Senator GIVENS, the President of the Senate, took the chair at three o'clock this afternoon. Senator NEWLAND (W.A.) inquired ...
Article : 560 wordsMr. C. M'Donald, the Speaker of, the House of Representatives, took the chair at three o'clock, at which time the galleries and approaches to the chamber ...
Article : 1,565 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Hang, the British commander on the west front, reports:—Apart from bombing encounters, the only infantry engagement was a small ...
Article : 159 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner for Australia, gave a farewell dinner yesterday at the Hotel Cecil to the Australian members of Parliament who ...
Article : 646 wordsAustrian monitors and batteries bombarded the towns of Verci and Crova ate the Iron Gates (in the Danube); also Turnu, Soverin, and Glurgevo, where ...
Article : 256 wordsA Russian communique states:— We repelled an attack in the Toboly region. Against our positions on the west bank ...
Article : 85 wordsBucharest messages state that great consignments of munitions from England and France have arrived. Rumania is abundantly supplied for ...
Article : 27 wordsA wireless message from Rome states that German and Turkish officers are reported to have been assassinated in Sofia. ...
Article : 27 wordsA French report states:—There has been great artillery activity in the Lake Doiran region and along the banks of the Vardar, where we destroyed an aviation ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the Senate, Senator PEARCE, the Minister for Defence, made a statement similar to that given by the Prime Minister. ...
Article : 76 wordsA German communique states:—We repulsed feeble Russian attacks northward of the Dniester. Fighting has occurred in the Carpathians with Russo-Rumanian ...
Article : 26 wordsThe military authorities have established a motor car service between Petrograd and Archangel to supplement the railway. ...
Article : 23 wordsThere was heavy fighting. again, this morning on the small front around Mouquet Farm, in the first morning light, the Victorians made considerable advance to ...
Article : 169 wordsMr. Holman, the State Premier, offered some comment to-night on the conscription issue. "I have," he said, "seen only the very condensed reports published, and ...
Article : 749 wordsAn Italian official report states:—Along the whole front on Monday the troops cheered at the receipt of the news of Rumania's entry into the war. The enemy ...
Article : 106 wordsIt is reported that the Greeks have withdrawn from Seres, and that the Bulgars have occupied the town. The Bulgar residents welcomed the troops with the ...
Article : 109 wordsCordial congratulations have been received by Baron Sonnino, the Italian Premier, from the Prime Minister of Great Britain on Italy's declaration of war ...
Article : 80 wordsThe "Exchange's" Copenhagen correspondent reports that German diplomatists expect that Greece will shortly enter the war. Many Greeks are leaving ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Russians are throwing pontoons across the Danube, at Rent, where the Rumanians have erected miles of landing stages, suggesting a powerful Russian ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, in the "Daily Chronicle," tells a dramatic story of the repulse of the Prussian Guards at Thiepval. He writes:—The Wiltshires and the ...
Article : 168 wordsA Vienna communique states:—Our troops are fighting in all the passes on the Rumanian frontier. The enemy has sustained heavy losses, especially in the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe "New York Sun" says:—"The conditions in the Balkans have become such that it seems impossible that Greece can longer maintain her neutrality. The ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Vossische Zeitung" comments bitterly on Italy's declaration of war against Germany. "But," it remarks, "this will help the ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. T. S. Gaffney, the United States Consul of Munich, who was recalled owing to unneutral acts, has arrived in New York. ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. W. Brown, of Tudor-street, Hamilton, has received official intimation that his son, Private E. A. W. Brown, who was previously reported missing, is now reported to have boon ...
Article : 61 wordsA French report states:—The news of the Rumanian intervention reached the Somme on Monday, and aroused tremendous enthusiasm. It was telephoned along ...
Article : 80 wordsPresident Wilson appeared at the joint session of Congress yesterday, and urged the passing of legislation in favour of on eight-hour day for railway employees. ...
Article : 301 wordsMiss Gertrude Aberton, who has returned from the French front, says the Prussian atrocities are indescribable and beyond the [?]ower of the human mind to ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is reported in Cologne that the Kaiser heard of Rumania's decision while at Cracow. He is now rushing at top speed to his eastern headquarters at Pless, in ...
Article : 54 wordsMrs. Pritchard, storekeeper, Elder-street, Lambton, has received intimation that her son, Private Herbert Pritchard, was killed in action in France on the 20th of July. Private ...
Article : 81 wordsA Gazette contains the announcement that the Distinguished Service Order has been conferred on Captain Arthur James Peterson, of the Field Artillery, lately of ...
Article : 109 wordsA German communique states: The English repeatedly attacked with considerable force between Thiepval and Pozieres, but failed with sanguinary ...
