On Sunday afternoon the memorial service for Australians who fell in the Boer War will be couducted at Kardinia Park before the memorial statue. An ...
Article : 177 wordsA Russian official message says:—"Our artillery repulsed an attempted attack eastward of Kalncem, southeast of Riga. Our fire dispersed an ...
Article : 410 wordsMrs. A. Holden, president of the Geelong branch of the Red Cross Society, and the joint secretaries (Miss E. Lascelles and Mr. R Sabeston) had a ...
Article : 424 wordsIt is announced that the French naval vessel Colbert (5394 tons) was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on April 30. Fifty-one men were drowned. ...
Article : 80 wordsReuter's correspondent at the British headquarters in France, telegraphs:—"An operation of considerable tactical importance was launched early this ...
Article : 202 wordsSunday.—"There has been a most violent artillery struggle in the region of the Chemin des Dames, and on the whole front between La Bovelle, Cerny ...
Article : 212 wordsOn Saturday students of the Ballarat High School defeated the Geelong High School at football on the Geelong Oval. The visitors, who arrived by the ...
Article : 106 wordsHave been sent to date, and still there are more to follow. The additional ones will be very welcome, as our soldiers tool the cold intensely, and the knitted ...
Article : 44 wordsBy the end of next grain season it is expected that over 3,000,000 additional bags of wheat will come to Geelong, and new sites will have to be ...
Article : 141 wordsIt is reported from Copenhagen that the destruction of Zeppelin L22 off Esb[?]erg recently was clearly seen from the Danish coast. The Zeppelin came ...
Article : 131 wordsA pony and jinker belonging to Mr. J. Blyth were left outside an office at the corner of Yarra and Little Malop streets yesterday afternoon, when a ...
Article : 93 wordsThough part of the "Glue Pot" at Little River has been repaired, the worst section, at the old creek crossing, is still untouched. The recent ...
Article : 86 wordsThe big bulldog, built by Mr. Bar[?]lay, is going to Terang by to-night's train a take port in the Empire Day celebrations there on Thursday. After ...
Article : 89 wordsMay 20th, 5 p.m.—"We maintained the captured position near Braye against a strong French attack," says a German official message. "The enemy ...
Article : 31 words"The whole of the fighting at Roeux and Bullecourt was full of strange and incredible instances During one counter-attack at Roeux, the Germans ...
Article : 287 wordsA French naval communique states:—[?]On the morning of the 20th May a patrol of four French torpedo boats encountered a flotilla of German ...
Article : 77 wordsLondon, May 20th, 5 p.m.—"We heavily repulsed several attacks at a hill eastward of the Cerna," says a German official report. ...
Article : 24 wordsA meeting of delegates from the district fire brigades was held at the city station last evening, Captain Paterson presiding. It was decided that all the ...
Article : 106 wordsAllan Chisholm, winner of scholarships at the Church of England Grammar School from the Ashby State School, and at the Gordon College, has ...
Article : 170 wordsThe official silence regarding the Palestine campaign is being commented upon by military experts in Britain, who are asking the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe great international meeting of Socialists, announced as a "peace conference," was opened at Stockholm on Friday. M. Branting, the Swedish ...
Article : 512 wordsThe Moorabool is due to arrive on Monday with coal. ...
Article : 12 wordsThe Irish situation remains unchanged. Nationalists and the followers of Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., favor the holding of a convention, and are utterly ...
Article : 329 wordsOver 350 trucks of wheat, containing fully 75,000 bags, arrived at Geelong on Sunday, and some of the men have had to work 12 hour shifts to meet the rush. ...
Article : 113 wordsLondon, Sunday.—An Italian official message says:—"We extended our positions at Vodice, and drove back masses of the enemy who were attempting to ...
Article : 249 wordsSome months ago the Central War Council secured the co-operation of the Gordon College in initiating classes for instructing returned soldiers in ...
Article : 101 wordsThe strictest martial law prevails in Jerusalem. All schools are closed and newspapers are prohibited. The railway stations are crowded with Arabs and ...
