The first meeting of the new council under the constitution adopted by the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society took place yesterday at Federal Government House. ...
Article : 1,757 wordsThe report published in the press that negotiations were proceeding with the Imperial Government (which it was hoped would result in the purchase by Great Britain of the ...
Article : 166 wordsWith regard to the recent offer of the Commonwealth Government of 50,000 men—to be formed in three divisions and reinforcements, to bring the Australian contribution to the ...
Article : 877 wordsAn Indian communique, issued in Delhi, says:—General Townshend is holding Kut-el-Amara, 100 miles south-east of Baghdad, as a point of strategical ...
Article : 90 wordsA remarkable story of how Russia recovered from the munitions crisis in 1915 is related by M. Polivanoff, Minister of War. ...
Article : 321 wordsThe Germans claim to have counter-attacked and recovered the positions previously lost south of the Somme. ...
Article : 145 wordsA German communique states: We counter-attacked and recovered the positions lost south of the Somme on Sunday night. ...
Article : 59 wordsAn illuminating article in the "Daily Chronicle" on the Allies' sea power, says that Captain Persius, in the "Berliner Tageblatt," reviews the naval and ...
Article : 225 wordsSo, when Colonel Repington says that there are 2,700,000 Germans "out of action for good" he has not said all that is to be said when it comes to a matter of estimating the ...
Article : 398 wordsSir George Reid, M.P., presiding at a meeting of the Royal Humane Society, said:—"I am one of the old freetraders, who passed the shortest tariff ever known, ...
Article : 79 wordsWheat carting is now in full swing. Over 136,000 bags have been received at the Berrigan railway station, and it is estimated that 70,000 have yet to be carted. At Oaklands ...
Article : 223 wordsThe economy campaign is proceeding apace. The Royal Commission on the sugar supply urges all classes to reduce the consumption of sugar, jam, ...
Article : 199 wordsA brisk naval engagement occurred in the Adriatic, in which France-British warships forced four destroyers to flee to Cattaro. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Premier, M. Briand, will shortly visit Italy, to confer with Signor Salandra, with a view to co-ordination of efforts, in order that the total strength of the Allies ...
Article : 62 wordsA mass meeting of the men on strike was held this afternoon in the Skating Rink, and, after a long discussion, it was agreed to accept Senator Pearce's proposals for going ...
Article : 189 wordsThe second reason why Colonel Repington's estimate of a German reserve of 2,000,000 hardly stands alongside the basic figures be gives is that when he speaks of 2,700,000 men ...
Article : 207 wordsEarl Curzon (Lord Privy Seal) presided [?] a gathering in the Royal Colonial Institute, when Mr. J. L. Garvin, the wellknown journalist, delivered an address on ...
Article : 498 wordsShippers, in discussing the Appam case, point out that a Dutch steamer which recently arrived in America was six months in the Atlantic. She belongs to a Dutch ...
Article : 41 wordsColonel Repington, the "Times'" military expert, estimates that Germany commenced the war with nine millions of men available, and has 3,600,0000 now in the field, ...
Article : 119 wordsThe German Consul-General, Herr Bopp, has been indicted on a charge of conspiring to originate a military expedition against Canada, also to blow up munition ...
Article : 35 wordsThe German Emperor composed the words of the new National Anthem, and commanded Herr Strauss to compose the music. The Germans are gratified, as they ...
Article : 41 wordsThus, when Colonel Repington says, "if we can dispose of a quarter of a million monthly the German reserves will be exhausted in September " we have every justification on ...
Article : 324 wordsLieutenant Berg states that with the exception of 15 Lascars killed and 4 Lascars wounded, all the passengers and crew of the Clan Mactavish were rescued, and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) stated to-night that he had received an intimation by telegraph that the Broken Hill men had accepted the terms, subject to there ...
Article : 101 wordsThe R.M.S. Maloja, which left Sydney on December 24, has arrived at London. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) nnd his wife inspected the Horseferry-road and Great Peter-street depots. At the Peel House ...
Article : 146 wordsColonel Fiaschi is convalescent and now on leave visiting France and Italy. He will afterwards return to the front. It is reported from Rome that the war ...
Article : 169 wordsThe days of Lord and Lady Carrington in New South Wales are recalled in the description of the ex-Governer's tribute to the bravery of Australian soldiers, as chronicled by ...
Article : 375 wordsCinemntograph films have been taken which are immensely useful to the French staff. The photographers, who are volunteert, must have nerves of steel, and be ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) stated this afternoon that at a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday it was decided to ask the Interstate Commission to investigate and ...
Article : 91 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's' Amsterdam correspondent says that tens of thousands of pounds in English money is yearly finding its way to Germany through Dutch firms ...
Article : 99 wordsAfter spending a pleasant holiday in Tasmania, the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Holman) arrived in Melbourne by the Loongana this morning, and left again by the ...
Article : 211 wordsMembers of the Railway Workers and General Labourers' Union employed on railway construction works, have paid the various contractors 6d per week each so that a medical ...
Article : 231 wordsA German wireless says that Dr. Helfferich, Under-Secretary for Finance, replying to the analysis of Britain's financial position by Sir Edward Holden, ...
Article : 79 wordsOnce more we are treated to a set of figures dealing with the losses of the enemy. On this occasion it is Colonel Repington, the military writer of the London "Times," who ...
Article : 170 wordsA miners' conference in Lancaster is discussing in camera the attitude to adopt towards the Military Service Act. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe copper boom is attributed chiefly to American operations. The "Financial News," in remarking that the price Is the highest since the 1007 ...
Article : 102 wordsThe steamer Perth (3522 tons), which was recently engaged as a factory ship in Western Australia in connection with the whaling industry there, has, according to latest advices, ...
Article : 145 wordsThere is considerable public interest in the exhibition of Australian, New Zealand, and other Dominion posters at the Mansion Houe. This is part of a vigorous ...
Article : 40 wordsOwing to the fact that the steamer with Mr. Ashmead Bartlett on board will not arrive till late to-morrow afternoon, the lunchcon arranged by the New South Wales ...
Article : 109 wordsThe following casualties are reported:- Prisoners of War.—Wellington Battalion: Ptes. William Lambert, Leslie Steel, John Coulter. ...
Article : 80 wordsRenewed food riots have occurred in the Moabit district of Berlin. The police charged and wounded many people. Similar riots occurred at Aachen, where ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the first place, when Colonel Repington speaks of 2,700,000 Germans being "out of action for good," he inferentially suggests that all the other Germans out of action ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 10 Feb 1916, Page 9
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