Telegrams the War. Ireland. Commission Opened. Important Evidence. London
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 May 1916 · page 4
Lord Hardinge is presiding over the commission into the Irish rebellion. It is proposed to inquire what system existed to acquaint officials of the movements culminating in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Latest. the War. Western Front. Germans Carry Small Work. French Hold the Fort. Paris
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 May 1916 · page 2
A communique states: We threw back the enemy who were attempting to penetrate a small salient at Saint Hubert, in the Argonne. The Germans renewed the violent attacks on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier Charged
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 May 1916 · page 4
Theodore Gadd, a soldier, was before the Police Court to-day on a charge of having in February last, while armed with a revolver, assaulted Maude Ellis, and having stolen a pair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War London
The Yass Courier · Monday 22 May 1916 · page 2
The struggle for Hill 304 continues to be the most important phase the Verdun front. The Germans, despite new blood, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Soldier Wounded
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
Mr. Alex Wilson, road contractor, Clinton-street, received word on Friday from the Defence Department that his son Eric had been wounded in action in France. Pte. Wilson lefe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn and the War. Tarlo Soldier in France
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 4
Pte. A. D. Williamson, writing from France, under date of 29th March, to his parents at Tarlo Gap, says.—"We are in France at last, and a prettier place I have never seen. I don't…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Service Committee
Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
A change has been effected in the recruiting arrangements under the control of the local War Service Committee. Corporal Niven who has been acting as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War and Finaoce. London, May 19
Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
The Secretary of State for India says it would be unwise to found any hopes on Germany's economic exhabtion--we must rely on our own [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Western Front. Fierce Fighting
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
Paris, May 22.—About 50,00 are engaged in repeated assaults on Mort Homme along a front of two miles. On the east and steeper side the Crown Prince's troops, who are concentrated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late War News. Air Fighting, London, May 20
Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
A communique issued at Paris slates that the enemy tried to cross the Yser Canal, between Steen Straats and Hetsas, but faile in the Champagne district the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn and the War. Lance-cpl. Noel Gale
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
Mr. and Mrs. W. Gale, of Verner-street, have received official notification from the Defence Department that their son, Lance-Cpl. Noel Gale, was killed in action on May 2, 1915…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Map 221-3 George Street SYDNEY Copyright
Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 1
Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War. Activity in the Air. Seaplanes Raid Kent
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 4
London, May 20.—It is officially. announced that three enemy seaplanes raided the east coast of Kent at 2 o'clock this morning. One seaplane dropped a dozen bombs on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →French Finances. Millions Wanted for War. London, May 19
Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
In French Chamber of Deputies on Thursday M. Ribot (Minister for Finance) delivered an important statement. He said war estimates for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Abdul Hamid. Plot in Constantinople. Paris
Young Witness · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
A Paris paper's Constantinople correspondent says that it is believed a plot is on foot to liberate the form[?] Sultan, Abdul Hammid. The guards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After the War. No Evidence of Preparations for Dumping. London
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
Mr. Asquith, replying to a question, said that the Government's advisers had failed to find evidence that Germany and America were making goods ready to dump in Britain after the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →America and the War. Meeting in Favour of Allies. New York
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 1
The American Rights Committee held a crowded meeting in the Carnegie Hall in commemoration of the Lusitania. The speakers included Mr. Putnam, the publisher who summoned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War Day By Day. the Western Front. Attacks Around Verdun London, May, 19
Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
A Paris communique states :-- The French dispered a strong hostile recannisance between the Oise and the Aisne. Several German…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams the War. Verdun. Germans Occupy First Line of Trenches on Mort Homme. Paris
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 1
A communique states: The Germans continued their attacks on Mort Hommo and occupied the first line of trenches on the western slopes. All attempts on the eastern slopes failed. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Latest. the War. Ireland. Evidence of Warnings. Advice of Messrs. Redmond and Dillon. London
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2
The Irish Commission resumed its sittings to-day. Lord Hardinge, the chairman, read a letter from General Macready stating that Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →