One hundred and sixty-eight men celebrated the King's Birthday by wending their way up to the enrolling office at the Barracks, and offering their services, and 116 men paraded ...
Article : 1,917 wordsMrs. A. Cohen, wife of the managing director of Cohen and Sons, Haymarket, returned to Sydney by the Acucas after spending a long period in Germany since the outbreak of ...
Article : 589 wordsThe enemy, although reinforced since the attack of May 19, has not made a further general attack, but has been tunnelling for days against a portion of our line where the ...
Article : 925 wordsRecord week-end casually lists include 5500 casualties in the ranks. Of these 2169 occurred at the Dardanelles, where 111 of the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers were killed, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe following official statement has been issued in connection with the operations in the Dardanelles:—The Allies on Friday attacked along the entire front with the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Allies on Friday attacked along the whole front on Gallipoli, and both British and French effected advances. ...
Article : 138 wordsA communique yesterday stated: On the night of the 5th Germans made a violent effort to retake the positions recently lost. There was a continuous bombardment of ...
Article : 157 wordsKing Constantine's condition has improved. His temperature is 98.3. ...
Article : 22 wordsOne of Friday's cables, referring to the sinking of H.M.S. Triumph, said that the first torpedo fired at the battleship pierced her protective net, but apparently did little ...
Article : 413 wordsCorporal Brown and Privates Stewart and Williams, all of the Otago Battalion; and Corporal Gerald R. Clarkson, of the Engineers (previously reported missing). ...
Article : 162 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent says a neutral army officer estimates that 2000 shells fell on Fort Chanak when the allied fleet tried to force the Narrows, yet ...
Article : 88 wordsWhile the British are building up reserves of high explosive ammunition before they attempt another advance, the Germans are pouring an unending stream ...
Article : 158 wordsThe heavy casualties, with the arrival of the wounded, are weakening the Turkish resolve. Submarines have swept shipping from ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "general assault" on the Turkish positions in Gallipoli, which, according to yesterday's cables, had just been entered upon, would seem to have been the attack on June ...
Article : 296 wordsThe first important battle has been raging since Thursday for the possession of Tolmein (on the Isonzo), and is progressing favourably for the Italians. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe wounded include Major Dawson, a New Zealander, who is recovering. Major Dawson, with 150 Australians and New Zealanders, held ...
Article : 174 wordsCorrespondents narrate that the Russian army between the Pilica River and the Vistula, while withdrawing to its new lines, inflicted a loss of 30,000 upon the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe workers for Australia Day did not observe yesterday as a holiday. In the morning Mr. Hugh J. Ward, the honorary organiser, met the committee of the New ...
Article : 476 wordsTwenty-five thousand people at a race meeting, and twenty thousand at a football match! That accounts for 45,000 of the adult population of Sydney, but it does not account for ...
Article : 1,051 wordsAn Austrian communique states: The Italians suffered considerable losses at Monte Nero, 300 being killed, on the southern slope. ...
Article : 45 wordsHowever—and this must be considered when the casualties are announced—the gain of 500 yards over a three mile front means a far greater thing than a similar advance in ...
Article : 214 wordsThe enemy's Leng-San front is eighteen miles long, from the village of Stany, on the left bank of the Leng, to Zarmina, 10 miles southward of Rudnik. Determined ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Messaggero" states that during the aerial bombardment of Pola two Austrian battleships manoeuvring to escape collided. One was badly damaged. The warships ...
Article : 41 wordsThe German correspondent at Constantinople describes the recent sinking of H.M.S. Goliath. British war vessels were in the habit of nightly visiting Morto Bay, ...
Article : 192 wordsA communique states: The enemy pur[?]ng his offensive towards Moselska (on the Lemberg road, 18 miles east of Przemysl) was subjected to heavy losses. ...
Article : 63 wordsA submarine sank the steamer Dunnett Head (843 tons), and the trawler Persimmon off the north of Scotland. The crews were saved. ...
Article : 31 wordsApropos of the statement of a correspondent in this morning's cables regarding the effect of the naval shells during the earlier bombardments of the Dardanelles forts, it is ...
Article : 339 wordsThe new poison-gas Zeppelins are furnished with three tanks carrying gas bombs beneath the gondola portion. The crew are able to make a fresh supply ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Bzura-Rawka front (Central Poland) is admirably adapted for German chemical warfare. Dense poison clouds were launched on May 30, the smell being ...
Article : 117 wordsSir George Maxgill, addressing a meeting recently of the members of the Wimbledon Traders' Association on the alien question (states a London journal), said it was ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Germans are using the chief factories at Vilvorde for the manufacture of axphylating gases, the premises being protected by anti-aircraft guns. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the fashionable German Club, headquarters of the Tenton elite and camping ground of German military officers unable to join the colours, the sinking of the Lusitania ...
Article : 335 wordsVice-Admiral Nicol has been appointed to command the French naval forces at the Dardanelles. Vice-Admiral Nicol has had a brilliant ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Daily Mall's" Amsterdam correspondent says the super-Zeppolins are provided with aerial torpedoes made of aluminium, and sustained by gas. When fired ...
Article : 51 wordsA revolting story is told of the treatment of a party of Russian prisoners in Poland. They were locked up without food for several days until on the verge of starvation. ...
Article : 72 wordsIt is officially stated that British gunboats on the Tigris have occupied Amarah, where they took prisoner 30 officers and 700 soldiers. ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Lloyd George stated to a correspondent, I believe things are going alright. I feel the machine beginning to move." Mr. Lloyd George has been consulting ...
Article : 111 wordsThis is the greatest artillery battle in the history of the world, writes an Exchange correspondent with the British forces on the Yser, on April 28. ...
Article : 161 wordsThe whole thing, of course, boils down to the futility of sending ships unsupported by troops against such land positions. The "Times" correspondent, however, says:—"The ...
Article : 375 wordsA German submarine in the Gulf of Riga sank the transport Yenessel. Thirty-two lives were saved. Russian mines or submarines sank or ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Postmaster-General announces that the overland transmission of Australian and New Zealand mails will be resumed from June 11. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 8 Jun 1915, Page 7
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