The King at Buckingham Palace to-day presented the colours to the newly-formed Welsh Guards. The Queen many members of Royalty, and Earl Kitchener witnessed ...
Article : 604 wordsTwenty-five lives were lost, and millions of dollars worth of property damaged, by a cloud-burst at Erie (115 miles northward of Pittsburg, U.S.A.). A manufacturing plant ...
Article : 85 wordsA steady stream of recruits poured into the barracks practically all day yesterday, including a youth of 21, who weighed 20st, and was 6ft 4in in height, and the son of a Sydney ...
Article : 357 wordsA great meeting was held in the Town Hall last night to mark the anniversary of the declaration of war against Germany by expressing "inflexible determination" to carry it on ...
Article : 3,158 wordsRear-Admiral Sir William Creswell has received a private letter from Lieut-Commander H. G. Stoker, the commanding officer of submarine AE2, which now lies at the ...
Article : 310 wordsAn interesting letter has been received by the State Governor from his brother who is serving at the front:— "While the number of optimists is ...
Article : 882 wordsThe magnificent total of the New South Wales response to the appeal still mounts up. At 6 o'clock last night, when the office of the staff closed the sum of £425,022 had been ...
Article : 1,222 wordsThe Duke of Norfolk has undergone a serious operation in Leeds. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe position of the Cabinet remains doubtful. The older statesmen favour the Cabinet remaining in office. The Premier (Count Okuma) declines to make a statement. ...
Article : 33 wordsAt a meeting of the Board of Public Health to-day the chairman (Dr. E. Robertson) anuounced that a prosecution had been recommended against a certain person on an ...
Article : 312 wordsCorporal Alfred Redhead, formerly an employee of the "Sydney Morning Herald" who left with the Imperial Reserve in October last, and is now solving as a despatch rider ...
Article : 317 wordsThe men who attended the enrolling office at the Board of Health last night were of a particularly fine type. Out of 112 men only ten had to be rejected, and one of them ...
Article : 197 wordsHer Excellency Lady Helen Munro Ferguson has received the following letter from Colonel Streatfield, private secretary to her Majesty Queen Alexandra:— ...
Article : 139 wordsSir,—Your paragraph in this morning's "Herald," relative to a "monster" recruiting meeting in Woolloommooloo on Tuesday night, and the lark of response in the way of men ...
Article : 314 wordsAt 10 o'clock this morning the wheels of industry will stop in New South Wales for five minutes, so that our people may quietly, earnestly, and emphatically resolve to see the ...
Article : 287 wordsWith reference to the suspension of certain officers of the third military district in connection with the return of sick and wounded soldiers on the Kyarra, and with the care ...
Article : 416 wordsThe proposed building of the new small arms factory at Canberra was brought before the House of Representatives to-day by the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Cook), who asked the ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. Massey announced to-day the formation of a Nation Ministry for carrying on the affairs of the countrv while the war was in progress. He hoped what was being done ...
Article : 92 wordsIn the Senate to-day further consideration was given to the Insurance Bill. Progress was reported upon the bill. The second reading of the War Pensions ...
Article : 54 wordsDespite pouring rain, the Town Hall was crowded to night to hear the Premiers appeal for recruits. The Mayor Alderman White, presided. ...
Article : 505 wordsThe following cablegram was sent to Vice-Admiral Sir George Patey to-day:—At the close of a year of warfare the Minister for the Navy and the Naval Board congratulate the ...
Article : 111 wordsSir,—There is nothing so effective as a striking picture to convey to the average mind a lasting impression. In inaugurating its recruiting campaign, Victoria, like Great ...
Article : 261 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, the Prime Minister moved the second reading of the Inscribed stock Bill. He said that the bill was a machinery measure. The principal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsEach day the crowds of people who come to hear the speakers in Martin-place grow larger. Yesterday there must have been about 7000 present. The crowd stretched ...
Article : 1,639 wordsThe committee which has undertaken the work of providing those necessary articles of apparel points out that the need for sheepskin waistcoats for the soldiers at the front ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsSir,—What I think is needed to stimulate the present recruiting campaign is some assurance on the part of the militan authorities that our boys will be properly looked ...
Article : 263 wordsA national service movement has been started at the Sydney University. Most of the professors lecturers and general instruction staff have voluntered to place ...
Article : 274 wordsAt a largely-attended meeting of the recruiting association last night the following resolution was unanimously carried,—"That the Recruiting Association of Lithgow ...
Article : 99 wordsThe following list of New South Wales doctors and nurses who have gone away with recent reinforcements has been issued:— No. 1 Australian General Hospital.—Captains ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 274 wordsThe Liverpool coroner (Mr. Poolman) reopened the adjourned inquiry in connection with the shooting at the concentration camp on July 28 of Max Arndt. at the Liverpool ...
Article : 50 wordsThe movement to form a New South Wales sportsmen's battalion for service at the front was definitely inaugurated yesterday, when Mr. F. A. Fredale (secretary of the Cricket ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsSir,—Recruiting is at the present time the burning question throughout the British Empire. That our politicians are doing good work there is not a doubt, but they cannot ...
Article : 180 wordsFifteen cases of cerebral spinal meningitis have broken out in the Victorian military training camps. The Defence authorities state that immediate and effective moisures ...
Article : 46 wordsThe following firms and companies have decided to reinstate employees who enlist for the war, in terms of the resolution carried at the Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, 13th ...
Article : 47 wordsA fire broke out late last night in a shop at the corner of King and Kent streets. The shop was that of a coppersmith, but the name had been taken off the front. The building ...
Article : 53 wordsThe University Council has decided to amend temporarily the regulations in order that undergraduates enlisting for active service shall not suffer by loss of lectures. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 5 Aug 1915, Page 8
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