We are fighting to-day because there is no alternative —we must fight or go under.—Mr. J. Cook, Minister for the Navy. The destiny of Australia will be shaped by the result ...
Article : 253 wordsA "Queensland Government Gazette Extraordinary," circulated in the streets of Brisbane to-night, in which the Premier (Mr. Ryan), under the heading of "To the Public of ...
Article : 2,493 wordsSir Douglas Haig, reporting at midday, states: We repulsed another counter-attack against the north-east corner of Bourlon Wood. The weather is wet and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association at the British Headquarters in France, telegraphs: Prince Rupprecht's position around Cambrai and Querat is ...
Article : 550 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent understands that the Allies are making a joint protest to the Russian people against the proposed truce, which is a ...
Article : 789 wordsAn Italian official communique states: Enemy masses re-attacked between the Brenta and the Piave on our left wing. An attack on Mount Pertica was promptly ...
Article : 295 wordsAn official report from Palestine states: General Allenby's advanced patrols were pressed back to the southern bank of the Nahr el Auja. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Iull which has followed the particularly fierce fighting on Bourlon Hill and in Bourlon village will not cause any great surprise. The British have much work to ...
Article : 290 wordsIt is announced that Tatiana Romanoff, second daughter of the ex-Czar, has escaped from Siberia, and is en route across the Pacific for New York. She intends to dance, ...
Article : 137 wordsThe War Council at Versailles will discuss a wide range of subjects, including the cooperation of the fleets of the Central South American countries with the Anglo-American ...
Article : 32 wordsThe civil war zone is extending. The southerners are maintaining their successes. Kansu Mahommedans have offered to support the Central authority by suppressing the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Italians have now withstood the massed attacks of the enemy in the mountains between the Brenta and the Piave long enough to encourage the belief that the enemy's chances ...
Article : 369 wordsVincent Roberts, a New Zealand trooper, aged 19, was charged at Lambeth with bigamy. The prosecution stated that he married Brenda Appleyard in 1916 at ...
Article : 69 wordsA Rome report says excitement has been caused by the arrests of ex-Deputy Cavalani, also the self-styled Marehesa Ricca, on charges of espionage. Documents of a serious ...
Article : 131 wordsThere is a strike of 50,000 engineers at Coventry in sympathy with earlier strikers protesting against the failure to recognise shop stewards. ...
Article : 26 words"Are these men who are fighting going to be relieved and given a chance of getting back to God's own country, or are they going to die at ...
Article : 654 wordsA Stockholm message says Scandinavian Jews have communicated to Britain the greatest satisfaction at the Government's noble decision to repatriate Jews in Palestine. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe American Shipping Board is confident that it will be able to meet Mr. Lloyd George's request for six million tons of shipping in January, 1919. Contracts have been let for ...
Article : 88 wordsAt the Tower Bridge Police Court two Australians, who were charged with Joseph Jones, a dock labourer, with sandbagging and murdering a Canadian private, made a long ...
Article : 44 wordsThe latest official message from Palestine suggests that the Turks have now partly recovered from the confusion into which the British successos at Beersheba and Gaza, and ...
Article : 434 wordsHuge crowds marked the opening of the Tank War Bond campaign in Trafalgar-square. Tanks, with guns acock, were converted into a bank for the sale of war bonds ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Herald" says the Navy Department is fully prepared to send a formidable force of marines to Tampico (Mexico) without delay ...
Article : 209 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law stated that the new army and navy increases in pay would amount to sixty-five millions in the first year and sixty-nine in the second ...
Article : 38 wordsThe House of Commons considered the report stage of the Representation of the People Bill. The House accepted Mr. Chapple's amendment, adopting the Western Australian ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs telegraphs: There is not the slightest doubt that the Germans will powerfully attempt to regain Bourion Wood to prevent us making untenable the railways ...
Article : 418 wordsThe following honours are announced:— Military Crosses.—Australians; Lieutenants H. T. Allen, F. N. Basedow, R. K. Blayley, L. W. Blake, F. T. Blenkarn, C. J. Bloomfield, A. ...
Article : 265 wordsSir John McCall, Agent-General for Tasmania, read a paper on land settlement within the Empire, before the Society of Arts, Mr. Walter Long (Colonial Secretary) presided. ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. De Valera announces, that if the Home Rule Convention furthers the irish cause in any way the Sinn Feiners will accept it as payment on account. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Defence Department to-day supplied particulars regarding the five Australians who, it was announced in this morning's cable messages, had been awarded the Victoria Cross:— ...
Article : 232 wordsThe case was continued in which Captain Yeates, who was a member of the New Zealand expeditionary force to Samoa, was charged with illegally wearing a uniform ...
Article : 138 words"Vote 'Yes' on December 20 and make Australia what it has always been in the past—the home of the brave and the land of the free." ...
Article : 1,126 wordsThe King has telegraphed as follows to Sir Douglas Haig:—"I congratulate you, General Byng, and the troops on the successful operations in the neighbourhood of Cambrai. ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the expiration of half the allotted period, the Victory Loan of £30,000,000 has been oversubscribed. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Balfour, in the House of Commons, said his Majesty had permitted him to announce that there was not a vestige of truth in the "Hamburg News" statement that a secret ...
Article : 53 wordsAnother amendment of the Military Service (Referendum) Regulations was issued to-night dealing with false statements. The amendment provides that when a magistrate ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is officially announced that Lord Rothermere, who is Lord Northcliffe's brother, has been appointed President of the Air Council. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is reported that a U-boat is operating off the Brazilian coast. All navigation lights have been ordered to be extinguished. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 28 Nov 1917, Page 11
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