At the Executive Council meeting to-day the following appointments and promotions were made to the Australian Expeditionary Forces: ...
Article : 122 wordsThe memorial service held at St. Paul's on Tuesday to the fallen Australians and New Zealanders was deeply impressive. There was crowded congregation, ...
Article : 412 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued a progress report, in which it declares that the situation in Gallipoli has developed into trench wartare. ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), in 4 House of Commons on Tuesday, movement [?] vote of £250,000. which [?] being the total of war credits to ...
Article : 448 wordsOwing to the mountainous nature of the frontier country, the Italians who have invaded Austria are fighting at the altitudes from striking contrast to the ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Federal Executive granted to-day pensions to five widows or other dependents of private killed in action at Gallipoli. Preparations were also made for a ...
Article : 39 wordsIn referring to-day to the enlistment of officers from his department, the Postmaster-General (Mr Spence) said that about 493 of his men throughout the ...
Article : 75 wordsReplying to a question put Sir Henry Dalziel (Liberal), the Prime Minister said there was no truth whatever in the constant rumors that the Allies were ...
Article : 72 wordsAlthough Mr R. J. Fletcher, of the chemical works, North Geelong, declines to make any statement as to his discovery for neutralising the effects of the ...
Article : 63 wordsAthens advices report that the Breslau was seriously damaged ill the recent engagement in the Black Sea near the Bosphorus. Some Turkish, torpedpoers were ...
Article : 126 wordsA Geneva message reports that the Italians at Monfalcon[?], in the Gulf of Trieste, secured two light cruisers nearing completion, and also a liner. ...
Article : 119 wordsMuch importance is attached in French military circles to the fresh offensive in Lorraine, the object of which is said to be Avricourt, on the Lorraine frontier, ...
Article : 248 wordsAlderman Ogilvy, of Manly, who bas of late been conspicuous in urging that all Germans or Australians of military age should be interned, stated that he has ...
Article : 76 wordsIn the House of Commons on Tuesday the Prime Minister announced the British naval losses as promised last week. He said that the naval casualties to ...
Article : 34 wordsA communique issued at Berlin claims further successes on the Eastern front. It is stated that Gen von Maritz has captured Mosciska. ...
Article : 79 wordsA new move for bringing recruiting posters prominently under public notice has been adopted locally. A number of exceptionally striking pictorial posters ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsA story of an Italian victory gained without loss of life is related from Paris. A detachment of Alpine Chasseurs, by marching 14 hours daily, ascended a peak ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 12 wordsThe management of the Maryborough Foundry state. [?]though busy at present, they are quite willing to place their plant and staff at the disposal of the ...
Article : 43 wordsDuring the fighting near Shavli, in the Russian Baltic province, the Germans locked up 50 wounded prisoners in a farm, loft, and set fire to the building. ...
Article : 48 wordsA Berlin telegram received in Amsterdam states that five enemy airmen flow over and bombarded Karlsruhe, on the Rhine the capital of the Grand-Duchy ...
Article : 214 wordsAmount previously acknowledged ... .... .... ..... ... £3277 17 3½ Further sale of tickets for Mrs Knox's watch, ...
Article : 58 wordsBucharest message state that the Australians have landed on the Albanian coast at San Giovanni Di Medua, south of Skutari, and have distributed rifles, machine ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Premier, Mr M Holman, announces that good progress has been made by the committee of State and private experts and business men convened by him in ...
Article : 104 wordsRotterdam despatches report that the French forces, with the support of numerous guns, strongly attacked the German position near Dixmude and gained ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 401 wordsThe official enquiry into the sinking of tile Cunard liner Lusitania by a German submarine, or submarines, on 7th May was opened on Tuesday by the ...
Article : 245 wordsA Paris message reports that German long range guns from a distance of 15 miles shelled Comniegne, but no damage was done. The shells made holes 30 feet ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Housing Committee elicited further evidence to-day regarding the condition of affairs at Aspendale and tile stretch of beach past Currum during ...
Article : 445 wordsGeorge Von Lengerke Mayer, [?] of the American Navy in the Taft [?] delivered in address on [?] Defence in New York on ...
Article : 95 wordsA story of splendid British endurance on the part of an airman is told by "Eyewitness," the official reporter with the British headquarters staff at the front. ...
Article : 184 wordsDuring the past three weeks the 16th Canadian Scottish have performed magnificent bayonet work round Ypres, in West Flanders. ...
Article : 91 words"Daily News' states that trade [?] representatives have agreed to the [?] of unskilled labor, including [?] in the manufacture of munitions ...
Article : 126 wordsThe trawler Argyll, while plying its calling off the cast cost, was torpedoed without warning. The ship sank with in two minutes, and seven of the crew ...
Article : 82 wordsA Canadian at the front writes to say that when his company, captured a German trench in West Flanders they found that it contained eight reservoirs of ...
Article : 45 wordsThe fourth Austrian hydroplane to, be secured by the Italians was captured on Tuesday. It dropped into the sera after making a (light, over Venice. ...
Article : 26 wordsA German named Ahlgrion a waiter, was charged at a London Police Court on Tuesday with being found in possession of military matter. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe fall of Garua, on important German station on the Benue River, in the Cameroons, which capitulated on 11th June, ends a most arduous task while ...
Article : 86 wordsThe German Admiralty has admiralted the loss of tile submarine U14. [The above message undoubtedly refers to the submarine which the First ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 12 wordsThe trustees have decided to place the racecourse and grounds at East Geelong at the disposal of the Defence Department for the use of Australian, soldiers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 15 words[?] less arrogant tone is [?] in the German Press. [?] Harden in his jour[?] Die Zukunft" ("The Future"), ...
Article : 64 wordsSir Stanley Buckmaster, the Lord High Chancellor, has been raised to the peerage. He will adopt the title of Baron Buckmaster. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 13 wordsIt is announced from The Hague that Germany, through the American Ambasader at Berlin, has agreed to treat as ordinary prisoners of war the 39 British ...
Article : 78 wordsVarious aspect of the sugar industry are engaging attention. The Premier Mr Ryan, received a telegram from the secretary to the Mackay sugar Mills ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 words[?] of young men from the [?] Ireland for American has aroused [?] the Leader of the Irish ...
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The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1886; 1914 - 1918), Thu 17 Jun 1915, Page 3
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