Replying to the report supplied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd George) of the deputation of shipyard employees who waited on the Minister in ...
Article : 322 wordsThe United States Government has demanded formally of Germany an indemnity for the smiting of the four-masted schooner William P. Frye (3,374 tons), owned by A. ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Paris "Figaro" vouches for the truth of a remarkable story concerning the Kaiser, the Crown Prince, and a German general now dead. ...
Article : 405 wordsA Rome message states that the pourparlers between Italy and Germany have collapsed, the German Ambassador at Rome (Prince Von Bulow) declaring that ...
Article : 442 wordsIn common with other countries, Great Britain is setting a stern face to the evils of drink in this hour of crisis. The tremendous force that is being applied by the great Russian army in the Carpathians is compelling the Germans ...
Article : 113 wordsEnemy submarines continue to show great activity amongst British shipping, and several more vessels have been added to the lista of the Germans' victims. ...
Article : 431 wordsThe French Minister of War (M. Milleraud) has a happier announcement to make in respect of the manufacture of material for the French army than has been ...
Article : 100 wordsThere are signs of unrest in the Netherlands following upon Germany's persistency in attacking Dutch merchantmen. The Rotterdam correspondent of the ...
Article : 363 wordsBritish casualty lists for March contain the names of 1,081 officers and 18,794 men. The lists are made up as follows:— DEAD.—300 officers and 4,493 men. ...
Article : 55 wordsSuccessful Russian operations over a widely extended front are reviewed in the following official report:— Petrograd, Thursday:—"We have ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) has been a teetotaller from his youth, and he applauds the example which His Majesty the King has expressed himself as willing ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Asquith (Prime Minister) has taken over the duties of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to enable Sir Edward Grey to enjoy a three weeks' holiday. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe revenue of the United Kingdom for the financial year ended March 31 amounted to £226,694,080, being an increase of £28,451,183 over that collected in 1913-14. ...
Article : 100 wordsA doctor serving with the Field Artillery on the western front confirms the statement made a few days ago that the Germans are using petrol bombs. "Most of the men ...
Article : 70 wordsEarl Grey makes the suggestion that disinterested management should be applied to the publichouses in areas where munitions of war are manufactured. ...
Article : 62 wordsA New York correspondent of the Associated Press after a visit to the battlefields in the West states that eleven thousand German dead were taken in the ...
Article : 191 wordsAt the annual session of the Grand Lodge of ictoria of the International Order of Good Templars, opened yesterday at the Temperance Hall, the following resolution ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Admiralty has obtained conclusive proof that German agents are fomenting strikes in Great Britain, particularly at Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol, and ...
Article : 154 wordsThe "Daily Mail" reports that, owing to the shortage of fodder in Germany, nearly 1,000,000 German pigs have been billeted in Belgium. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe British forces in German South-West Africa, following on their occupation of two important neks giving access to Aus, an important trading station 49 miles inland ...
Article : 117 wordsIt is announced by the Admiralty that up to the end of March the losses in British shipping inflicted by Germans were:— Vessels. ...
Article : 91 wordsAn article in this week's "Saturday Review," says:— "The country, after the war, will insist on being better informed as to its foreign ...
Article : 260 wordsPeking announces that China has agreed to grant Tapan mining rights in the Mukden province preferential rights to railway construction in Southern Manchuria, ...
Article : 388 wordsThe news of the brutal manner in which the Germans sank the British steamships Falaba and Aguila, sacrificing the lives of more than one hundred non-combatants, ...
Article : 229 wordsOwing to subscriptions coming in for a further £150,000 the British Dyes Company has gone to allotment. [It is proposed to form a company with ...
Article : 164 wordsAccording to a report that has been published in Paris, the confidence of the German troops on the western front has suffered seriously during the last few months ...
Article : 167 wordsGeneral Ruzsky, the victor of Lemberg, [?] [?]cia, and Przasnysz, in Northern Po[?]and, has given up his command in the Rus[?] army in the field. ...
Article : 169 wordsIt is officially reported from Paris that a French light cruiser chased a German submarine off Dieppe, on the French coast. The cruiser fired heavily at he periscope ...
Article : 264 wordsIt is announced officially from Simla that ten thousand tribesmen from the Pamirs, on the northern frontier of India, attacked Tochi, near Miranshah. They ...
Article : 210 wordsThe committee of the British Board of Trade has reported that owing to the high price of domestic coal exports to neutral countries ought to be restricted if prices ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Board of Trade has appointed the New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr. McKenzie), the Queensland Agent-General (Sir T. B. Robinson), and Sir Edward ...
Article : 67 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris Thursday was as follows:— The Germans counter-attacked [?]le Petre, in the Argonne, and ...
Article : 74 wordsAn official justification for the sinking of the s.s. Falaba, issued in Berlin, reads:— "The destruction of human lives is now a painful duty, as our submarines are ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is announced by the Admiralty that a British airman dropped four bombs on Thursday morning on submarines which were being constructed at Hoboken, near ...
Article : 218 wordsSuperintendent Macmanamny, of the Criminal Investigation branch, called on the Lord Mayor (Alderman Sir David Hennessy) on Thursday, and made ...
Article : 348 wordsThe following movements of shipping have been reported from London:— Arrival at Buenos Ayres; Bq. Cairnsmore, Dundenon, N.Z., February 18. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe 100th anniversary of the birth of Prince Bismarck was celebrated in Germany on Thursday. Berlin was bedecked with flags, and at ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. H. J. Manson, trade commissioner for New Zealand, has been advised by the Prime Minister of the Dominion (Mr. Massey), regarding the following shipments ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Tasmanian Agent-General (Sir John McCall) is the president of an organisation which has founded the first convalescent home for Belgian soldiers. The patrons ...
Article : 126 wordsHaving the privilege of a conversation with General Sir Ian Hamilton, after the inspection of the Australasian troops in Egypt, I asked whether he had noticed any ...
Article : 167 wordsThe German Australian Steamship Co., of Sydney, telegraphed to their Melbourne agents as follows:— "Batavia cables Lubeck, Wismar, STolberg, all ...
Article : 181 wordsA report from Tenedos, in the [?]gean [?] states that the Allies warships con[?] an intermittent bombardment of the [?]lles, forts, in order to protect the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 3 Apr 1915, Page 15
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