In an official report issued at midnight on Saturday, Field-marshal Sir Douglas Haig says:— The Australians, with great dash and ...
Article : 386 wordsA poster frolic was held in the mechanics' institute on Saturday evening, Prizes were awarded to Misses Ashton, Maggie Saxeby, L. Sessions, and Lynch, Mrs. C. ...
Article : 119 wordsAt a luncheon tendered to Mr. Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labour, Mr. Lloyd George paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Gompers' energies since ...
Article : 221 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs telegraphs:—From the hills north of the Scarpe to south of the Somme the enemy is retreating, trying to get away behind his rearguards before he ...
Article : 308 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Vladivostock states that Red Guards and other enemy forces attacked along the Ussuri front. The Allies repulsed the ...
Article : 255 wordsA meeting of the combined Hamilton, Port Waratah, and Tramway branches of the Locomotive Engine-drivers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association was held in the ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Lloyd George, Mr. Churchill, and other Ministers, conferred with the Police Union's executive, of 10 Dawning-street, where there was demonstration of ...
Article : 430 wordsA deputation representing the various organisations that constituted the Union Defence Committee, waited upon Mr. Paddy King, of King's Theatre, on ...
Article : 174 wordsMr. Gilmour, the Australian Press Association correspondent at headquarters in France, in a message despatched on Saturday morning says:— ...
Article : 267 wordsDuring the discussion which took place at the last municipal meeting, following the notice of motion tabled by Alderman Richards, upon the lighting of the ...
Article : 546 wordsMr. Henderson, formerly Labour representative in the Cabinet, addressing the Labour Conference in Birmingham, admitted going too far in a speech at ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. A. Waugh, industrial inspector, has been appointed investigator for the Board of Trade inquiry into housing accommodation for miners, etc. His duties are to ...
Article : 211 wordsGeneral Marshall's first despatch covers the operations in Mesopotamia from October 1, 1917, to March, 31, 1918, details of the successful expedition on the Euphrates ...
Article : 156 wordsA report received from Sir Douglas Haig at midnight on Friday stated: Operations are proceeding satisfactorily eastward and northward of Bapaume, despite increased ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York Times" states that M. Taudief, the eminent French writer, has cabled from Paris the following ...
Article : 181 wordsSpeaking in New York, President Wilson announced the solemn purpose for a decisive victory of arms, and his deliberate purpose to devote a larger part of ...
Article : 93 wordsA feature of Friday's developments on the West Front was the sudden reappearance of the famous 51st Scottish Division, which recaptures Greenland Hill, and ...
Article : 58 wordsBroken Hill mines, with a few exceptions, especially the British, are dead, as the result of the Port. Pirie trouble. Close on 6000 men are out of work here through ...
Article : 110 wordsAn Italian official report says: We penetrated deeply into the enemy's positions at Monte Male, inflicting heavy casualties, and talking twenty-five prisoners. ...
Article : 26 wordsGeneral Grasty cables from Paris: "With three months battle experience to guide the American troops, the French and British recognise that the best results will ...
Article : 105 wordsA message received at Washington through neutral channels states that 200,000 workers in Westphalfa, Germany, have gone on strike. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Press Bureau reports that in replying to the congratulations of Signor Orlando, the Italian Premier, in regard to the British successes on the Western ...
Article : 87 wordsField-marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports on Saturday night:— Operations are proceeding satisfactorily eastward, and northward of Bapaume, ...
Article : 140 wordsThe King has degraded Sir Joseph Jonas from the degree of Knight Bachelor. Jonas was recently fined £2000 for collecting and forwarding to Germany ...
Article : 402 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns:— The British on Friday morning advanced 2000 yards on a front of seven ...
Article : 150 wordsThe directors of Howard Smith, Limited, have decided, subject to audit, to pay an interim dividend for the half-year ended 30th June, of 3 per cent on the cumulative ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Gilmour, writing from Australian Headquarters in France, says:— The wholesale seizure of territory during the past two days brought the ...
Article : 331 wordsIn a message despatched on Saturday night the Australian Official Correspondent says:— At dawn this morning Now South ...
Article : 357 wordsThe Canadians have advanced 12,000 yards since Monday, capturing advanced German positions on the Drocourt line, and taking 2500 prisoners additional to 914 ...
Article : 83 wordsDRIVER C. K. CLAYTON.—Mr. John Clayton, of Swan-street, Hamilton has been advised that his son. Driver Charles Clayton, was killed in action on August ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Loyal Junction Lodge, No. 20, M.U.I.O. Oddfellows, celebrated the 60th anniversary of the lodge by a social held in the Merewether School of Arts on ...
Article : 680 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in his noon despatch on Friday says: We have captured Clery sur Somme, Combles, Bullecourt, and Hundescourt les ...
Article : 209 wordsThe members of the French Mission will probably make an inspection of the Newcastle districts during their visit to New South Wales. ...
Article : 23 wordsA statement from the Press Bureau giving details of the week's air activity shows that over 200 tons of bombs were dropped on enemy organisations in the battle area ...
Article : 373 wordsTo Australian Agents-General dined with the members of the Australian Press Mission at the Automobile Club. Sir Charles Wade (Now South Wales), ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Market Day Fair, in connection with St. John's Church, Newcastle was opened in the schoolroom on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a large ...
Article : 259 wordsRecruiting during the last week showed a slight improvement, but the quota set down for the State was not reached, Only 248 men were enlisted, whereas the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Paris "Matin" says the French traversed Noyon at the double. No soldiers were now there, as it was impossible to stay for the present. Dense ...
Article : 555 wordsMr. Beaumont Alexander, vice-president of the Allied Industries' Board, will leave America for England to submit a plans to Viscount ...
Article : 71 wordsA New York message says:— The British armies have smashed the Hindenburg line and are beginning to roll up the German armies on the Plcardy ...
Article : 103 wordsThe late Maurice Dix, news of whose death in France has reached Newcastle was a son of the late Mr. Thomas Dix, miners' general secretary, and adopted ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Canadian editors have arrived after visiting England and the Western front. They were specially impressed by their visit to the King, who was personally ...
Article : 150 wordsHowever we may decide as a community to perpetuate the memory of our fallen soldiers, there is one direction, writes Mr. Neville Mayman, which should ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Methodist Church conversation was continued on Saturday evening in the school hall, which was crowded. Mr. H. S. Thompson presided, Dr. J. MacMillan, ...
Article : 254 wordsThe German authorities are employing thousands of seventeen year boys from Westphlia, in the Rhine provinces, and also Belgians, constructing defensive ...
Article : 26 wordsA German official statement issued on Friday evening, says: After bitter fighting we captured Reincourt, and the eastern part of Bullecourt. ...
Article : 136 wordsLord Burnham presided at the Empire Press Union Conference with the Australian, New Zealand, and South African missions. ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. and Mrs. M. Callen, of Stockton, received information on Saturday that their son, Lieutenant Vincent Callen, M.M., had been killed in action in France on ...
Article : 199 wordsA Geneva eye-witness of the raid on Mannheim on August 26 describes the scene as an interne. The roar of the exploding bombs, and the noise of the engines close ...
Article : 71 wordsNew from an Atlantic port says that an unarmed Brazilian liner carrying 350 passengers was shelled by a U-boat for two hours when 160 miles off Virginia ...
Article : 121 wordsGeneral Eustin in a statement regarding the wool question to a meeting of prominent breeders at Bloemfontein said the consumption by the Japanese trade was ...
Article : 81 wordsA message from Zurich says that uneasiness is spreading in Germany, and even in Government circ[?]s. The "Post Zeitung" says that the ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Mon 2 Sep 1918, Page 5
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