LONDON, Thursday.--The American Senate rejected a proposal to empower Col. Roosevelt to raise the first army for France. ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--A secret session of the House of Commons has commenced. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Booyong Pearce's Greek Red Cross Society was held in Pearce's Creek Hall on May 4th, Mrs. Geo. Ross presiding. There were 16 ladies ...
Article : 143 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--During last week 1190 volunteers were secured for the A.I.F. in the Commonwealth. ...
Article : 22 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--In the Full Court to-day judgment was reserved in the Mooraberrie cattle case, in which the Queensland Government appealed against the verdict ...
Article : 79 wordsPARIS, Thursday.--A French communique .says: The enemy at night attempted rather weak reactions at various points of the Chemin des Dames, all of which broke down ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The Press Bureau reports that at the secret session Mr. Churchill dealt with the general naval and military situation and especially Russia's ...
Article : 243 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The Acting Premier has forwarded a letter to the Prime Minister respecting the action of the military authorities in mobilising doctors. After ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--New York went wild with enthusiasm at the demonstration in honor of the French visitors, countless thousands cheering and singing when Field ...
Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--At the Sessions today John Smithers and Robert Mason were sentenced to three years' imprisonment on a charge of forging a Commonwealth £5 ...
Article : 78 wordsNEW YORK, Thursday.--Conferences of British and American Labor leaders decided to abrogate the eight-hour rule and other rights on emergencies. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Soldiers' Aid Society was held in St. Paul's Schoolroom on Thursday afternoon. A large number of members were present, and before ...
Article : 227 wordsCapt. T. B. Osborne, enlisting officer at Lismore yesterday afternoon received an urgent telegram from Capt. Coates, organiser for the New South Wales Recruiting ...
Article : 71 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.--The United States exports to Europe increased to £5,400,000 sterling in March, being £18,000,000 sterling less than in January. ...
Article : 27 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The annual report of the Farmers and Settlers' Association says the pooling scheme demonstrates the saving that may be effected by co-operated ...
Article : 56 wordsAMSTERDAM, Friday.--In the Reichstag, during debate on the naval Budget, Herr Brandes (Socialist) issued a warning that discontent among the workmen in the ship ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The United Service correspondent says:--The stubborn struggle for the possession of Bullecourt is continuing. The Australians were again ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--To date £100,009 has been disbursed from the Australia Day Amelioration Funds. About 80 per cent. of the full quota of men returned have received ...
Article : 36 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The Full Court Criminal Appeals refused to grant leave to appeal in the ease of Owen Tucker, who was sentenced to death last month on the charge ...
Article : 109 wordsAMSTERDAM, Friday.--Following upon Admiral Von Capelle's statement in the Reichstag, Herr Noske (Socialist) said that peace demands without annexation naturally ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, Friday.--In the House of Lords Lord Curzon, speaking on the Government shipbuilding programme, said the Government had first claim on men, material and the ...
Article : 275 wordsPARIS, Thursday.--The British artillery work is widely praised. The diary of a prisoner said the enemy hold the whole line, but his intense fire is no protection. ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--Two Sydney business men, Messrs. Walter Keep and Thomas Hitchman, during the week made personal calls on friends and heads of city firms, with the ...
Article : 76 wordsA letter from a boy at the front to his parents in Lismore says:--All letters up to end of November seem to have come to hand; they all say what fine warm ...
Article : 681 wordsAMSTERDAM, Thursday.--The German report says that artillery fire at Arras continues with increasing violence. Fresnoy remains ours despite ...
Article : 127 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The fact that Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg and Court Czernin exchanged telegrams is regarded in Vienna as proof that they have mutually agreed as ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--Second Lieut. John Wilson Bird, charged before a general court martial at Victoria Barracks with absenting himself from the A.I.F., pleaded guilty. He ...
Article : 76 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--News received in Melbourne shows that smallpox is exceptionally prevalent in China, the Philippine Islands, and the East Indies. Keen vigilance ...
Article : 48 wordsPARIS, Thursday.--A French commentator describing the fighting on the California Plateau, says in great hand-to-hand fighting the Germans displayed, ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Field Marshal Sir D. Haig reports:--We advanced our line slightly this morning on the southern bank of the Searpe. The enemy at noon, under ...
Article : 129 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--The Australian wheat pool sales realised £31,436,000. The payments made to growers in respect of the 1915-16 pool amount to £31,353,000, while the ...
Article : 100 wordsAdvice received from the Citizens' Committee of the Y.M.C.A. in Sydney stated that prospect's for the success of the Red Triangle Day appeal which is to be made throughout ...
