In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. John Dillon, the Nationalist leader, protested against the Government's plan to dispose of the Irish conscription clauses of ...
Article : 464 wordsFierce fighting continued all night long on Thursday and all day on Friday on the British northern front, the Germans pouring in fresh divisions. The Germans penetrated La Croche, near Hailleul, and also Nieppo, but were driven out of both. They were expelled from the northern half of Ploegsteert. ...
Article : 153 wordsA Mesopotamia correspondent, describing the brilliant success on the Euphrates on the 26th March, says:—The attack on the Turkish central positions began at ...
Article : 239 wordsThe recruiting conference, called by Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, the Governor-General, sat for four hours at Government House, under Mr. Donald ...
Article : 1,003 wordsThe war is reducing itself in part to a trial of strength and endurance between the civilian population of the different nations. The civilian population of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsThe necessaries of life have become dear. Luxuries have been out of the question for large classes. The food queue, almost unknown in our cities, appeared at ...
Article : 473 wordsIdeal weather conditions prevailed yesterday for the third day of the Maitland Show, and there was a fair attendance. The sports ring was the centre of ...
Article : 783 wordsPRIVATE KAFER.—Mrs. Kafer, of Toronto, late of Carrington, has received information that her husband, Private Frederick Kafer, was admitted to ...
Article : 159 wordsField-marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—The enemy pressed his attacks strongly all day long yesterday on the whole northern battlefront. ...
Article : 321 wordsAn official report from Palestine states:—Our troops westward of the Tulkeram-Ramich railway advanced on a five mile front one and a half miles in depth, ...
Article : 328 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs reports:—On Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday the enemy exerted all his strength of men and guns between the Lys River and ...
Article : 416 wordsMr. O. F. Healy, agent at Newcastle for the Federated Seamen's Union, has received from Mr. Havelock Wilson England, a copy of a letter written to him ...
Article : 205 wordsMr. De Valera and Sir John Griffiths have consented to confer with Messrs. Dillon and Devlin regarding conscription in Ireland. ...
Article : 216 wordsNorman Canan was before the Melbourne City Court to-day on a charge of vagrancy owing to his having house-breaking implements in his possession. Detective found ...
Article : 128 wordsCount Hertling, the German Imperial Chancellor, and Count Czernin, the Auction-Hungarian Foreign Minister, have delivered their replies to President Wilson ...
Article : 423 wordsIt is reported from New York that British officials state that the utilisation of the local resources in Egypt. Mesopotamia, and Palestine will save the British ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Orchard, the Minister for Recruiting is arranging with school conductors for the children to light bonfires in all schools at 7.30 p.m. on Anzac Day, in celebration ...
Article : 32 wordsSir Douglas Haig has congratulated the commander and all of the officers and men of the 55th Division for their splendid fighting on Tuesday, especially their ...
Article : 35 wordsSir,—I am one of the grave number who have of the loss of a son at the front. I am not in any way complaining, nor, I am sure, would he. We ...
Article : 130 wordsThe committee, of which Justice Sir Robert Younger is chairman, which was appointed to inquire into the treatment of prisoners of war behind the lines, has ...
Article : 219 wordsAll the New York newspapers discuss the proposal for conscription in Ireland. The "New York Times" says: "If any Irishman thinks resistance to ...
Article : 141 wordsOn Red Cross Day, April 26, Hunters street will be converted into a village fair, nearly forty stalls having already been allotted between Watt-street and ...
Article : 382 wordsThe latest French communique states:— There were violent artillery duels at certain points north of Montdidier, and in the region of Lassigny. ...
Article : 144 wordsRecruiting shows an improvement in Newcastle. Last week Newcastle again topped the list for the Commonwealth. For this week, up-to-date, 13 man have been ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. Percival Phillips states:—Holding the Messines Ridge, we have been able for a year past to hound the enemy's traffic off the roads in daylight as far as Menin. ...
Article : 266 wordsIt is reported from Paris that the Military Service Bill has created an excellent impression in France. "Le Temps" says:—"Britain, like ...
Article : 88 wordsA German official report states: There has been heavy fighting between Armentieres, Festubert, St. Orine, Bois Grenter and Neuve Chapelle. We crossed the ...
Article : 76 wordsThough many British cemeteries in France were evacuated during the retreat, it is not expected that the Germans will desecrate the British graves, when they ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is reported from Capetown that the gravity of the situation, as indicated by Mr. Lloyd George's speech, is fully recognised, and it is now suggested that ...
Article : 187 wordsOver one hundred recruits responded to the appeal of Captain Carmichael and others in Martin-place to-day. The meeting was one of the most enthusiastic ...
Article : 602 wordsThe committee of the Newcastle and Northumberland Benevolent Society met at the Waratah Asylum yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. L. Fegan presided, and there were also ...
Article : 360 wordsA telegram from Zurich states that a sudden summons which the Kaiser has issued to Count von Hertling, the German Imperial Chancellor, is attributed ...
Article : 129 wordsThe profits made by some farmers early in the war have now censed (like those of the shipowners), and the wretched farmer labours against a sea of trouble that ...
Article : 475 wordsMr. John Buchan, the author, considers that the German attack in Flanders is merely a diversion. Dense masses of Germans are being ...
Article : 35 wordsThe King and Queen have concluded a visit to an immense training ground, and aerodromes for the air force in the Eastern Counties, where Prince Albert is ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in the House of Commons that Major-General Sackville West succeeds General Rawlinson at the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Allies consenting, the United States has established a naval base in the Azores. United States destroyers and ...
Article : 62 words"Consplsuous by their absence" has been used on many occasions in modern oratory. It was first used by Tacitus in relating that in the funeral procession ...
Article : 203 wordsIt is reported from Petrograd that the Germans have landed at Lovisa, eastward of Helsingfors, which is out off. The Germans, co-operating with the ...
Article : 50 wordsSir John Foster Fraser, in a speech in New York, said that the British Admiralty had completed arrangements whereby the United States would now be able to ...
Article : 59 wordsSeparation allowances on the increased scale will be payable next Thursday. This will necessitate an alteration in the books held by all persons drawing ...
Article : 81 wordsProfessor Sperry, of Syracuse University, giving evidence before a Senate sub-committee on German 'plans for world-conquest before 1914, stated that ...
Article : 62 wordsAmsterdam reports that advices from Bucharest state that the Bessarabian Landsrat has practically unanimously agreed on the union of Bessarabia with ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Bremen "Weser Zellung" says:—"Many Germans have abandoned hope of recovering the South Sea colonies, but their products are immensely valuable, ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 13 Apr 1918, Page 7
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