The public sittings of the inquiry, authorised under War Precautions regulations. Into the question of the continued detention of Albert Thomas Dryer, Edmund M'Sweoney, Michael ...
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Article : 190 wordsUp to a late hour last night only briot official details of the later developments on the Western front had been received. The full communiques had not come to hand, but it ...
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Article : 62 wordsSince July 38 the Allies have caplured 520,000 prisoners and 2000 guns. 0f these the British since August 8 have captured 47,000 prisoners and 600 guns. ...
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Article : 111 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs telegraphs:—From, the hills north of the Scarpe to south of the Somme the onemy Is retreating, trying to get away behind his rearguards before he ...
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Article : 367 wordsA message from Washington says that Mr. Samuel Gompers has arrived in London with other American Labourites, and will attend the British Trade Congross and Allied ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Australian Agents-General entertained the Australian Pross Mission at dinner at the Automobile Club. Sir Charles G. Wade, who presided, said the most Urgent problem in ...
Article : 237 wordsThree hundred and twenty local committees are now at work upon the seventh war loan in the State of New South Wales alone. Added to these are the authorised agents appointed ...
Article : 697 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that reports from the front, timed 3.30 p.m., show the British and French have met with striking successes. To-day the French have ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Hughes received the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen to-day, the ceremony being followed by a civic luncheon, after which be opened the Chamber of Commorce. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that it is now suffciently clear the enemy intends to retire to a shorter line, where he can obtain a botter defensive position ...
Article : 370 wordsMr. C. E. D. Meares presided yesterday at a public meeting held at the Sydney Chamber of Commerce. The meeting was called to consider the now War Precautions ...
Article : 458 wordsNext to the position in the far north the possibilities of the situation in the Australian sector commands most attention. Critics discuss the chances of the Germans ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the Committee on Production has awarded women tramway and omnibus workers an advance of 5/ weekly over the pre-war rates, thus equalising rates ...
Article : 67 wordsA published estimate, in which the German authorities admit that the ' German killed total 1,400,000, is greatly under the mark. The real figuro is well over 2,000,000, and may be ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Harry Gullott, official correspondent with the Australian forces, telegraphs:— The summer speny by the Australians in the valley of the Jordaff has been the most ...
Article : 557 wordsThe Australian section of the London Chamber of Commerce has unanimously carried Mr. Jonkins's resolution, "That in Australia's interest the captured Pacific Islands ...
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Article : 62 wordsSir Joseph Cook, who is visiting the Australian camps and hospitals, addressed the men at Hurdcoutt, Parkhouse, and Salisbury. He explained the Government's various ...
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Article : 40 wordsThe German evening official wireless message says: Fighting occurred in front of our new lines eastward of Bapaume, Peronno, and Noyon. ...
Article : 26 wordsA Washington message says that Mr. Baker (Secretary for War) has announcod that Mr. John Ryan has been appointed Assistant Secretary for War, with the responsibility of ...
Article : 44 wordsSeveral rumours were current in London recently, stating the Czarevitch was dead. The "Dally Telegraph" states that confirmation of the death reached London ...
Article : 48 wordsButter and cheese are unchanged. Wheat is quiet. A few sales of parcels of Australian on passage were made at 73/6. There has been nothing doing at spot ...
Article : 74 wordsThe ironmoulders in the Johannesburg workshops and mines are threatening to strike for 162/ a week, irrespective of the pending negotiations between the Federation of ...
Article : 59 wordsCyril Landale, late of Deniliquin, a captain of the King's Royal Rifles, has been killed in action. Mr. Hodge (Minister for Pensions), ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. Hughes, in receiving the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen, said he accepted it as a tribute to the young Commonwoalth whose soldiers were proud to fight alongside ...
Article : 340 wordsThe New York newspnpers regret Mr. Walter Page's retirement from the position of United States Ambassador to Britain. The "New York Times" says that Mr. Page ...
Article : 89 wordsAn open-air boxing contest has been arranged at Chelsea on Saturday [?] Jimmy While and Joe Conn, the former to receive £2500 in any event, and Conn about ...
Article : 57 wordsThe New South Wales Labour Council has carried the following motion:—"That a special appeal be made to all the unions and general public for money on behalf of the ...
Article : 38 wordsTo-day is the last day for lodgment of redoral land and income tax returns The Doputy Commissioner states that all returns in the post to-day or Sunday will be treated as lodged ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 31 Aug 1918, Page 13
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