As the counting of the votes neara completion, it becomes plainer every day that the P.L.L. only narrowly missed losing- several sc[?]s in this State which have always been ...
Article : 886 wordsMr. Mackinnon, M.L.A., the Director-General of Recruiting, has announced that he is in favour of raising bantam units. The standard height for entry in the A.I.F. has ...
Article : 483 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) was the guest of honour at the quarterly dinner given by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne to-night. He was greeted with wild enthusiasm, and ...
Article : 939 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting at noon to-day, says:— We slightly advanced out positions last night north-eastward of Hargicourt. ...
Article : 90 wordsBy the recapture of the village of Fresnoy the enemy has secured his first visible success against a sector of the new British front, on which our troops have had ...
Article : 308 wordsThere is no truth in a report that the British Ambassador to Russia, Sir George Buchanan, has left Petrograd. It is reported from Petrograd that the ...
Article : 306 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting late on Tuesday evening, stated: —Heavy counter-attacks early this morning in the neighbourhood, of Fresnoy ...
Article : 489 wordsMr. Phillp Gibbs, telegraphing on Tuesday evening, said:—The enemy's gunfire at Loos and Lens and to the south was very heavy throughout the night. The enemy ...
Article : 150 wordsThe French mission, Marshal Joffre and M. Vivianl, will arrive in New York to-day. Marshal Joffre will be presented with a gold miniature of the statue of ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Secretary of the United States Navy, Mr. J. Daniels, after several consultations with the Naval Board, admits that the navy has promissing plans to ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, leader of the British Mission now in the United States, said that the mission would mark a new epoch in the relations between France, America, ...
Article : 59 wordsA correspondent with the British headquarters telegraphs:—Air-fighting has been most active. Seven of our aeroplanes destroyed seven balloons. ...
Article : 67 wordsAny improvement in the enemy's defence must mean further delay, however slight, to the British advance. The nature of the country around Fresnoy, however, does not suggest ...
Article : 279 wordsLieuts. Seaborn and Diamond visited Liverpool camp on Monday, and there made an inspection of their unit, which is now 100 strong, and found them in excellent spirits, ...
Article : 344 wordsAccording to a message from Washington, the subscriptions to the "Liberty" loan now total £600,000,000. ...
Article : 18 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that the German Admiralty's statement that over 1,000,000 tons of shipping were sunk between April 1 and May 6 has been ...
Article : 66 wordsA Russian communique issued on Tuesday night says:— Apart from an intense enemy bombardment in the region of Sventzany, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states that Congress will be asked to appropriate a billion dollars to construct a merchant fleet to overcome ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour (leader of the British Mission to America) visited the Senate, and was warmly greeted. He referred to the trials of the British in the early ...
Article : 185 wordsThe United States Government is investigating a report that a ship, owned by a company flying the United States flag, carried supplies to U boats in the South ...
Article : 48 wordsFresnoy, which is one of the smallest of the different villages which have been figuring in the accouhts of the fighting northward of the Scarfo recently, was captured by the ...
Article : 313 wordsMinisters of the Allies in Athens have protested to the new Premier, M. Zalmis, in connection with their recent discovery of hidden arms, and they demand that ...
Article : 139 wordsAn American Socialist has made a statement that the desire to hold the National Socialist Conference at Stockholm was the most dangerous of the German Emperor's ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon, M.L.A.) to-day expressed disappointment at the fact that, despite repeated appeals for reinforcements, the number of ...
Article : 79 wordsThe London newspapers warmly welcome the success of the Nationalists in Australia. The "Daily Chronicle" says that the election was contested with a political bitterness ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the American United Press telegraphs that Herr Ernest Stressman, a Liberal leader in the Reichstag, said there was no distinction ...
Article : 168 wordsThe United States Department of Agriculture has announced that the winter wheat crop is discouraging. It is hoped the spring crop will normalise the production, as the ...
Article : 84 wordsFighting for Bullecourt continues. The Germans attempted to retake portion of the Hindenburg line on the south-west border of the village after entering that ...
Article : 281 wordsThus early in the Red Triangle Day appeal of the Citizens' Committee of the Y.M.C.A. the amount received is nearing the £10,000 mark. Up to last evening more than £7000 ...
Article : 478 wordsWynynrd-square.—1 p.m., Lieut. Macqueen, Sorgt. Devlin. Neutral Bay.—Southern Cross Picture Theatre, 8 p.m., Professor Macintyre Capt. ...
