Two Italian torpedo-boats at dawn on June 10, near the Dalmatian Isles, attacked an Austrian naval division, consisting of two battleships of the Viribus Unitis type, 20,000 tons ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. F. Bryant, hon. treasurer of the Australian Air Squadrons Fund, writes that Mr. Frederick Campbell, of Red Hill, Tumut, N.S.W., in response to Mr. C. Alma Baker's appeal to ...
Article : 78 wordsFighting occurred in the vicinity of Rostoff between the Bolcheviks and the Germans, resulting in the latter occupying Batavsk. M. Tchiteherin (Bolchevik Foreign Minister) ...
Article : 390 wordsA batch of wounded and sick soldiers returned to Sydney on June 13. They came by special trains from Melbourne, and were given an enthusiastic reception. ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Australian Women's Service Corps, which was formed in November, 1916, has a great amount of good work to its credit. Immediately after its formation, the corps offered its ...
Article : 532 wordsViolet Day was celebrated in Sydney on June 14, when collections were made on behalf of the Soldiers' Club in George-street, Sydney. An army of ladies made collections in the ...
Article : 63 wordsForty Australian soldiers, who were tired of waiting aboard a transport lying at New York, dashed ashore with the idea of seeing the sights of Broadway. On their return to the ship they ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is reported from Tokio that the Entente Governments are urging Japanese intervention in Russia. A Japanese Council meeting was held on the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated last week that the enlistments in the A.I.F. up to April 30, 1918, totalled 396,487, and that the embarkations numbered 316,533. ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is announced that the steamer Kyarra, 6952 tons, has been torpedoed and sunk. For some years before the war the Kyarra was one of the largest of the A.U.S.N. ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. A. G. F. James), on June 15 performed the ceremony of unveiling the Honor Roll at the Ashfield Superior Public School. There was a very ...
Article : 75 wordsThe American steamer Pinar del Rio, 2504 tons, was sunk by a submarine 75 miles off the American coast. The crew were all saved. Two submarines chased an American ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 454 wordsOn April 23 last British naval forces made an attack on the German positions at Zeebrugge and Ostend, with the object of closing up those places to enemy submarines. The old British cruiser Vindictive steamed up to the Zeebrugge Mole and landed storming parties. She was the target for all the German guns in the neighborhood, and these pictures show her scarred condition after she left Zeebrugge. Five obsolete cruisers filled with cement were sunk in the channel, thus blocking up the harbor. On May 9 a raid was made on Ostend and the Vindictive, which had been filled with concrete, was driven across the entrance to the harbor and sunk. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Wed 19 Jun 1918, Page 15
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