It is announced that the Victoria Cross has been awarded to Second Lieutenant Alan McLeod. He was assailed by eight enemy triplanes who ...
Article : 209 wordsIn the 24 hours ended 3 p.m. to-day 33 volunteers were accepted in Victoria for active service abroad. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. H. A. Watt, in the House of Commons, urged that soldiers who had been sent to Prance after having served for three years in Gallipoli, Egypt and ...
Article : 125 wordsAs the details of Monday's fighting re received, the earlier statements are confirmed, that it was the worst day the enemy had experienced since ...
Article : 663 wordsThere is much in this, as in every battle, which cannot be told yet without giving information to the Germans, which would immediately be used ...
Article : 500 wordsMarshal Sir Douglas Haig [?] enemy artillery was active our back areas in the neigh[?] Bethune. He also ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 wordsAccording to a message from Rome several reports from Switzerland state that the Kaiser is showing frequent signs of a mental derangement that is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsIn accordance with instructions from the War Office, the Defence Department requests men who have been rejected for service overseas owing to ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the House of commons. Dr. T. J. Macnamara, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, stated that the Government was considering whether it ...
Article : 50 words"Activity on the battle front in the past 24 hours." telegraphs Reuter's correspondent at the British headquarters today, "has been confined to artillery. ...
Article : 193 wordsIn April 2722 volunteers were dealt with in New South Wales, of whom 1501 were accepted and 1221 deferred. ...
Article : 26 wordsNinety-eight recruits were accepted in New South Wales in the 24 hours to 11 a.m. to-day, compared with 99 in the previous 24 hours. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. Walter Lone, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to Lieutenant- Colonel Leslie Wilson, said he had ...
Article : 61 wordsIncomplete reports received by the Shipping Board show that there was 240,000 tons of ship construction in the month of April, two-thirds of ...
Article : 149 wordsIt is claimed that Col Lal, a settlement in the Wentworth district of New South Wales, has given men for the war in greater proportion than any other place in Australia. ...
Article : 105 wordsViscount Ishii, the new Japanese Ambassador, in presenting his credentials to President Wilson, said: "My endeavor will be to conduct ...
Article : 236 wordsMonday's great victory around the ominously named Mont Rouge has immensely strengthened the Allied hold on Flanders, proving that Sir Douglas ...
Article : 227 wordsMr J. W. Leckie, M.H.R., who is touring the northern and midland districts with the troops under the Itinerary Training Scheme, writing to Captain G. J. C. Dyett, Organising ...
Article : 169 words"The failure of yesterday's attack by the Germans was complete," telegraphed Mr Perry Robinson, "The Times" correspondent, yesterday. "Our ...
Article : 247 wordsIn the Prussian diet a member of the Centre Party moved the adjournment of the debate on the Electoral Reform Bill till after the war. ...
Article : 180 wordsGerman Official message [?]lsed French assaults against ...
Article : 15 words[?] by the Official [?] tha Field-Marshall [?] haig has ...
Article : 76 wordsSergeant Ernest R. Marsh, of the 1st Divisional Signal Company. Australian Imperial Force, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre. He is a son of Mr Walter Marsh, Melbourne, ...
Article : 68 wordsMonday's rebuff is regarded as the most costly indicted on the enemy since March 21, the Allied forces lighting the enemy to a standstill, and breaking up ...
Article : 358 wordsMr John Hoey, of Nelson place, Williamstown, has been notified by the Defence Department that his son, Private Edward Hoey, was killed in France on April 3. Private Hoey, ...
Article : 102 wordsThis afternoon's services of intercessions for the Empire and the soldiers, In the Town Hall, were well attended, especially between one and two o'clock. ...
Article : 90 wordsTelegraphing from the French headquarters on Tuesday, Reuter's correspondent says:-- "Yesterday the British tanks ...
Article : 219 wordsMr Arthur Henderson, M.P., the Labor leader, when interviewed today, said that a conference of Allied and German Socialists was no longer ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsA French correspondent, says a Paris message, has had an interview with a prominent Spanish statesman who has just returned from Germany. He gives ...
Article : 164 words"I do not think that Mr. Watt's comparison is fair," said Mr. W. M'Pherson, the State Treasurer, this afternoon, commenting upon the statement made ...
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Advertising : 28 wordsA message from Japan states that Baron Goto, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in an interview said:--"A malevolent enemy propaganda is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 words[?] to the Army, the Air Force has been published a special Order of the Day information of troops in ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Gippsland and Northern co-operative Soiling and Insurance Co. Ltd. will hold a clearing sale at Neerim South Hotel tomorrow. ...
Article : 171 wordsIn the House of Commons today, Mr J. I. Macpherson, Acting Deputy Secretary for War, replying to a question, said that the Army Council had called ...
Article : 88 wordsHeavy new war taxes are announced in the Federal budget. Ten per cent, has been added to the tax on various luxuries, including automobiles and ...
Article : 75 wordsGerman soldiers have been supplied with a political catechism, which outlines the domination of the coast of Flanders, the colonisation of Courland, ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Thu 2 May 1918, Page 1
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