The Prime Minister, Mr. W. M. Hughes, was entertained at luncheon yesterday by the members of the Sydney Metal Exchange, and he delivered another rousing speech. ...
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Article : 39 wordsWhile the march of events in the Balkans is attracting attention, the British and French in the Artois-Somme region are continuing their gradual wearing-down process against ...
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Article : 170 wordsEnthusiastic welcomes were accorded the Italian and Russian troops on their arrival at Salonica. The streets were thronged to welcome ...
Article : 612 wordsThe British Admiralty has made the following official announcement:—The commander of submarine E23 reports that it is believed that the submarine torpedoed ...
Article : 318 wordsItalian and Russian troops have reinforced the Allies at Salonica. The new forces landed—the Italians on ...
Article : 130 wordsA Paris message states that the "Frankfurter Zeltung" reports that the Roumanlan Foreign Minister has ordered diplomatic couriers travelling to France and ...
Article : 35 wordsAt Victoria Barracks yesterday 88 men volunteered, and 61 were accepted. Mr. J. A. Wauhope, who was chief Sanitary Inspector to the Randwick Municipal Council, ...
Article : 302 wordsAn Italian communique states: Dual artillery activity is disturbing our consolidating work. Enemy batteries yesterday hit Gorizia ...
Article : 29 wordsThe French Government has decided to employ Chinese labour in the war factories. In pursuance of this decision, the first ...
Article : 145 wordsA Russian communique states:—Fighting in the direction of Diarbekir (on the Tigris, south-west of Lake Van) is developing in our favour. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe inaugural meeting of the section of industry in connection with the Royal Society was held at the society's house last evening. Mr. F. Leverrier, K.C., vice-chancellor of ...
Article : 282 wordsSpeaking on the motion for the adjournment of the House of Commons this evening, Mr. Winston Churchill declared that the situation did not warrant any ...
Article : 186 wordsMajor J. L. Baird, answering the critics of the Air Defence Board, stated in the House of Commons that since the beginning of the war there had been 34 air ...
Article : 74 wordsMilitary medals have been awarded the following Australasian soldiers:— Australian Infantry.—Sergeants J. E. Menyon and J. C. Stevenson; ...
Article : 81 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig in his noon report of Tuesday states:—We have made considerable progress at Pozieres over a front of half a mile. ...
Article : 361 wordsLondon correspondents say that the story received from Berlin that Mr. Norman Angell, the British author of "The Great Illusion," had been sentenced to ...
Article : 116 wordsRussia has ordered 2,000,000 yards of cloth for her army. The scheme under which the Government control the woollen industry applies, ...
Article : 43 wordsSeveral colliers are laid up in the harbour owing to a dispute between a section of the members of the Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers and the Steam Colliery ...
Article : 224 wordsMr. Lloyd George (Minister for War), who was questioned in the Mouse of Commons on the possibility of raising the military service age, said it depended entirely ...
Article : 250 wordsDr. Addison (Under-Secretory for Munitions) announced in the House of Commons that a number of explosions occured in a place (which he did not name) ...
Article : 164 wordsIn the House of Commons, Sir Alfred Mond, Liberal member for Swansea, moved the adjournment of the debate in order that the House might give adequate ...
Article : 78 wordsA Rome wireless message states:—News of the arrival of the Italians and Russians has caused the Bulgarians consternation. There are many desertions. ...
Article : 405 wordsThe dispute between the wharf labourers and the Commonwealth Government regarding the rate to be paid for the loading of refined sugar in Sydney for Western Australia ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Governor has received the following telegram from Sir Archibald Murray, Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptain Expenditionary Force, dated Suez, August 21:— "Now that ...
Article : 412 wordsDespite the efforts of Mr. Lansing (Secretary of State) to keep the matter secret, it now appears that a German or Austrain submarine fired ten times at the American ...
Article : 114 wordsIt is officially announced that the Clyde and Tyne Commission for the dilution of skilled with unskilled labour has been taken over by officers of the Ministry of ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Prize Court has awarded H.M.A.S. Sydney £1985 sterling for sinking the German light cruiser Emden. The Prize Court has awarded £12,160 to ...
Article : 52 wordsAccoring to the Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, to name one's house, cottage, restaurant, band, or clothes "Anzac" is an offence under the War Precautions Act. The ...
Article : 134 wordsLord Robert Cecil (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) stated in the House of Commons to-day that Viscount Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) had ...
Article : 119 wordsA [?]ome message states that it is reproted in the "Correspondenza" that owing to the Pope's remonstrances the German Emperor has personally ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, the Premier moved the second reading of the Liquor Referendum Bill. The debate was ad[?]ourned. ...
Article : 36 wordsLieutenant Richard Beindge Baynes, of the Welsh Fusiliers, son of Mr. Baynes, Peurith, New South Wales, has been killed in action. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe council of the Chamber of Commerce has decided to wait on the Prime Minister regarding the date-limit for the sale of enemy goods. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 24 Aug 1916, Page 7
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