Desperate sorties are reported to have been made by the Port Arthur garrison on the 5th and 6th inst. The Russians claim that they repulsed the Japanese on four ...
Article : 84 wordsI am in the place where I am demanded of conscience to speak the truth and therefore the truth I speak, impugn it whoso list." TO CORRESPONDENTS. ...
Article : 6,645 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier of Canada, in a speech at Hamilton, in Ontario, said he believed Canada was ready for a policy of mutual preferential trade ...
Article : 92 wordsThe tunnel through the mountain under the Simplon Pass in Switzerland, which was begun in August, 1898, is almost finished, 244 metres (about 270 yards) only ...
Article : 428 wordsThe course of events in Manchuria has now completely changed, the sudden alteration of their tactics by the Russians having caused the Japanese to fall back. The new ...
Article : 525 wordsInterest in the debate on the no-confidence motion was revived in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Isaacs (V.) whose speech has been waited for three ...
Article : 1,384 wordsAnother anti-ritualistic demonstration has taken place at Liverpool, where the Church Congress has been sitting. At a meeting of the Society for the Propagation ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. H. H. Asquith, in a speech at Newburgh, in East Fife, referring to Mr. Balfour's proposals for an Imperial conference on the fiscal question, said it was useless to ...
Article : 140 wordsSir,—The Melbourne University is a vital part of our system of national education, and its efficiency profoundly affects the welfare of the whole of the people of Vicotria. ...
Article : 1,060 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh, the correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" cabling from Shanghai, states that the japanese do not expect to capture Port Arthur under a ...
Article : 35 wordsTheir Fxcellencies the Governor-General the state Governor of South Australia, and party returned to Adelaide yesterday evening from Broken Hill. They ...
Article : 806 wordsThe Japanese have sustained another serious loss, as the result of the mine-laying which the Russians carried out in the waters round Port Arthur. The gun-boat Hei-Yen, ...
Article : 118 wordsThe "Daily Post" has published a statement that Viscount Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa, intends to resign his post at Christmas, on account of failing ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Jacop Cohn, president of the Bendigo Agricultural "Society, presided at the luncheon in connection with the annual show yesterday, and he was supported on ...
Article : 1,230 wordsA fire causing heavy damage broke out yesterday afternoon in 488 Chapel-street, South Yarra, in the premises occupied by the Tankard Malting Company. The fire ...
Article : 1,102 wordsLady Curzon passed a fairly good night on Monday, but on the following day she was not as well. LONDON, Oct. 12. ...
Article : 40 wordsOwing to the revelations made by exLieutenant Bilse at his book, "In our Little Garrison," ivhich told of grave scandals in the Gemman army, a new policy in regard ...
Article : 74 wordsThe police have arrested three anarchists near Barcelona, in Spain. They confess to having conspired to kill King Alfonso on April 3 last during His Majesty's visit to ...
Article : 113 wordsMr..Bennet Burleigh, writing from Shanghai to the "Daily Telegraph," states that Field-Marshal Oyama, the Japanese commander-in-chief, had ordered a retreat ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes and other Marseilles shipping companies whose services have been interrupted owing to the strike which for some time past has ...
Article : 57 wordsA movement has been initiated in London in favour of a concerted emigration scheme, with a view to encouraging cotton-growing in the colonies. It is suggested ...
Article : 128 wordsIt is stated that the sale of the Chilian war-ships for £500,000 to Mr. Charles R. Flint, of New York, has not taken place. The negotiations fell through because the ...
Article : 68 wordsAnother item furnished to the "Daily Telegraph" by Mr. Bennet Burleigh is to the effect that two more Japanese divisions have been sent to Linovang, while one ...
Article : 69 wordsAn extraordinary accident has occurred in the bank of Ireland, Dublin. A porter was showing a visitor the arms room. Taking up an old flintlock firearm, he ...
Article : 61 wordsGuineas Day at Caulfield furnishes subjects for some capital illustrations in this week's issue of "The Australasian." Pretty views about the enclosure and snapshots of ...
Article : 280 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Premier (Mr. Morgan), when interviewed with reference to the cotton cable message, said it appeared to him that the movement was ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Russian Baltic squndron, which consists of 42 ships, has left Reval, on the Gulf of Finland, for Labau, the Baltic seaport. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe United States Government has asked Russia to explain why the mails on the British steamer Calchas, seized while on a voyage from Paget Sound to Japan, by the ...
Article : 49 wordsA terrible disaster has occurred at Santiago, the capital of Chili A house collapsed, killing 30 persons and injuring 50. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe decrease in the consumption of beer in the United Kingdom in 1903 was 1,500,000 barrels, compared with 1900. The decrease in the consumption of spirits was 4,000,000 ...
Article : 41 wordsNews as to the war is a little confusing and, in some measure contradictory, though, taking, every thing into consideration, there is a distinct improvement in ...
Article : 1,238 wordsThe steamer Swanley, 4,641 tons, belonging to the Century Shipping Company, of London, while carrying coolies from China to South Africa, became stranded on Serai ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsWheat and Flour.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,685,000 quarters, as against 2,690,000 quarters last week, and 1,980,000 ...
Article : 249 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Weingarten v. Treadway. First Civil Court. (Before the Chief Justice Mr. Justice A'Beckett, and Mr. Justice Hood.) ...
Article : 168 wordsI.G.M.S. Barbarossa left Suez for Australia on the 10th inst. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe announcement that the great pianist will give a popular recital at the Exhibition-hall on Saturday October 22, at prices arranged to suit those lovers of music who ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 13 Oct 1904, Page 5
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