For one first time since the movement was inaugurated "Hospital Saturday" was held this year on a Friday. Saturday is no longer the "collecting day" that it used to be—the ...
Article : 888 wordsThe "National Tidende" states that a shipbroker at Malmoe, Sweden, who has business relations with German Bal[?]e ports, has received a sensational report ...
Article : 50 wordsGeneral Smuts reports:—The enemy, after being driven out of the Kondoa Irangl area (145 miless south-west of Moshl and 70 miles from the Dar-es-Salaam railway) ...
Article : 64 wordsThere was much excitement in the House of Commons this evening. Nationalists and Ulstermen assembled in full force, particularly as there were reports that ...
Article : 1,577 wordsThough London is nccustoined to the Anzaez, It is n novelty to see thom in full kit fresh from the trenches, with mudenked puttees. Some arrive at Victoria ...
Article : 375 wordsA German attack westward of Vaux (east of the Meuse) was repulsed with the bayonet and hand ...
Article : 164 wordsAt Victoria Barracks yesterday 134 men volunteered, and of these 89 were accepted. Brigadier-General Ramacclotti, District Commandant, inspected details in camp at ...
Article : 535 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of the "Dally Telegraph" states that, the Government has decided to create an Air. Ministry, and that Lord Curzon will be appointed ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Financial Secretary to the Admiralty has stated in the House of Commons that 37 British and 22 neutral unarmed merchantmen, which had not attempted to escape, had ...
Article : 503 wordsPrivate J. Duckworth, formerly of Singleton, who fought in the Gallipoll campagin, writes as follows from El Solum Egypt:—"I have joined the Asutralian Camel Corps, and ...
Article : 264 wordsAnnn Schmitt, a naturalised Austrian, was charged at South Melbourne Courts to-day, with having, by fraudulent representations, obtained artifical flowers from Gertrude ...
Article : 68 wordsA communique states:—We demolished a German trench over a length of 300 metres south-eastward of Tahure (Champagne). A German attack westward of ...
Article : 169 wordsThe new Eight-hours Hill is being much discusssed in local mingin circles, and in some quarters is looked upon with suspicion. A delegate meeting was held yesterday to ...
Article : 153 wordsThere were 128 volunteers in Victoria today, and 79 were accepted. BRISBANE, Friday. In Queensland to-day 31 men were accepted ...
Article : 32 wordsThe following cable was yesterday forwarded to Mr. Asquith by Dr. C. W. MacCarthy, chairman New South Wales Home Rule executive:— ...
Article : 53 wordsA communique states: Alpini, after a vigorous assault, captured strongly-fortified trenches and redoubts on the summit of Mount Cukla and slopes east of Mount ...
Article : 56 words"I noticed in yesterday's issue of the 'Herald' that it is reported that Senator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, states that all Englishmen resident in the Commonwealth ...
Article : 116 wordsThere was an interesting ceremony at the office of the Inspector-General of Police in the morning, when the Governor handed over to Mr. Denison Miller, vice-chairman of the ...
Article : 247 wordsMr. T. J. Macnamara, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, stated in the House of Commons that 37 British and 22 neutral unarmed merchantmen, which had not ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Italian ship Buenos Ayres, which arrived last night from Monte Video, was at [?]me, Austria, when was broke out. She was detaine there for some months, as the Adriatic ...
Article : 111 wordsWe have to receive with a certain reserve the report of Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg's speech concerning the submarine campaign, as cabled this monring. The speech was made ...
Article : 215 wordsA communique states: During the fighting west of Ashkalin the Turks surrounded and made prisoners of a detachment of reservists. The latter, under the ...
Article : 49 wordsA meeting is to be held at the Protestant Hall, Castlereagh-street, on May 22, for the purpose of forming a rejected volunteers' association. ...
Article : 26 wordsHerr von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Imperlal Chancellor, speaking during a secret debate in the Relchstag on May 7 in reply to the American Note, admitted ...
Article : 205 wordsThe following causlaties are reported:—Died of wounds: Rifleman Henry Cross. Dangerously ill: Sergeant Leonanrd Lennan. Dangerously wounded: Sergenant George Aldridge. Private ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the Liverpool Prosbylerian Church a Roll of Honour was unveiled by Mrs. P FalConer-Mackenzie, Casula, to the memory of church adherents who have enlisted. The ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Hughes) was busy all day at the metal conference. There are prospects of a satisfactory arrangement being arrived ...
Article : 231 wordsSome time after midday, the Government donation of £400O was handled in, and raised the barometer considerably. This money was given as a special gift by the ...
Article : 90 wordsOrders have been Issued from headquarters, Melbourne, for the organisation of a camel corps. The corps will be raised from Australian troops. Each Australian infantry ...
Article : 136 wordsA meeting attended by 40 operative bakers was held last night to discuss the day baking question. A motion was submitted in favour of the abolition of night work, but an ...
Article : 61 wordsWe are told the Chancellor declared that a great error had been committed in overstating the value of submarines against England's navy, and that it was no longer ...
Article : 374 wordsMajor J. H. Hope, of the Highland Light Infantry, who was aide-de-camp to Lord Carmichael (then Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael) when Governor of Victoria in ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Town Hall was converted into a bug[?] banking chamber for the occasion. [?] Sutherden, chief accountant of the Ban[?] New South Wales, was in charge of ab[?] ...
Article : 80 wordsWork is to proceed at once on a deviation to avoid the steep and dangerous Rocks Hill on the Bathurst-Orange road, which is well known to all western motorists. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe District Commandant, Brigadler-General Ramaclotti, visited and inspected the Light Horse camp at Menangle on Thursday. The commandant stated that a fine billlord-room ...
Article : 69 wordsWhen the counting finishe [?] the night some time after 11 o'clock it. [?]me evident that the £20,000 which the committee set out to raise would be very nearly realised. The ...
Article : 258 wordsThe New South Wales Recrulting Committee had before it recently a memorandum from the Premier, in which an expression of its opinion on the question of financing it was ...
Article : 261 wordsA great lire at the Hamburg docks destroyed two large, warehouses and three steamers. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Asquith said the Governmnet was causing the Union Jack to be flown from public buildings on Empire Day (May 24), and he hoped ...
Article : 45 wordsIt has been reported to Distiict Headquarters that at a meeting recently hold soldiers in uniform removed from the meeting certain persons who had been interjecting. ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is estimated that British, colonical, and American life companies have paid £7,000,000 in respect of death claims arising from the war. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn order has been issued from Headquarters that at least three days before the departure of each transport from any port in New South Wales, a return for all units ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Miners' Federation curd vote shows that 583,000 to 135,000 are opposed to conscription. The Federation unanimously protested ...
Article : 49 wordsArrivals.—At London, R.M.S. Orontes (left Sydney March 25); at Liverpool. Agapenor, s (left Sydney March [?]: at San Francisco, Salvator, 4-mstd sch (left ...
Article : 68 wordsMichael Crowley, 68, who was found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife at North Melbourne, was, in the Criminal Court to-day, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Miners' Federation card vote shows nearly a five-to-one majority against conscription. If this huge union is determined to stand by such an opinion it will create a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 13 May 1916, Page 17
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