General smuts reports: Navy occupied the minor port of Sadani on August 1 after a slight opposition. Naval operations are progressing on various points of the coastline. ...
Article : 60 wordsGeneral Murray further referring to the fighting in the Katia district, says: Our fire was most effective. Turkish losses of killed and wounded appear to be of the heaviest ...
Article : 74 wordsGeneral Haig reports: Situation unchanged; we retain ground won yesterday; hostile bombardment between the Ancre and the Somme against front line and back areas ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Hughes was given a tremendous welcome home at Melbourne to-day. All classes of the community and all political creeds were represented. Mr. Hughes, in the course ...
Article : 366 wordsDuring the financial year ended June 30, the State brickworks at Homebush Bay earned a profit of £9134. The total output was valued at £108,515. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe estate of the late W. B. Sawers, formerly of Mayvale, Barraba, is valued for probate at £75,181. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe French Socialist Congress decided not to resume relations with German Socialists. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the Assembly, Mr. Jabez Wright presented a petition from the electors of Sturt and Willyama, praying that hotels be allowed to keep open until 9 o'clock. ...
Article : 39 wordsA Cairo message says the prisoners in Egypt include Albanians, who were all glad to be captured. Djemal Pasha was not present. Nourad Bey commanded. ...
Article : 33 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent says the released prisoners from Ruhleben state that when Captain Fryatt was taken from Ruhleben he said: "Good-bye, boys, I don't think ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Black, Chief Secretary, stated to-night that he had given instructions for Chidley's release. ...
Article : 24 wordsA correspondent at Cairo asserts that the British cavalry rode out and enticed the Turks to advance, thus securing a premature offensive. The Anzacs fought an excellent ...
Article : 71 wordsA motion in favor of universal service was carried by a great majority at a meeting held at Martin Place this afternoon. Two thousand people were present. The speakers ...
Article : 100 wordsA Berlin paper announces that large numbers of Bulgarians who have been fighting on the East front have been withdrawn in the direction of the Balkans. ...
Article : 40 words"The Times" correspondent at Cairo says the Katia victory has greatly impressed the Egyptians. It was admirably engineered throughout, the Turks blindly following our ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Press Bureau officially denies that the King and Queen intend to visit the Dominions after the war. ...
Article : 27 wordsOf the wounded now in England an extra-ordinary percentage have mere scratches. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. McAlpine, "Daily Mail" correspondent on the West front, telegraphs that the prisoners in the latest attack now exceed seven hundred. The enemy losses were ...
Article : 60 wordsBefore leaving Adelaide Mr. Hughes was given a number of selections on anti-alien legislation from the All-British League, which he promised to consider. The proposal that ...
Article : 157 wordsA child was burnt to death and four adults seriously injured owing to the ignition of a motor-car near Eltham, Victoria, on Saturday night. ...
Article : 34 wordsA communique says that between the Adige and the Upper Isonzo we captured 3600 prisoners, besides guns and large quantities of rifles and ammunition. ...
Article : 34 wordsCairo messages state that the population are elated by the defeat of the Turks, and at the indiction of the futility of the Turkish efforts to invade Egypt. The prisoners ...
Article : 70 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent says General Joffre, in an interview, says the enemy are showing signs of weakening. They are using up their last reserves. Victory is now certain. ...
Article : 54 wordsSome anti-conscriptionists who attempted to address the residents of Wyong on Saturday night were pelted with eggs, and compelled to desist, the crowd meanwhile ...
Article : 45 wordsNew York to-day marked the beginning of the sixth week of the epidemic of infantile paralysis. A daily bulletin issued by the Health Department showed that the ...
Article : 95 wordsThree German aeroplanes were felled in the Somme region, and three others forced to land in thir own lines. Our air squadrons bombed Metz, Sablone, Thionville ...
Article : 50 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent says: Successes southwards of Brody bring the Russians within 14 miles of Tarnapol Lemberg railway, in consequence of which the ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Massey, the "Daily Telegraph" correspondent, witnessed the Turks' pretensions to the conquest of Egypt, which have been irretrievably smashed. The latest attempt at ...
Article : 229 wordsWilliam Burrough was fined £3, in default three weeks' imprisonment, for assaulting Peter Petersen, a Russian. Evidence was given that defendant called complainant a ...
Article : 71 wordsA United Service message says: Artillery preparation for the Pozieres advance lasted from dawn to sunset. We levelled the trenches and destroyed their shelters. The ...
Article : 137 wordsThe eastern cities' efforts to settle the street railway strike have failed. At Philadelphia the surface railways have been Stopped by an extensive strike, which may ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Victorian Cabinet has decided to urge the Federal Government not to tax profits derived from mining industry. ...
