Soon after proceedings were commenced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the Premier (Mr. Holman) announced that the Government had invited the Acting ...
Article : 2,360 wordsAccording to a Paris message, the Press assumes that Austria will be unable to avert a disastrous defeat by Italy. Her losses are enormous. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Empire Producers' Organisation entertained Mr. Massey (Premier of New Zealand) in the Connaught Rooms at luncheon yesterday. ...
Article : 482 wordsThe Lord Mayor presided at a luncheon tendered by the Empire League to Mr. W. M. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia) and Mr. Joseph Cook (Minister ...
Article : 1,381 wordsThe Germans have begun a new offensive of the Relms front. The attack on Relms, which was intended to capture the town, has been ...
Article : 452 wordsThe "Messagero" (Rome) states that heavy rains during the last few days have rendered the Plave practically uncrossable. The Austrians find it almost impossible to ...
Article : 1,012 wordsIt is stated that 21 German torpedoboats, besides several destroyers and submarines, are hemmed in at Zeebrugge. In the House of Commons, Mr. J. I. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe German attack on Relms, referred to in the French communique this morning, has proved ineffective, and has, therefore made nc[?] alteration in the front there. The ...
Article : 298 wordsThe "New York World" says that three submarine attacks, which were made against one convoy of American transports going to France, were frustrated by naval vessels. A ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs says that the rain and mud are likely to hamper the German offensive. The Americans are coming in [?]u vast numbers, and are billeted in districts ...
Article : 62 wordsGerman submarines are still robbing the crows of ships attacked, and turning the victims adrift in open boats. Recently a British steamer was torpodoed without warning, a ...
Article : 224 wordsAdvices have reached Copenhagen that the counter-revolutionaries in Russia have overthrown Bolshevik rule in Western Siberia after severe fighting, capturing Omsk, Samara, ...
Article : 29 wordsThe confidence which has been exhibited in Allied countries regarding the present situation in italy would seem to be justified according to the news of the Austrian offensive ...
Article : 406 wordsA Rome message states that Admiral Delbuono, in the course of an interview, said he was convinced a second Austrian dreadnought was torpedoed during the recent ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Royal Colonial Institute has received encouraging replies from British universities to the proposal to found endowments for Empire subjects. It was suggested that every ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" says: Senator Berenger declares that the Allies are not appreciably inferior in numerical strength. They have a total of ...
Article : 63 wordsA Washington message says it is probable that Polish, Bohemian, and Jugo-Slav contingents will be trained in the United States for the Western battlefront. ...
Article : 74 wordsReports have reached Amsterdam that the Austrian Food Minister explains the bread ration has been halved because no further grain supplies can be obtained until the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe wine sales on behalf of the Red Cross were a remarkable success, largely owing to the King's contributions. The sales at the Wool Exchange occupied a week. ...
Article : 148 wordsWhen brought before the Marylebone Police Court, Mrs. Stuart, who was a witness in the Billing case, admitted the charge of bigamy, stating that she believed Bray was dead, but ...
Article : 50 wordsA Washington message dates that the emergency fleet corporation will celebrate July 4, by "the grandest splash." Mr. Hurley (Shipping Controller) says that shipyards on ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. J. I. Macpherson (Vice-President of the Army Council) said that after making trials, the testing committee had placed the Lewis machine gun first, ...
Article : 40 wordsBetween 12.30 and 1 o'clock this morning a fire occurred in a second-hand shop in Sussex-street, off Liverpool-street, occupied by Charles H[?]mmelferb, his wife, and four ...
Article : 402 wordsMost people in reading the news received from the Italian front recently will no doubt be struck by the fact that if the Austrian offensive has been a failure it is remarkable ...
Article : 360 wordsThe hearing of the charge against Sir Joseph Jones (ex-Lord Mayor of sheffield) and a man named Vernon, exployed in the munitions department, of conspiring to give ...
Article : 276 wordsIn tho House of Lords, Viscount Midleton called attention to the desirability of limiting the duties of the War Cabinet to matters immediately relating to the war, and ...
Article : 132 wordsLord Curzon, speaking in the House of Lords, denied that chaos existed owing to the Cabinet system of devolution. There were many permanent committees, including ...
Article : 107 wordsLord Beaverbrook (Minister of Information), speaking at the opening of the Overseas Press Centre, said the Ministry wanted the Press to realise the full extent of the ...
Article : 127 wordsPrivate John Bolton, of Paddington, Sydney, who enlisted in Melbourne, and has been repatriated, considers that his treatment in Germany was harsh. He was captured at ...
Article : 167 wordsA Zurich message says that owing to the reduction in the bread ration many workers refuse to work. An almost general strike is anticipated. The situation is ...
Article : 54 wordsThe following American official news by wireless is supplied by the American Consul:— The Mayor of San Francisco has named a ...
Article : 322 wordsSince the naval raids on Zoebrugge and Ostend the Allied airmen have lost few opportunities of increasing the difficulties which the enemy has experienced in making use of ...
Article : 380 wordsThe notorious Russian prisoner, John Feldman, and his associate in crime, Edward O'Halloran, attempted to escape from Fremantle Goal. Both are serving a ...
Article : 119 wordsLord Beaverbrook (Minister of Information) has opened an Oversea Press Centre, so as to enable correspondents of Imperial, Allied, and neutral newspapers to come into ...
Article : 268 wordsViscount Grey has issued a noteworthy pamphlet advocating a League of Nations, and outlining the conditions essential to make the league a success. ...
Article : 27 wordsQueen Alexandra, in a letter thanking the public for their efforts on Alexandra Day, specially referred to the celebrations in Australia and New Zealand, where the day ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. W. A. Smith, one of the directors of one of the oldest established machinery merchants in Australia—Messrs, H. P. Gregory and Co., 74 Clarence-street, Sydney, and son of the ...
Article : 91 wordsGeneral Richardson, in presenting medals to New Zealand signallers in Hertfordshire, said the New Zealand forces were doing far more agricultural work than any troops in ...
Article : 39 wordsPrivate Brian Templer Harton, formerly grazier, of Murrungundy, near Wellington, New South Wales, but more recently of the 6th Light Horse Regiment, A.I.F., was killed in ...
Article : 82 wordsA deputation from a Press congress in Pretoria this morning requested the Minister for the interior to induce the British Government to grant certificates for 800 tons of ...
Article : 55 wordsDespite the urgent necesssity for more coal, the miners on all the fields are agitating for a six-hours day, and the payment of six days' wages for five days' work. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 21 Jun 1918, Page 7
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