The Austrian Socialist delegation to Stockholm has issued a statement asserting that the Austrians want peace without annexations and compensation. ...
Article : 271 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsIt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMrs. 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 wordsFarmers 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 wordsSenator 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 wordsA 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 wordsSpeaking 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 wordsCaptain 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 wordsLast 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsGeneral 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 wordsApropos 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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(Photo. by Central News, London.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Wed 6 Jun 1917, Page 14
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