WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.—The retail price of butter at Wellington has advanced one penny a pound, and is now 1/7 for best blands. The total quantity of ...
Article : 220 words"Eye-witness," the official reporter with the British headquarters staff, describing the fighting around St. Julien, says that when the French were retiring before the ...
Article : 603 wordsThe stirring news from the front of Australians in action han had a marked effect upon recruiting. For weeks past the number of applicants for enlistment has been ...
Article : 177 wordsA great battle, in which the hig guns on both sides are engaged is now taking place in West Flanders. The heavy guns are making a curtain of artillery fire which ...
Article : 189 wordsAn important message dealing with the operations of the Allies against the 'Turks has been received from Athens. Newspapers in the Greek capital, in publishing accounts of the landing, express the utmost admiration of the courage and determination with which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 382 wordsThe British Admiralty has announced that the destroyer Recruit (385 tons) was sunk by a German submarine on Saturday morning, in the vicinity of the Galloper ...
Article : 393 wordsIt is the practice of the Defence authorities to have soldiers at Broadmeadows medically re-examined after some training in camp. This re-examination, so far as a ...
Article : 641 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The baptism of fire which the Australians are undergoing in the Gallipoli Peninsula has acted as a spur to recruiting. The enrolling officer at ...
Article : 106 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The Attorney-General (Mr. Hall) slated on Saturday that he was much interested in the suggestion made by the Wagga branch of the Tanners' and ...
Article : 262 wordsMILDURA, Monday.—The offer of Dr. H. H. McWilliams to join the Medical Corps has been accepted. ...
Article : 22 wordsDealing with the situation in the western theatre of war a Paris communique states:— Machine-guns stopped the German attack ...
Article : 92 wordsCASTERTON, Monday.—Mr. Murdoch McIntyre, jun., son of a farmer near Casterton, was so determined to get to the front that a few days ago, finding that ...
Article : 84 wordsA roll of honour for Trinity College has been compiled. It includes Trinity' men now serving or accepted for service in various branches of His Majesty's naval or ...
Article : 101 wordsADELAIDE, Monday,—Argument was continued in the Criminal Court to day before Mr. Justice Gordon and a jury, in the case in which Francis H. Snow is charged ...
Article : 878 wordsA Petrograd communique states that the Germans are occupying the Shavli district, 77 miles north-north-west of Kovno. German patrols have appeared near Libau, ...
Article : 50 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The AttorneyGeneral (Mr. Hall) stated to-day that be regards the latest figures supplied by the Government statistician (Mr. Trivett) ...
Article : 249 wordsAn official message from Cape Town states that the British have occupied Kubas, in German South-West-Africa. The occupation was not opposed. The British ...
Article : 37 wordsSYDNEY, Monday—The Governor (Sir Henty Galway) has received the following telegram from the British War Offies in connection with the seven motor ...
Article : 80 wordsThe trawler Barbados brought to Yarmouth the Colombia's survivor and a German bluejacket, who had fallen overboard. Seventeen of the Colombia's crew perished. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" Bucharest correspondent states that Germany is preparing for another winter campaign. Admiral von Tirpitz hopes that this ...
Article : 67 wordsThe hon. treasurer, Mrs. D. Grant, reports that the total amount subscribed was £1,588/13/8. This amount has been handed over to the trustees appointed by the subscribers at their meeting, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Murray Waters agreement provides that the minimum quantity to be allowed to pass for supply to South Australia in each year shall be sufficient to fill Lake ...
Article : 549 wordsThe German submarines have shown much activity during the past few days. The French steamer Europe, of Havre, 4,769 tons, was sunk near Bishop Rock, the ...
Article : 208 wordsOn Friday evening, in the North Melbourne Town Hall, the residents of the district gave a farewell to those troops of North Melbourne leaving for the front. Councillor Davison, who occupied the chair, ...
Article : 302 wordsA Venice message states that trains laden with heavy Austrian artillery are arriving at commanding positions on the frontier. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe chairman of the Price of Goods Board (Mr. Adamson, M.L.C.) slated yesterday that he had received an intimation from butter merchants to the effect that for this ...
Article : 266 wordsThrough Geneva the statement comes that two companies of Austrian infantry, without officers, entered Italian territory at Schio, near Vicenza, carrying the white ...
Article : 40 wordsWhile not desiring to lesson the force of the criticism of the naval branch of the Defence department, contained in the report made by Mr. Robert McC. Anderson, ...
Article : 248 wordsA new French super-Dreadnought, the Languedoc, has been launched at Bordeaux. The battle-ship has a displacement of 25,000 tons. ...
Article : 244 wordsThe White Paper has been issued on which the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd George) based his crusade against the drink traffic. ...
Article : 210 wordsDr. Dernhurg, formerly the German Minister for the Colonies, has been addressing meetings recently in the United States, in which he has intimated the terms ...
Article : 229 wordsAdditional details have been received of the shelling of Dunkirk, the French coastal town, by the German siege guns. A splinter of the first German shell ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,—Mr. McCabe will receive the sympathy of everyone in the great loss he has sustained by the death of his son. Those whose sons have volunteered to do their ...
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Article : 130 wordsBritish aviators recently blew up an ammunition depot it St. Quentin, in the Aisne district, killing 19 guards. They also destroyed the goods traffic lines. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe French are progressing towards Metz, the German fortress in Lorraine. A Paris communique, dealing with the operations at this point, states:— ...
Article : 62 wordsThe session of the Women's Peace Congres at the Hague (states an Amsterdam message) ended in uproar. The German delegates controlled the ...
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Article : 197 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" announces that the summoning of the Landstrum was to begin on Monday (yesterday) with the 1876 class, and to end on May 12, with the 1876 ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,—I would like to point out that Dr. Kuno Meyer has no longer the honor of being a freeman of my native city. On March 15 the Dublin corporation passed a ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 4 May 1915, Page 7
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