Six policemen from the North Const, all over six feet in height, were included in the fine lot of recruits paraded at the Barracks yesterday. Warrant-Officer Muckleston, who ...
Article : 675 wordsAt the present moment the Australian Voluntary Hospital is in winter quarters in a comfortable hotel, known as The Golf Hotel, situated right on the cliffs, overlooking the ...
Article : 684 wordsThe United States Note hopes that Germany and Britain, by reciprocal concessions, may discover a basis of understanding, which will free neutral ships ...
Article : 432 wordsDespatches from Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee and Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty on the naval actions off the Falklands and in the ...
Article : 153 wordsDespatches from Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee and Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty on the naval actions off the Falklands and in the North Sea have been ...
Article : 1,179 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day, General Hertzog vehemently protested against the proclamation of martial law in the Union, and the gagging of free speech. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Russian offensive along the NiemenVistula front continues. We advanced south-west of Grodno, the Germans resisting stubbornly. ...
Article : 63 wordsAdmiral Sturdee's despatch concerning the naval battle off the Falkland islands now partakes somewhat of the nature of a thrice-told tale, as the main features of the action have ...
Article : 157 wordsAlthough there is but little news from the western front, what there is vouchsafed us indicates that everything is progressing satisfactorily. For the most part the operations ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Russians are now within 20 kilometres of Czernowitz, the capital of Bulkvina. ...
Article : 23 wordsSir William Meyer, Finance Minister, presented the annual financial statement in the Legislative Council this morning. Lord Hardinge presided, and there was a large ...
Article : 671 wordsAeroplanes saved two Russian regiments during the recent reverse in East Prussia. Besides guiding them through the enemy, which was encircling them, the aeroplanes ...
Article : 33 wordsThe prisoners captured at Prasnysz belong to 15 different German regiments. The Germans are inactive along the whole front except at Ossowieez, where ...
Article : 44 wordsOne specially interesting item in Sir John French's report published this morning is to the effect that some Canadians had shown great dash in capturing a German trench. ...
Article : 208 wordsA Prague telegram states that the 91st Czech Regiment refused to go to Galicia, and mutinied. All the superior officers and many of the ...
Article : 54 wordsAbout 6.30 o'clock yesterday morning Cecil George Clark, 17, saw two young women in serious difficulties in the sea off the Bronte Beach. They were about 80 yards out. Clark ...
Article : 197 wordsField-Marshal Sir John French's bulletin says:— "We have checked the enemy's activity in the ypres region. ...
Article : 126 wordsAmerican opinion is highly critical regarding Mr. Asquith's declaration. Manyregard it as tantamount to a paper blockade. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Copenhagen cablegram regarding Germany's reply to the latest United States proposals bears out our suggestion that Berlin would hardly be likely to accept the ...
Article : 311 wordsShipyard representatives have accepted the award of Sir G. R. Askwith, Sir Francis Hopwood, and Sir G. S. Gibb, providing for 4s per week increase and 10 per cent. ...
Article : 98 wordsHarry Hassell Proctor and Edmund James Proctor, sons of the local inspector of stock, [?] for Sydney to-morrow to enlist. Their [?]r Roy resigned from the A.B.C. Bank ...
Article : 72 wordsThe shipments of frozen meat which have arrived from the Argentine include 117,000 carcases of mutton, 42,000 carcases of lamb, 182,000 quarters of beef, and 139,000 ...
Article : 42 wordsThe schedule of prices to be paid by the New Zealand Government on behalf of the Imperial Government under the new scheme of exporting all meat for the use of British ...
Article : 115 wordsThe executive of the Engineers have instructed their members to resume work on Wednesday. They point out that the resumption of ...
Article : 100 wordsAbout noon yesterday Bronte Beach was the scene of another rescue. Two girls, one 6 and the other 5 years old, were paddling on the beach, when they were carried out by a wave. ...
Article : 93 wordsAs the outcome of the recent discovery that many, persons were buying up copper and sending it to naturalised Germans in Rotterdam Albert Jensen, the ringleader, ...
Article : 42 wordsA communique states:—"Despite the storm, progress continues between Perthes and Beau-Sejour, where the enemy suffered extreamely heavy losses on Sunday night, ...
Article : 42 wordsDespite reluctance on the part of the Minister for Defence to enlist volunteers from the Territory, over a dozen volunteers were present at a send-off accorded at the Town ...
Article : 54 wordsAn animated discussion took place at the monthly meeting of the National Rifle Association last night, on the report of a speech at a recent meeting of the newly-formed ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. Hilaire Belloc, one of the soundest and most quoted writers on the war, has frequently emphasised—perhaps a little over-emphasised—his view that the present phase ...
Article : 319 wordsMr. Asquith's statement has caused a great impression in business circles, as it is calculated to wipe out the transport trade and isolate neutrals. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn deference to the wishes of the Government of Switzerland, the French have removed the battery which was placed close to the Swiss frontier. ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is notified for general information that free cable messages will be despatched by the Defence Department to ascertain the condition of members of the Australian ...
Article : 238 wordsPrince Selah Eddine, the Sultan's nephew, has exhorted him to welcome the British and French as liberators, and to conclude terms of peace at the earliest ...
Article : 48 wordsThe captain of the Norwegian steamer Thordis (501 tons) claims to have sunk a German submarine near Beachy Head. ...
Article : 25 wordsWriting to a relation in Waverley, Mrs. R. H. Sweetman, of Brighton, England, says:— "This ls a time of great stress and strain ...
Article : 402 wordsThe "New York Herald," commenting on the blockade, says the retaliatory measures of the Allies are logical and inevitable as the result of Germany's previous action. ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, inspected a section of the Welsh Army Corps. He stated that 80,000 Welshmen had joined the new army. ...
Article : 65 wordsThere are no signs of any renewed Turkish attack on the Suez Canal. ...
Article : 19 wordsAn official report which has been issued shows that the South African rebellion was chiefly due to the prophecies of a religious monomaniac named Van ...
Article : 205 wordsThe steamers Altona and Stolzenfels (two German steamers, which were detained by the British in Australia after war was declared) have arrived. ...
Article : 82 wordsWhen asked to-day what he thought of suggestions made in some quarters that there should be a cessation of sport while the war continues, the Prime Minister, Mr. Fisher, ...
Article : 80 wordsA Zeppelin, while flying over Cologne, was destroyed in a storm. The crew were saved. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Belloc admits that the "blockade" of Austria and Germany cannot be absolute, because hundreds of miles of their frontier march with neutral Powers, and the native ...
Article : 336 wordsMrs. H. E. Kater has received a letter from the secretary of the Belgian Field Hospital Fund, London, expressing high appreciation of the assistance given by Australian ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Herbert Samuel, President of the Local Government Board, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said that there were 65,000 Relgian men, 60,000 ...
Article : 66 wordsMadame Hayeau has been tried by court-martial and sentenced to 20 years' detention for espionage. A mine exploded on the coast at Kierk ...
Article : 44 wordsA branch of the P.L.L. has been formed at Lansdowne, and over fifty members have been enrolled. Mr. F. Lane, secretary of the new branch, complains that same of the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 4 Mar 1915, Page 9
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