Field-marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Bailleul has fallen. Seven German attacks in the Merville sector were repulsed, with heavy loss to the enemy. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe debate on the Man Power Bill was continued in committee of the House of Commons yesterday. Sir Edward Carson strongly criticised ...
Article : 591 wordsThere are indications that the second German thrust has lost its first momentum. The German Generals are looking for a ...
Article : 366 wordsSir Samuel Evans, the President of the Admiralty Division of the High Court, sitting as a Prize Court, condemned the Dutch vessel Leonora and a cargo of ...
Article : 173 wordsRecruiting continues to improve. For the twenty-four hours ended noon to-day 86 were enlisted in this State. Captain Carmichael's appeal for 1000 men to ...
Article : 142 wordsThe amount expected to be raised for the War Loan, £40,000,000, is regarded as practically in sight, and with another seven days to go the figure should go ...
Article : 95 wordsThe New Greta Colliery is still idle. No work has been done since the afternoon of April 8. When the matter was brought under the notice of Mr. Justice Edmunds ...
Article : 142 wordsAn informal welcome home was tendered to Private P. Hoare on Monday evening. The soldier was met at the station by a large concourse of residents, and escorted to the ...
Article : 214 wordsNewcastle's subscription to the Sixth War Loan was substantially increased yesterday, when an anonymous donor put his name on the list for £7000. ...
Article : 160 wordsAt a meeting of the Industrial Council held at the Trades Hall, last night, a letter was read from Mr. Claude Thompson, secretary of the Amalgamated Railway ...
Article : 147 words"One of the greatest individual virtues of mankind," said Captain Carmichael, M.C., chairman of the State Recruiting Committee, to-day, "is self-sacrifice." ...
Article : 301 wordsThe report presented at the annual meeting of the Boolaroo District Soldiers' Comforts Fund Committee, showed that consignments of comforts parcels had been ...
Article : 378 wordsIt is reported from Vienna that Count Czernin, the Austrian Foreign Minister, has resigned. The Berlin "Morgenpost" says that ...
Article : 182 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: Fighting occurred on Monday afternoon in the neighbourhood of Bailleul and Wulverghem, and continues. ...
Article : 271 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in a despatch, states:—The Fifty-fifth Division and the West Lancashire Territorials, on April 9th, were holding a front of 6000 yards ...
Article : 516 wordsOttawa reports that a secret session of the Canadian Parliament has been called to discuss the war situation. It is reported from Zurich that the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Steel Works Branch of the Federated Ironworkers met at the Trades Hall last night. There was a large attendance. Mr. C. Nisbet, the secretary, explained ...
Article : 153 wordsThe "New York World's" Rome correspondent learns that a deputation of workers of Hungary asked the Emperor for higher wages, and also for meat and ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the conclusion of the day's sittings of the Governor-General's conference, Mr. Mackinnon made the following statement: The conference met at 10 a.m., Mr. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at French Headquarters states that though there is no news of any large transference of Germans from the ...
Article : 373 wordsMr. W. Waller, the general secretary of the Colliery Mechanics, stated yesterday there were five Muswellbrook members of the union still victimised. These ...
Article : 156 wordsAt a meeting of the State Cabinet to-day consideration was given to the question of co-ordination between the Commonwealth and States in the matter of ...
Article : 149 wordsPrivate Matthew Turnbull, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Turnbull, of Victoria-street, Adamstown, arrived home on Monday night after two and a half years' service with a machine ...
Article : 552 wordsA German official report states:—Our troops and naval detachments in Finland, after a vigorous encounter with armed bands, entered Helsingfors. ...
Article : 24 wordsPRIVATE HOPE.—Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hope, of Broadmeadow, have received information that their son, Private Ralph Hope, was killed in action in France on ...
Article : 248 wordsAt the Newcastle recruiting depot yesterday nine volunteers were accepted, and five rejected. The members of the recruiting staff and ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Baddeley, who has spent the last two days in the South Maitland mining district, returned to Newcastle last night. He attended a meeting at ...
Article : 318 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs states:—The British, who held Neuve Eglise for three days and nights, withdrew unknown to the enemy rather than remain as a target for ...
