Au interview with Herr Albert Ballin, director-general of the Hamburg-Amerika steamship line, and a close personal friend of the Kaiser, appears in the "New York ...
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Article : 707 wordsA disagreeable note is struck by Sir John French in his report of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, where the British lost heavily. He charges a leading officer with having failed to observe orders. ...
Article : 164 wordsAccording to an interesting circumstantial account of certain proceedigns at Constantinople published in the Paris "Temps," the position of Turkey has become acute. ...
Article : 521 wordsIn the old days of the Broadmeadows camp, more or less spasmodic attempts were made to entertain the men by means of concert companies, which braved the "long, ...
Article : 603 wordsTaking advantage of a dark night without any wind, a Zeppelin crossed the North Sea from Germany on Wednesday and dropped bombs on several towns and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 547 wordsAdvices from Vienna state that the city is alarmed at the news leaking out respecting the plight of the Austro-Hungarian army in the Carpathians. ...
Article : 219 wordsThe New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that there is a sensational stock boom in that city. The outside public, he says, are apparently ...
Article : 139 wordsGEELONG. Tuesday.—An officer attached to the Defence department visited Geelong and made a round of all the wavehouses and large drapery estabishments. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Harcourt), replying in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon to a question by Sir Gilbert Parker, made a ...
Article : 452 wordsSir,—"The way" in which our men neglected at Broadmeadows strikes one as very discouraging to recruiting. A man knows he will have to risk his health by ...
Article : 90 wordsSir—What is that Defence department thinking about to allow fine, have fellows to run risks by sleeping on damp ground when they are being made "fit" to serve at ...
Article : 117 wordsDuring the last few months the Territorial troops, which have armed in Inia from England have been through a course of practical training in various parts of ...
Article : 227 wordsThe New York press continues to comment severely upon the assertion by the German Ambassador at New York (Count von Bernstorff) that he had been ordered ...
Article : 130 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—An inquest was held to-day, before the coroner (Mr. W. O. Wise), on the body of Private Trevor Sweeney, 19 years of age, who was shot ...
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Article : 234 wordsOn Saturday the 58th Infantry (Essendon Rifles) will hold a military display and entertainment at the Queen's Park, Moon[?] Ponds, in aid of the Essendon Red Cross ...
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Article : 107 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—Mr. William Price, Labour member for Albany, has enlisted in the Western Australian Expeditionary Force. ...
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Article : 95 wordsIn the House of Representatives on Thursday Mr. Anstey will move— "That it be an instruction to the Government to order the immediate release of the soldiers, ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "London Gazette" contains a notice that the British Government has requisitioned the whole of the insulated space in British steamships trading between ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 16 Apr 1915, Page 9
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