The early-morning incident in the House of Representatives to-day, which culminated in the leader of the Opposition being suspended and the Liberal party leaving the Chamber ...
Article : 491 wordsA thousand men in London have enlisted in the Garibaldi Legion, and 20,000 are training in the Garibaldi camp, France. ...
Article : 32 wordsAlthough but scant, news is afforded us as to the fighting in the western theatre of war, it would appear that the Allies' offensive on the left wing is steadily developing, and if ...
Article : 335 wordsIt is officially announced that owing to war with Turkey. Egypt is declared to be a British Protectorate, with Sir Arthur McMahon as High Commissioner. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the casualities a British light cruiser ind a destroyer in the action with the German raiders off the East coast ...
Article : 184 wordsThe British naval bombardment of Westende greatly damaged the a German positions. It blew up several magazines, destroyed a number of batteries, and is ...
Article : 94 words"The "Daily Telegraph's" New York correspondent says that Wall-street journals describe the bombardment of undefended places as an act of ...
Article : 76 wordsThe newspapers are indignant at the massacre on the east coast. They assert that it will arouse the spirit of England, and prove fatal to the German Navy, which ...
Article : 47 wordsIn an official report to the United States Government it is related that after the British and French Consuls sought refuge In the Italian Consulate at Hodeideh, ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Italian newspapers severely censure the bombardment of Scarborough and Whitby as being open towns "not situate in the region of the war operations." ...
Article : 121 wordsBerlin is beflagged. Belis are ringing for the victories in Poland and the raid on Yorkshire. The people demand that the raiders shall be decorated with the Iron ...
Article : 35 wordsAn official communique states: The Russians towards Mlava are vigorously pursuing the defeated Germans, a large number of whom crossed the frontier. We ...
Article : 62 wordsFrom time to time statements have been made as to the steps the Government will take to assist needy farmers in the droughtstricken districts. As numerous inquiries are ...
Article : 643 wordsThe Germans ambushed Major Duncan Mackenzie's forces at Garub, Luderitz Land, on Wednesday, and maintained a furious rifle nnd machine gun fire for two ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is officially stated that a Russian warship ordered the crew to leave the German stenmer Derintic, near Kerason, a port of Asiatic Turkey, on the Black Sea. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Russian official messages state that no further engagement of importance has taken place in the Lodz-Lowicz district or in Galicia, but ia the Miawa region the Germans are ...
Article : 255 wordsGerman flanking operations in the Carpathians and on the Vistula are being conducted on an immense scale. With his reinforcements General von ...
Article : 62 wordsRear-Admiral Fiske, before the Naval Investigating Committee, stated that an adequate number of submarines along the English coast would have prevented the ...
Article : 77 wordsGeneral Botha, in an interview, said: "Dutch loyalists have discharged a painful duty, and now wish the curtain to be rung down without controversy or recrimination. ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is officially announced that the German armoured cr[?]iser, Friedrich Karl (88[?]8 tons), which was recently reported to have struck a mine, was sunk while engaged in ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is estimated that the German losses in the Lodz district, killed, wounded, and prisoners amount to 160,OOO. The Russian losses were 120,000. ...
Article : 49 wordsVandenlinden has been court-martialled at Pretoria for attempting to organise a rebellion. ...
Article : 14 wordsCaptain von Papen, the German Attache, has issued a statement that the German attacks on Whitby, Scarborough, and Hartlepool did not infringe the Hague ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the Sennte to-day the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) was asked by Senator Millen (N.S.W.) whether it was a fact that certain censors were using the powers ...
Article : 513 wordsOf 800 severely wounded from Galicia who have arrived at Trieste, 200 are doomed to amputation of their hands or feet owing to frost-bite. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is officially announced in Trieste that the Austrian cadet ship Beethoven struck a mine and sank. All the cadets and sailors were drowned. ...
Article : 33 wordsA special meeting of the executive of the Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales was held on Friday to consider the amending Land Tax Bill, which has just been passed by the ...
Article : 481 wordsThe Admiralty announce that four men were killed and four wounded on the light cruiser Patrol, and one killed and 1[?] wounded on the destroyer Doon, in the ...
Article : 117 wordsAlthough the possibility of German raiding squadrons coming out into the North Sea is admitted, still we cannot lose sight of the fact that Britain has considerable mine areas ...
