In a statement issued by Mr. Kavanagh last week, on behalf of the Strike Promotion Committee, regarding the card system, said Mr. Fuller yesterday, the following appears:— ...
Article : 270 wordsTwo urgent measures were introduced in the Assembly last night. One gives power still further to restrict the use of gas and electricity. The other amends the Mining Act, giving the ...
Article : 408 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the Vatican is annoyed at the premature publicity given the Peace Note. It was inte[?]ded to issue the Note ...
Article : 1,119 wordsThe Paris "Matin" says that the Britishers' impetuous assault was the most violent witnessed for ten months past. The merciless violence of the [?]ght, its swiftness, and the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe position on the Sereth front of Moldavia is still very critical. The Russians and Boumanians appear to be doing their utmost to stop the violent Austro-German ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Canadians, advancing one mile on a two miles front, have secured most important positions northward of Lens, which it is reported will become a mere ...
Article : 723 wordsDuring the week ended August 12 the arrivals at French ports totalled 1010, and the sailings 1028. The French ships sunk were:— One above and three below 1600 tons. Four ...
Article : 38 wordsAmerican troops who marched through London streets received the warmest and most popular demonstration of the war period. Lord Derby (Minister for War), General Sir ...
Article : 237 wordsIt is reported from Christiania that the Norwegian steamer Bestum has been torpedoed. The crew was rescued. ...
Article : 21 wordsBrigadier-General R. Maclachlan, of the Rifle Brigade, has been killed in action. He married, in 1908, a Sydney lady, a daughter of Dr. J. Cox. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Acting Premier, Mr. Fuller, referring yesterday to the Defence Committee's proposal for a ballot, said:— "Mr. Kavanagh's proposal shows that he ...
Article : 436 wordsCopenhagen advices state that the threatened reactionary movement in Russia during July has been successfully overcome. The ex-Czar and his family have been secretly ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is reported from Petrograd that the ex-Czar has been conveyed to a family estate near Kostroma (230 miles north-east of Moscow). ...
Article : 27 wordsA conference between British and Turkish delegates, shortly, will discuss the better treatment of prisoners in Turkey. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe "Daily Express" expects that an important announcement will shortly be made concerning the naval command in the Mediterranean. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe train which conveyed the Czar to exile in Siberia left at a quarter to six in the morning, the utmost secrecy being observed. The Czarina was pale and ill. The Czar ...
Article : 81 wordsAn Austrian communique says:—In reprisal for the Italian aerial attack on Pola, numerous Austrian aeroplanes attacked Maritim Arsenal at Venice, and successfully dropped four tons ...
Article : 123 wordsChina's first action after declaring war has been to take over all Austrian and German shipping in her ports, and repatriate German officials. It is not intended to intern ...
Article : 49 wordsThe following is the Admiralty summary of shipping movements and of ships lost during the week ended August 12. The figures do not include fishing and ...
Article : 470 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that the Austrian and German troops sent to Anatolia will form the nucleus of a combined army, which has been ...
Article : 44 wordsA warm passage occurred in the House of Lords between Lord Beresford and Lord Lytton (Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty). ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. McAdoo, Secretary to the Treasury, informed Congress that it would be necessary to vote an addition of £1,800,000,000 war credit, including additional loans of ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. G. W. Fuller, Acting Premier, in a statement made yesterday said:— "The only way in which the Strike Promotion Committee is able to keep its forces ...
Article : 320 wordsReplies to the Speech from the Throne, from both the majority and minority, in the Greek Chamber of Deputies, have been submitted, says an Athens message. The ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is expected that the Government will forthwith be challenged in the House of Commons upon the refusal to issue passports to delegates to the Stockholm Conference. ...
Article : 434 words"This is a mutiny, and not a strike, declared the Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, to-day, in referring to the industrial upheaval. ...
Article : 477 wordsThe Minister for Munitions, Mr. Winston Churchill, when securing the omission of the "dilution of labour" clause from the Munitions Bill in the House of Commons, explained that ...
Article : 150 wordsThe following letter has been addressed to the Federated Electrical Trades Union of Australia by Mr. Flower, its president, who is resuming ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, announced to-day that Mr: G. G. Haldane, chief accountant of the Postmaster-General's Department, had been appointed Director-General of the ...
Article : 364 wordsIn the House of Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury's amendment, that no order under the Ministry of Reconstruction Bill should be issued unless in pursuance of a resolution ...
Article : 267 wordsPolice and military raided the Dublin premises of Colonel More's section of the National Volunteers, who broke off from the main body. Books, ammunition, and 100 ...
Article : 84 wordsA message from Amsterdam s[?]s that reports from Prague show that 90 per cent. of the munition workers and 70 per cent. of other Bohemian workers have been on ...
Article : 73 wordsThe strike control committee has been arrested. There have been further fatalities and casualties in Sabadell and Barcelona. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs sends a vivid description of how the Canadians captured Hill 70, after mining the Lens suburbs of St. Laurent and St. Emille. He gives an eye witness's account ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the House of Commons, Sir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade) said that the Board of Trade was unable, under the war conditions, to grant an ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" interviewed Baron Sonnino (Minister for Foreign Affairs), who said he was delighted with the results of the London ...
Article : 77 wordsThursday's papers will contain General Maude's M[?]ian despat[?] in which mention is made of the [?] Captain Marr[?] R. Clark [?] ...
Article : 244 wordsMiss Elcanor Jacob, president of the Australian Women's Service Corps, has been requested to supply cooks for the Volunteers' Camp at the Cricket Ground. Several have ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the Central Police Court yesterday Louis Kaufmann, 25, was fined £5, with the option of two months in gaol, for assaulting Thomas Forbes, a tram conductor. The assault, it ...
Article : 51 wordsA deputation from the Melbourne Trades Hall Council waited upon the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) at Federal Parliament House this afternoon, and urged that he should ...
Article : 141 wordsThe imminence of a general strike, arising out of railwaymen's grievances, threatens to paralyse the frozen meat trade. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 17 Aug 1917, Page 7
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