There was an enormous audience at the Town Hall last night, when addresses were delivered by the Prime Minister, Mr. W. M. Hughes, and the Minister for Repatriation, Senator Millen. It was a magnificent demonstration in favour of the Commonwealth ...
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Article : 1,428 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 17. There wns a record poll at the elections, which excited intense interest. The Premier, Sir Robert Borden, ...
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Article : 172 wordsAn Amsterdam report states that political circles in Berlin are excited over a report that Germany is about to state her peace aims. ...
Article : 248 wordsSir Eric Geddes (First Lord of the Admiralty) announced in the House of Commons this evening that one British and five netural merchantmen, while bound for ...
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Article : 91 wordsAdvices have reached New York from the United Tress correspondent in Tokio stating that conditions in Hussla are becoming intolerable. There is increasing ...
Article : 274 wordsThere is in all proballity more than a modicum of truth in the reports that Germany will before long make another move in the direction of peace. This systematic method ...
Article : 295 wordsHonours have been awarded to the fo[?] ing members of the Australasian forces:- Bars to the Military Medal.—Australians: Sergeants A. Cormack, G. F. Falkiner, T. R. ...
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Article : 1,095 words"I visited the Australian front line to see the soldiers voting. The weather was warm, but rain flooded some of the trenches. The Australians have the reputation of keeping ...
Article : 192 wordsBECAUSE Lazy electors who fall to record their vote may, through their indolence, change the de[?]tine of this continent. ...
Article : 560 wordsMr. Hughes was accorded a great ovation as he spoke to speak, and it leasted for some minutes. He said: "We are assembled here to-night as free citizens to decide in what ...
Article : 6,187 wordsMr. Lloyd George said: "We are laying, surely, the foundatins of a bridge, which, when complete, will carry us into a new world," and he warned us against any ...
Article : 304 wordsA message from Paria saya that M. Clemenseau, in giving evidence before the Caillaux committee, intimated that the Government would resign unless the Chamber ...
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Article : 133 wordsAn Italian official report on Monday stated: There has been violent artillery fire all day between the Brenta and the Plave. ...
Article : 126 wordsThe second reading debate on the Franchise Bill in the House of Lords showed that many supporters of proportional representation are in favour of again placing this in the bill. ...
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Article : 295 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that the Pope has addressed an official communication to Roman Catholic Bishops, stating that any attempt to return ...
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Article : 84 wordsThere has been a recrudescence of the brutal shelling of Hazebrouck, 20 miles behind the lines, with 14-inch guns. One shell killed 30 children in a single school-room, ...
Article : 53 wordsSir Douglas Haig reporting on Monday night stated: Raiding parties attacked two posts in the neighbourhood of the YpresComines Canal. We repulsed one attack. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Government of Hongkong has contributed £10,000 to the Hallfax Relief Fund. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Home Secretary (Sir George Cave), replying to a motion urging a more definite policy regarding alien, enemies, agreed that the Government needed new powers to review ...
Article : 124 wordsIt is officially announced that the standard monthly rates on passenger liners has been fixed in the case of stewards and stewardesses at £10 15s. The standard monthly rates with ...
Article : 61 wordsReplying to a question at the conclusion of his address in the School of Arts Hall last night, Senator Millen, Minister for Repatriation, said he agreed that the voluntary ...
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Article : 37 wordsThe draft statement of Labour's war aims, published in a late edition yesterday, as far as its reference to "the complete democratisation of all countries and the frank ...
Article : 319 wordsIn an article which he contributed to "Reynoide's Newspaper" during his visit to England in May, 1916, the Premier of Queensland. Mr. Ryan, who is now a prominent opponent ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Australian High Commissioner has dacided to continue existing arrangements with regard to Ruhleben Camp, supplementing the Central Prisoners' War Commutes supplies ...
Article : 29 wordsFour more Australian soldiers are going to Oxford and Cambridge in January for a year's intensive education. The Rhodes trust and the Kitchener fund are providing £250 for ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Bonar Law, in the House of Commons, said that to December 13 new War Bonds had been sold to the value of £149,227,000. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 19 Dec 1917, Page 11
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