Enlistments in Sydney yesterday showed an appreciable falling off as compared with Monday of last week, the totals being 305 nnd 456 respectively; but the average in Sydney is ...
Article : 55 wordsPrime Minister's Office, Melbourne, December 15, 1915. Dear Sir,—The present state of war imperatively demands that the exercise of the full strength of the Empire and its Allies should be put forth. ...
Article : 379 wordsUp to the time of writing, little fresh news has come through regarding the situation in Bukovina and Bessarabia. That the Russian offensive is meeting with success and has ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the battleship King Edward VII., 16,350 tons, struck a mine and had to be abandoned owing to a heavy sea. ...
Article : 440 wordsA communique says:—We took 1200 prisoners north-east of Czernovitz (Bukovina, 87 miles south-east of Tarnopol) on the 7th. ...
Article : 277 wordsGallipoli has been completely evacuated. The battleship King Edward VII. struck a mine and ...
Article : 65 wordsAt a meeting at the Balmain Town Hall last night, held in the interests of recruiting, the town clerk (Mr. J. Goodsir) stated that up till Saturday last 1412 war census cards had been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsCountry enlistments last week were as follow:— Goulburn......................... 52 Armidale........................ 122 ...
Article : 520 wordsThat Germany is beginning to doubt her ability to win the war on land—It can hardly be said that she over expected to win on the water—is now becoming apparent. She started ...
Article : 399 wordsThe "Wallabies," who finished their march on Saturday, went into camp to-day at the showground. They will be removed to Maitland during the next few days. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Men from Snowy River" left here this morning amid much enthusiasm. The party left Delegate 12 strong, and arrived at Bombala without adding any recruits to their ...
Article : 128 wordsThere are several well-authenticated stories of women serving in the Russian Army, the most extraordinary being that of 12 Moscow schoolgirls, who at the ...
Article : 157 wordsA semi-official message published in Petrograd last month from Teheran says:—"Prince Ferman Ferma, the Minister of the Interior, has issued a series of orders which will go ...
Article : 259 wordsA recruiting meeting was held last evening at the Watson's Bay Town Hall, and was fairly well attended. The Mayor of Vaucluse (Alderman Sautelle) presided. ...
Article : 770 wordsA French communique states:—Enemy aeroplanes bombed the allied cantonments at Salonica, the damage being insignificant. We brought one machine down. ...
Article : 125 wordsIt is officially stated that Gallipoli has been completely evacuated. Only one man was wounded during the operations of leaving Cape Helles. General ...
Article : 174 wordsA roll of honour containing the names of all those who have volunteered for the war from the parish of Holy Trinity, Dawes Point, was unveiled in the parish church on Sunday ...
Article : 240 wordsGallipoli is but a memory. After the wonderful evacuation of Anzac and Suvia Bay, there still remained a considerable body of French and British troops—exactly how many ...
Article : 386 wordsA French communique says:—We blew up an ammunition depot at La Fille Morte, and forced the enemy to evacuate St. Ocka, north of Metzeral. The Germans ...
Article : 107 wordsAt a meeting of citizens of Balmain held in the local Town Hall last night those present carried a resolution constituting themselves a committee pledged to help in ...
Article : 145 wordsThe week-end meetings were generally bad for the anti-compulsionists. Audiences of workingmen severely heckled Mr. J. H. Thomas and other Labour leaders. Mr. ...
Article : 281 wordsThe following are the principal passages of the French Ministerial declaration, which was read in the French Senate by M. Viviani and in the Chamber of Deputies by M. ...
Article : 299 wordsThe State Cabinet to-day selected the following gentlemen to act as members of the Tramway Board, which will take control of the cable service of the Melbourne Tramway and ...
Article : 185 wordsLord Sydenham, in a letter, disagrees with the view put forward by the "Times" that General Sir lan Hamilton. who was on the spot at Suvla on August 8, meekly ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Bathurst A., H., and P. Association has agreed to place the showground at the disposal of the military authorities for a camp, a compromise having been arrived at in regard ...
Article : 426 wordsMany heavy sentences have been imposed on journalists, business men, and labourers in Belgium for alleged treason and espionage, and also in connection with ...
Article : 75 wordsA statement was telegraphed from Cobden to-day to the effect that it was impossible to obtain sufficient sugar to meet local requirements, and that requests for supplies from ...
Article : 89 wordsThe response from the public for field glasses continues. From noon on Saturday until Monday morning another 80 pairs were handed in. This number is not owing to the ...
Article : 190 wordsThere are two papers in Germany which seem to have been causing the Government much trouble—"Vorwaerts," the Socialist organ, and Maximilian Harden's "Zukunft." ...
Article : 438 wordsDespite the drastic censorship of letters leaving Germany, one occasionally gets through affording striking evidence of the sufferings of the German working classes, ...
Article : 194 wordsThe principal bank in Zurich (Switzerland) has refused to advance more than 10 per cent. on German railway securities. At the Hague the mark shows a discount ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Koelnische Volks Zeitung," in the course of an angr" article on the British compulsion law says the German fleet must act. "Britain is quite uncontrollable if she ...
Article : 153 wordsA public meeting was held in the Town Hall. Randwick, on Friday evening last, for the purpose of forming a war service committee, a representative gathering of ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "Daily News" publishes statements by two Americans of the steamer Nicosian's crew, stating that the auxiliary cruiser Baralong did not fly the American flag ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Press Bureau has been remodelled. The censorship will only be applied to information useful to the enemy, and will not be used for the purpose of hiding the ...
Article : 47 wordsWhen the article which appeared in yesterday's "Herald," under the heading of "Soldiers' Wives." was shown to the Expeditionary paymaster, Victoria Barracks, the official ...
Article : 117 words"Bombardier," (Hurstville).—You must have had not less than six months' service in the Field Artillery to apply for a position in the heavy Siege Artillery Brigade. If you have this qualification, ...
Article : 180 wordsAddressing a recruiting meeting in London last month, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., said that we began the war in profound and shameful ignorance of what Germany really thought ...
Article : 111 wordsReferring to-day to the projected visit of Sir Rider Haggard to the oversea Dominions, in the interests of settling soldiers on the land, the Minister for Lands (Mr. Hunter) said ...
Article : 84 wordsThe "Embros" says that on the occasion of the bombing of the munition factory near Haskeui, 3000 Turkish and German-Jew workers were killed or wounded. ...
Article : 32 words"Die Zukunft" (Herr Maximilian Harden editor) has been suppressed for the duration of the war. ...
Article : 24 wordsEarly on Friday morning the military authorities searched a boarding-house in Wharf-street, Brisbane, and removed seven unnaturalised Germans, including the proprietor ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 11 Jan 1916, Page 9
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