The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, in his Budget statement, said that the war was costing £2,100,000 per day. If it lasted throughout the ...
Article : 553 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, addressing the Wholesale and Retail Traders' Association, said that 260,000 out of 480,000 shop assistants of military age had ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Attorney-General, Mr. Hughes, introduced in the House of Representatives to-night a bill for an Act relating to enemy contracts. ...
Article : 206 wordsAt 11 a.m. to-day a meeting of women ready to assist in the success of "Belgian Day," May 14, will be held at Her Majesty's. In addition to several women speakers. Sir ...
Article : 431 wordsThe miserable weather conditions yesterday had no effect upon the reeruiting. Nearly 200 men presented themselves in the hope of being accepted and going to the front to ...
Article : 385 wordsIt was suggested some time age by cablegram that the Australian mall steamer Orama, of the Orient Line, had pursued and sunk the armed German merchantman ...
Article : 297 wordsIn the meantime the Russian reports regarding the battle in western Galicia are marked by a tone of steady, quiet confidence. The fighting has been of a desperately severe ...
Article : 299 wordsOn three occasions lately we have been told of the Russian fleet bombarding the forts guarding the northern entrance of the Bosphorus. Perhaps the greatest Interest ...
Article : 330 wordsThe business of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church was continued at St. Stephen's Church, Phillip-street, yesterday, the Moderator, the Rev. R. Scott West, ...
Article : 485 wordsThe Speaker took the Chair at 3 p.m. A petition was forwarded from the farmers of South Australia by Mr. R. W. Foster, protesting against the duty of 10 per cent. on ...
Article : 770 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Thorne (Labour) drew attention to the poor condition of New South Wales sheep through the drought. ...
Article : 288 wordsLieut.-Col. L. F. Clarke, D.S.O., V.D. honorary Col.), was born in Melbourne 57 years ago, and was associated with the Field Artillery here almost from boyhood. He ...
Article : 125 wordsThe authorities are taking action against persons spreading false reports regarding casualties at the Dardanelles. A woman was prosecuted to-day for sending ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—Permit me to make a suggestion with reference to the above day, namely, that all toasts of the Belgians and their King be drunk in other than spirituous liquors. It ...
Article : 204 wordsLieutenant Wilson, who was a native of Sale, Gippsland, was 24 years of age, and unmarried. As a youth he joined the Sale squndron of the Australian Light Horse. ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Justice Higgins returned to Australia by the R.M.S. Moldavia yesterday. While in London his Honor said that he spent much time in the House of ...
Article : 416 wordsAnd if Russia has command of the Black Sea; then, if she wants to, and can spare the troops for it, she is able to land an army of invasion on Turkish soil to the north-west ...
Article : 387 wordsAmongst those killed at the Dardanelles are Lieutenants E. M. Solling and G. E. Kelly, both of Maitland. A private cable states that Lance-Corporal ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Defence was besieged with questions when the House of Representatives met this evening. Members were anxious to get information ...
Article : 459 wordsThe following cable message has been received by the Deputy Chief Censor, Colonel W. H. Hall, from the Deputy Chief Censor of New Zealand:—"I have to Inform you that the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Official Press Dureau announces thatt the United States Embassy in Berlin reports that the British officers imprisoned at Bung and Mangdeburg are in separate ...
Article : 214 wordsDr. Clifford has resigned the ministry of Praed-street and Westbourne Park Baptist Church. Dr. Clifford is in his 79th year, and has ...
Article : 38 wordsThe newspapers comment unfavourably on the Treasury's refusal to allow Broken Hill companies to issue fresh capital for the purpose of preventing the smelting ...
Article : 40 wordsLieutenant Clement Frederic Wills Lane is the son of the Rev. H. W. Lane, of Coburg Church of England, chaplain to the Melbourne Cemetery, who had two brothers who were ...
Article : 740 wordsCadmus, s, passed South Head, proceeding north, at 10.10 p.m. yesterday. ...
Article : 16 words"High-water mark has been reached in the history of the temperane movement. A tidal wave of temperance feeling and movement has spread over the wide world, caused chiefly by ...
Article : 411 wordsFREMANTLE (2466m).—Arr: May 5, indarra, s, from castern States: Hellenic, s, from the Baltic. Dep: May 4, Moldavia, R.M.S., for eastern States. WELLINGTON (1230m).—Dep: May 5, Waitentata, 5, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia, Sir George Reid, has handed wer the sum of £4600 which was collected in Melbourne on King Albert's birthday. ...
Article : 32 wordsAs to the actual bombardment of the Bosphorus forts it is necessary to emphasise the fact that the Russians can entertain no idea of forcing a way through those straits ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 160 wordsMany German military surgeons have been accusing the British troops of using dum-dums. A leading Bavarian medical journal, after strict and prolonged ...
Article : 43 wordsFor the second time this week a foul attack has occurred in Prince Alfred Park. At a late hour last night, a Chinese was crossing the park on his way home, when, he alleges, ...
Article : 119 wordsSpeaking on the liquor question in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Unionist) said it was impossible for the Opposition to aecept the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce. gave an indignant denial yesterday to the statement that a large number of men had been rejected in Victoria as unfit for service. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsTwo brothers named Christenson, shipmasters, have been sentenced to three years for conspiring to export copper to Germany. ...
Article : 27 wordsNews has been received here by Mr. Alfred Rolfe, of the death of Mrs. Alfred Dampler, who was living at the time in America, with her son Fred, and her daughter ...
Article : 189 wordsThe report issued by the Press Bureau states that the Turks on Saturday and Sunday made determined onslaughts against the Allies on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They ...
Article : 192 wordsThe latest German and Austrian advices from Galicia deny the reports about the Russian retreat, and once again the German official communiques stand convicted of ...
Article : 252 wordsNews has been received from England of the death of Lieutenant. J. R. Waddy, R.A.M.C., aged 27, who was shot when near Ypres on March 17. He had been mentioned ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsFrench vignerons at numerous meetings have protested against the ruinous effect of the proposed British duties on wine, and have urged the French Government to ...
Article : 36 wordsThe steamer City of Baroda is expected to reach Port Melbourne this week from India. She has amongst her crew a lascar fireman who has suffered from smallpox. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Hobart election for the Hobart seat in the Legislative Council was held yesterday. There were five candidates—three Liberals and two Labourites. The final figures ...
Article : 45 wordsNews was received yesterday by Mr. Noville W. Montagu, from a firm of solicitors at Lye, Stourbridge, England, of the death on March is in France, through wounds received ...
Article : 54 wordsRussia is issuing, in foreign markets, £20,000,000 worth of 5 per cent Treasury bonds. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe "Dally Chronicle's" correspondent at Constantinople says it is estimated that the Turks have 70,000 troops dofending the Dardanelles, and they firmly believe that, unless ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 6 May 1915, Page 10
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