A number of vessels left for coastal ports north and south yesterday. The Excella finally got away on Friday morning for Tasmania, with a cargo. Other vessels are ...
Article : 212 wordsAn immediate settlement of the strike may be looked for. Acting independently of the Government in his capacity as Industrial Commissioner, Mr. J. B. Holme, B.A., ...
Article : 123 wordsField Marshal Haig reports:— We rushed a hostile post westward of Queant, and captured a machine-gun. We repulsed raids near Lens and Armentieres. ...
Article : 52 wordsAn Italian official message on Thursday afternoon stated: The struggle north-east of Gorizia continues. We captured, yesterday 26 officers and more than 500 men. ...
Article : 291 wordsA Russain official message on Thursday afternoon stated: We are continuing our retirement north of the River Aa (northeast of Riga. We crossed the Melupe ...
Article : 315 wordsLittle beyond continued aircraft fighting and raiding is reported from the Western front. BRITISH. ...
Article : 300 wordsThe "New York Tribune" reports that four merchant ships and three submarines were sunk in a battle between 22 merchant ships and seven submarines. ...
Article : 39 wordsIt has been proposed to Holland by the United States that 100 Dutch ships—which loaded grain in American ports, but were not allowed to depart because they could not ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the United Press Association says that the refugees from Riga have arrived, including the last trainload which dashed through just before the ...
Article : 45 wordsThere are now over 6200 men in the two loyal labour camps—the Sydney Cricket Ground and Taronga Park. Every day fresh batches of men arrive from the country, the ...
Article : 40 wordsAdvices from Amsterdam state that "Vorwaerts," the German Socialist organ, says that Germany will reply to the Pope, stating that the German people do not want gain from the ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is quite probable that at an early date some of the present restrictions in the use of gas will be removed. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe "New York Herald" publishes a despatch from Jassy, which states that bitter animoslty prevails between the Prussians and the Bavarians, who must be separated when ...
Article : 78 wordsAt the Clyde Engineering Company's works the work of repairing the Government locomotives is being proceeded with. No trouble is anticipated in securing additional hands ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is reported from Zurich that following the failure of the Polish Kingdom which was proclaimed in November last, Austria and Germany are again partitioning the country— ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, indicated this evening that notices are to be served almost immediately under the powers conferred upon the Ministry by the regulation ...
Article : 141 wordsAccording to advices from San Francisco, the Shanghai correspondent of the "Chinese World" states that 15,000 Chinese troops have been mobilised to assist on the Russian ...
Article : 38 wordsSir Oswya Murray has been appointed Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty, in succession to Sir Graham Greene, who becomes Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe London correspondent of the United Press Association interviewed Lord Rhondda (President of the Local Government Board), who stated that England expects to spend ...
Article : 64 wordsAlthough no military operations of great importance are reported from the British line in the West, the communiques suggest that activity is being displayed along certain ...
Article : 277 wordsThe Trade Union Congress, which is sitting in Blackpool, referred the question of air defence to the General Purposes Committee. The Congress unanimously denounced ...
Article : 254 wordsThere was a clean sweep from the camp into the colliery to-day. Orders reached the camp when the men were at breakfast, and the majority of the men, who had been ...
Article : 613 wordsThere is every possibility of the strike of railway and tramway employees being called off on Monday next. ...
Article : 223 wordsA number of the employees in the employ of the Co-operative Box Company of New South Wales, Ltd., Balmain, went on strike yesterday. Mr. Leask, the works ...
Article : 210 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, telegraphing on Thursday night, said: The Canadians carried out a daring little enterprise at Lens during a thunderstorm on Wednesday night. The ...
Article : 75 wordsA New York message states that sensational revelations are expected as a result of raids on all the headquarters of the I.W.W. It is asserted that German influences have inspired ...
Article : 37 wordsAdmiral Von Scheer (who commanded the German fleets at the battle at Jutland), in the course of the interview in Leipsic (of which a summary has already been ...
Article : 460 wordsAdvices from Paris state that President Poincare and Marshal Petain reviewed the American troops. President Poincare alluded to the anniversaries of the battle of the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr, Lloyd George, had a rapturous reception at the National Elsteddfod at Birkenhead. In the course of a speech the Prime ...
Article : 473 wordsMr. Melghen (Solicitor-General) has introduced a Wartime Elections Act, providing for the disfranchisemcnt of allens of enemy origin naturalised since 1902, and enfranchising the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Russian tropps to the eastward of Riga continue to fall back steadily, and have no doubt reached in places the line which they intended to hold. The rate at retreat ...
