"Whatever excuse yon might have had for unpreparedness for war, you should have none if we were not prepared for peace." This was a statement made hy Lord Parker in the House of Lords last ...
Article : 771 wordsAn engagement took place in the North Sea on Saturday between British. cruisers and a German Fleet, in which two British vessels were sunk, and one German submarine (possibly two) was destroyed. The enemy craft were accompanied by Zeppelins. The British and French forces have made further ...
Article : 180 wordsAlthough the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) arrived in Sydney yesterday his presence here was not recognised officially until to-day. At 11 a.m. the Lord Mayor ...
Article : 1,518 wordsA Russian communique says:—We re-pulsed German attacks west of Lake Nobel with heavy losses. We captured Chervische Farm and several heights on the ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Bulgarians returned to the attack and drove out the French from Doljeli, close to the south-eastern shore of Lake Doiran. The French, on being reinforced ...
Article : 179 wordsThe relatives of the late Pte. Arthur R. Hindley have been notified by the military authorities that the died as the result' of wounds received in action in France on ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. and. Mrs. W. H. Field, of Clare, have been notified by the military authorities that their son, Pte, R. K. Field, was killed in action on July 23. The deceased was in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 113 wordsNews was received last Friday at Norton's Summit of the death of Pte. J. G, Veall, who was killed in action in France on July 27. Pte. Veall was 25 years of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 603 wordsCURRAMULKA, August 21.—Pte. G. Sellicks, who enlisted from here immediately after the outbreak of war, and who was twice wounded at Gallipoli, has been ...
Article : 52 wordsPORT PIRIE, August 19.—Through the Rev. E. W. Caust, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Jaffrey, of Solomontown, yesterday received the news that their son, Pte, F. S. ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Paris message of Sunday afternoon states:—Bulgar patrols are pushing in the River Struma area of Macedonia, in the direction of the port of Kavalla. The ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Secretary to the British Admiralty (Dr. Macnamara.) reports that a German Fleet was out in the North Sea on Saturday. Enemy submarines sank the light ...
Article : 246 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, a British.' war correspondent on the French front, describing the big attack started by the British on Friday afternoon ...
Article : 368 wordsThe correspondent of The Russian Word, describing the Russian capture of the Gliadkizebroff position on Gen. Brussiloff's font, says it was the most brilliant ...
Article : 289 wordsCholera is raging among the Bulgars at Demir-Hissar and Ruppel. Bulgarian aeroplanes are repeatedly bombing allied Red Cross camps, and the missiles dropped have ...
Article : 40 wordsBURRA, August 21.—Mr. E. J. Davey (Town Cler of Burra) received advice on Friday that his son, Pte, Harry Edwin Davey, had been killed in France on July ...
Article : 119 wordsThe attack by the British infantry on Horseshoe Hill, which commands Doljeli, was a brilliant affair. The men showed great keenness in their first experience in ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Bulgarian Minister to Greece visited the Greek Premier (M. Zaimis) on Saturday morning, and announced that a general attack by the Germans and Bulgarians ...
Article : 196 wordsLANGHORNE'S CREEK, August 19.—Word was received here yesterday by Mrs. H. A. Coehrane of the death in action in France of her second son ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says that fishing trawlers off the Dutch coast on Saturday morning met a squadron of 10 German warships in ...
Article : 40 wordsMrs. F. Brown, Rosewater, bus been officially notified that her husband (Pte. Frederick Brown) was killed in action in France on July 26. He was the only son ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 65 wordsA Petrograd message announces that fighting continues in the direction of Diarbekr. The Russians are overcoming the, difficulties of an almost inaccessible ridge ...
Article : 42 wordsA Belgian communique states:—Daily bombardments and desperate bombing encounters occur at Dixmude and Boesinghe. Our aeroplanes made three night flights ...
Article : 50 wordsMrs. W. S. Lang has been informed by the military authorities that her son, Lieut, Frank H. lang, has been wounded in France. ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Paris correspondent of The New Fork American, in a message to that paper says:—The utmost that the Teutons can now do is to delay the progress of the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe condition of Greek residents on' the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor is deplorable. The Turks, owing to the Russian advance, are clearing out the ...
Article : 83 wordsA Turk has tried to assassinate the German Generalissimo at Constantinople (Gen. von Sanders), who was wounded. Peace demonstrations in Constantinople ...
Article : 35 wordsGen. Raig reported Sunday afternoon:—There were bombing encounters on Saturday night at some points between the Somme and the [?], but the ...
Article : 233 wordsKILLED IS ACTION OR DIED OF WOUNDS, ILLNESS or INJURIES.-Lieut, W. McQuiggan, Sgt. E. Coady; C. S. Garland, Cpls. A. H. [?] King, and K. B. Wood, Lee.-Cpls. A. H. ...
Article : 244 wordsThe New York Times has published the text of four jumbled letters which a prominent German agent in America sent to Berlin, and which, when pieced together ...
