Writing to a borough council in reference to the enlistment of employees, General Robertson, the Chief of the Military Staff, states: "I have no hesitation in ...
Article : 130 wordsA Servian communique states:—There was force fighting on the 22nd. instant on the whole front against fresh German forces. ...
Article : 106 wordsSir Douglas Haig, the British Commandant on the west front, reports:—We bombarded the lines in the neighbourhood of Messines, Armentieres, and ...
Article : 91 wordsThe second Compulsory Conference in regard to the coal-mining difficulty was opened this afternoon. Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, presided, and the ...
Article : 4,343 wordsThe position in Sydney grows worse daily, as the stocks of coal in hand become depleted. Every day the list of unemployed is ...
Article : 793 wordsThe announcement in yesterday's "Newcastle Morning Herald" with regard to the War Precautions Act, Federal regaintions, especially clause 7, caused ...
Article : 330 wordsReferring to the recent series of articles on a basis for peace, Lord Northcote has sent a letter to the "New York Times" by wireless, in which he says:— ...
Article : 79 wordsAn Italian official report states:—The Italians in the mountains to the westward of Monastir repulsed a violent attack from Mount Muza. Then advancing ...
Article : 37 wordsThe latest French communique states: —There is intermittent artillery fire on the whole front. A previous communique stated:—There ...
Article : 49 wordsAustria is deporting 1000 Servians, including women, to work in munition factories. It is hoped by this means to liberate, ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Frederick Palmer, the war correspondent, displays unstinted admiration for Australian soldiers. Interviewed by the Australian Press ...
Article : 333 wordsThe Admiralty announce:—Naval aeroplanes attacked yesterday seaplane sheds at Ze[?]bruggo and destroyers alongside the mole. ...
Article : 36 wordsAn undated Rumanian communique throws no light on the position at Cralova. It reports:—There have been violent ...
Article : 69 wordsM. Albert Fevre, in a remarkable speech in the Chamber of Deputies, said: "Behind the army or the French breasts, the British army has grown to formidable ...
Article : 82 wordsAn inquiry of several of Newcastle booksellers yesterday elicited the peculiar fact that there has been a run on the light literature in stocks. The ...
Article : 133 wordsColonel Bidou, the military critic of the "Journal des Debats," compares General von Falkenhayn's advance on Craiova with General von Kluck's movement ...
Article : 56 wordsThe German Federal Council has approved of a Compulsory Labour Bill, to which it is expected there will be conisderable opposition, including that of the ...
Article : 59 wordsImmediately prior to the development of the present difficulty, a large quantity of coal—approximating 40,000 tons—was stacked on the Dyke wharf. The product ...
Article : 66 wordsA German communique states:—The booty taken at Craiova included 300 railway carriages. ...
Article : 18 wordsA number of Belgian deportees, on refusing to work, were sentenced to two months Imprisonment. The main streets of Brussels, the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "Bourse Gazette" states that British soldiers recently passed through Odessa, the Russian port on the Black Sea. ...
Article : 48 wordsA leading Newcastle retailer of fishing tackle and anglers' requisites generally stated yesterday that during the past three weeks the business done in these ...
Article : 143 wordsA fire on the 20th October exploded the magazine of the Dreadnought Imperatriza Maria, 22,500 tons. The vessel sank. Of the crew 213 are ...
Article : 28 wordsWashington correspondents emphasise the seriousness of the situation regarding submarines. They believe that Germany will ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, announced in the House of Commons that it had not yet been definitely ascertained whether the Admiralty hospital ship ...
Article : 201 wordsAn Italian communique reports:—The enemy shelled a field hospital in the Gorizia area, despite the fact that the Red Cross flag was conspicuously ...
Article : 46 wordsScotland Yard reports the recapture of Grahame Scott and Edward Hodgson, who escaped from internment in the Islington workhouse on Saturday. A third man, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe mining difficulty has not to any appreciable extent affected business at the Newcastle branches of the Savings Bank up to the present. The deposits for the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe German, Austrian, Bulgarian, and Turkish Ministers left at noon on Wednesday. More than twenty persons who were ...
Article : 115 wordsThe examination of mail bags to and from Scandinavia and Holland resulted in stoppages of cheques and paper money going to the enemy worth £50,000,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. A. Langwill, manager of the Newcastle Gas Company, when seen yesterday with respect to the position of the company in relation to the proclamation ...
Article : 545 wordsThe Commonwealth authorities in London have appointed an official photographer to work with the Australian forces on the west front. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Massey, the Prime Minister of Now Zealand, and Sir Joseph Ward, the Minister for Finance, have visited and inspected a portion of the Grand Fleet, including ...
Article : 101 wordsOwing to the reduced train service it has been found necessary to recast the mail timetable at Newcastle. This appears in to-day's issue of the "Newcastle Morning ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Government has appointed a Food Controller. ...
Article : 12 wordsThe late Emperor Francis Joseph relapsed into delirium at six, and then followed a crisis of tears. He died quietly at nine o'clock. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Franco-Chinese dispute, which caused a run on the French Bank, has been settled. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Allied group of bankers has protested to Chicago bankers against the loan of £1,000,000 to China, declaring that the loan is political, and not industrial. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe miners' conference has failed to find an effective policy of dealing with avoidable absenteeism. The policy of moral persuasion has not ...
Article : 91 wordsIt is estimated that 121 steamers are idle at different Commonwealth ports owing to the coal trouble, including 66 at Sydney and 24 at Newcastle. ...
Article : 33 wordsPRIVATE BUCHANAN.—Mrs. J. W. Buchanan, who is at present living with her sister, Mrs. A. Coleman, of Devon-street, Plattsburg, has been officially notified that ...
Article : 74 wordsThe curtailment of the railway services has had its effect in the reduction of portions of the staffs of the running sheds of the department. ...
Article : 447 wordsThe title of the new Emperor of Austria is to be Charles the Third. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Tribune" says:—Apparently an attempt is about to be made to shelve Mr. Asquith, and elevate Mr. Lloyd George to ...
Article : 41 wordsA conference of representatives of the engineering and shipbuilding trades unions, after hearing the Government Labour Adviser, agreed to recommend their ...
Article : 58 wordsSERGEANT HOWELL.—Mr. and Mrs. Win. Howell, of "Ardgowan," Lambton, have received a telegram to say that their son. Staff-sergeant A. H. Howell, is ...
Article : 28 wordsRome estimates the world's wheat yield in 1916 at 2,222,000,000 bushels, being 27 per cent. less than in 1915. ...
Article : 25 wordsPRIVATE CREAMER.—Mrs. C. Creamer, of 135 Darby-street, Newcastle, has received intimation that Private A. J. Creamer, has been admitted to hospital in ...
Article : 34 wordsThe municipality of Munich, in Bavaria is establishing refuge halls, fitted with stoves, for the purpose of counteracting the absence of heat-producing foods. ...
Article : 41 wordsGermany has increased Belgium's monthly levy from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 francs. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 25 Nov 1916, Page 5
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