : 217 wordsIn the City Council last night it was decided, on the motion of Alderman Barlow, that, as the City Council has decided to name the roadway through Moore Park ...
Article : 90 wordsThe decision of Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (Director of National Service) not to make a simultaneous appeal to men and women has chagrined many ...
Article : 318 wordsThe Russians up in the Carpathian Mountains between Bukovina aad Roumania launched an attack on a front of perhaps some five or six miles, and penetrated the ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Irish-Canadian Rules, who are visiting Ireland, had a rousing reception in Armagh. Roman Catholic and Protestant members attended their respective ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Ernest H. Powis, of Birmingham, England, who is now in Sydney, has had war experiences as a soldier at the front, and as the manager of a manufacturing firm which has ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Mayor of Waverley (Alderman H. Rogers) presided at a meeting held last night at the Waverley Town Hall in support of the recruiting movement. He said that every ...
Article : 120 wordsLord Sydenham, in an article in the "Sunday Times," says the Germans are concentrating in Alsace, possibly contemplating an attempt of the Verdun type ...
Article : 58 wordsDmitri Jantcheeuetsky, a Russian publicist, who has been released after thirty months' imprisonment in Austria, states that there is a universal desire for peace ...
Article : 115 wordsLeichhardt Town Hall, 8 p.m. (Mr. Donald McKinnon, M.L.A., Director-General of Recruiting), Mr. J. Storey, M.L.A., Captain Coates (organising secretary), Mr. T. L. ...
Article : 60 wordsA meeting in connection with the recruiting campaign was held in the Alexandria Town Hall last night. Alderman Ralph waa in the chair. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Flinders River was running about six feet deep on Saturday, and has backed up Station Creek a considerable distance. Considering the extraordinary falls recorded ...
Article : 68 wordsThe City Council last night approved of the appointment of a landscape gardener, who will have charge of the city parks. His salary will be £350 a year. Incidentally ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. W. C. Anderson, M.P. (Labour), speaking in Leicester at a meeting to protest against the high prices of food, sais he was not giving away a secret by ...
Article : 18 wordsThe "Daily Mail" says that Mr. Cave has decided to submit to the House of Commons a bill to denaturalise all undesirable aliens, who will thus revert to ...
Article : 40 wordsThe sale of war loan-certificates continues steadily. Sales now amount to £1,214,380. An analysis shows that Wellington citizens have invested £2 4s 3d per head in ...
Article : 54 wordsA meeting of members of the newly-formed Political Labour League was held last week, and it was decided to form an electorate council. Seven leagues of the district were ...
Article : 145 wordsA well-attended combined meeting of the Win-the-War and local war service committees took place in Victoria Hall, Manly. A working committee of those present was ...
Article : 77 wordsSir Joseph Ward, speaking at a Brotherhood meeting in Browning Hall, said that the only way the peace of the world could be perpetuated after the war was ...
Article : 73 wordsMany anxious inquiries have been made by the relations of the Australian munition workers who are employed in England concerning the recent explosion near London. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Belgian Minister has stated that Germany has seized tools, [?] and raw materials worth many millions of pounds, and thus created idleness, which ...
Article : 28 wordsSteps are being taken to strengthen the existing branches of the Liberal Association in the Gordon electorate, so as to be ready for the selection of a candidate for the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe War Department announces that the American troops are withdrawing from Mexico. ...
Article : 23 wordsA loyal response was made last night to the call to a recruiting rally in the Mosman Town Hall. The chair was taken by the Mayor (Alderman Smith), and the principal ...
Article : 205 wordsA fire started on Mr. O. Dowling's wheat paddock at Coolac whilst stripping operations were in progress, and 120 acres of standing crops were burned. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 30 Jan 1917, Page 7
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