There were 185 volunteers yesterday for active service. Of these 102 were accepte, and 83 rejected. It was almost like old times to watch the ...
Article : 253 wordsMr. J. H. Catts, M.P., organising secretary of the State Recruiting Campaign, referred last night to the number of enlistments since December 1 last. ...
Article : 806 wordsThe German Emperor has returned to Germany. His staff enabled descriptive writers, photographers, cinematograph operators, artists, and poets to witness the ...
Article : 164 wordsA crowded meeting was held at the Guild[?]all to-day to inaugurate a national savings campaign. The historic Guildhall could have been ...
Article : 878 wordsA Paris communique states:—"Nothing important has taken place north of Ver[?] or in the Woevre. There has been merely an intermittent [?]de." ...
Article : 656 wordsFollowing on the battle of Verdull, a wave of disillusionment and depression is said to be sweeping over ...
Article : 216 wordsMr. John Leyland, a writer on naval subjects in the "Daily Graphic," says he has reason to believe the new German submarines have been expressly built for ...
Article : 139 wordsIt is interesting to note that the alliance between Britain and Portugal is the oldest in our history. "It has," says the writer of a recent Oxford pamphlet, "its roots far ...
Article : 373 wordsA communique has been issued as follows:—Our artillery at Lake Sventen annihilated an enemy detachment who had been obliged to abandon their trenches. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following figures of courtry enlistments from Monday to Wednesday have been supplied to the Premier by the military authorities:—Goulburn, 23; Armidale, 16; Narrabri. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states that the German casualties at Verdun are estimated at from 125,000 to 150,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsThere were 489 volunteers in the State to-day, and 285 were accepted. BRISBANE, Thursday. In Queensland to-day 130 recruits were ...
Article : 93 wordsPresident Wilson has notified Congress that he will not accept a mere vote of confidence. He has unequivocally announced to the lenders that he refuses to continue ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is reported that Germany has issued an ultimatum to Portugal, demanding the return of the seized vessels within 48 hours. ...
Article : 165 wordsThe methods of recruiting adopted throughout Australia are being widely discussed in this State. At the annual conference of the Liberal League the following motion was ...
Article : 797 words"There has been no further infantry fighting in the Verdun sector," says the latest Paris communique and the German official news centre is eloquently silent. So the first ...
Article : 458 wordsA German seaplane dropped bombs on the south-east const of England to-day, and killed a baby. No military damage was done. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Grahame, last night supplied the following particulars of the transactions in connection with this scheme up to February 29 last: ...
Article : 305 wordsThe conference of Chambers of Commerce urged the Government to establish a credit bank to develop British trade abroad, to remove advantages accorded ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that all the facts with regard to enlistments were not yet complete, and there was good reason why they should not ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Mokkattam" publishes a statement from Constantinople to the effect that General von Sanders went to Berlin and informed the German Emperor that Prince ...
Article : 118 wordsThe embargo on the export of coal, and the consequent unemployment in the Newcastle district, was brought under the notice of the Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) ...
Article : 265 wordsRandwick tramway workshops were again idle yesterday Representatives of the men who are affected by the stoppage of work there again met in conference at the Trades ...
Article : 217 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports:— There were twenty air encounters yesterday. One of our machines did not return. Our infantry machine guns dispersed a ...
Article : 95 wordsOn Saturday last it was auuounced that the Portuguese Government had suddenly seized 36 Austrian and German ships that had been lying in the Tagus since the beginning of the ...
Article : 458 wordsThe Royal Colonial Institute entertained Mr. Fisher (High Commissioner for the Commonwealth) at lunch to-day. Lord Denman (ex-Governor-General of ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Budget shows a deficit of £37,000,000 sterling. The war is costing £3,000,000 daily. The drink revenue has fallen from £68,000,000 to less ...
Article : 91 wordsPolice investigations show that two Germans were guilty of the explosion on the liner Tennyson. The Germans and their families have since disappeared. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following official information regarding the fighting on the western front was contained in a cablegram received by the Premier from the Agent-General ...
Article : 121 wordsA shocking motor fatality has occurred near Pokeno. While the owner of the motor car was attending to the benzine tank an explosion occurred, blowing him out of the door ...
Article : 120 wordsRegulations have been gazetted prohibiting speculation in war metals, to prevent the undue inflation of prices. ...
Article : 25 wordsOne of the greatest causes of dissatisfaction in the disposal of the recruits from this district is that they are scattered, and one of the greatest aids to enthusiastic recruiting ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Minister for Munitions, Mr. Lloyd George, in the House of Commons to-day, said that the exemptions to military service were causing the Government anxiety. ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Asquith and the Denn of Westminster Abbey were desirous that a funeral service to the late Mr. Henry James, O.M., novelist, should be held in the Abbey, but the family ...
Article : 49 wordsA lance-corporal and private in the Australian Army Service were charged at Uxbridge with stealing three cases of cigarettes and tobacco, value £24, the ...
Article : 82 wordsArrivals.—At London: Kia-ora, s (left Wellington January 15); Griqua, s (left Brisbane December 10); Teenkai, s (left Sydney December 4). ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Arbitration court is considering the Carpenters and Joiners' Unions application for a 44 hours' week and a minimum of 2s an hour, and the restricting of apprentices to ...
Article : 87 wordsDr. C. Addison (Under-Secretary for Munitions) stated in the House of Commons that our increase of machine guns' had been enormous, and the output was ...
Article : 37 wordsThe police are still busy in connection with the murder of William Patrick Haines, a chauffeur, on Bulleen-road, Heidelberg, on Tuesday last. ...
Article : 66 wordsSo much for the position as it appears on the surface. When the real facts come to be known it will probably be found that Portugal is acting in close consultation with ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 3 Mar 1916, Page 7
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