His Majesty's Government desire me to offer you their warmest congratulations on the splendid gallantry and magnificent achievement of your ...
Article : 121 wordsGreek reports state that a fierce battle took place on Wednesday at Sulva Bay. The Turks suffered heavy losses. The Allies captured an entire battalion. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe principal item of news in this morning's cablegrams concerning the operations against the Dardanelles is to the effect that our troops, which landed at Sedd-el-Bahr, have now established themselves on a line right across the Gallipoli Peninsula from Eski Hissarlik northward to the Aegean Sea, and are still steadily advancing. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsSir John French reports that the German attack at Ypres has been definitely stopped. Sir John French further reports that ...
Article : 103 wordsThe War Office states that the troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula are steadily advancing. The Turks claim to have inflicted ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Leon Gambetta was sunk on a calm, moonlight night. The first torpedo wrecked the cruiser's watertight compartments. The officers made no effort to escape, but ...
Article : 50 wordsA communique states: The Germans have suffered severe losses. Over six hundred dead were counted at a single point on the Yser Canal. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is officially announced that the French armoured cruiser Leon Gambetta (12,350 tons, completed in 1904, and having a complement of 728 men), was torpedoed in the ...
Article : 323 wordsOn Sunday the Germans bombarded an infirmary at Poperinghe, which was flying the Red Cross flag. Three nuns were killed, one of them having her head blown off ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) read the messages that had been exchanged between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the ...
Article : 199 wordsA communique states: We gained a kilometre on the Les Eparges-St. Remy front, inflicting very severe losses. We destroyed a German battery. ...
Article : 34 wordsA communique states: The English attack on both sides of the Ypres-Pilkem road broke down 200 yards before our front. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe War Office states that despite continual opposition the troops have established themselves across the peninsula, north-east of Eski Hassarlik (a few miles ...
Article : 82 wordsSimultaneously with the Allied counter-attack in the Ypres region the British have assumed a vigorous offensive further down the line in the neighbourhood of Armentieres. ...
Article : 218 wordsIt is officially stated that French airmen on April 27 and 28 dropped bombs on the stations at Bollwiller, Chaubiey, Arnaville, and Leopoldshohe. ...
Article : 57 wordsThere is a wholesale movement of German troops in Belgium, partly towards the Yser and partly eastwards, presumably for the Carpathians. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe following cable has been received by the Prime Minister from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— "With reference to my telegram of March ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, read a statement in the Senate in terms similar to those of the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives. ...
Article : 358 wordsA Berlin message states that an enemy biplane dropped bombs on the arms factory at Oberndorf (Wurtemburg). The damage, it is stated, was ...
Article : 85 wordsThe steamer Sontay arrived from New Caledonia yesterday with a contingent of troops tor France on board. They are all natives of the colony, and 95 per cent. of them have ...
Article : 59 wordsA Dunkirk message, dated Wednesday, says: The Canadians, worn out with four days and nights' unceasing struggle, were relieved, and retired covered with glory, ...
Article : 341 wordsFour of the principal points of debarkation of the Allied forces are Sulva (at the north-western extremity of the Galllpoli Peninsula), Helles (at the northern ...
Article : 78 wordsBut scant news is vouchsafed us as to the progress of the Dardanelles Expeditionary Force, and the absence of fuller official reports is to be specially regretted in view of the ...
Article : 329 wordsThe Auburn Company, headed by a band, marched to Lidcombe and back. The company is displaying posters, and in other ways endeavouring to strengthen its ranks. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Rockefeller Commission, reporting on conditions in Servia, asserts that there are 30,000 cases of typhoid, and the whole nation is rapidly becoming enveloped. ...
Article : 74 wordsA Constantinople communique claims that the Allied troops at Teke Burun and Kum Kale were repulsed to the coast, and a portion returned to the ships. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe flow of contributions was well maintained at Challis House yesterday, the two thousand mark being nearly reached. Several very substantial amounts came in from the ...
