Within the past few days Australian soldiers have been fighting against the Turks, who are defending the Dardanelles against the Allies. "The splendid gallantry and magnificent achievements of ...
Article : 145 wordsThe following letter, dealing with an earlier movement of troops, from our special representatives in Egypt, which has only now been "released" by the censor, is ...
Article : 1,494 wordsAs soon as the Senate and the House of Representatives met yesterday afternoon the announcement was made that the Australian Expeditionary Fortes had been ...
Article : 478 wordsWhen it was announced early in March by the Australasian Army Corps commander (General Birdwood) that the troops in camp at Cairo could prepare themselves for ...
Article : 1,666 wordsThe Allies' Expeditionary Force, including the Australians and New Zealanders, has been engaged with the Turks on both the European and Asiatic shores of the Dardanelles. The British War Office announced at midnight on Wednesday that, despite ...
Article : 187 wordsSerbia's plight is deplorable. The little country has been reduced by the war to a condition of pitiable distress. The Rockefeller commissioner, which is ...
Article : 357 wordsThe Germans continue to use poisonous gases in their effort to gain a victory over the Allies. The Paris newspaper "Le Temps" states ...
Article : 430 wordsField-Marshal Sir John French has telegraphed the following to the War Office:— "Our operations, in conjunction with the French, have definitely ...
Article : 398 wordsIt is reported officially from Paris that the French armoured cruiser Leon Gambetta (12,352 tons, four 7.6in. guns, built in 1991) was sunk by a torpedo while eruising ...
Article : 426 wordsA Turkish communique issued in Constantinople claims that the Allied troops at Cape Tekke (northern entrance to Straits), and at Kum Kaleh (southern entrance), have been repulsed to the coast, and that portion of the invaders have returned to their ships. ...
Article : 125 wordsAdvices from Washington state that the United States Government is sending another Note to Germany, agreeing to accept compensation for the sinking of the ...
Article : 284 wordsSir,—For the last few days we have been reading in the papers that the Germans have been using asphyxiating gases in their endeavours to get the better of the Allied ...
Article : 383 wordsIn reply to Senator Bakhap (T.), Senator Pearce stated in the Senate yesterday that as soon as lists of casualties reached the Governor-General steps were ...
Article : 65 wordsAccording to messages from Paris, Talaat Bey, the Turkish Minister for the Interior, presided at a secret meeting of the War Council held at Constantinople. He dwelt on the inabality of Turkey to indefinitely defend the Dardanelles, ...
Article : 107 wordsIn answer to a question by Mr. Riley (N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives yesterday, the Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Jensen) announced that the ...
Article : 198 wordsAn official report issued in Petrograd s[?]tes that an Austrian battalion has sur[?]dered to the Russians in the Stryi distrit, south of Lemberg, in Galicia, where ...
Article : 256 wordsA brisk bombardment of the Bosphorus is being kept up by the Russian fleet. Messages from Petrograd state that, besides attacking the outer forts of the Bosphorus, the fleet on Sunday bombarded Anadolia-kavak and ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Germans bombarded an infirmary at Poperinghe, in Belgium, eight miles west of Ypres, on Sunday. The building was flying a red cross flag. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Speaker (Mr. McDonald) yesterday informed Mr. McGrath in the House of Representatives that the censor had not attempted to prevent the question asked on ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Japanese Minister-Plenipotentiary at Peking has informed China that after the acceptance of the Japanese demands Japan will consider the question of the ...
Article : 58 wordsOn Wednesday the Canadians, worn out with four days and nights of unceasing struggle, were relieved. They retired covered with glory. Their ranks were sadly thinned, ...
Article : 162 wordsColonel Michael Joseph Tighe, formerly commandant of the 56th Punjabi Rifles (Indian Frontier Force), has been appointed major-general in command of the forces ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Straits of the Dardanelles, which lead from the Mediterranean into the Sea of Marmoara, separate Europe from Asia. The breadth, averaging about two miles, varies from 1,400 yards at its narrowest part to four miles at its widest. At the western entrance, a distance of two miles separates the forts at Cape Helles, or Seddul Bahr (south-east of Tekeburun, one of the landing places of the Allies troops), on the European ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 258 wordsThe German offensive against the British left consisted of an advance from St. Julien towards Ypres, and a flanking movement by way of Lizerne, threatening the British left flank. The Allies' counter offensive is taking place from Ypres to St. Julien, and a f[?]nk attack ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 58 wordsThe Old Melburnias' Society is preparing a roll of old bes of the Melbourne Grammar School [?] have enlisted. Already, in addi[?] to those who ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Germans used new troops lavishly, and many were badly demoralised when facing shell-fire for the first time. In contrast to their conduct was that of ...
Article : 187 wordsAt the annual concert and [?]sentation of trophies in connection with the Alphington Football Club, held on Tue[?]y evening, three playing members of the [?] who have ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 30 Apr 1915, Page 7
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