General Sir Percy Lake reports that the troops south of the Tigris on the 12th inst. forced back the enemy's lines over a distance of from one and a half to three miles ...
Article : 149 wordsIt is officially announced that a column of Australians, after a brisk fight, captured a Turkish camp near Jifjaffa (in Egypt, 50 miles north-east of Suez, and ...
Article : 171 wordsIn the above map Jifjaffa, where an Australian column captured a Turkish camp on the 13th, will be seen about 50 miles north-east of Suez. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsThe final communique on Saturday night stated: The enemy's operations at Verdun are confined to an intense bombardment on both banks of the Meuse. ...
Article : 235 wordsThe latest French communique states that the enemy's operations at Verdun are confined to an intense ...
Article : 192 wordsNo actual figures are available to indicate the profits which have accrued to shipping; but the prices at which ships are being sold convey a very vivid idea of the prosperity ...
Article : 357 wordsThe lull in the Infantry operations on the Verdun salient continues, though intense artillery exchanges are still going on. We have had a number at such lulls hitherto, but ...
Article : 476 wordsThe "Times" Ralkan correspondent states that since the fall of Erzerum the hostility of the Turks to the Germans has been increasing. The Germans ...
Article : 165 wordsWashington advices state that President Wilson and the State Department have agreed to despatch evidence of submarine atrocities to Berlin with what ...
Article : 217 wordsA Russian communique says:—The German offensive between Lake Sventen and Lake [?]zia was twice huried back, the enemy abandoning a large number of ...
Article : 238 wordsTwo German deserters Informed a Dutch correspondent that they were glad to escape the hell of the Verdun front. They witnessed the fight at Termiten Hill (south ...
Article : 168 wordsA satisfactory settlement has been arranged in respect to the claims of leading Chicago meat-packers, against the British Government, regarding wholesale seizures ...
Article : 61 wordsHe was only a slip of a lad, and gave his age as 21 years to the recruiting officer at Victoria Barracks. Though only a lad in years, however, he had an interesting story to ...
Article : 473 wordsA most important Cabinet meeting was held this afternoon to consider the Army Council's statement regarding the requirements of the army ...
Article : 397 wordsIn the event of the continuation of the arrangements whereby the principal Australasian hospital base would be transferred to France, Australians and New ...
Article : 158 wordsA Berlin wireless message states: A few battalions, after artillery preparations of greatly-increased violence, were only able to carry out an attempted attack on our ...
Article : 69 wordsA German submarine in the Cattegat captured the Danish steamer Kasan, from Liverpool. Lloyd's report that the British steamer ...
Article : 83 wordsA communique says:—The Turks for six days attacked our centre, west of Erzerum. All attacks were repulsed with heavy enemy losses. The Turks everywhere ...
Article : 73 wordsAustralian troops have figured in another "little affair" in Egypt—this time on the eastern side of the Suez Canal. No details had come through up till a late hour last ...
Article : 323 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph's" Rome correspondent says the italian offensive which was simultaneous with the German attack on Verdun has resulted in the ...
Article : 214 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig's latest report says: Several small enemy bomb attacks on our craters at St. Eloi were all repulsed. The enemy exploded five mines ...
Article : 97 wordsThe "Berlin Tageblatt" says that political circles in Vienna attach great importance to the visit of Baron Stephan Burlan (Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs) ...
Article : 51 wordsAccording to a return made available by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hazelthorn) on Saturday, 53,290,000 bags of wheat had been received on account of the pool up ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Foreign Office points out that Germany's statement in denial of responsibility for sinking the Sussex, to the effect that a submarine attacked some vessel at ...
Article : 69 wordsThe King and Queen visited the Victoria League Club for oversea soldiers. They noticed Private Killeck, an Australian, who had lost an arm. Their ...
Article : 51 wordsThe latest triumph of French engineers is a new 16-inch howitzer, said to be equal to the German gun of similar dimensions. ...
Article : 34 wordsAn Order-in-Council prohibits, the exportation to all destinations of pig iron, railway material, steel bars, girders, ingots, and tubes. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that 80 enemy merchantmen were sunk by German submarines and mines during March, totalling 207,000 tons. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn numbers and warmth of sympathy, the citizens of Leichhardt made their farewell to Mr. Campbell Carmichael on Saturday night in the local town hall a demonstrathe one. ...
Article : 475 wordsBucharest advices deseribe the alleged commercial treaty, published in the "Berliner Tageblatt," to the effect that Roumania would not attack Austria unless ...
Article : 57 wordsWhen the news came through of the British check at Sunnalyat on the Tigris no mention was made of the column which was operating on the southern, or right, bank of ...
Article : 297 wordsGerman newspapers publish an inspired statement on reprisals against Portugal. The statement says that owing to geographical and other circumstances ...
Article : 57 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Parliamentary correspondent says the construction of hundreds of vessels has been held up for months because labour was unavailable. ...
Article : 39 wordsFood mastication drill is the latest German weapon against England's starvation plan, according to the "Kolnische Volkszeitung." The Journal has started a ...
Article : 86 wordsThe arrest of the plotters in America concerned in the manufacture of bombs to blow up munition, ships was due to the arrest in London of a man, giving the name ...
Article : 173 wordsGallacher, chairman of the Cyde Workers' Committee, and Mair, editor of the "Worker," have been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for publishing an ...
Article : 190 wordsThe situation apparently is becoming acute. The newspapers talk of resistance should the Servians use Greek railways vin Patras. ...
Article : 63 wordsAll marine insurance rates have been largely increased over the Mardi rate. From London to Australia, via the Cape, the rate is now 80s, and from London to ...
Article : 84 wordsA British prisoner at Cassel, in a letter, describes conditions recalling the Wittenberg Camp. The camp was overcrowded, and no one was able to wash for five ...
Article : 132 wordsThe 4-m bq Carrabin, which left Bunbury (W.A.) on December 24, has arrived at London. The 6-m bqtne E. R. Sterling has left ...
Article : 96 wordsThe "Tijid's" Cologue correspondent says the Catholic authorities have received advices from the Catholic mission which confirm the statement that the Turks ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Germans are laying a huge submerged steel net, with meshes, six yards in diameter, across international waters south of Drogden lightship, as a measure ...
Article : 82 wordsThe question of shipping freights which crops up again in the cables this morning, represents one of the most remarkable aspects of the war, from the civilian side. The ...
Article : 257 wordsAfter being idle for a month, owing to a wires dispute the Petone woollen mills are restarting on Monday. The main demands of the operatives have been conceded including ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 17 Apr 1916, Page 9
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