"These 300 or 400 seamen in Melbourne are holding up the whole of the shipping industry of Australia, except that comparatively small section of it which can run along altogether ...
Article : 552 wordsMr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., Chief Interstate Commissioner, yesterday continued his inquiry into the price of bread. Special attention was directed to the question of flour. ...
Article : 476 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), receiving agricultural representatives, appealed to farmers to increase enormously food supplies, not because he was afraid of the ...
Article : 156 wordsAn official report concerning operations in East Africa states:—The last remnant of the guerilla band in the north surrendered near Eyassi Lake. The Belgians ...
Article : 68 wordsReports which have reached Amsterdam from Berlin state that Admiral von Capelle (Minister for the Navy) created a sensation in the Reichstag by stating that some ...
Article : 958 wordsThe State Department has revealed cablegrams which were sent to Count von Bornstorff (ex-German Ambassador), showing that Germany in 1916 proposed to destroy the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe following is the Admiralty summary of shipping movements and of ships lost during the week ended October 7. Arrivals, 2519; departures, 2632. ...
Article : 359 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press in Flanders telegraphs:—A pocket of Germans in Daisy (Dewzy) Wood is still holding out, but is fast dwindling. ...
Article : 659 wordsAn Italian official message on Wednesday stated:—We repulsed repeated enemy attacks on Monday, which attempted to gain ground at Castagnavizza on the Carso. ...
Article : 53 wordsSergeant Saunders will deliver a lantern lecture on Gallipoli to the men in the Taronga Park camp to-night at 8 o'clock. About 100 recruits will be required for the ...
Article : 70 wordsA German official message on Wednesday stated: The Bulgarians repulsed the English south-west of Lake Doiran. ...
Article : 18 wordsTo-day, at 1 p.m., Captain M'Vean, Lieutenant J. D. Walker, and Private MacKenzie, will address the recruiting meeting in Martin-place. To-night, at 8 o'clock, Private ...
Article : 330 wordsMr. Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) is receiving many letters, from prisoners in Germany asking him to send more soup and meat. Mr. Fisher, in conjunction ...
Article : 57 wordsA Paris message states that Bolo Pasha, who is involved in the "Bonnet Rouge" scandal, was connected with the Perrier Bank, Paris, when it floated a £2,000,000 loan for ...
Article : 77 wordsFriday's papers will announce the awarding of the Military Cross to Lieutenant W. W. Cook, of the New Zealand forces and the Flying Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and ...
Article : 78 wordsThe prospectus of the Employers' Indemnity association of Victoria, formed to protect employers against union tyranny, was issued to-day. The scheme has been approved by ...
Article : 594 wordsDr. Kuhlmann (Foreign Minister), speaking in the Reichstag, said that Germany had only one reply to the subjeet of the restoration of Alsace and Lorraine—namely, "No—Never." ...
Article : 196 wordsA manifesto, signed by many business men and educationalists, has been issued urging a national scheme for industrial reconstruction, whereby workers will participa[?] in ...
Article : 130 wordsFurther indignation was expressed yesterday by members of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union at the attitude taken up by their Melbourne confreres, who are on strike ...
Article : 174 wordsMr. C. E. W. Bean, the Commonwealth official correspondent, telegraphing on Wednesday, states:—The Australian troops on the crest of the ridge north of Broodseinde ...
Article : 583 wordsOn Monday evening next, at 7.45, a meeting of the officers of branchs of the Win-the-War League will be held in the Repertory Theatre, Grosvenor-street. Major Shillington, ...
Article : 73 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) visited the warship New Zealand. The captain who has recently been appointed to command her declared that in ...
Article : 60 wordsMessrs. Howard Smith, Ltd., secured a volunteer crew yesterday for the cargo steamer Era, and an effort will be made to despatch her this evening to Melbourne. ...
Article : 32 wordsOne of our representatives yesterday referred to the Inspector-General of Police a correspondent's letter, pointing out that, while members of the police force who were ...
Article : 263 wordsThe coal trimmers held a meeting to-day and passed the following motions:— "That this meeting of the Coal-trimmers' Union condemns the action of the master ...
