The waterside workers are on strike here, and all shipping is held up. Two mills have closed down, and the other seven will follow in a few days. The men are ...
Article : 114 wordsThe "Daily News" correspondent at Petrograd says between Nodworna and Halicz the Austrians and Germans fire hastily fleeing, a section going in the direction of the ...
Article : 203 wordsA wireless message from Rome reports thai the Austrian left wing is losing touch with the Adriatic Sea, presumably owing to the Italian turning movement at Monfalcone ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Imperial Parliament is expected to adjourn on the 22nd instant. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Neutral Publicity Committee has translated Mr. Hughes' speeches (with an introduction by Mr. Lloyd George) into Italian, to be widely distributed. A French ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Times" in a leader, asks whether after eight months of excessive great events affecting the Empire, and upon which the Empire's future is depending, will the ...
Article : 67 wordsAn Italian communique says: We pierced another strong line of enemy entrenchments at Hill 204 on the Carso, taking 800 prisoners. Artillery duels continue at Gorizia. ...
Article : 46 wordsReuter 's Salonika correspondent says that the Allies' artillerying is wonderfully good, smothering the Bulgarian trenches with smoke and dust. Bulgarian guns are not ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, said that the Government did not propose to alter the qualification of the franchise. The difficulties of enfranchising all the ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. Justice Street, in the Probate Court, granted leave to Rital Adlide to swear that the death of William Adlide had taken place on or since December 14th, 1914. The ...
Article : 173 wordsThe "Daily Mail" correspondent at Milan says that the capture of Madlogem secures one of the principal defences of the northern entrance to the Carso. The Italians ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Thorne asked in the Australian Government had rejected a British firm's offer of six steamers of 11,000 tons each, and would the British ...
Article : 113 wordsGeneral Haig. in a communique, says: West of Pozieres the enemy gained a temporary footing in a portion of the trenches captured yesterday. We carried out a ...
Article : 41 words"The Times" correspondent says some anxiety exists regarding the coal supply. The press is pointing out that Italy's value to the Allies depends upon her ability to keep ...
Article : 125 wordsA Paris communique says: Bad weather hampered our operations on most of the front. There was a sharp artillery duel south of the Somme and east of the Meuse; elsewhere ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Cook is advocating the organisation of all Empire resources, and said that Mr. Hughes' course was abundantly clear, and he had little doubt that he would take it ...
Article : 93 wordsAn official message says that the British destroyer Lassoo was torpedoed or mined and sunk on the 13th off the Dutch coast. Two officers and four men are missing. One ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Asquith, speaking on the franchise, said that without any predisposition to grant women's suffrage he was bound to say that the women 's point ...
Article : 102 wordsReuter's correspondent says that the British positions between Guillemout and Pozieres are daily assuming a more interesting aspect. We have forced back the enemy on a ...
Article : 97 wordsPresident Wilson, after conferring with the Labor unions, announced he would be able to judge to-morrow if any feasible basis of settlement can be reached. He appealed ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Austrian press reproach German nonassistance, which was responsible for the fall of Gorizia. The "Neue Freie Presse" reprints Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg's hands-off ...
Article : 65 wordsA Russian official message says: In the Upper Sereth the enemy retired westward to a fortified position, behind which he is now checking our advance at some points. We Mr. Runciman, the President of the Board, of Trade in the British Cabinet, who is on a special mission to Italy, made a eulogistic speech at Milan. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe State Commandant states that the present camp for citizen forces has shown, that there are very few left who should have gone to the war. ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Assembly, Mr. Colquhoun asked the Acting Premier had his attention been drawn to a statement attributed to the Lord Mayor, that those who would not join the unions ...
Article : 590 wordsIn the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil stated that many British prisoners have been sent to work in Russian territory occupied by the Germans, who refused to permit ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Beach Thomas writes that there was constant shrapnelling of the trenches at Pozieres held by the Australian and British troops. It seemed impossible that anything ...
