Colonel Wallack, C.B., State Commandantm, expressed himself last night as being most gratified with the way the rifle club movement was going ahead. The Mosman ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Premier said last night in the course of an interview that he had since his return from the country given further consideration to the question of the truce between the ...
Article : 158 wordsRecruiting has been going on well this week. Each day the new volunteers numbered about 200. On Monday that number was exceeded. Major Boam, the officer supervising, is ...
Article : 616 wordsThis morning's cablegrams state that a force of Turks attempted to throw a bridge across the canal at Tousoun (Tusun), a few miles south of Ismailia, but the British attacked them, and they fied in disorder. A slight brush with the enemy is also reported from El Kantara, about midway between Ismailia and Port Said. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsThe British met the enemy in the vicinity of Ismalla on Tuesday. The ardour of the Turks was checked by a sandstorm, and their shooting was ...
Article : 174 wordsTurkish attacks on the Suez Cutal were repulsed at Kantara and Tousoun. The enemy attempted to bridge ...
Article : 87 wordsFrom what Mr. Fisher said about the reciprocity in trade relations between the Commonwealth and New Zealand to-day it would certainly appear that his visit to the ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Rugby Union scheme for military drill is gaining support in the various districts. Among the enrolments recorded at Manly is that of the ex-representative Queensland ...
Article : 144 wordsYesterday, although there was some long range fighting in the viciplty of Ismalla, the Canal was open for trafile all day. Ships passed along it without hindrance. Trains ...
Article : 108 wordsOver 500 residents of Mosman have already joined the rifle club formed on Wednesday night. Owing to the large number present the names of all those who wished to enrol ...
Article : 80 wordsReuter's Buenos Ayres correspondent says the Australia sank a German auxiliary cruiser of the Woermann line off Patagonia. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Town Hall, Newtown, was too small to accommodate all who desired to be present at a meeting held last night for the purpose of forming a Newtown-Erskineville Rifle Club ...
Article : 847 wordsThe advance in the price of spelter has meant a corresponding improvement in the prospect of finding a market for the Broken Hill output of zinc concentrates, which would ...
Article : 306 wordsKemp and his commando have surrendered. A Pretoria message states that 100 of Colonel Maritz's commando have also ...
Article : 29 wordsA communique yesterday stated:—The Germans are constantly harassed by our cavalry, and have fallen back on Lipno (32 miles north-west of Plock). ...
Article : 117 wordsLord Sydenham, in a review of the six months of the present war, recalls the fact that it was three years before there were decisive operations in the American Civil ...
Article : 222 wordsA Petrograd message states that between 12 and 15 Austro-German army corps are engaged in the present big movement in the Carpathians. The immediate object is to clear ...
Article : 345 wordsIt is officially st[?]ted that a Russian submarine has sunk a German destroyer off Moen Island (Denmark). ...
Article : 26 wordsThe last embers of the rebellion in South Africa are being gradually stamped out. Latterly there have been only two commandoes of any importance operating, those of Maritz and ...
Article : 269 wordsThe "Matin" states that Simon Lake, an American, alleges that Gormony's new submarines were built by Krupp from his designs, which Krupp refused to pay for ...
Article : 39 wordsWe have received numbers of complaints from relations and friends of the Australian troops in Egypt that letters forwarded two [?]nd three months aso have not yet been ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that from twelve to fifteen Austro-German army corps are engaged in the advance in the Carpathians, ...
Article : 60 wordsLord Lucas stated in the House of Lords this evening that 18,200 alien enemies, exclusive of prisoners of war, had been interned up to November 27. ...
Article : 47 wordsReferring to the cable message to-day announcing the intention of the Imperial Government not to introduce contentious business during the session now commencing, Mr. ...
Article : 297 wordsA communique yesterday stated: We stopped fire-boats which were launched on the Ancre River, north of Albert, before they exploded. ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Asquith, replylug in the House of Commons last night to Radical complaints that private members were being deprived of their rights, and that plural voting ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. T. J. Macnamara, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, speaking in the House of Commons last night, said the Government would notify neutral countries ...
Article : 114 wordsAddressing a patriotic meeting, Bishop Long remarked:—"There are two classes of people whom I have no patience for in these days. The first belong to what I call the class of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 589 wordsNews has just reached the Consulate-General of the death of M. Charles Deschars, who, when the war broke out, was commercial attache at the French Embassy at ...
Article : 133 wordsLord Northland, of the 2nd Coldstream Guards, only son of the Earl of Ranfurly, has died from wounds received at La Bassee. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Germans are making a new and violent effort to recover the great dune at Lombaertzyde (north of Nieuport). The attack began on Sunday in massed formation. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe German Emperor has gone to Wilhelmshaven to inspect the fleet. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe adjourned meeting of the Edgecliff Rifle Club was held last night in St. Mark's schoolroom. Mr. David Davis was in the chair, and there was a large attendance, ...
Article : 214 wordsTo the man in the street who looks upon the present progress of the war as "slow," and is inclined to lapses of pessimism because of it, the review of the first six months ...
Article : 368 wordsA communication recently received by the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Mahon) shows how widely the effect of the war is being felt. The Franco-Australian Mission ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Board of Trade has decided to appoint a committee to inquire into the congestion of shipping in various ports in the United Kingdom. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe feeling in China with regard to the war was discussed yesterday by Dr. C. H. Oliver, who has been working as a medical missionary at Yenchowfu, in North China, for the past ...
Article : 227 wordsTelegrams from Vienna state that there is profound discontent in Austria at the action of the Hungarian Government for-bidding the export of grain to Austria. ...
Article : 78 wordsA cable message was to-day communicated by the Governor-General to the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) from the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Harcourt), regarding the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Chicago market was panicky to-day, with wide and erratic fluctuations. Pit operations were uneasy owing to a report that the Government intends to ...
Article : 82 wordsSoon after the naval battle of Cocos Islands the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated he would endeavour to secure some relics, such as guns, which the Commonwealth ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) to-day, in referring to the financial prospects of the Commonwealth, said that he had had little time to go into the question thoroughly, but ...
Article : 142 wordsThe "Koinische Zeitung" violently attacks Mr. Bryan (Secretary of State) for making himself the mouthpiece of the brutal British standpoint. ...
Article : 51 wordsFifteen pounds were subscribed towards the purchase of a travelling kitchen for presentation to the Expeditionary Force by the members of the Dental Association of New ...
Article : 74 wordsThe R.M.S. Ophir, which left Sydney on December 19. has arrived at Plymout[?] The barque Metropolis, which left Melbourne on September 23, has arrived at ...
Article : 32 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting of over 100 prominent citizens formed an Empire Trade League for the purpose of fostering trade within the Empire, also to prevent trade with Germany ...
Article : 40 wordsAt a meeting of this fund, held yesterday, it was announced that the sum of £10[?]8 had been subscribed. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 5 Feb 1915, Page 9
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