Detailed messages concerning the repulse of the native armies under the Sultans of Massalit and Wadai, in the French Soudan, have reached the Ministry of War. They ...
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Article : 1,026 wordsMr. Austen CHamberlain (Unionist), East Worcestershire. ...
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Article : 79 wordsWhile he was still apparently secure on the throne, the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey lodged the sum of £900,000 in the Deutsche Imperial Bank, at Berlin. After ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. John Fesney, of Birmingham, hasI made a gift to the city of £50,000, in order to enable the picture gallery to be completed. ...
Article : 35 wordsAl the conclusion of the ceremony at the Pakington-street State School, His Excellency the Governor and lady Gibson Carmichael proceeded to the Alexandra-gardens ...
Article : 215 wordsAmong Liberal members who were reelected by narrow majorities were Mr. A. P. Priestley (Grantham), whose majority was reduced from 145 to 33, and Mr. S. ...
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Article : 59 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, one of the sitting members for Dundee, and Mr. J. S. Lloyd, a Unionist candidate for the same constituency, engaged last night in the town ...
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Article : 330 wordsThe Duma made a recommendation recently that at least £1,000,000 should be spent in endeavouring to make universal education practical throughout the empire. ...
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Article : 32 wordsA sensational trial was ended yesterday in a dramatic manner at Athens. Vizandinos, an inspector of antiquities was charged with trafficking in university diplomas. ...
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Article : 142 wordsThe president of the Fish Sealers' Union in this city, Domingo Navaro, has been shot to death by a disaffected member of the union named Augustine Arevillo. ...
Article : 37 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the Grocers Association on Tuesday, it was resolved that grocers shops in the metropolitan district should close on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsWhile a large number of people were skating on a frozen river at Elbing, in West Russia, the ice broke, and 13 persons were drowned. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 9 Dec 1910, Page 7
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