One hundred and four men volunteered at Victoria Barracks yesterday, and 63 were accepted. To-morrow night Sergeants Durand and ...
Article : 43 wordsA Russian communique states:—We captured a fortified position between the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester, in the direction of Ha[?]lez, and drove the enemy ...
Article : 114 wordsA French communique states:—There has been violent artillery fire on the Struma, at Lake Doiran, and along the whole of the Servian front. ...
Article : 62 wordsA Roumanian, communique states: After lively fighting in the region of Borzecht (in Northern Transylvania) we occupied the heights to the westward, capturing ...
Article : 256 wordsThe British press correspondent, Mr. Philip Gibbs, writes:— The importance of our gains since Sunday does not seem to be sufficiently ...
Article : 468 wordsCorrespondents appear unanimous in urging the tactical importance of the Allies' recent gains on the Somme. ...
Article : 141 wordsTo-day's recruiting figures were:—Volunt[?]ered, 174; accepted, 78; deferred, 29. HOBART, Thursday. Twenty-three men entered camp at ...
Article : 44 wordsCaptain C. E. W. Bean, the official Australian Press correspondent, writing from British Headquarters in France on September 4, says:— ...
Article : 273 wordsAn address was delivered at the 21st annual meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures by the president, Mr. W. T. Willingtom, last night. ...
Article : 540 wordsDuring the progress of the offensive we have heard a great deal regarding the deadly effect of machine-gun fire, and in his offlcial messnge published to-day, General ...
Article : 333 wordsAn Athens message says there are many heart-searchings over the news that the Italians continue to advance into the interior of Epirus, where they are ...
Article : 86 wordsA Russian communique states:—Out advancing troops in the Ognat region of Armenia are inflicting great losses on the enemy. We found corpses of our soldiers ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is reported from Athens that the British and French Ministers have given the Greek Government a list of 60 Austrians and Germans whose expulsion is ...
Article : 118 wordsAdmiralty officers have examined the remains of the Zeppelin car which was picked up in East Anglia. It is believed the crew with a wire lowered an observer ...
Article : 475 wordsIf the Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" has a foundation of fact for his interesting disc[?]osure regarding the mysterious new Russian army which is to open up ...
Article : 317 wordsUnits of the British fleet visited Lisbon, and were cordially, received by the President, Ministers, and people. A guard of honour from the flagships paraded at the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe London "Morning Post's" Petrograd correspondent speaks of thousands of Russians serving in France and Salonica; also of a mysterious and entirely new army ...
Article : 96 wordsAmsterdam correspondents emphasise the terrific character of the Anglo-French bombardment. The "Berl[?]ner Tagebiatt" says:—It is ...
Article : 99 wordsThe French have carried their first like to the outskirts of Cha[?]lnes, and along the [?]lness-Roye Railway. There is desparate fighting in the Chilly ...
Article : 426 wordsMr. Phillp Gibbs, the Press correspondent, writing from the British headquarters in France, gives a vivid description of the capture of Guillemont, Leuze Wood, ...
Article : 723 wordsIn the Legislatives Assembly on Wednesday several questions were answered by Mr. Hunter, Minister for Lands, regarding the purchase of cattle by the Government from ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Royal Flying Corps has applied to General Birdwood for 200 Australians to become flying officers. General Birdwood has consented to make ...
Article : 33 wordsAn Amsterdam message states that train after train crowded with wounded soldiers is passing through Liego for Germany. A single consignment of wounded men ...
Article : 31 wordsReports from Amsterdam describe n seene which occurred in the Hungarian Diet on Tuesday. Count Andrassy scathingly criticised life Government's ...
Article : 186 wordsThere is such a multitude of complaints from Australian wounded soldiers who are not receiving Red Cross comforts that the military have appointed officers to ...
Article : 62 wordsThe chief subscribers to the German war loan are savings banks and munition firms. The total subscribed in the first two days was far below that of previous loans. The ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Russian communique has, within the past two days, twice referred to the British armoured cars operating in the vicinity of Lake Van, in Asia Minor. It is interesting ...
Article : 242 wordsA German official wireless denies that any person has been killed in Germany in consequence of the food disturbances, the reports of which the foreign ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. William Brooks, who recently resigned the position of acting president of the R.S.A., has asked us to publish the following statement, in respect to the general conduct of the ...
Article : 315 wordsMr. Langer Owen, K.C., director of the Red Cross Information Bureau, explained last evening thal wounded and sick Australian soldiers were now scattered over at least 50 ...
Article : 130 wordsA romantic episode of the war is revealed in to-night's "London Gazette" in regard to Lieutenant-Colonel John Ford Elkington, who was cashiered on ...
Article : 80 wordsA Milan message says that the Hungarian papers indulge in melodramatic descriptions of the heroic resistance offered to the Roumanians by the Transylvanian ...
Article : 216 wordsAn Italian communique on Wednesday stated:—The first snow has fallen. We extended our occupation on the western slope of Punta del Forame. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Italians continue to display activity along their front in Trentino, and their raids across the Vojusa River to the east and northeast of Valona may be the forerunners of ...
Article : 343 wordsIt is officially announced from Egypt that an air raid on the enemy's encampment at Mazar was made on Monday. An anti-aireraft gun was disabled, and a ...
Article : 55 wordsA Paris message states that Germany, after negotiations with France, has agreed to abandon reprisal camps—notably in Courland and Poland—and return French ...
Article : 33 wordsAn Amsterdam message says that the German Emperor has dismissed General von Deimling, who commanded the right wing of the Crown Prince's Verdun army. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the conferenre of the Federal Master Bakers' Association, Mr. M. J. Hawkins read a paper on day-baking, submitted by New South Wales A paper on ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Russian Munitions Ministry is inquiring for an enormous quantity of copper. It is estimated that the quantity required will be nearly 10,000,000 pounds' ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Australian Red Cross is sending weekly parcels of food to 450 Australian soldiers who are prisoners in Germany. The prisoners cost 5s weekly. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Morning Post's" Paris correspondnot says that remarkable change has come over the Somme fighting. Not only is there a persistent advance, but there are ...
Article : 134 wordsTwenty-eight Americans were aboard the British steamer Kelvinia (5039 tons), which was sunk on September 2 by a torpedo or mine. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe allied push on both sides of the Somme continues, and fierce fighting is still proceeding at various points along the front. General Haig's messages indicate a desire to ...
Article : 295 wordsIn the Senate yesterday Senater Ready (Tas.) wanted to know what action the Government proposed to take under the War Precautions Act in connection with the regulation of ...
Article : 90 wordsA Paris report states that Turkey has called up for military service the whole of her male population between the ages of 17 and 55, regardless of nationality. ...
Article : 37 wordsAn Amsterdam message says that the "Deutsche Tages Zeitung" announces that its correspondent, Count Reventlow, has been forbidden to publish articles in ...
Article : 76 wordsCaptain A. H. Kennedy, of the Australian force's, who was believed to have been killed at the end of July, has written to his wife in England announcing that he ...
Article : 51 wordsThe steamer Gurryvale (from Sydney) has arrived at Table Bay. The steamer Peru has left for Melbourne. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the Commonwealth Arbitration Court today Mr. Justice Higgins granted an increases of sixpence per day in connection with the claim made by workmen employed at the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe death is announced of Dean Smyth, Provincial of the Marist Order in New Zealand, at the ago of 67. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 8 Sep 1916, Page 7
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