Copies of the appeal to be sent to male citizens of the Commonwealth in connection with the raising of the new army were made available to-day. It is estimated that the work will be completed in ten or twelve days. Envelopes will be supplied in which replies may be posted to the nearest local recruiting centre. It ...
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Article : 630 wordsMr, Sheppard, American correspondent in the Near East, says that Gallipoli is the bloodiest and-most terrible battlefield in history, and will go down to the ages as a ...
Article : 50 wordsAccording to Reuter's Agency King Constantine gave audience to a diplomatic body on Saturday. His ...
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Article : 205 wordsReuter's agency states that King Constantine gave audience to a diplomatic body on Saturday. His Majesty gave personal assurances which are regarded as ...
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Article : 209 wordsIn regard to the story of the recent naval engagement in the Black Sea, a report from Bucharest says that the Russians torpedoed and damaged the Goeben. ...
Article : 45 wordsSir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia) has opened, branches of the Red Cross stores in Birmingham, Plymouth, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, and Cardiff ...
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Article : 205 wordsGeneral Townshend reports that the enemy bombarded his position on the 8th and 9th, making desultory attacks from all sides on the 9th. The enemy ...
Article : 99 wordsAdvices received at Copenhagen from Berlin state that Germany has completed an enormous output of machine-guns for the defence of the entire eastern front. ...
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Article : 543 wordsIt is officially stated that a reconnoitring force from Matruh encountered 300 hostile Arabs, and drove them westward, killing 35. The British casualties were 16 ...
Article : 43 wordsArrival: At London, steamer Arawa (left Wellington Oct. 27). Departures: For Sydney, R.M.S. Khyber, str. Meteor, sehr Forester, sir Somerse[?] ...
Article : 31 wordsThe reception given the returned men on their arrival at the hospital was, as usual, one of marked cordiality on the part of the waiting public. The arrangements made for ...
Article : 260 wordsMr. R. M'Kenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer), dealing[?] with the Government scheme to utilise American and Canadian securities held in Britain, stated in the ...
Article : 274 wordsA Washington message says that America is preparing a Note to France questioning the legality of a French cruiser removing Austro-Germans from the ...
Article : 134 wordsA powder factory used by the Belgians in Havre has been blown up, 110 people being killed, mid 1000 injured. The explosion occurred at 10 o'clock on ...
Article : 240 wordsIn the course of a report to the executive of the Red Cross Society, Mr. A. V. Worthington (who, as special representative of the society, accompanied the sick and wounded ...
Article : 603 wordsMr. Catts, M.P., organising secretary of the State recruiting campaign, left for Melbourne last night, accompanied by Senator Millen. Important matters of detail are to be ...
Article : 565 wordsThere was a general reticence amongst the returned soldiers yesterday to identify themselves with any remarks that might be published, although those who were disposed to ...
Article : 288 wordsLord Robert Cecil (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said the policy of the Government in concluding trading ...
Article : 159 wordsPrankfort University announces that its professors have discovered a method for making synthetic rubber, which is better than real rubber. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn view of the question that is sometimes thoughtlessly asked, "Why does not Japan assist the Allies with troops?" it is of interest to quote an interview with Count ...
Article : 299 wordsMr. Justice Bargrave-Deane resolutely refused a motion for service of a petition for divorce on an artillery major at the front because he must not be worried or ...
Article : 56 wordsSixty Unionist members of the House of Commons met and objected to the proposed one year's extension of Parliament. They said the present Parliament had ...
Article : 80 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Salonica correspondent writes that he has received trustworthy information regarding the extraordinary self-martyrdom of a French ...
Article : 111 wordsSeveral members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment went to Albury to meet the returning soldiers Those were Miss Lulu Leary (St. Vincent's Detachment, No. 1), who was ...
Article : 159 wordsAdvices received at Copenhagen from Berlin intimate that Germany has completed an enormous output of machine guns for the defence of the entire eastern front." That ...
Article : 348 wordsMr. H. G. Tennant (Under-Secretary for War) stated in the House of Commons that the Anti-Aircraft Corps had been transferred, to the War Office. Admiral ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. B. R. Wise (Agent-General for New South Wales) has obtained a contract from the War Office for half a million lbs of melon jam. This is an interesting ...
Article : 47 wordsP[?]. G. F. Gibson, of the 1st Battalion, received three wounds during the three months he was at Gallipoli. For a large part of the time he was engaged in sapping work, ...
Article : 187 wordsThe following is the latest casualty list:— Wounded.—Otago Mounted Rifles: Tprs. Lord and M'Donald. Field Artillery: Dvr. Faulkner. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the following medical bulletin:—The King has so far recovered from his grave accident as to be able to resume work, with certain ...
Article : 93 wordsThe second reinforcements for the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth Australian siege batteries have arrived in England. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture wishes to make it clear to farmers that, in addition to the shipping firms that have been authorised to act as agents for the receipt of their wheat, ...
Article : 80 wordsThe German Humanity League asserts that the German Emperor has categorically promised that the Pope's temporal power shall be restored, and a Papal State ...
Article : 50 wordsA number of members of the Federal Parliament and two prominent for members left by the express last evening for Melbourne, and an interesting circumstance was ...
Article : 94 wordsReuter's correspondent at Washington says it is understood America expects Austria to comply with her demands within a week. ...
Article : 25 wordsWilliam Corsar Sotar was sentenced at the police court to-day by Mr. R. R. V. Allnutt, police magistrate, to two months' hard labour in the Maitland gaol for disloyal utterances. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 15 Dec 1915, Page 13
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