The situation to-day is that the Germans, who have for some weeks been compelled to form a line facing west to guard their right flank and to gradually extend that line to the ...
Article : 280 wordsMinisters are congratulating themselves upon getting the agricultural policy of encouraging the growth of wheat in the State into good order. Mr. Ashford (Minister for Agriculture ...
Article : 381 wordsAt a time when he was seated in his tent at Maroubra Bay, Military Encampment, yesterday afternoon, chatting gaily to a number of his fellow-soldiers, death, of the most sudden ...
Article : 719 wordsThe Governor-General, on the advice of the Executive Council, has declared that the Union of South Africa is a place infected with quarantinable skin diseases, or plague, or a ...
Article : 48 wordsCoupled with a report from Berlin that she has been sunk, and the admission from the Admiralty that she is missing, we must assume that the British submarine E3 has been lost. ...
Article : 299 wordsA great battle is now raging fifteen miles south of the Bruges-Ghent line. The Germans are making the utmost use of the hilly district, and though they are losing ...
Article : 61 wordsAuthority has been granted for the following leases :—From the Government of N.S. Wales, premises, Day-street, for quarantine purposes, £125 per annum ; from Newtown ...
Article : 104 wordsWhen the Turks conquered that part of Europe, they found some Italian influence had been at work from across the Adriatic, and had converted part of the country to Roman ...
Article : 406 wordsSince the decision of the management not to postpone the Panama Pacific Exhibition, the progress in the construction of foreign Government pavilions and palaces has been so ...
Article : 323 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle" correspondent at Flushing believes that many Belgian girl refugees who are used to farm work are willing to go to Australia if the opportunity is ...
Article : 48 wordsThe most interesting event of the week was the receipt of two despatches from Sir John French, the first of which, oddly enough, the morning papers did not think of sufficient ...
Article : 268 wordsReports received at Rotterdam from Breda state that only a few hundred members of the German Landstrum forces are left in Antwerp. The remainder of the troops have left, and ...
Article : 70 wordsThough there is a general belief that they are, submarines are not modern inventions by any means. In fact, it was not long after Trafalgar that the first submarine was tried out. ...
Article : 208 wordsGeneral von Bernhardi in his "War of To-day" has an amusing remark on this subject. He talks of "what the sacrifices will be in a modern war, and the oppression a nation will ...
Article : 102 wordsThe burst of warm weather experienced lately has brought snakes about out of their holes, and residents of the suburbs should be careful how they tread their path in life. Of course, deep ...
Article : 79 wordsSpeaking at a representative gathering of country pressmen at Vaucluse yesterday, Mr. Ashford said that the Commonwealth had a duty to the Empire, and that was to supply it ...
Article : 413 wordsThe Swedish steamer Alice struck a mine in the North Sea an dfoundered. The majority of the crew were saved. ...
Article : 39 wordsOwing to the terrific fire of modern artillery and rifles an advance over the open has recently become so costly in life that commanders are driven to try and push forward under cover of ...
Article : 421 wordsHis Excellency the State Governor, accompanied by Miss Cecilia Strickland, and attended by Captain d'Apice, were present at the Kinder-garden display held in the Town Hall yesterday ...
Article : 395 wordsDuring the German advance early in September the constant efforts of their right to overlap the retreating Allies and thus turn their flank Was constantly thwarted—first by the timely ...
Article : 335 wordsThe Allied fleet in the Adriatic continues to do good work, the value of which must not be under-estimated. The bombardment of Cattaro is only a small part of the duties that are ...
Article : 145 wordsRefugees who have arrived at Amsterdam report that the Germans have murdered forty, inhabitants at Roulers. ...
Article : 27 wordsA gratifying feature of the Heligoland engagement and the one last week between destroyers, is the pronounced superiority of the British gunlayers' shooting. In the destroyer ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Newfoundland contingent for service on the Continent has arrived in England. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe handsome new building of Messrs. Murdoch's, Ltd., in Park-st., was opened on Friday. A large gathering, representing leading commercial and other citizens of Sydney, including ...
Article : 312 wordsOver 500 motor ambulances have been presented to the Red Cross Society, of which 30 have been attached to the Australian Voluntary Hospital. These include the gifts from New ...
Article : 71 wordsShould the Germans, during the coming Winter, decide to leave their nest, there is ever probability that the resulting battle will be fought at a comparatively close range, as a ...
Article : 185 wordsAn important piece of information is that Italy has landed troops at the port of Vallona, in Albania, which lies just opposite Otranto, at the narrowest part of the Adriatic. The ...
Article : 204 wordsitself by means of machinery, as far as possible. W [?] not desire to compete with the farmers for the limited supply of horses available. ...
Article : 156 wordsA detachment of British cavalry was playing water polo at Vise when a party of Uhlans appeared on the scene. The British charged them in their naked condition, and drove the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe conditions of a night attack are very different to those of day fighting. Only easy and open ground can be traversed as all can realise from walking at night. Infantry fire is ...
Article : 288 wordsAn outing full of interest was enjoyed yesterday by members of the Country Press Association and their friends, when Vaucluse and Neilsen parks were visited. The ...
Article : 427 wordsWe hear of a Commodore being interned in Holland, and as Commodore Widfred Henderson is the only officer of that rank previously mentioned with the Naval Brigade, we presume ...
Article : 136 wordsArthur Brown, aged 30, a member of the crew of the Werfa, which was lying alongside a warship at Williamstown, was rowing to his boat at midnight on Friday, when he was challenged ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Albanians are an extremely interesting people. They are the most primitve and lawless of the Balkan peoples, and are devoted to fighting, a pursuit they follow with great ...
Article : 291 wordsA sporting newspaper states that Mr. Anthony Wilding, the famous New Zealand lawn tennis champion, who volunteered for service on the outbreak of the war, has been ...
Article : 40 wordsThe marriage took place yesterday of John Nichollas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Weyraark, of Mosman, with Jessie, daughter of Mrs. W. McMillan, of Woollahra. The ceremony was ...
Article : 213 wordsHow nicely the plans were laid for the co-operation of our navy with the field forces is shown by the bombardment off Ostend. The usefulness of these monitors, which draw only ...
Article : 126 wordsSenator Pearce referred to-day to the attitude of the United States towards the enemies of the British Empire. "In the course of an interview in another ...
Article : 164 wordsProfessor David of Sydney University, conducted a large gathering of members of the Workers' Educational Association on a geological excursion over the rocks and sand dunes ...
Article : 252 wordsMr. Thomas E. Sedgwick, writing from Poplar, London, makes a strong appeal to the women of Australia, on behalf of the widows whose husbands have been killed in the war. ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Spence) said to-day, in coming to the conclusion that the telephones were not paying, he had taken into consideration all improvements and economies ...
Article : 85 wordsAt St. Stephen's Church yesterday the marriage of Mr. Vivian T. J. Pollock Mawhinney, of Queensland, with Miss Agnes Bell-Cook, of Coogee, took place at six o'clock. The Rev. ...
Article : 102 wordsTo thwart Slay ambitions in Northern Albania the Consulate of Europe decided, after the Balkan War, to place an International force in Scutari. The officer commanding the ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Commonwealth Government last session presented a table made of Australian woods to the Palace of Peace at The Hague (wired our Melbourne correspondent yesterday). A ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Illawarra miners are agitating to have the use of safety appliances in connection with cages in mines made compulsory by law. Numerous complaints have been received re the ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 25 Oct 1914, Page 2
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