4 A.M. Edition Late Cables Patrol Encounters and Aeroplane Attacks West Front Fighting LONDON, Saturday Morning
Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 2
Sir Douglas Haig reports: A patrol this morning surprised and dispersed a German working party eastward of Loos. There was hostile artillery bombardment between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Eve of the Offensive Artillery Struggles and Raids Grow in Violence Aeroplane Searching Out Enemy Positions Allied Force Take Prisoners in Trench Fights London, Saturday Morning
Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 1
The Paris correspondent of the New York World says: "There is every indication that we are on the eve of a great German offensive on the west front"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Is Strike Threatening Victorian Railway Men Increases Promised, But Withdrawn Melbourne
Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 2
Feeling is running high among railway men regarding the attitude of the Bowser Government to the Reclassification Board. Briefly the position is that the Peacock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Using the Railways How to Release More Ships
Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 2
The idea put forward by Mr. R. W. Gibbs. of Sydney, well known in shipping and coaling circles, for the greater use of the railways in the carriage of goods from one pare of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charges Against Railway Porters Moss Vale
Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 2
At the Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Arnott, P.M., three railway porters, John Murray (21), John Schofield (19), and Koy Feltham (18), were committed for trial on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Rider Injured Melbourne
The Sun · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 2
Geoffrey Renard (19), son of a well-known motor trader, was riding a motor cycle on the Dandenong-road to-day, when he collided with a post. He is suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Railway Trouble Mass Meeting To-day MELBOURNE
The Sun · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 4
Railway men are greatly dissatisfied with the reply given to their representative by Mr. Wynne, Minister for Railways, at the deputation yesterday. The whole position…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Share Market Money in Abundance B.H. Proprietary Higher Silverton Tramway Spurts
The Sun · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 4
The Sydney share market yesterday was animated, and the transactions recorded were the largest for a Saturday morning for several months. Money was in abundance for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miner Killed by Train. Portland
Evening News · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 5
[?] train was approaching the local station from Cullen Bullen on Saturday night the guard's attention was attracted by an [?] on the line On bringing the train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Collision in Spain
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 7
A Madrid message states that a railway collision occurred yesterday between Barcelona and Lerida, 12 being killed and 32 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victorian Railwaymen. Talk of a Strike. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 8
At a mass meeting of the combined railway unions, held this afternoon, to protest against the intention of the Bowser Government to reduce the amount of the proposed increases…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bathurst Railway Accident. Bathurst
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 10
An inquest was held yesterday before Mr. C. Jennings, district coroner, touching the deaths of Charles Bradley and Walter Hochkins, who were killed in the Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fatal Collision Motorist Committed for Trial
The Sun · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 5
This morning at the Paddington Police Court. Frederick Oswell Thorbeck was charged with having feloniously slain Louis Phillip Buchilly at Woollahra on January 22…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bowser Economy. Railwaymen Wrathful
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A mass meeting of railway men in the Bijou Theatre this afternoon protested against the proposal of the Government to reduce from £200,000 to £100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"John Bridge" Reports WOOL
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 19 February 1918 · page 3
Arrangements me about to be made for the apportionment of the next series of New South Wales appraisements, when wools arriving into Sydney after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney to Newcastle by Road
Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1918 · page 6
"Comm[?] writes:—It will, no doubt seen strange to some of your many [?] to know Sydney it not con[?] via the Hawk[?] River with [?] by rail, and not by a defined road…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Armed with Bombs. Sinn Feiners Cause Trouble Police Barracks and Aerodrome Attacked. London. Monday Evening
Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1918 · page 1
Sinn [?]elners have been [?] for [?]ouble in Ireland. A large hand, armed [?] attacked the [?] at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Train Held Up by Ants. Curious Incident in South Australia
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 19 February 1918 · page 5
Recently it was reported that in the neighborhood of Oodlawirra, on the Cockburn (S.A.) railway, a number of trains had to be divided and hauled over small…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →City Motor Smash. One Killed; Three Injured. Miss Egan's Story of the Event. Auto Fatalities Increasing
Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1918 · page 5
Motor car accidents in the metropolitan area are of increasing frequency. The death roll from injuries caused by meters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Developmental Lines Replies to Questions in N.S.W. Parliament. the North Coast Railway
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 19 February 1918 · page 3
Replying to Mr. Osborne in the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly on Friday the Minister for Works (Mr. Ball) stated that it was proposed to complete the sixth…
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