Article : 167 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Sir D. Haig reports: Yesterday's fighting, at Bullecourt was severe and continuous. We progressed despite the enemy's repeated costly but fruitless efforts ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Colonel Repington, the "Times" correspondent, says:--"There are no military reasons for an early end. The Empire must prepare and ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Friday.--A French communique says:--Cannonading occurred north-east of Siossons and Chemin des Dame[?] By local operations we carried a system of trenches ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Friday.--In the House of Lords the Earl of Meath said it was a New Zealand cargo boat with 10,000 cases of cheese and produce that was ...
Article : 174 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The Minister, for Works explains that the stoppage of Messrs. Norton Griffiths' transferred works in only temporary, and designed in order to take ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Murdoch, the war correspondent at the Anzac headquarters, says on the 7th of May:--After bitter fighting the Scottish troops won at dawn ...
Article : 353 wordsThe Win-the-War League and Recruiting Committees, through their organisation throughout the length and breadth of Australia, are now getting down to work to ...
Article : 166 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Reuter's headquarters correspondent says:--The lure of Bullecourt continues to be irresistible, presumably because south-eastward we've ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Lord Derby, speaking at South Kensington, said it would be underestimating the number to say we had 11 Allies, because we could no longer look ...
Article : 112 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The Governor-General was welcomed by the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day. His Excellency referred in congratulatory terms to the spread of ...
Article : 54 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The body ol a newly-born baby boy was found behind a confessional box in St. Francis' Roman Catholic Church, Surry Hills, to-day. The remains ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The "Times" Dublin correspondent says the defeat of the Nationalist (Mr. McKenna) by the rebellion prisoner (Mr. McGuinness) serves as a blow to the ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--A conspiracy has been discovered at Salonica to assasinate M. Venizelos. Nine have been arrested, and they confessed they were acting under ...
Article : 48 wordsSig. Lance-Corporal J. M. Boase, writing to his mother from "Somewhere in France," says:--You will have heard ere this that I have been wounded. It is not ...
Article : 577 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Admiralty reports that a scouting force of light cruisers and destroyers from Harwich under Commodore ...
Article : 112 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The proposed Royal Commission to inquire into the whole system hospital administration has been dropped. ...
Article : 21 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.--A protest was made by the Presbyterian Assembly in Adelaide against the growing tendency to hold political meetings on Sundays. ...
Article : 27 wordsGunner R. J. Talbot, writing to his brother from France, says:--Since last writing the weather here has taken a slight slight change; the cold is not so serve. The ...
Article : 464 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The New South Wales gold yield for the first four months of the year shows a decrease in value of £52,226. ...
Article : 28 wordsPETROGRAD, Friday.--The provisional Government has relieved General Russky of the command of the Northern front, retaining him an a member of the Council of ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--A French Macedonian communique says:--In the region of Veterenitch, in the Upper Moglenitza Valley, the Serbians captured two points and also some ...
Article : 82 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--Dr. Salmon, the Nationalist member for the Grampians, Victoria, is now seriously ill. ...
Article : 19 wordsPERTH, Friday.--The Official Labor section of the Parliamentary Labor Party in West Australia has deposed Mr. Scaddan from the leadership and have elected Mr. ...
Article : 39 wordsPETROGRAD, Thursday.--A Russian official message says: There was intense enemy artillery fire at Lake Miatiziol and Smorgon. The enemy attacked in the wooded ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Friday.--It is understood that the reorganisation of the Admiralty is complete. The most notable change is that the First, Second and Fourth Sea Lords ...
Article : 62 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--The Commonwealth railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta is expected to be opened for traffic in September. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--A correspondent says the German attacks on Fresnoy are significant of the importance the enemy attaches to the Oppy line. They have only ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Press Bureau states that a conference of representatives of 50 trade unions connected with engineering and shipbuilding, Mr. Henderson presiding, ...
Article : 142 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--The Chief Railway Commissioner told at deputation from West Maitland that his Department is unable to provide many things which people wanted, as ...
Article : 239 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Friday.--Fifty were killed and hundreds injured and many houses were wrecked by an explosion on May 7th at Mitsubishi munition plant, ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--An attempt has been made to assassinate the President of Cuba at Havana. Nine arrests have been made. ...
Article : 28 wordsAs will be seen by reference to our advertising columns the meeting called for the Y.M.C.A. Red Triangle Day of Patriotic Societies and all others interested in this ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The "Times" correspondent at headquarters estimates the German losses in recapturing Fresnov was greater than the whole of the British force ...
Article : 33 wordsAMSTERDAM, Thursday.--Berlin has officially denied the reported attempt to assassinate the Kaiser. ...
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