It is stated that the Hindenburg line has been penetrated at Bullecourt. NEW BRITISH THRUST. ...
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Advertising : 1,048 wordsDuring the week no fewer than seven soldiers connected with Goulburn were reported as killed in action. ...
Article : 27 wordsAn Odessa telegram says that a great mass meeting of peasants is announced to assemble there at the end of May, which will probably be of immense importance to Russia's future. ...
Article : 191 wordsLondon, May 3.—M. Marcel Hutin, the French war critic, states that between April 16 and 36 the British and French forces captured:—40,693 prisoners, 437 heavy guns. 346 trench mortars, ...
Article : 81 wordsThe German newspaper, 'Berliner Tageblatt. says that Herr Cohen, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, has proposed a committee to consider Germany's military leadership. ...
Article : 49 wordsBelgian slave-raiding has re-started in the region of Mons on a large scale. It chiefly affects young men of military age. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. M. Power, fruiterer, of Auburn-street, on Thursday received official advice that his brother, Pte. James Power, was killed in France on April 24. Deceased, who was a son of Mrs. Power, of ...
Article : 78 wordsLondon, May 3.—An official message from General Stanley Maude, commander of the British forces in Mesopotamia, announces—On Monday we attacked the 13th Turkish Army Corps, ...
Article : 98 wordsThere is further evidence of the European food shortage. Norway is preparing to introduce rationing, and Sweden has prohibited the export of various foodstuffs, including pork, ...
Article : 41 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting late on Wednesday night, stated:—We drove off a raid north of Arleux-en-Gohelle. Reciprocal fire is active north of the Scarpe and in the ...
Article : 58 wordsWord reached Goulburn on Thursday that Private Frank B. Reynolds, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reynolds, of Lake Bathurst, had been killed in action in France. No ...
Article : 133 wordsA French official report issued at midnight on Wednesday stated: On both sides the artillery has been active, particularly north-west of Reims and in the Champagne. A well-conducted ...
Article : 66 wordsSpeaking in the House of Lords the Archbishop of Canterbury. strongly protested against the policy of reprisals, including the bombing of the German town of Freiburg, as ...
Article : 161 wordsA Stockholm message says that Mr. Branting and other leading Socialists headed the greatest demonstration ever known in Scandinavia. Speeches were delivered and banners were ...
Article : 51 wordsReuter's Rio de Janeiro correspondent states that the Foreign Minister has resigned. The Government has ordered the retention of the ex-German Minister, Herr Pauli, owing to ...
Article : 43 wordsLondon, May 3.—The resolutions of the Imperial War Conference mark a striking advance in the development of the Imperial system. They declare for a new and far-reaching ...
Article : 1,190 wordsLondon, May 3—In his Budget speech, Mr. Bonar Law said that thus far £4,318,000,000 had been spent on the war, of which £1,137,000,000 had come out of revenue. The estimated ...
Article : 102 wordsReuter's correspondent with headquarters, telegraphing on 3rd May, states:—A new British thrust was made just before dawn. It is not permissible to discuss the scheme of ...
Article : 213 wordsPte. J. H. Jamieson, son of Mr. Gilbert Jamieson, a farmer of Junee, and a brother of Mr. M[?]t. Jamieson, who is employed in the time-keeping branch at the Goulburn loco. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Buenos Ayres (Argentine) Government has received a Note from Germany expressing regret at the sinking of the Monte Protegited as she left Pernambuco. The attacker was ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the British steamship Gena, 2784 tons, was sunk on Tuesday by a torpedo discharged from a German seaplane off Aldeburgh (Suffolk). All on ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Press Bureau says that the Chilian Legation in London denies the "Revista's" allegation that a secret treaty exists between Germany and Chili, and adds—"Treaties are ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Times Odessa correspondent states that educated opinion favours either the project of a constitutional monarchy or the establishment of a Federal Democratic Republic. The idea ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. R. H. Roberts, of Windellama, has been advised that it is officially reported that his son, No. 2468, Pte. Horace Victor Roberts, was killed in action in France on 21st April. The ...
Article : 87 wordsReplying in the House of Commons to Mr. Ronald O'Neill, Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that as a result of Mr. Pratten's report, the N.S.W. ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court on Thursday before Mr. Smithers, S.M., Arthur John Leggo (46) was charged with stealing £14,000, the property of the Commissioners of the Government ...
Article : 635 wordsMrs. Gorrie, "Ardgowan," Goulburn, has received a notification from the Base Records Office at Melbourne that her eldest son, Sapper J. H. Hubbard, was on April 19th admitted ...
Article : 69 wordsIs a "toshy" book that is read by many not more useful than a good book that is read by nobody?—Mr. Silas Hocking. ...
Article : 28 wordsLord Hawke, speaking at a Marylebone meeting, said that so many famous Australian cricketers were on active service that there was an idea that, instead of England sending a ...
Article : 49 wordsHospital Day was ushered in with unsettled, showery weather. Over 5000 collectors are distributed in different parts of the city and suburbs. At 11 o'clock, when the first tally was ...
Article : 74 wordsA French communique states:—There have been artillery activity and patrol encounters throughout the region of Chemin-de[?]-Dames. We repulsed enemy raids in a wood west of ...
Article : 111 wordsThis is a time of great complexity, an age of apparent disintegration rather than of construction. These apparently disintegrating periods of history are necessary, for there is ...
Article : 50 wordsSergt. Jack Greenwell, brother of Mr. Herb. Greenwell, Goulburn, is on his way to Australia in a hospital ship, and will arrive shortly, having been invalided home. It is nearly two ...
