Earthquake shocks continue to be felt, and 185 have been registered' since the disaster. The big earthquake rent in two Mount Pizzodeta, which is 6000ft high. The gap can ...
Article : 330 wordsThe "Times" explains that the British success at La Bassee (15 miles south-west of Lille) is unconfirmed. The mud is rendering the trenches a quagmire. A heavy ...
Article : 72 wordsMen who are prepared to serve in the Army Medical Corps at Rabaul, and willing to leave at two days notice are insited to call on Captain Smith at the A.M.C. section of the ...
Article : 597 wordsThe Allies have made further slight progress on the Belgian coast, near Nieuport, also on the southern wing in Lorraine. ...
Article : 152 wordsA communique states: We progressed 200 metres in the Lombaertzyde district (on the coast north of Nieuport). Despite the storm, we advanced in the ...
Article : 50 wordsTo-day's cables report further progress at Lombaertzyde, which lies between Meuport and the coast. The Allies' [?]e in Flanders has been pushed forward west of Ypres ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 173 wordsA communique issued in Berlin states that during the four weeks since General Joffre published his general order for attack the French have lost 26,000 dead, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe tribute paid to the Commander-in-Chief in the Viceroy's speech on January 12 was well merited. All titulary departments continue to do splendid work. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe German account of the Soissons action says General von Lochow was the commander. Prior to the battle the opposing trenches were near each other on ...
Article : 296 wordsThe wounded French troops relate stirring narratives regarding the battle at Soissons. They state that 10,000 Frenchmen were ...
Article : 193 wordsSlight shocks of earthquake were experienced at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning at [?] Cooma. ...
Article : 25 wordsUpwards of 600 members of the Victorian branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, who were engaged in fitting up transports at the State Government Dockyards at ...
Article : 256 wordsProfessor Karl Helffericl., director of the Deutscher Bank, succeeds Herr Kuhn as German Finance Minister, the latter having resigned owing to ill-health. ...
Article : 35 wordsA communique states: Successful progress continues on the lower Vistula. Six German regiments made violent assaults on the 16th near Gumine, supported by ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Admiralty patrol tug Chair was holed on Saturday in attempting to get alongside the steamer Erivan for examination purposes. The Erivan was unable to ...
Article : 93 wordsFollowing on a meeting of the Cabinet, the Premier (Mr. A. H. Peake) handed to the press two letters, which showed that the Attorney-General (Mr. H. Homburg) had asked ...
Article : 496 wordsRepresentatives of all branches of sport gathered in the pavilion of Sydney Cricket Ground last night and formed themselves into a rifle club. ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Pope has written a prayer, beseeching deliverance from the herrors of war. It will be used in Europe on February 7, and outside Europe on March 21. ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is important to England that the Germans shall be kept out of Calais, and it is fitting that British soldiers should be defending the coast. It is important to the French that ...
Article : 335 wordsAccording to official news from Cairo, there is little doubt now that Turkish troops, led by German officers, will be marching on Egypt almost immediately. How far they ...
Article : 488 wordsNo further work upon troopships win go to the State Government yards at Williamstown, said the Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Jensen) to-day. "I desire emphatically to ...
Article : 125 wordsA Dutch correspondent at Ostend states that 6000 out of 45,000 of the inhabitants only remain in the city. Horseflesh is the only meat, and there is little bread. The ...
Article : 121 wordsA communique says the battle of Karaugan (south-west of Sarykamish) for the last three days was waged in a ceaseless snowstorm. It ended in a complete ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Russian Government has requested the Spanish Embassy to complain to the German and Austrian Governments regarding atrocities perpetrated by soldiers. ...
Article : 110 words"I take exception to a statement in [?] of the newspapers that the hands of the Government are being forced in regard to the sending of a further contingent," said the ...
Article : 655 wordsMr. G. D. Delprat, general manager of the B.H. Proprietary Company, spoke this afternoon interestingly, particularly with regard to the company's iron and steel works at ...
Article : 526 wordsThe Press Bureau, in a communique based on statements of refugees, describes the army that is to invade Egypt as likely to display bravery but incapacity. Many ...
Article : 148 wordsSergeant-major Hands, of the Gordon Highlanders, in a letter, narrates that the regiment was ordered to storm the enemy's trenches, which were loopholed and fitted ...
Article : 155 wordsThere are few places around Sydney where the effects of the war are more evident than in Circular Quay. The wharfs on both the eastern and western sides, where practically ...
Article : 308 wordsThe R.M.S. Orontes, which left Sydney on December 5, nnd the Ionic, which left Auckland on November 29 and Monte Video on December 23, have arrived at London. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe official German statement of French losses during the past four weeks would seem to point to very heavy fighting—even after allowing for the official German practice of ...
Article : 404 wordsIn connection with the purchase of horses for military purposes, it has been brought under the notice of the Defence Department that certain persons representing themselves ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Governor of German East Africa has reported that two British warships and twelve transports on November 2 demanded the unconditional surrender of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe resignation of Herr Kuhn as Minister in charge of the German Imperial Treasury is said to be due to ill-health. The resignation of Count Berchtold as Foreign Minister of ...
Article : 384 wordsThe aeronauts who made a raid on Ostend on January 10 previously engaged three Taube aeroplanes. One British machine was struck nine ...
Article : 45 wordsA meeting of the female lodges of the Protestant Alliance Friendy Society was held in the School Hall of St. Paul's, Redfern, on Tuesday, when the goods collected for women ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the invitation of the local Patriotic Fund's committee, Dr. Long, [?]shop of Bathurst, addressed a meeting in the Oddfellows' Hall last night after church service. The ...
Article : 151 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle," rebutting attacks on Viscount Haldane (Lord High Chancellor), states that on August 2 Lord Haldane was assisting Mr. Asquith in the War ...
Article : 79 wordsThe newspapers are giving prominence [?]o the rise in the price of food. The Board of Trade estimate is that prices in big towns are 19 per cent, above July prices. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe writ was issued to-day for the C[?]amplans by-election. Nominations close on February 5, and. polling will take place on February 20. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the health and bylaws committee of the City Council Alderman Walker complained that speakers associated with a certain organisation had given ...
Article : 87 wordsThe English mails by the R.M.S. Mold[?]via left for Melbourne by special train at 6.15 p.m. on Monday. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn important point to remember is that the taking of prisoners from the Allies in the west was a feature of the earlier part of the war, when Belgium was invaded, when the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 19 Jan 1915, Page 9
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