A special Reuter message to the "Cape Times," dated London, January 27, gives a thrilling account of the naval engagement which took place in the North Sea on ...
Article : 811 wordsThe executive committee appointed by the large meeting in the Town Hall on Thursday to control the organisation of the movement to raise £30,000 per month in New South Wales ...
Article : 704 wordsThe results of this week's recruiting are disappointing. It is practically certain that the thousand mark will not be reached. The authorities are appealing for men. It ...
Article : 760 wordsAn infantry brigade of the 20th East Prussian Army Corps suffered tremendous casualties at Kerjek, and 600 prisoners were taken. ...
Article : 31 wordsGeneral J. C. Smuts, Minister for Finance and Defence, in moving the second reading of the Indemnity Bill in the House of Assembly to-day, emphasised the fact that ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Admiralty further reports that H.M.S. Dublin demolished an observation station on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and the Sapphire bombarded the guns and troops ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Russian progress in Northern Poland continues, and they have captured Kerjek, 21 miles north-east of Przasnysz. ...
Article : 101 wordsPeasant men and women in Northern Poland during the German invasion armed themselves with old muzzle-loaders, seythes, and hay-forks, and voluntarily ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Turks are rushing guns and troops towards Constantinople. Ten warships of the Allies are bombarding the inner forts of the Dardanelles. ...
Article : 45 wordsA submarine chased the Red Cross steamer St. Andrew, which was conveying wounded across the English Channel. She put on full speed and escaped. ...
Article : 76 wordsIn the western theatre the usual artillery duels seem to be still characterising the operations throughout the long battle front, though in one instance a German infantry ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that destroyers sank the German submarine US, and took prisoner the officers and crew. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Austro-Hungarian censorship of despatches is increasingly severe. Nevertheless, they show that a tremendous conflict is raging along the whole of the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe damage to the Norwegian steamer Thordis supports the story of the captain that he had rammed and sunk a German submarine. ...
Article : 24 wordsA conference between the Chinese and Japanese Government representatives resulted in an agreement to extend the lease of Port Arthur and Dalny for 99 years. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe King to-day granted an audience to[?] and decorated, Captain Kinnear with the Distinguished Service Cross. [During a storm on November 17 the ...
Article : 141 wordsA Paris message says that the German Admiral, inspecting submarines, offered a large reward for each merchantman sunk, and a life pension for each man if a ...
Article : 33 wordsA communique yesterday stated: Our artillery demolished the enemy's trenches in the sand dunes. The Bombardment of Reims lasted all ...
Article : 91 wordsIn view of the work that has been accomplished by submarines in the present war, the question of guarding against the attacks of these craft is occupying an increasing amount ...
Article : 387 wordsA derelict British seaplane was picked up in the North Sea, and towed to Ymuiden. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe "British Australasian" to-day publishes illustrations of an Australian divisional column and ammunition park, totalling 600. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Swedish steamer Blenda has been arrested. She embarked a large cargo of guns at Copenhagen, ostensibly destined for ...
Article : 39 wordsThe steamer Port Pirie, which left Newcastle on Dec. 19, has arrived at London. The Ventura, which left Sydney on Feb. 13, has arrived at San Francisco. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe High Commissioner, Sir George Reid, notified the Minister for Defence to-day that the Australian Motor Transport Divisional Ammunition Column had arrived in England, and ...
Article : 84 wordsA German communique claims to have captured eight French officers, 558 men, and seven machine guns at Notre Dame de Lorette. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Premier stated yesterday that he had been in communication with the Minister for Education respecting an offer by the professional musicians to enrol a military band in ...
Article : 93 wordsThe hearing was continued to-day before the High Court of the special case stated by the Interstate Commission in regard to the appeal from the injunction granted by the ...
Article : 530 wordsThe German Emperor, in an address after a service in the park at Nivbowo Castle, Poland, said: "Ours is a hard task. We have to prove to the entire world ...
Article : 123 wordsThe "Telegraaf" states that fighting along the Yser has been renewed, and trains with wounded are continually arriving at Bruges. ...
Article : 29 wordsA discussion took place in the House of Commons in regard to the shortage of labour for agriculture. Mr. Asquith said it was hoped that the ...
Article : 66 words"Sixteen more travelling kitchens are required for units proceeding very shortly to the front," was the statement made by Colonel Wallack, C.B., the District Commandant, when ...