Article : 118 wordsA new idea has been inaugurated to enable the school children to show their sympathy for the Red Cross appeal. A miniature Red Cross emblem, which ...
Article : 459 wordsA large contingent of sick and wounded soldiers landed to-day, and were accorded a hearty welcome, the public responding to the appeal of Mr. Orchard to show more ...
Article : 143 wordsCardinal Lo[?], the Roman Catholic Archbishop of [?]magh, speaking at Duncannon, declared that proposals vitally affecting all sections of the people of ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Porolval Phillips reports:—Neuve Eglise changed hands three or four times before we voluntarily gave it up on Sunday night. Some of the bitterest street ...
Article : 128 wordsA telegram from Simla states that Mr. Lloyd George's request that India should redouble her efforts has created a great sensation, and strongly impressed every ...
Article : 541 wordsIn the South African Assembly, General Botha, the Prime Minister, read the following message from General Smuts:—"The successes of the South African ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Coburg Court was crowded to-day, when James Henry Turnley and Joseph Richard Gilmour, two long-sentenced prisoners, were charged with feloniously ...
Article : 398 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Sun" states that official opinion on the situation on the western front is encouraging. The most critical period was ...
Article : 111 wordsPrivate Harry Nancarrow, whose name appears in district casualties to-day, as having died from wounds, went into camp immediately on the opening of hostilities, ...
Article : 206 wordsThe latest French communique states:—The artillery duel is very violent in the region of Hangard on Santerre. Our artillery dispersed enemy assemblages in the ...
Article : 105 wordsA mass meeting decided that all work in rises be abolished. This instruction comes into force at the expiration of the existing contracts. It was proposed to ...
Article : 53 wordsSports were held on Mr. Braye's ground. Teralba, on Saturday, in aid of the roll of honour fund. The committee of ladies put forth their best efforts, assisted by the Wattle ...
Article : 213 wordsGladys Muriel Richards, a girl aged four years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Richards, was drowned in a sump in the yard at her home in Patrick-street, ...
Article : 155 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" is of opinion that the Budget on Monday will include a slight increase in the income tax, and a heavy increase in the super-tax ...
Article : 53 wordsSpeaking at an American luncheon, Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said there was a time when Germany seemed to be on the ...
Article : 255 wordsA German official report states: Bitter hand-to-hand fighting frequently developed on the Lys battlefield. We cleared the English machine guns southward of ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Orchard, the Minister for Recruiting, wants to see more warmth in the public welcome extended to returning troops. ...
Article : 132 wordsA Night in Japan, promoted by the Newcastle branch of the Red Cross Society, will be held in the Central Hall to-morrow night. The programme is ...
Article : 100 wordsArrangements have been completed for the commemoration of Anzac Day, April 25th by the Newcastle sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' ...
Article : 121 wordsA public meeting of the L.O. Lodges in the district was held in the Foresters' Hall, last night. Addresses were given during the evening, musical items and ...
Article : 223 wordsA telegram from Amsterdam states that the Germans have turned five of the leading hotels in Brussels into hospitals, and similar measures have been taken at Liege ...
Article : 45 wordsThe death occurred yesterday morning of Mr. Thomas Lloyd, inspector of the Newcastle Municipality, at his late residence, No. 3 Sydney-street, Newcastle. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsThe Germans monthly levies in Belgium during the war aggregate over £80,000,000, and their requisitions of goods about £18,000,000. ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. A. W. G. Ackroyd, honorary secretary to the Newcastle Voluntary Workers' Association, has received a letter from Mr. G. Fitzpatrick, honorary ...
Article : 131 wordsNews has been received that Sergeant Percy Wand, who at the time of enlistment was stationmaster, and living at Toronto, has been promoted to the rank ...
Article : 64 wordsThe State Cabinet to-day decided to accept the invitation of the Premier of New South Wales to be represented at the Conference of State Premiers and ...
Article : 109 wordsThe German newspapers hint that the Central Powers may refuse to allot the Dobrudja to Bulgaria unless the latter agrees to the Turkish demands for the ...
Article : 67 wordsBaron Ishil, the Japanese Envoy to the United States, has arrived in San Francisco. He stated that it was Japan's duty to ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Wed 17 Apr 1918, Page 5
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