Yesterday was regarded as a Sunday, as far as recruiting was concerned, and the enrolling office was open from 9 till 1 o'clock; but the response was very poor. It was ...
Article : 176 wordsThe storm which broke over the city yesterday about the luncheon hour, with little _ notice of its approach, interfered with the enjoyment of thousands of citizens, and those ...
Article : 253 wordsMr. Hughes spent a busy day to-day. He had a conference with Lord Kitchener regarding the disposition and other matters connected with the Australian forces. He ...
Article : 348 wordsThe State Department does not expect an early reply from Germany owing to the Easter holidays intervening. Mr. Lansing (Secretary of State) is ready to wait ...
Article : 168 wordsA Russian force has arrived at Marseilles. General Joffre, [?] an Order-of-tbe-Day, states:—"The Russian, as a further pledge ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Cabinet crisis is over, [?]n agreement having been reached on the question of compulsory service. The Press Burea[?] announces that the ...
Article : 832 wordsRussian troops have landed at Marseilles. General Joffre invites the army to cordially welcome the ...
Article : 176 wordsYesterday's recruiting figures were:—Volunteered, 119; accepted, 80. ...
Article : 14 words"F.T.J.: (Mullumbimby).—Write, giving full particulars to Mr. Norris, expeditionary paymaster, Victoria Barracks. "Billjim" (Ry[?]stone).—We cannot go into all these ...
Article : 314 wordsAlthough the bright sunshine yesterday morning attracted very large crowds of people to the beaches and the various holiday resorts, there still remained many thousands who, by ...
Article : 157 wordsOwing to the scarcity of British refrigerated tonnage, the Navigazione Generale Italiana is fitting refrigerators to six of [?]s steamers. Some French lines are doing ...
Article : 41 wordsA Turkish communique states: Fighting on the Caucasus front [?] violent, especia[?]y in the Chorok sector, where the enemy's attempted advance cost him heavy losses. ...
Article : 61 wordsThere is still another suggestion in connection with the coming of the Russians to France, and although in our mind it carries no weight, it is one which the enemy is quite ...
Article : 336 wordsThe steamer Tropic, which left Brisbane on February 8, has arrived at London. The steamer Arrino, whic[?] left Auckland on February 12, has arrived at London. The ...
Article : 83 wordsSeveral well-penned pictures of some of the officers and men of the Grand Fleet are contained in a description of a visit to one section of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe's command ...
Article : 712 wordsThree armed men stopped a cab. in which were two employees carrying £4000 for the payment of wages. They stole a bag full of gold, and used revolvers on their pursuers. ...
Article : 82 wordsThroughout the day and ovening there were services at St. Andrew's Cathedral. All were w[?]ll attended. Litany at 9 a.m. and ante-communion at 10 ...
Article : 522 wordsAn Anstrian communique admits that the enemy occupied the summit of Col-d[?]Lana (about 50 miles north-east of Trent). ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Item of this morning's cables that will create by far the greatest amount of popular interest [?] that which tell[?] of the landing of a Russian force in France. The affair will ...
Article : 504 wordsA Turkish communique, states: The position of the e[?]emy at Kut-el-Amara is becoming very critical. The commander, in order to avoid food difficulties, has made ...
Article : 140 wordsA Marconi wireless press message states that it is possible that after the Aurora broke adrift her wireless messages explaining her plight might have been received by the ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Baking Trades Council is taking sides with the pastrycooks in t[?]ir strike. On the council are representatives of the operative bakers, breadearters, pastrycooks, and millers, ...
Article : 348 wordsThe Cown Prince delivered three fierce but fruitless assaults at Les Eparges. President Poineare visited every army corps on the Verdun front, and ...
Article : 123 wordsA series of thunderstorms occurred along the coastal parts of the Sta[?] yesterday, due to the pressure over eastern New South Wales of an extensive "col" area. ...
Article : 267 wordsSir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) announces that the Friedrich der Grosse, while interned at New York, was a factory for bombs, which ...
Article : 60 wordsA crowded congregation listened to the sermon on "The Passion of Our Lord" in the Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday morning. The Rev. Peter O'Hare, of the Order of ...
Article : 235 wordsSir Douglas Ha[?]g reports: The enemy on Wednesday night, after a heavy bombardment, attacked the Y[?]res line at four points —St. E[?]ol, The Bluff, W[?]elt[?]e, and the ...
Article : 73 wordsInvestigations here so far have not disclosed any connection of the German Consul, Bopp, with the plot to incite rebellion in India, as revealed by the arrests of ...
Article : 145 wordsAs to the reasons that have prompted the sending of the Russians to France, there are several that suggest themselves. In the first place, there may be, side by side with the ...
Article : 296 wordsIt is reported that Tur[?]o-Bulgarians massacred 400 Greeks at Adrianople and Demotitza. The Turks at Smyrua massacred 200 Geeks. A similar murderous ...
Article : 43 wordsNewspapers point out that the Belgian army is stronger that ever. It has been completely reorganised and furnishded with machine guns proportionately more ...
Article : 46 wordsThe attendance yesterday at the show was large, despite the rain. In the early part of the day people thronged into the ground, and it looked as though there was going to be a ...
Article : 183 wordsThe annual conference of the Political Labour Council of Victoria was opened to-day at the Trades Hall. Owing to the death of the president (Mr. L. Cohen), Mr. E. J. ...
Article : 313 wordsMr. W. L. 'Baillieu. M.L.C., and the Messrs. Baillieu have contributed £5000 in cash and £20,000 in debentures of the Melbourne Harbour Trust to the Repatriation Fund. Half ...
Article : 57 wordsThere were six services at St. James's Church during the day and evening. The ante-communion at 7.30 a.m. was conducted by the Rev. P. S. Moore, and a children's ...
Article : 960 wordsOwing to protests the newspaper tax has been dropped [?]rom the South African Budget. The Finance Minister described Mr. ...
Article : 40 wordsA Germman communique states: Our patrols penetrated the British trenches at several points on the [?]pres sector, including 600 metres on the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe King granted an audience to General Birdwood at Windsor, and invested him with the Commanders [?]ps of the Star of India and of St. Mi[?]na and St. George. ...
Article : 40 wordsAbout half of the assessments for the purposes of the Federal Land Tax have been sent out. The following table shows the number of ...
Article : 106 wordsThree men and two women arrived at Sydney Hospital at about 11 o'clock last night incharge of a young man, who was badly injured. The man had been stabbed in two places ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Board of Trade has found [?]at the loss of the Indian Mo[?]arch in the Southern Atlantic last November was due to fire, the cause being unknown. ...
Article : 156 wordsMiddleton, the correspondent of the "Daily Mall." who was formerly [?] the air service, an[?] was arreated at Dover, where h[?] stated he had come "to do a b[?]t of ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to E[?]ward Me[?]lish, an army chaplain, who repeatedly crossed ground swept by shell and machine gun fire and brought in ten ...
Article : 47 wordsRegarding the possible military reasons for tho move, it may be that Russia, out of her plentitude of men, has offered this assistance to her western allies in beating back what is ...
Article : 477 wordsPrivate R. Parkins, in a letter to Mr. R. B. Pitt, of Walker-street. North Sydney, mentions that a number of Australians, himself included, have been drafted into a camel corps. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 22 Apr 1916, Page 13
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