Alfred Marsden, aged 60, a resident of Parramatta, was found dead in the local park this morning with a six-chambered revolver lying near by, two chambers haying been ...
Article : 72 wordsA Paris official message says to the west of the River Meuse there was a very lively artillery duel in the regions of Malancourt, Esnes, and Hill 304. It was particularly violent on the Hancourt hillock, to the east of the river. There was intense bombardment in the Vaux-Damloup region, but no ...
Article : 175 wordsThe House of Commons discussed the air service. Flight-Lieutenant Billing, the aviator, advocated the amalgamation of the naval and ...
Article : 165 wordsThe secretary of the Polish Victims' Relief Fund acknowledges the profound debt of gratitude to the Dominions for their contribution, which now totals £122,000, of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Board of Trade has appointed a committee to consider the post-war position of British industries. Committees of iron, steel, engineering, shipping, and shipbuilding have ...
Article : 130 wordsFrederick Fisher, police constable, who shot his sister-in-law, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude at the Criminal Court. The Chief Justice said the crime was of an ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. Hughes will attend the War Council to-day. Mr. Fisher and Mr. Hughes received a mail-bag full of letters from Jews, who protest against the statement that German ...
Article : 43 wordsA most pathetic sight at the tea concert given by the King and Queen to convalescent soldiers was the number of blinded soldiers who headed by a nurse, entered in ...
Article : 155 wordsFurther information respecting a sharp fight off Zeebrugge on Monday is forthcoming. The Amsterdam "Telegraaf" prints a story to the effect that several trawlers ...
Article : 79 wordsLloyd's states that the Galloper lightship off Harwich was torpedoed and sunk. It is satirically explained at Rotterdam by the German Admiralty that she was sunk ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Warner Allen, British press representative at the French headquarters on the Western front, describes the heroic resistance of two French regiments at Verdun. He says they were for 14 days under fire, and repelled repeated furious attacks, then dug themselves in under a terrific bombardment. ...
Article : 128 wordsNorwegian newspapers protest against the sinking of neutral vessels by submarines without warning, regardless of non-combatants. One organ describes the act as a breach ...
Article : 53 wordsA communique states we occupied Ispahan after a fight. The population, who were exhausted by looting by the Germans and their mercenaries, welcomed us with enthusiasm. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Minister for Defence states that under the War Census Appeal 102,000 men have signified their readiness to enlist now or later. Three hundred thousand cards ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Bombay states the announcement that it has been decided to abolish indentured labour in Jamaica, Trinidad, British Guiana, Fiji, ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Ronald McNeil, on behalf of Unionists, tabled a resolution that the British representatives at the Paris Conference be instructed to declare that the British ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture to-day stated that he had arranged with millers to sell flour at £11 7s 6d per ton and the bakers 21b loaf over the counter for 3 12d, with a charge ...
Article : 61 wordsSir George Paish, editor of the "Statist," says that Great Britain's annual income has increased by £600,000,000 since the outbreak of war. The total was now three billions. ...
Article : 119 wordsA message from a German wireless source of news says that during the work of clearing up the battlefield north-east of Avoncourt we captured further enemy trenches outside wooded sectors, and 58 officers and 2914 men were made prisoners. Artillery firing on both sides was continued with great ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Russian fleet torpedoed the 7000-ton steamer Esperanza, carrying foodstuffs. The vessel was flying the German flag, and was bound for Constantinople. She was sunk ...
Article : 46 wordsBerlin advices state that the defeat of the Germans at Verdun had a disastrous effect on German public opinion. The Bavarian "Staats Zeitung" denounces the sinister agitation which is undermining the confidence of the people in the Government, and recommends the publication of losses on both sides at ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Justice Powers, in the Arbitration Court, commented strongly on the motion carried at the meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Federated Public Service Assistants' ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Lord Mayor presided at a special meeting of the Common Council, when it was agreed that the freedom of the city be presented to Mr. Hughes in testimony of his ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Paris "Temps" says the economic conference will be followed by another of a more technical kind. The delegates will discuss with legal experts financial, industrial, ...
