After an adjournment of four weeks, for the purposes of the recruiting campaign, the session of the Legislative Assembly was resumed yesterday afternoon. The sitting was devoted ...
Article : 1,221 wordsThe Allies have renewed the offensive east of Chaulnes. The Germans are evacuating the Olse River trenches west of Bailly. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia) entertained the Australian Press delegates at dinner at the Savoy Hotel. In welcoming them Mr. Hughes said they came to Britain ...
Article : 617 wordsThe British Foreign Office learns that Mr. R. Lockhart, British Agent in Moscow, and Mr. Wordropo, British Consul, have been released. ...
Article : 355 wordsThe "Morning Post's" correspondent at headquarters writes: The Australians on Saturday night tried to advance between the Somme and the Amiens road, with a view to ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Admiralty report: Our light forces and the Royal Naval aircraft reconnoitred the West Frisian coast on Sunday morning. They were heavily attacked by German aircraft. ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Germans are violently resisting the Allied advance, and heavy fighting is in progress, particularly between Roye and the Somme. On the left wing the British advanced along the ...
Article : 99 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in his noon report of Tuesday, stated: We further improved our positions northward of Roye-road and the north bunk of the Somme, capturing ...
Article : 71 wordsA Paris message says the Germans before evacuating Montdidier left it little more than a mass of wreckage. The Palais de Justice was devastated, and the ancient tapestries have ...
Article : 46 wordsAmsterdam advices state that German military critics consider that the FrancoBritish attack has been brought to a standstill. They characterise the success of ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is reported the Germans intend to advance on Petrograd. ...
Article : 15 wordsSir Douglas Haig reporting at noon on Monday stated: The enemy during Sunday evening re-attacked our positions south of Lihons, but was repulsed. ...
Article : 517 wordsThe Air Ministry reports: On Sunday, in addition to the bombing already reported, our air men bombed the railway triangle at Metz. We attacked on the night of the llth-12th two ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Admiralty announces: A British destroyer was seriously dumaged in a collision and was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on the 6th inst. Two officers and ...
Article : 39 wordsAn Italian official message states:βIn Albania we obliged the enemy to evacuate the Jagodina bridgehead and pass to the right bank of the river. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Sommerstadt has been torpedoed off Fire Island. The crew were rescued. ...
Article : 17 wordsAlthough the later communiques announce gains at several points along the front between the Ancre and the Oise, there are furthere signs that the enemy has succeeded ...
Article : 347 wordsMr. Justice Higgins, President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, yesterday continued consideration of the reference by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers seeking ...
Article : 752 wordsIt is understood that the coal situation in Britain is more serious than is generally realised. The Government proposes to lay the facts before the country. It is admitted that ...
Article : 81 wordsPrivate Newman, aged 21, who was born in Balmain, Sydney, has arrived in England from Archangel, via Canada, after amazing experiences. ...
Article : 409 wordsA survivor of the torpedoed hospital ship Warilda states the captain behaved heroically, and went down with his ship. All those in the ward which the torpedo demolished were ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Australian Press learns that a violent battle is proceeding between Bray and Villers le Roy. An American division is hotly engaged in the Bray sector. The Germans ...
Article : 351 wordsThe "one big union" scheme which was adopted by the Trades Union Congress has come in for a deal of criticism at the Trades Hall. The officers of many of the craft unions ...
Article : 410 wordsThe following official wireless news was received yesterday by the American ConsulGeneral, Sydney:β An official despatch from Switzerland ...
Article : 252 wordsChaulnes and Roye, near the northern and southern sides of this sector on the centre of the Allied attacking front, are still strongly held by the enemy, and the earlier ...
Article : 342 wordsTelegraphing from the Australian front on Saturday, Mr. Gilmour stated: Again there is good news to be told regarding the Australians, who continue to advance swiftly into enemy ...
Article : 789 wordsThe Government of the United States has suppressed the sale of liquor at all railway stations and in trains for the period of the war. ...
Article : 98 wordsA New York message states that German submarines sank a British steamer a hundred miles east of Nantucket. The crew's fate is unknown. ...
Article : 113 wordsAt a meeting under the auspices of the Synod Committee on social problems on Monday night, at the Chapter House, an address was delivered by the Rev. G. V. Portus, ...
Article : 264 wordsThe French, on the right, have also made slight progress at places, the capture of Gury probably being the most important, of their later achievements. Sir Douglas Haig states ...
Article : 328 wordsCaptain R. D. Trudgett, of the steamer Winslow, writing to his brother, in Mt. Lawley, from Karlsruhe, Germany, on March 14 last, gives interesting facts about the ...
Article : 248 wordsIt is reported as certain that the human remains discovered near the Cataract Falls on Sunday afternoon are not those of David Joel who disappeared in April last. ...
Article : 273 wordsA New York message states that a U-boat used mustard gas against a coastguard station on the South Carolina coast. Six of the coastguards were overcome. The U-boat poured ...
Article : 125 wordsA message from Ottawa states that a Canadian correspondent explains how the Canadians took over secretly a section of the Australian front south of the railway at ...
Article : 77 wordsNews bas been received by Colonel G. H. Holland, V.D., that his oldest son. Major A. C. Selwyn Holland, who has been on active service for over three years, has been ...
Article : 144 wordsThe "New York Times" in its editorial columns says a critical stage for the Germans has been reached on the West front, because they are utterly unable to throw in fresh ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. J. C. Hunt, M.L.A., has received information through the Defence Department that his son, Private E. Hunt, has been killed in France. Private Hunt enlisted in July last ...
Article : 98 wordsAt a meeting of the Letterpress Machinist Union at the Trades Hall yesterday, the following motion was carried:β"That this meeting enters its emphatic protest against the ...
Article : 50 wordsA Paris message says the formation of the first American army in France is officially announced. General Pershing will command it in the field, and will retain his post of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe engineers' strike continued to-day without any signs of an immediate extension or a settlement. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 14 Aug 1918, Page 11
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