The Navy Office states that the Union S.S. Company's steamer Waitotars caught fire at sea and has heen abandoned. The whole of the crew has been picked ...
Article : 38 wordsSir Douglas Haig's despatch, covering the period from the fighting along the Ancre valley in November to the offensive delivered eastward of Arras in April last, differs in ...
Article : 360 wordsA message from Washington states that the united States has advanced another £7,000,000 to Britain, making a total loan to the Allies of £196,600,000. ...
Article : 336 wordsLord Northeliffe has returned to New York, and has started work in earnest. The day is filled in with conferences, and the staff is working at high pressure. Lord ...
Article : 400 wordsNo movement of importance is reported in Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's latest communiques. TUESDAY, ISSUED AT NOON: ...
Article : 231 wordsM. Thomas, the French Minister for Munitions, has arrived at Copenhagen from Petrograd. In the course of an interview he stated that in a few weeks Germany ...
Article : 941 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in the remaining portion of his despatch covering the operations of the British Forces from November 18 to the commencement of the ...
Article : 1,289 wordsThe House of Commons, by 385 votes to 53, defeated Sir Frederick Banbury's proposal to eliminate female suffrage from the Franchise Bill, amidst much cheering. ...
Article : 332 wordsAn Athens message says that importance is attached to an interview between M. Jonnart (the Allies' High Commissioner) and M. Zaimis (Greek Premier), M. ...
Article : 493 wordsAdvices received at Geneva from Munich cannot be regarded as unimpeachable. This is to be regretted when we read the story which comes to us from this source to-day ...
Article : 420 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" headquarters correspondent reports that Germany is speciallising in "storming troops," who are picked because of their youth, vigour, and ...
Article : 55 wordsA representative of the "Daily Chronicle" interviewed Mr W. A. Holman. Premier of New South Wales. He is described as "keen, alert, and masterful. His conversation ...
Article : 281 wordsSir Thomas Shaughnessy, President of the Canadian-Pacific Railway, says that Canada can easily raise [?] additional 150,000 troops without affecting her ...
Article : 67 wordsThe "Nieuwe Courant's" Vienna correspondent telegraphs that the Hungarian Minister for Defence believes that the war will last for two moro winters, for which ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the King destres, owing to the conditions brought about by war, that those princes of his family who are his subjects, but bear German names and ...
Article : 237 wordsThere is a heat wave in France. The Australians are wearing a minimum of clothing, and their appearance is reminiscent of Gallipoil. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states that extraordinary precautions are being taken by American, Japanese, and British ships in the ...
Article : 41 wordsAccording to enemy communiques, the British, after burning villages, abandoned advanced positions in the unhealthy Struma Valley (north-east of Salonica), ...
Article : 154 wordsThe New York "Herald's" Stockholm correspondent has interviewed Messrs. Herman and Bernstein, the American delegates to the conference. They declared it was clear ...
Article : 50 wordsIf ever the belief was entertained that the British operations on the eastern side of the Struma in Macedonia presaged a serious attempt to move against Bulgaria by way of the ...
Article : 342 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. J. I. Macpherson (Under-Secretary for War) said that one of our airpilots had reported that after the London ...
Article : 135 wordsAccording to a Capetown message, Mr. Merriman, Promler of Cape Colony, will move in the Assembly that the efforts to carry on a republican propaganda in South Africa will ...
Article : 52 wordsMiss Olwen Lloyd-George, the Prime Minister's daughter, was quietly married to Captain Carey Evans at the Welsh Baptist Chapel. The King sent his congratulations. ...
Article : 64 wordsIn moving the second reading of the Conscription Bill. Sir R. L. Burden, Prime Minister of Canada, stated that 1,500,00 men were available for military service, of ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Lloyd George will receive a Unionist deputation which will urge the Government to exercise absolute control over food, suppress profiteering, and take over the ...
Article : 37 wordsThis was a sensational day in the Liverpool cotton market. At one time prices were up 120 points. The market closed irregularly with June shipments quoted at 18.63d per lb. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Sinn Fein demonstration, which was held in Dublin in connection with the arrival of the political prisoners recently released by the British Government, lasted until ...
Article : 190 wordsAt Chicago to-day wheat futures were quoted:—July, opening 2.09 dollars, closing 2.03 dollars: September, 1.83 dollars, closing 1.78 dollars. The visible supply of American ...
Article : 45 wordsThe boys employed at the Randwick Tramway Workshops about 100 in all, struck work yesterday afternoon. There is a likelihood of the trouble spreading, involving a large ...
Article : 296 wordsThe British Sailors and Firemen's Union took a ballot, and by a majority of 1,000,000 votes approved of the executive's refusal to carry peace delegates to ...
Article : 59 wordsAt the police court Samuel Leslie Harris appeared on remand charged with having attempted to kill his wife, Daisy Emily Harris, on May 30. Mr. Henderson, ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Belgian Government denies that the deportations from Belgium have ceased. On the contrary, they have recommenced en masse. Mons has been warned that it ...
Article : 31 wordsThe cabled message appearing this morning, which mentions the abandonment by the British of these villages, refers to the "unhealthy Struma Valley." While this phrase ...
Article : 303 wordsIt is reported from Copenhagen that the Nor vegian steamer Cissy, laden with coal from Chile, struck a mine and sank. A Paris message states that a ...
Article : 66 wordsLeonard Edwards, a resident of Golden Square, Bendigo, was killed to-day through the explosion of a German bomb. The bomb was with other trophles brought to Australia ...
Article : 76 wordsCaptain T. MacLeod, of the Royal Flying Corps, formerly of Brisbane, has been awarded the Croix-de-Guerre. The police evidence against Metcalf and ...
Article : 205 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that the Austrian Cabinet has resigned owing to the hostility of the powerful Polish party, which has completely broken off relations ...
Article : 125 wordsA message from Madrid says that the Spanish Foreign Minister has instructed Spanish Ambassadors to categorically deny statements that Spain is passing ...
Article : 49 wordsA granite quarry has been opened at Gunning, and the supply is reported to be inexhaustible. The quality is considered equal to Scotch granite. Under existing condition ...
Article : 50 wordsAn Order-in-Council has been gazetted, providing that the voluntary enlistment of the first division of men over 21 years of age shall cense on Saturday next. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer) stated in the House of Commons that he believed a reduction in the recent daily expenditure was possible, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe ninth annual meeting of the Society of Notaries was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the Law Institute, Tattersall's-buildinga, Mr. E. A. Smith (of Messrs. ...
Article : 89 wordsJapan in a Note to America states that tho differences regarding America's Note to China were due to a misunderstanding, and the incident in considered closed. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Inspector-General of Police, Mr. J. Mitchell, has been advised by telegram that an explosion occurred at 7 p.m. on Monday on the picture show premises of Messrs. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe committee on production is engaged in hearing the engineering trade-union's claim for an advance of 10/ per week. in consequence of the increased food prices. The ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is announced that the Republic of Haiti has severed relations with Germany. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 21 Jun 1917, Page 7
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