A sensation was caused here by the news that two enemy mines were discovered at 6 p.m. yesterday by the steamer Emerald Wings, bound from Sydney to Port Pirie, when about ...
Article : 127 wordsFighting on Saturday became very heavy opposite the head of the Australian advance. Here, at a point about 12 miles from our old lines before Villers-Bretonneux, is an ...
Article : 1,004 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly meets this afternoon it is cortain that members on each side of the House will interrogate Ministers upon the meat position. Some very ...
Article : 244 wordsAccording to a Paris message, the Press estimates the total number of prisoners captured in this offensive to be 40,000, while 700 guns have been taken. ...
Article : 39 wordsThere is no confirmation of the rumoured declaration of war against Japan by the Bolsheviks. The Washington correspondent of the "New ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Allies have taken 36,000 prisoners, including over 1000 officers, and more than 500 guns in the present offensive. The French have made considerable progress south ...
Article : 126 wordsThe British have captured the western edge of Bray-sur-Somme. ...
Article : 12 wordsThe principal speaker at the recruiting meeting in Martin-place yesterday was Mr. William Elliot Johnson. M.P., Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives. ...
Article : 205 wordsIt is reported that Roye has been cvacuated. ...
Article : 10 wordsThe Stuttgart "Neus Tageblatt" has published an official note preparing the German public for considerable evacuation of territory between the Avre and the Somme. ...
Article : 31 wordsNo reply has yet been received by the secretary of the Master Butchers' Association to the urgent telegram sent on Friday morning to the Acting Prime Minister on the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe German long-range gun bombarding Paris is under Allied artillery fire. ...
Article : 17 wordsSir Donglas Haig in his final report on Sunday night stated: Fresh enemy divisions from the reserve this morning strongly attacked our positions at Lihons, and ...
Article : 478 wordsAccording to an Amsterdam message, three German Generals commanding Montdidler have been enshiored for neglect. A large number of soldiers have been ...
Article : 53 wordsA statutory rule has been gazetted under which the Director of Munitions will take over the collection and distribution of all secondhand empty kerosene, petrol, and turpentine ...
Article : 531 wordsAt Homebush yesterday the supply of sheep and lambs was about two-thirds of normal, and of cattle about half. As was to be expected, prices were ruinously high for buyers. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe enemy casualties are reliably estimated at 100,000. The report of the capture of Chaulnes Junction is not confirmed. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Air Ministry reports: Our squadrons on Sunday morning attacked the railway station at Karlsruhe and one aerodrome. Clouds hindered observation, but a large bomb was ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Watt, declined to-day to receive a deputation of butchers who sought to state their case against the fixed prices of meat. About 750 ...
Article : 221 wordsA German airship has been brought down in flames north of Ameland. ...
Article : 15 wordsA survivor of the torpedoed hospital ship Warilda states the captain behaved heroically, and wont down with his ship. All those in the ward which the torpedo demolished were ...
Article : 105 wordsA Washington report says it is announced that a U boat, operating off the Massachusetts coast, sank nine fishing schooners. It is not known whether there was any loss of ...
Article : 94 wordsOn Friday, the second day of the great attack south of the Somme, the Australians advanced their line from the furthest point reached on the first day another five miles on ...
Article : 898 wordsThe "Dally Express" says it has been decided to arrest Litvinoff, the Bolshevik representative in London, unless "Mr. R. Lockhart, British Agent in Moscow, who was arrested. ...
Article : 77 wordsAn Australian Press Association report on Sunday stated: The Allies are progressing splendidly on the whole of the front between south of Arras and tho Oise. ...
Article : 778 wordsAn Amsterdam message says it is se[?]officially stated in Berlin that the German Government's ratification of the Anglo-German agreement' respecting prisoners of war ...
