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Article : 8 wordsAn account has been received at Athens from an eyewitness of the recent fighting in the Dardanelles. He states:— "The heaviest losses were borne by the ...
Article : 204 wordsThe crisis that has been threatening in the Far East [?]s apparently ended. The official announcement was made in London on Sunday evening that China had ...
Article : 41 wordsVivid stones of the closing scenes of the Lusitania disaster are told by survivors. The liner went down so quickly that many boats could not be launched, while others were so crowded that they capsized and sank. The death roll is ...
Article : 445 wordsSome thrilling narratives are related by survivors. Mr. George Kessler, the so-called "Champagne King" and host at many ...
Article : 519 wordsExcitement in Italy regarding the question of intervention is increasing. Three thousand more German refugees have arrived at the frontier on their way home ...
Article : 266 words"Eye-Witness," the official reporter the British front, gives the following description of the fighting round Hill "60," which is situated south of ...
Article : 372 wordsAt 3 o'clock on Monday morning a German airship dropped several bombs on Southend and Westcliff-on-Sea (about 40 miles east of London). It is feared that ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Turkish commander, Diemal Pasha, who is stated to have 150,000 men, and is supported by Kurds, has been checked in his proposed march on Egypt by an ...
Article : 92 wordsIt is reported from Rome that the sinking of the Lusitania has aroused intense anger in Italy. The "Corriere d'Italia" and other ...
Article : 65 wordsLieut.-Colonel Semmens, who had command of the 6th. Battalion of the Australian Expeditionary Force, arrived in Melbourne from Egypt yesterday. He has been invalided ...
Article : 485 wordsIn a Petrograd communique it is admitted that the Germans have been successful at Libau. It is stated, however, that the Russians ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Prime Minister of Canada cabled as follows to the Prime Minister of Australia:— "Canada congratulates the ...
Article : 242 wordsPublic resentment in America against Germany for sinking the Lusitania is widespread. The press is very outspoken in its denunciation. ...
Article : 483 wordsSYDNEY. Monday.—Intense earnestness characterised the Premiers Conference when attention was given for the greater part of to-day's sitting to the war. ...
Article : 782 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Members of the Premiers' Conference were entertained by the New South Wales Ministry at a banquet al Parliament Home to-night. Mr. ...
Article : 321 wordsAn official statement issued in Paris at midnight on Sunday reports the following successes by the Allies at various points in the western front:— ...
Article : 109 wordsBefore any business was transacted at the quarterly meeting of the City Council yesterday, Councillor C. Atkins moved:— "That this corporation records its infinite ...
Article : 138 wordsJohn Davis, a member of the crew, state that the Lusidania had a splendid vovage to the coast. They were travelling at half-speed near ...
Article : 209 wordsA farewell meeting to the volunteers from Sandringham took place last evening at the Sandringham Hall, when a recruiting campaign was also instituted. The gathering ...
Article : 388 wordsSir John French, in a report dated on Sunday, stated:— "The enemy last night made attacks east of Ypres, which were continued to-day. All ...
Article : 138 wordsThe consensus of opinion among passengers is that the liner was travelling at 18 knots an hour at the time of the disaster. Several passengers saw the submarine ...
Article : 160 wordsAt a meeting of the Collingwood Council last night, references were made by the major and councillors to the death in Gallipoli, while fighting for the. Empire, of the ...
Article : 190 wordsThe annual payment made to the Cunard Steamship Company out of the British Post-office vote is £68,000. The main service performed in respect of this sum is the ...
Article : 242 wordsA story of heroism is related regarding a young miner named Harrison, who was returning to enlist. He twice gave up his lifebelt to a young married woman with a ...
Article : 109 wordsFor those who in the turmoil of the [?]ght Have paid the price of victory and died, Who [?]e upon a distant shore wide-eyed, Beneath the mystery of an Orient night, ...
Article : 108 wordsThe feeling shown on the Landon Stock Exchange on Saturday on account of the sinking of the Lusitania, which led to several members of German nationality being ...
Article : 171 wordsThe progress of operations in the eastern and western theatres is dealt with in a Berlin communique as follows:— "We dislodged the enemy from strongly ...
Article : 114 wordsIt is reported from London that Lord Mersey, P. C., has been appointed to conduct the inquiry into the loss of the Lusitania. ...
Article : 98 wordsAUCKLAXD, Sunday.—The passengers aboard the Lusitania are believed to include Mr. J. G. Mackay, of the firm of Mackay, Logan, and Caldwell, with his wife ...
Article : 33 wordsAt yesterday's sitting of the Interstate Conference of the Australian Letter-carriers' Association Senator Needham moved— ...
Article : 133 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A well-known Sydney wool-buyer, Mr. C. Learoyd of the firm of Learoyd and Boggio, was probably a passenger by the Lusitania as he cabled ...
Article : 77 wordsSir,—I have on many occasions experienced great satisfaction and appreciation at the efforts of the writers of leading articles in our Melbourne newspapers, but ...
Article : 298 wordsHarrowing scenes were witnessed at Queenstown, where 30 babies were laid out on the floor of a temporary morgue. Though the quickness of the disaster was ...
Article : 71 wordsThe torpedoing of the Lusitania has had little effect on the traffic across the Atlantic. The Cunard liner Transylvania has sailed ...
Article : 60 wordsAn official communique issued from Vienna states that, the Russians are retreating along a front of 113 miles from the Vistula to the Uszok Pass, and that move ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The first case in Sydney of alleged attempting to spread alarming war reports was heard before Mr. Smithers, S. M., at the Water Police Court ...
Article : 250 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—Captain Halsey, of H.M.S. New Zealand, writes to the Wellington branch of the Navy League:— ...
Article : 79 wordsIn order to help the Commonwealth in its provision of hospital accommodation for wounded and invalid soldiers, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Murray) yesterday decided ...
Article : 143 wordsA list of passengers who transferred from the Vanconver liner Niagara to the Lusitania was publishe[?] yesterday. Several of these mentioned in that list, including Mr. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe warning by Count von Bernstorff German ambassador to the United States) that the Atlantic must be retarted as a war zone appeared in the New ...
Article : 131 wordsIn a Simla message it is slated that the use of poisonous gases by the Germans in Flanders caused great indignation throughout india, but the crime of the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe North Melbourne and Flemington branches of the Australian Natives' Asciation are holding a meeting in the town, hall. North Melbourne, on Thursday ...
Article : 107 wordsIn view of the position of Greece in relation to the war, more than ordinary interest is attached to a notification which has been received from the Greek Postal ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 11 May 1915, Page 9
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