After a sanguinary fight, the French seized a stronglyorganised fort on the northeastern slope of Hill 304 ...
Article : 127 wordsA submarine, which is believed to be Russian, shelled the German steamer Kolga (2086 tons) for 20 minutes off Landsort Island on the 16th, and then torpedoed and ...
Article : 221 wordsThe clerical staff of the Commonwealth Naval Dockyard at Cockatoo Island yesterday morning ceased work in a body and demanded immediate redress of a number of grievances. ...
Article : 406 wordsAt Victoria Barracks yesterday 129 men volunteered and 88 were accepted. Early in the day came a Civil servant from the Chief Secretary's Department, a ...
Article : 624 wordsA communique says:—We dispersed a strong hostile reconnalssance between the Oise and the Aisne. Several German attempts to capture a redoubt at Avocourt ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Royal Commission on the Irish rebellion held its first sitting to-day. Lord Hardinge, who presided, said it was proposed to inquire into what system ...
Article : 1,499 wordsLittle progress has been made by the Committee of Inquiry into Britain's air defences. Mr. Wm. Joynson-Hicks, M.P., admitted ...
Article : 96 wordsIt is officially reported from Cairo that an Australian and New Zealand mounted force surprised and routed the Turks from the depots at Bayond and Mageibra on the ...
Article : 61 wordsIn view of the prominence that is just now being given aerial matters, and particularly In view of Mr. Bonar Law's statement during the week that Britain was now turning out ...
Article : 336 wordsNo development occurred to-day in connection with the strike of the 600 men at Walsh Island. The men will probably hold a meeting at the Trades Hall to-morrow morning. ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Lloyd George (Minister of Munitions) presided at a Welsh dinner held in honour of Mr. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia. Five hundred of the most ...
Article : 678 wordsIn Victoria to-day 119 men offered themselves for active service and 72 were accepted. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening on the motion for the second reading of the Finance Bill, Mr. W. A. S. Hewins (Unionist) said people had ...
Article : 273 wordsThe midday appeal yesterday in Druittstreet, near the Town Hall, brought in 10 recruits. Corporal Edwards and Sergeant Saunders were the speakers. ...
Article : 88 wordsIn an interview published in yesterday's "Herald" with Father Dupont, who has been in the field some time as a French army chaplain, two things were said that warrant ...
Article : 452 wordsThe Minister for Public Works, Mr. Cann, referred yesterday to the report made to the Federal Government by Mr. A. Coombes, engineer, on the proposed strategic railway line ...
Article : 476 words'A communique states: During the night numerous heavy batteries resumed the bombardment of Zugnatorta (in the Trentipo), and afterwards launched five most ...
Article : 77 wordsIn order to draw the attention of the Government to the necessity of making a further advance of sixpence per bushel to wheat glowers in connection with the operations of ...
Article : 413 wordsIt [?] pointed out by Headquarters that no candidates for commissions in the A.I.F. can claim appointment as a right, appointments to commissioned rank in the A.I.F. are made ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. Edmund Candler, official correspondent with the British forces in Mesopotamia, writes: "Wounded officers from Kut[?]-Amara, who have arrived at ...
Article : 372 wordsSchools of Instruction for members of the Instruction Staff in bombing and trench warfare will be held in the vicinity of Duntroon as follow:—No. 4 school, from May 29 to June ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the Legislative Council Mr. Wigram moved that the Government should establish schools of flying, in preparation for the formation of an aviation corps, for the purposes ...
Article : 119 wordsM. Ribot (Ministor for Finance), speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, on the War Estimates, said that for the third quarter of 1916 £60,000,000 would be required. ...
Article : 78 wordsIn no previous great war has naval power compassed so much as in this and it is when we recollect how terribly strained were the resources of the Allies in those early, gloomy ...
Article : 298 wordsThe late Lieutenant F. B. Cheadle, whose death has been reported from France, left Sydney on May 12, 1915, an sergeant-major. He passed through the school of Instruction in ...
Article : 143 wordsThree young soldiers—Leslie Hardy, Roy Newman, and Albert Walter Smith—were charged at the City Court to-day with having wilfully and maliclously damaged a number ...
Article : 172 wordsOwing to the alleged ill condition of the ponies at Oakey Park colliery there was a stoppage yesterday in all departments. At night the men held a conference with the ...
Article : 100 wordsSir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) in the House of Commons, in reply to Major-General Sir Ivor Herbert, said the Vatican had Meen in ...
Article : 64 wordsPermits to a limited extent will now be granted to agents of neutral ships to export coal, but in such cases appilcations must come before the Minister for Customs, as hitherto. ...
Article : 88 wordsLord Hardinge (Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs was the real author of the Anglo-Russian entente of 1908. His latest appointment is ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Necessary Commodities Commission has decided to increase the wholesale prices of baking powder to 18s a dozen for large tins and 9s a dozen for small tins. The ...
Article : 118 wordsCount Bernstorff (German Ambassador in the United States), acting under instructions from Berlin, has issued a warning to all German citizens to scrupuiously ...
Article : 18 wordsThe other statement of Father Dupont that suggests comment, and this time endorsement, is that regarding the attitude of a large section of Australians over Gallipoli. "I notice," ...
Article : 542 wordsThe death occured last night of Mr. William Bowic Stewart Campbell Sawers at his residence Rahnie, Barry-street, Neutral Bay, at the age of 72 years. Mr. Sawers was a ...
Article : 98 wordsIn a circular memorandum from military headquarters, Ismailia, reproduced in a Commonwealth military order, it is announced that the mounted division to be commanded by ...
Article : 73 wordsAn internal loan of £15,000,000 has been covered two and a half times. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 20 May 1916, Page 17
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