The officers who are to command the new Australian contingent, consisting of two brigades of infantry and one light horse brigade were appointed yesterday at a ...
Article : 1,147 wordsCAIRO, Feb. 7.—If there is any satisfaction in knowing that he will be carefully tended being wounded in action, the troops of the Australasian Army Corps should go ...
Article : 1,437 wordsThe progress of the campaign in Russia is shown in the following communique issued in Petrograd:— "We captured several villages ...
Article : 183 wordsAfter desperate fighting, continuing over a number of days, the French succeeded in capturing the important position of Vauquois, in the Argonne. The village holds ...
Article : 519 wordsA brilliant feat has been achieved by the French at Vauquois, in the Argonne. After storming it for days, the French captured a strongly fortified position of great strategic value. ...
Article : 113 wordsNews from the Dardanelles shows that the bombardment of the forts is being continued, and that many of the inhabitants of Constantinople are leaving the city. ...
Article : 195 wordsAt the meeting of the Victorian Football Association last evening a letter was received from the Melbourne Cricket Club, in which it was stated that at a meeting of the ...
Article : 574 wordsIt is believed that Field-Marshall von der Goltz, the German officer who was sent by the Kaiser to reorganise the Turkish army, has been murdered. ...
Article : 560 wordsLONDON, Feb. 5.—The Slingsby estates, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, and the inheritance thereto by a child of four years old have made an interesting lawsuit in the ...
Article : 918 wordsA distinct success was gained by the French in the Reichackerkopf Hills, in Alsace. The operations of the French were in ...
Article : 96 wordsIn the Perth "Daily News" on December 15 last was published observations of a passenger who had passed through the Suez Canal, and the proprietors were in January ...
Article : 457 wordsThe events of the past few days suggest that the casting German line in the west is weak. The comment does not refer to the physical features of the front, but to the ...
Article : 925 wordsA Paris communique states that the Belpans have made further progress in the [?]end of the Yser River, their artillery de[?]oying a point d'appui at Dixmude. ...
Article : 339 wordsThe French stearner Campinas (3,008 tions) was attacked by a German submarine refuge behind a neutral ship. Torpedo-boats gave chase, but the German submarine ...
Article : 303 wordsSir,—One cannot help feeling that recruiting in Australia is still being carried out in a very half-hearted manner and I therefore suggest that the military authorities ...
Article : 357 wordsAttempts have been made by Turkey to induce Bulgaria to enter the war on her side. The Sofia correspondent of the "Daily ...
Article : 251 wordsIn an address given by Councillor Rupert Nicolson last Thursday evening on the rights of the municipalities to control tramways, he stated that "the Government, in ...
Article : 171 wordsGermany has replied to Norway, denying that its submarines torpedoed the Norwegian oil tank steamer Belridge (7,000 tons), which was reported to be the first neutral ...
Article : 169 wordsPERTH, Monday.—The Mayor of Perth has received the following appeal from London for help for Montenegro:— "The Montenegro Red Cross and Relief ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Germans are furious regarding the, [?]ction of the Zeppelin in Belgiun by [?] British and two French neuroplanes. They have arrested all the Belginns they ...
Article : 172 wordsThe 11th Regiment, less one squadron, will be raised in Queensland, and the remaining squadron will be drawn from South Australia. The 11th will be under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Grant. ...
Article : 247 wordsA discussion took place last evening at the St. Kikla Council meeting relative to the future ownership of the Melbourne cable tramways. oCuncillor Renfrey said the municipalities should ...
Article : 236 wordsMOUNT BUFFALO, Monday.—His Excellency the Governor. Lady Stanley, and party, who are spending a few days at the Government Chalet. ...
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Article : 89 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the Rome newspaper "Messagero" states that the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria has flatly rejected Germany's recommendation to code ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Duke of Portland who is rocognised as a great supporter of sport, has declared against the continuance of sporting meetings and games during the war. ...
Article : 66 wordsPERTH, Monday.—A strong protest against the agitation for the early closing of hotels in the city and suburbs was entered at a meeting of the Barmen and Barmaids' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsAt a meeting of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures last evening a letter was read from the Patriotic Trades Advancement Alliance of Durha[?], South Africa, asking that ...
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Advertising : 76 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—At the South Australian tennis tournament to-day the Governor (Sir Henry Galway) and his private secretary (the Hon. G. J. Mulholland) brat A. F. Scott and R. Sawers in ...
Article : 52 wordsTwenty-seven Labour members of the House of Commons have signed a memorial of sympathy with the French and Belgian peoples, "recognising that they are fighting ...
Article : 45 wordsAccording to the "Daily Express," several parties of Germans are arriving in Ghent and Brussels to take their trial before a court-martial for having failed to obey ...
Article : 38 wordsThe large marquee which has served so well as the centre of Church of England activities at Broadmeadows, has received several severe buffetings by storms and it is ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 16 Mar 1915, Page 7
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