Articles from page 7: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. WESTERN FRONT

    In yesterday morning's despatch Sir Douglas Haig reported:—There have been small right outpost engagements south-east of Epehy. The enemy heavily bombarded ...

    Article : 528 words
  3. SUBMARINES.

    Norwegian shipping circles are protesting that spies are informing German submarines of the dates on which Norwegian merchant ships are sailing. Many messages ...

    Article : 81 words
  4. ENEMY AIMS.

    The German Imperial Chancellor delivered his statement on the Central Powers war aims in the Reichstag yesterday. Herr Roesicke, the Conservative Party leader, ...

    Article : 941 words
  5. STATE LIQUOR PURCHASE.

    Mr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer) denied in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government had reached a decision on the question of State ...

    Article : 38 words
  6. MACEDONIA.

    Yesterday's Serbian communique stated: "There is great activity on the whole of the Serbian front. We advanced again in the region of Vetrenik and Dobropoldje. We ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

    The labourers' employed on the Wyndham meat works, who have been in "conference" for some days, agreed on Tuesday to resume work if the Government ...

    Article : 322 words
  8. THE KING ON TOUR.

    The King and Queen have continued their tour, visiting the docks and factories at Liverpool, where a large number of troops were presented with military medals ...

    Article : 37 words
  9. EXCHANGE OF A PRISONER.

    Austria recently proposed to exchange Captain A. Stanely Wilson, M.P. for Hoderness (Yorks), who is a prisoner in Austrian hands: but the proposal contained ...

    Article : 42 words
  10. BRITISH NEWS.

    A White Paper, dealing with the British Trade Bank, states: "It will be called the British Trade Corporation, and its general objects will be to assist in the ...

    Article : 186 words
  11. THE TROOPSHIP ARCADIAN.

    The survivors of the troopship Arcadian, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on April [?], reached England yesterday. They state that the sea was perfectly ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. GERMAN PRISONERS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday, in reply to a question Mr J. F. Hope (Lord of the Treasury) said that the Government had considered the possibility of ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. VENEREAL DISEASE.

    Sir William Osler M.D (Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford) states that the most recent figure available show that there are 93,000 venereal cases in the British Army. ...

    Article : 51 words
  14. RUSSIA.

    The Workmen's and Soldiers' Executive has agreed upon an important resolution pledging the Socialists' support to the Provisional Government. The executive ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. VICTORIAN RAILWAY TROUBLE.

    It has been definitely decided by the executive of the unions embracing the employees of the Victorian railways service not to call a strike of railway employees, ...

    Article : 83 words
  16. COMMONWEALTH.

    It is understood that the Australian Wheat Board, at its meeting this week had under discussion a proposal to divert shipments of wheat and flour from ...

    Article : 214 words
  17. GERMAN RESOURCES.

    The "Telegraaf" publishes an interview with one of the crew of the German submarine which attacked seven Dutch grain ships in February. He states that the ...

    Article : 147 words
  18. THE NEW ZEALANDERS.

    The New Zealand Commandant has issued in his orders Mr. Massey's message to the troops, which says: "Our gallants have willingly taken up their share of the burden of ...

    Article : 96 words
  19. DISPUTE BETWEEN UNIONS.

    A dispute between two sections of the Colliery Workers' Unions has resulted in the Wallsend Colliery being thrown idle. It appears that a number of members of ...

    Article : 102 words
  20. MILITARY SERVICE.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Macpherson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office), in moving the second reading of the Military Service Bill to ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Mr. James Mitchell, accompanied by the member for the district (Mr. A. N. Piesse), Mr. Trethowan (Water Supply Department), and several others, including Mrs. Mitchell, ...

    Article : 733 words
  22. MORE GERMAN LIES.

    According to a message from the Hague the German Legation announces that certain English ships; painted with red and white stripes, on May 15 made an attempt ...

    Article : 91 words
  23. MT. LYELL STRIKE.

    Messrs. J. McDonald, M. Cunningham, and P. Kelly, executive officials of the Miners' Association, who have been appointed delegates to confer with the Mount Lyell ...

    Article : 125 words
  24. A CORRESPONDENT'S OPINION.

    The Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" is of the opinion that the situation does not warrant excitement. He believes that the Russian people are ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. CARE OF DISABLED SOLDIERS.

    In a recent cable message it was stated that the Australian Red Cross Society had offered to give £5,000 towards establishing workshops for disabled Australian soldiers ...

    Article : 169 words
  26. INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE.

    The meetings of the engineers at Woolwich have not yet resulted in a settlement of the dispute. A national conference of the strikers is sitting in London ...

    Article : 194 words
  27. IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.

    The "National Tidende" reports that there are numerous cases of German submarines being disguised as fishing boats. The captain of a Norwegian steamer states ...

    Article : 64 words
  28. M. MILIUKOFF'S POSITION.

    The United Press Association's Petrograd correspondent telegraphed yesterday that the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council had decided to enter into a coalition with the ...

    Article : 39 words
  29. ELECTION INCIDENT.

    A case arising out of the recent elections was heard in the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day, when John B. Holman, M.L.A., was charged with having addressed insulting ...

    Article : 220 words
  30. THE SPANISH COAST.

    The French mail steamer Medjerda 1,918 tons, was sunk by a German submarine on Monday. Seventeen shipwrecked persons, including several Spaniards, have ...

