Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, who had the privilege of being on board one of the warships that carried 500 Australians who formed the covering party for the landing at Gaba Tepe, telegraphs:— "It required splendid skill, organisation, awl leadership to get the huge ...
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Article : 366 wordsIt was officially announced in Tokio on Thursday afternoon that Japan had sent an ultimatum to China after the sanction of the Emperor had been obtained. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe special correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," in a message from the Dardanelies dated Sunday, states:— The most prominent feature since my last message has been the great damage inflicted on "The Narrows" forts by guns of the fleet and the artillery ...
Article : 171 words"But then' the Australasians, whose blood was up, instead of entrenching, rushed northwards and eastwards, searching for fresh enemies to bayonet. It was difficult country in which to entrench. Therefore they preferred to advance. ...
Article : 630 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) has informed the National Miners' Federation that they have made out a prima-facic case for an advance of wages. ...
Article : 68 wordsA report which has reached Athens states that the Allies have captured the heights, facing the S[?]andere Fort, north of Achi Baba, ni the southern end of the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Allies arc advancing steadily, devoting their attention to the ...
Article : 144 wordsThe American Secretary of State (Mr. W. J. Bryan), in explaining the American Government's attitude with regard to Japan, reiterated its adherence to the ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Frrench Minister of Finance (M. Ribot) has tabled a bill in the Chamber of Deputies, raising the National Defence Bond issue to six thousand million franes ...
Article : 73 wordsAn interesting statement concerning the relations between China and, Japan was made yesterday by Mr. Motosaku Tsuchiya, a Japanese journalist connected with the ...
Article : 1,126 wordsMany of the wounded from the Dardanelles have arrived at Malta. Provision is being made to accommodate 8,000 wounded soldiers on the island, 1,000 being transferred from Egypt. The large hospitals are staffed by English nurses, and are under the control of Sir Frederick Treves, the famous ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Foreign Secretary (Sir Edward Grey) stated in the House of Commons on Thursday that he had been informed [?]mofficially that nine British officer prisoners at ...
Article : 52 wordsA Copenhagen message states that four German cruisers and eight torpedo-boats have been observed in the Baltic Sea, travelling in an easterly direction. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe second reading of the Defence of the Realm Amendment Act in the House of Commons has disclosed a violent hostility by the Irish members to the proposed ...
Article : 79 wordsA newspaper correspondent who visited the injured victims of the German poisonous gases has described the effects of the gas upon them in an interesting report that ...
Article : 171 wordsGerman submarines by gunfire have sunk a trawler and a schooner in the North Sea. The crews of both were picked up. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe fighting on the western front continues with vigour in Flanders and the Woevre, where isolated points of vantage are fiercely contested. ...
Article : 111 words"There has been no finer feat in this war than this sudden landing in the dark and storming the heights, above all holding on whilst the reinforcements were landing. "These raw colonial troops in these desperate hours proved worthy to ...
Article : 434 wordsPreviously acknowledged, £174,787/3/; Kyahram Patriotic Committee, £60; Shire of Tambo Council. £30; proceeds of dramatic performance by Oakleigh Dramatic Society, £14; collected by ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd-George) stated in the House of Commons on Thursday that he had met representatives, including those from Australia, ...
Article : 64 wordsPreviously acknowledged, £3,[?]58/2/2/; Surrey Hills branch, £16/5/; Heidelberg District Patriotic F[?]nd (per Mrs. Stirling), £7; collected in room, 10/11. Total, £3,981/18/1. ...
Article : 280 wordsAn American correspondent has telegraphed to the Paris. "Temps" an interview which he has had with Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. ...
Article : 89 wordsGermany has threatened to prohibit the continuance of distress relief work in Belgium if the railway men persist in their refusal to work under Germans. A ...
Article : 79 wordsOfficial advices from Cape Town state that General Botha, at the head of the Union forces, has occupied the railway junction at Karibib, in German ...
Article : 48 words"At 10 minutes to 4 o'clock the enemy showed an alarm light, which flashed for ten minutes, and then disappeared. "Our boats appeared almost as one on the beach, the seven torpedo-boat destroyers glided noiselessly inshore, and at 7 minutes to 4 o'clock came a sharp ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 8 May 1915, Page 19
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