About fifteen hundred railway and tramway men crowded into the Railway Institute hall yesterday morning to hear the Chief Railway Commissioner explain the facts in ...
Article : 5,679 wordsAn Austrian communique, issued at midnight ou Sunday, snys:— The Italians attacked the coastal territory of the Isonzo, which has belonged to ...
Article : 112 wordsThe British lines, by a successful local operation, have been advanced a quarter of a mile on a mile front, south-east of Langemarck. The communiques follow. ...
Article : 297 wordsBritish Headquarters, France, June 13. The Messines battle constated of one attack in the dawn and first hours of the morning and a second attack during the afternoon. It ...
Article : 1,183 wordsAt midniglit on Sunday all the mines at Broken Hill were thrown idle, the men ceasing work in sympathy with the Sydney unions. Another conference between the Strike Committee and ...
Article : 350 wordsA British communique, issued at 12.55 p.m., states:—After sharp fighting we completely repulsed a counter-attack made last night against positions which we had ...
Article : 62 wordsThe air service on Saturday night dropped many tons of bombs on Saint Pierre Station, Ghent, Tuourout Station, and the ammunition dump at Bruges ...
Article : 70 wordsA Russian official message issued on Sunday afternoon stated:—We repulsed attacks south-west of Narotch Lake (northern sector), south of Grozeschti, In the ...
Article : 40 wordsA report from Athens states that M. Polltis, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, whett tabling diplomatic documents relative to the Graeco-Sorbian treaty and the enemy invasion of ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York World" has been authentically informed that the most influential Wall-street bankers are considering a rearrangement of banking ...
Article : 50 wordsYesterday, the Trolly and Draymen's Union gave effect to its decision, reached last week, not to cart any "black" meat. A large number of men are affected. The ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Government has issued the first list of officers, seamon, and women who have met their death as an outcome of enemy attacks upon British merchant ships and fishing boats. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe minor operations on the Western front mentioned in Sir Douglas Halg's late message were directed towards effecting an improvement in the British line to the ...
Article : 308 wordsIt is notified in a despatch from Tientsin that a number of Chinese generals have volunteered with the troops under their command for active service in Europe. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Madrid strike is collapsing. Many services are resuming, and the capital and other towns are becoming normal. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that Count Esterhazy has resigned the Hungarian Premiership (which he accepted some time ago, after the Emperor ...
Article : 174 wordsReports received from Switzerland asert that Germany is building a new type of aeroplane, known as the Friedrickshafen. It is claimed that the machine is able to cloud ...
Article : 35 wordsThe difficulty created by the Coal-lumpers' Union refusing to coal transports has been overcome by the splendid response of volunteer labour. ...
Article : 397 wordsLieutenant-Commander W. E. Sanders, Royal Naval Reserve, has been killed in action. He was recently awarded the Victoria. Cross in recognition of conspicuous gallantry ...
Article : 47 wordsIf the Austrian official wireless message published this morning is correct, the Italians would appear to have launched' a big offensive along the leonzo front. At a late hour last ...
Article : 426 wordsIt is the enemy's centre and left that we are particularly concerned with at present more than with the Sereth line on the right. Ever since he failled last year to break ...
Article : 348 wordsA Polish congress, sitting at Warsaw, telegraphed to the French Premier, M. Ribot, asseverating the unshakable determination of the Poles to fight for an independent Polish ...
Article : 57 wordsA statement was issued yesterday by the Wholesale Meat Trade Committee as follows: —"Referring tq the strike of the slaughtermen at Glebe Island and Homebush Bay ...
Article : 291 wordsThe A.M.A. held a special meeting this afternoon to discuss the advisableness of falling into line with the men now on strike in Sydney, or assisting ...
Article : 181 wordsThe German Emperor visited the fleet at Wilhelmshaven and Heligoland, and sent a wireless message stating that the German North Sea front continues to stand firm. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Lokal Anze[?]ger" says that hundreds of workmen in Krupps' factories in Magdeburg have struck over the arrest of one of their leaders on a charge of spreading a ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Minister for the Navy, Mr. Cook, to-day expressed gratification at the response on the part of volunteers to the appeal to load transports in Sydney, thus doing the work ...
Article : 295 wordsA report from Copenhagen states that the Norwegian steamer Tuddal has been sunk by a submarine off the French coast. The crew was rescued. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe death is announced of the Right Rev. E. T. O'Dwyer, Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Gas Board appointed under the Electric Lighting and Gas Emergency Act, 1917 (passed last week), met yesterday. It is now notified that this board has assumed control ...
Article : 216 wordsThe only men in and on the mines to-day besides staffs were engineers, carpenters, enginedrivers, and other craftsmen. They were occupied in routine and repair work. ...
Article : 319 wordsA message from Peking says that in order to assist the Entente to the fullest extent the Chinese Government is investigating facilities for exporting foodstuffs to the Allies. ...
Article : 85 wordsAlthough the news from Roumania this morning is scanty. it is satisfactory as far as it goes. The Russian communique containing it merely refers to the failure of enemy attacks ...
Article : 289 wordsYesterday morning 51 of the accepted recruits who were obtained on the tour from Tenterfield to Newcastle arrived in Sydney by train. It Is expected that about the same ...
Article : 223 wordsLarge landholders and small landholders, country butchers and other men who know how to kill a bullock or a sheep, put in their first day at the Homebush abattoirs ...
Article : 714 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that unknown aeroplanes dropped bombs on Schouwen Island (near the Scheldt), but caused no casualties. Later, two aeroplanes, probably ...
Article : 48 wordsThe strike situation is monopolising the greater part of the Prime Minister's time. Mr. Hughes stated that the Ministry would proceed to-morrow with the work of coaling, ...
Article : 90 wordsA car was decending a steep hill outside of Dover when the brakes failed. The car left the rails at the bottom of the hill, and crashed, with terrific force, into a wall. Ten ...
Article : 56 wordsThe attention of consumers is directed to a notification in our business columns this morning prohibiting the use, for external lighting, of electricity genorated by the City ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 21 Aug 1917, Page 7
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