The Minister for the Navy, Mr. Joseph Cook, had something to say yesterday regarding the decision of the anti-conscriptionists to celebrate the referendum ...
Article : 435 wordsField-Marshal Haig reports:—The British and French armies, in co-operation, launched attacks at 5.45 this morning eastward, north-eastward, and northward of ...
Article : 55 wordsThe later Italian and enemy communiques re[?] the serious nature of the counteroffensive which the Italians are sustaining at present to the left of the line, where they ...
Article : 331 wordsA wireless report from Rome says correspondents at the front state that Austria is attacking with almost her whole army, and with important German units. The ...
Article : 522 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports: Our aeroplane squadrons last night attacked factories and railway communication in the vicinity of Saarbrucken with excellent results. ...
Article : 237 wordsA Russian official message on Thursday morning stated:—The enemy has retired 15 miles in the Riga region, near the Pskov high road and Little Jagel. Our vanguards ...
Article : 448 wordsA French communique, issued on Thursday afternoon, stated:—The situation north of the Aisne, in the sector from Braye[?]en[?] [?]aonois to Chavignon, is unchanged. ...
Article : 619 wordsRio de Janeiro advices state that Congress is debating declaring war, following on the President's declaration that Germany already has inflicted war on Brazil. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe weekly war bulletin issued by the American Secretary for War (Mr. Newton D. Baker) emphasises that the German operations in the Riga sector do not off-set the Allied ...
Article : 185 wordsA message from Mexico City states that a majority of Senators informally voted in favour of sovering relations with Germany, and observing a benevolent neutrality towards the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Italian Minister for War says it is difficult to know whether this Austro-German move has a political or a military aim. It is possible that it is intended to serve both ...
Article : 342 wordsThe central executive council of the New South Wales[?] referendum petition committee respecting oversea compulsory military service has issued a circular letter to all Mayors ...
Article : 100 wordsFrankie Ne[?]l (of Sydney) boxes "Young" Symonds at the National Sporting Club on Monday. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe United States is seizing huge supplies, which have been long held in the interest of Germany, valued at £40,000,000. Cotton alone totals 1,000,000 bales. ...
Article : 300 wordsThe maximum prices of Australian butter have advanced to 220/ and of New Zealand to 224/. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Minister for Defence will address a meeting in the Town Hall next Wednesday night on Australia's part in the war. The need of men to reinforce our divisions now in ...
Article : 229 wordsMr. Mitchell Palmer, custodian of enemy property, is preparing to use a huge amount of the money owed to Germans in the United States to buy Liberty Bonds, and also to ...
Article : 43 wordsIn connection with the dispute between the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia and the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association and other employers in the various ...
Article : 248 wordsIt is officially announced that 67 lives were lost when the American transport Antilles was sunk by a submarine last week, comprising 16 members of the military forces, four ...
Article : 53 wordsAdvices from Washington state that Dr. Reiss, a Swiss professor, reports that the Bulgarians killed 1000 people and destroyed 10,000 houses in Monastir by continuous ...
Article : 34 wordsThe enemy's attack appears to have affected the greater part of a twenty-mile front, extending from the northern edge of the Bainsizza plateau up to Mount Rombon. This ...
Article : 389 wordsA New York message says that Dr. Anemn, a prominent Dutch thinker, has submitted to the Entente a suggestion to build 3000 huge, heavily-armed submarine destroyers of the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the United Press Agency states that 50.000 Servians are starving. Many thousands of others are enduring awful sufferings, owing to insufficient ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-day's recruiting meetings are:— Manly, Corso, 8 p.m.—Recruiting train team, which leaves on Monday for a tour of the western district, and which includes Private ...
Article : 128 wordsA message from Washington states that two men who lost their lives on the United States transport Antilles, which was recently torpedoed in European waters, were naturalised ...
Article : 205 wordsNew York advices state that the Shipping Board has permitted the use of foreign tonnage for coastal trade, filling up the gap caused by the diversion of many coastal boats ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Hume-Williams, M.P., addressing a meeting of members of the House of Commons interested in British prisoners in Turkey, urged that further efforts should be made ...
