The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) announced in the House of Representatives to-day, amid cheers, that the five-million pounds Commonwealth war loan had been ...
Article : 471 wordsThe Reichstag passed a bill raising the military age to 54 years. German newspapers are forbidden to disclose the fact. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the King's Bench Division of the High Court to-day the Zinc Corporation asked for a declaration that a contract made on April, 1914, to sell between 300,000 ...
Article : 171 wordsAdvices received in Berlin from Sofia state that Bulgaria has postponed her signature to the Turkish treaty as the Quadruple Entente declared her signature at the ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Official Press Bureau announces that the coal conference has arrived at a settlement. The Bureau issued the following ...
Article : 490 wordsA communique states: in the Baltic provinces we held up the enemy's attempted offensive on the Ekau-Neunut railway, and repulsed an attempt to cross the Dwina, ...
Article : 701 wordsThe Russians claim to have held up the enemy's attempted offensive in the Ekau region (Baltic provinces), ...
Article : 219 wordsThe military correspondent of the "Times" questions whether there are sufficient trained minds at the War Office competent to give the best advise on strategical ...
Article : 117 wordsIn these scientific days it is pretty difficult for a Power commanding the seas to tick off a list of articles which might safely be allowed to pass into the territories of its ...
Article : 241 wordsThere is no fresh development of any importance reported from the eastern front. The news from that quarter, as far as the central and northern sectors are concerned, ...
Article : 353 wordsThe Cardiff conference accepted the terms of settlement in the coal trouble. There are 42,000 idle on the pretext that the agreement has not yet been signed. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Washington correspondent learns from a high source that Germany has expressed willingness to pay for the American lives lost on the ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Customs at Dieppe seized 1800 postal packets, originally from Germany, containing jewellery, textiles, and silks. The packets had been conveyed to England by ...
Article : 45 wordsOn the afternoon of Saturday, August 21, the British, after a heavy bombardment of the Turkish positions in the plain, moved out from Suvla, advancing line ...
Article : 675 wordsThe Governor of Warsaw sent 30 Russian bankers to concentration camps for refusing to accept promissory notes. ...
Article : 24 wordsArrivals.—At London: Indrabarah (left Wellington July 19); Port Curtis (left Brisbane June 25). At San Francisco: Philippine, four-masted schooner (left Newcastle ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Berlin wireless agency informs us that the Austro-Germans are now "cutting the fleeing Russians into three sections," and the hope is expressed that these sections ...
Article : 243 wordsM. Yanehoveeki, correspondent for the Petrograd newspaper "Novae Vremyn," has been court-martialled and sentenced to death for communicating military ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Federal Treasury to-day issued a comparative statement of the net Customs revenue for the month of August, 1915. The figures show a falling-off of £8883 as ...
Article : 139 wordsSubsequent to the statement in the House that the loan issue amounted to £12,932,410, Mr. Fisher stated that later information from the Commonwealth ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Foreign Office has issued a statement in reply to the semi-official journal "Nordeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung," which in July last published details of the ...
Article : 386 wordsAn interim report, issued by Lord Milner's committee in June, recommended guaranteeing the farmers a minimum of 45s per quaretr for wheat, but this was ...
Article : 223 words"A splendid subscription," "extremely satisfactory," was the unanimous opinion of bankers yesterday on the result of the first offering of the War Loan. "The figures speak ...
Article : 507 wordsThe R.M.S. Osterley arrived from London to-day after an exciting trip. An hour or so after taking her departure from Tilbury the vessel was ordered to shelter at Margate, as ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Agency's correspondent at Athens states that a submarine blew up portion of the GalataStamboul bridge. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe cables this morning state that the Austrians made an attack upon the Montenegrins in the Savine and Trebinje districts, in Herzegovina, but were repulsed with heavy ...
Article : 395 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Fitzhardinge, Walter William W. Torr pleaded guilty to a charge of having, on January 28, at Wallsend, whilst employed in the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Austrians, after quitting, shelled Pieve (19 miles north-west of Trent), sparing in the first instance a prominent hospital under their Red Cross flag. It ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsLance-corporal Angus, of the 8th Territorial Light Infantry, who sustained 40 wounds while rescuing a wounded officer, received the Victoria Cross at Buckingham ...
Article : 233 wordsThe newspaper "Az Est" says Italy is unable to use all her available forces on the narrow front in the Isonzo and Trentino regions, and wishes to assist the Allies, who ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Scaddan), in opening the rooms erected at the military training depot, Claremont, for the entertainment of recruits, gave the men a few words of advice about ...
Article : 106 wordsLord Milner, in an article in the "Empire Review," says that if the Government, especially Lord Kitchener, declared that compulsory service during the period of the ...
Article : 147 wordsThe sterling exchange is the lowest on record, £1 reaching four dollars 58½ cents, or beneath the point where the financiers expect Britain to be driven out of the ...
Article : 158 wordsCorporal A. J. Boyd writes:—"The first concert held aboard the ship had a tragic ending. While a huge body of men were roaring with laughter at a particularly humorous song ...
Article : 272 wordsGerman newspapers are increasing their efforts to create the impression that Britain wants peace, as the issue of the war is regarded as hopeless. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Kelso King, of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company, Limited, expressed himself as delighted with the success of the loan. "I think it shows," he said, "that ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-General, to-day unveiled the Memorial Committee's tablet to Captain Cook at Great Aytoun school, where he was educated. He announced that a ...
Article : 38 words"We could not, however, regard with indifference the repeated incursions on our Albanian frontier," the statement goes on to explain. "These attacks were incited by the ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury has had a grave attack of the same illness as in 1913. He is now relieved, and his convalescence may be expected, but he will be unable to ...
Article : 42 wordsM. Pegoud, the daring French airman, has been killed. [A month after the war broke out M. Pegoud flow over the enemy's lines for a distance ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. John Gorvan, managing director of the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Co., Ltd., which heads the list of subscribers with a million pounds, stated last night that the ...
Article : 119 wordsA private cable message from the Secretary to the War Office has been received announcing the death from wounds in France on August 28 of Lieutenant C. M. Harris, R.A.M.C., who ...
Article : 72 wordsAt to-day's tallow sales 1384 casks were offered and 1307 sold. Prices were:—Mutton, fine 36/9, medium 34/; beef, fine 37/, medium 33/6. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 2 Sep 1915, Page 9
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