Members of the Sydney branch of the Federated Firemen and Seamen's Union were very reticent yesterday with regard to the development in Victoria. However, they did not ...
Article : 202 wordsSix volunteers responded to the appeals which were made in the Domain yesterday. At 1 o'clock to-day in Martin-place a number of wounded French soldiers who are ...
Article : 154 wordsIn his presidential address at the opening of the Congregational Union yesterday, the Rev. N. J. Cocks, M.A., the president-elect, spoke on the war, and on the cause which had ...
Article : 725 wordsParis advices state that a steamer under escort in the Mediterranean was torpedoed, and sank as the result of an explosion among the munitions she carried. There ...
Article : 55 wordsOur gains in Friday's battle are secure. The work of consolidation is going on doggedly on the Australian-New Zealand line in perishing cold and drenching rain. Our boys are ...
Article : 920 wordsSir Douglas Haig, reporting on Monday, stated: The enemy last night heavily bombarded our positions on the main ridge to the southward of Broodseinde. ...
Article : 185 wordsA Russian official message on Monday stated: The enemy occupied the town of Arensbourg, on Ocsel Island, on Saturday, their aerial and naval forces ...
Article : 286 wordsApart from Germany's new venture against the Russian islands in the Baltic, only minor military operations had been reported from different fronts up to a late hour last night. ...
Article : 234 wordsCaptain W. Douglas Reid, of the Army Medical Corps, formerly of Blenheim, New Zealand, has been killed in action. ...
Article : 23 wordsWith the view of stimulating recruiting in the Sportsmen's Unit, the members of the N.S.W. Sportswomen's Union have formed themselves into a committee, and will start ...
Article : 321 wordsA Paris message says the examining magistrate has succeeded in tracing the Swiss cheques for 2,000,000 francs payable to Bolo Pasha. This corresponds to the monthly ...
Article : 38 wordsA meeting of the members of the Coallumpers' Union was held yesterday afternoon. At the conclusion it was stated that the men were opposed to applying for work ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., Chief Interstate Commissioner, yesterday continued his inquiry into the prices of meat in Sydney and suburbs. ...
Article : 592 wordsThe attack delivered by the Austrians against the Italians to the eastward of the Isonzo does not appear to have achieved any Appreciable results. The Italian ...
Article : 329 wordsAbout 120 men reported at the National Service Bureau, O'Connell-street, yesterday for employment at coal-lumping. In addition to those selected for the Dawes Point coliier ...
Article : 65 wordsIn accordance with the decision arrived at during the stormy meeting of the Seamen's Union yesterday afternoon, the secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union (Mr. Cooper), ...
Article : 348 wordsA French communique, issued on Monday afternoon, stated: On the Aisne front reciprocal artillery fire continued, being most lively in the region of the plateau ...
Article : 85 wordsA message from Ottawa states that Sir Wilfrid Laurier has definitely decided to retain the Liberal party leadership, and will fight the election. ...
Article : 67 wordsA conference, convened by the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce, was held in the Town Hall to-day, the intention being to demonstrate to the Government the desirability of ...
Article : 472 wordsA British official message from Salonica states: Scottish troops successfully raided Homodos, south-west of Seres, and captured 143 prisoners. Our casualties were ...
Article : 37 wordsParis advices state that Lieutenant Fonck, a comrade of the late Captain Guynemer, avenged the latter's death on September 30, when he shot down Wissman, the German ...
Article : 70 wordsThe enemy's occupation of Oesel Island, at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, is being rapidly effected, and the later news only bears out the suggestion made in theso notes ...
Article : 253 wordsLast week the wool and basil workers, who were involved in the recent strike, were asked, as a condition procedent to re-employment, that they should subscribe, inter alia, ...
Article : 779 wordsAn Italian official message on Monday stated: We completely broke up an attack near Lokoyel, which was preceded by lavish artillery preparation from ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the War Office is arranging for the issue of a red chevron for officers and soldiers who entered the theatre of war in 1914, and a blue chevron ...
Article : 68 wordsAn important pronouncement of the attitude of the Government towards the old wharf-labourers and coal-lumpers' unions was made by the Acting Premier last night. ...
Article : 643 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the minesweeping sloop Begonia, which is over[?]e, is considered to have been lost, with all hands. ...
Article : 46 wordsFollowing the Home Secretary's refusal to agree to a 50 per cent. increase in taxi cab fares, owners and drivers have decided to strike on the 22nd inst, unless the demand is ...
