HMAS Sydney, 1915.
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- HMAS Sydney collides with a harbour ferry as she leaves Halifax in Nova Scotia on patrol. Sydney is not damaged, but the ferry’s paddlewheel box is destroyed.
- The Leader publishes a letter from Norman Douglas Sherwin, written from hospital in Egypt. Private Sherwin describes how a packet of cigarettes saved him from serious injury or death. Letters from the Front
- The Leader reports that 42 men presented themselves to recruitment officers at the Drill Hall on Wednesday. Of the 42, only 14 passed their medical examination and were able to enlist; the others were found to have defective vision. Eleven of these 14 recruits survived the war, three would be killed in action. Orange Recruiting Depot
