The Prima Minister appeals to the electors, "In this hour of your country's peril I urge you to do your duty. Vote YES. The No-Conscription Committee urges the electors not to be cajoled, deluded or intimidated by threats, but to vote NO and "Keep Australia ...
Article : 104 wordsLord Rhondda, in a speech at Islington, said: "Every food queue is a centre of possible mischief. They must and will be stopped. The Ministry supports the initiation by local ...
Article : 154 wordsThe text of the armistice between the Russians and Germans, an published in Vienna, states that a clause provides for an early military withdrawal from Persia "in accordance ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that survivors of the Maracaibo, which was bound to a Danish port with coal, state that the British destroyers and ...
Article : 168 words"Are we a race of craven cowards? Are we going to desert our men?" Mr. Hughes asked a crowd of many thousands in Moore Street yesterday. ...
Article : 217 wordsAn official message dealing with the Palestine operations states:--"We seized the high ground eastward or Abudis and south-eastward of Jerusalem, ...
Article : 74 wordsWashington advices state that the Colonel House Mission has informed the State Department that England and France are stoically facing the task ahead, believing that a decisive ...
Article : 310 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Home Secretary (Mr. Huxham) has received from Inspector M'Grath, Rockhampton, reports regarding the trouble that occurred there recently at ...
Article : 469 wordsMr. Gordon Gilmour, representative of the Australian Press Association in London, visited the Australian front line to see the voting. "The weather was warm," he writes, "but the ...
Article : 240 wordsTO THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA-- To-day you are asked by a conservationist Government to vote for a measure of compulsion which will deprive Australians of ...
Article : 104 wordsAn Italian official report states:--"The enemy launched attacks from the northeast and north against the Solarolo salient. Franco-Italian artillery broke up the ...
Article : 50 words"The whitest and gamest little man in Australia," said Mr. E. W. New, at a gathering of about 6000 persons outside the School of Arts. Haberfield, last evening, as he introduced Mr. ...
Article : 302 wordsAccording to a despatch from Washington, it is believed that a "shaking up" of the army staff departments is impending. It is reported that General Goethels, who ...
Article : 164 wordsA French communique reports:--"There has been somewhat intense artillery duelling on the right hunk of the Mouse, especially in the region of Caurlere Wood and ...
Article : 33 wordsThere were gaps in the Town Hall crowd last night. The clock gallery was for long practically deserted. The ample provision of chairs on the platform was but sparsely patronised ...
Article : 1,671 wordsFollowing is an extract from a letter received by Mr. F. Arnold, of Duff Street, Arncliffe, from Lieutenant C. Maynard, under date France, October 16, 1917:-- ...
Article : 112 wordsThe result of the Canadian election was received with enthusiastic cheers by Canadian soldiers assembled at the Canadian record office. ...
Article : 93 wordsMany "last shots" were hurled into the opposing camps in the fight last night. The Prime Minister, having marshalled his forces for the final rally, did the heaviest work of ...
Article : 998 wordsAn Australian Press Association representative was recently in Paris. He met many Australian soldiers on leave under the new arrangement of placing the French capital ...
Article : 182 wordsA wireless German official message reports that the Austro-Hungarians took a thousand prisoners eastward of the Brenta. ...
Article : 69 wordsTo more than a million men and women in Australia the second referendum has come as a reprieve--from a life-sentence of shame or of regret. Some were openly disloyal to Australia, ...
Article : 455 words"The remarkable demonstrations of approval with when the soldiers have received the Government's reinforcement referendum proposals," said the Prime Minister yesterday, ...
Article : 239 wordsAccording to an official statement the Government is highly gratified at a new device for the destruction of submarines. From actual results within the past 18 hours experts ...
Article : 56 words"Appropriate name! Rivett!" said Mr. Hughes at Ashfield last evening. The chairman, Mr. Russell, has handed me a statement made here on Monday night by Rev. A. Rivett. ...
Article : 332 wordsThe New York "World's" correspondent at Rome has officially denied that the Pope intends to issue a Christmas peace message, as the Pope opposes a separate pence, believing ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Manchester "Guardian" believes that the new man-power proposals to be so drastic that the Government might feel unable to enforce them without an appeal to the country. ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Field-marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:--"We repulsed raiders southward of Fontaine les Croilles. ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is reported from Buenos Ayres that Uruguay has extended to Britain a credit of 50,000,000 dollars. ...
Article : 22 wordsA message from Washington states that considerable interest is attached to Captain Persing' reiterated statement in the "Berliner Tageblatt" that there is no justification for ...
Article : 119 wordsIt is officially announced that aeroplanes crossed the Kent and Essex coasts at 6.15 yesterday evening. Some reached London district, and dropped ...
Article : 113 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--At a welcome home tendered to returned soldiers at Eagle-hawk, Major Catford, responding, said he had been asked about the Sixth Division, in regard ...
Article : 141 wordsCaptain C. S. JEFFRIES (Australian).--When his company was held up by machine-gun fire from concrete emplacements, he organised a party, rushed the emplacement, and captured ...
Article : 310 wordsFrom the moment when the Australian people accepted the sacrifices of the first volunteer the whole nation's honor and its future good fame were bound up in supporting that ...
Article : 544 wordsSir Chiozza Money (Shipping Controller's Department), speaking in the House of Commons, said that five British steamers were damaged in the Halifax explosion and about ...
Article : 42 wordsClose on 10,000 people were wedged into the square to the north of the Fire Station at the top of William Street when Mr. Hughes arrived. The Minister for Justice (Mr. J. ...
Article : 447 wordsAt the annual prize-giving function of the Christian Bros. Waverley College yesterday Archbishop Kelly, referring to the circumstances of the Referendum, said:-- ...
Article : 614 wordsIn connection with the vote for prohibition in the House of Representatives, it is now stated that three-fourths and not two-thirds of the States must ratify the prohibition law ...
Article : 90 wordsA message from Buenos Ayres says that an influential meeting has passed a resolution urging: Argentine to declare war against Germany. ...
Article : 27 wordsCables from Lisbon state that German influence played no part in the revolution. The new Government adheres to the Allied cause. A U-boat bombarded Funchal when the success ...
Article : 40 wordsA message from Rome states that the "Osservatore Romano" protests against the attempts to drag the Holy See into the Cuillaux affair, and denies that Cardinal Gasparri and ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. J. Pierpont Morgan has presented the Metropolitan Museum with his late father's famed art collection of 3000 objects, valued at several millions of dollars. ...
Article : 83 wordsBerne advices state that owing to the lack of rolling stock the military have seized large numbers of tramears in Munich, Strassburg and Mayence for military transport work, thus ...
Article : 41 wordsA message from Rome says that the pope is issuing an Encyclical on the delivery of Jerusalem, decreeing the expression of thanks to God, even in enemy countries. ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Thu 20 Dec 1917, Page 5
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