Otira breakthrough
Otira breakthrough
A party of about 300 left by special train for Arthur's Pass this morning to assist in the ceremony attached to the meeting of the headings at the Otira tunnel.
Opinion
More people needed
More people needed
Mount Egmont, Taranaki, with the town of Stratford in the middle distance, after a heavy snowfall. - Otago Witness, 28.8.1918.
No extra troops sent
No extra troops sent
British troops bring a flock of sheep with them as they march along a road on the Western Front.
Inured to war horrors
Inured to war horrors
French troops crossing the Anizy canal on a pontoon bridge under fire.
Shell-shock treatment
Shell-shock treatment
The Soldiers' Mothers' League, Auckland, has again communicated with the Minister of Defence on subject of the treatment of shell-shock cases.
Puketoi Run deputation
Puketoi Run deputation
A deputation consisting of Messrs Charles Todd (representing the Otago Expansion League), R A. S. Cantrell (Otago A. and P. Society) and James Begg (Sheep Owners’ Union of Employers) waited on the...
Weak German resistance
Weak German resistance
The most southerly post office in the world, at Ulva Island, Paterson's Inlet, Stewart Island. - Otago Witness, 21.8.1918.
Fierce fighting
Fierce fighting
Wounded New Zealanders are put into the ambulance at a casualty clearing station on the Western Front. — Otago Witness, 14.8.1918.
Travis killed
Travis killed
Macandrew’s Bay, a popular Otago Harbour weekend resort.
Women's movement
Women's movement
A meeting of women was held in the Burns Hall yesterday afternoon to discuss the advisability of forming a Women's Citizen Association.
French army successes
French army successes
The great share which the French army has had in the recent operations that have forced the Germans back out of all the territory they had occupied as a result of a three months' offensive can only...
League of Nations
League of Nations
The discussion of the proposal for the establishment of a League of Nations, an organised combination of Powers strong enough to safeguard the peace of the world has as yet gone little further than...
Warilda torpedoed
Warilda torpedoed
"Kapai te kai'': Maori pioneers awaiting their evening meal near the front on the Somme. - Otago Witness, 7.8.1918.
Lloyd George: ‘Hold fast.’
Lloyd George: ‘Hold fast.’
A car stopped by a snowdrift below the schoolhouse on the Main North Rd near Upper Junction after the recent heavy fall.
War with moral basis
War with moral basis
Sir Joseph Ward (third from left) and the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Rt Hon William Massey (fourth from left), with NZ officers at the entrance to the Oatlands Park convalescent hospital in England.
Four years of war
Four years of war
The fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the war finds the Kaiser in a somewhat chastened mood. In face of the fact that American troops are arriving in France at the rate of 10,000 a day, he...
Tolerance needed
Tolerance needed
The Tapanui Courier says: ''It is certain that the Government has little to be proud of in the treatment of a soldier whose case has come under our notice.
Prohibition poll meeting
Prohibition poll meeting
A meeting was held in the Burns Hall last night to inaugurate the campaign for a poll on the Efficiency Board's proposals to effect the abolition of the liquor trade.
'Cannibals' joke
'Cannibals' joke
The story in the cablegram published by us yesterday relating how captured Germans were under the impression that the New Zealanders were cannibals, and that they ran a big risk of being eaten, may...
Otagos at Rossignol Wood
Otagos at Rossignol Wood
The congested interior of a dug-out below ground, somewhere in France.