The enemy's resistance is increasing on the Aisne and Vesle, while he is making a stand on the Albert line. The Germans are favoured by wet weather. It is reported from New York that the French have reached the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe hospital ship Warilda, of 7713 tons, belonging to the Adelaide Steamship Company, was torpedoed and sunk in mid-channel at an early hour on Saturday ...
Article : 539 wordsSemi-official reports in Russian newspapers state that the Provisional Siberian Government intends in a few days to declare war against the Soviet ...
Article : 83 wordsYesterday was observed at the Newcastle Cathedral as a special day of Prayer with regard to the war. Holy Communion was celebrated at 7.30 a.m., ...
Article : 1,163 wordsThe executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation, considering it would be unfair to themselves and to the members whom they represent to allow ...
Article : 604 wordsThe strike at the Ajax mine, Daylesford, is not settled. The Australian Workers' Union have declared the mine black. ...
Article : 24 wordsA letter was read at the meeting of the Hunter Water Board yesterday, from the Maitland branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, pointing ...
Article : 181 wordsA Copenhagen telegram state that reports from Moscow announce the detection of a plot against MM. Lenin and Trotsky. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Balfour, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking in the House of Commons, said that the Government has given the Siberian Territorial ...
Article : 40 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" on the French front states that between Soissons and Rheims the enemy resistance is increasing. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe representative of the Australian Press Association in New York interviewed M. Metin, head of the French Mission en route to Australia, who said:— ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Pekin correspondent of the "New York Times" states that General Semenoff has been defeated by the Bolsheviks on the Manchurian border, and has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 439 wordsA conference is being held between Commonwealth and State railway officials to consider the best means of overcoming the break of gauge difficulty. ...
Article : 163 wordsThe United Press correspondent states: The Germans are at bay. They are in full retreat to the Aisne. They have been forced to abandon positions on the Avre, ...
Article : 324 wordsMr. Leif Jones initiated the debate on the Ministry for information. He asserted that the propaganda abroad was useless because the whole world knew why ...
Article : 151 wordsA Zurich message states that a railway line was torn up and obstructed with trees and stones near Halberstadt, in Prussia. This caused the derailment of a leave ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Admiralty reports:—Two British destroyers were mined and sunk on Friday. Five officers and 92 men were lost. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Most Rev. B. Cattaneo, D.D., Archbishop of Palmyra, Apostolic Delegate, will visit Newcastle on Wednesday next, August 14, arriving here in the ...
Article : 308 wordsIt is reported from New York that a German submarine sank an American tank steamer off the coast of Virginia. Thirty survivors have been landed. ...
Article : 69 wordsViscount French, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in a speech at Belfast, said that the protection by the British Army and Navy had enabled Irish agriculture to ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. D. Stone, managing director, and Mr. Baxter, manager of the Cardiff Colliery, situated at Belmont, informed Mr. Lewis, district treasurer of the Colliery ...
Article : 74 wordsAdvice has been received in Sydney to the effect that all the Australian crew on board the torpedoed hospital ship Warilda were saved. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Barnes, speaking in Cambridge, said he would not include Germany in the League of Nations, because, including her would mean the revival of old dangers. ...
Article : 130 wordsA large crowd of citizens in Brisbane at noon to-day assembled outside the General Post-office and made a united demonstration of loyalty and rejoicing in connection ...
Article : 113 wordsSenator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, stated to-day that the military authorities had received no information whether Australian troops were on the ...
Article : 44 wordsA complaint by Walter Malone, of Waverley, tram conductor, that he had been wrongfully reduced in grade in the tramway service from the position of driver ...
Article : 477 wordsBoth of the Abermain Collieries continued idle yesterday. The miners' executive, referring to the cessation of work there, said: "It may be ...
Article : 190 wordsThe latest French communique states: On the whole of the Vesle front the situation is unchanged. There are local actions between our light elements and ...
Article : 63 wordsSir Eric Geddes, the First Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech in London, told a thrilling story of a fight between a British decoy ship and a U-boat. He ...
Article : 447 wordsIn the House of Lords, Lord Inchcape, in calling attention to the financial situation, said the high income tax retarded the development of the country's ...
Article : 253 wordsThe united service held in the Baptist Tabernacle in the evening was addressed by the Rev. H. Watts-Grimmett, who based his discourse upon the second verse, ...
Article : 477 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Newcastle Labour Council was held at the Trades Hall last night. Mr. R. Marjori-banks, the president, occupied the chair. ...
Article : 473 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—We advanced our posts slightly in a wood eastward of Robecq. There is hostile artillery fire southward of Ypres. ...
Article : 95 wordsA united intercession service was held in the Methodist School hall last night. The Rev. G. O. Cocks, who led in prayer, said that it was gratifying to see such a ...
Article : 558 wordsThe members of the Colliery Employees' Federation who were formerly employed at the Muswellbrook Colliery have been "weeded out," and operations are being ...
Article : 110 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" on the British front says that the Germans appear to maintain their positions east of the Ancre. ...
Article : 48 wordsA German official report states:—Northward of Monididler we withdrew from the West bank of the Avre and Dome Brook. We also withdrew to the north bank of ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. J. Ambrose, boilermaker, formerly a resident of this city, writing to Mr. J. O'Toole, secretary to the Federated Society of Boilermakers, states that he is ...
Article : 108 wordsCORPORAL GILSHENAN.—Mr. W. T. Gilshenan, of 90 Lindsay-street, Hamilton, has received word that his brother, Corporal J. M. Gilshenan, has been wounded, ...
Article : 256 wordsBerlin reports received in Amsterdam state that an Allied air raid on Thursday morning over Treves, in the Rhine Province, did heavy material damage. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe united service in the Central Mission Hall was largely attended. Alderman R. G. Kilgour, the Mayor of Newcastle, presided, and the platform was also ...
Article : 1,005 wordsThe following extract is from a letter received by Mr. J. O'Toole, of Newcastle, from an official of the Boilermakers' Union of America:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsThe churches throughout the United States held special services in commemoration of and lauding the British Empire's achievements in the war. ...
Article : 105 wordsIt is reported from Washington that investigation shows that the cruiser San Diego, which was sunk off the American coast towards the end of July, struck a ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Press Bureau reports: Hostile airships approached the East Anglian coast at 9.30 on Monday night, but did not penetrate far inland. ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Lawson, the Premier, in moving: "That the Assembly records its inflexible determination to continue to a victorious end ...
Article : 425 wordsPresident and Mrs. Wilson assisted at the launching of a vessel at the new yards at Philadelphia. Mr. Hurley, the chairman of the ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Wed 7 Aug 1918, Page 5
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