All the public buildings and 3500 house have been burned at Yonezaw. SYDNEY, Thursday. EMPIRE DAY. ...
Article : 267 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports:—The Germans last night heavily bombarded the neighbourhood of Bullecourt, and we replied vigorously. We successfully raided south-eastward of Gavrelle, ...
Article : 43 wordsA most enjoyable time was spent in the Assembly Hall on Thursday evening last, when the girl friends of Mrs. A. V. Cain assembled to celebrate her 21st birthday. Mr. W. Jewell ...
Article : 219 wordsLondon, May 23.—Sir Douglas Haig, reporting late on Tuesday night, stated:—We successfully raided trenches cast of Vermelles. There is nothing to report on the rest of the front. ...
Article : 440 wordsA voluntary church parade of local military units was held last evening in honour of Empire Day. The A.L.H. Company, was in charge. of Lieut. Chisholm, and the band was under ...
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Advertising : 731 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "New York Sun" reports that peace proposals have been made secretly by the Central Powers through neutral diplomats in Switzerland. The Teuton ...
Article : 549 wordsA French communique states,—Yesterday. afternoon we mod e a lively attack on, three points on the front of Vauclerc and the California Plateau with good results. We continued ...
Article : 98 wordsThere was no public demonstration at South Goulburn. At 9.30 the children fell in near the staff and the flag was hoisted, the scholars saluting the Union Jack and singing the ...
Article : 76 wordsGlen Innes, Tuesday.—During a trial at the local Quarter Sessions, it was stated that two witnesses, wives of soldiers, had been married only one day before their husbands sailed. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 269 wordsA German official message states:—We repulsed several English advances on Halluch and Bullecourt. Strong French attacks in the afternoon and evening on Laville aux Bois ...
Article : 49 wordsA special meeting of the Board of Management of the Goulburn District, Hospital was held on Tuesday night to appoint a matron to succeed Nurse Marsden, who recently resigned. ...
Article : 68 wordsAn Italian official message says:—There was most severe fighting on Monday night in the Travignolo Valley. The enemy penetrated our positions at Piccolo and Coldricon, but ...
Article : 43 wordsOn May 23rd, at her husband's residence, "Glendore cottage," Lowers Boro, there passed away a very old and highly-respected resident of the district, Mrs. Mary Ellen Sturgis, wife of ...
Article : 123 wordsLondon, May 23.—The French Premier, M. Ribot, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, announced that he had received a telegram from the Russian Government expressing the ...
Article : 582 wordsMr. Hudson Maxim, a relative of the late Sir Hiram Maxim, announces an invention which when placed around a ship causes torpedoes to explode harmlessly. It can be applied cheaply ...
Article : 58 wordsFollowers of the turf are reminded that the Highland Society and Burns Club will hold a meeting on the Goulburn racecourse to-morrow (Friday) and Saturday afternoons. As there are ...
Article : 43 wordsWord was received in Goulburn on Wednesday that Pte. Frank Cullen, brother of Mrs. Robert Douglas, of Goulburn, had been killed in action in France. Pte. Cullen left Australia ...
Article : 713 wordsTo-night the 14th episode of "The Crimson Stain Mystery," entitled "The Bloodhounds," will be screened at the Lyric. In this particular instalment is witnessed a supreme and ...
Article : 111 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, the well-known French military authority, has received from a well informed Russian source indication of an active and early Russian co-operation in a general. ...
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Family Notices : 327 wordsPte. S. Rawcliffe, writing from Salisbury Plain, 17th April, says:—I am going on nicely. Still on the Plain—in the food supply store of the 5th Training Battalion. Not many ...
Article : 518 wordsSome handsome donations to the Red Triangle Day Fund of the citizens' committee of the Y.M.C.A. were reported on Wednesday from different parts of the State. Among the ...
Article : 724 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent states that the Belgian Minister, M. Van der Velde, interviewed by Russian journalists at Petrograd, declared that peace on the basis of the status quo. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons Mr. Macpherson (Under-Secretary to the War Office) stated:—We are in close touch with the Turkish main position at Gaza, which has been ...
Article : 110 wordsFrom the High School building patriotic flags were flown. One of the staff, Mr. Potter, B.A., gave an instructive address to the pupils on "The present state of the War." Mr. Blumer, ...
Article : 60 wordsDear Sam,—Re Crossings: On reading your budget in last Saturday's Penny Post I noticed that you entertain hopes of making a punch some of these days by falling into, or across ...
Article : 286 wordsEmpire Day was observed at the Bourke-street Public School, where speeches were delivered and a vocal programme was submitted. The senior classes were assembled in one room. ...
Article : 761 wordsNorway has lost during the war merchantmen of a tonnage of 740,000, which is a third of the entire mercantile fleet. ...
Article : 27 wordsLondon, May 23—An Austrian attack, described by one correspondent as "one of the fiercest of the whole war," was launched in a section of the Trentino front on Monday. Its ...
Article : 317 wordsThe King has received the American Medical Unit at Buckingham Palace. ...
Article : 17 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that an explosion in munition works at Aldersdorf, near Berlin, did much damage, and many persons were injured. ...
Article : 26 wordsChapter seven of "The Secret Kingdom," entitled "The Ghost Ship," reveals the thrilling moments that ensue on board the yacht conveying the Princess Julia back to the kingdom ...
Article : 162 wordsReuter's Jassy correspondent states that at a meeting of the Chamber M. Bratiano, the President, urged principles of universal suffrage and the expropriation of land in favour ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsOn Wednesday night at the Catholic Club the literary session was opened with a debate on the question—"Is Imperial Federation in the best interests of Australia?" The ...
Article : 192 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent states that the executive delegates are appealing to Socialists everywhere, especially in Austria, to do their utmost to prevent the execution of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 words"Where's my Wife" is the title of the musical comedy to be produced et Clay's Majestic on Friday and Saturday next. Quite a number of now faces are advertised. Edith ...
Article : 132 wordsReuter's Ottawa correspondent slates that there was a rush to join the colours at Ontario in anticipation of compulsion. The Government's announcement on the method of ...
Article : 67 wordsOn our fourth page appears a paragraph, taken from the Braidwood Dispatch, reporting an accident to Mrs. Creagan, of Jembaicunbene. We have been informed that there is not the ...
Article : 59 wordsNew York. May 22.—A public statement [?] been made by President Wilson, who rebukes an attempt to becloud the issue before the United States. He says:—There is no hate in ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Thu 24 May 1917, Page 2
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