It's a long, long way from Wagga Wagga. Yet the 240 recruits who brought the scent of the hayfields with thom into the oppressive heat and the unceasing roar of the city ...
Article : 523 wordsMr. A. Bruntnell referred yesterday to the action of the executive of the Liberal League in endorsing the selection of Mr. Graff for the Drummoyne seat. ...
Article : 264 wordsQuite apart from the Kangaroos, who arrived in Sydney yesterday, and a number of whom, having joined at the last moment, were examined at the Town Hall recruiting ...
Article : 256 wordsTelegrams received in Rome state that great nervousness is manifested in Athens. The "Hestia" announces the immediate occupation of the islands of Corfu, ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the House of Commons the first reading of the Military Service Bill was carried by a large-majority. ...
Article : 195 wordsThe debate on the introduction of the Military Service (No. 2) Bill was continued in the House of Commons this evening. Mr. Samuel said the fact of six millions ...
Article : 664 wordsThe cable in yesterday's issue stating that Japanese bankers have agreed to lend Russia £12,000,000, is an assurance that the Japanese have no doubts as to how the war is going to ...
Article : 329 wordsA communique states: We occupied the cemetery at Czartorysk, driving back the enemy, and making further progress; also establishing a position in the sectors ...
Article : 88 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsReferring to the selection of Alderman Graff as the Liberal candiate for Drummoyne, Mr. C. O. Wade, M.L.A., leader of the Opposition, yesterday remarked:—"The executive ...
Article : 344 wordsWhen Germany threw her armles into Belgium and Franco a little British army hurriedly crossed the Channel to help in repelling the invasion. It was such a little array that ...
Article : 492 wordsA meeting under the auspices of the Glebe branch on the Anti-German League was held in Glebe-road last night. It was intended to hold the meeting in Bay-street, opposite Grace ...
Article : 462 wordsRecruits aro urgently wanted for the formation of a wireless corps for activo service abroad. Men desiring to enlist for this service should have a knowledgo of wireless ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the House of Lords the Marquis of Crowe (President of the Council), introducing the Parliament and Registration Bill, said it was based on the principle ...
Article : 203 wordsThe "Kangaroos" camped and breakfasted at Petersham before their entry into the city yesterday morning. Along the Parramattaroad the municipal authorities of Petersham, ...
Article : 2,057 wordsYesterday Mrs. Fishlock, of Wollongong, had a letter returned through the post which was posted last July to her son, Private L. Fishlock. On the envelope were the words: "Killed ...
Article : 115 wordsThe famous English cricketer and all-round sportsman, Colonel R. M. Poore, D.S.O., has been gazetted Brigadier-General while commanding a brigade. His name (says an ...
Article : 400 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports that 11 of our aeroplanes dropped bombs on a stores depot at Le Sars. A French communique states: During ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that he is considering the question of issuing badges to men who have been rejected for active service. ...
Article : 637 wordsA communique states: Repeated attempts to approach our lines on the Tolmino bridgehead were speedily repulsed. Enemy artillery emplacements were destroyed by ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson (President of the Board of Education), Mr. G. H. Roberts (a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury), and Mr. Wm. Brace (Under-secretary to ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is officially announced that 119 of the passengers by the P. and 0. Company's Persia (sunk without warning by an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean), 50 of the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe "Times"' says that paralysis overtook, the Government after its refusal of General Sir Ian Hamilton's request for more men. The actual abandonment was ...
Article : 206 wordsWhilst the official messages from Petrograd inform us that the Russians continue to make progress in Bukovlna and elsewhere on the eastern front, there is evidence that the ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Trade Union Congress was opened at Westminster to discuss the motion affirming the Bristol Congress resolution deploring the disunifying actions of the ...
Article : 712 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Federal Cabinet, three recommendations received from tho Federal Parliamentary War Committee about the sale of liquors in military camps were ...
Article : 188 wordsThe death is reported of Captain C. F. Drought, of the 7th Lincolnshire Regiment, formerly of Melbourne, who was seriously wounded, and was in hospital at Le Tou ...
Article : 36 wordsThe court-martial was continued at Enoggera camp to-day, at which Privates Albert Edward Coyne and Leslie McPhail were charged with having joined in a mutiny and ...
Article : 159 wordsArrivals, at London: Whakarua, s (left Wellington, September 11); at Plymouth: Kaikoura, s (left Wellington, November 19); Orontes, R.M.S. (left Sydney, ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Rider Haggard will visit South Africa, Australiu, New Zealand, and Canada, representing the Royal Colonial Institute, for the purpose of inquiring into ...
Article : 101 wordsThe new waterside workers award has been responsible for a strike amongst the local wharf-labourers. On Wednesday last a tender arrived with cargo from the Wodonga, ...
Article : 140 wordsAn interesting point, touching the liabilities of local bodies in connection with damage done to private property by storm-water, was discussed at the last meeting of the Turon ...
Article : 155 wordsCaptain Gatshore Porter, of the Flying Corps, son of Mr. Tindal Porter, residing in Australia; is missing on the western front. ...
Article : 24 wordsImportant developments appear to be taking place in the Balkans. An Athens newspaper announces that it is the intention of the Allies to occupy Corfu, Cephalonia, ...
Article : 379 wordsThe Minister for Defence has issued an order that any person removing any arms, accoutrements, or other naval or military articles belonging to the Commonwealth or to ...
Article : 67 wordsit is officially announced that a British submarine was sunk near the island of Texel (Holland). A Dutch cruiser rescued the [?] ...
Article : 43 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 8 Jan 1916, Page 17
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: