Another sitting of the Legislative Council was devoted to the discussion of the Arbitration Bill yesterday. The Legislative As[?]ly was not sitting. ...
Article : 496 wordsThe Acting Commonwealth Treasurer (Mr. Watt) to-day made a statement concerning the sixth war loan. He said the Government parti[?]ly wished the people to ...
Article : 376 wordsIt Is some time since we have bad any striking comments from the prominent Swiss military critic Colonol Feyler who according to one of this mornings cabled messages has ...
Article : 262 wordsSir Douglas Halg's report on Thursday night stated: After artillery fire the enemy in the fog raided advanced posts northwestward, of La Hasse. Some of our men ...
Article : 127 wordsA Tokio message says the Japanese Press and public are profoundly stirred over the Siberian debacle. There have been frequent Cabinet meetings. Though radical ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Cordon Gilmour, writing from the Western front on Monday, says: The fever of raiding is upon the Australians. Its Influence is felt throughout all divisions. ...
Article : 462 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" telegraphs as follows:—There are many indications that the disgraceful peace just imposed will not be the end of Russia, ...
Article : 669 wordsAn Amsterdam message states that the Austrian Minister for Defence will speak in Parliament of the n[?]ssity to prevent the propagation of revolutionary principles by released ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Italian shipping returns for the week ended March 2, show 334 arrivals and 285 departures. There were no sinkings. One vessel was unsuccessfully attacked. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law, in moving a credit of £600,000,OO0, Pointed out that it was the larg[?]t single credit yet asked for. The Government anticipated an ...
Article : 261 wordsThe new war risk rates for shipping from Australia and New Zealand are as follows:— To and from French Mediterranean ports, [?] per £100; Italy, via Suez., 80s, via the Cape, ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. H[?]air[?] B[?]lloc estimates that the number of German dead totals 3,000,000. ...
Article : 16 wordsContinuing his speech in the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law said he had no doubt if the A[?] held together they could secure the results which they set out to achieve. ...
Article : 95 wordsWe must, however, accept with reserve Colonel Feyler's statement that, dospite, the Russian pence, the total avaliable German strength on the Westorn front is a million ...
Article : 306 wordsMr. Banar Law, reviewing the war situation in the House of Commons on Thursday, said the general position at Salonika was unsatisfactory, but that it was due to Russia's ...
Article : 212 wordsThe official publication "Australia in the Great War," has been issued. It consists of 192 pages, with photographs, illustrating incidents in which the Australians ...
Article : 90 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Australian Red Cross Contral Council was held at Federal Government House on Thursday. Her Excellency Lady Helen Munro Feiguson presided. ...
Article : 334 wordsAn Amsterdam report says Admiral von Mueller, head of the engineering branch of the German'navy, has informed the nawspapers that the submarines will sink 600,000 tons ...
Article : 109 wordsThe refusal of the Prime Minister to agree to the request of [?]ight members of the Nationalist party to call Parliament together, will be referred to by Sir William Irvine in ...
Article : 216 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady H[?]n Munro Ferguson, attended by Captain the Hon. B. Clifford, private secrotary, and by Captain Haskett-Smith, A.D.C., ...
Article : 372 wordsNewspapers and an intelligent public continue to discuss the German economic pressure of Rursia, eapecially the project to secure Odessa and access from Bntoum to the frontiers ...
Article : 106 wordsThere does not appear to be any reason tp doubt the enemy's official announcements regarding the conclusion of peace with Roumanie. It has been quite clear for somo time ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Press Bureau reports that an explosion occurred at a small Government workshop in South London on March 5, Four persons were killed and one injured. The shop was ...
Article : 35 wordsAdvices from Geneva state that Colonel Feyler, a Swiss military expert, estimates the total German losses at 2,500,000 dead, including 500,000 deaths from sickness; ...
Article : 161 wordsThe refusal of a witness to answer a question put to him yestarady morning and again in the afternoon by Mr. Mason Allard, who is sitting as a Royal ...
Article : 639 wordsThe Bank of England gold and silver coin is,£59,075,000, against £52,331,000 a year ago, reserve in notes and coin, £30,941,000, against £34,113,000 last year, the proportion of ...
Article : 265 wordsIn connection with the second progress report on defence administration, which was presented to the Governor-General on February 14, the chairman of the Royal ...
Article : 120 wordsAn Amsterdam message states that a Polish brigade of 8000 men mutinied on February 15. Croatian Infantry obstructed the mutineers reaching the Rumano-Bessarabian territory. ...
Article : 44 wordsAn Amsterdam message stales that the German Press is well satisfied with the terms of the Roumanian peace. The papers declare it is sure to opon the eyes of other ...
Article : 86 wordsA German official report states that AustroGerman Supreme Command sent a message to the Russian commander, Krylenko, as follows:—In lending aid to the Ukraine, ...
