The twenty third Parliament of the State of New South Wales was dissolved by proclamation issued by the Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland, in the "Government Gazette" ...
Article : 1,148 wordsA stirring speech by Mr. Bonar law on Britain's war policy was delivered in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 128 wordsCaptain Ensor, master of the steamer Housatonic, which was recently torpedoed, says that the submarine U53 sank the Housatonic. ...
Article : 270 wordsThe committee on commercial and Industrial policy, of which Lord Balfour of Burleigh is chairman, recommends, in view of the experience of the war, that special steps ought to ...
Article : 1,076 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. Cook) has received information by cablegram that the Australian transport Berrima (11,137 tons) wns torpedoed in European ...
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Article : 430 wordsThe American Consul at Queenstown reports the sinking of the Norwegian steamer Dalbeatic. The submarine continued to shell the steamer after the ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening, on the motion for the third reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill, Mr. Ponsonby (Liberal) urged that the Government should ...
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Article : 41 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Will Thorne drew attention to the projected extensive post-war operations in Queensland and New Zealand of the Swift and Armour ...
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Article : 292 wordsA Russian official message states:—We repelled an attack north-west of Podgaitze. We submarined a steamer and eight schooners in the Rosphorous. ...
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Article : 87 wordsThe British official message from Egypt regarding the latest operations against the Turks on the Sinai Peninsula shows that the enemy still has a hold on portion of the ...
Article : 329 wordsAn official message from the British headquarters in Egypt states:—We captured the Turkish posts of Nekhi and Bir el Hasana, on the Sinai Peninsula, ...
Article : 40 wordsBrigadier-General Ramaciotti, speaking at a gathering at the Hotel Australia yesterday, said that in giving[?] up his command he did so with a feeling that he had done his "bit." ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Mr. Gerard (late united States Ambassador in Berlin), instead of going to Barcelona, will proceed ...
Article : 55 wordsAn Italian official message states:—On Monday night the enemy entered a trench through galleries cut beneath the snow, near Caserazebio Pastorile. After ...
Article : 87 wordsThe journal "Aeroplane" states that a new giant British machine was recently tested. It attained a height of 7000 feet, carrying 20 passengers and a pilot. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. C. B. Stanton (Labour) asked Mr. Walter Long (Secretary of State for the Colonies) whether he had seen a report by the Colonial ...
Article : 159 wordsSir Neville Chamberlain (Director of National service), speaking at a meeting in the Stock Exchange, said the problem of organising their man-power was so ...
Article : 252 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that President Wilson several months ago cautioned Germany that the Zeppelin raids on populous cities were regarded with disapproval by ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Central News states that Mr. Lloyd George will on Thursday, unfold a definite agricultural policy. It will be much more than a war time expedient, and is expected ...
Article : 47 wordsIf the Zurich message is correct in announcing that the chief of the Austrian staff, General Hoetzendorff, has relinquished that post in order to assume command on the ...
Article : 329 wordsThe "Messagero"' says that fourteen trans-Atlantic vessels with cargoes including coal and cereals arrived at Naples and Genoa on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer), replying to questions in the House of Commons regarding Sir Douglas Haig's interview with French journalists, ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. John Storey has been unanimously elected leader of the Parliamentary Labour party in succession to Mr. Ernest Durack, who resigned. Mr. Dooley has been ...
Article : 464 wordsThe advisability of Issuing premium war bonds has again been discussed, the subject being raised in the House of Commons. ...
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Article : 78 wordsThe Germans sentenced Professor Gossenaerts, of the Ghent Royal Athenaeum, to 10 years' imprisonment for Germanophobe propaganda, but offered to release him if he ...
Article : 45 wordsThough the estimated yield of excess profits for the financial year was £86,000,000, already £114,000,000 has been received, and it is expected that another £25,000,000 will be ...
Article : 35 wordsThe chief Government bill in the German Reichstag concerns measures to combat epidemics. ...
Article : 21 wordsRegulations authorise the Government to fix the price of printing-paper. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the New York "World" says that Dr. Helferich states that Germany will take all the surplus food under a new plan. He quotes him as saying:—"It ...
Article : 141 wordsThe newspapers welcome the British-Norwegian agreement for the removal of the coal embargo as restoring good relations, but consider its benefits will be only partial. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Reichstag session is expected to continue until Easter. Several most important questions are to be discusaed, including food questions and post-war problems, in addition ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is announced that owing to Al. M'Coy being compelled to fulfil a prior engagement, his place in the match against Les. Darcy, on March 5 will be taken by Jack Dillon. The ...
Article : 61 wordsOnly British and Allied vessels will be allowed to enter Plymouth until further notice. ...
Article : 21 wordsAfter riotously destroying a pushcart containing a peddler's stock of vegetables, [?]undreds of women of the Ghetto, with babies, made a demonstration outside the City ...
Article : 80 wordsSecond-Lieutenant Ernest Pearse, son of Captain A. W. pearse, proprietor of the "Pastoral Review," has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallantry while in ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the manufacture of malt suitable for brewing beer from barley or other cereals is prohibited, except under the authority of the Food ...
Article : 39 wordsThe meat supplies at Smithfield last week were 5057 tons, as compared with 6895 tons for the week preceding voluntary rationing. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. James Walter Smith, who held legal positions in Adelaide, Melbourne[?]and Perth until 1915. ...
Article : 26 wordsAunt Susan, relict of Fletcher Nobbs, of Pitcairn Island fame, died on Sunday, aged 83 years. The funeral was largely attended. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 22 Feb 1917, Page 7
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