The Postmaster-General, Mr. Webster, who is now busily engaged with the problem of providing better and increased accommodation at the Sydney G.P.O., yesterday made the ...
Article : 855 wordsBefore leaving Australia, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) arranged for the despatch of the following telegram to the Amalgamated Miners' Association, at Broken Hill. A copy ...
Article : 348 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to Lieutenant-Commander Cookson. He was aboard the gunboat Comet on September 28, during the advance to Kut-el-Amara. ...
Article : 122 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports that there were 14 acrial fights on Wednesday. Two of the enemy's machines were brough down in the German lines. An enemy ...
Article : 99 wordsA Russian communique says:—Northwest of Czernovitz we captured a sector of the enemy's position and repulsed five desperate counter-attacks, inflicting ...
Article : 361 wordsNo more vivid account of the evacuation of Anzae has been published than that from a New Zealand medical officer's diary in the "Ma[?]ester Guardian," which ...
Article : 1,010 wordsThe latest cable news from London says that the Montenegrin position remains obscure. ...
Article : 138 wordsLord Roseberry, speaking at Edinburgh, said we would be exhausted but victorious. He thought we would be almost bleeding to death from such a debt of taxation ...
Article : 49 wordsThe London correspondent of the "Aftenposten" (Copenhagen) gives the following version of the Baralong incident. A German submarine attacked an English ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Montenegrins are to fight on—on "to the bitter end," as the message from Rome says. It is war, not peace, for Montenegro as for the rest of us. Already, we are ...
Article : 288 wordsThe diary the New Zealand medical afficer relating to the withdrawal of our troops from Anzac, and published in the "Manchester Guardian," is one of the most ...
Article : 304 wordsSome papers are making a feature of the exploits of German [?]okker aeroplanes, suggesting that they are stronger and faster than ours. [?] is pointed out that 17 ...
Article : 203 wordsThings generally were quiet to-day. The issuing of relief coupons at the Trades Hall occupied most of the officials time. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers has taken ...
Article : 305 wordsThe following sidelights on German opinion are quoted in the Lonaon "Times":— The Hamburger Nachrichten" discusses in a loading article the respective reserves [?] ...
Article : 587 wordsCopenhagen newspapers state that Sweden's prohibition of the export of wood pulp is hailed as a reprisal for Britain's seizure of mail parcels. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe accounts from Petrograd and Vienna of the progress of the big battle on the Bossarabian frontier are again conflicting. They are both "official," but they don't agree. Once ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Compulsion Bill has passed the committee stage in the House of Commons. Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State for the Colonies) paid a tribute to the restraint ...
Article : 164 words[?] Montenegrin position remains ob[?] only meagre reporta being to hand. [?] Consul-General in London states that [?] Nicholas remains with his two sons ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. J. A. Jensen) yesterday received a number of deputations representing various industrial organisations at Cockatoo island. Mr. Mahoney, M.P., ...
Article : 366 wordsA band of 1000 marauders terrorised the Enzeli-Resnt (Persia) region (Resht is 14 miles south-east of the port of Enzeli, on the Caspian Sea), and threatened the ...
Article : 70 wordsProbably no previous decision arrived at by the Government in connection with the trade war against the enemy has aroused so much interest in commercial circles as has ...
Article : 146 wordsIt is officially stated that a British submarine grounded on the coast of Holland. A British destroyer saved part of the officers and crew. A Dutch warship saved ...
Article : 38 wordsThe provincial congress of the South African party discussed the truculent attitude of the released rebels and their sympathisers. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe news to hand regarding the campaign in Mesopotamia is very satisfactory. Recent cables stated that the advance of General Aylmer's force, which is marching to the ...
Article : 214 wordsA report has come to hand from the Administrator of Rabaul, dated January 2, 1916, In amplification of his wireless message of the same date, in regard to the earth[?]uake ...
Article : 335 wordsAusten Chamberlain (Secretary for In) stated in the House of Commons to[?] that the weather in Mesopotamia [?]derated, and that General Aylmer ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Times," in its financial and commercial review of 1915, says that with strict economy there need not be any doubt about our financial resources standing any ...
Article : 41 wordsThe story of the shell-riddled barque William T. Lewis, which was kept afloat only by its cargo of timber after the hav[?] done by a German submarine, was related in the ...
Article : 346 words"Fairplay" says: "The general assumption is that British shipowners by running up freights are increasing the cost of the people's daily bread, but in regard to ...
Article : 123 wordsThe captain of the Clan Macfarlane states that the vessel was torpedoed on the port side. A second torpedo was fired when the crew were about to enter the boats. ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the last meeting of the Double Bay Labour League the following motion, moved by Mr. J. F. Hackett, was carried:— "In view of the fact that the single men ...
Article : 225 words[?] newspapers publish Mr. Malcolm [?] (official correspondent with the New land troops) account of the Christmas [?] fighting at Mersamatruth (western ...
Article : 85 wordsLord Lansdowne, in the House of Lords, replying to a question regarding allen traders, said that in a business which was not [?]corporated as a British company, ...
Article : 152 wordsSome months ago we rend of the Allied fleets bombarding the Bulgarian port of Dede Agach, with the result that much damage was done; and now it has been bombarded ...
Article : 478 wordsThe attention of the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn) was directed to the above cable to-night, and he made the following statement:— " So fur the British ...
Article : 153 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that [?] 0,000 Germans have replaced the Turks [?] Gallipoli, who are joining the army [?] stined for the invasion of Egypt. ...
Article : 62 wordsLady Helen Munre Ferguson has received the following cable message from the High Commissioner, Egypt:—"The report of the Committee of Inquiry and the records of ...
Article : 61 wordsJames Snowball, a one-time prominent builder and contractor on Perth, who was born in the reign of George the Third, celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday. A large ...
Article : 92 wordsA bush fire broke out on the property of Messrs. J. land J. Connell, of Spring Valley, Mairjimmy, yesterday, but luckily was got under control before much damage was done. ...
Article : 48 wordsSupplies of butter in Brisbane are at present more than equal to local consumption, and it is stated that Victo[?] buyers [?] operating. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 22 Jan 1916, Page 17
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