The American Fleet was sighted off the coast at 5.30 yesterday. The warships came in a south-easterly direction, and, having made Botany Heads ...
Article : 235 wordsTHE CONNECTICUT ROUNDING SOUTH HEAD. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 8 wordsStrong sons of freedom, ye whose race Is oven as our birth and blood. The one great fact of brotherhood O'er leaps the founds of time and space. ...
Article : 764 wordsA stroll, or rather scramble through the principal streets last night impelled the idea that the entire population of New South Wales had been driven forcibly into the city. ...
Article : 507 wordsWhile the stars were yet in their places, a few spoetral figures stole through the gloom to the edge of the cliffs about South Head, and the dawn saw several hundred ...
Article : 950 wordsSydney looked on from her cliffs, from the dress circle as it were, yesterday on such a pageant as does not fall twice in a century. It began long before the dawn, when a ...
Article : 927 wordsThe whole of the American fleet was brilliantly illuminated last night, and this, together with the other illuminations in the harbour and a full-dress rehearsal of those on ...
Article : 311 wordsAbout 5 o'clock yesterday morning, that is about an hour and a half before sunrise, the signalmen at South Head picked up on the horizon due east of them a number of lights. ...
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Article : 7 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General gave an official dinner at Government House last night, at which the following were present:—His Excellency the ...
Article : 334 words"There's nothing a naval officer likes more than talking—you know that," Admiral Sperry said when seen at Government House last night, but despite that little but of satire the ...
Article : 369 wordsSydney last night was converted into a veritable city of enchanted palaces by a rehearsal of the illuminations which are to rule to-night in all their glory. ...
Article : 723 wordsThe patrol system, which has worked so excellently all through the voyage of this fleet, is being put in force in Sydney. Patrols will be landed from every ship. Each patrol ...
Article : 130 wordsOn board the Louisiana is a man who is not unconnected with one of our honoured names. Dr. Wentworth can tell a good deal about Australia; he has read it up, and his family is ...
Article : 152 wordsThe hospital ship Relief was not far behind the battleships, for she entered the Heads at 1.10 p.m., and, unassisted by a pilot, proceeded up the harbour to her moorings near Clark ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 21 Aug 1908, Page 9
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