Prizes consisting of books, a silver wristlet watch, silver thimbles and other articles are to be distributed to the children of the Geelong and ...
Article : 150 wordsThe German cruiser Dresden is stranded on the Argentine coast near Port Gallegos, near the eastern end of the Straits of Magellan, and due west of ...
Article : 424 words"We continue to make progress towards the lines of the enemy in the region of Ypres. Several German attacks have been repulsed, though in one ...
Article : 325 wordsThe forthcoming Report, on Labor and Industrial matters to be issued under the instructio of tthe Minister for Home Affairs (the Hon. W. O. Archibald) by the ...
Article : 720 wordsIn the House of Representatives on Saturday a message was received from the Governor-General, recommending increases in the Land Tax and the ...
Article : 1,046 wordsIn a speech at Bristol. Mr. Balfour said the war was due to a crime against civilisation. It was the crime of a nation not merely resolved to be great are ...
Article : 144 wordsThis week donations of eatables, etc., will be sought for the Xmas dinner for the inmates of the Geelong Hospital and Benevolent Asylum. Mr. E. L. ...
Article : 44 wordsWhen Lodz was evacuated by the Russians for strategic reasons, the population was destitute and fled en masse. fearing Germann atrocities. Many have ...
Article : 347 wordsMr A. T. Ozanne, M.P., passed a very good night on Saturday, and a slight improvement was noted yesterday.—Harold Mitchell fell from a trap when ...
Article : 60 wordsCopenhagen said on Saturday "The Kaiser temperature is 101. The nervous breakdown continues and his condition is serious. The doctors ...
Article : 160 wordsOn Saturday afternoon, in His Majesty's Theatre, there was a large attendance at the break-up demonstration of the Sacred Heart Boarding ...
Article : 263 wordsThe "Koelnische Zeitung." reierring to president Wilson's desire that America should have an important role in the conclusion of peace say "it may ...
Article : 163 wordsThe captain of the s.s. Scottish Prince, which has arrived in New York, reports that the Geraman cruiser Karlsrahe has been conducting active ...
Article : 140 wordsEntries close to-day with the secretary, Mr. J. Galbraith, for the cycling and pedestrian events at Comnunn Na Feinne annual New Year's Day ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Dutch newspaper "Haadelsblad" says General Von Moltke some time back wished to make an attack concentrated On Verdun combined with an advance ...
Article : 104 wordsThe donation of clothing made by Messrs. Farmer and Company, Sydney. for sufferers from the war,has been distributed among the Blgian refugees ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" says that five Russian regiments from Archangel arrived at Antivari in the Adriatic on November 29th. They have ...
Article : 31 wordsA non-commissioned officer who escaped from the Germans at Lodz, narrate that he and two officers and 30 men were taken prisoners and looked up in ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Paris Ministry of Marine has been informed that the cruiser Frederie Karl was sunk by mine in the Baltie at the end of November. Most ...
Article : 98 wordsAfter eight hours' desperate hand-tohand fighting the French occupied Hoos and Biesel in Upper Alsace. Two hundred and fifteen French and 720 ...
Article : 53 wordsAt a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in London on Friday, a resolution was carried expressing grateful ...
Article : 110 wordsTenders are being called by the Defence Department for 30,000 pairs of boots ankle pattern, for the Citizen Forces, 30,000 hats (woolen) for Senior ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" is in receipt of a detailed accounts of the recapture of Passchendaele, 11 miles north-east of Ypres, by the British. As the ...
Article : 343 wordsDestroyers which left Dover to search for the raiding German submarines have returned. Their quest was unsuccessful. A submarine attack on the ...
Article : 38 wordsA general overhaul of the equipment of the 4th Infantry Brigade. Which is encamped at Broadmeadows took place on Saturday, and a sports meeting ...
Article : 194 wordsA few hands in Geelong will be affected by the first declaration of the Opticians' Wages Board, which operates from January l5th. Foremen receive 70/ ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is report in Berlin im that the Turkish fleet has hombarded the Russian coast in the neighborhood of Batoum. They killed a number of ...
Article : 154 wordsVancouver, December 11th—Advices from Santa Cruz intimate that General Guiteriez, the acting-Mexican President, has ordered the Mexican forces, ...
Article : 49 wordsAdelaide. Saturday.—Francis H. Snow, a well-known business man, was charged at the police court to-day with having traded with the enemy. The ...
Article : 36 wordsMounted-constable Kerr, of Lismore, who sustained a broken shoulder b[?]ade on Friday, met with the mishap while on patrol duty. On the main road, ...
Article : 79 wordsThe House of Representatives Ruins Committee has refused Representative Gardner permission to raise the question of investigation into the United ...
Article : 187 wordsAnother lot of bottled beer, consigned from Melbourne to Geelong, has been tampered with in transit, and 27 bottles stolen. About twice a month these ...
Article : 83 wordsThe bright green lawn at the heard of the St. Kilda pier was yesterday afternoon the scene of a pretty spectacle when His Excellency the ...
Article : 168 wordsItaly is purchasing horses and wheat supplies in U.S.A on a huge scale. Signor Guillio Bologuese. Italian Consul at Chicago explains that Italy intends to ...
Article : 46 wordsMessrs. J. Bell. Randall and Walter. were on the Bench on Saturday Charged by T. F. Ryan, conductor of the Afternoon train from Ballarnt. Wm. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe "London Financial News." commenting on the announcement of Mr. Hughes, the Federal Attorney-General, regarding the metal industry, says the ...
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Advertising : 234 wordsThe Customs officials at Gravesend seized a huge box on a liner bound for Rotterdam. When it was opened a German officer stopped our. The box ...
Article : 58 wordsA horse attached to a bakers delivery cart became affrighted in M'Killopstreet on Saturday morning, when it sighted elephants attached to Wirth's ...
Article : 446 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" correspondent, at Amsterdam reports that violent riots have occurred between Prussians and Bavarians in the Antwerp ...
Article : 80 wordsAn official investigation has been ordered concerning Count Bernsterff's charges that dum-dum bullets were manufactured in America for the use ...
Article : 28 wordsSydney, Sunday.—The Aurora, carrying the members of the Ross Sea section of Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition will leave Sydney for Hobart to-morrow. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Indian Government has set aside 103.000 acres to be given as rewards for service in the present war. An additional area of 75,000 acres will be ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Dutch journal "Onsland" appeals to English and Smith Africans for kindly forbearance in dealing with the rebel leaders. General Botha's task is ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 14 Dec 1914, Page 3
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