Article : 135 wordsLord Devonport (Food Controller), speaking in the House of Lords, said that exploitation by unpatriotic speculators had caused a rise in the prices of food, but it would soon be ...
Article : 232 wordsWhile the Canadians have suffered a setback on the left flank at Fresnoy, the position of the Australians, in their pecuillar salient in the Hindenburg line, eastward of ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Institute of Local Government Engineers of Australasia concluded their conference at the Town Hall yesterday. Mr. T. W. Seaver presided. ...
Article : 93 wordsAt yesterday's sitting of the annual conference of the Manchester Unity Order of Odd-fellows a ballot was taken for delegates to the Friendly Societies' Conference, and Deputy ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Minister of Home Affairs (Mr. Glynn) is now only 161 votes behind his Labour opponent, Mr. O'Flaherty, and the chances are that on the soldiers' vote he will get in. The latest ...
Article : 56 wordsSpeaking at Cardiff Mr. W. F. Massey (Premier of New Zealand) said the Imperial Cabinet was going to be a permanent institution in the Empire. ...
Article : 83 wordsA correspondent recently drew attention to the fact that he bad a number of worn coins in his possession which he was unable to get rid of. We are asked by the Commonwealth ...
Article : 126 wordsFor Angas. 222 absent votes remain uncounted; Kalgoorlie, 550 ordinary votes and 1262 absent; Hume, 20 ordinary and 1615 absent; Werriwa, 1512 absent; Calare, 879 ...
Article : 60 wordsYesterday we published an extract from the naval article in "Land and Water" of February 22, written by Mr. Arthur Pollen, in which he referred to the necessity for ...
Article : 411 wordsLieut. R. B. Powell, of the Canadian infantry, and a famous international tennis player, has been killed in France. ...
Article : 23 wordsA Bussian communique issued on Tuesday evening says:—Our advance guards on the border of Mesopotamia, north-east of Bagdad, crossed the Diala River ...
Article : 38 wordsThe returns,are coming in slowly from the far inland parts of the State. The figures that came to hand to-day increased the lead of the Nationalist Senators. There was [?]o ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. H. J. Solloway writes by way of warning to beach bathers, stating that at Balmoral beach one day recently fishermen who were hauling in a net were attacked by a shark 14 ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. C. E. W. Bean, cabling from the Australian headquarters in France on Monday afternoon, stated:— Last night the Scottish troops fighting ...
Article : 226 wordsThe American ladies of Sydney are invited to attend a public meeting at the Hotel Australia on Monday next, at 3 o'clock, to discuss the question of forming an ...
Article : 59 wordsA fire broke out at the corner of Catherine and Mitchell streets, Glebe, last night, in the establishment of Messrs. Buchanan Bros., mantel makers and ...
Article : 115 wordsReferring to the proposed issue by the Defence Department of a special silver medal to the wife, or, if the soldier is unmarried, to the mother or nearest woman relative of a ...
Article : 141 wordsA German official message states:—The Austrians and Turks repulsed advances between Ochrida and Lake Prespa. Germans and Bulgare repulsed attacks on a ...
Article : 47 wordsA mechanical device, illustrating the relative positions and movements of the sun earth, and moon, was exhibited by the inventor, Mr. Charles Sheldon, at the Education ...
Article : 88 wordsBrigadier-General Smith, D.S.O., who was largely responsible for the recent success of the Australian troops at Lagnlcourt, is a nephew of Mrs. T. H. Benson, of Marathon, ...
Article : 109 wordsThe A.J.C. committee, at a special meeting yesterday, voted £1560 for expenses in connection with the twenty nurses who wore sent by the Red Cross Society to France about ...
Article : 55 wordsJapan is rapidly becoming a first-class shipping Power. She added 140,060 tons to her fleet in 1916, and a further 60,000 tons since January 1. ...
Article : 75 wordsLady Holder, of Western Australia, who is the Australasian president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and Mrs. Strang, State president of the union, visited ...
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Article : 58 wordsThe Acting Premier recently brought under the notice of the Public Works Department the resolution passed by the conference of the Chambers of Commerce urging the early ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Justic Edmunds will preside over the Coal. Tribunal at Wollongong this morning. A number of grievances, including the recent stoppage of work at the Mount Kembla ...
Article : 66 wordsThe masters and mates of all steamers under 600 tons register have been granted by the Shipowners' Federation a war bonus of £3 per month, dating from March 1 last. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 10 May 1917, Page 7
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