Article : 44 wordsThe New South Wales Trade Union Congress concluded its deliberations last night. A portion of last night's sitting was taken up with the further consideration of the ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Massey (Premier of New Zealand). speaking at the Y.M.C.A., said he believed a victory was now certain which would result in permanent peace. It would be the Allies' ...
Article : 93 wordsLieutenant H. S. Richards, of the Essex Regiment, attached to the Royal Air Force, a New Zealand Rhodes scholar, was accidentally killed while flying ...
Article : 27 wordsThe commission of inquiry appointed to investigate the necessities consistent with economy and efficiency of the military staff engaged on home service in Australia, and to ...
Article : 105 wordsAccording to a Zurich message, M. Constantinescu, a member of the old Roumanian Ministry, has been arrested at Jassy, and accused of secretly printing anti-German ...
Article : 31 wordsA Paris message states that M. Malvy has gone into exile at San Sebastian, in Spain. Writing to the President of the Chamber of Deputies he says: I obeyed your decision in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe death in Queensland recently of Mrs. Donald Chas. Cameron, in her 99th year, removed one of the few surviving members of the party which comprised the pioneers of ...
Article : 587 wordsWhat are supposed to be the remains of the missing man Joel were found in the bush about a mile, from Lawson by Mr. R. Field, night officer at the railway ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Empire Resources Development Committee suggests that large areas of the tropical zone in North Queensland should be put under the cultivation of rubber, cotton, tobacco, and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Lord Mayor, Alderman J. Joynton Smith, has decided to convene a public meeting, to be held at the Town Hall one day next week, for the purpose of officially ...
Article : 112 wordsIt is announced from Washington that General Pershiag has cabled to the War Department that the French Government hns adopted elaborate plans for the improvement ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Minister for Public Works yesterday inspected, at the Central Railway Station, the work of raising the building two storeys over its entire frontage, and expressed satisfaction ...
Article : 106 wordsAt a crowded meeting in the Town Hall last night a resolution was carried expressing disapproval of the commission which the Government intends to appoint to inquire into the ...
Article : 234 wordsAn inquiry was held yesterday by the Acting City Coroner concerning the death of Arthur Smith, 14, who collapsed and died in a bath at his home, in Gardeners-road, Mascot, ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Gordon Gilmour (correspondent of the Australian and New Zealand Fress Association), telegraphing from the Australian headquarters on Friday, stated: The Germans have ...
Article : 656 wordsRecently the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation forwarded a claim to all the employers in the coal, shale, and coke industry in the States of New South Wales, ...
Article : 325 wordsThe following official wireless news has been received by the American Consul-General in Sydney:— The Shipping Board has announced that ...
Article : 221 wordsReferring to-day to the Commonwealth loan of £4,750,000, which is being raised in London, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) said that this loan was floated by ...
Article : 94 wordsDuring the week-end a further number of applications for membership of the King's Men organisation were received at headquarters, 28 Castlereagh-street, city, and the ...
Article : 97 wordsJudge Johnston, the senior Judge of the County Court of Victoria, has died suddenly. He was the son of the late Mr. J. S. Johnston, formerly manager of the "Argus." His only ...
Article : 51 wordsThe returning soldiers whose names were published in list "O" are expected to disembark at Port Melbourne on Thursday morning. Those include 78 New South Wales men ...
Article : 49 wordsIn a letter of congratulations to Lieutenant-Colonel Murphy, D.S.O., of Buthurst, in connection with his becoming a C.M.G., General Birdwood stated:—"I know so well how ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Water Power Committee, in its preliminary report, finds that, excepting Canada and New Zealand, also to a lesser extent New South Wales and Tasmania, no systematic ...
Article : 59 wordsThe schooner May Howard, three weeks out from Wellington for Dunedin, has been forced to shelter at Kaikoura. She was damaged by heavy weather, is leaking, and is unfit to ...
Article : 39 wordsMembers of the Australian Press Delegation who arrived in London on Sunday, are staying at the Waldorf Hotel. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 13 Aug 1918, Page 7
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