There was again a large number of applicants for enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force yesterday. At the Victoria Barracks 235 men offered themselves, and ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Derby having been abandoned this year owing to the Epsom course being required for military purposes, a race for Derby horses took place at Newmarket ...
Article : 125 wordsIt was announced yesterday by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) that it had been decided, under the powers conferred by the proclamation issued last September, ...
Article : 539 wordsThe Athens correspondents of the "Daily Chronicle" reports that latest news from the Dardanelles shows that the Allies' position continues to improve materially. The ...
Article : 447 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt is as firmly as ever of opinion that America has not fulfilled her proper part in the great war. Writing to the National Security League ...
Article : 106 wordsThe "Daily News" states that the trade union representatives have agreed to the employment of unskilled labour, including women, in the manufacture of munitions ...
Article : 262 wordsMonths of "nibbling" at the German front in Northern France have placed the Allies in a favourable position for hurling an attack in force against the enemy. There has been fighting at as many as four points on the ...
Article : 117 wordsIt is reported from Rome that the Italians have entered Duino, an important railway town, only 12 miles north-west of Trieste. The way had been prepared for ...
Article : 272 wordsA great deal of interest is being taken in the recruiting meeting, which has been convented by the Lord Mayor, to be held in the Town Hall on Monday evening next. ...
Article : 73 wordsIn addition to the complaints made regarding the payment of allowances to the dependants of men who enlist, the accuracy of the statement that men, on enlisting, are ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Berlin Prize Court, overruling the Kiel Prize Court, has decided to pay full compensation for the seizure of the Swedish steamer Ellida (587 tons), which was bound ...
Article : 202 wordsThe trouble which has been simmering for some time amongst the workmen at the Flinders naval base culminated yesterday in about 400 members of the United ...
Article : 1,236 wordsWARRAGUL, Saturday.—The Warrangul branch of the A.N.A. has decided to organise a recruiting campaign, and a public meeting will be held on July 6. Public ...
Article : 68 wordsA fresh War Vote of £250,000,000 will be asked for in the House of Commons today. This will bring the total of war credits to ...
Article : 91 wordsSEYMOUR, Tuesday.—A draft of 250 recruits arrived from Melbourne about midday, and were marched straight to the camp, where everything was in readiness for ...
Article : 140 wordsA sensation has been caused by the trial in Glasgow of Robert Irving Dale and Henry Wilson, partners in the well-known firm of William Jacks and Company, iron ...
Article : 104 wordsImportant results are following from the tremendous pressure which the Allies have been exerting against the Germans on the western front. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 384 wordsThe Russians have been engaged at four points on the long eastern front. The operations are summarised in the official Petrograd advices as follows:— ...
Article : 330 wordsAs might be expected from the nature of their calling, the French airmen are rarely found wanting when presence of mind is demanded of them. ...
Article : 130 wordsIn "The Argus" of yesterday, