A southerly change on Sunday afternoon brought light rain, which continued intermittently during the night, and Christmas Day was ushered in by leaden-coloured clouds, ...
Article : 413 wordsWhile the enemy's advance from the west and south-west towards Bralla, near the big bend in the Danube, is apparently held up for the time being, his forces in the Dobrudja have made rapid progress, and now held the whole of that province, with the exception of tha north-western corner. The remaining Russian line in Dobrudja stretches across the inside of the bend in the Danube from the town of Macin (Matchin), opposite Bralla, to Isaacs. The latter ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 205 wordsThe "Petit Parislen's" Petrograd correspondent states that the situation in Roumania is improving. The Russians have gained advantages between the ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Government of Switzerland hass addressed a Note to the belligerents. It expresses, in general terms, a ...
Article : 124 words'raythwaite Convalescent Home at North Sydney was decorated by ladies of the Red Cross Society. Twenty-three men sat to the Christmas dinner. Among the visitors ...
Article : 45 wordsResidents of Petersham and Ashfield cooperated with the Red Cross Society in providing the entertainment yesterday for the soldier-patients at Broughton Hall. ...
Article : 84 wordsA Christmas dinner was given by the Red Cross and Neutral Bay and Mosman V.A.D's. to about 200 returned soldiers at St. George's Head on Saturday evening. The Mosman ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Admiralty reports that two destroyers were sunk by a collision in the North Sea on December 21, in bad weather. Six officers and 51 men were lost. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Christmas and New Year festivities of the seamen, as provided by the Sydney Mission to seamen, extend over a fortnight. On Saturday evening a musical entertainment was ...
Article : 95 wordsA feature of the capture of EI Arish (in the Sinal desert, 70 miles east of the Suez Canal) was the fine work by Australian mounted troops. ...
Article : 36 wordsA German official message claims the repulse of the British attacks at Ypres and Macedonia. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is now plain that the Russians have been driven out of the Dobrudja, with the exception of a small triangular area in the northwestern corner. The capture of Tultcha has ...
Article : 272 wordsA thousand persons were made welcome in the basement of the Town Hall yesterday by Mrs. Harry Rickards, and entertained with good cheer that included the traditional beef ...
Article : 416 wordsSpecial efforts were made at the Soldiers' Club, George-street, yesterday, to entertain the boys from the country and other States who were unable to spend Christmas Day at ...
Article : 503 wordsSwitzerland has presented Notes to the belligerents similar to that of President Wilson. A Paris message says Switzerland's ...
Article : 446 wordsSir Arthur Norman Hill (a prominent shipowner), writing in "Fairplay," says that British shipping losses for the past 27 months have been 12 per cent. ...
Article : 101 wordsThis was the quietest Christmas for many years. The high prices of food, in conjunction with the newspapers' appeals for a simple Christmas, curtailed festivities. In response ...
Article : 67 wordsThe three points at which the Roumanians might be expected to have damaged the crossing would be the main bridge across the eastern arms near Cernavoda, the long bridge ...
Article : 245 wordsA decree prohibits the storing of cotton or its disposal to anyone, except residents, without a special permit. The decree is intended to prevent ...
Article : 37 wordsHolland has signed a treaty undertaking to supply Germany with milk, meat, eggs, and fruit. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt seems strange, at first glance, that the Russians should continue to hold this small north-western corner of the Dobrudja after they have apparently decided to abandon the ...
Article : 276 wordsAlthough Mr. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the United States Navy, has for a long time been the target for every offensive epithet that the advocates of "preparedness" ...
Article : 559 wordsThe Christmas services in the churches were this year celebrated with an air of even greater solemnity than usual. The shadow of the war still hangs over the nation, and ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Entente's new Note is awaited impatiently, but the tension is slightly relaxed. Foreign families who took refuge on allied ships are returning. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe trouble caused by the fall of earth on the main trunk line, near Auckland, has now been rectified. The rain was torrential, and 6.22 inches were recorded in two days. ...
Article : 57 wordsA dinner to lonely girls was given at the rooms of the Y.W.C.A., Liverpool-street, yesterday, when the general secretary, Mrs. A. H. Austin, acted as hostess. During the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe fifty—third annual Christmas breakfast was given at the rooms of the Sydney Night Refuge, Francis-street, the attendance numbering 160. The committee and the custodian, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe following casualties are reported in the latest list issued:—Fifteen men killed in action, one prisoner of war in German hands, one accidentally killed, two missing, one ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is announced that one month ago the weekly production of British 18-pounder ammunition was 43 times the weekly production of June, 1915; of medium guns ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr.Dunne, Bishop of Wilcannia, died at Bishop's House, Broken Hill, this evening, at the age of 70 years. He had been [?]1 for some time. The funeral obsequies ...
Article : 137 wordsAn atmosphere of restful calm pervaded the gathering of sick and maimed heroes who were the guests of the Red Cross at Christmas dinner at the Randwick No. 4 Military Hospital ...
Article : 315 wordsOutside of the Dobrudja the situation in Roumanla shows little change. If the enemy is making any progress towards Bralla from the south-west, alone the railway line from ...
Article : 260 wordsOn Saturday, at Ormond House, depot for State Children, Paddington, a Christmas tree was provided. The tree was placed in the centre of the oom, and was loaded with toys, ...
Article : 98 wordsThere were large congregations at the Christmas service at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Around the pulpit and reading desk, and in chancel, were masses of palms, set off with ...
Article : 1,328 wordsIn the hospitals and asylums Christmas was celebrated very quietly. As has always been the custom, bands of workers-usually the visitors attached to each institution— ...
Article : 198 wordsThe next-of-kin of No. 2643. J. E. Downer, and No. 4587, S. Taylor, should communicate with the Victoria Barracks. ...
Article : 21 wordsSir Joseph Maclay (Shipping Controller) has initiated an important twofold scheme to revolutionise the carrying capacity of the British mercantile marine. It ...
Article : 77 wordsAs a human contrivance the super-Zeppelin is something of a twentieth century wonder. But we know now that it is full of vulnerable parts, says the "Morning Post." It is an ideal ...
Article : 287 wordsA French communique reports calm in the West. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Anzac Buffet in the Domain has just been taken over by the Mosman Voluntary Aid Detachment, which for 14 months has carried on a work of signal usefulness in ...
Article : 306 wordsThe official communiques regarding the fighting in Roumanla have never supplied any definite information regarding the steps which were taken to damage or destroy the ...
Article : 264 wordsA telegram relative to No. 4516, W. Robertson, addressed to Miss M. Robertson, Greenstreet, Cook's Hill; and one relative to No. 494, Private J. J. Curran, 31st Battalion, ...
Article : 46 wordsCaptain Basil Hood's patriotic three-act light opera. "Young England"—the music by Herbert Bath and G. H. Clutsam— had an enthusiastic reception at Daly's ...
Article : 96 wordsA French communique reports moderate artillery fire in Macedonia. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney gave concerts both afternoon and evening yesterday. The orchestral matinee was of a miscellaneous quasi-classical character, ...
Article : 1,204 wordsThe 260 sewerage workers who were paid off on Friday held a meeting of protest, and decided to appoint a deputation to wait upon the members of Parliament for the district ...
Article : 74 wordsSixteen funerals were held up at Nunhead on Saturday owing to the shortage of labour. The services were conducted, and the coffins placed in the crypt of the cemetery chapel ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 26 Dec 1916, Page 5
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