During a speech at the official luncheon on the T.S.S. Wollongbar (N.C.S.N. Co.), at the Anniversary regatta yeste[?]day, Judge Backhouse made references to the w[?]r, which ...
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Article : 261 wordsOn the western front the Allies report slight progress east of Nieuport. Russian advices report greater ...
Article : 158 wordsThe captain of the Dutch trawler Erica states that 120 miles off Heligoland, at 9.[?]0 on Sunday morning, six large German warships and 20 torpedo destroyers appeared. ...
Article : 165 words"All over the country," says Mr. Jane, "there is a serious and growing mistrust of the navy. It is utterly and entirely wr[?]zg. but it is very little use saying much about ...
Article : 235 wordsAccording to Berlin advices, the Admiralty state that four German cruisers and two torpedo flotillas, accompanied by a battle-cruiser, took part in the ...
Article : 66 wordsGermany assorts that it destroyer sunk a British battle cruiser, and that an airship saw it. The German statement adds that the ...
Article : 64 wordsWhat may be taken as an excellent instance of the peculiarly distorted public view is supplied in reference to the capture of Basra in the Persian Gulf by the British. Basra ...
Article : 216 wordsSir. Charles Schwab, the well-known American capitalist, has abaudoned his scheme to build submarines in the United States, and recently transferred his ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Blucher's captain is among the survivors. ...
Article : 15 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that the Government has seized all stocks of corn and is distributing them to the communities on a population basis until next ...
Article : 39 wordsA communique yesterday evening stated: We have made slight progress east of St. Georges (a couple of miles enst of Nienport). We also repulsed n counter-attack ...
Article : 87 wordsA Petrograd message says the Russians are delighted at Rear-Admiral Beatty's victory. Admiral Skrydloff declared that the British Navy throughout had accomplished ...
Article : 74 wordsOn Monday night the State Commandant inspected, at the Sydney Cricket Ground, about 180 riflemen, whom he found to be making "steady progress." Yesterday ...
Article : 172 wordsOne peculiarly interesting item appearing in this morning's cables states that "further" contingents of Cossacks and a constderablo quantity of war materiais have reinforced the ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. D. de Mol, a Dutch gentleman at present residing at Canterbury, New South Wales, has received a letter from his sister at Bergen op Loom, a town situated about 18 miles north ...
Article : 464 wordsIt is reassuring to know that letters received from Egypt from members of the First Expeditionary Force recently are written i[?] good spirits, and do not indicate in any way ...
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Article : 41 wordsIf Cossacks had actually been drafted into Servia there would be a pardonable curiosity as to what route led them there. Servia and Russia have no common border, and a ...
Article : 207 wordsProf. Noldeke, a Hamburg jurist, in an article in the "Cologue Gazette," referring to the Ducia, snys it is doubtful whether the change of flag can be recognised ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the British armed merchantman. Viknor was either lost in a gale or destroyed by a mine off the north of Ireland, all on board ...
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Article : 217 wordsThe "Morning Post" says a test case is being prepared, which, if allowed, will [?]e more injurious 'to the Allies than that of the Dacia, namely, the case of the ...
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Article : 45 wordsGerman prisoners state that the German public has been kept in ignorance or Russian victories in Bukovina. ...
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Article : 338 wordsThe Servian army has been reinforced by further contingents of Cossacks and a considerable quantity of war materials. ...
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Article : 78 wordsThe "Australian War Contingent Association" has established itself at the Commonwealth offices, 72 Victoria-street, London, S.W. The members undertake to supplement ...
Article : 281 wordsRepresentatives of the shipping industry have furnished a statement to the Board of Trade showing that while the relation of tonnage to trade is not deficient, they ...
Article : 130 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" correspondent at Dunkirk says that Major Raleigh and Captain Roche, who participated, in the air raid on Zeebrugge, encountered a fog ...
Article : 142 wordsEarl Grey, presiding at a meeting of the Royal Colonial institute on December 15, at which the Earl of Meath read a paper on the "Training of the New Army," alluded to ...
Article : 433 wordsThe Denman District Herd Testing Association has been disbanded on account of insufficient support. The plant is to be disposed of and the proceeds handed over to the ...
Article : 240 wordsTwo officers at Torquay refused to allow a sentry to search their motor car. The sentry's rifle went off, and the bullet killed both officers. ...
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Article : 45 wordsThe tender of Gillespie and Co. has been accepted by the Defence Department for 22,300 pairs of boots at 12s per pair. The factory will be kept busy till the end of the year, and ...
Article : 46 wordsA letter, signed "Bertha E. Phelps,' Fenton, Mungindi, acknowledges the following gifts towards the Belgian Wool Fund:—Mr. Chas. Richards, Windowie, Gilmore, one bale wool; ...
Article : 75 wordsThirty-five natives who were gaolad at Poona overpowered the guards. The police pursued them, killed l8, and wounded six. The remainder escaped. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is reported that an Austrian cruiser struck a mine, a[?]d sank near Trieste. ...
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Article : 161 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) was asked to-day if he could make any information available about negotiations with the Customs Department for placing large onders ...
Article : 132 wordsLord Fisher, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, received many congratulations to-day on the occasion of his 74th birthday. ...
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Article : 83 wordsFire damaged a quantity of furniture stored at premises occupied by George Willock and Co., at the corner of Church and Dixon streets, Parramatta, late last [?]ght. The ...
Article : 52 wordsGerman advices state that the Karlsrube Sunk eleven merchantmen during the last fortnight. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 27 Jan 1915, Page 11
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