"On Thursday," states a Petrograd communique, "we drove back to the right bank of the Dniester strong forces of the enemy which had crossed to the left bank near ...
Article : 80 wordsRecruiting at the Victoria Barracks was again brisk yesterday, but the results were not equal to those achieved on previous days this week. For a Friday, however, the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Minister of Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George) on Thursday privately received representatives of all the leading trade union organisations at Whitehall. ...
Article : 208 wordsThe text has been made available of the second Note despatched to Germany, protesting against that country's submarine warfare on merchant shipping. ...
Article : 635 wordsAmerica's second Note to Germany, details of which are published for the first time, leaves no room for equivocation on the part of the Kaiser. Mr. H. G. Wells, the novelist, says that modern war is ...
Article : 112 wordsDescribing the position in Galicia, a Petrograd communique issued at midnight on Thursday says:— The enemy in great force attacked ...
Article : 268 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—Two members of the New Zealand-Parliament —Mr. Thomas F. Seddon (of Westland) and Mr. W. Downie Stewart (of Dunedin West) ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Australian Natives' Association, (Prahran branch) have decided to hold a recruiting meeting on Monday, 21st inst., at their hall, High street (near Chapel street), Prahran. The speakers will ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Consul for Italy in Australasia (Cav. E. Eles) wishes it to be made known amongst Italian reservists and others interested that, according to cabled ...
Article : 106 wordsWhen the House of Representatives met yesterday the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Cook) asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) whether the answer given by the ...
Article : 463 wordsSuccess on the part of the Allied forces operating in the Gallipoli Peninsula is reported by the Tenedos correspondent of the "Echo de Paris." ...
Article : 56 wordsThe United States Government has received Germany's reply to her Note regarding the sinking of the American ship William P. Frye, by the auxiliary cruiser Prinz ...
Article : 283 wordsLieutenant J. G. T. Hanby, 14th Battalion, son of Lieut.-Colonel J. J. Hanby, who was wounded at the Dardanelles on April 27, and invalided to Alexandria, has ...
Article : 80 wordsThe French infantry, it is explained in a Paris communique, gained Neuville by house-to-house fighting. The Germans only retired when at the last extremity. ...
Article : 67 wordsSir,—I would like to apply to the public through you for any sporting material for the 6th Reinforcements, music of any description, or any such useful ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. H. G. Wells, the famous novelist, has written a letter to the newspapers, in which he asserts that modern war is essentially a struggle of gear and invention. ...
Article : 183 wordsOne of the most significant developments on the western front during the past few days has been the boldness and the success with which the Allies have followed a plan ...
Article : 955 wordsThe Italians, when they entered Monsalcone, discovered that the Italian fleet, in the recent hombardment, had demolished a huge poisonous gas factory. Pipes had already ...
Article : 45 wordsA Rome message reports the Italians to be within 17 miles of Trieste, Austria's most important seaport, and the chief trading town on the Adriatic, at the head of the ...
Article : 454 wordsUnusual admissions are made in a German communique, which has been received through Amsterdam. It deals with the fighting in Northern France, and reads:— ...
Article : 363 wordsThere are indications that a solution has been found of the difficulty that has arisen over the appointment of Mr. J. H. M. Campbell (Unionist) as Irish Chancellor, ...
Article : 161 wordsAn Italian dirigible airship recently dropped bombs on military positions at Pola, Austria's chief naval seaport. The dirigible, it is now reported in ...
Article : 97 wordsThe sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine is recalled by the finding of a body on the coast of Clare. It is believed to be that of Mr. A. G. Vanderbilt, the ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Lloyd George's munition speeches have been re-echoed in Russian industrial centres, states a Petrograd message. A congress of trade and industry, held ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Sir David Hennessy) has decided to call a public meeting, in the Town Hall, on Friday evening next, with the object of stimulating recruiting in ...
Article : 78 wordsReports from Athens state that King Constantine's condition has become less satisfactory, and that the patient is suffering from a slight inflammation of the kidneys. ...
Article : 34 wordsA Dutch fishing boat, it is announced from Amsterdam, has picked up eight survivors of two British fishing smacks, the Welfare and the Laurestina. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe London Institute of Civil Engineers has instituted a movement to establish central munition works in London. Under the scheme it is proposed to lay ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Amsterdam "Telegraaf" publishes a story of the destruction of a German airship in Belgium. In its account the journal says that an ...
Article : 165 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Premier (Mr. Holman) stated to-night that he had called a Cabinet meeting for Monday to consider the military position in the light of recent ...
