The review by the high military authority of the sitaution on the Western front and of the recent developments in connection with the secondary campaigns in Palestine and ...
Article : 360 wordsThe Australians were not involved in the heavy fighting on April 29. That great attack came out against the French and British further north. There seems little doubt that ...
Article : 203 wordsThe "Central News" states on unimpeacable authority that Germany has renewed her peace offensive, and is utilising neutral emissaries. A Dutch financier has arrived in ...
Article : 203 wordsMr. Archibald Hurd, in the London "Daily Telegraph," discussing the new danger zone in the North Sea, says it reveals an old and well-guarded secret. The wisdom of the ...
Article : 586 wordsIt is reported that a big battle has begun on the Italian front. Advices from Rome received in Washington on Friday night stated that ...
Article : 104 wordsAn official report from Palestine states: Fighting was continued throughout Thursday eastward of the Jordan and southward of Es Salt. The enemy, who had crossed ...
Article : 189 wordsTo-day, the anniversary of the second battle of Bullecourt, the Australians were engaged in a heavy minor fight before Villers-Bretonneux, which resulted in such a ...
Article : 522 wordsSir Douglas Haig on Friday night reported: We, in co-operation with the French, took prisoners in local fighting southward of Viller-Bretonneux. The ...
Article : 664 wordsA Petrograd report says members of Kerensky's Cabinet who were imprisoned in the fortress of Peter and Paul have been released. The Bolsheviks have abandoned the ...
Article : 182 wordsA Washington report says Private Thomas Skeyhill, an Anzac from Victoria, who was stone blind as the result of a shell explosion on Gallipoli, suddenly regained his sight, ...
Article : 143 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily News" at Geneva says political and economic tension in Austria is intense. Fully a dozen crises confront the authorities. Representatives of ...
Article : 124 wordsPrivate R. Ruschpler, of Sydney, whose escape from the Germans was recorded in Saturday's paper, has supplied the Australian Red Cross with the names of several ...
Article : 347 wordsThe news which had come to hand up to a late hour last night regarding the position in Italy was far from satisfactory. Heavy fighting along a considerable length of front ...
Article : 388 wordsThe New York "Times" Washington correspondent states there is no foundation for the report that the United States Government has intimated to the British Government that ...
Article : 134 wordsWaldow (German Food Director) announced in the Reichstag that it would be necessary to reduce bread rations unless the stipulated quantities were imported from the Ukraine. ...
Article : 67 wordsA German official report on Friday evening stated: After five days' battle we defeated the enemy near Laktis and Tavasthus (Finland). We took 20,000 prisoners. ...
Article : 136 wordsA high military authority says the German effort to outflank the line of heights with a view to cutting off the troops on the Ypres salient failed, after great enemy loss, though he ...
Article : 475 wordsThe Anzacs who are visiting New York were greeted with tremendous cheering as they marched along. For the first time "Cooees" echoed among ...
Article : 224 wordsReuben Keirl, alias Charles Kyle, of Sydney, has been arrested for fraud while masquerading as an officer of the warship Sydney. The Westminster Court remanded Keirl, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe latest advices from the Ukraine state that there has been violent fighting between adherents to the new Government and old Rada. The real meaning of the latest ...
Article : 255 wordsPrivates P. S. Cooke, of Brisbane, and G. H. Reed, of Sydney, who recently escaped from Germany, and are now in England, have been interviewed. They were employed in farm ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the Food Controller estimates that the potato acreage in Great Britain in 1918 will approximate 900,000, which is 25 per cent. over that of ...
Article : 436 wordsThe mines on the South Coast will be idle to-day, when a demonstration is to be held at Wollongong. There is discontent in mining circles on the coast, as a result of prevailing ...
Article : 345 wordsThe official message from Palestine which was published on Saturday mentioned a regrettable incident which occurred in connection with the operations around the ...
Article : 439 wordsThe correspondent of the "New York Times" at Washington interviewed a high Allied official, who said that the German offensive would last all the summer. The ...
Article : 290 wordsAn Italian officer who escaped from a Hungarian prison camp and was recaptured was mercilessly beaten. Others protested, and the commandant ordered the guards to fire, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the operations against the Mari tribe, on the Beluchistan frontier (North-west India)), were successfully concluded. Government terms were announced ...
Article : 73 wordsSince the industrial trouble last year members of the Coal and Shale Employees' Association have been at variance. Some hundreds of them have persistently refused to ...
Article : 304 wordsThe Admiralty announces that a distinctive chevron will be issued to all descriptions of persons in the naval service, including women, who began sea service in 1914. An ...
Article : 88 wordsA report from Ottawa states that youths throughout Canada aged 19 have been called up for military service. A San Francisco report states that Tommy ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Milner have returned from France, where they attended meetings of the fifth session of the Supreme War Council. ...
Article : 202 wordsIn conjunction with the Royal Air Service Australian machine-gunners claim to have participated in the shooting down of the German airman Baron von Richthofen. About ...
Article : 302 wordsA Washington report says the United States War Trade Board has announced the terms of a Norwegian-American trade agreement. The United States will ship surplus foodstuffs to ...
Article : 57 wordsA tragedy occurred on Saturday afternoon at Booborowie, near Burra, when William Jeffery, 66, a well-known farmer, and owner of considerable property in the district and at ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs says the Germans in recent battles have added a terror which we taught them last year, sending swarms of low-flying aeroplanes from 30 to 100 yards ...
Article : 60 wordsIn response to General Botha's appeal to ineligibles to provide substitutes to go to the war, every Cabinet Minister has agreed, also 33 other members of Parliament, including Mr. ...
Article : 114 wordsAccording to a message from Paris, it is reported that one of the German long-range guns has been knocked out. ...
Article : 25 wordsThere have been several inquests on victims of the mysterious nervous disease called botulism. A hundred cases already have been reported. Exports believe that it may be due ...
Article : 109 wordsThe time worked in the coal mines on the northern field for the fortnight ended Saturday, the full time being 11 days, was as follows:—Duckenfield, 6 days: Richmond Main, ...
Article : 129 wordsA message from the Hague says "Vorwaerts" reports that the committee which was appointed to discuss the question of post-war tonnage has been ordered to suspend its ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, stated yesterday that in future six of the cadet vacancies at the Royal Military College, allotted annually for candidates under 19 years of ...
Article : 117 wordsA Zurich report says the "Muenchner Neue Nachrichten" (Munich) states that Prince von Beulow shortly will become Imperial Chancellor. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 6 May 1918, Page 7
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