The following is the programme arranged for Anzac Day (April 25) in London:— In the morning 1,300. Australians will arrive at the Waterloo railway station at 9 ...
Article : 1,098 wordsLord Sydenham (formerly Governor of Victoria) makes some interesting comment on the current situation. "Earnest thinkers in all parts of the ...
Article : 484 wordsFighting on the Northern front, between the Russians and Germans, is growing in intensity. A Petrograd message says that the ...
Article : 106 words"Two German divisions," says a Paris communique, issued at midnight on Monday, "attacked our positions north and northeast of Verdun, from the Me[?]se to ...
Article : 265 wordsWithin the next few hours the result of the British Cabinet crisis, which hat arisen over the question of conscription for the army, should be ...
Article : 240 wordsThe appeal for returned soldiers, which was decided upon at a conference of representatives of the Commonwealth and State Governments, and of the Federal ...
Article : 2,085 wordsThe crisis in the British Cabinet on the question whether compulsion should be extended continues. During Monday afternoon the situation ...
Article : 1,316 wordsSir,—There were over 10,000 spectators at the boxing match at the West Melbourne Stadium on Saturday evening. The gate receipts amounted to £1,133. Two or three ...
Article : 195 wordsThe brief references in the official communiques fail to do justice to the recent fighting in the Caucasus. Fuller Petrograd advices are that the ...
Article : 187 wordsSir,—Last week 686 men volunteered for the army. I wonder if the general public have ever tried to estimate the cost per head for obtaining the men. It has been ...
Article : 185 words"On the night of April 15," it is reported officially from Paris, "one of our armoured aeroplanes, at a height of 300ft., fired 16 shells at an enemy ship in the North Sea. ...
Article : 199 wordsLieutenant-General C. V. F. Townshend, commander of the 10,000 British troops who have been besieged at Kut-el-Amara since the first week in December, in his ...
Article : 204 wordsSir,—"Compulsory" strikes a true note when he suggests that the fathers and brothers of our men already fighting should form a union in which they can by ...
Article : 190 wordsWARRAGUL, Tuesday.—The conscription movement initiated by the Warragul Shire Council in February has been productive of striking results. At that meeting ...
Article : 467 wordsTwo American citizens were on board the Russian steamer imperator, which, according to official advices received at Washington, was shelled by an Austrian ...
Article : 385 wordsGreece has decided not to oppose the transportation of Serbian troops by the Greek railways through Athens to Salonika, but to content itself with entering a formal ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Premier of Queensland (Mr. J. T. Ryan) has arrived here en route to England. He refused to explain the nature of his mission, but announced that he carried a letter ...
Article : 383 wordsLieut.-Colonel P. N. Buckley, the military representative attached to the Commonwealth Offices in London, is at present paying a visit to the West front. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe House of Lords has passed through all stages a bill transferring the control of the Imperial Institute from the Colonial Office to the Board of Trade and the Pacific ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. McKenna) stated in the House of Commons on Tuesday that he was willing to consider a request to receive a deputation ...
Article : 41 wordsAccording to "Le Matiu," the rate of exchange on London has recently risen in Paris to 2[?] francs to the £1, which reacts unfavourably on French trade and on the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe wheat freight problem is no nearer solution. Apparently the British Government is still disinclined to commandeer ships. It is understood that the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "London Gazette" publishes the notification that, in furtherance of the sentence of a general court-martial, the following Australian officers have been ...
Article : 49 wordsMOAMA (N.S.W.), Tuesday.—At the police court to-day, Charles Wilks was fined £100 on a charge of having used words likely to prejudice recruiting. Considerable ...
Article : 138 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Victorian Lacrosse Association, held at the Amateur Sports Club of Victoria last evening, the following motion, submitted by Mr. W. B. ...
Article : 352 wordsSir,—I am a married man but to my knowledge not termed a "cold-footer." In fact, it is my desire, and has been from the commencement of the war, to do my share ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 12 wordsAfter a long delay in construction, the new military hospital at Caulfield, which is to be known as the Overseas Hospital, has been opened. The first batch of patients ...
Article : 201 wordsEaster leave at the military camps will extend over Good Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and training will be resumed on Monday morning. A letter, signed "Soldier's ...
Article : 168 wordsFollowing on the suggestion of the acting State commandant (Brigadier-General Williams), that soldiers in camps of training should be taught to sing popular songs, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe capabilities of the McGuinness trench destroyer were exhibited yesterday at the Royal Park by the inventor. This machine, it is alleged, will [?] bricks, iron[?] ...
Article : 168 wordsWarrant-Officer Guy Barton Hardy, formerly a mechanical engineer of Adelaide, has committed suicide by shooting in a West End hotel in London. He died in ...
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Advertising : 410 wordsSir,—Councillor Gill, of Port Melbourne, proposed and carried a resolution yesterday at the meeting of the Political Labour Council that every Labour member who ...
Article : 380 wordsDROUIN, Tuesday.—The president of the Bu[?] Bu[?] Shire, Councillor J. Y. Woolstencroft, having been accepted for active service, has resigned as president. At the meeting on Monday, the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 19 Apr 1916, Page 9
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