Colonel Younghusband's expedition to Thibet is receiving reinforcements of upwards of 1,000 riflemen, with four field guns and two Maxims. The auxiliary force has ...
Article : 61 wordsA monster demonstration was held in Hyde-park yesterday to protest against the importation of Chinese labour into South Africa. About 70,000 persons assembled, ...
Article : 116 wordsThe election for Melbourne which takes place to-morrow is of special importance and interest. It may have a controlling effect over the issue on ...
Article : 5,095 wordsA St. Petersburg telegram states that in consequence of the advance of 40,000 Japanese northward through Korea, the Russians have retired upon their entrenchments on the Yalu River. The Japanese advance guards and artillery are 40 miles south of that point. The ice on the river ...
Article : 165 wordsLord Ranfurly (writes our Dunedin correspondent on March 21) has just concluded a flying visit to the country of the Urewern Maoris, so long closed to European. The ...
Article : 1,128 wordsThe silence of the Japanese as to the result of their second attempt to block the Port Arthur Channel by sinking merchant men was suggestive of failure. The Russian ...
Article : 204 wordsThe city correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" is responsible for a statement which indicates that Russia is experiencing much difficulty in financing ...
Article : 74 wordsKing Victor Emmanuel of Italy, in proposing the toast of the Kaiser's health at lunch on His Majesty's yacht, the Hohenzollern, yesterday, remarked that the Triple ...
Article : 146 wordsViscount Milner, the High Commissioner for South Africa, in a speech at Johannesburg, referred to opinions which had been expressed in England with regard to his ...
Article : 103 wordsGeneral Kuropatkin, who left St. Petersburg on 13th inst, to assume supreme command of the Russian military operations in the Far East, has arrived at Harbin, the ...
Article : 50 wordsUnder this title the Paris correspondent of the "Daily News" refers to the present commander-in-chief of the Russian army of the East—General Kuropatkin:—"He was, ...
Article : 316 wordsAccording to recent figures the average total cost per month on one of the large mines of the Rand of the Kaffir boy (not including the fee for recruiting) is £2/8/6½. ...
Article : 218 wordsThe outbreak of pneumonic plague at Johannesburg has caused the deaths of a doctor's family in the city. Dr. Marais had been attending some of the coolie ...
Article : 89 wordsA committee has been inquiring into the case of Mr. Akeyama, a member of the Japanese House of Representatives, and the editor of a radical paper, who had been ...
Article : 98 wordsThe reports which have been received through various sources of severe damage having been done to the forts and the town of Port Arthur by the several Japanese bombardments, are discounted by statements which have been made by a British merchant, who has just arrived at Shanghai ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 224 wordsIt is only necessary to look at the map, with a slight knowledge of the political considerations that are likely to sway Russia, to realise what the holding of this southern ...
Article : 322 wordsSeveral further facts have been brought to light by the police regarding the antecedents of Crossman, the ex-convict, who attempted to dispose of the body of his ...
Article : 143 wordsThat incovenience and annoyance arises from the overcrowding of suburban trains is not denied by the railway authorities, but they feel that it is almost impossible to ...
Article : 466 wordsFew men are more in the eye of the world now than the Czar, who, according to many statements in leading English papers, is an autocrat who is never allowed to act ...
Article : 424 wordsThe French island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, 500 miles cast of Madagascar, with a population of 210,000, has been devastated by a cyclone. Thousands of the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe strike of dock labourers at Marseilles, which was believed to have been settled, has been renewed. In consequence of the authorities ...
Article : 96 wordsAt the annual University sports Cambridge won eight events and Oxford two. LONDON, Match 28. Lord Plunket, the newely-appointed ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Russian torpedo-boat destroyer Burni, 350 tons, 6,000 h.p., struck on a rock while entering the Mediterranean port of Algiers, and was extensively damaged. ...
Article : 81 wordsWith reference to the annoyance which results from boys availing themselves of the accommodation in smoking carriages, it is pointed out that a by-law designed to ...
Article : 172 wordsA report received from Vice-Admiral Makaroff, the commander of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, indicates that the attempts of the Japanese to "bottle up" the fleet in the harbour have not met with success. Vice-Admiral Makaroff states that, on the 26th inst., he left Port ...
Article : 104 wordsAt a meeting of the Adelaide City Council to-day the mayor (Mr. Cohen) remarked: —"You will share with me the deepest regret that there should be found any ...
Article : 424 wordsAfter many false alarms it seems certain that at length the Japanese forces are closing in upon the Yalu River, where the Russians are strongly entrenched, under ideal ...
Article : 293 wordsSir,—I read with interest your leader in this morning's paper referring incidentally to the crowding in of ladies into a conpartment already full. As one who suffers ...
Article : 105 wordsYesterday morning, in the Insolvency Court, Mr. Montagu Cohen, who was appealing in a matter before Judge Molesworth, drew attention to the inconvenience ...
Article : 400 wordsStill another attempt has been made by the Japanese to block the entrance to Port Arthur by sinking merchant vessels in the fairway. On this occasion an effort was made to take four Japanese merchant-men up to the harbour mouth. The vessels were, however, sunk by the guns on ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Minister of Works has received a communication from the officer in charge of the Labour department in New Zealand to the effect that the unemployed difficulty is ...
Article : 89 wordsA British merchant, who has known the place for years, but has left it for the present all the same, declares that the ...
Article : 232 wordsJohn F. Dillon, formerly employed as a porter at the Elsternwick railway station, was charged at the Prahran Court yesterday with stealing a handbag containing a silver watch and gold chain, £2 ...
Article : 293 wordsRussian accounts of the latest attempt by the Japanese to block the entrance to Port Arthur state that six Japanese torpedo-boat destroyers and sixteen other ships convoyed towards the entrance to Port Arthur four 2,000-ton merchantmen, which it was intended to use as fire-ships. ...
Article : 302 wordsArthur B. Clapton, of Lily-street, Bendigo, miner. Causes of insolvency—Want of employment, sickness of self and family, and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £62 ...
Article : 83 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Re Jones, deceased (part heard). First Civil Court. (Before the Chief Jusitce.) ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Japanese in their approach on the Yalu cover a front of a little more than 100 miles, their right front being at Karg-ge, a town on one of the tributaries of the Yalu, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 29 Mar 1904, Page 5
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