Article : 66 wordsRoubtfax, a German bomb plotter, who was serving a sentence of 8 years' imprisonment, has escaped from prison. He is believed to have been assisted by ...
Article : 35 wordsMiss Dora Sparke writes: "The committee of the Field Force Fund has received permission to present no Australian flag to General Birdwood, for the Australian Imperial Force, ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Rumanian declaration of war constitutes an indictment against Austria-Germany as war-makers. Rumania foresees territorial and political changes ...
Article : 224 wordsThe correspondent of the "New York Times' in London has had an interview with an American who recently visited Germany. ...
Article : 95 wordsEight civilians, twenty-two soldiers, and tour policemen were killed in Dresden as the outcome of rioting in consequence of the sentence imposed on Herr ...
Article : 55 wordsNoteworthy German communiques of August 27th and 28th pretend that violent Franco-British attacks were made and repulsed north of the Somme. It is ...
Article : 86 wordsThe committee will pack Christmas comforts for the troops at the depot to-day. A table-centre has been donated by Miss M. Timmins, and gifts received from Miss N. Jameson, the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe president. Miss G. J. Short, reports that the committee will send away Christmas cheer early in September. Packing will be done next week. Gifts have been received from Mrs. ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Josiah Thomas (Australia), who has been spending a few days in Cornwall, upon learning that his son had been killed at the front, leaves for his home this ...
Article : 108 wordsA dinner was given to-night by the Federal Ministers at Parliament House to welcome Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, on his return to Australia. ...
Article : 311 wordsThe State Government has definitely decided to give soldiers at the front or on their way to the front a voting interest in the forthcoming election. ...
Article : 75 wordsWith reference to a statement in Australian newspapers on July 7th, to the effect that the steamers bought for Australia by Mr. Hughes when in England ...
Article : 82 wordsThe cruiser Memphis has been driven ashore in a storm. A gunboat went to the rescue. Twenty lives were lost during the removal of ...
Article : 54 wordsKing George has sent the following telegram to King Ferdinand, of Rumania:—"It is with great satisfaction that the news of your entry into the war was ...
Article : 146 wordsThe annual meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association was held at the Soldiers' Club on Tuesday night, Mr. S. Dark, the president, ...
Article : 244 wordsExcept at scattered places along the tablelands and slopes, and the North Coast, where cloudy to overcast conditions prevailed, beautifully fine clear ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. Eden George, ex-M.P. of New South Wales, who has been on the Western front for several months with the ambulance which he presented to France, ...
Article : 42 wordsA super-Zeppelin blown away by a gale while passing Terdonck, in Belgium, fell 2000 feet and exploded. Only debris and burned bodies were ...
Article : 30 wordsThere are many pages of affidavits in the possession of the Public Prosecutor, who is conducting an investigation into the white slavery that exists in this city. ...
Article : 81 wordsLieutenant E. R. Leary, of the York and Lancaster Regiment, a New Zealander, was killed in France on August 23rd. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe police raided the offices of the "Kerryman" and "Liberator" newspapers in Tralee and removed the machinery, owing to the publication by them of ...
Article : 31 wordsGerman currency is at a discount in America of 26 per cent., the lowest since the beginning of the war. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir Horace Rumbold, Bart., is to succeed Mr. E. M. Grant-Duff as Plenipotentiary to Switzerland. ...
Article : 21 wordsA Bucharest message says:—The King of Bulgaria has left Sofia towards Vienna. Prince Boris has become Russo-phile, and M. Radoslavoff, the Prime Minister, is ...
Article : 46 wordsIt was stated in the Bankruptcy Court that the cocoa venture of Sandow's, Limited, had resulted in a loss of £30,000. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe death is reported by Spain of King Ludwig, of Bavaria. He was 76 years of ago. His successor is the Crown Prince Rupprecht. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe committee is packing Christmas cheer, and soldiers' private parcels is be sent in battalion cases should reach the secretary, Scott's, Ltd., this week. Public schools are ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Prothonotary of the Supreme Court to-day warded Catherine Milley, spinster, of Bealida, £300 damages against John Olsen, a former, of Bealida, for breach of ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the House of Assembly this afternoon Mr. Verran was granted leave to introduce on September 13th a bill for the purpose of closing all German schools and other ...
Article : 77 wordsDr. Dillon, the Rome correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," states that the Bulgarian plan of action was decided directly a catastrophe was ...
Article : 68 wordsChildren of a Dublin school refused to attend because they were prohibited from wearing political badges. They attempted to bring the children ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Thu 31 Aug 1916, Page 5
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