The Numurkah police were to-day informed that a family had been murdered in Yonarang, four miles from Katamatite, early this morning. Senior Constable ...
Article : 427 wordsThe official Press Bureau reports:--"After a period of quiet, fighting has recommenced in Northern France. The Allies made a combined attack on Monday ...
Article : 894 wordsThe Australian camp at the Pyramids presents a Wonderful sight. Miles of white tents are intersected with streets and thousands of white pebbles are arranged ...
Article : 60 wordsA Petrograd communique states:--"Our success in the Mlawa region is maintained. Large German forces are concentrating on the left bank of the Vistula. Fierce ...
Article : 230 wordsThe New York "Times'' in a scathing article declares that Germany is doomed to sure defeat in the war being bankrupt in statesmanship, overmatched in arms and ...
Article : 78 wordsThe principal subject discussed at the meeting of State Ministerialists held at Parliament House yesterday, was the extension of the Price of Foods Acts beyond ...
Article : 229 wordsReports which the government of India receives regularly from the provinces indicate that the internal situation of the country continues satisfactory. ...
Article : 248 wordsHow the farmers in Australia could assist the people of Great Britain and Ireland during the difficult period which is bound to follow the reopening of the ...
Article : 578 wordsFollowing on a request by Mr. Prendergast in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Attorney-General promised to lay on the table of the Parliamentary Library ...
Article : 356 wordsIt is reported from Basle that there have been frequent revolts among the Bohemian and Moravian troops, who in several cases have refused to fire their rifles. A Bohemian ...
Article : 61 wordsThe United States Navy department learned officially of the arrival at Guam, in the Marianue Islands, of the German converted cruiser Cormorant. The ...
Article : 267 wordsA Constantinople telegram states that the Khedive attended the opening of the Turkish Parliament. The Sultan, in a speech, declared that when Turkey was ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Italian Senate has by a unanimous vote given the Cabinet complete political power to deal with the foreign situation and also with financial measures. ...
Article : 76 wordsAt the outbreak of the war Mr. Tinsley, an English director of the Uranium Steamship Co., who resides in Rotterdam, placed the company's hotel in that city at ...
Article : 170 wordsIt is no longer necessary to conceal the feal that "Eye Witness," who sends to the Imperial Press Bureau the privileged descriptions of the work of the army at the ...
Article : 623 wordsIn the Senate yesterday Senator Millen (N.S.W.) expressed regret that greater provision had not been made for increasing the Expeditionary Forces. The Prime ...
Article : 308 wordsIt would be a mistake to waste sympathy over either of the contending sections of the wheat trade. Neither the bulls nor the bears who deal in "futures" ...
Article : 365 wordsThe chief object of the meeting of the Scandinavian kings at Malmo is to discuss the neutrality question, the repression of contraband, and perhaps Germany's ...
Article : 42 wordsCommander Stirling, of the United States Atlantic submarine flotilla, in giving evidence before the Naval Investigating Committee of the House of ...
Article : 117 wordsThe purchase of fodder by the various States through the agency of the Commonwealth was the subject of several questions when the House of Representative met ...
Article : 334 wordsOur troops have not had much time for a rest before the enemy's attacks began again. This time the heaviest fighting would seem to be to the south of Ypres ...
Article : 764 wordsThe War Office announces that no further voluntary hospitals whatever are required at present for the British Expeditionary Force in France. Any voluntary ...
Article : 54 wordsAn interesting development in connection with the trade of Hobart was marked on Saturday last by the arrival of the steamer Purley from New York via ...
Article : 233 wordsThe exploit of the British submarine BFI in entering the Dardanelles aud sinking the Turkish armored cruiser Messoudieh was a particularly daring one. The ...
Article : 53 wordsThere are vacancies for 300 good riders and shots in the Second King Edward's Horse, owing to a large number having been granted commissions in the regular ...
Article : 60 wordsThe question whether unnaturalised Germans can be dismissed without notice and adequate payment was the subject of an appeal before Mr. Justice Heydon, in ...
Article : 414 wordsDuring this week five Special seed wheat boards are sitting at various towns in the mallee for the purpose of dealing with applications for seed wheat advances. It is ...
Article : 101 wordsFurther captures have been made of isolated hands of South African rebels at Conroy. The only important bodies of rebels still at large are in the Orange ...
Article : 36 wordsAn inquiry has been held into the cause of the explosion which blew up H.M.S. Bulwark in Sheerness Harbor. It is officially announced that the ...
Article : 124 wordsA big deal in wheat has taken place at St. James, 700 bags changing hands at £700. The purchaser was Mr. T. J. O'Dea. The wheat was the property of a local ...
Article : 44 wordsA German named Martin Troon, second officer of the German steamer Thuringen, who is interned at Rottnest Island, Western Australia, has written a letter to ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' and Salvage Association of Victoria Limited notifies that in accordance with cable advices received from the Institute of London ...
Article : 74 wordsAn advance will be made in the price of butter to-day. The wholesale rate for superfine, butter will be raised by a half penny--from 1to 10½. The reason given ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat till 1.30 this morning passing through committee the Grain and Foodstuffs Bill, authorising a board to purchase or seize produce and ...
Article : 135 wordsPresident Wilson has agreed to despatch United States war ships to Panama to guard against breaches of neutrality in the canal zone. Colonel Goethals explained ...
Article : 54 wordsThe financial conditions in the United are approaching normal. Money is cheap and the banks' reserves are abundant. Trade is improving and credit is ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Master Bakers' Association curried the following motion to night:--That this meeting emphatically protests to the Necessary Commodities Commission that the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe "Koelnische Zeitung" states that France, equally with Russia, has rejected the Pope's proposal for a truce between the belligerents at the Christmas season. ...
Article : 27 wordsSir Cecil Spring Rice, British ambassador at Washington, has notified the State department that the British Government is willing to forego the right to search ...
Article : 70 wordsIn connection with the accident to a British aeroplane which was attributed to the breakdown of the engine, it appears that three aviators lost their way in a ...
Article : 144 wordsAt the meeting of the Plumbers' Union on Tuesday evening the following resolution was carried unanimously:-- That this union views with satisfaction the ...
Article : 81 wordsAn explosion occurred yesterday in a coal mine at Fukuoka, in Japan. Eight hundred miners are entombed. ...
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Article : 73 wordsThe Munich "Nachrichten" publishes a letter from Lieutenant Eberlein a German officer, in which he boasts that he placed three civilians in front of the ...
Article : 70 wordsLord Kitchener has arranged for professional footballers joining the army to play until the end of the season. Thirty London professional footballers have joined ...
Article : 39 wordsI have been learning quite a lot of things about wheat this morning," said"Mr. Hall, the Attorney-General, after the first sitting of the Wheat Acquisition Board ...
Article : 276 wordsThe price list prepared by a committed of the Retail Tobacconists' Association was submitted to a meeting of the trade lash night The attendance numbered nearly ...
Article : 573 wordsIt is reported that several of the stolen bank notes have been found in this district Mr. Newbury of the Wallan post office stores received two or three in the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 17 Dec 1914, Page 7
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