The second session of the Seventh Commonwealth Parliament was opened this afternoon by the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munre Ferguson). The Senate galleries were ...
Article : 1,212 wordsThe newspapers give prominence to the announcement in Field-Marshal Haig's communique of a great bombardment on the Belgian coast. Very heavy gunfire ...
Article : 41 wordsA message from Paris states:—Sergeant Gallois, the hero of the bombardment of Essen, supplies a thrilling narrative of his flight of 750 kilometres, which ...
Article : 235 wordsThe official communiques relating to the operations on the Western front recount successful British raids, an artillery duel on the coast, and abortive enemy attacks ...
Article : 258 wordsReports received in Amsterdam show that Germany is undergoing a political crisis of the first magnitude. It commenced on Friday, when the Socialists ...
Article : 370 wordsA Russian official message issued on Tuesday afternoon stated:— General Korniloff's offensive continues. Despite the enemy's energetic ...
Article : 341 wordsBritish airmen have bombed the War Office in Constantinople. They also damaged the cruiser Goeben. ...
Article : 21 wordsGeneral Korniloff's army is rapidly approaching the important bridgehead of Baliez, on the south bank of the Dueister. The Russians, since autumn, had been ...
Article : 203 wordsLieutenant Aldan Chavasse youngest son of the Bishop of Liverpool, was shot while on patrol duty. He was seen to fall, and Captain Chavasse, V.C., made five ...
Article : 70 wordsWhether the yellow powder from the raiders' bombs, which is puzzling the doctors in London, is the accidental result of the use of some new component in the explosive, or ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "New York Times"—quotes the "Vossische Zeltang" as authority for the announcement that Count Bernstorff, late Ambassador to ...
Article : 45 wordsGeneral Chang Sun has handed over the control of the gendarmerie. All trains leaving Peking are searched to prevent the suspects escaping. The Imperialist General Fong ...
Article : 91 wordsA French communique issued from Salonica on Tuesday night sald: British airmen bombed Petrie, in Southern Bulgaria, to the west of the Struma. Enemy ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Canadian representative on the West front, according to an Ottawa message, reports the great success of the Canadian artillery in the vicinity of Lens. ...
Article : 58 wordsAn armed trawler at Lowestoft, the Iceland, attacked and disabled a seaplane which had descended to launch a torpedo. It also bro[?]ght down a second seaplane ...
Article : 48 wordsNo better tribute to France could be given than the despatch of more men to join our fighting forces at the front. With this objective the State Recruiting Committee are ...
Article : 234 wordsThe claims of the Australian Battleplane Fund were put forward yesterday by Mr. C. Alma Baker, in an address to the Farmers and Setllers' Conference. Mr. Baker pointed out ...
Article : 701 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at the French Headquarters writes: The Chemin-des-Dames Ridge continues to be the scene of fighting, the ...
Article : 270 wordsA message from Washington announces that the State Department is in receipt of advices showing that the inner political storm in Germany grows in severity hourly, ...
Article : 267 wordsSurgeon-General Sir Neville Howse, V.C., of the Australian Army Medical Service, gave evidence before the Dardanelles Commission, ...
Article : 21 wordsThe "Lokal Anzeiger" (Berlin) states that Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, addressing the Grand Committee of the Reichstag, said:—"We must continue the war ...
Article : 141 wordsThere has lately been a marked difference between the respective claims of the French and Germans with regard to the fighting north of the Aisne and west of the Meuse. Since ...
Article : 357 wordsWith the exception of an appeal by Miss Grace Scobie and Private Cole in Prince Alfred Park at 2.30, all the recruiting meetings tomorrow will be in the evening, so as not to ...
Article : 305 wordsThe correspondent of the "Vossische Zeitung" in Galicia (states an Amsterdam message) in describing the latest fighting, says:— ...
Article : 64 wordsGerman telegrams show that a renewal of the disorders in industrial centres is causing great anxiety in official circles. The working classes are indignant at the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says that the growth of the new revolutionary patriotism is the most healthy and encouraging feature in the ...
Article : 149 wordsAt an inquest at Dartford on Liout. Wilfred Salmon, of the Royal Flying Corps, a native of Ballarat, who was killed in Saturday's raid, the verdict returned was that he died of ...
Article : 213 wordsA Copenhagen message says that the Norwegian steamers Edoevstokken, Henrik, and Victoria have been submarined and sunk. The crow of the first two vessels were ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Rudyard Kipling has a poem in the "Morning Post," which is a biting denunciation of the Mesopotamian horrors. He says that the dead heroes cannot return, ...
Article : 55 wordsPerhaps the most satisfactory feature of the later news regarding General Korniloff's offensive westward of Stanislan is the official announcement that the enemy's positions ...
Article : 423 wordsThe Deathshead Battalion of women has left Petrograd for the front, under Madame Bolchkareva, Admiral Skrydloff's daughter, who fought beside, her husband ...
Article : 31 wordsA Washington message says that Denmark has applied for a license for the export of meal cakes from the United States. The Exports Council has withheld a decision until ...
Article : 72 words"This portrait has been placed here by the students of the college in order to commemorate the brave deeds of their young hero-companion, Lance-corporal Thomas James ...
Article : 398 wordsThe Federal Parliamentary Labour party, at its last meeting, appointed a number of committees to watch the work of the various departments. An executive council was ...
Article : 146 wordsThe "New York World" says it has learnt that General Falkenhoyn, with a German army, recently traversed Turkey, en route to the Mesopotamian front. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Bonar Law, in the House of Commons, announced that a Government statement would be made to-morrow respecting the report of the Mesopotamian Commission. ...
Article : 286 wordsLord Northcliffe, who is visiting the United States on a mission from the British Government, addressed the Oversea Club in New York. He paid a tribute ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is stated in Washington that the Italian Mission to the United States has safely returned to a French port. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Dunraven asked whether the medical base at Malta was to be discontinued and the staff transferred to Salonika, where the wounded ...
Article : 146 wordsIn the House of Representatives leave of absence for six months was granted to Mr. M' Donald (Q.) on the ground of ill-health. Mr. Boyd (Vic.) asked the Minister for the ...
Article : 532 wordsAn authoritative message from Washington states that the United States does not urge Mexico to enter into the war, because it considers that Mexico demands ...
Article : 39 wordsMiss Mary Jay has just despatched a further consignment of socks to Queen Mary for her Needlework Guild. Sir Edward Wallington, the Queen's private secretary, has written to ...
Article : 81 wordsA report from Rome says that a great sensation was caused in Florence when the police arrested Vittorio Crettin, an editor, as an Austrian spy. ...
Article : 79 wordsAccording to a Washington report, Mr. Joseph Walsh, speaking in the House of Representatives, characterised the elaborated official account of the transports' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsThe Speaker of the House of Commons (Right Hon. J. W. Lowther) has been called up under the national service regulation to perform ironwork at 4s per day. When the ...
Article : 59 wordsWhile General Brusiloff was scoring his brilliant success at the front, the United States' aid was greatly assisting the provisional Government, America lending ...
Article : 86 wordsWhile Mr. Lloyd George does not offer to meet the wishes of the multitude in England, which is at present clamouring for reprisals for recent air-raids over London, he does not ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 12 Jul 1917, Page 7
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