Chief interest in the Federal slections now centres on the soldiers' vote particulars of which are expected to reach Australia on Thursday next. It ...
Article : 194 wordsLondon, Sunday.—The Press Bureau has issued the following official statement:— A secret session of the House of ...
Article : 652 wordsMr Philip Gibbs reports:—Friday's gains at Roeux and Cavalry Farm include the ruins which changed hands five times. Therefore our men await ...
Article : 261 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his noon report of Sunday, says:-Patral encounters took place last night north-westward of St. Quentin and ...
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Family Notices : 43 wordsThe passengers from Singleton to Newcastle by the 9.30 a.m. race special on Saturday numbered 150. The ordinary morning passenger, train ...
Article : 57 wordsThe fat sheep exhibited at Saturday's Garden Fete was yesterday killed and dressed by Messrs A. Bailey and Sons. When weighed in the presence of the ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is not so many years ago since one of, our great generals described war corresondents as "the curse of the army," and those who have read of Dr. Russell's ...
Article : 548 wordsA French communique, issued at noon on Sunday, states:—Our artillery and rifle fire broke up violent enemy, attacks on the Craonne Plateau, north of Reims, ...
Article : 42 words"The Australian officers pay high tribute to the superb courage and selfsacrifice of the stretcher bearers. Unfortunately the Germans did not ...
Article : 155 wordsThe "Observer" says: "The Canadians will win back Fresnoy. They are now war hardened troops of the sternest military quality. The same can be ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Rev. C. N. Mell on Saturday evening received, a telegram from the Base Records Office conveying the sad news that Lance-Corporal R. D. Cox, ...
Article : 94 wordsLord Derby (Minister for War), speaking at Liverpool, defied anyone to. say that any nation had complete air supremacy. But without fear of ...
Article : 138 wordsNext to letters, newspapers from the "home town" are very much appreciated by the many Australian soldiers in hospital abroad. This is once more ...
Article : 198 wordsAn Admiralty report says: Portion of our Dover forces successfully carried out yesterday morning a very heavy bombardment of Zeebrugge. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent says:—Apart from damage to German ships, the defences suffer increasingly. ...
Article : 84 wordsFrench and English newspapers publish veiled announcements that the Allies during the past week have got a grip of the submarine situation, and can ...
Article : 276 wordsLondon, Sunday.—Captain Clive Durden, of the Australian Army Medical Corps, died from injuries received through beihg run over by a train at ...
Article : 86 wordsA wireless Russian official message says:—One of our giant Hiamurometz eroplanes unexplainedly fell 10,000 feet at Monasurjiska. The crew of ...
Article : 39 wordsA French communique Says:—-Relative calm prevails on the whole front; We maintained a destructive artillerying on the works and organisations of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe "Dagens Nyheter" (Stockholm) states that a Polish national conference is assembling at Stockholm, comprising many representatives of various ...
Article : 134 wordsWe have to record the passing of another of the old and respected residents of Singleton whoso lives formed most interesting links between the past and ...
Article : 346 wordsA wireless German official report states:—Great English attacks from Lens to Queant, between Gavrelle and The Scarpe, astride the Arras-Cambrat ...
Article : 112 wordsWilliam Keye, a labourer, aged 45 years, who, two months ago, was bitten on the knee by a pig on a station near Murrumburrah, died yesterday ...
Article : 44 wordsField-Marshal Haig's morning report says:—We repulsed two counter attacks upon our positions in the Hindenburg line eastward of Bullecourt. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe hearing of the defendants in the case wherein Mrs—Frances Egan, of Broken Hill, obtained £450 damages against the Broken Hill Amalgamated ...
Article : 70 wordsThe 295th and 296th lists of casualties sustained by Australian troops abroad were issued on Saturday. Of the 1809 names given 120 were killed in action ...
Article : 61 wordsSeveral hundred thousand iron crosses have been distributed to German troops, owing to the Kaiser empowering all army commanders to ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Coalmine Owners' and the Miners Federation conference has proved abortive. Owners offered conditions as follows, subject to the working ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Government has exhibited in the centres affected by the strikes a notice pointing out that a serious stoppage of munition work has occurred, when in ...
Article : 182 wordsTho "Humanites Zurich" states that a powerful infernal machine was discovered, in tho Kaiser's small family residence at Tiergarten. ...
Article : 117 wordsA report from Temora states that a woman 94 years of age was attacked by mice while asleep. So savagely did the mice bite her that blood flowed ...
Article : 94 wordsConcerning the Australians Mr. Philip Gibbs, the "Dally Chronicle's" war correspondent, writes:- "While our men were fighting north and south ...
Article : 244 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" protests against the iron crosses won being given to men behind the inkstand and other than those at the front Many ...
Article : 51 wordsAn Amsterdam message says:—The whole of the Berlin press has telegraphed to Herr von Bethmann Hollweg stating that, owing to shortage of paper ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the House of Representatives, the amendment which empowers President Wilson to raise 8O,OOO volunteers under the Army Bill will be considered on ...
Article : 41 wordsOne of the two casualty lists issued on Saturday contains the name of Pte A. S. Goodworth, of Singleton, who is reported as "ill and a prisoner of ...
Article : 37 wordsA great fire raged at the Imperial wharves, Wilhelmshafen for seven hours. The submarine building department is reported damaged. ...
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Singleton Argus (NSW : 1880 - 1954), Tue 15 May 1917, Page 2
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