Legislation for continuing the control of the prices of foodstuffs has been announced. When the Prices of Goods Bill was before Parliament, last December, an amendment ...
Article : 122 wordsA largely attended meeting of the teaching staffs of the University and affiliated colleges was held yesterday afternoon, in the biology theatre. The meeting was ...
Article : 575 wordsMessages from Rome received by the Paris newspaper "Echo de Paris" indicate that Italy is straining every effort to be ready for an outbreak of hostilities with ...
Article : 124 wordsIt was only after a fierce struggle, during which many lives were lost, that the British took Hill "60," an eminence in the Years region, which commands a considerable area of country. ...
Article : 167 wordsWithin the past few days the Premier of France (M. Viviani), the British commander-in-chief at the front (Sir John French), and another British general in the ...
Article : 1,085 wordsNews has been received in Zurich (Switzerland) that four French aeroplanes successfully dropped bombs on the railway stations at Habsheim, in Upper Alsace, and ...
Article : 101 wordsHis Excellency the Governor presided at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday. His Excellency the Governor of South ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. Mackinnon) stated yesterday that he is investigating the report that Bendigo bakers will not sell bread at 9d. a 4lb. loaf, but insist on being ...
Article : 60 words"An improvement in the weather," states Field-Marshal Sir John French, in his latest bulletin from the front, "has resulted in an increased aerial activity, which has ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock), accompanied by the Attorney-General (Mr. Mackiunon) and Mr. Gray (honorary Minister) will leave by the 5.16 p.m. train this ...
Article : 896 wordsAccording to the Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," the Greek Government has informed the Allies that Greece will join in the war if the Entente can ...
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Article : 148 wordsField-Marshal Sir John French's report of the battle of Zillebeke, in Western Belgium, which was the first success of the British in their attempt to turn the right ...
Article : 341 wordsPresident Woodrow Wilson, speaking at a banquet in New York on Tuesday night, defined the position of the United States in relation to the great war at this ...
Article : 174 wordsAn account of the brilliant service for which Captain Oswald Watt, formerly of Sydney, but now of the French laying Corps, who was enrolled in the Legion of ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Secretary of State for India (Lord Crewe), speaking in the House of Lords on Tuesday, said that the Turkish forces at the head of the Persian Gulf were well trained. ...
Article : 55 wordsFurther endeavours have been made by members of the House of Commons to secure a definite statement of the Imperial Government's attitude in regard to the ...
Article : 216 wordsThe progress of the British force in German South-West Africa, which is operating in a northerly direction so as to junction with the force occupying Swakopmund, the ...
Article : 132 wordsA Washington message states that the Secretary of State (Mr. W. J. Bryan) has asked Rear-Admiral Peary (retired), the discoverer of the North Pole, to explain a ...
Article : 147 wordsFrench residents of Victoria, born in 1897 of a French father in France, of any other country, and those born in previous years, who have not registered, are requested to ...
Article : 62 wordsThe closing phases of the long chase after the German raiding erniser are told in the following story. It also reveals the duplicity of the Germans, who, having ...
Article : 198 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the rooms of the Royal Art Society to-day, Sir James Fairfax, on behalf of the Australian artists of Sydney, handed over to the chairman of ...
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Article : 105 wordsAn official announcement from Fetrograd states that the Germans attacking in the direction of Strya, north of the Carpathians, where the enemy are attempting a flank ...
Article : 91 wordsA gallant exploit in the Dardanelles is announced by the British Admiralty. As the Turks were making great efforts to secure the British submarine E15, which ran ...
Article : 227 wordsA cable message from the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) to the Department of External Affairs, states that three Australians are amongst those interned in ...
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Article : 37 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" telegraphs that the Russians sowed the cutrance to the Bosphorus with mines. Two Turkish torpedo-boat ...
Article : 74 wordsOwing to the absence of steamships, the Englishwomen who had intended to attend the International Women's Peace Congress, to be held at The Hague on April 28, found ...
Article : 140 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" on Wednesday:— BELGIAN COAST BOMBARDED. ...
Article : 123 wordsCopenhagen reports that a large German fleet is guarding the sea to the northeastward of Kopparstenarnne lighthouse, on the coast of Gotland. ...
Article : 28 wordsFight additional towns and villages in the State of Illinois have adopted prohibition. [A message from Chicago, published a fortnight ago, stated that prohibitionists ...
Article : 69 wordsHer Majestry Queen Mary has promised to supply hospital requisites to the convalescent home for Belgian soldiers, which has been founded by an organisation in which ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 22 Apr 1915, Page 9
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