Article : 27 wordsUnless the demands that they intend making on the Government are conceded casual conductors employed on the trams threaten to cease work. ...
Article : 34 wordsAt a conference of Interstate meat exporters the President referred to Australia's position as a meat supplier to the Allied armies, and also referred to the loss in stock caused ...
Article : 90 wordsGeneral von Hindenburg has insisted on the dismissal of a number of high Austrian officers, including General Plfanzer and the Archduke Josef Ferdinand. ...
Article : 32 wordsI was announced in the House of Commons that the United States Embassy was unable to ascertain the whereabouts of the Kut-el-Amara prisoners. This has inspired ...
Article : 50 wordsA drowning fatality occurred on the Lachlan River, near Eugowra, yesterday. Albert and Charles Herbert, aged 21 and 20 respectively, sons of James Herbert, losing their ...
Article : 73 wordsA communique states that the Russians' impetuous attack drove out the Austro-Germans from the trenches in the Stokhod region, capturing 2000 officers and men. Violent ...
Article : 44 wordsGeneral Haig's communique says: Northeast of Pozieres, after a heavy bombardment, the enemy delivered determined attacks on our new lines at four in the ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Massey, continuing his message, says: The enemy fiercely attacked at 3 o'clock at Romani and Ganit. The Australian Light Horse and the Scottish and Territorials drove ...
Article : 328 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent says Vice-Admiral Koltchok, the youngest Russian Admiral who fought at Port Arthur, has been appointed to the Black Sea command. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe new prices for flour, bran, and pollard fixed by the Federal Prices Adjustment Board will come into force to-morrow. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe New Zealand revenue for the past twelve months shows a comparatve increase of £2,446,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsStanley Washburn, reviewing the two months' offensive of the Russians says they have, approximately, advanced 55 miles, and at various points captured three generals, ...
Article : 199 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent says the Anglo-Russian Ministers have reached an agreement over Persia, covering the financial and military measures. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Minister for Defence says there is no foundation for the rumor that the 8th Infantry Brigade, A.I.F., suffered very serious losses in the recent fighting. ...
Article : 31 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent says the importance the enemy attached to the recaptured plateau of Pozieres is gaugeable by an army order circulated on the eve of a furious ...
Article : 99 wordsThe scow Albatross is ashore at Kawhia, New Zealand. The crew is safe, but it is believed the vessel will become a total wreck. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. G. Black, Chief Secretary, at Albury, foreshadowed his retirement from politics upon the expiration of the next Parliament. ...
Article : 28 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent says the German Finance Minister announces a maximum tariff henceforth will be applied to Italian produce. ...
Article : 26 wordsCommissioner Hay, commander of the Salvation Army in Australia, delivered a lecture on "Australia's Awakening," at Richmond Hall, to-night. There was a large ...
Article : 40 wordsGeorge Ratcliffe, was charged at the Police Court this morning with appearing in soldier's uniform, when he had no right to do so. Defendant said he enlisted in July, ...
Article : 135 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent says the National Council of French Socialists passed resolutions, declaring the right of the country to defend itself when attacked, and ...
Article : 54 wordsA Paris communique reports violent artillery work in the region of Chaunes. German attackers at Thiaumont works were thrown back from their own trenches by ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. John Thomson, M.P., has received the following letter:--Sir,--With further reference to the curtailment of hours of attendance at Brushgrove Exchange, I have to ...
Article : 267 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent says the latest Zeppelin tall story is to the effect that Zeppelins will soon cross the Atlantic as commercial air-liners. A Berlin correspondent ...
Article : 83 wordsA Paris correspondent says that the German cruelties at Lille equal the Reign of Terror. Daily there are trials for high treason, and on the slightest pretext many women and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Paris "Liberte" correspondent says there were fiercest counter-attacks north of Pozieres on Sunday. The Australians once more covered themselves with glory. One ...
Article : 166 wordsUp to date 250 farms for returned soldiers have been set apart by the Land Department. In some cases applicants have been greater than the number of holdings ...
Article : 44 wordsReuter's special correspondent on the Salonika front says that while the eyes of the world are turned towards the French and Russian fronts there has been ...
Article : 94 wordsThe liquor restrictions now apply to three-quarters of the population of Great Britain. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Lloyd George, reviewing the Canadian troops, said the fact was that when the enemy was beginning to be exhausted we were ready to pour into the field troops of such ...
Article : 64 wordsFour Hobart residents arrived at Burnie last night and claim that they have made the richest discovery in gold in the annals of Australia, and one of the richest in the ...
Article : 62 wordsIn Bulgaria the disaffection against Germany is growing day by day. There are stormy scenes in the House, and the Government's majority grows narrower day by ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Wed 9 Aug 1916, Page 3
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