A retrograd communique states;— "North-west of Czernovitz we captured a sector of the enemy's position, and repulsed five desperate counter attacks, ...
Article : 206 wordsLast week the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, sent an urgent appeal to the Broken Hill miners not to persist in their present attitude. He urged the men to at ...
Article : 490 wordsThe Military Service (Compulsion) Bill has passed the committee stage in the House of Commons. Mr. Bonar Law paid a tribute to the ...
Article : 51 wordsTo face the matter very squarely, Victoria's Quota for the first month of the new year is one-third the men asked for. The first week of the State recruiting ...
Article : 983 wordsThe Governor-General, accompanied by Brigadier-Generla Williams, and attended by Captain Haskett-Smith, A.D.C., yesterday morning visited the school of ...
Article : 548 wordsAn official message received in New York yesterday from Rome stated that fighting between Austria and Montenegro has been resumed. ...
Article : 406 wordsMajor A. K. Greig, enlisting officer at Prahran, enrolled 18 recruits yesterday. 38 candidates being rejected. Amongst those who presented themselves was an elderly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsDuring the week Mr. Dykes, Methodist) missionary, of Elmhurst, and Rev. Esperson, Anglican minister, of Landsborough, have enlisted at the Ararat borough. The ...
Article : 110 wordsThe first call of the Lord Derby recruits was mode on Thursday. Lively scenes were witnessed at WHitehall and other recruiting centres. ...
Article : 147 wordsOne of the first volunteers who presented himself at the Town Hall Recruiting Depot yesterday was a Belgian named Charles de Cazenave. Short of stature, ...
Article : 561 wordsNine volunteers attended at the recruiting depot on Friday at the town hall, where Lieutenant-Colonel Bayne is in change. Four were rejected by the medical officer as ...
Article : 146 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday the Prime Minister said an opportunity would be given on Wednesday for a debate on the question of the blockade. He ...
Article : 173 wordsRecruiting in the shire of Donald is progressing favorably. Local committees, consisting of Cr. B. Lavery, Messrs. Hart, Clark, Lampe and Walder, have been ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to Lieutenant-Commander Cookson. Lieutenant Cookson was on board the gunboat Comet on 28th September, during the ...
Article : 143 wordsSixty-six affirmative replies have been received to the preset by the local recruiting committee. ...
Article : 17 wordsMr. T. Considine. President of the A.M.A. (Broken Hill), and Mr. J. J. O'Reilly, delegate for the union, arrived in Melbourne yesterday morning for the ...
Article : 144 wordsUp to the present 2615 war census cards have been returned to the Geelong committee, and of those 1015 have had to be readdressed to other centres. At the Geelong ...
Article : 58 wordsNo more vivid account of the evacuation of Anzac has yet been given than that contained in the diary of a New Zealand medical officer which has been published ...
Article : 1,242 wordsAt a special meeting of the Jrilderic recruiting committee, the mayor (Alderman Thorburn) and Messrs. Thornmur and Fitzgerald were appointed as an ...
Article : 37 wordsUp till noon on Friday the local recruiting committee has received 54 replied to the was census cards stating Yes to the first question, and about the same number have ...
Article : 83 wordsAmelia Robertson, late of the Waterloo Cup Hotel, Maribymong-road, Moonee, Ponds, widow. who died on 11th December last, left by will deted 1st December 1916, estate of the value ...
Article : 39 wordsThe King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice Dins refused an application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of an interned naturalised Britisher. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture is still receiving complaints from farmers regarding delays in the issue of wheat certificates. Mr. Hagelthorn states that these ...
Article : 247 wordsThe London correspondent, of the Coenhagen "Alternposten" gives a version of the B[?]along case. He says that a German submarine attacked an English shipp ...
Article : 114 wordsA proclamation has been issued by the Administrator of German (now British) New Guinea changing the name of Herbershohe, the former seat of government, ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Alfred Nevile one of the jobbers of the Stock Exchange of Melbourne, was presented with a wristlct watch by his confreres yesterday upon the occasion of his ...
Article : 63 wordsVolunteers on Friday totalled 5, 3 being accepted. For the week ended 20th inst. 68 men have volunteered here, and 35 have been accepted. Amongst the rejected on ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. S. Denny, commercial traveller, who represents Messrs. Hardt and Co., Melbourne, and lives at Camberwell, was [?]ad in an unconscious condition in the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) and Sir William Irvine addressed a recruiting meeting in the town hall to-night. Sir Alexander Peacock said he was ...
Article : 582 wordsTwenty-five recruits were examined there, and thirteen passed the final medical examination. ...
Article : 14 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Hats reports that fourteen aerial fights took place on Wednesday. Two enemy machines were brought down in the German lines. An enemy ...
Article : 44 wordsRecruiting is on the boom here, and many young men are responding to the call. Owing to the number available Tallangatta is to be made a training centre. It is ...
Article : 85 wordsThe captain of the steamer Clan Macfarlane, which with submarined in the Mediterranean, states that the vessel was torpedoed on the port side. A second ...
Article : 72 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Miners' Turf Club last night a resolution was passed providing for the formation of a Ballarat District Racing Association, to ...
Article : 295 wordsDuring an election speech at Parramatta to-night the State Premier (Mr. Holman) referred to the State's great recruiting record. This, he said, was the only State ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 761 wordsLord Rosebery, speaking at Edinburgh, said Britain might be exhausted, but she would be victorious. He thought she was almost bleeding to death from such a debt ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of Stale for India, announced in the House of Commons on Thursday that the rough weather recently experienced in ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is officially stated that a British submarine has gone aground on the coast of Holland. A British destroyer saved portion of the officers and crew, and a Dutch ...
Article : 38 wordsGermany has imposed a fine of 500,000 franes (about £20,0000 on the city of Brusels as a penalty for the assassination of Miss Cavell's betrayer. The Germans ...
Article : 55 wordsThe leading article in "The Age" yesterday, urging upon tho married man the potency of the call to him to enlist, was the topic of widespread ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Provincial Congress of flic South African party on Thursday discussed the truculent attitude of released robe's and sympathisers. General Botha admitted ...
Article : 47 wordsThe State Commandant, announced to-day that a gambling dispute which occurred among soldiers confined on Milson island, Hawkesbury River, led to a free ...
Article : 60 words"Fairplay," a commercial journal published in London, in an article discussing the present condition of trade, states:—"The general assumption is that the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe newspapers publish an account by Mr. Malcolm Ross, official reporter with the New Zealand forces, of the fighting on Christmas day at Matrub, on the western ...
Article : 159 wordsThe "Times," in its financial and commercial review for 1915, says that with strict economy there need not be any doubt of out financial resources standing ...
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Advertising : 277 wordsAt Caulfield 183 promises to enlist have been received, and 220 men say they are "willing to enlist later"; 209 are returned as "already enlisted." The quota for the ...
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Advertising : 140 wordsSix policeman in Manchester have been sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment for wholesale robberies from shops and warehouses. ...
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Advertising : 25 wordsAn analysis of the replies received to date by the Lorn Mayor's recruiting committee shows that in the metropolitan area there are 100 young men willing to enlist ...
Article : 45 wordsTwo hundred aud one men in Port Melbourne up, to noon yesterday had replied "Yes"—148 at once, and 53 later. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 22 Jan 1916, Page 11
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