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Advertising : 178 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports further extended gains on the north-west of Bazentin, and Le Petit. The British found the German trenches much ...
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Advertising : 153 wordsA communique states that we have captured a portion of the enemy's position west or Lake Nobel, and have considerably advanced near ...
Article : 57 wordsCorrespondents at Lemberg describe the Austrian troops and population as being frantic with joy over the welcoming of the arrival of Turkish ...
Article : 35 wordsIn another message Sir Douglas Haig states that there was fighting yesterday afternoon along the whole Pozieres to the Somme front. We ...
Article : 81 wordsAccording to a Berlin telegram, von Besler, German Governor General at Warsaw, has announced that Austria and Germany have agreed to recognise ...
Article : 28 wordsThe communique continues: —Russian attacks west of Lake Nobel were completely driven back, and the Austro-Germans stormed Gagurashill ...
Article : 65 wordsA Paris communique says: By means of a brilliant assault we captured a notable position near Maurepas, which was occupied by the ...
Article : 66 wordsAn Austrian communique states that violent fighting is proceeding to the westward of Zabie. We withdrew to Chornahora ridge. The Russians ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Germans have compelled 1200 inhabitants to leave Charleville on the Mouse, for Germany. ...
Article : 19 wordsOne hundred thousand gallons of best Scotch whisky is on a steamer which is now at Adelaide, for Sydney. ...
Article : 27 wordsLes Darcy says his mother refuses her consent to his enlistment, as he is not of age till October. ...
Article : 26 wordsA Rome wireless says that the Greek newspapers urge the Government to seize German steamers to replace the 14 Greek vessels which were ...
Article : 30 wordsA Turkish communique claims that a British raid on the Euphrates was unsuccessful, and after four hours' fighting they withdrew, abandoning 40 ...
Article : 30 wordsA Paris communique states that the enemy counter attacks from Maurepas to Clery broke down. The enemy secured a foothold in a trench ...
Article : 108 wordsWith her face and head covered in blood, Elizabeth Campbell, 42, of 6 Church street, Marrickville, was found early on Saturday night, lying ...
Article : 44 wordsJames Telford, who was sleeping on the railway line, was run over on the Cloncurry-Mount Cuthbert line. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe famous aviator, Lieut. Bonnier, who flew from Paris to Cairo, has been killed on the Russian front. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Secretary for War states that early in August Turkish irregulars interned our reconnoitring steamers on the Euphrates. ...
Article : 50 wordsMrs. G. de V. Pilcher has announced that she will donate 10/6 as a prize in connection with the knitting competition, for the best soldier's scarf ...
Article : 40 wordsFour hundred and thirty-five were accepted at Victoria barracks for the past week. ...
Article : 17 wordsLord Derby, in a speech at Southport, said they could take it from him that the high military authorities were absolutely satisfied with the ...
Article : 89 wordsFrederick O'Neill, bookmaker, was arrested at Melbourne yesterday and charged with having passed a forged Commonwealth £5 note at Liverpool, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe audience who attended the performances In the afternoon and evening, on Saturday last at the Stars, fully testified to the appreciation of ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Cabinet will next ween disclose its intentions regarding railway and tramway administration. There is a strong feeling in favor of a ...
Article : 34 wordsA Bulgarian official message claims that on the 17th the Bulgarians repulsed and pursued the Serbians who are occupying Fiorina, and drove them ...
Article : 55 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports that our successes as reported last night are being maintained, and have extended. Several enemy night attacks have ...
Article : 161 wordsAn attempt was made early yesterday morning to rob the residence of Mr. Hugh Ward, Bellevue, Potts Point. A woman in the house covered her ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Pearce, the Minister for Defence, went the round of the camps on Saturday. He is here for the opening of the Commonwealth Bank. Mr. ...
Article : 42 wordsShrill whistling from the cabs, which at all times made night hideous in the busy portions of London, was recently aggravated by the scarcity of taxis ...
Article : 77 wordsA later message states that Salonika reports that the Bulgarian attack on Florina was checked four miles from the railway station. The Allies broke ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Tudor stated in Melbourne that he had removed the embargo on the export of third grade butter, and upon second grade in store in Australia. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe unions are piling up resolutions against conscription in any shape or form. ...
Article : 20 wordsGreece has authorised the evacuation of villages occupied by Serbian armies, where the military operations commenced. The Serbian front has ...
Article : 36 wordsA naval correspondent describes the construction of new British Zeppelins, and says they are of beautiful design, of a finer model than the ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Hoyle may be offered a position on the new Railway Commission. He favors Mr. Fraser as chief, and Mr. Milne is regarded as certainty for a ...
Article : 39 wordsMembers of citizen forces who are about to undergo continuous training will be medically examined, and if suffering from venereal disease will ...
Article : 33 wordsA Rome communique states that the enemy have shelled Gorizia, and the Isonzo bridges. Our batteries check ed an attack on Carso. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe death was reported from Wellington on Friday under very sad circumstances of Mrs. Mary Flinn, wife of Mr. W. Flinn, both well known ...
Article : 136 wordsA German communique says:—we have victoriously resisted a stupendous effort of the combined enemies on the west front. Anglo-French masses, ...
