Mr. W. Hartley, salesman representing the Wheat Commission, is very pleased with the results of the scrap wheat sales at the North Geelong ...
Article : 120 wordsThe deepest advance in connection with the new Allied offensive is 8000 yards, between Boesingbe (north of Ypres) and the Lys River (north of ...
Article : 269 wordsWriting on the 5th June to Mrs. M'Nicol, Brigadier-General M'Nicol says:—"Yesterday we were in civilisation; ...
Article : 629 wordsLondon, Wednesday. — Sir Douglas Haig reports:—"The Allied operations were successfully continued yesterday, despite unfavorable weather. We ...
Article : 382 wordsIn the House of Commons, in replying to questions regarding Mr. Arthur Henderson's visit to Paris, Mr. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ...
Article : 734 words"We gained new successes in East Galicia and Bukowina," states a German official message. "We crossed the Brucz River at many points along ...
Article : 131 wordsTuesday. — Announcing a brilliant success on the Aisne front and the repulse of German attacks, a French communique says:—"We attacked last ...
Article : 215 wordsOwing to the enlistments of officers from the 69th Battalion, several vacancies exist in the regiment for officers and N.C.O.'s. It has been decided to ...
Article : 91 words"We threw back the enemy, who crossed the Brucz River, northward of Husiat, and restored the situation," states an official message issued in ...
Article : 70 words"Adjutant" Thomas, of the Salvation 'Army, had charge of the meeting in the Congregational Church yesterday afternoon; the Rev. J. M'Bride presided: ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Buninyong will commence loading cargo at Yarra-street pier this morning, and sail to-morrow afternoon for Sydney and Brisbane. The ...
Article : 30 wordsA German official message says:—"After drum-fire strong attacks commenced on a wide front from the Yser to the Lys." ...
Article : 84 wordsReuter's correspondent at Petrograd says that M. Kerensky has returned. The Battalion of Death and 300 Reval sailors forced four lines of enemy ...
Article : 119 wordsDuring July 65 births were registered in Geelong, as compared with 64 for the corresponding period of the previous year. There were three deaths ...
Article : 84 words"As previous bombardments have been described to death this must be left to the imagination. It seemed as if 10,000 shells a minute were fired, the ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states:—"The American army in France makes its own docks, harbors and roads, and rebuilds the ...
Article : 264 wordsHerne Hill Methodist School Room was crowded to the doors on Tuesday night to hear the Pakington-street married men give their camp fire ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Will Thorne, Labor M.P., in a speech at Sheffield, said that 90 per cent. of the British trade unions approved of his recent visit to Russia. He ...
Article : 589 wordsTo-day members of the police force thoughout the State sit for examination to qualify for the milks of officer (sub-inspector), and sub-officer ...
Article : 82 wordsCorrespondents at the British headquarters telegraph under Tuesday's date:—"The tension of the past few days snapped at 3 o'clock this morning. ...
Article : 208 wordsLatest accounts agree that while the Germans fought well in sections, the fighting spirit showed a decline since the battle of the Somme. The ...
Article : 88 wordsYesterday the insolvency schedule of Norman Grant, farrier, of Gheringhap-street, Geelong, was filed with Mr. Cook, Clerk of Courts. Sickness in ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. Fuller, Acting Premier of New South Wales, stated in the House that the Railway Commissioners had replied to the unionists' ultimatum. The ...
Article : 159 wordsReplying to a suggestion in the House of Commens that native troops should be used instead of culling up Englishmen over 41 years, Mr. Steel Maitland. ...
Article : 105 wordsReuter's correspondent discusses French accomplishments, which he says have evoked the highest admiration. They threw 29 bridges across the Yser, ...
Article : 377 wordsT. Lewis, of North Geelong, was treated yesterday morning for a gash under his eye; a swinging bag of wheat knocked him against an iron girder ...
Article : 79 wordsReuter's correspondent at the British headquarters says:—"The final hurricane bombardment which reached its maximum shortly before the infantry ...
Article : 480 wordsMessrs. R. W. Dalton and Win. Moodie, honorary magistrates, attended at the police court yesterday morning. The only business listed was the ...
Article : 207 wordsA German wireless message claims that 5,000,000 tons of shipping have been sunk during the first half of 1917, whereof 3,000,000 tons were English. ...
Article : 113 wordsCrs. Hancock (Mayor), Madden. Rewe, Moreland, Breguet and Jennings were present at a special meeting of the council held last evening to arrange for ...
Article : 268 wordsCountry News, Commercial, Sporting. Shipping. Entertainments, Geelong and District War Funds, Etc. ...
Article : 18 wordsReuter's correspondent at Corunna, a Spanish seaport, states that a German submarine has arrived there, badly damaged. The commander and crow ...
Article : 34 wordsTwo dogs—one a valuable brown Kelpie—were impounded by the inspector at Geelong West yesterday, and if not claimed within 24 hours will be ...
Article : 185 wordsA statement issued by the Admiralty denies the German official statement that hospital ships have been abused in connection with the operations in ...
Article : 104 wordsA message from Cairo says that Prince Hussein Kamil Pasha, the Sultan of Egypt, has conferred the Order of the Nile (second class) upon ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Percy Robinson, the London "Times" correspondent, says the attack was launched on a front of 14,000 yards round the circuit of the Ypres salient ...
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