Article : 210 wordsAn Austrian communique states:—We are pursuing the Russians along the entire front in Galicia and South Poland. We advanced at Zakliczyn, and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Vaaren was mined in the North Sea. Four survivors were landed at Grimsby. Thirteen were drowned, including the English pilot. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Government has appointed a committee to inquire into German outrages and breaches of the laws of war. Lord Bryce is chairman. The committee ...
Article : 62 wordsReuter's Agency states that Servia's victory provoked demonstrations in the large cities throughout Austria-Hungary against the methods of carrying on the war. The ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Hull trawler Cassandra, 174 tons, when thirty miles from Scarborough, after the bombardment, saw a German Dreadnought and seven other warships rapidly ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Cunard Company denies that the Transylvania narrowly escaped being blown up by mines in the Atlantic, as reported yesterday. ...
Article : 26 wordsA communique states: The Allies gained ground northward of the Ypres-Menin road, and also southward of Bixschoote. We debouched to the north-cast of Arras, ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. George Wright, one of the directors of Farmer and Co., Ltd., returned to Sydney by the Makura yesterday from a business tour abroad. ...
Article : 755 wordsThe official announcement from Petrograd that the German armoured cruiser Friedrich Karl had been sunk was anticipated by a Paris message published on Monday last. ...
Article : 186 wordsDuring the foreign affairs debate in the Second Chamber, Dr. Savornin Lohman, representing the Historical Christian party, denounced the doctrine of "might is right" ...
Article : 153 wordsAn official message from Berlin states that approaching England, out of four destroyers which were attacking the German cruisers, one was sunk, and the others ...
Article : 68 wordsA Berlin communique claims that the Germans on the western front repulsed the French at Zillebeke and La Bassee, with heavy losses, and also that their ...
Article : 47 wordsThe declaration of Britain of a protectorate over Egypt severs the last-flimsy thread binding that country to the Sultan of Turkey. Politically, Egypt was seized by ...
Article : 355 wordsThe Commonwealth Wireless Expert (Mr. Balsillie), completed the installation of a wireless set on the steamer Werribee at 4 a.m., to-day, and the vessel left half an hour ...
Article : 83 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Dunkirk states that when hund grenades are not available for the close lighting in Flanders the [?]oldiers construct bombs ...
Article : 268 wordsTwo Newtown trams bound to Sydney came into collision at 2.40 p.m. yesterday. The foremost tram had stopped to pick up passenger at Forbes-street, Newtown; it was ...
Article : 243 wordsA Copenhagen message says it is stated on high authority that Germany has only a fortnight's supply of cartridges. A Havre message states that it has been ...
Article : 58 wordsThe casualties on the east coast total 110 killed and 405 wounded, including Hartlepool's list of 83 civilians, eight soldiers, and four sailors. ...
Article : 95 wordsRear-Admiral Fiske, giving evidence before the Naval Committee, admitted that five years was required to bring the United States navy up to sufficient ...
Article : 69 wordsEvidence for the prosecution was continued before Mr. T. Gepp, S.M., in the case against Francis Hugh Snow, a well-known merchant, under the Trading with the Enemy Act, for ...
Article : 263 wordsAdvices from Constantinople state that General von der Goltz has been appointad military governor of Constantinople, and is acting as Minister for War. ...
Article : 133 wordsA German named Vausch, who was the ringleader of the recent riot at the alien camp in Douglas, Isle of Man, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment. ...
Article : 118 wordsPatrols on the cast coast have been ordered to shoot any persons signalling or exhibiting any light visible from the sea. ...
Article : 25 wordsEighty tins of opium were seized by Customs officials on board the steamer Largo Law at Albany. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. T. J. MacNamara, M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty, addressing a meeting of engineers at Catheart, said that the Germans were rapidly becoming desperate. ...
Article : 66 wordsBritish warships, also barges on the Yser armed with cannon, participated in Tuesday's fighting. The Allies advanced from Nicuport to ...
Article : 53 wordsA Reuter message of November 3, from Amsterdam, reports that according to the Borun newspapers eight members of German princely families have died on the ...
Article : 67 wordsA number of questions have been asked as to the treatment of prisoners of war in the matter of pay and allowances to their wives. The "Naval and Military Record" puts it ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 19 Dec 1914, Page 13
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