General Sir Douglas Haig, in his midday report of Thursday, says: Between Guillemont station and the quarry the enemy infantry strenuously attacked. ...
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Article : 304 wordsThe Allies continue to meet Bulgarian attacks on the Salonica front, but they stand firm everywhere. The ...
Article : 155 wordsA Salonica official message states: The British commander reports artillery activity on the Doiran front, but there has been no infantry action. ...
Article : 55 wordsGermany's admissions of naval losses have been so grossly misleading in the past that we need pay little attention to her statement that the Dreadnought battleship torpedoed by the ...
Article : 241 wordsAn airship visited the east coast at midnight. Several incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped in the fields. There were no casualties and no damage. ...
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Article : 55 wordsA German official message repeats the statement that a submarine severely damaged a British battleship during the recent affair in the North Sea. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe feat performed by the E23 in torpedoing this battleship in the presence of five defending destroyers is an instance of the sterling work of which the British submarines are ...
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Article : 54 wordsThe inquiry into the deaths of Sheehy Skeffington, MacIntyre (a journalist), and Dickson was opened to-day in Dublin. The court was crowded. ...
Article : 283 wordsIn addition to Chinese, 10,000 Portuguese workmen above the age of 32 will take up work in the French factories. Below this age they are mobilising to go to the front. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe sittings of the Dardanelles Commission have been adjourned till September 12. In the meantime the Commission are examining documents. ...
Article : 28 wordsNinety-three men volunteered at Victoria Barracks yesterday, and 72 were accepted. There is an old saying that "the devil is not as black as he is painted." This was ...
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Article : 441 wordsA Copenhagen message states that the Deutschland has arrived at Bremen from Baltimore. A Berlin message states that the trade ...
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Article : 66 wordsSeven recruits responded to the appeal of sergeants Durand and Saunders on Wednesday at a joint meeting of the employees of Langdon's, Timber Works, and the Union Box ...
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Article : 312 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" interviewed M. Joseph Reinach, a noted authority on international affairs, who took an optimistic view of the ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Rev. J. Malcomson, of the Presbyterian Church, who has been granted leave from his charge, has gone into camp. ...
Article : 25 wordsLord Montagu, in a speech at Bury St. Edmunds, said that three or four new super-Zeppelins, 780 feet long, would be ready in October. One had already ...
Article : 40 wordsA largely attended meeting of the Rejected Volunteers' Association was held last night at the Protestant Hall, the chairman of the association, Mr. H. C. Swain, presiding. ...
Article : 182 wordsIn the operations along the Macedonian front the main interest for the moment attaches to the Servians, who have apparently fallen back from Banltza, but are standing ...
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Article : 133 wordsReplying in the House of Commons to-day to numerous questions, Lord Robert Cecil (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) said:—"I can say definitely and explicitly ...
Article : 115 wordsThe military authorities state that vacancies for mechanics exist in the Australian Flying Corps for service abroad. Applications from first-class mechanics already ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. James M'Donald. M.L.C., addressed a meeting of the F.M.E.A. Zeehan branch last night. He said the Tasmanian Government's loan to the Tasmanian Smelting Company was ...
Article : 70 wordsLieutenant S. B. McLaren, of the Royal Engineers, has died of wounds. He had a distinguished career in mathematics at the Melbourne and Cambridge universities. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe German Socialist leader, Liebknecht, has been sentenced by the Germans to 48 months' imprisonment, the loss of honour for six years, and expulsion from ...
Article : 99 wordsA Paris communique on Wednesday night stated:—A brilliantly-conducted attack on the German positions north of Verdun, between Fleury and Thiaumont, ...
Article : 57 wordsA new military order provides that volun teer badges for medically unfit men are not to be issued to the following persons:—Men rejected on account of defects which can be ...
Article : 127 wordsIf the reports of the fighting between the Greek garrisons and B lgarians are correct, the enmity existing between the two peoples should be greatly increased. The indignities ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Right Rev. William Leonard Williams, formerly Bishop of Waiapa, has died at the age of 87. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe 4-mnsted barque Curzon, which left Newcastle on Juue 21, has arrived at Mejillones. The steamer Turakina has left for ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Commission inquiring into the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign, to-day examined General Sir C. C. Monro. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe adjourned general meeting of the members of the Returned Soldiers' Association was continued last night in M'Donell House. Immediately the meeting assembled Dean ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Imperial Parliament has adjourned until October 10. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 25 Aug 1916, Page 7
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