The Admiralty announces that the steamers Donegal (1188 tons) and Lanfrane (6287 tons) were torpedoed without warning on the evening of April 17. when ...
Article : 882 wordsA Copenhagen message states that 20,000 workers in Stockholm made a demonstration outside Parliament House. The Premier promised a deputation that the food ...
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Article : 415 wordsField Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his noon report of Monday, says:- We attacked this morning over a wide front on both banks of the River Scarpe. ...
Article : 79 wordsMany and varied are the excuses put forward by eligible men why they will not come forward In the service of King and country, said Professor Macintyre, chairman of the ...
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Article : 152 wordsThe most interesting feature of yesterday's communiques is a line in the German report which says that the British fire on the Arras front has increased to ...
Article : 558 wordsA Rome wireless message says that Talaat Bey will arrive in Vienna on Monday, bearing what is equivalent to an appeal for the cessation of the war. ...
Article : 31 wordsA Washington despatch announces that Turkey has broken off relations with the United States. ...
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Article : 43 wordsAn official message from Egypt says: We have consolidated the ground gained in Southern Palestine (south of Gaza), and are now coming into contact with the ...
Article : 64 wordsAn Amsterdam message says the sunken German destroyers were of the newest type, containing four funnels. A number of wounded naval men have ...
Article : 29 wordsA German official message states: Fighting has been revived in the Cerna Bend, south-west of Doiran Lake. ...
Article : 24 wordsThere were great demonstrations in Paris on Sunday in honour of America's intervention in the war on the side of the Allies. Crowds accorded an ovation ...
Article : 35 wordsThe two British destroyers which sank the two German destroyers in the Channel on Friday night received a rapturous reception on returning to port, the crews of ...
Article : 289 wordsA message from Amsterdam reports a great explosion in the German naval base of Wilhelmshaven. It caused damage for many miles around. ...
Article : 24 wordsA Petrograd message announces that inundations on the Riga front separate the adversaries and fighting is impossible. Heavy German concentrations have taken ...
Article : 28 wordsThe later details concerning the destroyer action in the Channel on Friday night last do not detract in the slightest degree from the very gallant performance of the two British ...
Article : 296 wordsThe military procession will start to-morrow from Queen's-square at 2.15 sharp. His Excellency the Governor will take the salute at the Mitchell Library, near Parliament ...
Article : 1,277 wordsVon Falkenhauson succeeds the late General von Bissing as German Governor of Belgium. ...
Article : 17 wordsA dozen recruits responded to the call for men made by several speakers in Martinplace during the luncheon-hour yesterday, and were taken by motor cars to the ...
Article : 369 wordsA Zurich despatch says that the munition workers in Berlin held further demonstrations at the end of the week, although the military posted notices in the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe arrival in Washington of the British mission, led by Mr. Balfour (British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) lias aroused the keenest interest throughout ...
Article : 433 wordsThe railway workers of Warsaw and Lodz and other Polish townns have struck work. The Germans threatened to deport them, but the number of strikers is ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Imperial War Conference, on tha motion of Sir Robert Bordon (Canada) and Mr. W. F. Massey (New Zealand) resolved to recommend the admission of India's representatives to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe reports from Mesopotamia and Egypt, which appeared yesterday, and which are supplemented by later messages published this morning, show that the Turk is still ...
Article : 282 wordsThe trade-union leaders at a meeting in Berlin declared that 400,000 persons participated in the strike. They secured the Government's promise that a Labour ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Artillery square at Victoria Barracks presented quite an old-time appearance yesterday morning, for men were mustering there in hundreds. They were not recruits ...
Article : 164 wordsA former resident of America now living in this State made reference yesterday to the war outlook in Argentine and Brazil. A close observer of things, and a resident of ...
Article : 579 wordsThe following table shows the number of mon who were accepted throughout Now South Wales for the week ended April 21:— Calare, 14; Cook, C; Cowper, 15; Dalley, 14; ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Morning Post's" correspondent says that German experts spent the winter devising ways to combat the British tanks, which are still unconquered. ...
Article : 120 words"The enemy violently bombarded Reims, particularly the cathedral quarter," says the French communique published this morning. This bald announcement has been repeated ...
Article : 401 wordsLieut. Austin Diamond, accompanied by Sergt. W. Browne, has returned from his recruiting tour of the Northern Rivers, the towns visited being Ballina, Murwillumba[?], ...
Article : 172 wordsA telegram from Athens says that the position in Greece is grave, but the incapacity of the Royal regime is rapidly leading to a situation in which a final ...
Article : 164 wordsTh hospital ship Lanfranc was attacked at 8 pm., in a heavy sea. A week previously she saw the hospital ship Salta sink nine minutes after striking a mine in the ...
Article : 756 wordsIn Victoria to-day 44 men were examined, mid 14 were passed for service. BRISBANE, Monday. A splendid type of volunteer is now coming ...
Article : 53 wordsA crowd of 50,000 demonstrated in the streets of Buenos Ayres, the capital of Argontiue. The people sang the patriotic songs of the United States and the Allies. ...
Article : 34 wordsGerman destroyers bombarded Calais on Friday night. ...
Article : 10 wordsA Rome telegram reports that the "Corriere d'ltalia" states that the Austrian Empress accompanied the Emperor at her own request, at a recent interview, in order to ...
Article : 67 wordsNewland's Bedstead Factory, Surry Hills: Lunch-hour, Mr. E. Bickford, Recruiting Officer. Private Joseph Firkin, who is leaving to ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that after April 30 the Food Controller will take over all the flourmills in the United Kingdom the output of which Exceeds five sacks per hour. ...
Article : 94 wordsTo-morrow night (Anzac night) at [?] Mr. Russell Sinclair, chairman of the State Munition Board, will deliver a lecture entitled "Munition-making in England," with lantern ...
Article : 45 wordsCaptain Keith Barrett, of the Royal Fust. Hers, died of wounds received on April l6. He was a son of Lien[?]-colonel J. W. Barrett, of Melbourne. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 24 Apr 1917, Page 7
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