Article : 95 wordsIt is reported from Algeciras, in Morocco, that a British cruiser in the Straits of Gibraltar stopped an Italian steamer and arrested Captain Thierithens, of the German ...
Article : 142 wordsA ruse by the Germans to send officers and munitions to Constantinople has been discovered at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Walter Runciman), speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, declared that the increased price of coal was largely due to ...
Article : 211 wordsThe council of the Melbourne branch of the Royal Society of St. George has passed the following resolution— "That, in the opinion of the council of the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe King has approved of Lord Wimborne as Lord Leiutenant of Ireland: Mr. I. J. O'Brien is to remain Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Mr. John Gordon is to ...
Article : 38 wordsThe British War Office has announced that a German submarine has sunk two British torpedo-boats, numbers 10 and 12, which were operating off the east coast of ...
Article : 261 wordsNo train will be run from Melbourne to the Seymour Camp on Sunday. The question of providing a special service at reduced fares on future Sundays is still under ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. E. G. Pretyman), in reply to a question in the House of Commons on Thursday, stated that it had been agreed ...
Article : 74 wordsThe ex-Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan, has issued an appeal to the American people, in which he says:—"The real issue is not between President Wilson and myself, but ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society, having decided to make an appeal throughout the Commonwealth for funds to enable it to meet the demands that ...
Article : 106 wordsThe "Vossiche Zeitung," one of Berlin's leading newspapers, announces that the Italians have placed wireless telegraphic installations and mounted air-craft guns on ...
Article : 225 wordsThe white chars-a-bancs will leave St. Paul's Cathedral corner at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning for the Seymour Training Camp. Particulars are given in our ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), in reply to questions, stated that the extension of the age limit had widened the field for ...
Article : 78 wordsThe extensive works at Park Royal, E[?]ling, near London, of Brown, Hughes, and Strachan Limited, motor-car body builders and engineers, were burned to the ground ...
Article : 150 wordsThe New Zealand Minister for Defence (Mr. Allen), acting in concert with the Postal authorities (says a telegram in the "Otago Daily Times" of June 1), has ...
Article : 239 wordsThe superintendent of mails at the General Post-office states that numerous papers are being received without postage, addressed to wounded soldiers. As it is ...
Article : 96 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday the Financial Secretary to the Local Government Board (Mr. W. Hayes Fisher) stated that 65 per cent. of Kitchener's army ...
Article : 82 wordsThe managers of the Alfred Hospital yesterday received a communication from the Defence department stating that there were vacancies for medical men in the Army ...
Article : 304 wordsAmsterdam messages report that the "Cologne Gazette," which frequently reflects the views of the German Foreign Minister, regards the resignation of Mr. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe authorities of the Methodist Church have decided to proceed with the erection of the proposed Methodist Soldiers' Home at Broadmeadows, so that the home may be ...
Article : 94 wordsRelatives and others who desire to remit sums up to £25 by cable to wounded Australian soldiers can do so through the Commonwealth Bank of Australin. This ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. T. J. Maenamara) announced in the House of Commons on Thursday that the loss of life in the Navy during the war to ...
Article : 88 wordsThe authorities at San Giovanni di Medua, the small northern Albanian port, have been detaining vessels carrying food cargoes destined for Montenegro and the Malissori ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Presbyterian Church has made preparations for the continuance of its work among the soldiers at Seymour. A large tent (84 by 30 feet) has been purchased for ...
Article : 126 wordsIt is reported from Nish, the present seat of government in Serbia, that three Austrian aviators dropped bombs on Kragujevatz (to which town in the mountains King ...
Article : 91 wordsWhile a German aeroplane was flying over Bulgaria towards Turkey it caught fire, and fell to the ground, the pilot being burned to death. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. J. Balfour) stated in the House of Commons on Thursday that no death sentences had been carried out in the British Navy ...
Article : 63 wordsA meeting was held on Thursday evening, in the Little Collins street Baptist Church Lecture Hal, to bid farewell to several young men connected with the church who have recently ...
Article : 109 wordsArrivals.—At San Francisco—La Rochefoucauld, bq., from Newcastle March 16. Passed Dover.—Bayard bq. Departure[?].— For Sydney—James Johnson, Sonoma, For ...
Article : 28 wordsThe British casualty lists published in London on Fr[?]lay morning contain 2,402 names, including those of 1,800 engaged in Northern France and Western Belgium, and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 12 Jun 1915, Page 17
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