The Admiralty slate that the transport Leasowe Castle (9737 tons) was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine in the Mediterranean last Sunday.Nine of the ship's company are ...
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Article : 95 wordsThe New South Wales Labour Council last night carried Mr. Judd's "anti-war" motion by 101 votes to 75. The proceedings were held in camera. ...
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Article : 311 words. Mr. G. H. Perris, correspondent of the "Dally Chronicle" on the French front, says that General von Hindenburg has scored another spectacular success. After ...
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Article : 54 wordsA Turkish communique states: We occupied Kurkuk, in Mesopotamia. The British withdrew southward. ...
Article : 21 wordsA. Russian wireless message says the Central Commi[?]e of the Finnish Workmen protests against the "White" terrorism in Finland. It [?]s stated that 70,000 citizens, the ...
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Article : 35 wordsA Copenhagen message says that Sweden is suffering from an epidemic resembling dropsy, which is supposed to be due to insufficient food. There are several thousand cases. ...
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Article : 22 wordsReports from Tokio received in Tientsin state that the Chinese and Japanese Governmenta are not publishing the terms of the recent agreement, owing to strategic ...
Article : 45 wordsA French communique, issued,on Tuesday night stated: On Monday night and to-day the enemy again profiting by his numerical superiority made ...
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Article : 117 wordsGeneral Pershing's communique announces that American troops consolidated the positions captured in the Cantigny salient. Three counter-attacks by the Germans in an ...
Article : 38 wordsBrigadler-General Maurice, writing in the "Daily Chronicle," says: According to the latest estimates the German reserves on the West front number eighty divisions, of which ...
Article : 200 wordsThe official figures show that at the Central Recruiting Depot on Wednesday 35 men were accepted. The country returns added 52 men, making a total of 87 for the day. ...
Article : 156 wordsA German communique on Tuesday stated: On Monday morning we penetrated the French lines between Voormezele and Locre, capturing over 300 ...
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Article : 477 wordsBritish military despatches received in Washington state that the Allied airmen on the West front brought down or destroyed 252 aeroplanes between May 16 and May 23. ...
Article : 269 wordsA New York message states that Mr. Henry Morgenthau, formerly United States Ambassador in Turkey, writes in the June issue of the American "World's Work" saying that ...
Article : 164 wordsA French communique states: There is great artillery activity along the whole fron between Lake Doiran and Monastir, particularly in the regions of Makukovo and Vzcovo. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir Douglas Haig, reporting on Tuesday night, stated: Franco-British counter-attacks early this morning re-established our line east of Dickelrush Lake. We took ...
Article : 177 wordsThe "Marches to Freedom," which included North Sydney, Bondi, Darlinghurst, and Red-. fern, will be continued to-night in the Leichhardt district. Upwards of 200 returned ...
Article : 298 wordsMr. Ward Price, official correspondent on tho Italian front telegraphs: The Alpinl opened the fourth year of the war with a neat victory in mountains 10,000 feet high ...
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Article : 62 wordsA communique from the American Army in France on the Picardy front states: American troops attacked on a front of a mile and a quarter, and. ...
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Article : 119 wordsThe State Department in Washington has officially expressed sympathy with the national aspirations of the Czechs, Slovacs, and Juge Slavs for freedom, and endorsed the ...
Article : 80 wordsTo-day at 1 o'clock Sergt. Browne, Sergt. Watkins, Corpl. Stead, and Desoatch Carrier Brown will be the Martin-place speakers. At noon Lieut. Doull, Sergt. Cole, Private ...
Article : 164 wordsIn view of the payment on Saturday of over £ 50,000,000 interest on war loans, Mr. Bonar Law has arranged with the banks in the hope of securing its r[?]investment in war bonds. ...
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Article : 165 wordsSir Willaim Weir, President of the All B[?]rd, will contest the Gravesend seat rendered vacant by the resignation of Sir Gilbert Parker owing to ill-health. ...
Article : 115 wordsLord Beresford has given notice of a series of questions in the House of Lords respecting the manufacture of the Madeen machine-gun, a Danish invention, which is claimed to be ...
Article : 215 wordsLieut. Cyril Whelan, son of Mr. Albert Whelan, entertainer, and Lleut. Levy, son of Mr. Bert Levy, the Sydney caricaturist, were killed in an aeroplane collision in England. ...
Article : 31 wordsQuarter-master Sergeant Edwards, of Mount Bryan, 51st Battallon, who served in Gallipoll, and was wounded, [?] captured at Mouquet Farm, in September, 1916, has ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 31 May 1918, Page 7
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