The Belgian Ardennes, into which the war is said to be trending. Is some of the most beautiful country in the world. Streams, glassily clear, slip like silken ribbons ...
Article : 218 wordsAlready over 6000 volunteers have filed through the portico at Victoria Barracks and registered their names for Of service abroad. And still they come. All day yesterday the ...
Article : 717 wordsLady Edeline Strickland has accorded [?]r very warmest support and approval to the following Red Cross appeal by the Lady Maycress of Sydney:— ...
Article : 1,714 wordsThe following resolution has been forwarded by the executive of the Mill Employees' Union to the mill owners concerned and the Premier:— ...
Article : 139 wordsThere is every indication that the Australian export trade will soon be resumed. Yesterday morning cables state that the Australian Associated Banks are resuming their discounting ...
Article : 358 wordsTime was when these initials needed explanation. But that was half a century age. Nowadayys the letters Y.M.C.A. are known all over the civilised world. There ...
Article : 1,392 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Millen) announced to-night that he had approved of senior students at Duntroon College, who would not in the ordinary circumstances ...
Article : 46 wordsIncluded among the men applying to join the volunteer corps was a man from Broken, Plains Station, 66 miles from Springsure. He personally called on the authorities and ...
Article : 83 wordsNeither Australians nor Englishmen are likely to believe the stories of atrocities said to have been committed by German soldiers. The British have experienced ...
Article : 143 wordsA number of settlers have applied to the Minister for Lands for suspension of the residence condition of their holdings owing to their volunteering for active military ...
Article : 194 wordsThe hoard of directors of the Kensington Recreation Grounds Company, Limited, met yesterday, when it was unanimously decided to offer to the officer commanding the military ...
Article : 71 wordsThose motorists who have offered their ears for service in conjunction with the New South Wales section of the Australian Volunteer Automobile Corps, are requested by the ...
Article : 143 wordsMany people will probably ask what is meant by the nows that Britain has declared war upon Austria. In the first place, ten days ago it was only Germany which declared war on ...
Article : 208 wordsA matter of great Importance to those who are serving indentures of apprenticeship, and who are called on, or have volunteered, for service for the Empire, came before Mr. ...
Article : 357 wordsThe Union Company's steamer Tahiti arrived at Wellington from San Francisco at 7 a.m. yesterday. The steamer is not coming on to Sydney this trip, and her Sydney mails ...
Article : 109 wordsIn reply to questions in the Assembly, the Commissioner for Public Works stated that the Government intended to keep positions open for Civil servants who volunteered for ...
Article : 32 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the British Empire Victoria League last night, presided over by Sir William McMillan, it was declded to call a general meeting of members ...
Article : 47 wordsAbout 8OO men have volunteered for the Tasmanian quota of the expeditionary force, and it is expected that in a day or two the number offering will greatly exceed the ...
Article : 225 wordsSome people have asked why Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe should have been placed in command of the British Home Fleets instead of Admiral Sir George Callaghan, who had ...
Article : 162 wordsA suggestion that the pastoralists of Austialia should be invited to make a gift of one million sheep to Great Britain as a war contribution has been made to the Premier (Sir ...
Article : 120 wordsThe German mall steamer Roon, which left Colombo on August 1st and was due at Fremantle recently, has arrived in Java. It was learned yesterday that the vessel ...
Article : 89 wordsThe British Admirals are mostly men still In the vigour of life. Vice-Admiral Jellicoe is 54, seven years younger than the officer whom he succeeded. The youngest Admiral ...
Article : 117 wordsThrough no Incorrect signal from Trou bridge Lighthouse, whence it was notified on Wednesday that a German steamer was passing inwards, Port Adelaide was closed to ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is officially notified that from sunset to-day all harbour lights at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and Westport will be extinguished till further notice. The ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Prime Minister has received official notification that Great Britain declared war on Austria at midnight on Wednesday. ...
Article : 26 wordsPerhaps the most significant item of news yesterday was a cablegram received by the Sydney Marino Underwriters' Association, which slated that the rates of war insurance ...
Article : 255 wordsA deputation of Syrian residents, introduced by the Mayor of Redfern (Alderman Leitch), waited upon the Lord Mayor yesterday, and stated that they had held a meeting, at which ...
Article : 199 wordsThe man of whom, for some reason or another, officers of the navy seem to hold the highest expectations, is Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, who was recently sent to ...
Article : 267 wordsRepresentatives of all wholesale houses in Perth and Fremantle handling foodstuffs met the Control of Trade Commissioners, when the chairman of the commission (Mr. Simpson) ...
Article : 199 wordsThe authorities in Queensland have not yet received the details necessary to enable them to begin actual enrolment. At Victoria Barracks there has been an exceptionally heavy ...
Article : 85 wordsColley's boatsheds alongside the Mosman Wharf were completely destroyed by fire at about 2 o'clock this morning together with several boats and a large quantity of gear. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Rev. Cecil J. King writes:—I have a very strong suspicion that some of the house to house collectors are not what they profess to be. I should like to suggest that ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Australian Mutual Provident Society has decided to keep open the positions of any members of the staff who may volunteer for active service, or who may be called out, ...
Article : 43 wordsA large deputation of workers interviewed the Commissioner of Public Works (Sir Richard Butler) this morning in reference to the unemployed trouble. It was stated that a ...
Article : 141 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly met yester day the Attorney General (Mr. McKinnon), introduced a bill to provide against undue restriction of the supply of goods or the undue ...
Article : 219 wordsContracts for clothing and equipping the expeditionary forces are being arranged for by Captain J. C. Ormiston Superintendent of Army Contracts Forty nine thousand pairs ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Dean of Sydney has arranged a united intercession service in connection with the war, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, this afternoon, betwecn 1 and 2 o'clock. Members of all ...
Article : 34 wordsLate last night a man named Charles Richards, 50, residing at 167 Vlctorin-streot, Darlinghurst, was found lying in a room in the house with two bullet wounds in the head. A ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Mr. Millen, said to-night that he wished to warn people against the possibility of being made the victims of fraud. There was apparently, he ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Labour Council last night endorsed recommendations of its executive to the effect that all unions avoid disturbing the Industrial peace. The executive was asked to get ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Assembly, Mr. Crawford asked the Acting Premier was anything being done by the Government to relieve the immediate effect of the war on industry at Mount Morgan, ...
Article : 147 wordsIn response to Lady Barron's Invitation a large gathering assembled at Government House to form home-nursing classes. At the close of the meeting Mr. B. G. Quinlan handed ...
Article : 90 wordsReports received from all parts of the Commonwealth show that recruiting for the Australian Imperial Expcultionary Force is proceeding satisfactorily, and it is now certain ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr. Manni[?], Roman Catholic Cond[?]ntor Archbishop of Melbourne, in the course of an address, said he believed Great Britain had been dragged into the war ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 14 Aug 1914, Page 10
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