When war broke out Mr. Andrew Fisher, then Labour Prime Minister of Australia, pledged the Commonwealth to the last man and the last shilling. ...
Article : 548 wordsSir Douglas Haig, In his midnight report of Thursday, says:—About 8 o'clock this morning, after an intense bombardment with gas shells and high explosives ...
Article : 195 wordsNews from Basic received in Paris states that Monday's British air raid on Mannheim did enormous damage, Many houses in several parts of the town were ignited. ...
Article : 148 wordsIt is not clear whether the Dutch Parliament's acceptance of the Anglo-American ultlmatum merely referred to the approval of the Foreign Minister's ...
Article : 391 wordsGerman destroyers which were bombarding Dunkirk at dawn to-day were intercepted by five Anglo-French destroyers and compelled to fight. ...
Article : 242 wordsMr. Bonar Law in the House of Commons stated: "A German infantry attack was launched on Thursday morning from the Scarpe to the Oise, over 50 miles. ...
Article : 530 wordsSir Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Commons to-day, said that owing to tho non-ratification of the Dutch agreement the Entente had no ...
Article : 62 wordsMajor Flood, one of those who were on the steamer Matunga when she was captured, lectured on the Wolf's voyage in Norfolk House. Sir Charles Wade, Agent-General for New ...
Article : 188 wordsWe have not always been able to accept as logical Mr. Arthur Henderson's views regarding the war situation, but he has recently shown that he entertains no delusions ...
Article : 341 wordsA French communique issued [?] noon on Thursday stated: Artillery activity prevails between Miette and the Aisne; also in the Champagne. Artillery activity is ...
Article : 260 wordsYesterday more than 600 wearers of khaki who went from New South Wales to fight for the Empire were enthusiastically welcomed back to Sydney. Special trains were ...
Article : 679 wordsA message sent, from London at 1.55 p.m. on Fridays, says:- The enemy is held. He suffered [?]mmense losses through his massed ...
Article : 37 wordsA message from Petrograd says that, despite the so-called peace, the Germans are steadily advancing in South Russia. They occupied Nikolaieff without resistance. ...
Article : 605 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in his aviation report of Thursday evening says:—The weather yesterday hindered flying. Our nightflyers dropped 300 bombs on aerodromes ...
Article : 40 wordsA French communique issued at midnight on Thursday says:—During the day theye was reciprocal artillery activity, which was very violent between Miette ...
Article : 60 wordsThirty thousand persons flocked to the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday to witness the monster carnival in aid of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Camperdown. ...
Article : 411 wordsThe United States Consul-General, Mr. Magelssen, has received through the American Wireless Station at Honolulu a message giving a report of the statement issued by ...
Article : 273 wordsIf we are unable to Judge the possible results of the latest enemy move, we have at least been given a fairly clear indication of the section of front on which he has ...
Article : 476 wordsA Belgian communique issued at midnight on Thursday says:—There was lively artillery activity yesterday. During the naval engagement last night off Dunkirk enemy vessels ...
Article : 52 wordsA German official report on Thursday afternoon stated: Bavarians in a surprise attack south-west of Ornes overran the first lines and advanced as far as B[?] ...
Article : 54 wordsThe United Press correspondent on the British front cables:—Hindenburg apparently launched his long-heralded offensive, following on a short ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 303 wordsAn official report from Palestine states: We consolidated and improved our positions and occupied E[?] M[?]-el-Abes and high ground eastward, and three miles ...
Article : 425 wordsAccording to an Amsterdam report, Catholic sources state that semi-official negotiations are now being carried on between Germany and the Entente, in which Germany is ...
Article : 68 wordsA telegram from the Chief Secretary of New South Wales (Mr. Fuller) was received by the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, protesting against the non-inclusion on the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Empire Resources Development Committee has forwarded a resolution to Mr. Lloyd George, expressing the hope that the German colonies will not he returned, owing ...
Article : 76 wordsTo-day was the concluding day of the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. A motion was agreed to affirming the importance of commercial ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs cables.—An intense bombardment began at 5 o'clock this morning from southward of the Scarpe and to westward of Bullecourt, near Croiselles, and as far south ...
Article : 94 wordsA youth, whilst surfing in three or four feet of water on the Newcastle Beach, at 5.30 this afternoon, in company with about fifteen others, was attacked by a shark, estimated to ...
Article : 179 wordsIn the Bathurst Police Court this morning Eliza Marsden, who stated that she had been a milk vendor in Bathurst for 26 years, was charged with having sold adulterated milk, ...
Article : 212 wordsAdvices from Amsterdam state that the Lokal Anzeiger" says an unknown agency is distributing by post throughout Germany the private memorandum written by Prince ...
Article : 144 wordsThere was a large attendance at the adjourned annual meeting of subscribers of the Crown-street Women's Hospital, held in the Fullerton Memorial school-hall yesterday. ...
Article : 336 wordsA Petrograd message says:—Following on the Revolutionary Socialists' repudiation of the Breat-Litovsk Treaty, several leaders have gone to the south to organise guerilla ...
Article : 32 wordsBy the death early yesterday morning of John Patrick West at his house in Alfred-street, Waverley, the Australian stage loses probably its oldest native-born actor. The ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Government is making inquiries among members of the House of Commons as to whether Federal Home Rule for England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales would be ...
Article : 53 wordsThe keel of the first Irish concrete ship has been laid in a new north-west shipyard. The site was virgin soil six weeks ago. It now comprises six ships. Five will be occupied by the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe French mission which is to visit Australia will include Mr. Meadows Smith, late Secretary to the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris. ...
Article : 156 wordsMany bags of wheat were either destroyed or severely damaged by a fire, which broke out in a wheat stack near the railway siding at Brooklyn. The cause of the outbreak is ...
Article : 42 wordsAn official report from East Africa states: We are in contact with a strong enemy force in the Medobo[?] coastal area. A fresh column di[?]mbarking at ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Amsterdam "Echo Belge" states that a German tribunal has sentenced M. Capel[?], Belgian Director of Foreign Affairs, to 15 years' imprisonment. ...
Article : 26 wordsBritish seaplanes have bombared He[?]goland. ...
Article : 10 wordsA French official message says:—A division of Franco-British destroyers fought a detachment of German torpedoers in the North Sea between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning, sinking ...
Article : 84 wordsThe War National Steeplechase, a substitute for the Liverpool Grand National, was run at Aintree to-day, and resulted as under: ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Press Bureau states that, excluding raids on Germany, British and Australian airmen on the Western front in February dropped 5290 bombs in the daytime, and ...
Article : 50 wordsLord Beresford, in the course of a speech in London, said that the shipping position was most serious. The Government had done its best, but it had been a devilish [?]ad best. ...
Article : 63 wordsAn Amsterdam report says the German Emperor, in a message to the Rhenish Provincial Council, s[?]ates: "We are at tim decisive moment of the war, and one of the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 23 Mar 1918, Page 13
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