Article : 49 wordsIf the Central Foweis do not propose to dismember Roumania entirely, however, they have', no doubt, established such effective control over her as to render her ...
Article : 263 wordsSenator Crawford and Mr. Bamford, M.H.R., who were appointed commissioners by the Federal Ministry to inquire concerning the damage done by the recent disaster at ...
Article : 184 wordsAn aggregate meeting of miners of twelve collieries on the Maitland field, employing ahout 6000 men and producing two-thirds of the coal of the northern district, was ...
Article : 156 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law said that though Germany hoped to get much food from Russia, the British Government's Information was that the food produced in ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Germano-Finnish Treaty has been signed, whereby Germany promises to secure all the Powers' recognition of Finnish independence. Finland undertakes not to cede ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Bonar Law, leader of the House of Commons, slated "in the House on Thursday: We probably have a slight superiority in men and guns on the Western ...
Article : 96 wordsA large number of American, Australlan, and New Zealand butter cargoes have arrived. The distribution of one-olghth of tho trades' applications commences on Friday. ...
Article : 70 wordsIn surveying the war situation in the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law said that we had knowledge that the Germans promised Turkey that they would expel the British ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that aeroplanes crossed the east coast at 11 o'clock on Thursday evening, and proceeded towards London. The raid is progressing. ...
Article : 53 wordsA regulation under the War Precautions Act dealing with the calling up of Italian reservists was gazetted to-day. It provides that any reservist who fails to comply with a ...
Article : 97 wordsTo night at 8 o'clock in Martin-place Mr. A. N. White and Private Barrington will show the latest war trophies. The recruiting meeting on the Manly Cors[?] to-night will ...
Article : 130 wordsThe possibility of Japanese Intervention In order to protect Allied interests In Siberia continuos to bo regarded ns tho principal item of Interest in connection with the ...
Article : 305 wordsAn Amsterdam wireless message says the German newspapers describe Lord Lansdowne's letter as a most important document, giving evidence that England "is getting ...
Article : 53 wordsOn 'Change to-day the following were the quotations:- British, b 38/3, s 33/3; Brokens, b 67/, s 68/; Block, b 33/9, s 35/; North, b E9/9, s GO/9; ...
Article : 58 wordsA Turkish official message says: On the Palest[?] front, during advanced post engagements, the enemy occupied Dj[?]a temporarily. A counter-attack drove him back. ...
Article : 30 wordsBristol miners took a ballot, which resulted in favour of tho Government's proposal to comb out 50,000 minets for the army. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Melbourne Chamber of Commerce has decided to suggest to the Prime Mintster that if the vacancy on the Interstate Commission caused by the resignation of Mr. G. H. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Bank of Australsla has declared a dividond of 14 per cent, and a bonus of 12/6. It has been decided to place £30,000 to the Reserve Fund and to carry forward £123,309. ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. J. F. Hope (Junior Lord of the Treasury) stated that he believed the agreement with the Turk[?] Government regarding exchange of prisoners ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. Bonar Law said he hoped to meke a general statoment of the Government's policy regarding the carrying out of the resolutions ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Asquith, in the course of a speech [?] Cupar (Scotland), said there were two keys to the world position, viz., the command of the seas and the West front, both of which ...
Article : 172 wordsArchbishop Kelly, on behalf of the Irish National Executive, Sydney, yesterday, sent the following cablegram to the secretary of the Irish Parliamentary party; "Mindful of the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Postmaster-General, Mr. Webster, stated yesterday that far some time it had been the practice of his department to send letters and registered mails over the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that Lord Rhondda (Food Controller) has empowered local food committees to regulate the retail sale of any article of food, and to fix the ...
Article : 36 wordsA unique exhibit bearing on the development of the Australian metal Industry Is being made at Challis House, Martin-place. The purpose of the display made by the Austral ...
Article : 92 wordsSix enemy aliens who had been interned at the concentration camp at Holdsworthy escaped from confinement early yesterday morning. Their names and descriptions are: ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Times" does not make any comment. Replying to Mr. Austin Chamberlain, in the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. Bonar Law, on behalf of the Government, ...
Article : 64 wordsA committee has been formed, with Mr. R. J. H. Hillsmith as hon. secretary, for the purpose of honouring the memory of the late Sir Henry Parkes by means of a p[?]grimage ...
Article : 77 wordsNews was received in Broken Hill to-day of the death at Brighton (S. A.) of the V[?] Archdeacon W. H. Connelly, who was associated for 25 years with the Roman Catholic Church ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the House of Commous, Mr. Arthur Samuels (Soli[?]tor-General for Ireland) said that no prisoners were being foreibly [?] but those refusing food must take the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 9 Mar 1918, Page 13
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