The sub-committee, consisting of Senator Millen, Mr. Poynton, M.P.,Mr Watt, M.P., and Mr. J. C. Watson (hon. organiser of the Federal Parlementary War Committee), which ...
Article : 778 wordsThe steamer Norseman was beached, all aboard being rescued. ...
Article : 21 wordsA Turkish communique issued via Amsterdam says:—The British attacked [?] miles east of Kut-el-Amara on both sides of the Tigris. The battle lasted six hours. ...
Article : 148 wordsIt is unofficially reported from Paris that greater German activity In the west Is shown by the bombardment and occasional attempts to attack. It is ...
Article : 239 wordsIt is reported from Petrograd that the Russian positions are now four versts (about three miles) distant from the town of Pinsk (on the Orel-Brest-Litovsk ...
Article : 40 wordsA few thousand Montenegrins and Servians offered a desperate battle near Podgoritza, where they held up two Austrian divisions. The enemy's losses were ...
Article : 222 wordsA Paris message says that there is greater German activity in the west. It is expected that a big effort will ...
Article : 141 wordsThe editor of "Aeronautics," describing the Fokker monoplane, says the scare was baseless. He points out that the Germans temporarily concentrated their best ...
Article : 69 wordsThe "Daily Mail" claims that its correspondent carried out one of the most remarkable jounalistic achievements of the war. He twice visited Constantinople, ...
Article : 243 wordsCorrespondence has been published in which General Botha protested against De Wet addressing public meetings where he expresed a hope that the war would ...
Article : 54 wordsTwo German destroyers by means of suffocating gas fumes, with which they enveloped the steamer Lambert, endeavoured to force her out of territorial ...
Article : 60 wordsIt has been made clear that the Socialists and some influential Liberals in Germany are of opinion that the present moment is an opportune one for peace negotiations; but, as ...
Article : 445 wordsIn the House of Lords last night Lord Lansdowne (Minister without portfolio) moved the second reading of the Military Service (No. 2 Bill). He said it was based ...
Article : 755 wordsCount Bernstorff (German Ambassador in the United States) has made further concessions regarding the sinking of the Lusitania, but has not yet disavowed the ...
Article : 51 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. G. Roberts (a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury) said the Indian Government had taken statutory powers ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Dominion liner Norseman has been sunk. The Norseman was a steel twin-screw steamer of 9442 tons, built by Messrs. Har[?]and ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Miners' Federation Congress at Bristol resolved not to do anything to hamper the Government in its conduct of the war. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day issued a statement showing the number of recruits who have enlisted in the various districts during the past few days. Details are ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State for the Colonies) was cheered in the House of Commons this afternoon on announcing that New Zealand by the end of June ...
Article : 38 wordsAll over India efforts to assist towards the victory of the Allies are steadily proceeding, and many gifts of a public and private nature continue to be received by ...
Article : 348 wordsOn the information available from the cables the German attacks on the west front during the past couple of days can so far only be bracketed under the phrase, " a ...
Article : 311 wordsSpeltermakers have written to Mr. Lloyd George (Minister of Munitions) and the Board of Trade, asking for an authoritative statement whether the Ministry of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued a reply by the War and Trade Department to the "Daily Mail" articles, alleging an ineffective naval blockade of Germany. It ...
Article : 590 wordsAbout 300 voluntary workers journeyed to French's Forest yesterday to assist in clearing the land set apart for soldiers' farms and in lending a hand in constructing the first house ...
Article : 718 wordsRecently a number of insinuations have been made against Mr. Catts, organising secretary of the State recruiting campaign, to the effect that he should be at the front. ...
Article : 731 wordsTwo outbreaks of fire occurred late on Monday afternoon one at North Quat Quatta, 12 miles cast of Cowra, and the other at Redlands, about the same distance west of the ...
Article : 257 wordsThe by-election for the Mile End Division of Tower Hamlets (sent rendered vacant by the elevation of the Hon. H. L. Lawson to the peerage on the death of his ...
Article : 78 wordsThe fighting which has occurred during the past couple of days has taken place at three points. In the first place a violent cannonade developed in the neighbourhood of Nieuport, ...
Article : 499 wordsAdvices from Constantinople state that a French submarine, operating in the Bosphorus towards the end of December, torpedoed the Imperial yacht Ertogroul, ...
Article : 32 wordsMiss Lena Ashwell makes an appeal to Australasia for assistance to continue the concerts at hospitals at the front, especially a concert party going to Malia and ...
Article : 86 wordsA bush fire broke out at Abbott's farm on Saturday, and destroyed 600 bags of wheat. It broke out afresh on Tuesday, and swept towards Mitta Mitta at a great pace, burning ...
Article : 91 wordsIn thanking the Emperor Francis Joseph for the Bestowal of a Field-Marshal's baton. King Ferdinand telegraphed: "I am wellnigh overwhelmed by this ...
Article : 99 wordsThE large Industrial hall and the poultry pavilion at the Showground were totally destroyed by fire. The blaze started in the grass near the buildings, and owing to the strong ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Second King Edward's Horse has earned official recognition for excellent work since volunteering for the trenches in France. Major Norton Griffiths, ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Boomorangs, 102 strong, arrived at Canowindra at 6 p.m. yesterday, and were met by a large number of townspeople at the terminus of the Canowindra-Goolagong road, ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. W. J. Bryan (ex United States Secretary of State) has arrived to join the Ford committee which is drafting peace proposals. ...
Article : 40 wordsTwenty vessels, mostly with grain, Including the Mlmiro, have arrived at London since December 28, and are uwaiting berths. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is officially announced that two neroplanes bombed Dunkirk. A British [?] chine forced a German seaplane to the water north-westward of Nleuport. ...
Article : 89 wordsEvidence was given at the police court that during the fortnight before their arrest John Dallas and Joachi Altani received £1000 from Ottoman Jews, many ...
Article : 115 wordsThe State Department, learning that Berlin and Vienna have denied that German of Austrian submarines s[?]nk the Persia, intends to ask Turkey [?] she is ...
Article : 53 wordsThe enlistments In Queensland to-day totalled 111 out of 133 volunteers. The enlistments to date total 30,148. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. ...
Article : 81 wordsIn a preliminary statement just Issued It is stated that as a result of the national register [?] single men and widowers without dependents stated that they were not ...
Article : 74 wordsThe cables some weeks ago told us that the Germans were sending an Immense number of machine-guns to the eastern front, with a view to enabling them to hold their lines there ...
Article : 354 wordsArrivals: At [?], Majanka, ship (from Newcastle Nov. 29); Hougomont, 4-m bq (From Newcastle Nov. 15). Departures: For Sydney, Claverdon, ship ...
Article : 29 wordsA large waggon with a load of wool drawn by a Caterpillar motor engine, while en route from Tilpa to Bourke, was burnt yesterday near Louth. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 27 Jan 1916, Page 7
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