When my last article terminated I was cycling towards Narrabri from Bean Baa in the early hours of a summer morning. A few miles south of Narrabri the main road crosses ...
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Article : 56 wordsMr. McKenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer), interviewed by a representative of the New York "Tribune," takes a most hopeful view of the situation. He lays stress ...
Article : 281 wordsThe "No-conscription Fellowship" held at fairly-attended convention in London, the audience chiefly consisting of persons f a recruitable age. Dr. Chfford Allan ...
Article : 214 wordsSir John French reports:—Our artillery successfully bombarded many portions of the German trenches during the past four days, destroying wire entanglements and ...
Article : 91 wordsLord Derby (Director of Recruiting) franKly withdraws his accusations against Lord Ribblesdale. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe steamer Zealandia, which a British cruiser searched off the Mexican coast, has arrived back in New York with her cargo, and has been unloaded. ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that an allied air raid on Thursday destroyed a railway bridge over the Scheldt, near Oudenarde, on the Courtrai-Brussels railway. ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Warner Allen, representative of the British press with the French Army, has estimated the German losses to the end of October, 1915, at four and a half millions ...
Article : 127 wordsReuter's Rome correspondent reports that Lord Kitchener has arrived at Romo, and is the object of general deference. All classes and the entire press are ...
Article : 66 wordsLord Inchcape, addressing the Institute of Bankers, said the loan from the United Suites had been the best method for restoring the rates of exchange, but it was only ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Russian Military Mission, under Vico-Admiral Roussine, has reached London, and remains here in order to increase the co-operation of the Allies. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Government has transferred from the Army Council to the Ministry of Munitions the responsibility of testing arms and examining munitions. The Inventions and ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Canadian Government has cabled fifty thousand dollars (£10,000) for the Anglo-Russian hospital that is being organised for the Russian front. ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the trial of the directors of the Hamburg-America Shipping Company on a charge of violating American neutrality the master of the Norwegian steamer Nepos ...
Article : 121 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent states that the Entente Powers are beginning to realise the need of an international Grand General Stair organisation. ...
Article : 131 wordsIndia continues generously to support the war funds. There is a movement in Lahore for Northern India to supply seven aeroplanes, named after the big rivers of ...
Article : 120 wordsAnother transport, bearing 221 soldiers. the majority of whom are for this State, arrived in Sydney this morning. It was met by his Excellency the Governor-General, who ...
Article : 114 wordsOur continuous offensive on the Carso front was brilliantly crowned by assaulting and capturing a deep line of trenches on the fourth summit of Monte San Michelo, also ...
Article : 117 wordsThe "Journal" interviewed Mr. Thomas, who said that each delegate at the London Munitions Conference submitted his own country's requirements. ...
Article : 219 wordsA communique says:—A feature of the fighting has been the conflict at the Sunday labryinth, where the enemy attacked. They occupied only a mine cavity, ...
Article : 83 wordsA White Paper has been published containing the correspondence between the Governor-General of the Commonwealth (Sir Munro-Ferguson) and the High ...
Article : 55 wordsSometimes your watch won't keep time: goes when and now it likes. You take it to the mender; and he, perhaps, finds the delicate movements have been put out of ...
Article : 341 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Milan wired on Thursday afternoon that a report had just been received that Gorizia (26 miles north-west of Trieste) had fallen. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe German authorities have banned M. Jorgensen's book dealing caustically with the Huns' treatment of Belgium. Seven editions of the book were sold out in ...
Article : 47 wordsSir Edward Grey, speaking in the House of Commons, announced that twelve survivors of the British steamer Woodford had been held to ransom by North African ...
Article : 41 wordsThree German aeroplanes near hinder lightship attacked the steamer Balgownie, from London, bound for Rotterdam with rifle and machine-gun fire and bomb ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Asquith, Prime Minister, has issued a reply to the request for a statement concerning the mission in 1912 of Lord Haldane, then Secretary of War, to Berlin. ...
Article : 136 wordsGeneral Cadorna reports:—Repeated Austrian counter-attacks on the heights northwest of Gorizia did not prevent us consolidating our captured positions. Fighting on ...
Article : 74 wordsA New Zealand doctor states that when the Marquette was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea, everybody rushed on dock. Fortunately they were well drilled, and each knew his ...
Article : 260 wordsSir J. A. Simon, Home Secretary, assured the Miners' Federation that men were returning to their civil employment after being attested under Lord Derby's scheme. ...
Article : 76 wordsAn Austrian communique says: Desperate fighting continues around Gorizia (26 miles north-west of Trieste). We maintained our poistions. The bombardment of Gorizia with ...
Article : 62 wordsLeaving Narrabri for Moreo you leave the wheat growing and mixed farming that you have found associated with the older industry of grazing from the Quirindi district ...
Article : 1,141 wordsThere are persistent reports that the German battle-cruiser Derfflinger was mined and sunk in the Baltic, thirty-three of the crew being drowned. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Western Australian motor ship Kangaroo sailed to-day She Trill return early in 1916, laden with wheat. (The Kangaroo has been purchased for ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Austro-Germans have initiated a vigorous offensive on the Styr front and along the Kleff railway with the object or inducing the Russians to detach troops from ...
Article : 66 wordsEarly on Saturday morning a fire broKe out at Tattersall's Hotel, Wellington, owned and occupied by Mr. Enoch Fletcher. It was first observed by a girl, employed at ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Pekin correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says that President Yuan Shih Kai since Monday has been engaged exclusively considering the vast issues ...
Article : 114 wordsGeneral Smuts, in a recruiting speech, said that a tremendous cloud was overhanging civilisation. South Africans should bear their share of the struggle as ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 4 Dec 1915, Page 13
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