The cessation of work in South Wales is now general. Upwards of 120,000 men are idle. The enforcement of the Munitions Act has stiffened resistance. ...
Article : 93 wordsAustria has handed the United States Ambassador at Vienna a Note drawing attention to the large supplies of munitions sent to Britain and her Allies, while ...
Article : 89 wordsA communique states that the enemy's artillery was lively on Monday and Tuesday in the direction of Lomza (52 miles north-east of Prasnysz). The Germans ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Russians last week took 22,600 prisoners on the Wisnica front (in the western section of the fighting ...
Article : 190 wordsMr. Ashmead Bartlett; "Eye-witness" in the Dardanelles, writes: The successful advance of our left wing on June 28 seems to have seriously alarmed the enemy, and ...
Article : 726 wordsIn the above map the heavy black line indicates, approximately, the battle front as it stands to-day. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsApparently the Allies have made another slight forward move on the southern front in Gallipoli. Fresh ground seems to have, been gained about the centre of the line, and an ...
Article : 361 wordsThe New York "Herald" protests against the brutal effrontery, of the commander of the German submarine which compelled the American barque Normandy to act as ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" gives the following account of the destruction of a Zeppelin at Ghent on June 7 by a British and a French aeroplane, ...
Article : 688 wordsThe "Tyd" says that reports from well-informed German sources deny that General von Hindenburg is in disgrace. On the contrary, he is said to be busily ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Swedish schobnor Daisy, laden with coal, and bound from England for Sweden, was mined off Aland. Five of the crew, including the captain, were drowned. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Official Press Bureau of Paris at the end of May described the tremendous efforts of the enemy to cross the River San. The crossing was effected in boats. ...
Article : 243 wordsAdvices received in London indicate that Colonel Martiz, the rebel leader, escaped at Grootfontein, with a small Boer following, and travelled towards Rhodesia. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe most interesting item from the eastern theatre of the war is that which tells of the continued concentration of German troops in the neighbourhood of Thorn, the great border ...
Article : 358 wordsMr. Bonar Law Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated in the House of Commons, that out of 1,100,000 square miles comprising the German colonies the Allies ...
Article : 35 wordsA Blue Book issued, covering the year 1913-14, shows that the cost of British combatant ships on the strength was £174,000,000. Thirty submarines were ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Steen, a Norwegian banker, who visited the German prison camps in April, states that 10,000 are confined at Merseburg. A row of cannon on ramparts are ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the House of Commons the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) said the House would shortly be asked to pass another vote of credit. ...
Article : 156 wordsSeveral German newspapers state that a Balkan Longue has, been formed on Bulgarie's initiative. ...
Article : 23 wordsA communique states:—The enemy bombarded Furnes, cast of Dunfirk. We fired by way of reprisal on the German cantonments at Middelkerke. The Germans twice ...
Article : 363 words"War affects a manin strange ways," writes one of the wounded men, Sapper Lestock H. Reid, of the New Zealand Engineers, to his mother, at Heathcote Valley. "His feelings ...
Article : 166 wordsThe remains of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author of the Marseillaise, which were interred at Choisy, le roi, were conveyed to the Are de Triomphe, where his ...
Article : 228 wordsThe South Wales miners spent the whole day in conference. No decision was announced regarding the threatened strike. The desire to strike is contined to the ...
Article : 265 wordsIn a recent press article, Colonel Maude, C.B., points out that high explosive shells came first into prominence in 1885, when there were some terrible accidents both in France ...
Article : 276 wordsLaibach telegrams state that masses of Italians on the left bank of the Isonzo have been in contact with the enemy since Tuesday. An Italian advance between ...
Article : 70 wordsThe allies, after four attacks, occupied two hills covering Krithia. The Allied Fleet is bombarding positions across the Gallipoli Peninsula, ...
Article : 96 wordsA deputation of members of the House of Representatives was received to-day by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) at Parliament House, on the subject of the abolition ...
Article : 177 wordsSir R. L. Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, attended a meeting of the Cabinet to-day. The "Daily Mall" says that Sir R. L. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that two alleged spies who have been arrested will be brought before n court-martial on Friday charged with attempting to ...
Article : 40 wordsThe report of the successful attack on the Turkish positions near Achi Baba on July 6 and 7 has been confirmed. The British right, in conjunction with ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is a somewhat mystifying statement that was credited to Lord Lansdowne in yesterday morning's cables. In moving the second reading of the Registration Bill he ...
Article : 457 words"One of the highest authorities of his day." says Colonel Maude, "ultimately told me that the real secret of the delays and failures lay in the dangerous nature of the experiments. ...
Article : 283 wordsThe 200 drivers and conductors on the motor omnibuses which have for some time past provided a few minutes' passenger service between the city and various suburbs, will not ...
Article : 102 wordsThe "Temps'" states that the Germans have constructed an aeroplane-repairing workshop at Constantinople, and a dry dock at Stelnia Bay, where they ...
Article : 49 wordsA communique states: We captured French trendes along a front of 1000 metres north-east of Vienne le Chateau, (southward of Servon-road), and took 137 ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Dublin Corporation curried a motion demanding that Home Rule should operate from September 17 next. There was considerable uproar, those voting in the ...
Article : 46 wordsTwo hundred members of Parliament presented Lord Haldane privately with an address in appreciation of his services. Lord Haldane, in reply, insisted on the ...
Article : 59 wordsIn honour of the French National Fete, the Marseillaise was sung along the whole of the front by the troops of the Allies. LONDON, July 14. ...
Article : 96 words[?] the House of Commons Mr. Ronald M'Nell has given notice of his intention to ask the Government why the news [?] the Germans recaptured Hill 60 on May 5 ...
Article : 121 wordsin his lecture on "The Economics of War" at the Liberal Club rooms last night, Mr. Meredith Atkinson said that the world would see the beginning of the end of the greatest ...
Article : 253 wordsReplying to inquiries from New Zealand, Lord Ranfurly, on behalf of the Red Cross Association and St. John Ambulance Association, said these two bodies were ...
Article : 91 wordsThe newspapers angrily complain of the sinking of the Konigsberg, which is described as a savage attack on a defenceles craft. ...
Article : 61 wordsSix new Zeppelins have completed trials, and are ready for a raid on Britain when the weather is farourable. ...
Article : 32 wordsSix sons of Mr. C. Jones, of Finley, have now enlisted. Three passed this week. His youngest son was recently killed at the Dardaneilles. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe steamer Nordic has left New York for Sydney. The steamer Canastota has left New York for Auckland. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 16 Jul 1915, Page 9
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