A meeting of the general committe was held last night. There were present—Messrs. B. Cox (chairmen), R. T. Nash, J. Hammerton, J. W. ...
Article : 248 wordsThe first encounter smce the Allies' retirement occurred on the Doiran front on Sunday. when French patrols encountered Bulgarians. There were only ...
Article : 305 wordsAuckland. Monday.—Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the well-known war correspondent, arrived hero to-day, on [?]ute to Australia. In reply to all ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that, commencing on March 3, the classes under the Compulsion Act will be called up for service, corresponding with the ...
Article : 95 wordsIn colcnration of the silver jubilee of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce a [?] pregramme was earned out yesterdey, in oluding an inspection of some of the lesding ...
Article : 6,623 wordsThe outlook as regards Roumania has assumed an aspect of sudden importance. The Roumanian representative of the ...
Article : 511 wordsArrangements for the coucert which is to be gicen in the Mechanics' Hall on Thursday by the Ballarat P[?] a dainty costume comedy comp[?]tny for ...
Article : 160 wordsIt is reported at Copenhagen that a large German warship struck a mine and sunk in the Kattegat. She sent out qistress messages by wirelesss, but ...
Article : 35 wordsThe losses to British shipping caused by the war have been considerably below what was expected, says "Fairplay," the weekly shipping journal. ...
Article : 211 wordsWheat is still coming in freely at North Geelong, and up to date Messrs. John Darling and Sons' two stacks total 150,000 bags. Next comes J. Bell and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsDrilling operations have not yet been resumed by the N.D.A. members thisvear on account of the military officers being occupied with the recruiting ...
Article : 88 wordsSeveral acknowledgments canic by mail yesterday of the bliltes setit to the troops at Gallipoli by the iadies of Newtown and Chilwell at the mviration ...
Article : 204 wordsPolice searchers recovered early yes'erday morning at Avalon the body of Geo. Crump, a Lara Lake farmer, who was drowned on Sunday afternoon while ...
Article : 81 wordsLieutenant Berg. commander of the German prize erew which took the British liner Appam to Norfolk (Virginia) has asked permission, states ...
Article : 48 wordsAn official statement has been issned in London quoting a cabled appeal made to the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) by 4,000,000. Polish speaking ...
Article : 196 wordsTwo quarrymen were amongst the casualty cases at the Geelong Hosp[?]tal [?]sterday. A. J. Cooke, aged 35. of [?]ethbrifge, a man of exceptional ...
Article : 191 wordsThe committee of the Board of Agriculture. Which has conducted an incestigation into post-war land settlement, especially as regards soldiers who ...
Article : 368 wordsIt will be remembered the the Geelong District War Fund Board sent a number of Xma boxes to the nurses on active ...
Article : 183 wordsWilli reference to the case in which a returned soldier named Ptc Crosby was tried by field court-martial on board a transport, and sentenced to ...
Article : 162 wordsWages of the employes of the Public Works Committee of the City Coun[?]il were reviewed last night by a special sub-committee. consisting of ...
Article : 82 wordsA Paris communique reports:—"We have bombarded German trenches in the region of Maisons de Champagne, causing destruction. Our battleplane ...
Article : 398 wordsA French official wireless message states that several important munition factories at Nenchatel (25 miles west of Berne. Switzerland), employing ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. J. F. Farrer, M.L.A., has receiv od the following letter from the Acting Chief Inspector of Fisheries and Game —"Re the opening day for quail shoot ...
Article : 263 wordsWith chceriulness and a feeling—not mobserved—of having done the right thing, George Mitchell, a telegraph messenger, returned yesterday to the ...
Article : 59 wordsHeadquarters has selected the Geelong military camp as the centre of a training school for non-commissfoned officers. Commencing on February 14, the first school ...
Article : 210 wordsAn advance of 10[?] per head for bullocks was registered at the Geelong live stock sales yesterday, and lambs were firmer [?] per head. The tone ...
Article : 47 wordsIn Mr. Read Murphy's time in Geelong he was wont to compare the court work of Geelong and Bendigo the figures of the latter area were ...
Article : 282 wordsA terrific explosion has eceurred at the famous Austrian arsenal at Skoda As a result, three workshops which were manufacturing 12-inch hydraulic guns, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Sceretary for Labor (Mr. Murpby) has subanittei a report to the Premier contaming proposals for slopping strikes during war time The report will be considered at ...
Article : 383 wordsInspector McCalman will be informant at the police court this morning in two charges against a district grower who ontered tomatoes in one of the public. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe French newspapers insist. that if President Woodrow Wilson abandons his basis of principle in the negotiations with Germany, all his claims to ...
Article : 89 wordsProvided its scholars with a free picnie to Queenseliff on Saturday, when a large contingent left by the 2 p.m. tiam in carnages specially reserved for ...
Article : 157 wordsAltogether there are now 194 students at the High School, and others are still enrolling. The chemistry and physics laboratories have been ...
Article : 261 wordsAn official notice published in Lincolnshire towns states that persons seen flashing lights letting off rockets of [?]reworks, when hostile aircraft are ...
Article : 36 wordsDifficulties which have arisen in some distriets, in regard to fuel for essential industries have become pressing. Mr. Walter Runciman President of the ...
Article : 77 wordsCommon tiny on the Official Press Bureau's announcement that the British Government has been discussing with the Corn Trade and Millers' ...
Article : 143 wordsOn Thursday Mr. Hustice Cussen will preside at the Geelong Supreme Court for which three wises are listed—two relating in cheque transacrions and ...
Article : 57 wordsApple growers whose orchards have been established in sandy soil will not appreciate the discovery of the apple root berer in a sandy patch at Leopold ...
Article : 398 wordsA man, charged with assaulting his wife; adjourned for 12 wooks. In a debt case an application was made for the committal of a debtor on the ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Tue 8 Feb 1916, Page 3
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