Capt. A. S. Blackburn, of the 10th Battalion (South Australia), whose receipt of the Victoria Cross was the subject of a paragraph in The Register on Monday, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 658 wordsThe British on the western front have added the village of Ginchy to their captures, and their advance for the past week has totalled a depth of 300 to 3,000 yards along a front of nearly four miles. The Germans have been unable to wrest from the French the gain of the latter near Fleury in ...
Article : 198 wordsThat members of the Adelaide City Council have kept a watchful eye on the Townplanning Bill now before Parliament was made obvious during the deliberations at ...
Article : 1,290 words"The position Is that no fewer than [?]2,500 men must be enlisted In September, or a proclamation, calling upon men under the Defence Act, will be ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Times correspondent at Roumanian headquarters says that the Roumanians' advance in the Carpathian Range has been most satisfactory. The mountains are ...
Article : 114 wordsOn Monday evening a public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Port Adelaide (Mr. J. Sweeney), in response to a requisition, was held in the local town hall, to ...
Article : 1,761 wordsThe Russians, in a half circle, are surrounding,Halicz, which they continue to bombard. The capture of Halicz Will menace the flank of the enemy's Gnila ...
Article : 256 wordsThe French Sunday communique says that Bulgars to the east of Vetrenik have evacuated many trenches and abandozed war material. ...
Article : 121 wordsA peculiar position in connection with the approaching referendum on the conscription question has arisen with regard to the residents of the Northern Territory ...
Article : 122 wordsGen. Sir Douglas Haig, in his Sunday noon report, says:—During the heavy fighting in the past week we have advanced along a front of 6,000 yards to a depth ...
Article : 482 wordsThe French night communique on Sunday says:—The Germans south of the Somme twice attacked to the south-west of Berny, but they met with a complete ...
Article : 117 wordsA romantic discovery has been made in connection with the war in Russia. A "soldier" wounded in the battle in Volhynia, who is now in the Kharkoff ...
Article : 114 wordsA Berlin message says:—A German enemy submarine shelled the town and harbour works at the Roumanian port of Mangalia, and several hydroplanes dropped ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Russians have stopped Count Czernin de Chudenitz (who was Austrian Ambassador at Bucharest) and 100 other Austrians, who were homeward bound, to ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Italian communique for Sunday records that the Austrians, after handgrenade preparation in the Dolj[?] and Tolmino sector, attempted to break through ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is reported that a large airship works near Frankfort has been burned, and that four uncompleted Zeppelins and 15 aeroplanes on it have been destroyed. ...
Article : 36 wordsInstructions have been issued that all members of the Australian Imperial Force in Australia, and those who may be enlisted in the Citizen Forces under part 4 of ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Austrian Foreign Minister (Baron Burian), in an interview with an American press representative at Vienna, said:—"I admit that Austria-Hungary would hail ...
Article : 256 wordsIn the Verdun area, by a brilliant action, east of Fleury, the French curtain of fire by machine guns checked an attack against their new positions to ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Alfred Noyes, in the latest of his special articles, describes a visit he paid to the battle cruisers which engaged in the Jutland fight. He says:—The first ship ...
Article : 324 wordsThe date of "Repatriation Day" has been changed from October 27 to December 15. This action has been taken in view of the fact that the energies of the war councils ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the German casualties reported for August were 240,957. including 42,732 killed, 153,551 wounded, and 44,674 prisoners or ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Queensland Parliamentary Labour Party has decided to oppose the proposal for the introduction of conscription. It was fairly obvious from the public ...
Article : 155 wordsAn official message says that naval aeroplanes on Saturday afternoon dropped bombs on a German rail siding and ammunition dump at Lichtervelde in Belgium, and ...
Article : 38 wordsA wireless message announces tie adjournment of the Hungarian Parliament until September 28, on which date the Berlin Reichstag will also reassemble. The ...
Article : 118 wordsThe British Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) has just completed a tour of inspection of the River Somme battle area, where he made close enquiries into the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe ceremony of blessing the air has been carried out for the first time at Replatin, on the French Atlantic coast. The idea of placing the aviators under the ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent at the British headquarters in France, writes:—The Irish troops' charge through Guillemont on Sunday, September 3; was ...
Article : 346 wordsme [?]rame Minister (Mr. Hughes) has telegraphed to the Mayor (Mr. Driscoll) expressing regret at his inability to visit Broken Hill at present. ...
Article : 32 wordsA Presbyterian missionary in Northern Arabia, in a despatch just received, describes the awful sufferings of the Armenians at Meskene. He says:—"I saw ...
Article : 170 wordsWhen asked what members of Parliament proposed to do in connection with the coming referendum on compulsory service, the Premier (Hon. C. Vaughan) on ...
Article : 64 wordsArmed men yesterday entered the courtyard of the French Legation at Athens while the Entente Ministers were in conference. They fired six pistol shots, cried ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Paris correspondent of The Daily Chronicle says:—M. Ribot (French Minister of Finance) will present his Budget on Tuesday, and his speech will ...
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Advertising : 857 wordsJudgment was delivered to-day by Mr. Justice Heydon in the State Industrial Court on an application by the Professional Officers' Association for a Wages Board ...
Article : 124 wordsThe report of the general purposes committee stated that the Mayor (Mr. I. Isaacs) in his remarks drew attention to the drastic conditions in the ...
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Advertising : 157 wordsThe South Wales railwaymen, at a meeting at Cardiff, have unanimously decided that unless 10/ a week advance on their wages is conceded they will strike at ...
Article : 71 wordsM. Ribot, in a press interview, says:—The French Government has determined to introduce an income tax to help in defraying the war expenditure. Thanks to ...
Article : 163 wordsThe report that Mr. J. W. Hills, Unionist member for Caermarthenshire in the House of Commons, had been killed at the war is incorrect. It was one of his ...
Article : 138 wordsThe French communique at noon on Sunday stated:—Many strong German attacks were made last night at various points to the south of the Somme. Attacks ...
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