The following Australians have received the military medal:— Corporals: 3457 Blythe, 2213 Charlton, 4449 Chisholm, 794 Kelstead, S6 Harrison, ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Conscription Referendum Bill was under discussion in the House of Representatives right through the night. It was generally understood at the close of ...
Article : 1,459 wordsThe following members of the Australian forces have been awarded the military medal for distinguished conduct:— Sergeants: 586 Anderson, 274 Banning, ...
Article : 435 wordsA German communique states:— We drove out the Russians temporarily holding our trenches near Szelwow. Snow has covered the Carpathians. The Russians ...
Article : 75 wordsAn Italian communique says: Important Bulgarian forces on the southern slopes of Mousheles attacked our small advanced posts. We fell back in good order on ...
Article : 211 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, writing from the British headquarters in France, says: Such foul weather seems to bring us back into winter with mud, rain, and a bank of mist, ...
Article : 613 wordsThere has been further heavy rain on the Somme front. The Germans ...
Article : 117 wordsA Rome message states that the Austrian losses on the battlefield stretching from san Grado to the sea, from September 13 to 18, are estimated at 20,000. ...
Article : 171 wordsOwing to the army requirements civilians have been requested to reduce the meat consumption and replace it with fish and other substitutes. ...
Article : 36 wordsPortuguese expeditionary forces have crossed the Rovuma River, which forms the boundary between German and Portuguese East Africa. They drove back ...
Article : 45 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Walter Runciman), replying to the Poplar Council's resolution protesting against high food prices, claims that the Government ...
Article : 136 wordsThe United Press Agency has received a message from Berlin stating that a storm in connection with the demands for the resumption of unrestricted ...
Article : 122 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his noon report to-day, says:—The New Zealanders repulsed strong continuous counter-attacks southward of the Ancre. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn unofficial message stated that the Roumanians in Dobrudja below the railway between Constanza and the Danube have resumed the offensive. The enemy claims a success at Petroseny, in Transylvania, between Hermannstadt and The Banat, an Austrian communique stating that they have recaptured this town from the Roumanians. The above map shows how most of the railways in Transylvania join up with the main line running south-west along the Maros River valley, which explains the enemy's anxiety to prevent any advance towards this line by way of Hatszeg. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 95 wordsColonel the Earl of Feversham has been killed in action. He was 37 years of age. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe steamer Muritai (from Wellington) has arrived at London. The 4-masted sch. Kona (from Newcastle) has arrived, at Wellington. ...
Article : 35 wordsSir Douglas Haig, reporting at midnight on Wednesday, says:— There has been heavy rain. There was considerable hostile artillery ...
Article : 460 wordsAt Victoria Barracks yesterday 98 men were enrolled. Things seem to get quieter and quieter at the enrolling office, and barely a dozen men ...
Article : 226 wordsThe British Under-Secretary for War, Lord Derby, in interviews with American correspondents, said be did not agree that the war will end in six months. He ...
Article : 68 wordsSenator Ferricks (Q.) moved the adjournment of the Senate to-day to draw attention to the press and other censorship. He said that the people had had brought home to ...
Article : 616 wordsA message from Bucharest, received via Rome, reports the resumption of the Roumanian offensive in the Dobrudja district, and the capture of numerous prisoners. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" cables that there are persistent rumours that the relations between Denmark and Germany are strained to a ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Lord Mayor opened the Victoria League's new club for oversea soldiers at Hatton Garden. Messrs. Gamages, Ltd., have lent the premises. Lady ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is officially stated that, in pursuance of the War Committee's decision, a board has been appointed, under the chairmanship of Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Secretary of ...
Article : 89 wordsThe newspapers have commented very favourably on the career of Lieutenant Thomns Kettle, one of the most brilliant of the younger school of Irish writers and ...
Article : 78 wordsAn Athens report states that the Greek Government has scut an urgent Note to Germany demanding the immediate return to Greece of the army corps which ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Government is evolving, post-war housing schemes, involving £3,000,000. Mr. Walter Long (President of the Local Government Board), replying to a ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. F. W. Young (Agent-General for South Australia) gave a farewell dinner in honour of Colonel Weir, who is returning to South Australia. The guests included ...
Article : 70 wordsUnder the War Precautions Act, the Commonwealth Government has fixed the price of butter. The wholesale figure at the metropolitan areas and factories is 149/4 per cwt, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Rome representative of the United Press Agency learns that the Pope intends to make an important declaration on the war and the prospects of peace at the ...
Article : 67 wordsA "confidential" document found on a prisoner on the Somme front and signed by the Chief of Staff of the Third German Army, and dated the 14th, states: It ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Amsterdam 'Telegraaf" says the Germans hurried troops and artillery to the Dutch frontier last week, being apprehensive of a British attack across the ...
Article : 32 wordsThe diocesan synod of Armidale opened in the Town Hall yesterday, Ven.Archdeacon Johnstone, Administrator presiding. Ministers from all parts of the New England district ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is officially stated that the casualties in the recent explosion in a munition works were:—Five killed. two died after admission to hospital, and 72 injured, 20 ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Fisher, High Commissioner for the Treasury, speaking at the opening of the Anzac Buffet, paid a tribute to the wise and much appreciated work of the buffet, ...
Article : 47 wordsLieutenant Raymond Asquith, the eldest son of the Prime Minister, who was killed in action, was buried in the Army Cemetery in France. It was a simple funeral. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe R.M.S. Kaisar-i-Hind (from Sydney) has arrived in London. The steamers Remuera and Port Chalmers have left for Wellington. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 22 Sep 1916, Page 7
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