The Reichstag on May 7 debated in secret the German reply to America's Note regarding submarine warfare. According to reports received at Berne ...
Article : 374 wordsThe New Zealanders, who were the last of the Anzacs to arrive in France, entered the front trenches at an important point in the British line a few days ago. ...
Article : 410 wordsRecruiting, as is customary on Fridays, was very poor yesterday, only 79 men being accepted in Victoria for active service. The following are the figures for the various ...
Article : 585 wordsIt is announced officially at Paris that on February 21, three days after the German attack on Verdun, General Joffre issued the warning that any officer ordering a ...
Article : 318 wordsIn the course of a debata in the House of Commons, which threatened to assume formidable proportions, Mr. Asquith announced that he was ...
Article : 218 wordsConsiderable excitement had attended the meeting of the House of Commons on Thursday, owing to the fact that Mr. John Dillon (Nationalist) had secured a promise ...
Article : 1,873 wordsMore speeches on the conscription issue were delivered in the House of Representatives yesterday during the debate on the Treasurer's Budget statement in committee ...
Article : 1,947 wordsSir,—The motion carried on the voices of irresponsible representatives of the Trades Labour Union Congress could never convince the public that we have 253,018 ...
Article : 130 wordsThe London evening newspapers on Thursday discussed the views expressed by Mr. Hughes at the meeting at the Queen's Hall on the previous day. Extracts from some ...
Article : 368 wordsGeneral Smuts, the South African Minister for Defence, who is commanding the British forces in German East Africa, reports:— ...
Article : 96 wordsFurther consideration was given to the soldiers' repatriation scheme of Mr. Hannah, M.L.A., by the general committee appointed to develop the scheme at a meeting ...
Article : 283 wordsSir,—The remarks of Mr. Brennan, M.H.R., in the Parliamentary debate on conscription would certainly be most laughable were it not for the great issue now at ...
Article : 553 wordsOf the 210 Anzacs who arrived yesterday morning, 148 were Victorians, it South Australians, and 21 Tasmanians. This contingent was one of the last three or four to ...
Article : 568 wordsConsiderable interest was shown yesterday in a case at the South Melbourne Court. Mrs. Anna Schmitt, a naturalised Austrian, was charged with having, by ...
Article : 467 wordsThe Miners' Federation of Great Britain has taken a card vote on the conscription issue. The result was:— Against conscription.... 583,000 ...
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Article : 150 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) announced that [?] the Government was causing the Union Jack to be flown from public ...
Article : 44 wordsOn Thursday, the Queensland Premier (Mr. Ryan) had interviews with the president of the Bcard of Trade (Mr. Runciman), the Parliamentary Secretary for ...
Article : 118 wordsWENTWORTH (N.S.W.), Friday.—The Premier of South Australia (Mr. Crawford Vaughan), with the New South Wales Ministers for Land (Mr. Ashford) and ...
Article : 418 wordsSir,—It would be almost amusing, were the times less tragic, to witness the painful anxiety of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council to shelve conscription. A very ...
Article : 546 wordsA great fire has occurred at Hamburg, Germany's principal commercial seaport. Copenhagen advices are that the docks have been destroyed, in addition to two ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsSir,—Mr. Herbert Brookes's letter of today is what might be expected from patriots of his type, who, while eulogising our soldiers, do not hesitate to voice the ...
Article : 296 wordsThe "Evening Standard" announces that the British Government has seemed a ship to succour Sir Ernest Shackleton and the members of his trans-Antarctic ...
Article : 54 wordsWhile on duty at the corner of Russell and Bourke streets yesterday afternoon, Constable Boal noticed sitting in a passing cart an elderly man who was apparently ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsShortly before noon yesterday, Daniel Rudd, assisted by two other men, was shifting a boiler at the Newport workshops, and just as this was almost in its new position ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Expeditionary Forces will hold a sports meeting this afternoon at Broadmeadows, commencing [?] about half-past 1 o'clock. The public are invited to attend. A train leaves Spencer street for ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Engineers' Comforts Fund, which forwards parcels for Victorian engineers and signalling engineers in the trenches[?] has its depot at the Engineers' Depot. Alexandra avenue, Melbourne, which ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 13 May 1916, Page 17
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