Field-marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commandant on the West front, reports: We drove off an attack westward of Villers Guislain, and repulsed a ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Massey sends a vivid description of General Sir Edmund Allenby's entry into Jerusalem, thus liberating the Holy City for Christian and Moslems alike. ...
Article : 1,180 wordsAlderman W. Harris (the Mayor) presided at the meeting of the Soldiers' Citizens' Committee, held in the council chambers last evening. Mr. G. Johnson wrote ...
Article : 424 wordsA public meeting, under the auspices of the Australian League of Loyalty, was held in the Town Hall to-night. Captain Chaplain the Rev. F. Colwell ...
Article : 123 wordsAn inquest was hold by Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, at the Catherine Hill Bay Courthouse yesterday, into the death of Frederick William Chapman, a ...
Article : 991 wordsThe Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George has been conferred upon General Sir Edmund Allenby. ...
Article : 23 wordsA pleasant social evening was spent at the Broadway Picture Palace last evening, when a welcome home was extended by the Broadmeadow Citizens' Soldiers' ...
Article : 284 wordsA representative of the "New York World" asked the Pope to comment on the capture of Jerusalem. The Pope replied: "I am most happy to ...
Article : 64 wordsThe latest Italian official report states: Between the Brenta and the Plave the struggle diminished in intensity on Friday evening, and did not increase on ...
Article : 57 wordsA passenger who was travelling in the Apapa at the time she was torpedoed, says:—After the first torpedo struck the vessel I hurriedly dressed, and helped to ...
Article : 164 wordsA monster rally of women supporters of the affirmative vote was held this afternoon in the Melbourne Town Hall. Great enthusiasm prevailed, and ...
Article : 35 wordsA meeting, over which Alderman E. Charlton, the Mayor, presided, was held at Lambton last night, under the auspices of the Newcastle reinforcements ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Turin correspondent of "Le Matin" states that General von Bulow's German army, comprising nine divisions, is now disposed between the armies of Generals ...
Article : 116 wordsAt the Newcastle recruiting depot yesterday five volunteers were accepted and three rejected. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. Gilmour, the correspondent of the Australian and New Zealand Associated Press, reports that he has visited the Cambrai front. ...
Article : 257 wordsMen are urgently required for training in the Wireless Training School in Sydney. Vacancies now exist for fitters and turners, instrument makers and repairers, ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is reported from Paris that M. Calilaux, who was examined before the Parliamentary Committee, protested that he was entirely innocent of the charges ...
Article : 54 wordsThe members of the Tighe's Hill Methodist Mutual Improvement Society held their annual banquet in the school hall last evening. The tables had been laid ...
Article : 324 wordsThe correspondent of the "New York Times" at the Hague states that the opinions of Prince Max Baden, one of Germany's ablest democratic statesmen, and ...
Article : 133 wordsA German official report states:—The Austrians stormed positions southward of the Col Caprile, and took several hundred prisoners. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe annual meeting of the subscribers to Seaham No. 2 Miners' Yearly Fund was held in Mrs. Hanrahan's lodge room on Friday evening, Mr. James Dorrington ...
Article : 481 wordsA mail for parcels and newspapers only for the Expeditionary Forces in England and France will close at Newcastle Post-office at six o'clock to-morrow evening. ...
Article : 29 wordsMeetings in opposition to the Government proposals were held last night at Hamilton, Adamstown, Cook's Hill, Wickham, Tighe's Hill, Stockton, and New ...
Article : 316 wordsMr. Percival Gibbon, describing the attack of the Italian light warships on Trieste, says that the hero is Lieutenant Rizzo, a Sicilian, aged 30, with the strong, ...
Article : 544 wordsThe 24th annual conference of the New South Wales Public School Teachers' Association was opened to-day in the town hall by Mr. James, the Minister for ...
Article : 624 wordsThe Select Committee on National Expenditure in its report also recommended strengthening the Treasury staff by the inclusion of men of ability and ...
Article : 98 wordsA report from Washington states that Mr. Baker, the Secretary to the United States Army, in a communique referring to the German concentrations on the ...
Article : 110 wordsCaptain John Neville Griffiths, of the Royal Medical Service, the son of the late Mr. Neville Griffiths, of Sydney and Casino, has been killed in action. ...
Article : 51 wordsPrivate J. H. Durrant, who enlisted from Carrington, and left for the front last year, returned to his home on Sunday evening. Private Durrant, during ...
Article : 125 wordsA French communique states:—There has been fairly great reciprocal artillery activity between the Aisne and the Olse, and on the right of the Mouse, notably ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 wordsA statement has been circulated in Sydney to the effect that persons who were not enrolled could, by making application not later than to-day, have ...
Article : 101 wordsA German official report states:— We advanced our lines in the park of Poezelhoek Chateau. English attacks at Monnehy and ...
Article : 26 wordsArising from an address delivered on Wednesday night at the State Skating Rink, John Curtin was charged this morning at the Perth City Court with ...
Article : 157 wordsAmsterdam reports that Admiral von Tirpitz, speaking in Berlin, repudiated the idea of a conciliatory peace. Referring to the construction of the ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. J. Stewart, of First-street, has received word that his son, Private Chas. H. Stewart, is returning from the front. A meeting of the Darktown Brigade of ...
Article : 108 wordsTenders have been accepted for the following public works:— For the erection and completion of sewerage pumping station at Albury, ...
Article : 274 wordsAbout 50 returned soldiers reached Melbourne to-day. Of the total 260 are for New South Wales and Queensland. It has been decided that a number of ...
Article : 124 wordsCopenhagen reports that according to an official German paper a new U-boat Department is established under the German Navy Office, to deal exclusively with ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph states that it is rumoured that the Czar has escaped from Tobolsk, and is travelling towards Vladivostock. ...
Article : 219 wordsThe funeral of the late Captain W. G. Bentley, military bandmaster, took place in Sydney yesterday. For many years the late Captain Bentley lived in ...
Article : 172 wordsOn the occasion of the Methodist garden fete on Saturday, Miss Lily Suggett (accompanist) and Miss Esma Harrison tock part in the musical programme. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" says:—"Mr. Lloyd George's latest speech is the most immoderate he has ever made. He would not have peace by an understanding such ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 312 wordsThe mall train from Cloncurry to Townsville was running, in two divisions yesterday, and When the second division was approaching Hughenden, travelling ...
Article : 108 wordsPRIVATE LENHOLM.—Mrs. S. E. Lenholm, of 20 Laman-street, Cook's Hill, has been notified that her son, Private R. S. Lenholm, is reported wounded and ...
Article : 404 wordsIt is reported from The Hague that the British and German Governments., have agreed on arrangements for exchanging and transporting wounded invalid war ...
Article : 70 wordsA well-attended meeting of the League of Honour was held at the rooms, King-street, last evening, Dr. May Harris, the president, in the chair. Arrangements ...
Article : 197 wordsThe treasurers of Newcastle "Out Day" fund stated last night that the amounts banked totalled £1600, and the committee expected that the result of ...
Article : 169 wordsA meeting of the Hospital and Benevolent Day committee was held at the council chambers last evening, Mr. W. M. Fordham in the chair. In connection with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsAn official report from Palestine states:—We advanced on our left centre on Saturday north-east ward of Ludd, on a five miles front to a maximum depth of one ...
Article : 77 wordsZurich reports that the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance, have been wrecked, as the result of the explosion of accumulated gas. Many ...
Article : 68 wordsA German official report states: An armistice was signed at Brest Litovsk on Saturday. It begins on December 17th, and ends on January 14th. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Tue 18 Dec 1917, Page 5
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