That the unemployment situation is becoming more acute, and that immediate organisation is necessary to check its development were points emphasised ...
Article : 270 wordsIn the view of Lord Syden ham, a military expert of eminence, the Allies have destroyed the German offensive, and are now holding the enemy. Desperate efforts are being made by a great Austro-German ...
Article : 131 wordsTelegrams which have reached Rome from Vienna state that there is profound discontent in Austin at the action of the Hungarian Government in having forbidden ...
Article : 482 wordsThe British Government intends to notify the neutral powers of the attempt by a German submarine to torpedo the hospital ship Asturias. ...
Article : 465 wordsYesterday, although there was some longrange fighting in the vicinity of Ismailia, the Suez Cinal was open to traffic all day, and ships passed along it without hindrance, ...
Article : 297 wordsIt has been seen that Hungary would be the scene of the chief Russian activity for some considerable time. That view was based primarily upon the great invasion of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,419 wordsThere was a slight increase in the number of enlistments made in the Victorian military district on Wednesday, the total for the whole of the State reaching 160. Of ...
Article : 136 wordsThe "Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) made interesting reference yesterday to the offer made by the "Melbourne Cricket Club to the Defence department to ...
Article : 190 wordsAt the time of the outbreak of the great war a considerable number of Australian military officers were in Great Britain, either on business or enjoying a holiday. ...
Article : 274 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—L. R. Renof, was charged at the Adelaide Police Court to-day with having, on November 12, during the continuance of the present war, ...
Article : 59 wordsPractically the whole of the meeting of the Trades Hall Council last night was occupied in a consideration of the unemployed situation. On the motion of Mr. G. Spears, ...
Article : 540 wordsA general muster of members of the City of Melbourne Rifle Club will be held at the Drill Hall, Eastern Hill, to-night, and Leiut.-Colonel Raws ...
Article : 128 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The AttorneyGeneral (Mr. Hughes) was asked to-day if he had seen a report of the judgment of Mr. Justice Street in the case in which an ...
Article : 368 wordsSir,-The leader in "The Arugs" this morning urging "sports" to volunteer must appeal to all. We do want men, but why not attack an enemy even worse than a ...
Article : 178 wordsThe German offensive in the west is [?]dily increasing in violence. It is reported from Dunkirk that the enemy have made a new violent effort to ...
Article : 160 wordsLord Sydenham; formerly Governor of Victoria, who has had considerable military experience, and was for three years secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, ...
Article : 268 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" (the regular medium employed by the German Government in handling foreign questions, but not invariably inspired) makes a violent attack ...
Article : 258 wordsSoon after the naval battle of the Cocos Islands, in which H.M.A.S. Sydney battered the German cruiser Emden into a shapeless wreek, the Minister for Defence (Senator ...
Article : 220 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—At a meeting of the New South Wales Employers' Federation to-day, the following motions were agreed to:— ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Russians are steadily pursuing the offensive on the Eastern front, according to the following Russian official com[?]que:— ...
Article : 229 wordsCUNNINGHAME, Thursday.—A sensational accident, fortunately unattended by any very serious results, happened to Messrs. Coate Bros.' four-horse drag on ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senntor Pearce) made lreference yesterday to certain statements made by Mr. Snowball, M.L.A., during the course of his address at the picnic ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Melbourne Chamber of Commerce is in receipt through the Department of Externnl Affairs of the following cable message from the Secretary of State for the ...
Article : 686 wordsThe British Board of Trade has appointed a committee to inquire into the increased shipping freights. It was reported a few days ago that there ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—The leader in "The Argus" to-day pointing out the small number of cricketers and footballers who have joined the Australian Expeditionary Forces, induces me ...
Article : 213 wordsNew buildings, which are estimated to cost £110,000, will be begun at the Hospital for the Insane, at Mont Park, shortly. These will give employment to a large ...
Article : 91 wordsReuter's correspondent at Buenos Ayres advises that a British battle-cruiser sunk a German auxiliary cruiser of the Woermann line in the South Atlantic. ...
Article : 33 wordsSir,—Your correspondent "One Who Earns His Wages" does not even quote correctly from my letter. I did not state that most of our industrial troubles are ...
Article : 645 wordsBAIRNSDALE, Thursday.—A fatal accident occurred on the railway bridge construction work to-day to a diver named Sydney Horry, who was working at a depth of ...
Article : 115 wordsGerman newspaper continue to affirm that British warships were sunk during the recent North Sea naval fight in which the enemy lost the battle-cruiser Blucher and ...
Article : 96 wordsSeveral changes are contemplated among senior officers of police, primarily owing to the retirement of Inspecting-superintendent Milne on March 11, Inspector John ...
Article : 363 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association of Victoria announce that, in accordance with advices from London, the war rate to and from South Africa will he 10/ per cent, for ...
Article : 37 wordsSir,—A meeting will be held in Heidelberg on Tuesday evening next, at 8 o'clock, at the Barkly Hall, with the object of forming a rifle club on the lines already successfully ...
Article : 64 wordsSir,—I read with interest "Britisher's" and "Mansfield's" letters on Germans occupying public positions. I consider it scandalous for those in authority to allow these ...
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—About 2,500 men who are now in training at Liverpool marched through the city streets to-day. Major Holman was in command. The men ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Chicago wheat market was in a con[?] resembling a panic on Wednesday, when the fluctuations were wide and erratic in "the pit." ...
Article : 98 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.—Reginald Benjamin Levien, formerly Victorian Government agent in the East, who last week was sentenced to imprisonment for attempted ...
Article : 106 wordsSir,—Like "A Mother," I have a son with the first Expeditionary Force, now in Egypt, who writes from Menn Camp under date the 3rd January, expressing ...
Article : 134 wordsThe official announcement is made from Petrograd that a Russian submarine has sunk a German torpedo-boat in the Baltic. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe French "Eye-Witness" tells this touching story:—Corporal Philippe, who was in charge of a patrol, made his men take shelter, and then continued to advance ...
Article : 249 wordsThe President of the Board of Agriculture (Lord Lucas) announced in the House of Lords on Wednesday that there were 13,259 alien enemies, exclusive of prisoners ...
Article : 60 wordsA special conference of the council of the People's Party will be held at Ballarat on Tuesday and Wednesday next, when important Federal and State political subjects ...
Article : 173 wordsSir,—In "The Argus" to-day an interesing statement is published regarding the Defence department's proposals to train Boy Scouts in the work of drawing up military ...
Article : 156 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Public Works (Mr. Griffith) introduced in the Legislative Assembly to-night a bill to ratify and provide for the carrying out of ...
Article : 98 wordsThe South African rebel leader Kemp, with the whole of his commando, has surrendered, as was anticipated in a recent [?] from Pretoria, and 100 of the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 5 Feb 1915, Page 7
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