The Federal Parliament assembled this afternoon in secret to hear from the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) certain facts that could not be made public which led to the ...
Article : 241 wordsThe State revenue returns for August show that the total receipts reached £1,552,842, being an increase of £251,447 on the returns for August of last year. For the two months ...
Article : 113 wordsThe War Office has issued the following statement:—At Salonica there was only artillery activity on the Doiran and Struma fronts. ...
Article : 39 wordsA Salonica message says that the Bulgarians on the 28th again assaulted the Servian left wing, on Lake Ostrovo. The battle lasted until nightfall. The ...
Article : 410 wordsThe Roumanians are reported to have seized most of the important passes leading into Hungary. ...
Article : 127 wordsA Russian communique states:—We repelled attacks on the west bank of the Stokhod, 34 miles north-east of Kovel, with heavy enemy losses. ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his noon report of Wednesday, says:—There was again bad weather. We carried out miner night enterprises. ...
Article : 192 wordsOne hundred and twenty men volunteered at Victoria Barracks yesterday, and 84 were accepted. The shadow of conscription having been ...
Article : 215 wordsA Berne wireless message reported that General von Mackensen has been appointed to command the Balkan armies. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Robert Machray, a well-known writer, who specialises in far-Eastern subjects, has contributed an article to the "Ninteenth Century," in which he ...
Article : 191 wordsA Russian communique states:—We repulsed Turkish attacks westward of Glumishan. The enemy left many dead. Our advance continues in the direction ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian," commenting on the compulsory service proposals put forward by Mr. Hughes, says that one-tenth of the population of England is ...
Article : 108 wordsDamage to the extent of £80,000 or £90,000 was caused by a fire which broke out in premises occupied by the Public Supply Co-operative Company, Ltd., 362-368 ...
Article : 1,017 wordsIt is reported from the Hague that Turkey has declared war on Roumania. The Turks are assisting the Austrians on the Roumanian front. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) stated to-day that the referendum on the question of conscription would be taken in about eight weeks. This statement makes ...
Article : 165 wordsAll eyes are still turned towards the Balkans, where the new position created by Roumania's entry into the war attracts special attention. The Roumanian advance on ...
Article : 271 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, writing from the British headquarters in France, after visiting a vantage point overlooking Pozieres ridge und Thiepval, sends a vivid ...
Article : 205 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent says it is believed that General von Hindenburg lately had been preparing an offensive. He had brought up ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Cyril Brown, the "New York Times" correspondent in Berlin, says that Roumania's entry to the war is a most severe test of German confidence; but optimism ...
Article : 245 wordsOnly meagre accounts have been received of the early Roumanian successes. London has not even received the Roumanian account of the capture of Brasso, ...
Article : 846 wordsAs the result of the Spanish Ambassador's negotiations, French civilian prisoners who have been working in Courland have been returned to the internment ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is aunounced that the Greek Minister for War and the members of the Greek General Staff have conferred with King Constantine. ...
Article : 568 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) explained to-day that unless 32,500 recruits have enlisted by the end of September throughout the ...
Article : 81 wordsFive hundred munition workers have struck work at Chemnitz, in Saxony, 39 miles W.S.W. of Dresdin. The authorities have sent 100 of the strikers of ...
Article : 43 wordsThe question of securing sufficient men to hold this new front has, of course, been a big problem for Austria to solve. Her overwhelming losses in Galicia and Bukovina, and ...
Article : 350 wordsA message from The Hague says that it is believed that the fall of the German Chief of Staff, Field Marshal von Falkenhayu, was due to the clashing of his ...
Article : 273 wordsTwo hundred and ninety-four German deserters have been court-martialled at Liege. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Prime Minister intends to leave for Sydney on Saturday, returning on Wednesday in time for the reassembling of Parliament. While in Sydney he proposes to ...
Article : 112 wordsA Russian communique states:—We repulsed enemy attacks on the Upper Sereth and the Bystritsa. We captured Panker Mountain. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe newspapers give prominence to Mr. Hughes's compulsory service proposals. They arrived too late for editorial comment. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe following statement was made by Mr. Wade last night:—"There is one point with regard to the Prime Minister's attitude towards conscription that is worthy of serious ...
Article : 492 wordsBy the capture of the town of Brasso, also known as Kronstadt, the Roumanians have achieved an initial success which augurs well for the future campaign in Transylvania. ...
Article : 254 wordsA Berne wireless message states:—The Czar summoned M. Itchas, chairman of the Lithuanian Nationalists, to the Duma. In an interview at Russian ...
Article : 100 wordsAn Italian communique states:—We have gained ground north-east of Mount Cauriol. We brilliantly stormed and carvied strong trenches in the Bolte district, ...
Article : 39 wordsWhatever has been the reason for the dismissal of General von Falkenhayn, the appointment of his successor is a palpable attempt on the part of the German Emperor ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Press Bureau circulates the New Zealand Government's contradictions to a statement published in London to the effect that the voluntary system had failed ...
Article : 211 wordsThe following are the names of the New South Wales members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment selected by the Red Cross, Society to act as probationers in English ...
Article : 64 wordsA court-martial has dismissed Lieutenant T., Fitzpatrick, of the Otago (New Zealand) Regiment. A Berne message states that 35 seats ...
Article : 49 wordsNow that Greece is the only Balkan State which is observing a neutral attitude a good deal of speculation is being indulged in regarding her prospects of becoming embrolled in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 1 Sep 1916, Page 7
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