After a short respite, the battle was resumed with great violence on the Plave front. The enemy recklessly sacrificed troops in the efforts to cross into the Venetian plain, but was held at nearly all points. His gains were small, while his losses were very great. ...
Article : 196 wordsThe latest French communique states :—At six o'clock on Wednesday evening the Germans launched a violent artillery preparation on the whole of Rheims from ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Rt. Hon. C. A. Hanson, the Lord Mayor of London, presided at the lunchcon given by the Empire League at Claridge's Hotel to Mr. W. M. Hughes, the ...
Article : 1,371 wordsGerman submarines are still robbing crews of the ships attacked, and turning adrift their victims in open boats. Recently a British steamer was ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. F. Flowers, the President of the Legislative Council, took the chair at half-past four o'clock this afternoon. The Council agreed to the first reading ...
Article : 462 wordsThe board of management of the Wallsend Mining District Hospital met at the council chambers on Wednesday evening. Mr. E. Charlton presided, and there were ...
Article : 721 wordsThe Empire Producers' organisation entertained Mr. Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, at luncheon at the Connaught Rooms. ...
Article : 495 wordsThe latest Italian official report states: At night time on Monday and yesterday the enemy did not renew the attack on the Asiago Plateau to Montello. ...
Article : 666 wordsLord Curzon, in the House of Lords, decide that chaos existed owing to the Cabinet system of devolution. The delegation had been enormously developed. ...
Article : 115 wordsAn Austrian official report states:— General von Boroevic's southern ring in steady advance obtained fresh advantages on the Fossalta Canal, and crossed at ...
Article : 205 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:— We successfully raided on Tuesday night north-east of Bethune, and lost a ...
Article : 220 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs reports: Much rain and increasing mud promise to hamper the German offensive. The Americans are coming in in vats ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. J. J. Cohen, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, took the chair at half-past four o'clock this afternoon. In reply to Mr. Davies, Mr. Holman, the ...
Article : 1,380 wordsLord Beaverbrook, opening the Overseas Press Centre, established for the purpose of providing the Imperial Dominions and Allied neutral newspaper correspondents ...
Article : 376 wordsIt is reported from Zurich that, owing to the reduction in the bread ration, many Austrian workers refuse to work. Almost a general strike is anticipated. The ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Watt, the Acting Prime Minister, who will be in Sydney on Thursday next, will attend the sitting of the Legislative Assembly on that day, and address ...
Article : 586 wordsMr. Frank Simonds writing in the "New York Tribune,'" says that, measured by results, the Austrians' three days' attack seems a complete failure. ...
Article : 188 wordsQueen Alexandra has published a letter thanking the public for their efforts on Alexandra Day. Her Majesty specially referred to the ...
Article : 38 wordsAn American official reports states:— There is continued artillery fire in the Chateau Thierry region, and also on the Marne front. ...
Article : 37 wordsViscount Grey has issued a noteworthy pamphlet, advocating a League of Nations, and outlining the conditions essential to make the league a success. ...
Article : 28 wordsPRIVATE BOWEN.—Mr. J. Bowen, of Boolaroo, has been notified that his son, Private H. B. (Bert) Bowen, has been wounded (gassed). ...
Article : 117 wordsA German official report states:— French attacks early on Wednesday morning in the north-eastern part of Villers Cotteret Wood failed. The assaults ...
Article : 83 wordsThe wine sales on behalf of the Red Cross were a remarkable success, largely owing to the King's contributions. The sales at the Wool Exchange occupied a ...
Article : 160 wordsAdmiral Del Buono, in an interview regarding the recent raid by Italian motor-craft on Austrian warships, said he was convinced the second Austrian ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is reported from Washington that it is probable the Polish, Bohemian, and Jugo-Slav contingents will be trained in the United States for the Western battle ...
Article : 30 wordsThe column of soldiers encamped at Broadmeadow enjoyed a successful day's outing on Wednesday, when they march-to Raymond Terrace. Leaving ...
Article : 256 wordsAttention was drawn in the House of Lords to the desirableness of limiting the War Cabinet's duties to matters immediately relating to war, and ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Press Bureau reports:—The Syria and Palestine Relief Fund needs £100,000 in 1918. The fund is playing a great part in the ...
Article : 110 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that the Austrian Food Minister explains that the broad ration has been halved because no further grain supplies are obtainable ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" quotes Senator Berenger as saying that the Allies do not suffer appreciably in comparison of numerical ...
Article : 64 wordsPrivate John Bolton, of Paddington, Sydney, who enlisted in Melbourne, has been repatriated. He considers that his treatment in ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. Macnamaram, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, stated in the House of Commons that the success of the Zeebrugge and Ostend blockade was ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Macpherson, the Parliamentary secretary to the War Office, stated in the House of Commons that the result of the trials of machine guns by the Testing ...
Article : 213 wordsThe hearing was begun at the Bow-street Police Court of the case, in which Sir Joseph Jonas, ex[?]ord Mayor of Sheffield, is charged with having on various ...
Article : 276 wordsThe situation on the British front is unchanged. Particular attention is drawn to the conduct of the Northumberland Fusiliers, the Sherwood Foresters, the ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Emergency Fleet Corporation will celebrate Independence Day by "the grandest splash" on record. Mr. Hurley, the chairman of the ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. W. H. Chlppindall, of Mosman, formerly Chamber Magistrate at Newcastle, has been informed that his son, Gunner Leonard Chippindall, has been awarded ...
Article : 210 wordsA number of police visited the vicinity of the Trades Hall to-night when the Labour Council met in order to cope with any trouble which might arise of a ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Royal Colonial Institute has received encouraging replies from British universities to the proposal to found endowments for Empire subjects. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "New York World" says that three submarine attacks on one convoy of American transports going to France were frustrated by naval vessels. ...
Article : 158 wordsAn Italian semi-official announcement gives lengthy details of the heroism of the various units, and mentions the Northumberland Fusiliers, the Sherwood ...
Article : 150 wordsA Turkish communique states: We have occupied the town at Tabriz, in Persta, and both shores of Lake Urza, with a view to protecting the wing of our army ...
Article : 35 wordsKeen interest was shown in the matter of helping the Y.M.C.A. by means of Messrs. Gerdes and Son's flying machine and slippery dip last night. The boys ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is reported from Copenhagen that the counter-revolutionaries in Russia have overthrown the Bolshevik rule in Western Siberia after severe fighting. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Fri 21 Jun 1918, Page 5
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