Article : 107 wordsThe German Admiralty denies the reported arrival at Bremen from America of the underwater "trader" Deutschland. It is stated that seven submarines of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 12 wordsAn Italian official estimate of the Australian losses on the sonzo, between August 6 and 16, is [?] officer and men, exclusive of 22,000 [?] ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. A. Sharp, of Porter street, Parkside, has been notified that his son, Pte. A. M. Sharp, of the 9th Light Horse, has been killed in action. He was employed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 wordsFollowing am the lames of the men who enlisted at Adelaide, and went into the Exhibition Camp, on Monday:—W. Allan, J. R. Beven, A. Bradbury, J. C. ...
Article : 178 wordsReports of the following Port Pirie soldiers having been wounded have been recived:—Pte. A. Plenty, son of Mr, F. Plenty (injured, in Egypt); Pte. W. L. ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Prussian Director of Food Supplies (Herr Batocki) is on a visit So Hungary and Bulgaria with a view to arranging for the supply of foodstuffs for Germany. ...
Article : 35 wordsKILLED IN ACTION OR DIED OF WOUNDS, ILLNESS, OR INJURIES:—Lieuts. P.T. Woddyatt, ad A.S. Righetti, Sgt. C. Jepson, Cpl. J. McKinnon, Sap. W. Newton, Ptes. T. Dale, T. O. ...
Article : 74 wordsAustrians captured at Carso state that they were ordered not to take prisoners except in large masses. The Italians token in small groups were to be killed. ...
Article : 29 wordsA wireless message received from Berlin to-night says that the British have passed a sentence of 18 months' imprisonment on Norman Angell, author of "The Great ...
Article : 57 wordsA French official message says:—We have captured a strong wood between Guiliemont and Maurepas, with important German stores. ...
Article : 25 wordsKILLED IN ACTION OR DIED OF WOUNDS. ILLNESS, OR INJURIES.—Sgt. A. G. Tolman Lce.-Cpls. H. C. Nicholls, and W. Laudbey, Ptes. D. Barelay, E. J. Howard, H. A. Burrell, W. ...
Article : 43 wordsFollowing are the names of men who enlisted at country centres and reported at the Exhibition Camp last week:—A. K. Norton and S. Welburn. ...
Article : 31 wordsGen. Corsi (the military critic of The Rome Tribuna) states that as the result of the fall of Gorizia, manouvere warfare has bugun. The Italian advance is ...
Article : 75 wordsKILLED IX ACTION OR DIED OF WOUNDS, ILLNESS, OR INJURIES.—Capt. F. H. Howard. C. Sgt. Major N. M. McDonald, E. D. Moushead ...
Article : 198 wordsThe French communique of Sunday afternoon states:—Our fire repuLsed all violent German counter-attacks on Fleury, which followed on a prolonged and intense ...
Article : 97 wordsHis Majesty the King Tins telegraphed birthday gratings to the President of the French Republic (M. Poincare), who was 56 years old on Sunday. His Majesty ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Italian Commander-in-Chief (Gen. Cadorna), in replying to congratulations on his victories, said:—"Napoleon taught us that rapidity and surprise were the ...
Article : 42 wordsPte. and Mrs. James H. Sandercock, of Welland, have received information that their son Wilfred James was killed in action in France on July 25. Another ...
Article : 52 wordsKILLED IN ACTION OR DIED OK WOUNDS, ILLNESS, OR INJURIES.-Sgt. T. Steadman, Lee. Cpl. J. Dean. ptes. J. J. Griffin, W. J. Smith, G. Honey, C. F. Shepherd, M. Solomon, J. T. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe remnants of the Turkish forces which were defeated on the Sinai Peninsula, east of Suez Canal have now dispersed. Thus the whole army of 18,000 ...
Article : 42 wordsThe war correspondent at the British Headquarters states that there has been no better or more businesslike achievement since the River Somme battle began than ...
Article : 345 wordsIncluding those mentioned in to-day's list the number of Australians out of action is 48.067. The following details are supplied by the Base Records' Office:— ...
Article : 95 wordsExcitement in Sweden in consequence of the British prohibition on Scandinavian exports has calmed in consequence of the Swedish Foreign Office laving pointed out ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Dyemakers' Periodical publishes the statement that a new organization has been created' in Berlin—a vast trust with a capital of £20,000,000—for the ...
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Advertising : 863 wordsAn Exchange Telegraph Agency message says that there is every indication that the j Turks are definitely retreating toward their base. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Secretary for War (Mr. Lloyd George), in opening a Nonconformist hut For Welsh soldiers near Abergele, pleaded for unity and tolerance for all religions. He ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Mesopotamia Campaign Enquiry Commission will request the Commander-in-Chief in India (Gen. Sir Beauchamp Duff) to return to England in order to ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 22 Aug 1916, Page 5
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