In the House of Representatives yesterday, the Prime Minister, announcing the Federal Cabinet's war policy, said that compulsion in enlistment would be applied to the extent that voluntaryism failed. A special appeal will be made for voluntary recruits. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says:—"The Bulgar attempt to roll up the Allied left, and reach the sea, is failing miserably." ...
Article : 138 wordsThe general situation as revealed by the latest cables leaves no room for dissatisfaction as far as the Allies are concerned. Roumania has opened hostilities in ...
Article : 291 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his midday report of Tuesday, says: There were only minor enterprises to-day. We are gradually consolidating between ...
Article : 207 wordsAn official message states that there have been no developments on the British fronts from the Struma to Doiran. A French official message from Salonica ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Roumanians are seizing the passes leading into Transylvania. The Austrians are offering resistance, but ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Russians on the frontier between Bessarbi[?] and Roumani[?] are throwing po[?]toons across the Danube at Reni, 100 miles from the Black Sea. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe "New York Sun" says that the conditions in the Balkans have become such that it seems impossible for Greece longer to maintain her neutrality. The Venezelist ...
Article : 95 wordsAn Austrian communique says: Our troops are fighting at all the passes on the Roumanian frontier. The enemy sustained heavy losses, especially in the region of ...
Article : 62 wordsOne hundred and forty-seven Dutch intell[?]tuals have appealed to neutrals to assist in establishing Belgian independence. If she were despoi[?]ed it would be sure to ...
Article : 37 wordsWhile the ruler and statesmen ot Roumania are still accepting the congratulations of the Entente. Powers, Roumanian soldiers are receiving their baptism of fire along the ...
Article : 337 wordsThe R.M.S. Mongolia (from Sydney) has arrived at London. The barque Falkirk (from Sydney) has arrived at Queenstown. The barque Versailles (from Melbourne) ...
Article : 215 wordsBucharest messages state that great consignments of munitions from England and France have arrived, and that Roumania is abundantly supplied for eight mouths of ...
Article : 43 wordsThe long looked-for announcement of the Government's policy in regard to maintaining the expeditionary force at full strength was made to-day in the House of Representatives ...
Article : 2,002 wordsMessages from Bucharest received in Rome state that the King of Bulgaria has left Sofia for Vienna. Prince Boris, the heir-apparent, has become Russophile, and ...
Article : 124 wordsCaptain C. E. W. Bean, officiai correspondent with the Australian forces, cabling from British headquarters in France on August 26, says:— ...
Article : 179 wordsA Bucharest message says that declarations of war against Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey have not been issued. ...
Article : 26 wordsA Paris message says that the news of the Roumanian intervention reached the Somme front on Monday, and aroused tremendous enthusiasm. It was telephoned ...
Article : 58 wordsA message from Bueharest says that Aus[?] monitors and batteries bombarded the [?] of Vereiorova. at the "Iron Gates" [?] the Danube.Turnu Severinu, in the ...
Article : 570 wordsA Petrograd communique on Tuesday forenoon stated:—The position on the front is unchanged. ENEMY REPORTS. ...
Article : 40 wordsBesides a heavier ca[?]onade on the French sector of the front than usual the past day or two has been noticeable for the greater activity of the flying men both on our side ...
Article : 278 wordsAn Italian official statement says: Along the whole front on Monday the troops cheered the news of Roumania's entry into the war. The enemy replied with [?]erce ...
Article : 223 wordsRoumania's attitude towards Buigaria is still causing considerable speculation. Up to the time of writing she had not declared war on her neighbour in the south. The ...
Article : 301 wordsA French communique states: A brisk evening operation south-east of Thiaumonl Work resulted in substantial gains of ground. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "London Gazette" contains an official notification that the D.S.O. has been awarded Captain Arthur James Peterson, of the Field Artillery, late of Drummoyne, ...
Article : 260 wordsIt is noteworthy that the German communiques on the 27th and 28th pretend that violent France-British attacks were made, but were repuised north of the Somme. ...
Article : 102 wordsExcept at scattered places along the tablelands and slopes and the North Const, where cloudy to overcast conditions prevailed, beautifully [?]ine clear weather was ...
Article : 181 wordsThe announcement that King Ferdinand of Roumania has gone to the front to command his army is proof of the sincerity of his remark made to the German Minister in ...
Article : 251 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, official press correspondent, writing from the British headquarters in France, supplies a dramatic story associated with the repulse of the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe German Emperor has appointed Field-Marshal von Hindenburg as Chief of Staff. He takes the place of General von Falken[?]yn, who has been dismissed. ...
Article : 132 wordsA report from The Hague states that eight civilians, 22 soldiers, and four policemen were killed in Dresden during the rioting caused by the sentence imposed on ...
Article : 60 wordsBefore Mr. Justice Powers, in the Second Civil Court, the hearing was commenced of a plaint by the Federated Storemen and Packers' Union of Australia against the ...
Article : 153 wordsT. S. Gaffney, who was United States Consul at M[?]nich, and who was recalled owing to unneutral acts, has arrived in New York. His fellow-passengers assert ...
Article : 68 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Times" says that an American recently in Germany says that there is a strong movement in Berlin against the ...
Article : 98 wordsMrs. Gertrude Atherton, the author, has returned from the French front. She says that the Prussian atrocities are indescribable. It is beyond human power ...
Article : 59 wordsThose who have followed closely the course of the war will have noticed the frequent attempts of the Germans in their official communiques to misrepresent the position of ...
Article : 215 wordsA fire occurred about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon among bags of copra stowed in the forehold of the steamer Ta[?]bo, lying at the Federal Wharf. The damage is considered ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Federal Opposition held a meeting today immediately after the rising of the House. The leader of the party (Mr. Cook), when asked subsequently if anything had been done ...
Article : 115 wordsA message from The Hague says that a super-Zeppelin was blown away by a gale. When passing Terdonck, in Belgium, it fell 2000 feet and exploded. Only debris ...
Article : 38 wordsGerman currency is now at a discount of 26 per cent. Its value is now lower than at any time since the war. ...
Article : 36 wordsAt the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday. Teresa M[?]d Cooper was charged with [?]aving, at West Maitland on July 29 mallciously shot it Alfred John Cooper, with intent to do ...
Article : 81 wordsR[?]bert Fay, a German bomb-p[?]otter, who was serving an eight years' sentence, escaped from prison. It is believed that he was assisted by German sympathisers to ...
Article : 38 wordsLieutenant E. P, Leary, of the York and Lancater Regiment, a New Zealander, was killed in action in France on the 23rd. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 31 Aug 1916, Page 7
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