Article : 36 wordsThe East to West railway will, it is expected, be completed at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, and a trial run to test the whole line will be made next Monday, when a ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Russian statement that their long-range guns on Ocsel Island cover further movement into the Gulf of Riga is not very reassuring, as their chances of retaining the island and ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Prison Commissioners for England and Wales report that the number of prisoners in 1913-14 was 151,603, compared with 49,362 in 1916-17. ...
Article : 27 wordsReports from Amsterdam state that several Rhineland newspapers are clamouring for the recall of Admiral von Tirpitz to the Naval Administration. They also want a Chanceller ...
Article : 152 wordsA message from Paris announces the execution of Mata Hari, the Hindu ritual dancer, who attracted fashionable Parisians to the leading theatres. She was one of Germany's ...
Article : 34 wordsWith regard to future borrowings, Sir John Forrest said to-day he would not oppose the Commonwealth financing the States to the extent of £2,700,000 for the coming year, ...
Article : 45 wordsA meeting was held in London to celebrate the centenary of Kosciusko's death. Lord B[?]yce sent the following message to the meeting:—"Kosciusko was one of the purest ...
Article : 236 wordsThe third session of the 15th Anglican Synod was opened in Bathurst to-day. The Synod passed a resolution providing for a scheme of superannuation for the clergy. ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Premier created a surprise in the Assembly to-night by giving notice of the following motion:—"This House deprecates the conduct of the member for Dalby, Mr. ...
Article : 97 wordsLora Rhondia (Food Controller) has issued a circular to the food control committees emphasising the necessity for materially reducing the consumption of food. Unless every ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. C. E. W. Bean, Commonwealth official correspondent with the A.I.F., telegraphing from Flanders on Sunday, stated:— Last night and to-day rain fell in an almost ...
Article : 261 wordsThe Commonwealth Bank has now received a large stock of the pictorial poster stamps issued by the Commonwealth Treasurer for the purpose of affixing on the back of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe reception which the last Papal Peace Note was accorded in allied countries was far from favourable, and, if the Rome report regarding the Vatican's proposal to renew the ...
Article : 336 wordsMr. G. Swinburne, of the Interstate Commission, continued his investigations to-day as to the cost of liylng in Melbourne. Biscuits, jams, and canned fruits were the ...
Article : 174 wordsReports have reached Amsterdam that the people of Berlin are perturbed at the new rules fixing the quantities of clothing for men and women. Cards are necessary for ...
Article : 85 wordsOn Saturday afternoon Alfred Rogan, 9 years, was minding cows on a farm at Frederickton. He dismounted from his pony to dig some potatoes, when the pony kicked him on the ...
Article : 57 wordsApplications for the new war bonds last week, amounted to nearly £38,000,000. ...
Article : 15 wordsA message from Paris states that M. Geoffrey, lately Ambassador in Madrid, in the course of an interview, said he was convinced the escape of the German submarine ...
Article : 42 wordsA sensational affair occurred in Auckland, where the Reverend Howard Elliott, national lecturer to the Protestant Political Association, was publicly horse-whipped by a ...
Article : 89 wordsA bill authorising the Government to raise an additional £4,000,000 loan was introduced in the House of Representatives. ...
Article : 23 wordsA message from Gibbstown (New Jersey) reports an explosion at the Dupont nitroglycerine plant. Two persons were killed. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Prize Court has condemned, as being destined for the Germans, some valuable parcels of wool, consigned from Buenos Ayres to the Swedish Army administration in Swedish ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Manly Municipal Council last night carried the following motion, which was proposed by the Mayor:—"That, in view of the serious events that have taken place within ...
Article : 95 wordsThe prohibition against the importation of motor cars into Australia has been modified by the Commonwealth authorities, who have decided to permit the importation of motor ...
Article : 82 wordsThree loyalists who attended a picture show last night were followed by several strikers, who attacked them in the dark. The loyalists drew revolvers and fired three shots, one ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. H. F. Dickens. K.C., has been appointed Common Sergeant of the City of London. Mr. Dickens is the sixth son of Charles Dickens, the novelist. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe hon. secretary of the Soldiers' Club bazaar reports that excellent progress is being made, and the interest being taken in the function points to its success. There will be ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the Dutch newspaper "Het Vaderland" puts the question, "Will America and England force Japan and Australasia—and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 17 Oct 1917, Page 11
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