Not receiving as was customary every Monday morning a letter from his mother, Mr. J. Surrock, relieving post master at Camperdo[?], wrote to a ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (Dr. T. J. Macnamara) assured the House of Commons on Wednesday that measures were being taken ...
Article : 310 wordsThe Commonwealth Government has decided upon a general extension of its functions in regard to price fixing in connection with the war. Senator ...
Article : 631 wordsThe War Committee of the Unionist Party has issued an urgent W[?]p in connection with the Dardanelles and mesopotamia debate. ...
Article : 97 wordsA communique issued from Petrograd on Wednesday that the Russians are rapidly advancing in Volhynia. General Letchitsky, descending ...
Article : 247 wordsIt is understood that Mr. Asquith will ask for a credit of many millions to prosecute the war during the recess. —Reuter. ...
Article : 975 wordsVigorous energy counter attacks against the positions captured by the British north of the Somme are reported by General Haig. "The enemy ...
Article : 305 wordsAfter three weeks of suffering in the Infectious Diseases Ward at the Geelong Hospital, Gwendoline Knight, 13 years of age, died at 3.30 yesterday ...
Article : 92 wordsIn the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. W JoynsonHicks (Unionist) asked whether the interned Germans Fraudenberg and Sutl ...
Article : 188 wordsMeetings of the City Council committees are to be held on Tuesday next, at 2.30 p.m. Cr. Howard Hitchcock has presented ...
Article : 40 wordsA berth was booked yesterday for the [?]orabool, which is expected with coal from Newcastle on Monday. The ketch, The Hawk, which was expected ...
Article : 75 wordsMr Stanley Washburn, the "Times" correspondent on the Russian front, describes in a despatch to London, the victory won by the Russian General ...
Article : 303 wordsThe infant death rate in Berlin showed a decrease during the [?]ast 12 months In May, 1915, the number of deaths was 16 per [?]; this year shows ...
Article : 89 wordsAdult trainees of the 1897 quota are requested to parade for a half-day drill at the Orderly Rooms to-morrow afternoon. As there are 200 trainees down ...
Article : 82 wordsA Park communique issued late on Wednesday night states that south of the Somme a minor operation south of Estrees resulted in the capture of some ...
Article : 232 wordsIn a later message Mr. Washburn gives an additional described of the Lipa river battlefield. He says:— "The entire countryside is alive at dawn, ...
Article : 152 wordsThe hon. treasurer of the Protestant Orphanage appeal acknowledges receipt of the following amounts from the sale of art union tickets:—Per Mrs. Myers, ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Minister for the Navy, Mr. J. A. Jenson, yesterday approved of regulations enabling chaplains to enter the navy and become permanent officers. ...
Article : 75 wordsPromoted by the Ladies' Sewing Circle of the Shenton Methodist Church a rammage sale was held in the Sunday school yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 74 wordsOn 28th October a State Public Service examination is to be held in Melbourne and various country contrees. The age [?]nitation will not apply to ...
Article : 104 wordsYesterday's business at the Police Court was dealt with by Messrs. W. Moddie. T. A. Evans, L. Walter and R. Piper. A soldier named John Hockley ...
Article : 155 words"Our Caucasian Army." states a Petrograd official bulletin, "has again advanced considerably to the south of Tre[?]ond and westward of Baiburt, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe following are included in the list of successful tenderers for military requirements:—Ballarat, W. Bradby, trading as T. Gunn and Co., potatoes, 6/3 ...
Article : 104 wordsParis, July 20th A fresh contingent of Russians landed at Brest. The troops will go into an instruction camp, the[?] to the front. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in German East Africa (Lient-General J. C. Smuts) has reported has Brigadier Crowe occupied ...
Article : 146 wordsMr. Fenwick Harrison, J.P., of Liverpool, who, at the begu[?]ng of the month, purchased the letter written by the late Lord K[?]chener calling for 300,000 recruits, and ...
Article : 511 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that the Government will not be permitted to shirk its duty of early carrying out the resolutions adopted at the Paris Conference ...
Article : 598 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at the British Headquarters, writing before the German attacks at Longueval and in the Delville Wood, pointed out the ...
Article : 419 wordsThe R.M.S. Malwa, is the next outgoing vessel for Europe, and mails close at the Geelong Post office 4.40 p.m., next Wednesday. ...
Article : 416 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, said yesterday that he had read with great pleasure the [?]ulogies that had been passed on the work done by ...
Article : 154 wordsThe latest development in connection with the submarine Deutschland's exploit in reaching America with a cargo of dye-stuffs, is a story from Berlin to ...
Article : 252 wordsAn imposing consignment of captured German guns is coming to England from France. Correspondents in their despatches mention having seen ...
Article : 256 wordsUnder an amending Naval Board order all ports of the Commonwealth are [?]ade naval ports, in which no alien enemy and no naturalised person of ...
Article : 57 wordsThe mission, consisting of BrigadierGeneral V. C. M. Sellhoim. Colonel Charles Ryan, and Mr. F. Fairbairn (Red Cross Commissioner), which Mr. ...
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Advertising : 145 wordsAfter hearing explanations from Mr. E. S Montagu (Minister of Munitions). a meeting representing employers in the engineering, shipbuilding, woolen, ...
Article : 65 wordsSuch of the cable news on this page so headed has appeared in the London "Times," and is cabled to Australia by special permission. It should be ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Fri 21 Jul 1916, Page 3
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