Mrs. E. J. McGowan, of Thirroul, has received information stating that her son, Driver H. Burke, has been killed in action. Driver Burke was one of the first to enlist from ...
Article : 216 wordsAt a private exhibition of lantern slides, illustrating the work done in the munition factories in England, the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day announced that ...
Article : 378 wordsAn official message states that the Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, is suffering from a severe chill. He is remaining indoors to-day under doctor's orders. ...
Article : 139 wordsMilitary crosses have been awarded to the following:— AUSTRALIANS. Captain Roderick Macgregor, Lieutenants ...
Article : 127 wordsThe latest Russian communique states: We continued our advance in the Trotus, Salty, and Cheboniacha Valleys. The Roumanians took the offensive along the ...
Article : 334 wordsThe names of the members of the new Ministry have been officially announced:— The Cabinet, instead of comprising 24 members, as was the case with the ...
Article : 1,603 wordsThe new Ministry formed by Mr. Lloyd George is notable by reason of two startling innovations. The actual ...
Article : 122 wordsThe "Matin" states that the Grand Duke Charles Stephen will be proclaimed King of Poland, and that he will take the title of Stephen II. ...
Article : 34 wordsSergeant Edwin D. Taylor, son of Mrs. Taylor, Bedford, Union-street, Tempe, has been severely wounded in France. CORPORAL ALEX. COWDEN. ...
Article : 250 wordsA Bulgarian communique claims to have repulsed attacks north-west of Monastir and the Cerna bend, and British attacks south of Seres. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe situation in the Near East still attracts attention, in spite of the fact that it is not the docisive theatre of war. The enemy's advance in Roumania has, for the time being, ...
Article : 241 wordsA Bulgarian communique states:—We captured the town of Kalarash and a bridgehead on the left bank of the Danube, opposite Cernavoda. ...
Article : 198 wordsJames Wilson, 25, was, on a writ of habeas corpus, brought before Mr. King, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, and charged with the murder of George ...
Article : 255 wordsMrs. G. R. M'Kenzie, of Miller-street, Pyrmont, has received news that her husband. Sergt. G. R. M'Kenzie, late of Rozelle, has been wounded, and is missing. Before ...
Article : 47 wordsThat the enemy's designs on Roumania do not end with the capture of the capital, and of the main valleys in Northern Wallachia, is made clear by this fighting on the road ...
Article : 532 wordsConsiderable dissatisfaction prevails amongst the residents of the northern suburbs as a result of the failure on the part of the Sydney Ferries, Limited, to restore the all-night ...
Article : 468 wordsMr. E. Wilson, of Burwood, has received word through the Defence Department that his son. Sergeant G. W. Wilson, was admitted to the 4th Southern General Hospital ...
Article : 186 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Milan correspondent says that Dr. Radoslavoff (Premier of Bulgaria) has publicly stated that von Hindenburg has resolved to make ...
Article : 100 wordsIn his midnight report on Sunday Sir Douglas Haig stated:—In retaliation for the enemy shelling areas behind the front north of the Ancre we bombarded heavily ...
Article : 119 wordsWonderful work is being done at St. Dunstan's Hostel, London, in the way of training and educating soldiers and sailors who have lost their sight in the war. Blindness is not ...
Article : 449 wordsThe conference between the coal owners' and miners' representatives was continued yesterday morning. The men's claims, as submitted in open court last week, were ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," Karl von Welgand, inter-viewed the German Chief of the General Staff, Marshal von Hindenburg. He ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Paris newspapers are demanding immediate action in regard to Greece; otherwise it is feared the Macedonian forces may soon have on their hands King ...
Article : 104 wordsEarl Curzon of Kedlestone, who is 57 years old, has bad a most distinguished public career. After occupying many Cabinet positions, he was Viceroy and Governer-General of ...
Article : 346 wordsMr. S. Bird, president of the Illawarra branch of the Miners' Federation, said yesterday that the proposal for the appointment of scrutineers in connection with the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe dispute at Muswellbrook Colliery has been settled, and the men are to resume work on Wednesday. Mr. W. Brennan, Secretary of the Colliery Employees' Federation, went to ...
Article : 59 wordsSteamers sunk by submarines include the following:— British: Tanfield (4300 tons). Spanish: Julian Benito. ...
Article : 144 wordsRobert Semple, well known in trades union circles, was arrested at Christchurch yesterday on a charge of having used seditious language at Auckland on Sunday of last week. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe same conditions will obtain this year in regard to teachers and excursion trains as existed last year. As the excursion trains will mostly run after December 13, ...
Article : 185 wordsThere is a possibility of a stoppage of work at the Scarborough mines in regard to night-shift places. Sixty men are involved. The miners have been endeavouring for some time ...
Article : 93 wordsThe statement attributed to Dr. Radoslavoff, Premier of Bulgaria, by the Milan correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" no doubt represents that person's true desires if not ...
Article : 264 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that President Wilson will not participate in the peace movement, which he regards as calculated to defeat its own ends, and ...
Article : 50 wordsAt Courtney's Post on June 7, 1915, shrapnel splinters deprived Corporal Charles Hills of his sight. When at St. Dunstan's Blind College in London, which is equipped for training ...
Article : 246 wordsThe monthly report of the State Labour Branch shows the effect of the recent coal, strike on employment generally. The boot trade union, for instance, which, for the past ...
Article : 178 wordsA group of deputies have submitted' a resolution to the Chamber of Deputies in favour of a drastic reduction in the Cabinet by the formation of a small National Defence ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies, by 376 votes to 45, passed a vote of confidence in the Government in regard to its determination to prosecute the war to a successful ...
Article : 39 wordsLord Curzon, who has just been called to the War Cabinet, is engaged to marry the eldest daughter of Mr. Monroe Hinds, formerly American Minister to Brazil. She is a widow, ...
Article : 58 wordsThere is an extensive movement among the Churches to protest against the deportations of Belgians by the Germans. Several have adopted resolutions condemning Germany's ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent says: The Reichstag will reassemble on Tuesday. It is semi-officially announced that the Chancellor, Dr. VOD ...
Article : 88 wordsThe death is reported of Field-Marshal Prince Iwao Oyama. Field-Marshal Oyama was born in October, 1842. He studied military tactics in Europe and ...
Article : 118 wordsThe firstfruits of the German levy en masse is seen in regulations requiring all men of military age employed in clerical, passenger, or similar duties, to join the army. Women ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that there had been a good response to the call for volunteers for the railway unit to serve on the western front. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe obvious reply to any German boast of linking up with the Greeks within six weeks is for the Allies to link up with that treacherous neutral straight away by taking ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. W. G. Vick, of Wichcombe-avenue, Haberfield, has been advised that his son, Lieut. W. W. Vick, has received a commission in the Royal Flying Corps. Lieut. Vick, ...
Article : 109 wordsA message from Berlin, via Sayville, states that the German merchant submarine Deutschland (on her return voyage from her second visit to America) arrived off the mouth ...
Article : 41 wordsTwo hundred Sinn Feiners organised a disturbance and stopped a dramatic performance at Cork in aid of soldiers' families. They sang Irish national songs and shouted "Down ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 12 Dec 1916, Page 7
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