Under an order recently issued by the Defence authorities all recruits from the country who have been passed as medically fit must submit themselves to ...
Article : 364 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" at Lemberg (Galicia) has sent the following account of the fighting in the Carpathians:— Amid the snow-crowned peaks in the ...
Article : 166 wordsAstounding results have followed from an investigation of French war charities. Out of 147 societies in the department of the Seine (France's metropolitan ...
Article : 218 wordsIn a joint official statement from the British Admiralty and the War Office it is reported that the general attack upon the Dardanelles by the Allied fleet and army ...
Article : 286 wordsThe bravery and determination of the Canadians in an extremely difficult. position near Ypres has cvoked feelings of admiration throughout the Empire and among our Allies. Thousands of messages have been despatehed to France from Canada ...
Article : 806 wordsThe battle for Calais continues to rage fiercely, and the Germans are making repeated offorts to break through the Allies' line between Boesinghe, four miles north of Ypres, and Zudschoote, six milles north of Ypres. It would seem, therefore, that the immediate object of the evemy is to force ...
Article : 370 wordsSir,—Adverting to the article by your special reporter to-day, bearing date March 22, and dealing with the "Health of Troops in Egypt," permit me to enter an indignant ...
Article : 245 wordsSir,—With profound astonishment and intense indignation. I read of the treatment that our troops in Egypt have received from the commissiariat department, as revealed ...
Article : 119 wordsA Vienna communiqu[?] claims that the Austrians have captured a height south-cast of Kosiova, taking 1,000 prisoners. "The Russians," the Austrian ...
Article : 109 wordsSir,—It is time that whoever is responsible for the feeding of the Australian troops in Egypt saw to it that they are given a proper supply of food. Since the ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Secretary of State for War (Lord Kitchener) has sent a message to the workmen employed by Messrs. Vickers, Son, and Maxim, appealing to them to produce ...
Article : 87 wordsThe best advertisement the r[?]ruiting movement has had for a long time was supplied yesterday by the application for the re-enrolment of a man who has already ...
Article : 476 wordsThe Dedeagatch correspondent of the Paris "Temps" telegraphs that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has granted an amnesty to all officers senteneced to imprisonment ...
Article : 165 wordsSir,—I received a letter from my husband, who is in Egypt, this morning, and he tells me that he did not receive a letter from us last mail, although my ...
Article : 151 wordsThe "Corriere d"Italia," of Rome, publishes a declaration by a personage concerned in the negotiations and pourparlers that have been taking place between Rome ...
Article : 258 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, addressing a meeting at the Bechstein Hall, London, on Monday, dealt with the position of the Allies at the front. ...
Article : 154 wordsField Marshal Sir John French, the British Commander in Chief, speaking of the flghting at Ypres, in a report which has been published by the British Press Bureau, says:— "Severe fighting, marked by heavy casualties, continues around Ypres. The ...
Article : 323 wordsSir,—By two successive mails in January I failed to receive the hitherto unfailing diary from my son, an officer o£ the 1st A.I.F., nor have those numbers ever since ...
Article : 200 wordsMessages from Berlin state that, according to the semi-official "North German Gazette," the American and Spanish ambassadors have visited the campa of ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is reported from Washington that the captain of the German auxiliary crusier Kronprinz Wilhelm has decided to intern at Hampton Roads, Virginia (U.S.A.), at ...
Article : 168 wordsFigures available in regard to the 4½ per cent, loan of £2,250,000 at par, for which tenders were invited by the Government of Victoria in the prospectus issued on April ...
Article : 103 wordsWe publish i remarkable list (says "The Timmes" of March 6) of the liberal gifts showered upon the joint committee of the british Red Crobs bociety and the Order ...
Article : 354 wordsWELLINGTON" (N.Z.), Tuesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) has received the following cable message from Mr. Ch[?] ton, representing the New Zealand ...
Article : 99 wordsPrivate Dancocks, of Casterton, died recently at Broadmeadows Camp from pneumonia, supervening on measles After having made full official inquiry, the executive ...
Article : 147 wordsAn official message from Cape Town states that the Union troops operating in German South-West Africa hive occupied Aritetis, 70 miles north of Kectmenshoof. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsThe Prince of Wales' Fund for the destitute relatives of soldiers at the front amounts now to £5,000,000. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe cntire New York press denounces Germany's resort to asphyxizting gases, and retaliation by the Allies is freely anticipated, though the necessity for such action is deplored. "The Tribune" states that first duty of civilisation after the war is over will be to chain down such instinets of ...
Article : 356 wordsHaving cxpcditiously disposed of all the German vessels of any consequence in the Pacific, the naval authorities found, in running over the list of all German-owned ...
Article : 71 wordsArrivals:—At London—Orsova, s.S., from Melbourne March 17; Port Albany, s.s., from Melbourne March 13. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Defence department has been advised of the death of the following soldier'— Corporal WALLACE HECTOR BRANDER[?] ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" on Tuesday:— BOMBARDING DARDANELLES. ...
Article : 216 wordsWe have to acknowledge the following additional contribution to this fund:—Previously acknowiedged, £4,246/6/5; "Eglinton," Box Hill, £2. Total, £4,248,6/5. ...
Article : 59 wordsADLLAIDE, Tuesday.—The prosecution in the Criminal Court against Francis Hugh Snow on a charge of having attempted to trade with the enemy was continued before ...
Article : 316 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—The military authorities have completed arrangements fo[?] calling up an additional 700 men from among those registered for service [?] ...
Article : 51 wordsThe question was recently raised in the Practice Court as to whether articled clerks enlisting for military service should not be allowed some consideration for the time ...
Article : 186 wordsThe children's fete in aid of the french Red Cross Fund, held at Ravenswood on April 17, has given the handsome return of £300. This sum has been divlded between the Dinan Hospital, near ...
Article : 58 wordsAn entertainment will be held in aid of the Red Croes at the Guild Hall, Swanston street, on Monday evening, May 3, when lantern views, taken by Mr. Edmund Armytage in Egypt, Palestinc, ...
Article : 106 wordsThe official French statement refering to the marked progress of the Allies on the left of the fighting line makes no mention of the recapture of Lizerne. On the other hand, the unofficial report of the operations in that region claims that the village has been retaken by Zouaves, after heavy ...
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Article : 134 wordsIn the melbourne Town Hall on Friday the Royal Horticultural Society is holding a fruit, flower, and palm exhibition in aid of the Belgian Fund. The public will be admitied at half-past 2, and Sir ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 28 Apr 1915, Page 9
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