In The Herald: 1915
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday January 6, 2009
Gains on Western Front
* On the Western Front French forces were reported to have captured the village of Steinbach in Alsace after "a sensational struggle". The Germans in Belgium were being forced back "yard by yard" towards the French frontier. It was reported that a battalion of Austrians had surrendered at Uszok Pass, which led across the Carpathians towards Hungary and, on the Hungarian side, Russian forces were pursuing German allied forces.* The rate of recruitment in NSW was going so well that the state was easily going to exceed its quota from the Commonwealth of 3000 soldiers a month. Tradesmen and labourers were downing tools and presenting themselves at recruitment offices, and there were plenty of volunteers from rural areas for the Light Horse. A total of 250 men were put onto a train for a camp at Liverpool. The total of men in training camps had reached 3000.* Documents in the hands of Broken Hill police, in "an eastern language", purported to explain why two Turks, Mohamed Gool and Mulla Abdulla, attacked a picnic train the previous Friday, killing four. James Lyons, a Broken Hill local, found the documents under a rock in the area where the two had made their last stand. The documents had been missed when their bodies were removed.* Franklin Roosevelt, writing in a newspaper, The Independent, said the indifference of the administration of Woodrow Wilson (pictured) to Germany's invasion of Belgium was deplorable. He said the Hague Conventions turned out to be a "pious wish, not intended to be observed", and that the Wilson administration was maintaining "an ignoble peace".
© 2009 Sydney Morning Herald
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