Now that it has been formed and duly approved of, the State Munitions Committee is apparentely in a quandary. According to the chairman (Mr. Baillieu, M.L.C.), the ...
Article : 310 wordsMr. John Dillon, M. P. (Nationalist), speaking at Limerick, praised Ireland's response to the recruiting appeal. He said that 4,000 men bad enlited in ...
Article : 116 wordsFrom Athens comes confirmation of preparations for another Turkish attack on the Allies' positions on the Gallipoli Peninsula large drafts are being withdrawn from ...
Article : 72 wordsThe majority of the German newspapers abstain from comment on the latest American Note regarding submarine warfare. The Vote announces the intention of the ...
Article : 322 wordsThe names of the two officers" suspended by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) in connection with the treatment of the wounded soldiers who returned ...
Article : 214 wordsThe fighting in Poland is still indecisive. Great interest attaches to the German operations In the north. In their efforts to cross the Narew River and cut the railway between Warsaw and the Russian capital, the Germans have met with a measure of success, having broken through the ...
Article : 177 wordsEngagements on the Austro-Itahin front continue in favour of the Italians. It is announced that since the beginning of the war 18,000 Austrians, including 700 officers, ...
Article : 191 wordsA convention has been signed in Constantinople ceding the Turkish portion of the Dddeagatch railway to Bulgaria. The correspondent of "The Times" at ...
Article : 167 wordsInstructions to complete the projected alliance with the Miners' Federation of Great Britain and the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants have been given to the ...
Article : 81 wordsIt is reported from Mitylene that the British submarines operating in the Sea of Marmora have sunk two barques, which were laden with ammunition for the Turks ...
Article : 60 wordsThe correspondence in the London "Morning Post" on the subject of the treatment of Australian wounded in England is increasing Attention was first ...
Article : 144 wordsBaron von Wagenheim, formerly German Ambassador at Constantinople, has visited Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, where he had an audience with King Ferdinand. He also ...
Article : 75 wordsThe "Daily Express" on Friday reported that Baron von Bissing, a half-brother of General Baron von Bissing, the German Governor-General of Belgium, had ...
Article : 85 wordsAfter their experience of the first batch of wounded returning from Gallipoli it is to be reasonably expected that the authorities will make adequate arrangements for the ...
Article : 171 wordsThe capture by the Italians of Monte St. Michel, east of Gradisea, on the border of the Doberdo plateau, was only made after a desperate struggle. ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated yesterday that he had received the plans for the 18-pounder high explosive shell and that copies were being made for ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that the situation in the eastern theatre of war remains obscure. The battle line is advancing and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 535 wordsThe French destroyer Disson shelled the island of Laggsta, in the Adriatic, and destroyed an Austrian supply depot for submarines and aeroplanes. The cables ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Pans newspaper "Temps," publishes an interview with M. Take Jonesen, a Roumanian statesman, who says:—"An Allied victory is certain Russia and ...
Article : 116 wordsAs the result of the decision of the Cabinet that the number of race meetings in the State must be considerably reduced, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Murray) ...
Article : 494 wordsIt has been explained that the explosion of a British mine west of the Chateau Hooge (three miles east of Ypres) in West Fianders on the evening of July 19, was of ...
Article : 223 wordsAfter a period of inactivity on the part of the Connan submarine raiders, no losses of shipping from that cause having been reported for a week, there has been a renewal ...
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Advertising : 291 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that the birthday of the Queen of the Belgians was celebrated in the churches throughout Belgium. The town councils of Brussels and ...
Article : 52 wordsWhen the Germans employed gas clouds on the Narew front the Russians rushed out to meet the cloud, and dived through it, holding wet rags to their faces. They fell ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the attack on Gorian, capital of the province of Gorizia, which has been carried on fiercely by the Italians for days, an incident occurred revealing the spirit which ...
Article : 115 wordsSunday was observed as a day of national prayer, and the principal feature of the day's proceedings was a great public service upon the steps of St. Paul's ...
Article : 351 wordsA Norwegian traveller reports that there is serious dissatisfaction among German civilians in consequence of the enormous losses. They expected a short war. The ...
Article : 58 wordsGeneral Russky, the Russian Minister for War, declares that an arbitrary cessation of work is tantamount to treason, and decisive steps will be taken to compel the ...
Article : 40 wordsOur hydroplanes flew over Riva (20 miles south west of Trent), and dropped 18 bombs on the railway station, with excellent results. ...
Article : 82 wordsIn spite of the criticism which has been freely voiced, it is believed that the Government will adhere to its intention of adjourning Parliament on Wednesday until ...
Article : 36 wordsIn a further despatch, Field-Marshal Sir John French deals with the fighting in Belgium during the latter part of last week. He says:— ...
Article : 144 wordsAccording to a message from Rome, a German submarine, with a crew of 40, was captured on the night of July 11. The submarine attempted to attack an ...
Article : 57 wordsThe first Dreadnought for the Russian Black Sea fleet has been commissioned. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe fallowing cable messages appeared in the later editions of The Argus' on Monday:— ESCAPE FROM GERMANY ...
Article : 607 wordsA Paris communique reports a success in the Vosges. It states:— "In the Vosges, at Bandesapt, we captured very powerful defensive works, and ...
Article : 90 wordsAt a meeting of the Cabinet subsequently the Clnef Secretai) (Mr. Murray) reported that he had conferred with representatives of metropolitan proprietary racing clubs ...
Article : 111 wordsDetails of the experiences of Mr. Geoffrey Pyke, a war correspondent, and Mr. Edward Falk, a civilian, who have reached Holland after escaping from the camp at Rubleben, ...
Article : 366 wordsThe Italian Government has decided to make large purchases of American meat and grain to supply the anny and navy until July, 1010, also for the general population, ...
Article : 82 wordsSIMLA July 25.—The press throughout India continue to insist on the more rigorous internment of all Germans as a proper precautionary measure. ...
Article : 249 wordsIn a Berlin communique the following movements are recorded:— "We blew up an enemy blockhouse in the Argonne. ...
Article : 43 wordsSir,—I notice that at the request of the Government the leading metropolitan rating clubs are taking steps to reduce the number of their race meetings. The ...
Article : 182 wordsThe cost of the operations, of the Union troops in South Africa is given in an official statement, published in Pretoria. The Union casualties during the fighting. ...
Article : 272 wordsA private cable message was received yesterday from Cairo by Mr. Campbell McCay, of the Town Hall, Melbourne, stating that his brother, Brigadier-General McCay, had ...
Article : 117 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.—Replying to a deputation which urged the Government to increase the Dominion's military assistance to the Empire, the ...
Article : 120 wordsCASTLEMAINE. Monday. — Brigadier-General J. W. McCay's family were notified by the Defence department late on Sunday night that he had been injured for the ...
Article : 75 wordsLocal bodies throughout Britain are cooperating, in national retrenchment and are curtailing or abandoning many construction and improvement schemes, aggregating ...
Article : 69 wordsMany of the men who enlisted under the stimulus of the recruiting campaign were given leave of absence in which to finally arrange their affairs before going into camp. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 27 Jul 1915, Page 7
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