Article : 391 wordsThe Army Medical Corps report that shocking injuries have been caused by German contrivances for spraying petrol over their opponents' trenches. The ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) to-day again referred to the proposed strategical railway, and especially to the financial aspect of the proposition. He said no complete ...
Article : 488 wordsOver 700 members attended the second drill on Thursday evening. It has been decided that future drills be held on Monday and Thursday evenings, and the last Saturday ...
Article : 101 wordsThe miners' conference has summoned a national conference for March 17, with a view to securing a substantial advance in wages. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe present campaign has sadly upset the calculations of these who believed that long-range weapons of scientific precision would tend to check the carnage in modern warfare ...
Article : 282 wordsThe council of the New South Wales Public School Teachers' Association has circularised teachers, urging them to assist the authorities in the effort to secure adequate National ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the opening of the war a number of army contractors waited on the Grand Duke Nicholas to discuss supplies. They were kept waiting in the ante chamber for ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Edgecliff Club, being duly constituted according to regulations, the meeting on Thursday night was held for the purpose of attesting members already enrolled. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe steamer Queen Margaret, which left Auckland on December 20, has arrived. The steamer Opawa has left for Wellington. ...
Article : 33 wordsA communique states: During Thursday at the River Fuka, in Eastern Galleia, we took prisoner 47 Austrian officers and 3000 men. The Austrians continue abortive ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Norddeutscher-Lloyd mail steamer Seydlitz, which left Sydney suddenly just prior to the declaration of war between Britain and Germany, has been interned ...
Article : 39 wordsVery little war news of any importance had come through at a late hour last night. But there was no reason to believe that "no news was bad news." On both fronts the Allies ...
Article : 409 wordsThis railway club continues to make steady progress. Four parades have now been held, and the members are showing a keen enthusiasm. The high average attendance is ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Senate has passed a resolution granting President Wilson enlarged powers to enforce the laws of neutrality in regard to the proposed sales of ships belonging to ...
Article : 44 wordsRecently the police, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, made an investigation of the business offices and private residence of Mr. J. White trading as White and Hosier, ...
Article : 291 wordsA fire at midnight destroyed a large weatherboard building known as Nurse Tumor's Cottage Hospital. Dr. Turner, with some members of his family, escaped after ...
Article : 86 wordsA communique from Berlin respecting the German withdrawal from Prasaysz uses the words "orderly retreat," and attributes the disaster to the combination of ...
Article : 35 wordsLord Rosebery, in a letter to the newspapers, protests against the suggestion to stop racing. If racing ceases altogether, he says, thoroughbred horses, which are ...
Article : 88 wordsRepresentatives of the Master Bakers' Association held an informal meeting last night, and considered the proposals of the State Government for taking over the bread ...
Article : 100 wordsA telegram from Vienna states that a plet has been discovered among Austro-Hungarian reserve officers of Slav nationality to bring about a settlement with ...
Article : 87 wordsThe action brought by the officers and crew of the steamer Southport to recover salvage in respect to the recapture of the vessel from German custody in the Caroline Islands, came ...
Article : 136 wordsConstable J. R. Johns, who left Darwin on February 23 in the Government oil launch Gregory, and concerning whose safe[?]y some anxiety was felt, returned to Darwin this ...
Article : 143 wordsIt is of interest at this time to recall the speech which the Kaiser delivered at Bremerhaven on July 27, 1900, to the troops which were then leaving for China to co-operate ...
Article : 206 wordsA communique states that only half a regiment of the Fifth Indian Infantry at Singapore was implicated in the recent rioting. ...
Article : 47 wordsEugene Dervois, a Frenchman, who was wounded in the present war, recently came to Sydney as a convalescent. His objective was Noumea, and some Sydney French residents ...
Article : 57 wordsRecruiting at Trentino has led to daily riots, and 240 persons have been shot and 1700 civilians and soldiers imprisoned since January. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Shearers' Association has decided to amalgamate with the Farm Labourers' Union, but refused to join the United Federation of Labour. ...
Article : 33 wordsFor many days now there appears to have been a complete [?]ull on the front directly west of Warsaw and in Southern Poland; but vigorous fighting is still going on among ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 6 Mar 1915, Page 15
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