General Haig reports: The enemy, after a sharp fight, unsuccessfully endeavored to re-establish himself eastward of Lever Guir. We successfully ...
Article : 107 wordsGeneral Korniloff, commander of the troops at Petrograd, announces that he has received reports that the enemy is concentrating large forces on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 290 wordsWhen a club hangs up a programme totalling 10 events, with prize money worth £210, it naturally looks for some return from the horseowners, in whose ...
Article : 547 wordsThe police have been advised to be oh the look-out for eases where fortune tellers prey upon the wives and relatives of Australian soldiers. ...
Article : 38 wordsFrench communique: North of Soissons the Germans delivered at nighttime a large number of counter-attacks with large effectives against the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe latent figures for the Queensland poll for the abolition of the Upper House gives a majority of 46,000 against the proposal. ...
Article : 32 wordsThough the Germans were continuously reinforced through a tunnel connecting the trenches with the quarries at the rear, the fighting was of the hardest. ...
Article : 202 wordsAlready £5714 has been given towards the Y.M.C.A. appeal fund. ...
Article : 18 wordsGeneral Alexieff states that Petrograd is not in danger, as the Germans are at present sending troops from the Russian front. But he predicts early fighting on ...
Article : 101 wordsAn indignant denial has been given by Mr. Ozanne, late M.H.R., to the assertion that he practically deserted from his unit. The Minister for Defence says he intends ...
Article : 55 wordsA French communique states: Northwest of Soissons we completed yesterday's successes, and extended the conquered ground, capturing by local ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsAustralians have importantly increased their gains east of Bullecourt, repulsing terrific counter-attacks. ...
Article : 37 wordsDorothy Willis, who was accidently shot at her home, Bondi, died yesterday morning. John Bennett (29) was charged at the Police Court to-day with causing her ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" breaks a long German silence regarding Russia, by stating that many sections of the East Front are plunged into the deepest calm. There ...
Article : 224 wordsMarcel Hutin, referring to the important Conferences in Paris between Generals Neville, Petain, Haig, Robertson, and Wilson, says: Results will soon be seen in ...
Article : 183 wordsGoodwood Handicap: Bourlang, 1; Lord Lenhuk, 2; Pistolaire, 3. ...
Article : 21 wordsReuter's correspondent at headquarters says that for the past twenty-four hours a feature has been the succession of intense German counter-attacks in the ...
Article : 290 wordsHopes are entertained for the Coolebar being refloated, owing to the weather having moderated. ...
Article : 20 words"The Times" representative (Mr. Robinson) writes: Bullecourt is very obstinately defended. The Australians carried all their ground at great speed, ...
Article : 208 wordsIf Saturday's form was true, La Balfour is going right off. He was weighted at 8.2 in the Flying in a very ordinary field and then took advantage of an ...
Article : 67 wordsThe eight men who were arrested in connection with the death of the boxer, Gilbert Alexander, after a bout at the Stadium, were discharged at the police ...
Article : 58 wordsWhen charged at the Sydney Police Court with having travelled from Grafton to Sydney without paying his steamer fare of 25s, James Gibson (19) told the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe clothe picked up on the ocean beach at Manly on Saturday have been identified as belonging to Myrtle Webber (18), who left her place of employment ...
Article : 76 wordsBeach Thomas writes: Among the ditches and tunnels of the Hindenburg line at Queant great fighting is proceeding in a narrow compass. During ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Minister for Works announced today that the State, brickworks at Botany will be closed down at the end of the week. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe late Private Wilton Collett, writing to his mother, Mrs. W. Collett, Ulmarra, a short time before his death, says: "In my last letter I mentioned we ...
Article : 638 words"The Times'" political correspondent hints at new blood in the Cabinet, and also an Irish settlement. ...
Article : 33 wordsFollowing are the nominations for the South Grafton Licensed Victuallers' Jockey Club's meeting on Saturday next, 12th May:-- ...
Article : 135 wordsThe federal Government intends to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate recent serious leakages which have occurred in the Telegraph Department. In ...
Article : 48 wordsGeneral Haig reports: Later reports show that the German attacks from the Hindenburg line eastward of Bullecourt were particularly severe. The enemy ...
Article : 153 wordsPhillips, the "Express" correspondent, says that German strategists see no reason why the British are allowed to occupy an apparently impossible ...
Article : 275 wordsA Rome correspondent says: The Pope has sent a letter to Cardinal Gaspari, regretting the Pope's advice to cease the war was not taken, and consequently the ...
Article : 69 wordsA lorry crashed into two trams at Paddington this afternoon, and three men were seriously injured. The driver of one tram had a leg broken. ...
Article : 30 wordsDr. Carr, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, died last night, aged 77. (The Most Reverend Thomas Joseph Carr, D.D., Roman Catholic Archbishop of ...
Article : 144 wordsThe trial of David Howell Price, charged with having forged the camp pay list, has been postponed until June 5th. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn Amsterdam corespondent states that the Ymuiden fishermen have ceased operations, because the Germans failed to supply coal as promised, and continue to ...
Article : 51 wordsA fire, which broke out in wheat stacks at Gidginbung siding, seven miles from Temora, destroyed 200 bags. This is the second occasion on which a fire occurred ...
Article : 38 wordsA German official message states: We repulsed strong English advances southward of Lens, on the Scarpe, and at Queant. ...
Article : 148 wordsSince the Broken Hill Proprietary Company took over the State limeworks at Razorback, rapid progress has been made, under the supervision of Manager H. M. ...
Article : 214 wordsThe 293rd casualty list issued to-day shows a total for all states of killed in action, 67; died from wounds and other causes. 68; wounded, 625; missing, 36; ...
Article : 164 wordsA correspondent at French headquarters on May 5th writes: The Craonne flanking points of the plateau, from whence the Germans are now being ...
Article : 152 wordsThe annual conference of the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows opened at Sydney to-day, and placed on record its unswerving loyalty to the King, the ...
Article : 110 wordsA French, communique says: Generally our operations of the 4th and 5th of May were carried out in harmony with the British operations, and rendered us ...
Article : 115 wordsA five hours' food riot took place at Stockholm. The police used their truncheons to clear the streets, and the crowds replied with stones and bottles. ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Tue 8 May 1917, Page 5
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