The Government measure providing for the taking of a referendum on the question of the closing time of hotels during the war was again before Committee in the Legislative ...
Article : 2,308 wordsOne hundred and twenty-nine men offered their services at Victoria Barracks yesterday. Of these, 96 were accepted, and 33 rejected. Recruiting was fairly brisk at the barracks ...
Article : 165 wordsHis Majesty the King to-day gave an audience to Mr. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth. ...
Article : 34 wordsThis morning's cables suggest that the Germans are preparing for one more supreme offort against Verdun. While they are hammering at the French flanks to the ...
Article : 329 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia) repudiates the "Times" statement that he is the ambassador of Canada and New Zealand, and has ...
Article : 893 wordsA telegram from Ymuiden (Netherlands) states that a trawler reports having sighted off Terschelling on Monday afternoon a fleet of at least 30 German ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Germans'are massing in every sector for the attack on Verdun. Lively bombardments are proceeding ...
Article : 194 wordsThe fighting at Hill 265 was even more obstinate than at Douaument. The Germans wete repulsed twenty times with heavy losses, before the slopes were won ...
Article : 849 wordsThe "Matin." replying to yesterday's German claim, declares that only 700 French troops were prisonered, while the alleged 10 guns were merely trench engines. ...
Article : 33 wordsThere was a considerable falling-off to-day in recruiting, only 195 men being accepted from 334 volunteers. BRISBANE, Thursday. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe crew of the steamer Flamenco (one of the victims of the German raider Moewe), report that the Mocwe's men had served aboard English merchantmen. The ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-day Sergeant Cross, D.C.M., Corporal Edwards, and Private Saunders will address recruiting meetings near the Kogarah Railway Station, and at the local picture show. ...
Article : 97 wordsThe German Emperor personally bestowed the Prussian Order of Merit on the captain of the raider Moewe. ...
Article : 25 wordsThere was quite a flutter of excitement when the news was published yesterday that a big section of the German fleet, numbering at least 50 warships, together with a flotilla ...
Article : 329 wordsThe German Consuls have advised the Germans to quit Portugal immediately. A rupture is regarded as inevitable. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt was stated at the Rechabltes' conference yesterday that 700 members had answered the call from the New South Wales district. This number on the effective membership was less ...
Article : 43 wordsDuring the debate on the Navy estimates Mr. A. J. Balfour (First Lord of the Admiralty) said Mr. Winston Churehill's speech was unfortunate, both in form ...
Article : 461 wordsA Zeppelin flying over Revigny endeavoured to bomb 70 waggon-loads of munitions. The station-master and two assistants coupled them to an engine, and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following are the figures of country enlistments from Monday to Wednesday:— Goulburn, 22; Armidale, 19; Narrabri, 14; Dubbo, 23; Cootamundra, 65; Lithgow, 1; New ...
Article : 164 wordsM. Verrier, a military aviator, climbed with four passengers to a height of 3410 metres in 28 minutes at Etampes. This constitutes a world's record. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn a letter dated from Egypt on January 27, Brigadier-General Holmes expresses his high appreciation of the efforts of the various organisations that are providing comforts for ...
Article : 263 words"Scottish Rugby Union."—A few changes of under clothing, handkerchiets, an overcoat, and some spare socks. Had you asked the enrolling officer he would have supplied you with a printed list. ...
Article : 85 wordsThat the German fleet should come out with the deliberate object of giving battle to the main British force at this stage seems hardly credible. The cardinal maxim of all ...
Article : 283 wordsA wealthy gentleman greatly interested in education has offered £10,000 for a University scholarship for the boys of the Roman Catholic schools in Queensland, one of the ...
Article : 59 wordsTelegraphing from Athens, Mr. M. H. Donohoe says that at a recent meeting of the new Turkish Committee the Grand Vizier (Prince Said Halim Pasha) upheld ...
Article : 80 wordsThe inquest on the victims of the railway disaster was concluded to-day. The jury returned a verdict that the disaster was due to excessive speed, but that there ...
Article : 47 wordsTrooper C. J. Laney. of the 1st A.L.H. Brigade, writing from Hollopolis to his brother, Mr. T. D. Lancy, of Chatswood, gives interesting particulars of the evacuation of ...
Article : 462 wordsFor failing to report themselves at intervals of seven days, as demanded by the Allens' Restriction Order, three Germans, Johannes Petsche. 19. Hans Eggert, 24, and ...
Article : 188 wordsIt is thought by some that pressure of public opinion in Germany will force the hands of the Admiralty and lead to an order that the fleet should go out and do battle with the ...
Article : 383 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe, telegraphing from Athens, says the German army in Bulgaria has been ordered to be in readiness to depart from its present front. One division ...
Article : 65 wordsThe seized steamers at Delagoa Bay, namely, the Admiral, Kronprinz, Khalif, Essen, Hof, Linda, Woermann, and the Zieten, are expected to be conveyed to ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Servian army has been newly eqipped and clothed, and is in excellent health. ...
Article : 22 wordsA cable message has been received from India announcing the death at Mhow, India, on February 27, of Licutenant-colonel J. C. C. Perkins, D.S.O., son-in-law of Mr. Harold ...
Article : 166 wordsA communique states:—Troops on the coast of the Black Sea are pressing the Turks closely, and have occupied Rizch (41 miles east of Trebizond). We ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Foreign Office has issued a crushing reply to the German allegition that there have been 26 cases of [?]-treatment of Germans in Britain since the war began. ...
Article : 198 wordsThere is a suggestic that the Germans might attempt to engage the British fleet, not with the object of securing a victory, but so that the fight might serve as a cover for a ...
Article : 288 wordsGermany has informed the United States Government that she is willing to govern her submarines in accordance with international law, provided the other ...
Article : 39 wordsThe shortage of ships is says Mr. Massey undoubtedly affecting the Dominion but the position is not acute. Several ships have been released by the Imperial authorities at ...
Article : 93 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons regarding the number of German naval and military prisoners in the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State ...
Article : 86 wordsTo-night the first of the two carnivals, the other will be run to-morrow at the Agiicultural Ground, in aid of the Light Horse Comfort's Funds, will be held at the Stadium. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe report from Zurich relating to a telegram said to have been received in Switzerland from British trade unionists, [?] couraging the employment of Swiss ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is officially announecdthat the casualties sustained during the last air raid on the north-cast coast of England were:- Killed: Nine men, four women, and five ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Minister for Labour and Industry, Mr. Estell, explains that the £160,000 recovered for trade unions by his department represented amounts due by employers under ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 10 Mar 1916, Page 9
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