When the House of Representatives met this afternoon the new member for Flinders (Vic.), Mr. S. M. Bruce, was sworn in. The Minister in charge of price-fixing (Mr. ...
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Article : 1,748 wordsTo-day the citizens of Sydney are called on to welcome the returned sick and wounded soldiers who are coming overland from Melbourne. It is expected that the men will ...
Article : 404 wordsA statement showing the independness of the States and the Commonwealth was made to-night by the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Watt) in the House of Representatives in moving ...
Article : 887 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in his aviation report, states that 22 tons of bombs were dropped during the daytime on Monday on the enemy's railway stations, aerodromes, and ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press says that influential circles are urging the United States Government to offer Red Cross workers, also money and troops, to ...
Article : 245 wordsThe delay on the part of the enemy in renewing his Western offensive continues to [?]voke various comments in different quarters. The opinion expressed by the "P[?]ll ...
Article : 312 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" says that in some features it is believed that German commanders have been waiting for a favourable phase of the moon, and that an ...
Article : 729 wordsAn official message from Mesopotamia says: Our mounted forces on the Tigris have advanced as far as El Fatta. The Turks abandoned the village after little resistance, and ...
Article : 40 wordsContrary to earlier expectations, no important developments have as yet occurred on the Italian front. According to Washington's diplomatic advices, which, by the way, have ...
Article : 313 wordsTo-night Captain Carmichael, M.C., will address a recruiting meeting in the Enfield Town Hall at 8 o'clock. Sergeant Bohm, Private Scrimshaw, and Q.M.S. Joass will also ...
Article : 32 wordsA Rome official message says: A participator in the raid on Pola on the 14th inst., in which an Austrian battleship of the Viribus Unitis class was torpedoed, relates that the operation ...
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Article : 275 wordsThe Chatswood Superior Public School teachers have combined with the teachers of the Roseville Public School to insure one soldier until the end of the war and six months ...
Article : 173 wordsIn the Senate to-day Senator Gardiner (N.S.W.) moved, on a matter of privilege, that the records of the House and Hansard, dealing with his suspension last Thursday ...
Article : 611 wordsTo-morrow the State Recruiting Committee will play a prominent part in the celebration of Empire Day. Public schools in the city and suburbs will be visited by recruiting ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Treasury Committee, which was appointed to inquire as to whether State interference was necessary in a great bank amalgamation, reports that possible dangers ...
Article : 85 wordsThe blow inflicted on Italy was the first noticeable effect upon the Western Alliance of Russias' collapse on the Eastern front. It did not succeed—as the enemy evidently hoped ...
Article : 316 wordsA March for Freedom, which is Queensland's latest effort to stimulate activity in recruiting, commenced to-day, when a small force, representative of several sections of the ...
Article : 182 wordsA Vancouver message states that Madame Melba has raised £75,000 to date for patriotic purposes, and has entertained thousands of soldiers in American cantonments. She broke ...
Article : 47 wordsAn accident, which caused considerable damage to rolling stock, and which was responsible for great consternation, but fortunately no injury to passengers, occurred to the Forbes ...
Article : 306 wordsA French communique regarding the operations on the Eastern front stales: Enemy artillery violently bombarded the British trenches east of Lake Doiran and our positions ...
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Article : 562 wordsAn Amsterdam messages says that reports from Berlin state that Zeebrugge and Ostend are so damaged that they will have to be abandoned as submarine bases. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, announced to-day that in future no restrictions would be placed on the enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force of first, second, or ...
Article : 88 wordsAlthough the present condition of their front does, not hold out great prospects for an Italian offensive, our Allies there cannot alford to remain idle until it suits the enemy ...
Article : 405 wordsIt has been decided that volunteers who are slightly under the minimum chest measurement, or who are suffering from minor defects at the time of volunteering which would ...
Article : 143 wordsAn Italian official message states: We defeated the enemy, who twice attacked on the southern slopes of Sasso Rosso. Our thrust in the direction of Fener inflicted ...
Article : 59 wordsAt a general meeting last night of the Public Service Association of New South Wales the President (Mr. A. A. Watson) presiding, it was reported that the president of ...
Article : 328 wordsA deputation representing the Theatrical Employees' Association, and introduced by Mr. J. W. Doyle, M.L.A., [?]rged upon the Chief Secretary (Mr. G. W. Fuller) ...
Article : 221 wordsDuring the discussion in committee of the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 1915-16, in the House of Representatives to-day the leader of the Opposition, Mr Tudor, moved an ...
Article : 154 wordsPrivate John Kelly, of Melbourne, who is among the repatriated prisoners who have arrived from Germany, states that after he was captured at Bullecourt in April, 1917, ...
Article : 80 wordsAn American aviator had the feed pipe of his machine shot away, and a leg broken, in an air duel, east of Ypres. He was compelled to descend on no-man's-land, and ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Peking correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the agreement which has been signed between China and Japan relates to military affairs in connection with ...
Article : 44 wordsA Paris message states that Empire Day celebrations are taking place in many French towns in honour of the Empire's war effort. There will be a special celebration at ...
Article : 37 wordsA meeting of representative residents of the Kuring-gui Shire was held on Tuesday night [?] the purpose of appointing local repatriation committees. Mr. W. R. ...
Article : 213 wordsIn connection with the pilgrimage to the grave of the late Sir Henry Parkes at Faulconbridge on Saturday next, 25th inst., the Railway Commissioners have undertaken to ...
Article : 99 wordsThe following wireless message has been received by the American Consul from Washington:- The Shipping Board has announced that ten ...
Article : 163 wordsReports have reached Amsterdam that an official proclamation issued in Prague states that events partaking of the nature of high treason, which occurred at the Jubilee ...
Article : 87 wordsThe hearing in the Arbitration Court was commenced yesterday of the plaint by the Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees Association against the Melbourne ...
Article : 162 wordsThe hearing of the action by Coletta de Bacre, a minor, to upset the will of her father, Henri de Bacre, of Ararat, who left the bulk of the income of a[?] estate of nearly ...
Article : 155 wordsThe question of arranging for the composite loading of certain ships trading to America will shortly come before the Commonwealth Shipping Board, the matter having been ...
Article : 142 wordsIn connection with the women's loyal demonstration, to be held in the Town Hall on the afternoon of Empire Day, Lieutenant Marks, R.N.V.R., who recently returned to Sydney on ...
Article : 59 wordsA census of stocks of linseed oil of fifty gallons and more all over Australia as at midnight on May 25 is to be taken shortly. The census is being taken with a view to arrangin[?] ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is announced from Washington that the t[?]nk steamer William Rockefeller has been [?] No details have been received. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 23 May 1918, Page 7
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