The storm along the British front north of the Somme still centres round the Australians and Territorials outside Pozieres. General Haig's latest message is almost entirely ...
Article : 326 wordsGeneral Sir Donglas Haig in his midday report of Tuesday says: We pushed eastward of Trones Wood. Fighting is proceeding on the outskirts ...
Article : 37 wordsThe great national scheme for the raising of a mammoth fund, to be known as the Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Fund, was publicly launched in this State at a meeting of ...
Article : 3,625 wordsThe New York "Times" gives prominence to a despatch from the London correspondent of the "Providence Journal," who says:—"A War Office official informs ...
Article : 160 wordsGeneral Brussiloff's entire armies are carrying out a violent general action, extending over one-third of the Eastern front. A Russian communique states:—Seven ...
Article : 306 wordsMr. Massey, correspondent for the London "Daily Telegraph," in a despatch from Romani on Saturday, says:—The Turkish pretensions about the conquest of Egypt ...
Article : 542 wordsFurther counter- attacks against the new British positions near Pozieres have been repulsed. ...
Article : 113 wordsAmerican correspondents on the Western front unstintingly praise the gailantry, coolness, and mettle of the Australians at Pozieres. They point out that the ...
Article : 277 wordsA French communique states: Co-operating with tue British on our left in an attack at Guillemont, we advanced eastward of Hill 139, to the northward of ...
Article : 50 wordsA French communique states:—We stopped successive strong German attacks at Fleury and Thiaumont Work, which were accompanied by heavy bombardment ...
Article : 44 wordsThe London correspondent of the "World" says that Britain's reply to Germany, via the United States, regarding relief for the starving Poles, states that the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe position on the southern Russian front is not made much clearer by the latest official messages. We have heard of heavy fighting along the Sereth River to the south of Brody, ...
Article : 340 wordsAn Amsterdam message states:—French aviators bombed Mons raliway station and troop trains with enormous quantities of material. More wounded have ...
Article : 61 wordsThere are 18 survivors from the Italian steamer Siena, 4372 tons, which was destroyed by a submarine in the Mediterranean. ...
Article : 95 wordsA French communique states:—Our fire repulsed attacks at Thiaumont Work and between Vaux and Chapitre Woods. A French communique on Monday night ...
Article : 77 wordsA Rome message states:—The Servians drove out the Bulgarians from Presba and occupied the town. [Presba is situate 20 miles south-east of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Morning Post's" Stockholm correspondent says that the Themis affair is somewhat critical, and strong feeling has been aroused in Sweden. ...
Article : 172 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his midday report of Monday, says:—There is no change in the situation. German bombardments continue ...
Article : 426 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief in Egypt reports:—Our mounted infantry is in contact with the Turkish rearguard six miles east of Katia, where the Turks have ...
Article : 82 wordsA submarine has been sighted off the coast, which is believed to be either the Deutschland or Bremen. It is understood that British warships ...
Article : 116 wordsAn Italian communique states:—We captured a strong position in the Tofana region, and have commenced an attack on the Lower Isonzo. ...
Article : 92 wordsWith the assistance of the Belgians in the north-west and the Rhodesian force in the south. General Smuts is now steadily increasing his hold on German East Africa. ...
Article : 269 wordsA message from the Maine port of Machiasport says that the lookout on Cross Island saw two submarines five miles from the coast. As they carne to the ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Lloyd George, Minister for War, when reviewing the Canadian troops, snid: "When the foe is beginning to be exhausted we are preparing to pour in troops. ...
Article : 122 wordsThere, has been dissatisfaction among the casual tramway conductors owing to delay on the part of the Tramway Group No. 3 Board in issuing its award. The men are in ...
Article : 323 wordsA Russian communique on Monday night stated: Our forces in western Persia withdrew to the region cast of Kermanshah under Turkish pressure. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that during the voyage of the hospital ship Dongola from Basra to Bombay there were 130 cases of beat stroke among the British ...
Article : 43 wordsGovernment officials state that the United States has no intention of accepting from Germany monetary compensation for the lives of Americans lost in the ...
Article : 43 wordsA neutral traveller, who has arrived from Sofia, says that anti-war riots are frequent there, but they are put down severely by police charges. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe House of Commons passed the Army Act Amendment Bill last night. Most members studiously avoided the discussion of current rumours, but some ...
Article : 155 wordsThe King of Bavaria, in reply to a deputation which demanded submarine and aircraft warfare against England, "Germany's worst enemy," said that Germany ...
Article : 68 wordsThe steamer Cufic has left London for Brisbane. The new steamer Cumberland has left Liverpool for Brisbane. ...
Article : 22 wordsTabora is about 160 ralles west of General Van der Venter's present position at Kilimatinde. It is important, as it stands at the junction of the grent cross-country main roads ...
Article : 263 wordsA conference in regard to the Army Appropriatlon Bill agreed to an expenditure on the army of £53,000,000. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe statutory committee administering the Royal Patriotic Fund has issued particulars of a detailed scheme of pensions and allowances which are to supplement ...
Article : 150 wordsThe following is an extract from a letter from France, received by Mr. O. W. Brain, electrical engineer for railways and tramways, from an officer, who is an officer of the ...
Article : 186 wordsMajor Roderick Webb, of Driscoll's Scouts, has died in East Africa, He was formerly an adjutant in Queensland. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe bonds in the New South Wales £2,600,000 loan, now being offered, may be converted into stock. The final investment is fixed for the end of October, and the first ...
Article : 46 wordsThe German Emperor has severely reprimanded his cousin, Prince Frederic Leopold, whose wild boars and stags, breaking out from their enclosures, greatly damaged the ...
Article : 58 wordsMost of the companies involved in the railway strikes have effected a settlement by granting their employees the right to organise. They are to deal with their employers throuch ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Germans still have possession of the railway and road from Dar-es-Salaam on the coast to Kilossa, where the main southern road branches off. But Kilossa is less than ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Bishop of Bloemfontein, who conducted a war service in the local cathedral on Sunday, urged the need for Empire repentance for the incompetence of ...
Article : 74 wordsA meeting of delegates from the Goulburn Municipal Council and the Chamber of Commerce, and also from other localities interested was held in the Town Hall last night to ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Central News Agency's Paris correspondent writes: The Anzacs won fresh glory in yesterday's fighting north of Pozieres, where they firmly held the trenches ...
Article : 170 wordsIn the House of Commons to-night the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Lord Robert Cecil, said that, notwithstanding repeated inquiries through the American ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "World" says, in an editorial, that, reading between the lines of his articles, Herr Mar Harden tells the Germans that they must understand that victory is ...
Article : 35 wordsThe infantile paralysis epidemic has now reached 5000 cases. There have been 1000 deaths. Medical experts boar testimony to the efficacy, proved in several cases, of injections ...
Article : 43 wordsThe French Socialistic Congress, by 1824 votes [?]o 1075, decided not to resume relations with the German Socialists. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe death is announced of Admiral Kamimura. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe steamer Hattie Luckenbach has left New York for Melbourne. The 4-masted schooner A. B. Johnson has left Gray's Barbour for Sydney. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 9 Aug 1916, Page 11
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