A dozen years, and more, have passed since Kipling wrote "The Islanders." Few men read the signs and portents. If they ever thought of the Great War that was ...
Article : 1,392 wordsGeneral Bridges, head of the British Military Mission to th United States, in a statement at Washington, said that the enemy has 1,500,000 bayouets on the ...
Article : 358 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) is in receipt of a cablegram from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, intimating ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is reported from Washington that the officials of the United States War Department have announced that after June 1 all loafers and men not engaged in useful ...
Article : 163 wordsSpeaking at Edinburgh, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, said that on the eve of the great German attack the Allies were supremely confident. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe newspapers accept the submarine statistics as definite evidence that German piracy has failed, and that U-boats are being sunk faster than they are built. ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Irish deportees were given the option of applying to the Home Office Advisory Committee for a revision of their internment order. All refused. ...
Article : 29 wordsOf the quality which the Australian subordinate leaders have shown during the recent lighting no better has been seen than in the case of an old Gallipoli soldier who went in ...
Article : 342 wordsA French communique issued at midnight on Thursday says:—There was intermittent artillery activity at some points south of the Avre, but no infantry action. Eleven German ...
Article : 114 wordsDr. Edith Barrett is the hon. secretary of the Australian Red Cross Society, and a sister of Sir James Barrett, of Melbourne. COL. E. W. HAYWARD, C.B.E. ...
Article : 398 wordsThe authorities state that aerial photographs within the last few days reveal a satisfactory situation at Zeebrugge. The Germans evidently are unable to remove the ...
Article : 170 wordsPresident Wilson has sent the following message to Italy:—"This great war represents the conflict of self-government and dictation by force. ...
Article : 71 wordsA Belgian communique says:—There was fairly violent reciprocal artillerying at Langemarck and Merckem. ...
Article : 16 wordsSir Douglas, Haig in his aviation report says:—We dropped over 18 tons of bembs on aerodromes and billets. We brought down 14 and drove down two out of control. Three of ...
Article : 170 wordsAccording to General Bridges, the head of the British Military Mission to the United States, the enemy may be expected to deliver his attack on the Western front in a week's ...
Article : 411 wordsThere is a very perturbed feeling at the Trades Hall amongst union officials, and the movement to break away from the Labour Council which is at present dominated by the ...
Article : 569 wordsWe, the women of New South Wales here assembled, do solemnly and sincerely affirm our belief that the safety and peace of Australia are now being ...
Article : 1,377 wordsA French official message says: Enemy aeroplanes dropped bombs on Paris on Wednesday evening. No damage was done and there were no victims. ...
Article : 207 wordsA Paris message states that from May 15 to 18 French airmen destroyed 37 enemy aeroplanes, and severely damaged 60. They also dropped 160,000 kilograms of bombs, while 120 ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Percival Phillips telegraphs:—We are still awaiting the great German offensive. The respite has been welcomed by the Allies. Troops and artillery have been poured in ...
Article : 139 wordsA large Scottish audience in the Conservatorium of Music last night received with manifest delight the statement by Mr. John Russell that quite a number of new members ...
Article : 176 wordsNot the least useful work done by the Australians since they came on the Somme has been the salvage of French public and private property in towns and villages, which ...
Article : 277 wordsA Washington report says Mr. Baker (Secretary for War) recommended to the House Committee that the President be authorised to call up as many of the 10,000,000 registered ...
Article : 48 wordsA message from Athens says it is reported from Salonica that the French in Albania advanced their left wing 11 miles in three days. ...
Article : 28 wordsA cablegram published this morning states that the newspapers accept the submarine statistics as distinct evidence that German piracy has failed. This tendency to treat ...
Article : 346 wordsThe "Daily Express" is of opinion that the Sinn Feiners ought to be brought to an open trial, before an impartial British jury, so as to let the facts be brought into the light ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs telegraphs details of the ghastly outrage of the Huns in bombing Red Cross hospital huts filled with badly wounded men. Some were with open wounds, which ...
Article : 187 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Acting Minister for the Navy (Mr. Poynton) informed Dr. Malonoy (Vic.) that provision was made under the Naval Defence Act ...
Article : 341 wordsNew York City raised £2,200,000 for the Red Cross in three days. The nation's total is £9,000,000. ...
Article : 21 wordsA meeting called for yesterday afternoon, to form a local committee to carry out the Commonwealth Government's repatriation scheme for returned soldiers, was attended ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is reported from Petrograd that the exCzar's transfer to Ekaterinburg was due to the discovery of a plot whereby the local peasantry had been bribed to effect the ...
Article : 125 wordsA message from Zurich says that, following the discovery of 30 bombs and numerous boxes of explosives in the Limmat River, the Swiss authorities have arrested six suspects, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Ryan) to-day referred to the question of the stock embargo, and the attitude of the southern States. He said that there was no stock embargo, and that it was ...
Article : 168 wordsA Rome naval official message says:—A British air squadron on the 24th inst bombed hydroplane and submarine bases at Cattaro, and started fires. All the machines returned ...
Article : 35 wordsOwing to the strain on the railways the British War Cabinet decided that racing must be restricted to Newmarket after May. The Jockey Club has acquiesced, and cancelled all ...
Article : 66 wordsHis Majesty the King visited the dockyards at Chatham and Sheerness. He suddenly stopped to speak to a tall seaman at Chatham, and said, "I think we have met ...
Article : 130 wordsA message from New York states that Mr. Thayer, a leading historian, in a letter to the "New York Times" discloses authentic information that Prince Lichnowsky ...
Article : 143 wordsWhat the Allied airmen are endeavouring to achieve against Germany's land communications, the enemy's submarine commanders are attempting against the Allied sea lines. ...
Article : 356 wordsThe following wireless news is made available by the United States Consul in Melbourne:- A message from Seattle states that Mr. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Vice-President of the Executive Council, Senator Russell, said that the Government was endeavouring to fix the price of secondhand bags for use as potato, wheat, and chaff ...
Article : 187 wordsA fire occurred this evening at the factory of the Austral Nail and Wire Proprietary, Ltd., South Wharf. The building, which was of galvanised iron and wood, was completely ...
Article : 60 wordsA court-martial of Captain Mathleu, formerly General Sarrail's orderly officer at Salonica, and Sergeant Paix-Seailles, on a charge of divulging confidential documents, ...
Article : 102 wordsMistress Ricketts, sister of Charles Parnell, aged 80 years, died in tragic circumstances in the South Dublin Workhouse, where she was admitted a week ago. Her identity was not ...
Article : 126 wordsLord Rhondda and Mr. J. R. Clynes (Food Control Department) are highly satisfied with the results of food rationing in Britain. They point out that the German censorship has ...
Article : 79 wordsThe following official wireless news has been received by the American Consul:- A Detroit message says: Mr. E. C. M. Schwab, the United States Shipping Chief, said ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Premier addressed a meeting of the National Council here to-day. The following resolution was carried:—"That this conference of the Murrumbidgee electorate has ...
Article : 87 wordsIt transpires that Corporal Davies, of the South Lancashire Regiment, who was awarded the Victoria Cross, for enabling his company to cross, a river by mounting a parapet and ...
Article : 67 wordsAdvices have reached Washington that martial law has been proclaimed in several districts in Bohemia owing to riots among [?]chs and Bohemians. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 25 May 1918, Page 13
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