Article : 59 wordsLes. Darcy, the champion boxer, has enlisted in Brisbane for active service abroad. ...
Article : 21 wordsAustro-Germans are steadily retreating in Galicia. There has been no disaster, though the Russians are rapidly pursuing them on a 60 miles front, except to the north, where the ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is understood that the Federal Cabinet is considering the conscription question this afternoon. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Massey "Times" correspondent at Cairo, ascribes the failure of the Turkish counter-attacks to heavy gusts of shrapnel and the Anzac marksmen's steady, ...
Article : 245 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent states that an enemy communique admits that the Russians continue to advance on the River Sereth in the Zlota-Lipa region, fording their ...
Article : 100 wordsA Headquarters despatch describes the original advance from Pozieres on the 4th and 5th. Australians and British were under an appalling fire for nine days, amid a ...
Article : 208 wordsCarcoar, with a population of under one thousand, subscribed nearly £17,000 to various patriotic funds, and sent 145 men to the front. ...
Article : 39 wordsSteamers arriving at Copenhagen from England report that German warships are patrolling the Norwegian coast. Submarines and Zeppelins have also been observed. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn connection with the suppression of the "Berliner Tageblatt" for a week, the Frankfurt ''Gazette'' demands freer political discussion, as in England. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Coolgardie bye-election resulted in a wir. for the Labor candidate, thus reducing the Wilson Government's majority, to three. ...
Article : 31 wordsA Paris communique reports a lively cannonade at Maurepas, and says we carried portions of trenches south-west of Estrees. Minor German attacks on the Meusc were ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Daily News" special correspondent at Berne talked with an eminent neutral who had visited Berlin, and was invited to tea with the Kaiserin. The Kaiser was ...
Article : 103 wordsAustralian casualties to date are officially reported to number 45,178. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. Hughes anticipates no trouble in transporting the greater portion of the wheat crop of the Commonwealth to oversea market, and explains that in addition to ...
Article : 91 words"The Ti[?]" correspondent at British headquarters reports considerable gains, aggregating 500yards, in an advance from three different points in separate pushes. The ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Amsterdam "Telegraaf " states that an Allied airman bombed the station at Mons twice within the fortnight. Each time the station was crowded with military trains and ...
Article : 79 wordsLondon kinemas have been badly hit by the Amusement Tax, numbers closing. They intend urging Mr. McKenna to reduce the tax or levy on total receipts, instead of ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Massey, "The Times'' correspondent, describes the desert battle on the 9th as determined and exceedingly bitter. The Australian Light Horse, the New Zealand ...
Article : 141 wordsOne wing of a two-storey building at Botany, owned and occupied by Bayley and Sons, tanners, together with the contents, consisting of machinery and skins were ...
Article : 61 wordsLondon medical men warn the people of the possibility of infantile paralysis spreading to England, and urge the strictest quarantining of incoming Americans. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Ryan, Premier of Queensland, returned to Sydney to-day from England, via America. In the course of an interview he said one great point which had been driven ...
Article : 126 wordsA woolshed at Gunnedah, worth, with contents, about £4000, was destroyed by fire. Incendiarism is suspected. ...
Article : 26 wordsGeneral Haig reports: Situation unchanged along the whole British line; usual hostile sheying, particularly at Mametz and Pozieres, also Arras and north of the Vierstraat ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Prince line of steamers is fusing with the Furness line. ...
Article : 20 wordsFollowing upon a resolution car meeting to-night to support an the Irish National Aid Associa[?] ancial help to those in distress ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Times" correspondent forecasts that the terms of the Anglo-American loan of fifty million sterling, at 5 per cent., will be issued at 99 direct, and 1 per cent, to the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Times" political correspondent says that Mr. Henderson's exact functions are not settled. As a Labor adviser he will have the nucleus of a department and staff. ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Wed 16 Aug 1916, Page 3
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