Before the vote was taken in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the bill to provide for war the Socialist leaders declared that they were not opposed to the Government, ...
Article : 144 wordsMessages from Athens state that reports from Mitylene, the island in the [?]gean Sea, used as a base by the Allies operating in the Dardanelles, confirm the news of the ...
Article : 429 wordsThere has been no further announcement as to the progress being made with the formation of the National Cabinet to take the place of the present Liberal Ministry. ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Italian army, whose immediate trained fighting strength is estimated at 560,000 men, counting the mobile militia, is organised under the system introduced in ...
Article : 726 wordsThe party in Italy in favour of intervention in the war has won decisively after a short struggle with the Neutralists. On Thursday, by an overwhelming majority, the Chamber of Deputies, at the first meeting since the adjournment last month, passed ...
Article : 274 wordsMessages from Petrograd state that the Russians on the San River, in Central Galicia, are maintaining an heroic resistance under a terrible ...
Article : 218 wordsUnited States Embassy officials at Berlin are taking a census of Americans now in Germany. The American Ambassador (Mr. J. W. ...
Article : 211 wordsReferences to the death of Major-General Bridges were made in the Senate yesterday, and a motion expressing appreciation of his services and sympathy with the bereaved ...
Article : 231 wordsThe "Messagero" of Rome reports that Switzerland is mobilising 400,000 men as [?] safeguard of her neutrality. ...
Article : 20 wordsAccording to the "Vossische Zeitung," the Austrians during the fighting at Tarnow, in Galicia, used a new battery of 20in. mortars. ...
Article : 78 wordsA cargo, in a Greek vessel, of 2,000 tons of rice, which was destined for Germany, has been s[?]ized at Naples. ...
Article : 24 wordsEarly in November a German vessel named the Ophelia was captured off the English coast and detained for trial by a prize court. She was flying a Red Cross ...
Article : 92 wordsSwedish rumours of a great naval battle in the Baltic between the German and Russian fleets have reached Copenhagen. The fighting is said to be taking place in ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Prime Minister yesterday received a cable message from Major-General Godley, the officer commanding the New Zealand troops at the Dardanelles, ...
Article : 50 wordsSignor Salandra introduced a bill to provide for national war. In doing so, he said:—"Prior to the war Italy, out of love for peace, suffered every humiliation at Austria's hands. Austria violated the whole spirit of the Triple Alliance treaty between Italy, ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Russian centre about Przemysl appears to be holding on grimly, in the face of the main Austro-German attack, while the two wins are pressing against the ...
Article : 1,020 wordsA service in memory of the late MajorGeneral Bridges will be held in St Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday evening next at a quarter to 5 o'clock. This will be ...
Article : 87 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" and other newspapers are complaining that Lord Kitchener is refusing advice to supply the army with high explosive shells, as he prefers ...
Article : 40 wordsA communique issued in Paris at midnight on Thursday stated:— "Sharp artillery duels have occurred between Nieuport, in ...
Article : 143 wordsAt a meeting of the council of Queen's College, University, on Thursday last, it was reported that 56 past and present Queen's men had volunteered for service ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 318 wordsFrench airmen have destroyed a bridge over the River Searpe, at Douni, near the Belgian frontier, and have thus stopped traffic behind the German front. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the House of Representatives and the Senate yesterday the following cable message from General Sir Ian Hamilton, commanding the Allies' land operating on the ...
Article : 130 wordsAn Austrian sailor has been sentenced to death for having fired at Admiral Hans and having incited his comrades to join the Italians. ...
Article : 25 wordsA motion for the appointment of a committee to consider the bill was then submitted, and agreed to by 367 votes to 54, the Socialists and a few followers of Signor G[?]lltti voting with the minority. This was regarded as a sweeping victory for the Government at ...
Article : 89 wordsFrom Copenhagen the statement comes that in German naval circles it is reported that Germany has lost 17 submarines since February 18, the date when the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsA Swiss traveller from Al[?]ace declares that the Germans are installing lines of pipes connected with generating stations at some distance behind the front, in order ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Italian Government has assumed control of all railways, and, owing to the presence of numerous A[?]strian and German submarines, has suspended all navigation in the Northern Adriatic. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe remains of Major-General Bridges, commander of the Australian Expeditionary Force, who was wounded in the Dardanelles fighting, and died on a hospital ship en ...
Article : 76 wordsWhen the House of Representatives met yesterday Mr. O'Malley (T.) asked the Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Jensen) if it was a fact that the Parliament of Italy ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Green Book issued in Rome on Wednesday states that Italy on December 9 of last year pointed out to Austria that the latter's advance into Serbia violated the ...
Article : 295 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Sitting in equity [?]risdiction yesterday, Mr. Justice Harvey delivered his reserved decision in the special [?]ase stated at the instance of the ...
Article : 389 wordsHis Majesty King George and the Secretary of State for War (Lord Kitchener) have visited the shipbuilding and armament works of Armstrong, Whitworth, and ...
Article : 98 words"The Times," referring to the Commonwealth's subscription of £100,000 to the Red Cross Fund, says this morning:—"It is a wonderful proof of the patriotism and ...
Article : 117 wordsArrivals.—At Plymouth—Rotorun, s.s., from Wellington April 8. At Calcutta— Chindwarn, s.s. At Hong Kong—St. Albans, s.s., from Melbourne April 14. At ...
Article : 83 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—Intense enthusiasm was manifested by Italian residents in Ballarat in connection with the decision of the Italian Parliament. A ...
Article : 164 wordsFurther details of the suicide in Brixton (England) Gaol of Kuepferde, who was on trial on a charge of espionage, show that he hanged himself to a ventilator with a ...
Article : 112 wordsLieutenant Sayle, who served with the 6th New Zealand Mounted Infantry in the Boer war, has been killed in action at Ypres, in Weat Flanders. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe British Board of Trade has directed attention to the public importance of restricting the consumption of meat in order to economise the national supplies, and so ...
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Advertising : 60 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Mr. John P. Wilson, consul for Italy in Queensland, stated this afternoon that he had not so far received advice officially of Italy's declaration ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 22 May 1915, Page 19
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