Sixty-eight men volunteered at Victoria Barracks yesterday, and 43 were accepted. Yesterday at noon Sergeants Durand and Saunders addressed the tramway employees ...
Article : 64 wordsYesterday Mr. Justice Heydon delivered the judgment ot the Industrial Arbitration Court on its inquiry into the cost of living and the minimum wage, and in doing so, ...
Article : 2,671 wordsAn Italian official message states: We repulsed an attack on the Carso and captured 100 prisoners. Our artillery shelled the railway station at Santa Lucia and ...
Article : 132 wordsA French official message says: The French, between the 13th and 15th, captured the villages of Petka, Palmish, Shugovo, and Matnitza, at the foot of the ...
Article : 274 wordsA communique issued in Petrograd on Thursday evening stated: There is no change on the European or Cancasian fronts. ...
Article : 314 wordsThe British have taken short lengths of trenches west and south-west of Guillemont, west of High Wood, ...
Article : 112 wordsTo-day's recruiting figures were:—Volunteered, 55; accepted, 30. BRISBANE, Friday. Twenty-seven recruits were accepted in ...
Article : 29 wordsHerr von Weigand, the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," says there is appalling devastation and desolation for miles behind the German lines on ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Wilson) announces that the Honorary Minister (Dr. Saw), who leaves for the front shortly, will remain a member of the Cabinet. ...
Article : 36 wordsEnemy reports contain the only news of lighting on the Southern Russian front this morning, and it is difficult to say how much of this may be accepted as containing even ...
Article : 294 wordsUnder the auspices of the Anti-conseription League, a public meeting was held at the Town Hall, North Fremantle, last night. The [?]all was well filled, the gathering including a ...
Article : 320 wordsThe British forces under General S[?] in German East Africa, advancing on the 15th from Nguru Mountains, overcame slight opposition and reached the junction ...
Article : 125 wordsA German prisoner gives details of the result of the British aeroplane raid on the railway station at Saint Quentin at the end of July, which occurred while two ...
Article : 88 wordsA White Book which has been issued by the United States Government shows that nine German officers and sallors have escaped from interned warships and have ...
Article : 270 wordsPassengers by the Cunard liner Alaunia say that they sighted a captured German submarine lashed to a British cruiser being taken to Deal, England. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe speed with which General Smuts is pushing the campaign in German East Africa to a successful conclusion is shown by the report published this morning. The capture ...
Article : 333 wordsA number of sick and wounded soldiers are expected to disembark in Sydney on Monday morning. Motor cars, numbering from 75 to 151 inclusive, on the Red Cross register, are ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Government is prohibiting, all exports to Sweden unless the importers give a guarantee that the goods will not be re-exported. ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig at noon on Thursday reported: Last night, in conjunction with the French advance at Maurepas, we advanced our line west and south-west ...
Article : 487 wordsThe Budapest correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that seven German divisions are now co-operating with the Austrian armies south of Volhynia, under ...
Article : 60 wordsThe crew of an incoming liner report that they saw a submarine on Saturday off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland travelling in a north-easterly direction. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Governor-General during an interesting address on re-afterestation which was delivered before the members of the Timber Merchants' Association last night, said he ...
Article : 137 wordsA Petrograd message states that a definitive Russian pronouncement in regard to Poland's future is expected daily. The censorship has been relaxed to permit ...
Article : 146 wordsA message from Petrograd says that the Germans are now using a new, invisible gas. The only warping it gives is a sickly, sweet smell, and it causes ...
Article : 62 wordsThe British Embassy emphatically denies that the censorship is being used to obtain secrets to aid the English merchants. ...
Article : 26 wordsGeneral Haig's report of the fighting in which the French and British joined on Wednesday shows that our lines have been drawn closer in towards Gu[?]emont. The ...
Article : 364 wordsIn the House of Assembly the Commissioner of Public Works, Mr. Jackson, gave notice of his intention to move on Tuesday next: "That this House hereby sanctions the carrying out ...
Article : 134 wordsMotor tracks, leading to a canal in Gloucester, induced the police to drag the canal. They discovered a taxi-cab, and the body of an Australian soldier, named ...
Article : 90 wordsAs Chief Secretary and Minister for Public Health, Mr. Black yesterday made available the full text of Dr. Paton's (Director-General of Public Health) report on the conduct of ...
Article : 319 wordsFor distinguished services on the field, the Order of Companion of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) has been conferred upon the following Australian ...
Article : 65 wordsA mass meeting of members of the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Miners' Union was held in the Bouldar Town Hall yesterday to consider what action should to taken. The ...
Article : 199 wordsSaturday's papers will officially announce that Italy forbids Italians to trade with subjects of enemy States or their allies, and with persons or bodies established ...
Article : 82 wordsA Rome message says:—According to the "Stampa" (Turin), Count Andrassy demands certain guarantees before he consents to succeed Baron Stephan Burian as ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. Lloyd George (Minister for War), in an address at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod, said that Britain's honour was not dead, her might was not broken, her ...
Article : 167 wordsIt is still a little early in the day to try end arrive at an opinion regarding the real significance of the Allied activities in the region north of Salonica. Two important ...
Article : 299 wordsThe famous German publicist, Maximilian Harden, in the article in "Zukunft," which was suppressed, says: A German says Germany's worst enemles ...
Article : 123 wordsThe late No. 670, Private. C. Hedley, 12th Battalion, recorded no one as his next-of-kin. He was born at Bathurst, followed the occupation of a miner, and the next-of-kin ...
Article : 56 wordsAn explosive machine wrecked the engines of the Norwegian liner Haakon (1640 tons), which was proceeding to pick up cargo for England. Germans are ...
Article : 41 wordsThe District Commandant, Brigadier-General Ramaciotti, V.D., held an inspection of troops on the square, Victoria Barracks, yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 260 wordsAt a meeting, presided over by the Deputy Mayor (Mr. T. C. H. Matthews) at the Council-chambers yesterday, it was determined to inaugurate a movement for the purpose of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe manufacture of machine guns in France was 136½ times greater in July than in August, 1914. The output of the "seventy-five" guns is now 27 times ...
Article : 36 wordsThe House of Commons further considered the bill to prolong the present Parliament. There was some adverse criticism upon unduly extending the period, ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, writing from the British Headquarters in France to the London "Daily Chronicle," reports: White the Pleardy is absorbing attention our ...
Article : 194 wordsAll hands who signed on to start shearing at Afton Downs on Wedneaday left the station the same day owing to the Fedeial Company not acceding to their demands for a ...
Article : 53 wordsA Berne wireless message states that commercial negotiations between Germany and Switzerland have been resumed. The Germans appear anxious to reach an ...
Article : 45 wordsOver 2,000,000 signatures have been obtained in six weeks to a memorial urging the Government to prohibit the liquor traffic during the war and for six months ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Sydney Chamber of Commerce is protesting against the Government taking land adjoining Circular Quay for the purpose of erecting a new Government printing ...
Article : 38 wordsMilan advices state that Lieutenant Sinigaglia, the last winner of the Diamond Sculls, was killed on the Carso. ...
Article : 24 wordsNeither the Italians nor the Russians appear to have made any further advances on their respective fronts. The artillery and aeroplanes were responsible for the principal ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 19 Aug 1916, Page 17
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