A general meeting was held in the Central Hall on Friday evening. Mr. W. H. Cleverdon, vice-president. occupeid the chair. It was reported the ...
Article : 196 wordsMr. Walter Runcimnn, President of the Board of Trade, announced on Friday that the Government had already given the French Admiralty and ...
Article : 510 wordsLondon states:—The "Morning Post" correspondent at Buda Pesth reports that the general opinion is that Gorizia is doomed. Violent engagements ...
Article : 482 wordsWashington says:—President Wilson is calling a conference of Secretaries for War and the Navy, regarding the preparedness of the United States for ...
Article : 537 wordsThe "Morning Post" correspondent at Petrograd reports that German progress has ceased. It can now he said that the Grand Duke Nicholas has simply ...
Article : 947 wordsRecruiting was exceedingly tame at the Orderly Rooms on Saturday, and most of the eleven who passed were country lads. Where were the city men of fighting age and ...
Article : 336 wordsOn Saturday afternoon a presentation was made to Miss Myrtle Trounce by the members of the junior competition c[?]ir, who were successful in securing ...
Article : 142 wordsAmsterdam says:—The Crown Prince has issued a flamboyant army order to his troops in the Argonne, stating: "In 10 months' heavy and sanguinary ...
Article : 355 wordsIt is very rarely that the general public has an opportunity of witnessing one of the religious services of the Masonic Lodges. An opportunity will occur next ...
Article : 83 wordsPossibly the gloomy financial outlook explains the lack of interest in the Geelong hospital executive elections: no outsiders are anxious to give a hand, ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Garnet L. Nightingale, of the Geelong Sewerage Trust's draughtsmen's staff, leaves for camp to-day. On Saturday Mr. R. T. M'Kay, on behalf of the sta[?]s, presented ...
Article : 241 wordsAfter a week spent in Corio Bay the American 5-masted schooner sailed at midday on Saturday for Port Townsend, America. She carried only ...
Article : 76 wordsA communique issued in Paris on Thursday, reports:—"We have occupied portion of an enemy trench at Bagatelle (in the Argon[?]e), altering the ...
Article : 83 wordsA light rustic conveyance, drawn by a spirited pony, and in charge of a g[?] named Baker, whose father is employed by a local carrying firm, was capsized ...
Article : 93 wordsThere was a good [?]ster of members of the Corio Bay Rowing Club at the boathouse to bid farewell to their secretary, Mr. H. T. Burn, and assistant secretary, ...
Article : 146 wordsAccording in a Rome despatch Greece has sent eight destroyers to demonstrate at Smyrna as a protest against the Turkish ill-treatment of Greeks. ...
Article : 40 wordsA German Taube aeroplane flew over the French lines at Ste. Manehoud and Neuvill[?]point on Friday, and directed the German artillery fire. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Tsar has decorated Commander Max Horton with the Order of St. George. Berlin still persists in declaring that no warship has been sunk in ...
Article : 209 wordsOn Saturday the insolvency schedule of Alexander Eason, M'Killop-street, Geelong, laborer, was filed with the chief clerk of courts, Mr. A. M. Cook. ...
Article : 53 wordsColonel Swinton, the official reporter at the British headquarters, in a despatch to London, states that the week ending July 18th was uneventful. Some ...
Article : 118 wordsA White Paper, which has been issued, states that Sir Edward Grey (Secretary for Foreign Affairs) recently forwarded to Mr. W. H. Page ...
Article : 233 wordsMY. H. Harrison, town clerk at [?]ew, who has been su[?]fering from rheumatism, paid a week-end visit to his brother, Mr. W. H. Harrison, of the ...
Article : 375 wordsThe recruiting figures in Melbourne on Saturday were:—Town Hall, 296 accepted; 162 rejected. Barracks—190 accepted, 50 rejected. The total for the day was 486. ...
Article : 27 wordsOn Saturday 218 volunteers presented themselves in Sydney, The total for the week was 2378. ...
Article : 17 wordsAthens sends on advices from Constantinople, which indicate that the Turks are preparing a general attack in Gallipoli The Turks realise that ...
Article : 303 wordsSir Arthur Stanley the Governor, in responding to the toast of his health, proposed by Mr. M. K. M'Kenzie, M.L.A., at a [?]eception given to his Excellency by Cr. James ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Germans in Brussels, states an Amsterdam message, are offering £500 for information respecting a private wireless station, for which the Germans ...
Article : 83 wordsStatistics which have been published regarding the export of explosives for the eleven months ending May, show that shipments were, only 24,000,000 ...
Article : 87 wordsThat no formal acknowledgment of a letter sent to the department by Mr. G. V. Russell, inventor of an improved hand grenade, was given, was admitted ...
Article : 105 wordsCapetown: Captain Kemp has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and a fine of £1000. Pretoria: The unexpired sentences of ...
Article : 285 wordsGeneral Smuts, speaking at a citizens' banquet in Capetown on Saturday night, said when the defence system was developed in a decade, South Africa ...
Article : 187 wordsA well attended meeting of the nursing division of the St. John Ambulance Society was held in the Gordon College on Saturday night. Miss Winter was in the chair, and ...
Article : 365 wordsA return has been prepared giving full details of the personnel raised for the Australian medical service in connection with the Australian Imperial ...
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Advertising : 226 wordsAdvices from Constantinople to Athens state that the cruiser Breslau was torpedoed in the Black Sea, and returned to the Bosphorus with a large ...
Article : 56 wordsSydney, Sunday. — Mr. M'Donald, Labor member for Bingara in the Assembly, has been called to appear before the State ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Anti-Slavery Society, in a letter to Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary for the Colonies), urged him to order the liberation of any forced labor found in ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is announced in a Petrograd communique that on July 19th the Russians defeated the Turks who had crossed to the left bank of the Euphrates, in ...
Article : 72 wordsThe London Press Bureau announces that Shiek Hothmnn, near Aden, was reoccupied on the 21st. The Turks were easily repelled and pursued for five ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 26 Jul 1915, Page 3
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