Article : 123 wordsThe "Lancet" describes an experiment which has been conducted by injection, through solution of sodium of carbonate into the veins of soldiers. ...
Article : 44 wordsAt about 6.30 on Saturday evening, Augustus Brice, 42, Underwood-st., Paddington, was knocked down by a motor car owned by J. Saunders, of ...
Article : 45 wordsThe 4th reinforcements of the 54th Battalion made their first advance towards Berlin, lighthearted, from Bathurst on Friday, and confident, yet ...
Article : 195 wordsPassengers by the Cunard liner, Alaunia, say that a captured German submarine, lashed to a British cruiser, has been taken to Deal, ...
Article : 45 wordsGeneral Botha has appealed to the recruiting committees to redouble their efforts in order to shorten the East Africa campaign. He has ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Grahame disagrees with the cable from the "Times," stating that if freight could be secured at 150 per cent a margin of profit of 28/ per ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Foreign Office has announced that nobody over the age of 15 shal be allowed to land in Australia without a passport. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Lloyd George, referring to the war, said he was satisfied the way things were progressing. "I feel," he said, "that for the first time in two ...
Article : 85 words"THE JOAN OF ARC OF LOOS." There is no sweeter girl in the whole village of Loos than Emilienne, the heroine of the story. Devoted to ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Allied airmen's bomb raid, cableed on the 12th, exploded the citadel at Namur, killing 150 German soldiers. They also set fire to several ...
Article : 45 wordsThe captain of a Swedish steamer which was blown up in the North Sea, says the Germans at Gothenburg smuggled an infernal machine aboard. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Commonwealth fleet of steamers will be under the Prime Minister's Department, and be controlled by Senator Russell, who has been In ...
Article : 38 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports: Operations carried out on Friday on various points of the front from Thiepval to the extreme right, and ...
Article : 182 wordsGermany received Mr Asqeff[?]n's statement regarding Captain Fryatt's death with derisive laughter. The press are particularly sarcastic, and ...
Article : 39 wordsViscount Grey has requested America to warn Germany that if contrary to the agreement prisoners continus to be deprived of recreations and ...
Article : 76 wordsII is a fact that 80 per cent of the stock of the N.S.W. loan remained with the underwriters. This does not appear to the State Treasurer to give ...
Article : 63 wordsThe August Steeplechase at Melbourne, 2½ miles, was won on Saturday by Artillery Bill, with Rendrock 2nd and Booligal 3rd. The winner ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the Forbes races on Friday the field in the Trial Stakes, won by Dick Edwards' Golden Isle, was extra large, and would have been larger had ...
Article : 52 wordsUp to the time of our going to press last night the desperadoes responsible for the Blayney sensation had not been apprehended. ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneva has reported that a Berlia message says the Deutschland b[?] arrived at Bremen. ...
Article : 20 wordsWhile bound to Sydney from the north coast, the steamer Commonwealth foundered off Terrigal Head at 3.30 yesterday. She carried no ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Aften Posen" states a steamer was observed to sink another by gunfire forty miles south of Stavanger. The nationality of both ships is ...
Article : 31 wordsThe "Church Time" deplores the use of terribly depraved language among troops in camps, and apeals to high officers to abate the evil. ...
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Advertising : 67 wordsMrs. Matilda Willis, wife of Jockey Willis, of Kensington, reports that at about six o'clock last night two masked and armed men knocked at ...
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Advertising : 25 wordsAn official report states that our f[?]aval aeroplanes dropped 48 bombs from a height of 3000 feet, on some ammunition dumps at Lighterflelde. Large ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Military Gazette announces that Second Lieutenant F. R. Koch, of the 47th Australian Battalion, has been dismissed the service. Captain J. M. ...
Article : 36 wordsIt rained heavily at Forbes on Saturday morning, but cleared off in the afternoon. The course, however, was a sheet of water, and it was deemed ...
Article : 45 wordsA Russian communique says:—The enemy on the Zlotalipa front, westward of Podhaice, has resumed the offensive with considerable forces, ...
Article : 98 wordsCaptain Cecil Humphreys, of the Highland Light Infantry, Christchurch has been wounded in France. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Pittsburg munition contracts for steel since the beginning of August amounts to 300,000 tons. The heavy demand continues, and the output of ...
Article : 60 wordsAt Forbes on Friday the committee of the Jockey Club on bearing that Mr J. Higgins had been selected for the position of Stipendiary Steward to the ...
Article : 120 wordsGeorges Carpentier, who has been twlve mentioned in the orders of the day, has been recommended for the military medal. ...
Article : 24 wordsThere is bound to be a big attendance at Signaller Tom Skeyhill's lecture to-morrow night in the Australian Hall, for the fame of the blind ...
Article : 78 wordsChina has protested to Japan against the sending of 2000 troops to check the recent disturbance at Cheng Chiatung in Mongolia. China asserts ...
Article : 58 wordsA German lawyer, who has been released after internment for 18 months in six different camps in France, says the conditions were excellent. He ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsA petrograd communique says:—There is no change in the various [?]ronts. A squadron of our Baltic hydroplanes bombed an aerodrome ...
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Leader (Orange, NSW : 1899 - 1945), Mon 21 Aug 1916, Page 2
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