Article : 65 wordsThe troops who were on the Australian transport Ballarat, torpedoed and sunk in the Channel, came from all parts of the Commonwealth. They regard the sinking as a most trivial ...
Article : 566 wordsIt is bluff and hearty to maunder over a dying rose, but sheer weakness to do it over a dead human being.—Mr. A. St. John Adcock. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Justice Gordon to-day made a decree nisi in terms of yesterday's verdict in the Cornish divorce suit and ordered the co-respondents, Smith and Macartney, to pay the amounts ...
Article : 168 wordsMr. Bill Lewis, an employee of the firm of W. H. Wheatley, and who is well known and esteemed by people who have come in contact with him at the municipal sale yards and ...
Article : 146 wordsTradition is only a symptom of deep-seated underlying instincts which will assert themselves so long as the race is vital.—Mr. Reginald Blomfield. ...
Article : 29 wordsA German official message states:—New English attacks on a wide front commenced after the recent artillery fire on both banks of the Scarpe. The enemy has lost eight aeroplanes ...
Article : 63 wordsThere will arise—they are shaping themselves even now—risks to be met as cruel as any that Hudson or Scott faced; dreams as world-wide as Columbus or Cecil Rhodes dreamed, to ...
Article : 104 wordsThe British transport Arcadian, carrying troops, was torpedoed in the Eastern Mediterranean on 15th April, and sank in five minutes; 279 are missing, and are presumed to be ...
Article : 40 wordsAfter completing his work last Sunday, Mr. James Quaine, the governor of Parramatta Gaol, went out for a walk and did not return. Mr. Quaine went about his duties as usual on Sunday, ...
Article : 185 wordsThe reason why a man really loves his garden is because he likes to be extremely dirty.—Mr. Charles Garvice. ...
Article : 27 wordsLibraries and bookshops are not institutions for the distribution, but for the limitation, of books.—Charles Marriott. ...
Article : 20 wordsDuring the present week there have been negotiations in Sydney concerning export of potatoes to England. At present the matter is only in its infancy, but a first shipment from ...
Article : 92 wordsWhen we are dealing with great communal interests a reporter may be the apostolic succession.—Mr. M. T. Forbes. ...
Article : 23 wordsA Russian official message states:—We repulsed an attack on a height 10 miles south-west of Ognot (Armenia), and defeated Turkish attempts to advance south-westward of ...
Article : 71 wordsTwo things are essential to the success of agriculture—capital and brains. It makes me boil with anger when politicians talk as if no capacity was required on the part of the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe mice plague throughout Victoria is playing havoc amongst all lines of fodder and grain. These pests are making it extremely difficult to secure oats in the country, hence the restricted ...
Article : 83 wordsThe desire for better housing accommodation has grown rapidly, and if more time were given to it and less to football there is no reason why the domestic and social conditions of the ...
Article : 46 wordsIn connection with the mice plague which is doing so much damage and causing such discomfort, particularly in the southern country districts, a report reached Sydney on Thursday ...
Article : 160 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that demands for an indemnity are being re-raised in Germany. The newspapers published an appeal for "a German peace," signed by numerous ...
Article : 75 wordsThe working men are thinking much more of the stomach than of the soul. I think it is high time to tell the working man that he should have a stronger sense of his duties, not ...
Article : 53 wordsOn Wednesday last Messrs. Wood and Co. sold a fat lamb donated by Mr. P. E. Shiel, of "Jersey Park," Inveralochy, on behalf of the War Chest Fund. The sum of £12 15/ was realised. ...
Article : 457 wordsThe monthly meeting of the committee was held on Thursday evening, the president (Mr. P. J. Meyer) in the chair. The hon. treasurer reported a debit balance of £239 14/6. Accounts ...
Article : 56 wordsFree criticism of judges' verdicts has made the English Bench what it is.—Mr. Justice Darling. ...
Article : 18 wordsLondon, May 3.—The "Berliner Tageblatt" says Germany demands a peace which will protect her economic interests abroad, whether in Antwerp, Yokohama, or Sydney. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsThere are perhaps only ten per cent. of bona fide working men who are tramping; the other ninety per cent. are very much in the category of the super-tramp, who loves to do everything ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Jewish Chronicle reliably learns that many thousands of Jews in Palestine are starving without the possibility of obtaining food and homes. Moreover, the Turkish Government ...
Article : 86 wordsWord was received in Queanbeyan on Wednesday night by Rev. Mr. Finlayson that Sergt. E. F. Mayo, youngest son of Mrs. J. Mayo, of Queanbeyan, was killed in action in France on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsAs a result of Mr. Lloyd-George's investigations in the Admiralty, drastic changes are proceeding. Sir John Jellicoe and the strategical experts will be freed from constructional ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 wordsNew York, May 2.—The well-informed Washington correspondent of the New York World says that Marshal Joffre and M. Viviani have convinced the United States Government of ...
Article : 106 wordsAt Thursday night's meeting of the committee of the Goulburn Mechanics' Institute the president (Mr. P. J. Meyer), on behalf of the members, extended his sympathy to Mr. A. ...
Article : 86 wordsM. Marcel Hutin states that things are shaping for a great offensive on the Italian front. The Austro-Germans are again throwing out feelers on the Carso-Asiago plateau. It is ...
Article : 53 wordsAttention is invited to an advertisement else-where, notifying minor alterations in the Crookwell well train service. ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Sat 5 May 1917, Page 4
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