In all probability the maritime dispute, as far as the Federated Firemen and Seamen's Union is concerned, will be settled in a few days, owing to the stand now taken by the ...
Article : 245 wordsIt was announced to-night by the Minister for the Navy, Mr. Cook, that on Wednesday, in lat. 37deg. 38min. S, long. 149deg. 55min. E (off Cape Howe), a submarine mine of enemy origin was exploded by mine-sweepers ...
Article : 120 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:— We attacked at 5.25 this morning along a six miles front north-eastward of Ypres, ...
Article : 46 wordsA Russian official report states: We captured the villages of Marufa and T[?]hal, westward of Urmiu, tnking 250 Kurds prisoner and releasing 200 Syrians. The ...
Article : 80 wordsA high military authority, commenting on the present battle, says that the weather, as in August, interfered with its complete success. Nevertheless, we gained about ...
Article : 668 wordsSpeaking at a meeting held in Liverpool to outline the war aims of the Allies, Mr. Asquith re-emphasised that we are fighting for durable safeguards against, a further ...
Article : 726 wordsMr. Gilmour, telegraphing on Wednesday, said: Tuesday's fighting on the western front was another great day for the Australians, though some were dead-beat after ...
Article : 351 wordsProfessor Macintyre, chairman of the State Recruiting Committee, left last night for Melbourne, and will be absent about a fortnight. ...
Article : 186 wordsA Washington report says: Semi-offical advices received from Rome state that the Anstrlans have lost a million men on the Italian front, decreasing their force there ...
Article : 64 wordsOfficials of the Sydney Coal-lumpers' Union yesterday expressed satisfaction at the way things were now moving. They stated that a large number of their members had found ...
Article : 89 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent says that details of Admiral von Capelle's revelations confirm the seriousness of the German naval mutiny. In several cases ...
Article : 393 wordsThis evening Captain McVean, Q.M.S. Lasseron, Sergeant Devlin, and Gunner Ellis will appeal for recruits at 8 o'clock on the Manly Corso. ...
Article : 119 wordsA significant feature is that Cape Howe is on the-direct route between Melbourne and Sydney, where the volume of shipping exceeds that of any other route in ...
Article : 257 wordsThis morning Inspector Anderson received information of an unexpected development at Helensburgh colliery. It was to the effect that 160 of the employees who resumed work ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. Bean, Commonwealth official war correspondent, telegraphs: "No regular counterattack followed the last attack on the ridge so far as the Australians were concerned ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat continuously from 4.30 p.m. on Thursday until 4.35 yesterday morning, the greater portion of the time being occupied with the further consideration in ...
Article : 370 wordsThe Railway and Tramway Institute was well filled last night, when Mr. Fuller, Acting Premier, presented a number of prizes won by loyal railway men during the time they were ...
Article : 530 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, stated to-day that the Interstate Commission had fully inquired into the price of bread, and found that no exploitation or profiteering did or ...
Article : 88 wordsWith the exception of three or four collieries, normal conditions may be said to exist in the western mines. In the majority of them the old hands have resumed, but there ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Percival Phillips says: The opposing armies on Passchendacle Ridge are resting quietls in the mud. Local encounters on Wednesday convinced the enemy of the ...
Article : 149 wordsFersuke Sakamogo, a Japanese fireman on a steamer lying at Circular Quay, whilst working in the stokehold of the vessel on Thursday, was crushed by a falling smokebox door. He ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Public Service Commission continued its sittings yesterday. Mr. F. M. Willis, secretary of the Public Service Association, stated that numerous ...
Article : 647 wordsThe Coroner concluded an inquiry yesterday at Tamworth into the circumstances attending the death of Henry Lord, who was killed as a result of a collision between a railway ...
Article : 100 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" publishes the following remarkable article by a special correspondent describing the Flanders battle:— "The British plan was to break the ...
Article : 272 wordsA Copenhagen message says that the "Vossische Zeitung" reports that the Dowager Empress of Russia is dying at Yalta. Sir George Reid, M.P., will shortly visit ...
Article : 75 wordsA special meeting" of the City Council yesterday approved the recommendation of the finance committee that the sum of £1000 be granted to [?]elp in relieving the distress. ...
Article : 126 wordsWilliam Vizer, a well-known citizen, fell through a window from the top floor of the Treasury Buildings, yesterday into Elizabeth-street, a distance of sixty feet, and was killed ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Hunter's Hill branch of the Red Cross Society the report, which was adopted, stated that during the past year the committee had sent 776 articles ...