Article : 157 wordsLord Cowdray, in a speech, said he had no doubt that the air service would be a determining factor in compelling the enemy to seek peace on terms which would be of ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Customs Division of the United States Treasury Department announces that Australian wheat and flour are to be admitted free. ...
Article : 24 wordsBusiness is almost at a standstill owing to the floods, 15,000 square miles of country being inundated. The French, British, and Japanese authorities are making efforts to ...
Article : 40 wordsA Rome report announces that Sergeant-major Bonatti has been sentenced to imprisonment for life; his wife was acquitted, but his father-in-law and two hotel ...
Article : 141 wordsThe ex-Sultan had been ill for many months before his death. Much public sorrow was occasioned by the close of a useful life. Prince Fuad, his brother, succeeds him. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe total number of men registered for work on the mines, surface and underground, up to yesterday afternoon was 5558. Some men have already been engaged for surface ...
Article : 168 wordsAt the Circuit Court, before Mr. Justice Gordon, George Turner was tried on a charge of stealing a cow, the property of Peter O'Neill. The evidence showed that Turner ...
Article : 107 wordsAt last night's meeting of the New South Wales Labour Council delegates suggested that the council should take immediate action to safeguard the well-being of men who had ...
Article : 137 wordsA public meeting of citizens was held at the Council-chambers this evening to consider what action should be taken to relieve the distress that exists within the ...
Article : 72 wordsA message from Buenos Ayres states that all German ships in Uruguayan ports will be requsitioned. Enemy agents are seeking to create ...
Article : 46 wordsSir,—The Benevolent Society of New South Wales makes an appeal to the people of New South Wales for funds. From the beginning of the war, when the old society—the first ...
Article : 406 wordsReferring to-day to the presence of German raiders in the Pacific Ocean, the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Cook) said that the general situation was receiving the undivided ...
Article : 210 wordsProbate has been granted of the will and codicils of the late Mr. Henry Archibald Duncomb, grazier, who died Waitaki, Mosman, on May 4 last. The value of his estate is ...
Article : 62 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) has visited the principal English and Scottish Industrial centres, where he collected valuable data in connection with ...
Article : 109 wordsThe New South Wales Labour Council decided last night that a deputation should wait on Mr. Fuller, Acting Premier, immediately with reference to the decision of the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Government proposes to make recommendations that will bring the numerical strength of the Upper House up to a figure never previously heard of in the history of ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, telegraphing on Wednesday, says: Yesterday's original success has been somewhat modified between Broodseinde and the Thourout railway, embracing ...
Article : 196 wordsIt is reported from Washington that the French Commission, in an authoritative review of the recent course of the war, declares that the Germans have reached their ...
Article : 199 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, describing events in the newly-captured sector on Tuesday evening and night, says: Before darkness German aeroplanes came over in dense flocks and flew ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) has forwarded to the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) a recommendation that the States should not be given the per capita grant of ...
Article : 57 wordsA Washington report says the head of the Dutch mission asserts that Holland has begun to slaughter part of her live stock owing to the shortage of feed. A 50 per cent. ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Barr, of the Storemen's Union, speaking at last night's meeting of the Labour Council, said that if the Industrial Disputes Act was wiped off the statute book the union ...
Article : 128 wordsA fire broke out in the premises of the British Australian Tobacco Factoty, Todman-avenue, Kensington, at 5.40 p.m. yesterday, but was extinguished by the automatic ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs and Territories (Mr. Glynn) said yesterday that the production of Papuan rubber was estimated at about 415,000lb for the current year. Of ...
Article : 129 wordsIt is believed that the escape of the interned German U-boats from Cadiz has augmented the chances of involving Spain in the war. Spain stands insulted. It is not ...
Article : 44 wordsNominations closed to-day for the by-election for the Grampians seat in the House of Representatives, rendered necessary by the death of Dr. Carty Salmon. Only two ...
Article : 45 wordsMajor Stanley G. Gibbs, of the Army Service Corps, has been killed. He was previously on the Headquarters Staff of the First Anzac Corps. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is reported that Hindenburg has declined to accompany the German Emperor to the Balkans, owing to the situation in Flanders. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 12 Oct 1917, Page 7
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