Article : 59 wordsReplying to a question, Mr. Lloyd George said he did not believe that the death sentence should be inflicted on conscientious objectors who had been forced into the army for refusing to carry out orders. Such penalty should be inflicted only in cases where soldiers refused to obey orders in the presence of ...
Article : 223 wordsThe arrival of British submarines in the Southern Kattegat caused a senastion in Sweden. One submarine off Anhailt examined Swedish steamers' papers. ...
Article : 62 wordsCarr's Creek "Farmer" writes:--"We are going through another trying time just now for want of rain. All crops are suffering, especially the late maize, which, as it is now ...
Article : 273 wordsA correspondent at Bucharest writes that on the morning that Enver Pasha returned to Constantinople three Armenians were hanged in the open space before the building ...
Article : 42 wordsA Petrograd communique reports lively infantry actions on the whole front. The Russians have taken a couple of villages and some woods at the Jacobstadt sector line, ...
Article : 125 wordsAs the result of the receipt of several applications for new sugar-mills, the Queensland Government appointed a board of three members to inquire into the position of the ...
Article : 57 wordsA new book by Colonel Roosevelt, entitled "Fear God, and Take Your Own Part," attacks hyphenated Americanism-- what it calls national emasculation. It ...
Article : 91 wordsGeneral Haig reports: "Last night two enemy mine explosions failed to inflict any casualties. There was also hand grenade fighting in the mine craters north-east or Vermelles. To-day we successfully bombarded with guns and trench mortars the enemy's position south-west of Wezmacquart. ...
Article : 73 wordsPrivate Rex Brady, recently convicted by a District Court-Martial for desertion and escaping from lawful custody, was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment, and then to be ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Income Tax Association is not aware of the concession announced by the "Manchester Guardian," that profits earned in the Dominions and received by residents in ...
Article : 82 wordsThe German press admits that Russian attacks are becoming heavier. Fresh forces are being brought in to fight, and an even stronger offensive is expected for the double ...
Article : 52 wordsA German wireless admits that the great Russian offensive on the Eastern front has increased, and that the points of attack have become more numerous. Advances are following uninterruptedly day and night. The strongest storm of attack was again directed at the front north of Postavy. The ...
Article : 107 wordsA very successful social evening was spent in the Pioneer Hall, Ulong, on the 18th inst., in aid of the Eastern Dorrigo Bush Nursing Association. Nurse E. Davis, the nurse of the ...
Article : 253 wordsUrgent representations are being made to Mr. Hughes that he should extend his visit for a fortnight. Mr. Hughes seems to realise the necessity for staying, but everything ...
Article : 271 wordsA thrilling story of a ballooning adventure is related in advices from the front. A captive balloon ascended 11,500 feet in front of the French lines, the observer making ...
Article : 90 wordsGeneral Cadorna, Italian Commander-in-Chief, arrived in London from Paris, and was met by Lord Kitchener and members of the British Headquarters Staff, the Italian Ambassador, and personnel of the Embassy, the Italian Consul-General and his staff. A great number of Italian and British ...
Article : 83 wordsGeorge Henry Leek, aged 72 years, was arresed at Beech Forest, Victoria, charged with having murdered a little girl named Doris Foley at Beech Forest last week. Leek ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain referred to the inadequacy of hospital arrangements in Mesopotamia, and said he was afraid there had been a lamentable ...
Article : 188 wordsA message from Rome states that the Austrian front at the Dneister has been completely broken. The enemy's losses were enormous. Many troops were drowned in the swollen waters of the river. The Russian offensive continues with the greatest violence. ...
Article : 57 wordsA cable has been received from the War Office stating that Australia should only organise one division here. Two divisions are being organised in Egypt from the ...
Article : 81 wordsSkirmishes continue in the vicinity of Salonika. Germans and Bulgarians attempted to occupy strategic points on the heights at Matsikovo, but the French prevented them by a violent cannonade. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsThe Lisbon correspondent of the "Times" states that decrees are published authorising the Minister for War to call up for military preparation all classes. The Minister may order the reinspection of all those rejected between the ages of 18 and 45. ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Fri 24 Mar 1916, Page 3
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