Article : 274 wordsIt is estimated that about 500O men attended the mass meeting in the Town Hall yesterday, morning of the iron trade workers, including the Amalgamated Engineers, the ...
Article : 491 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that a tremendous campaign has begun in Germany on behalf of the seventh German war loan. The appeal is being mainly based on ...
Article : 108 wordsLieutenant Killeen, Lieutenant Railton, Corporal Macnamara, and Private Miller addressed a recruiting meeting in Martin-place yesterday. Five volunteers responded to the ...
Article : 48 wordsA German communique, issued on Thursday, says: We raided, on Tuesday night, London, Southend, and Margate. One of our machines 18 missing. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt was known that the Industrial Commissioner had interested himself in the matter of mediation, quite apart from his official position as Under-Secretary to the Department of ...
Article : 176 wordsOne German message throws some light upon the question of prisoners captured during the Riga offensive, and states that 7630 Russians have fallen into their hands. This is ...
Article : 271 wordsThis evening Mr. A. N. White will hold an exhibition of war trophies at 8 o'clock, in Martin-place. Staff-sergeant-major Davis will speak at Wollongong. ...
Article : 92 wordsAdvices from Amsterdam state that the Gorman Emperor, journeying to the Flanders front, stopped a day in Brussels. The police ordered the inhabitants to hang out flags. The ...
Article : 74 wordsPrivate M. C. Sowden, of the 45th Battalion, who was wounded in the feet and arms, while in hospital in France submitted himself for the transfusion of a pint and a half ...
Article : 79 wordsThe latest report from Cullen Bullen is as follows:—Considering that the Invincible is a difficult colliery to be worked, the manager says he is not at all dissatisfied with the way ...
Article : 126 wordsReplying to a deputation of farmers which conveyed to him a resolution complaining that the prices for cattle that have been fixed are inadequate, Lord Rhondda (Food ...
Article : 157 wordsSir Edward Carson (member of the British War Cabinet), replying to a correspondent, says:—There is much loose talk about peace. Some people imagine that it is only ...
Article : 145 wordsReginald James Wearne appeared at the Newtown Police Court yesterday before Mr. Love, S.M., in connection with the charge preferred against him of having [?]ln Mervyn ...
Article : 70 wordsM. Ribot, the French Premier, speaking in a cemetery where many heroes of the battle of the Marne are buried, said that France is not fighting to conquer territory, but she ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Defence Committee met early last night and sat for about two hours, awaiting the return of those members of the committee who were a party to the negotiations. ...
Article : 137 wordsAt Thursday night's meeting of the Labour Council a notice of motion was given that the attitude of the Amalgamated Painters and Decorators Union in regard to the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Coal Board met yesterday afternoon. It was decided to further extend the time during which persons holding stocks of coal and coke exceeding five tons may continue to use ...
Article : 47 wordsAn order was issued this afternoon, lowering the price of butter in New South Wales. The new prices in the metropolitan area will be as follow:—First-grade, wholesale, 152/4 ...
Article : 144 wordsArrangements were completed yesterday between the State Government and Mr. F. Hagelthorn, Minister for Agriculture in the Victorian Cabinet, who came over from ...
Article : 80 wordsA factor which might effect a radical alteration in the already serious situation with which the Russians are faced is the effective intervention of the German Baltic [?] ...
Article : 323 wordsA Paris message says that the famous French boxer, Carpentier, who has been serving in the army for three years, is going to America as an aviation instructor. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe two men arrested in connection with the Humber Graving Dock Company's contracts, are Eric Brotherton, manager of the Immingham Dock Company, and John Cripsey, ...
Article : 67 wordsThe waterside workers to-day, though called upon, refused to load four trucks of frozen sundries for shipment to Sydney. They also refused to load sugar from Inkerman mill, also ...
Article : 55 wordsDr. Sun Yat Sen (the Republican propagandist and leader), has formed in Canton a Provisional Government, which represents the southern provinces, and declares itself ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Allen, secretary to the Masters and Engineers' Association, said yesterday that his organisation had decided to reaffirm its previous decision to remain neutral. ...
Article : 34 wordsReports from Zurich state that the military have isolated Mannbeitn, owing to an epidemic of dysentery. Doctors have been drafted from the front to stop the ravages of the disease. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Zoological Gardens at Taronga Park have been temporarily closed during the period that the gardens are being used for the voluntary workers' camp. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 8 Sep 1917, Page 11
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