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  2. The Stockholm Conference.

    The Austrian Socialist delegation to Stockholm has issued a statement asserting that the Austrians want peace without annexations and compensation. ...

    Article : 271 words
  3. Total Returned Soldiers.

    The Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, has made available a return, which shows that up to April 30 last, 1355 officers and 24,949 other ranks of the Australian Imperial Force, had ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 125 words
  4. War Chest Balance-sheet.

    The War Chest balance-sheet for the quarter ended May 17, 1917, appears in the advertising columns. From all sources income has been £150,176 1s 9d, and the principal ...

    Article : 74 words
  5. Pan-German League

    It is reported from Amsterdam that the correspondent of the "Deutsche" publishes a symposium of the Pan-German League's views of peace terms. ...

    Article : 181 words
  6. Returned Soldiers' Conference.

    The interstate conference of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League of Australia, sitting in Melbourne, resolved to request the Federal Government to take ...

    Article : 177 words
  7. Enrolling Offices.

    The State Recruiting Committee has recently received numbers of letters from men residing in the suburbs, asking where the nearest enrolling office to their homes was. The ...

    Article : 111 words
  8. Closing Hotels at Ports.

    The Defence Department has issued instructions to the District Commandants of the various States to order the closing at Australian ports of licensed premises for the sale of ...

    Article : 139 words
  9. Australian Forces.

    Mrs. Mitchell, of Dubbo, who is 82 years of age, and has been unable to leave her house for the last three years, is an enthusiastic worker for the War Chest. She has made 417 ...

    Article : 56 words
  10. Farmers Help.

    Farmers turned up in force at Hughstonia, near Yass, on June 2 with ploughs and implements, for cultivating and seeding 200 acres of land which had been ...

    Article : 148 words
  11. Defence Department Officers.

    Senator Pearce, Minister for Defence, stated last week that out of 709 officers employed in the central administration (Defence Department) only 52 were debarred from enlisting. ...

    Article : 107 words
  12. Mentioned in Despatches.

    A continuation of Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's despatch of April 9 mentions a number, of Australians. They include 60 members of the Australian Staff, 71 artillerymen, 38 engineers, ...

    Article : 57 words
  13. The First Division.

    Speaking from the Melbourne Town Hall steps to a crowded recruiting meeting last week Senator Pearce urged that the men of the First Division, of whom 5000 still were on ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. A Recruiting Train.

    Captain Coates, the organising secretary of the State Recruiting Committee, states that the recruiting committees in the electorate of Warriwa, have arranged for a recruiting train ...

    Article : 221 words
  15. The Patriotic Fund.

    Last week the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund paid out £1018 to 290 applicants, which constitutes a record for the fund. Ordinary applications numbered 202, of which 139 were ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. Air Squadron Fund.

    The total amount subscribed to the Australian Air Squadron Fund is £50,520 13s 8d. This amount includes £48,645 2s, the cost of 18 battleplanes presented to the War Office. The ...

    Article : 58 words
  17. Savings Certificates Issued.

    A return has been issued by the Federal Treasury showing that during two months £348,939 has been invested by the public in war savings certificates. The numbers of the respective ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. Message from General Birdwood.

    General Birdwood sends the following message to Australia through a correspondent who interviewed him on the western front: -- "It gives me supreme pleasure to send a few ...

    Article : 122 words
  19. German Savagery.

    Apropos of the despatch of Mr. C. E. W. Bean, official Press representative with the Australian Imperial Forces, concerning the brutal treatment of Australian prisoners in ...

    Article : 168 words
  20. The Total Casualties.

    The Secretary for Defence (Mr. Trumble) states that from the beginning of the war until May 21, 1917, the Australian casualties for all ranks were: -- ...

    Article : 55 words
  21. The Fight at Gaza.

    The following interesting letter has been received by a Chatswood resident from Trooper William Martin, who left Sydney for the front during 1915, and is now attached to a machine ...

    Article : 483 words
  22. War Chest Art Union.

    The hon. secretary of the Citizens' War Chest Fund advises that the art union in aid of the fund will close in three weeks. During the next fortnight the prizes will be on ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. Soldiers' Sock Fund.

    The committee of the Soldiers' Sock Fund has forwarded 715 pairs of socks to the War Chest in response to the appeal for 100,000 pairs. These socks were of the highest grade. The ...

    Article : 75 words
  24. School Roll of Honor.

    A roll of honor was unveiled by the Minister for Defence on June 2 at Gordon Public School, in recognition of the services to the Empire of former scholars of the school. ...

    Article : 84 words
  25. Explosion in a house in France set on fire by the Germans.

    (Photo. by Central News, London.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
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