    Article : 48 words
  31. RETURNING EXILES.

    The "Dagens Nyheder" states that the majority of the workmen's and soldiers delegates favour holding a Russian peace conference in Copenhagen, and that 250 ...

    Article : 65 words
  32. PRESBYTERIANS AND THE WAR.

    The Presbyterian Assembly resumed its sittings to-day under the Moderator (the Rev. M. Kirkpatrick), when a fresh series of loyal motions were submitted. ...

    Article : 241 words
  33. AMERICA.

    An urgent Deficiency Bill has been reported by the Senate Committee. It provides for £80,000,000 for merchantmen now under construction, and £40,000,000 for the ...

    Article : 190 words
  34. LATER DEVELOPMENTS.

    The situation with regard to the engineers' strike has generally improved. The naval dockyard workers at Chatham passed a resolution yesterday ...

    Article : 164 words
  35. THE CAUCASUS.

    A wireless Russian official report received yesterday stated:—"In the region of Kellerk and Amaik Baba, south of Erzinghan, our counter attacks dislodged the [?]urds ...

    Article : 49 words
  36. ENEMY REPORTS.

    A wireless German official report intercepted stated: "Our fire prevented the development of English attacks on the Scarpe and near Monchy. We repulsed ...

    Article : 82 words
  37. GENERAL SMUTS.

    At the dinner given in honour of the South' African and Indian delegates to the Imperial War Conference in the Guildhall on May 1 Viscount French paid a tribute ...

    Article : 515 words
  38. DISLOYAL LANGUAGE.

    At the Boulder Police Court to-day George Rowley was charged with having uttered disloyal sentiments likely to cause disaffection. It was alleged that on April ...

    Article : 112 words
  39. FRENCH HIGH COMMANDS.

    A sensation has been caused by the Council of Ministers appointing General Petain the new Commander-in-Chief of the Northern and North-Eastern Armies, with ...

    Article : 45 words
  40. THE SOCIALIST ATTITUDE.

    It is noteworthy that the German censorship deleted from the official wireless message the following extract from Amsterdam:—"I will not be diverted from the proper ...

    Article : 313 words
  41. ELECTORAL REFORM.

    In the House of Commons yesterday the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Walter Long) introduced the Electoral Reform Bill. ...

    Article : 212 words
  42. WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES.

    The Federal authorities have concluded arrangements for all the banks to act as their agents in the matter of redeeming war savings certificates either on maturity ...

    Article : 103 words
  43. BOMBARDMENT OF BRUGES.

    A Bruges correspondent reports that many German soldiers were killed in the recent English raid, and that General Von Mackensen was at Bruges during the ...

    Article : 32 words
  44. APPEAL TO DEMOCRACY.

    Mr. James Thomas, of the British Labour Commission, has appeaied to American employees and employers to give up all thought of material gain and to work for ...

    Article : 113 words
  45. THE "WESTERN MAIL."

    War pictures predominate among the illustrations in the current issue of the "Western Mail." They deal chiefly with the operations on the Western front, and are ...

    Article : 287 words
  46. GENERAL ITEMS.

    The Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" says:—"Mr. Whitney Warren, the well known American architect, has reported upon the Rheims Cathedral, at the ...

    Article : 115 words
  47. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    One of the most enthusiastic of the long series of send-offs to soldiers at the Midland Junction locomotive workshops was held in the lunch hour yesterday. An ...

    Article : 921 words
  48. USE OF A GERMAN LINER.

    The s.s. Dekalb (formerly the North German Lloyd liner Prinz Eitel Friedrich (8,797 tons) has been commissioned. She is the first German ship to be employed ...

    Article : 37 words
  49. NEW SOUTH WALES VITAL STATISTICS.

    The estimated population of New South Wales at the end of 1916 was 1.846,730 thus showing a decrease of 21,908 for the year. The excess of emigration over in ...

    Article : 95 words
  50. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.

    In the House of Lords yesterday Lord Selbourne moved the postponement of the operation of the Welsh Church Disestablishment Act for one year after the war. ...

    Article : 179 words
  51. GERMANY'S FORCES.

    The "Petit Parisien" states:—"Heavy levies have been made upon the German troops on the eastern front, in order to reinforce those in the western zone. Many of ...

    Article : 56 words
  52. THE WHEAT MARKET.

    The Board of Trade on Monday prohibited, in connection with the wheat market, the buying of "futures" for 48 hours, and it also fixed prices as follows:—July, 11s. ...

    Article : 60 words
  53. ITALY.

    An Italian official report says:—"After an intense artillery duel we made considerable progress on the slopes of Monte Cucco and the hills to the east of Gorizia and ...

    Article : 80 words
  54. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 69 words
  55. HAMBURG LOOKS AHEAD.

    The Senate of the State and Free City of Hamburg has appointed a committee to consider the question of rebuilding the city's trade, and also shipbuilding after the ...

    Article : 63 words
  56. LUXURIES REGULATION BOARD.

    The Luxuries Regulation Board will be appointed to-morrow. It will consist of five members. Mr. N. C. Lockyer, of the Interstate Commission, will be chairman, ...

    Article : 61 words
  57. THE MISSION TO RUSSIA.

    Senator Root had an important conference with President Wilson and others on Monday. The mission to Russia will have almost plenary powers, as the officials are ...

    Article : 47 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$