The improvement in the recruiting in Victoria is being well maintained, and the figures for Monday were highly satisfactory. At the enrolling depot, Victoria Barracks, ...
Article : 105 wordsThere comes the welcome news that the most formidable of the defensive works in the Dardanelles, Kilid Bahr, has been destroyed by the shell fire from the British ...
Article : 1,472 wordsMuch depends on the great battle which is developing between the Russians and a large Austro-German force in Southern Poland. In the opinion of the military correspondent of "The ...
Article : 184 wordsExcellent results continue to mark the efforts of the Allies' warships to penetrate the Dardanelles. Advices received in Paris late on Monday ...
Article : 441 wordsFREMANTLE, Tuesday.—Among the passengers returning to Australia by the R.M.S. Malwa, which called at Fremantle to-day, was the Catholic Bishop of Sale ...
Article : 745 wordsM. Zaimis has declined the task of forming a Cabinet to succeed that led by M. Venezelos, who resigned because of the refusal of King Constantine to intervene in ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. Carter (s[?] of the Clothing Trades Union) stated yesterday, in reply to a paragraph in the press, [?]nating from the Defence department, that, ...
Article : 129 wordsIn furtherance ot the movement for the voluntary training of citizens, a meeting convened by the mayor (Counciller H. C. Heyward) was held in the Prahran town ...
Article : 252 wordsIt is reported from Constantinople that the Turks have transferred £8,000,000 sterling from the capital to Konia, in Asia Minor, which will be the new seat of ...
Article : 125 wordsThere is a good deal of rivalry in the State Government departments as to which will provide the largest proportion of volunteers for the front. The honour appears to ...
Article : 82 wordsWhen the crew of a German airship which attacked the undefended portion of the town of Liban, in Russia were captured the Russian Government announced ...
Article : 229 wordsMr. G. S. Down, an old St. Kilda cricketer, who has been in Adelaide for some years, and was a member of Mayne's team that toured the United States, has ...
Article : 50 wordsAccording to Amsterdam reports, an official Turkish claim has been made to the effect that the Dardanelles batteries had escaped uninjured form the recent ...
Article : 563 wordsSir,—In connection with the poor response from sportsmen for the front, again drawn attention to in "The Argus" to-day, I would suggest that now is a most ...
Article : 121 wordsSome little time ago the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announced that the Commonwealth Government had decided to exempt from absentee liability ...
Article : 145 wordsThe attitude of the State Ministry concerning the liquor traffic and the insobriety of a section of the Expeditionary Force were features of an address by the Rev. ...
Article : 732 wordsOperations on the eastern battle front have reached a critical stage. The military correspondent of "The Times" (Colonel A'Court Repington) ...
Article : 299 wordsThe following graphic details have been published in Paris of the fighting around Notre Dame de la Lorette, in the Argonne, where the French first lost and afterwards ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Governor General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) will visit the military camp at Broadmeadows this morning, arriving at about 11 o'clock. He will inspect the Light ...
Article : 134 wordsAn attempt by a German submarine to torpedo the London and South-Western Railway Company's channel steamer Lydia (1,175 tons) when off Guernsey has failed. ...
Article : 92 wordsVice Admiral R. H. Peirse, in command of the East Indies Squadron, which is engaged in the bombardment of Smyrna, Turkey's chief seaport in Asia Minor, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 167 wordsThe steamship. Bengrove (3,840 tons, owned by the Steam Navigation Company Ltd. of Liverpool) was sunk off Ilfracombe, on the coast of Devon, on Sunday ...
Article : 198 wordsColin Leigh Flemington, an importer, 39 years of age, trading under the name of W. McLean and Co., electrical engineers, was arrested by Detective Howard and ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announced yesterday the receipt of two cheques each for £505—representing the cost of complete motor ambulances— ...
Article : 173 wordsThe fighting between Rheims and Verdun during the past few days has apprently been of a very fierce nature. An official announcement from Paris states that the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe position in the Melbourne clothing factories where contracts for military garments for the Expeditionary Forces have been accepted is becoming acute. On ...
Article : 599 wordsIt is announced from Amsterdam that the Germans have lost another of their fleet of Zeppelins, the 18. The airship was forced to descend through engine trouble. ...
Article : 126 wordsSome conception of the limits to which Turkish leaders will go in concealing reverses from the people at this critical juneture may be had from the official report of ...
Article : 144 wordsGermans taken prisoner state that their batteries have been restricted to 40 shots a day unless the general of the division directs otherwise. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is reported from Paris that it has been decided that German prisoners in France shall henceforth be treated similarly to French prisoners in Germany. Various ...
Article : 54 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Amongst the c[?] disposed of at the Sydney Quarter Sessions to-day was one in which David Roggart. aged 36 years, a member of the ...
Article : 260 wordsIt is reported officially from London that six naval aeroplanes raided Ostend on Sunday, dropping eleven bombs on the submarine repairing base, and four on the ...
Article : 78 wordsAn official Montenegrin announcement has been made from Gettigne to the effect that the Austrians are massing large forces along the Montenegrin frontier, driving out ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Jockey Club will meet on March 16 to consider the question whether horseracing shall continue. [In a letter to the press, Lord Dunraven, ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Danish authorities have permitted the Swedish steamer Blenda (1,038 tons) to sail from Copenhagen if it goes direct to Dedeagatch, the Bulgarian port on the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe attention of the British Government was called recently by Sir Alfed Pennefather to a pamphlet written by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Labour M.P., asserting that ...
Article : 111 wordsFifteen thousand labourers in the Clyde shipyards intend to strike on Saturday unless they receive a penny per hour increase in wages. ...
Article : 91 wordsHAMILTON, Monday.—Information [?]ached the police on Saturday that a German was practising with a revolver at the telegraph posts on the Dunkeld road. ...
Article : 199 wordsSir,—Kindly insert the enclosed cable message received by me to-day. I sent copies of "The Argus" containing Captain Bean's letter, and my reply to leading members or ...
Article : 129 wordsIt was reported that, as a result of the encounter between the British garrison force and a greatly superior Turkish force at Ghadir, near the head of the Persian ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. F. W. Young, the new Agent-General for South Australia, was installed in office in London on Monday. In an address which he delivered on the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 10 Mar 1915, Page 9
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