KERANG, Thursday.—The Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) continued his tour of irrigation districts to-day, but his further acquaintance with the Gunbower electorate ...
Article : 1,278 wordsNot even the most optimistic believed that France and Britain alone could defeeat Germany on land, and from the beginning of the war anxious eyes were ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,279 wordsCabled advice has been received by the Commonwealth Defence department of the death in Egypt of Armourer-Sergeant Joseph William Moore, of the Ninth ...
Article : 64 wordsExpressions of indignation from all parts of the world are reaching London respecting the arrest of Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, by the Germans at Malines. ...
Article : 427 wordsDespite that they were vastly superior numerically, the adoption of German tactis brought only a debacle to the Turkish army in the Caucasus. The Russians, following a definite plan, struck only ...
Article : 147 wordsLord Kitchener, as Secretary of State for War, made his promised statement in the House of Lords on Wednesday. Reviewing the "ebb and flow of battle ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 374 wordsSome little time ago it was announced by the Postal department that the International Committee of the Red Cross at Berne had been entrusted with the duty of giving ...
Article : 75 wordsThe story of the terrible defeat inflicted by the Russians on the Turks in the Caucasus is told in Petrograd communiques. Although abundantly provided with ...
Article : 282 wordsThe following official communiques have been made available in Paris:— "Wednesday, Midnight.—The only notable incident on ...
Article : 139 wordsSir,—Having a son with the First Australian Expedition I have by every mail since his departure for the front posted a large number of both the daily and weekly ...
Article : 234 wordsA message from Brussels received in Rotterdam states that a mutiny has occurred there among the German troops in Belgium. ...
Article : 171 wordsFREMANTLE, Thursday.—Recently the Fremantle Lumpers' Union decided not to work on the wharves with Germans, Austrians, or Turks, whether naturalised or ...
Article : 127 wordsColonel Giuseppe Garibaldi (grandson of the famous Italian Liberator), at the head of his Garibaldian corps, which is fighting on the side of the Allies, made a ...
Article : 422 wordsAn article, headed "A Retrospect," has been published by the Berlin "Lokal Anzeiger" (a widely-read journal, which is frequently used by the German ...
Article : 113 wordsAn inquiry is being conducted by the British Board of Trade into the rise in the price of bread to 7½d. per quartern l[?]af. ...
Article : 100 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Federal Executive Council, a general license was granted by the Governor-General under the powers conferred upon him by the Imperial ...
Article : 119 wordsThe following messages were published in the later editions of "The Argus" of Thursday:— SCREENED BY WOMEN. ...
Article : 228 wordsIt is claimed in Berline that the sinking of the British battle-ship Formidable in the Channel in the early hourse of last Friday morning was the result of an attack ...
Article : 243 wordsTurkish and German engineers at Constantinople are collecting a large number of old steamers, which are being laden with stones and earth. ...
Article : 54 wordsA tribute is paid by the Boulogne correspondent of the "Daily Mail" to the remarkable vigour and resource displayed by the staff of the Australian Voluntary Field ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Alfred Lo[?]mann, who was one of the principals of Weber, Lohmann, and Co., when that firm were agents in Sydney for the North German Lloyd Steamship Co., ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Sinn Fein group of irreconcilables in [?]reland, encouraged by a small, but active, section of Irish-American extremists, has caused a good deal of annoyance to the ...
Article : 211 wordsAnother misadventure has been experienced by the Turkish battle-cruiser Goeben, which formerly belonged to Germany. A telegram from Constantinople ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. McDonald) has fixed the following dates for the by-election for the Grampians in place of the late Mr. Jolley— ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Germans in Liege and other Belgian towns, according to an Amsterdam message, are requisitioning copper from doors, pumps, and other articles. ...
Article : 324 wordsAccording to the "New York Herald" a fresh plot to send German reservists from the United States to Europe has been discovered. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe reply of King George V. to the proposal made to the belligerents by the Pope for the exchange of wounded prisoners who are unfit for active service has been ...
Article : 85 wordsEighteen tenders were received by the Public Works department for the erection of a new high school in the Eastern Park[?] Geelong. The successful tenderers were ...
Article : 124 wordsThe following message has been received by the Commonwealth Government from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— "The French Government reports some ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. P. McBride, Agent-General for Victoria, has arranged for the distribution of the gift of 350 boxes of butter from Victorian manufacturers of butter and cheese ...
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Advertising : 196 wordsThree Zeppelins are reported to have been flying between Calais and Gravelines (12 miles E.N.E. of the former city). At the same time six German aeroplanes ...
Article : 76 wordsIt appears that the spirit of friendship among portions of the hostile armies in Flanders on Christmas Day was not shared by the authorities in Berlin. ...
Article : 68 wordsA Dutch telegraph official in Holland has been arrested as a spy. He had been perusing telegrams from one of the bel[?]gerent nations, and retransmitting them ...
Article : 37 wordsThe health of the German troops garrisoning Antwerp is very unsatisfactory. More than 200 of the soldiers are in hospital, suffering from typhoid. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association of Victoria announces that, in conformity with cabled advices from London, the war rate on sailers outwards and homewards will be ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 8 Jan 1915, Page 7
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