Article : 470 wordsMany members of the Burwood Club are going through their musketry course at Randwick. On Tuesday evening Major Buchanan, O.C., paid a surprise visit, and gave a ...
Article : 65 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons regarding Scandinavian re-exports, Mr. Neil Primrose said that some neutral countries re-exported foodstuffs and ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Roseville Rifle Club will hold a parade with the 34th Battalion to-morrow. The muster will be in uniform at the Custom-house, Circular Quay, where special trams will be ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Waverley Rifle Club has passed the squad period, and last Monday Major Buchanan drew them up in platoon and exercised them in the new formation. Led by the 22nd ...
Article : 145 wordsTurkish troops are hastening to Enos (north of the Gulf of Saros, where the Allies were recently reported to have landed troops). ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Luxemburg correspondent asserts that the Germans lost 60,000 men at Sedan on the 1st and 2nd of September, and 40,000 at Longwy, where ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Chief Justice, Sir John Madden, as Lieutenant-Governor of the State, has received a message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in similar terms to that ...
Article : 39 wordsA communique states: The enemy is intensely active on the Upper Niemen, also west of the Niemen, north of the Narew, and west of the Mlawa railway. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe latest warship to fall a victim to the submarine is the French armoured cruiser Leon Gambetta, which has been torpedoed by an Austrian underwater[?]raft in the Straits ...
Article : 445 wordsA patriotic demonstration took place in front of Parliament-buildings. The occasion was the receipt of the following cablegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— ...
Article : 162 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister gave notice that he would move that the question of the extension of the Small Arms Factory at Lithgow be ...
Article : 56 wordsThe United States has despatched another Note to Germany, agreeing to accept compensation for the sinking of the William Frye on the basis of the German ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following have been awarded Victoria Crosses for their work during the battle of Neuve Chapelle:— Sergeant-major Daniels and Corporal ...
Article : 208 wordsA communique states: An Austrian battalion in the Stry district surrendered. Airmen bombed German aeroplanes at Sanniki. We captured two ...
Article : 41 wordsExecutive approval was given to-day for the acceptance of the tender of J. Mason and Sons amounting to £113,567/17/7 for the erection and completion of the superstructure of ...
Article : 67 wordsDr. John Haldane, who was sent to France to investigate the effects of the poisonous gas used by the Germans, has reported to the War Office that post ...
Article : 138 wordsColonel M. J. Tighe, of the Indian army, has been appointed major-general commanding the forces operating against German East Africa. ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is reported that Field-Marshal von Hindenburg and the Archduke Frederick quarrelled, because the former demanded that Austrian troops should be sent to ...
Article : 83 wordsThe following cable message was yesterday received by the Prime Minister through the Governor-General, from the Governor-General of Canada, in reply to a message of ...
Article : 79 wordsA letter from a country commercial traveller received by Mr. Hugh Ward yesterday contained a good suggestion. It was that everyone moving among men throughout the State ...
Article : 666 wordsAn appalling story of conditions in Servia was related by Ernest Bicknell and Henry James, jun., of the war relief commission of the Rockefeller Foundation, on their return ...
Article : 227 wordsThis morning's cablegrams confirm the view that the great German assault upon the Allied line to the north of Ypres has definitely exhausted itself. The tremendous thrust was ...
Article : 349 wordsThe Japanese Minister has informed China that after the acceptance of the Japanese demands Japan will consider the retrocession of Kiao-Chao, but that ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Massey, has received the following cablegram from the Prime Minister of Canada, Sir R. L. Borden:— ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Germans had metallic tubes projecting from the first line of trenches. At a given signal they lighted the tubes, and red flames shot up twelve yards, followed ...
Article : 97 wordsArrivals.—At Gray's Harbour: Schooner Alumna. At Valparaiso: Steamer Tricolour. Passed Prawle Point: Steamer Trafalgar. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Leon Gambetta was 11 years old, but was, nevertheless, a useful unit of the French navy, and her loss is to be deplored, when it is considered that there is at present ample ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 30 Apr 1915, Page 7
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