Article : 224 wordsCaptain Pentland of the Royal Flying Corps, son of Major Pentland, A.M.C., and of Mrs. Pentland, formerly of Singleton, has been awarded the Military Cross for ...
Article : 233 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the board of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales it was decided that the policy of the society in relieving all cases of genuine need before ...
Article : 82 wordsA New York message says detectives have arrested the three last remaining members of a gang which placed bombs on vessels, sinking 30 ships carrying munitions to the Allies in ...
Article : 134 wordsJudgment in what is known as the German metal contracts case, involving the retention of a judgment for £84,833, was given in the High Court to-day. In the original action ...
Article : 238 wordsPreparations are now being made for organising the street collections on October 19 for the relief of distress which exists amongst many women and children. The organisers ...
Article : 108 wordsNearly 300 French soldiers of two to three years' service will be welcomed to-morrow morning by the military, the Red Cross Society, and the French residents. A small ...
Article : 120 wordsAn Amsterdam message says it is reported that the British Government has stopped all commercial cables between England and Holland until Holland stops the export of sand, ...
Article : 44 wordsAt a conference of local governing bodies last night consideration was given to a report that the fares on the trans-Australian line had been fixed on a capital to capital ...
Article : 112 wordsMuch regret is expressed in Australian circles at the death of Brigadier-General A. H. Scott, of Sydney. Brigadier-General Scott, with a company colonel, was viewing ...
Article : 57 wordsReference was made at the meeting of the Labour Council on Thursday night to the distress which existed in the metropolis amongst women and children. Miss ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Government of Peru has notified England that Allied warships will now be accorded free entry to Peruvian seaports. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. J. B. Turner, of Suva, writing in regard to correspondence which has appeared in the "Herald" concerning private contributions to the support of dependents of men at the front, ...
Article : 117 wordsThe British Government has decided to requisition neutral-registered ships, which are wholly or mainly British owned in British ports, owing to the German Prize Court ...
Article : 56 wordsA loyalist was badly handled by strikers on Thursday night. The man, who is a carpenter, saw an advertisement in a paper that carpenters were wanted. He was taken on ...
Article : 63 wordsStockholm advices state that the King has been asked to widen the Liberal form of Government by including the Socialists. Official negotiations have been opened with Germany ...
Article : 79 wordsLieut. N. P. W[?]bhe (Australia Field Artillery), Captain W. J. Dewar, Lieut. A. F. McHutchinson, 2nd-Liu[?]t. A. R. M'Kin[?]y (Australian infantry), and Captain J. P. ...
Article : 39 wordsGeo. Wootton was committed for trial at the police court on a charge of having on June 3, 1917, at Sydney, knowingly used a document containing false particular, in order ...
Article : 74 wordsThe postal authorities notify that mails will be carried cast on the Transcontinental railway on October 24 and 31. ...
Article : 26 wordsMessrs. F. Courtis, farmer, of Barolin, Bundaberg, E. B. Purnell, secretary of the Waterside Workers' Union, Rockhampton, T. Nevitt, quarantine officer, Townsville, and R. Bedford, ...
Article : 97 wordsThe German raider See Adler was formerly the British ship Pass of Balmaha, a steel sailing vessel of 1571 tons. The raider sank between 13 and 16 vessels. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Tramway Employees' Union has carried a resolution that the Government be immediately approached with reference to the attitude of the Superannuation Board, which had ...
Article : 90 wordsLast night, at 11 o'clock, Janet Gerrard, a married woman, 20 years of age, residing in Little Lonsdale-street, was shot in the breast by a man whose name is unknown. Gerrard, ...
Article : 79 wordsSir Ernest Shackieton, at the King's command delivered a lecture at a cinematograph display at Sandringham, dealing fully with the journey to Elephant Island. Sir Ernest ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Rev. A. S. J. Harding, Methodist minister at Liverpool, has received an intimation that his son, Gunner Eric Harding, A.I.F., has won the Military 'Medal and promotion for ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. H. C. Hoyle, of New South Wales, addressed the American Manufacturers' Export Association, and urged Americans to take Germany's former place in Australian trade. ...
Article : 39 wordsFrom to-day until next Friday any goods intended for the Soldiers' Club bazaar, to be held on the latter day, will be carried free of charge by rail if addressed as follows:— ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 13 Oct 1917, Page 13
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