The enemy continues quiescent, making only small raids on Wednesday and Thursday, which were repulsed. The French made a number of raids, and slightly advanced their line at one point. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe plan of the Australian counterattack at Villers-Bretonneux had to be worked out with the utmost expedition. Mixed Australian units from all parts ...
Article : 658 wordsThe number of volunteers accepted in the State yesterday makes the best record for many months. When the 24 hours ended, at 11 o'clock this morning, ...
Article : 152 wordsSenator GIVENS, the President of the Senate, took the chair at eleven o'clock this morning. Senator PRATTEN (N.S.W.) asked the ...
Article : 633 wordsThe Lower House of Convocation has adopted a resolution by Bishop Frodsham, Canon Residentiary of Gloucestor, and formerly Bishop of North Quenesland ...
Article : 64 wordsGUNNER EARP.—Yesterday Mr. C. A Earp, a member of the firm of Messrs. Earp Brothers and Company, Limited, Newcastle, received cable messages from his ...
Article : 607 wordsIt is reported from New York that a French warship rammed and sank the American steamer City of Athens in a dense fog off the Delaware coast. ...
Article : 50 wordsAn official report from Palestine states: —We resumed operations eastward of the Jordan on May 1st. Whilst the infantry attacked the enemy in the foothills ...
Article : 136 wordsField-marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We repulsed a raid in the neighbourhood of Hebuterne, otherwise there has been only reciprocal artillery fire. ...
Article : 145 wordsGerman agents collected fats worth £1,500,000 in the occupied territories and neutral countries and sent them to a soap syndicate for manufacture into standard ...
Article : 71 wordsAn important conference was held this afternoon at the office of the Industrial Commissioner in connection with the efforts which are being made by the ...
Article : 612 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Prussian Diet, by 235 votes to 180, rejected the bill to give equal franchise in Prussia. ...
Article : 126 wordsSir Douglas Haig, congratulating the commander of the Second Army, mentions the 29th division, which, by gallant action, northward of the River Lys in the early ...
Article : 93 wordsBritish official report from Italy states:—Since our arrival in Italy we have destroyed 109 aeroplanes and lost 13. ...
Article : 22 wordsCopenhagen reports that Austrian Liberal newspapers are violently attacking Hungary for not sending food to Austria, despite her plentiful supplies of grain ...
Article : 62 wordsAs anyone with even the crudest knowledge of German conditions must have foreseen, the strikes in Germany are [?]zzling to an inglorious finish. Socialist ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to Sergeant S. R. M'Dougall of the Australian Infantry. When the first enemy wave entered our line, M'Dougall, who ...
Article : 135 wordsThe latest French communique states: There is rather great reciprocal artillery activity north and south of the Avre. We appreciably progressed in Hangard ...
Article : 120 wordsThe interim report of the committee appointed under Lord Balfour of Burleigh, dated March, 1917, has just been issued. The committee considers it essential ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that over a hundred severely wounded British prisoners have arrived in Holland from Germany in ordinary trains, unsuitable for ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that high military officers are of the opinion that the German losses in the Picardy and ...
Article : 38 wordsA message from Rome states that the arrivals of ships at Italian ports during the week numbered 334, and the departures 363. Only one small sailing vessel was ...
Article : 32 wordsColonel Woodburn, of the Australian War Comforts Staff, has returned from France, where he inspected the arrangements to meet the new situation arising ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, has invited Lord Wimborne to retain the ...
Article : 103 wordsWe are in the midst of the most sustained series of air raids London has yet known. We expected them, for it was obvious that Germany would strike hard ...
Article : 498 wordsThe French and German Governments have agreed to intern in Switzerland prisoners of war who have been eighteen months in captivity. ...
Article : 204 wordsMr. JOHNSON, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, took the chair at 11 o'clock this morning. Mr. GREENE, honorary Minister, ...
Article : 1,296 wordsPrivate R. Ruschpler, of Sydney, and Corporal C. Lane, a West Australian, who were captured at Dernancourt, escaped, in exciting circumstances, after ...
Article : 536 wordsIt is reported from Zurich that the German newspapers in Austria are becoming increasingly truculent. They have practically given an ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is announced from Brest-Litovsk that the Bolsheviks have declared the war with Germany ended, and are giving orders for the demobilisation of the ...
Article : 490 wordsThe number of men between the ages of 19 and 44 at present in Australia, and the number each Federal electorate and subdivision is expected to supply ...
Article : 202 wordsA meeting will be held at the Newcastle Council Chambers at eight o'clock this evening, to further the movement initiated by the Highland Society of New ...
Article : 147 wordsThe subscriptions to the Liberty Loan have now reached £500,000,000. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Tribune" says that Mr. ...
Article : 268 wordsThe South African Assembly passed unopposed the third reading of a bill substantially increasing the war pensions of soldiers and their dependents. ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Watt, the Acting Prime Minister, speaking at Dandenong in support of Captain Bruce, the selected National candidate for Flinders, alluded to the serious ...
Article : 323 wordsThe funds of the Australian Red Cross Day were considerably augmented yesterday by several substantial donations. Messrs. Scott's, Ltd., employees' effort ...
Article : 202 wordsAmsterdam reports that the majority of the crews of two U-boats at Ostend have become insane. The crew of another U-boat mutinied, ...
Article : 33 wordsSeveral hundred reinforcements from this State were to-day reviewed in Market-square, Brisbane, prior to their departure for the front. ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Joynson Hicks, M.P., in a speech, said that there were still 6550 unnaturallsed Germans not interned in Britain, who were holding the fort for German ...
Article : 59 wordsAt a public meeting at Murray Bridge, for the purpose of assisting recruiting, Lieutenant-colonel Butler stated that he had been informed that no officers were ...
Article : 70 wordsZeebrugge still remains closed, but the Germans are trying hard to remove the obstructions. ...
Article : 17 wordsA German communique affords an interesting sidelight on affairs in the Ukraine. It alleges that there is a strong ...
Article : 187 wordsIt is reported from Copenhagen that the All Finnish Parliamentary and Civil parties favour the establishment of a monarchy; only the Young Fans demand a ...
Article : 46 wordsDuring the last two days ten recruits were enrolled at Newcastle, and seven men who offered their services were rejected, on the ground of physical unfitness. ...
Article : 255 wordsRED CROSS SOCIETY.—The hon. secretaries report having sent to headquarters, Sydney, during the week two large baskets of goods and one case of books to the book ...
Article : 121 wordsThree million Germans are said to be assembled on the Western Front, and the battle which should mark the climax of the war may begin at any moment. This is ...
Article : 685 wordsA German official report states:—We broke the resistance of the enemy before Sebastopol, and entered the town. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Zionist Commission, under Dr. Weizmann, arrived in Jerusalem on April 10th. Immense crowds attended the reception on the Mount of Olives. ...
Article : 85 wordsThough reports from Vienna assert that important changes have occurred in Petrograd, it was officially stated in the House of Commons that the Government ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 4 May 1918, Page 7
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