Article : 51 wordsA shipping authority states that in view of statements appearing in yesterday's Press that a compulsory conference is likely to be called in regard to conditions of waterside ...
Article : 229 wordsA message from Amsterdam says that in reply to neutral indignation over the sinking of Scandinavian ships in the North Sea raid a German official statement asserts that the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe quarterly report of the Railway Commissioners, which embraces almost the whole of the strike period, shows a large decrease in the revenue. ...
Article : 146 wordsAn Athens report states that during the debate in the Greek Chamber of Deputies on the proposition to impeach the Gounaris Cabinet, M. Venizelos stated that in his last ...
Article : 84 wordsA combined military rally and reunion arranged by Lieutenant Litchfield and Little-john, under the joint auspices of the Annandale, Leichhardt, and Petersham branches of ...
Article : 202 wordsLord Robert Cecil (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), in the House of Commons today, categorically denied that the western Allies were contemplating a separate peace, ...
Article : 615 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Wardle (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) announced that Britain's exports of cement to Holland was 20,800 tons in 1914, ...
Article : 71 wordsA large number of members of the Wharf-labourers' Union visited the offices of the Permanent Wharf Labourers' Union in Elizabethst yesterday afternoon, and took possession of ...
Article : 140 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in his noon report on Thursday, stated: We completely repulsed another strong counter-attack last night south of Houthu[?]st Wood. ...
Article : 215 wordsThe second reading of a bill in connection with repatriation was moved in the House of Assembly by the Minister of Repatriation, Mr. Blundell to-day. The ...
Article : 98 wordsA message from Washington says the United States War Department's compilations estimate the number of men under arms for the Allies at 27,500,000, and those for the Central ...
Article : 47 wordsAfter the operations on the middle [?]sonzo, the most interesting military developments mentioned in this morning's cablegrams are the German withdrawal on the extreme left ...
Article : 362 wordsA meeting of merchants and manufacturers, held in Cannon-street Hotel, under the auspices of the London Chamber of Commerce, protested against the existing system of ...
Article : 110 wordsThe magistracy under the present system was championed by Mr. H. E. M'Intosh, solicitor, in evidence before Mr. G. Mason Allard, Royal Commissioner inquiring into the Public ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Burwah arrived at Brisbane this morning with a full cargo from the south, and it was the intention of the company to commence discharging the cargo at 8 o'clock. On ...
Article : 163 wordsIn the House of Commons, during the consideration of the Petroleum Bill, the Government was defeated by 44 votes to 35 upon the Government's proposal to pay surface owners ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Lord Mayor has been advised that arrangements have been made for speakers to take part in the anti-German meeting to be held in the Town Hall on Monday afternoon ...
Article : 90 wordsWashington advices received from Rome report serious food riots in Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. Soldiers fired on a crowd in one city, killing 40 and wounding 150 women and ...
Article : 34 wordsColonel Spain reported last night that the loyalist camp at Taronga Park had definitely closed. "We had a splendid lot of fellows," he ...
Article : 69 wordsWednesday, November 21, has been set apart by the Archbishop of Sydney as a special day for prayer in connection with the war. ...
Article : 152 wordsSeventeen hundred delegates to the Sinn Fein Convention at the Mansion House, Dublin, including m[?]y young priests, unanimously adopted a provisional constitution, ...
Article : 55 wordsAn essential part of the settlement of the late strike, as between the Government and the coalminers, provided for the appointment of judicial tribunals to hear complaints made ...
Article : 124 wordsWhile a boy named Flemming, son of Mr. James Flemming, dairy farmor, was on his way to school, without his boots, he was bitten by a snake. Miss Pickeman, the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe "Daily Graphic" says that the committee which is investigating the conditions for the national acquisition of the liquor trade considers £400,000,000 may cover the various ...
Article : 33 wordsSir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade) has informed the National Hunt Club stewards that the winter meetings cannot be held. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe German Emperor has reorganised the Ministry of the Interior. Dr. H[?]lff[?]rich is [?] [?]. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 27 Oct 1917, Page 17
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