Article : 126 wordsMay 20th, 3.30 p.m.—Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—"Our artillery broke up an attack upon our advanced posts south-eastward of Epehy ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Corio Bay Anglers' Club, in reply to the Hon. H. F. Richardson's notification that the Cabinet had refused their petition to reduce the ...
Article : 86 wordsFriends and relatives of the soldiers of the 8th Brigade are invited to join the Comforts Committee, which meets on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 in the ...
Article : 60 wordsGerman official messages:—Sunday.—"The fighting activity has increased on the Arras front. We completely repulsed a strong English attack in the ...
Article : 63 wordsJust before the election the Divisional Returning Officer (Mr. Way) had set aside the names of a number of electors for prosecution for breaches of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Daily Mail," in a leading article, states that there is dissatisfaction amongst the men at the Front at the omission in English newspapers of ...
Article : 118 wordsHouseholders find kerosene is steadily rising. Last week there was another increase, largely due to the great advance in freight charges. In normal ...
Article : 100 wordsMay 21st.—"As the result of an early morning attack we occupied a further section of the Hindenberg line on a front of more than a mile between ...
Article : 101 wordsWashington, May 21st.—The American Government has received information that Greece is on the brink of revolution; that guns have been mounted ...
Article : 102 wordsOn Saturday the Sunday school teachers and scholars of S. Stephen's Church were entertained by Miss Genfell, who is shortly leaving for Melbourne. Miss ...
Article : 167 wordsThe examinations of trainees was begun last night at the Naval Drill Hall by Captain Richardson, D.N.O., and a board of examiners. Those inspected ...
Article : 110 wordsRome, Sunday.—After unanimously adopting proposals for an Economic Union, based on an understanding regarding the international system of ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Beach Thomas, the "Daily Mail's" correspondent, at the British headquarters in France, telegraphs:—"Bullecourt is now almost invisible. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Canadian Northern Company proposes to establish a trans-Pacific line to the extent that demands warrant as soon as ships are available. The work ...
Article : 123 wordsIt has been decided by the British Government to recruit coal miners medically classified as being in the A class, who entered the industry since ...
Article : 288 wordsThis afternoon the various permanent committees of the City Council are to meet for the transaction of general business. Some of the councillors are ...
Article : 84 wordsA meningitis patient, a child, died at the Hospital yesterday. The other case of this disease is not regarded as very serious. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe "Deutsche Kirchen-Zeitung" states that the Roman Catholic clergy in Germany have inaugurated a powerfully organised peace movement. ...
Article : 90 wordsCountry News, Entertainments, Shipping, Commercial, General News, Friendly and Debating Societies, Geelong and District War Funds, ...
Article : 29 wordsThe members of the Licensing [?] arrived in Geelong last night. They will commence a deprivation sittings at the Supreme Court this morning at 10 ...
Article : 208 wordsLast week a knitting bag containing a balaclava cap and needles was left at the City Hall. Owner can have same by applying. ...
Article : 204 wordsThe new position captured on Sunday is part of an isolated section of the Hindenborg line, three or four miles long. Hitherto it had resisted all ...
Article : 59 words(Such of the cable news on this page [?]o headed has appeared in the London "Times," and is cabled to Australia by special permission. It should be ...
Article : 50 words"Unless factory owners immediately post copies of the latest Wages Board determinations in a conspicuous part of their establishments I intend to ...
Article : 81 wordsAt the inquest concerning the death of Robt. Walker, licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, who was stabbed by Wm. Gruner, aged 19, a soldier, during ...
Article : 130 wordsLondon, May 21st, 1.15 a.m.—It is announced by the Official Press Bureau that the German official casualties for April number 42,838, of which 11,979 ...
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Article : 69 wordsReuter's correspondent at Washington states that 2600 marines will accompany General Pershing's division, making, with Engineers, a total of 40,000 ...
Article : 33 wordsEight debt cases were heard at the Police Court yesterday; three were settled, one was struck out, and four orders for amounts claimed were made. ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Tue 22 May 1917, Page 3
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