The revival in recruiting which took place after the Christmas holidays, when the weekly number expanded from 500 to 1000, would probably have been maintained during last week ...
Article : 1,677 wordsA communique states: We drove back the Germans at Lebegaten, north of Gumbinnen (East Prussia). The Germans were again repulsed in the Borjimoff region with ...
Article : 162 wordsLord Rosebery, speaking at a recruiting meeting in Edinburgh on behalf of the Royal Scots, appealed to the municipal authorities to keep down expenditure to ...
Article : 216 wordsFurther skirmishes are reported near the Suez Canal, in which Turkish advance parties have been repulsed. ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Turks now occupy Katich (25 miles east of the Suez Canal), with their outposts at Bir-el-Duelzar, 12 miles nearer. They also have outposts at Moyaharab, ...
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Article : 153 wordsThe Navy Office has word that all on [?] H.M.A.S. Sydney are well. ...
Article : 21 wordsAmong other things that Sir Percy Scott predicted in regard to submarines was that in war time these craft would be largely used to destroy merchant ships, and he ...
Article : 281 wordsA description of the sights around Cairo that the Australian troops have been visiting is given in a letter written by Quartermaste[?] sergeant C. J. Harrison, of the field ambulance ...
Article : 531 wordsAn official report states that the Allies have consolidated and extended the bridgehead at Nieuport. The daily advance is small owing to gales, and the impossibility ...
Article : 207 wordsA carefully worded article on peace is appearing in many of the German newspapers. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe well-known airman, Pegoud, was [?] connoitring at Artois, when he discovered an important depot of German explosives. He went to the French lines, secured ...
Article : 86 wordsFollowing the visits' of the French Ministers, M. Millerand and M. Augagnen, to England, widespread articles have appeared in the French press, paying tribute ...
Article : 73 wordsThe General Federation of Trades Unions has issued a manifesto asking the Government to control flour and wheat and limit the price of home-grown unmarketed wheat ...
Article : 39 wordsThe full terms upon which advances are to be made to the selt-governing Dominions were communicated by the Imperial authorities on Saturday to the Premier's office, ...
Article : 490 wordsA Berlin message says it wns a Parseral and not a Zeppelin airship that attacked Liban. Its non-return is admitted. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe German Emperor has returned to Berlia. ...
Article : 19 wordsThat the U21 entered the Irish Sea with the express intention of attacking merchantmen is hardly likely. It would seem far more probable that her main object in prowling about ...
Article : 424 wordsIn supporting Sir William Osier, who urged the vital importance of inoculating all troops against typhoid, Surgeon-General Williams, in a letter to the "Times," points ...
Article : 47 wordsThe German Emperor has conferred the order of the Red Engte on Herr Liss[?] author of the "Hymn of Hate." The German press is delighted. The ...
Article : 48 wordsThe German Emperor, early in the week, witnessed a fierce attack at Blagny. The French withstood a shower of grenades, but yielded to the German bayonets. ...
Article : 87 wordsSir Timothy Cog[?]an's inquiries respecting New South Wales girls in Belgian schools show that all are safe. The schools have been practically unmolested. ...
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Article : 226 wordsA Swiss who visited a camp of French prisoners in Germany reports that the men are badly fed. They are restricted to 250 grammes of bread daily. The vegetables ...
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Article : 197 wordsRepresentatives of the NorddeutscherLloyd, Hamburg-America,, Hansa, and Austrian Lloyd lines, after deliberations with the London Chamber of Commerce, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Press Bureau says the Germans left 200 dead in front of the British trenches at Gainchy. The British casualties were small. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Germans have drained off large areas from the Yser seawards, and have vainly striven to build bridges Thirty thousand reinforcements hare ...
Article : 34 wordsA British prisoner named John Bramble has been remanded to Spandau (a fortified town of Prussia) for assaulting a sergeant who struck him with a whip. Bramble ...
Article : 55 words"He had bad luck," said a comrade, in describing how Bombardier Harlock, of the 113th Battery R.F.A., won the Victoria Cross. The official announcement of the award was ...
Article : 355 wordsThe modified scheme of the British dyemakers provides for a capital of a 2,000,000. The Government will grant a loan corresponding to the amount of capital ...
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Article : 92 wordsA cable message of a couple of days ago announced that Colonel Joachim von Heydebreck, Commandant of German South-west Africa, had died of wounds received through ...
Article : 335 wordsAs there seems to be some doubt as to the proper way to address communications to mebers of the medical units who embarked on the Kyarra, it is notified that all such ...
Article : 65 wordsGeneral von Bissing, the German Governor of Belgium, announces that a heavy tax will be imposed on all Belgians who are not repatriated before March 1, when ...
Article : 62 wordsThe export of maize and oats oversea has been prohibited until the wants of the Defence Department have been satisfied. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Germans rescued after and during the recent naval action in the North Sea represent every larse ship, and most of the smaller ships, which comprised the ...
Article : 116 wordsAn account of the conditions in India since the outbreak of the war is given by Mr. O. Mills, who arrived at Auckland by the Aparima direct from Calcutta last week after ...
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Article : 23 wordsThe "Kolnische Zeitung" states that [?] British colonials have been arrested at Hamburg. Ten Australians are still free. ...
Article : 30 wordsThere is only one unsatisfactory item in the messages concerning the progress of events on the western front, and that is in relation to a French set-back in the Argonne. ...
Article : 284 wordsA refugee from Lodz states that the Germans confiscated "an enormous supply of provisions. There is no bread left, the potatoes are bad, and the civilians are ...
Article : 45 wordsA doctor who was recently in Berlin states that thousands of soldiers continue to return mentally deranged. He had seen trainloads of such men who were ...
Article : 45 wordsMessrs. T. A. Dibbs and H. H. Massle have collected the sum of £622 for the purchase of field kitchens for the 4th Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, A.I.F., and have remitted ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is officially stated that as the result of a week of vigorous battles in the Carpathians, the Austrians re-conquered the passes desite the snow and the difficulties ...
Article : 44 wordsWe have to look at the policy of the PanGermanic Commercial League to underst[?]d [?]. That code of Gorman honour, the Koloniales Jahobuch, clearly demonstrates what ...
Article : 409 wordsOver 200 wounded bluejackets who took part in the North Sea fight have traversed Hamburg. The Seydlitz and the Moltke, which took ...
Article : 54 wordsA number of Syrians resident in the Commonwealth despite their hatred of the Turk and their loyalty to Great Britain have been interned because of their nationality. The ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Breitung, the purchaser of the steamer Dacia, whose registry has been changed from German to American, has received strong intimation that his ...
Article : 77 wordsMosman residents are enthusiastically supposing the rifle club movement, and expect to form a club at least 500 strong. A meeting is to be held at the Mosman Town Hall ...
Article : 70 wordsA communique states:—We occupied Soflan, and the enemy retreated towards Tabriz, leaving several hundred dead on the battlefield. ...
Article : 55 wordsTwo hundred and seventy-six men, including 25 Newfoundland naval reservists, were lost in the British armed merchantman Viknor, which recently went ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Allen (Minister for Defence) has received a cable from Licutenant-Colonel Godley, stating that there is no shadow of foundation for the newspaper reports regarding the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe committee of the Sock Fund announces that donotions will be received up till Thursday. The fund now amounts to £135. The members of the committee are Mesdames ...
Article : 54 wordsThe German reinforcement of the Austrian army in Hungary having been completed, a strenuous effort is now being made once more to force a passage over the range, with the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 1 Feb 1915, Page 9
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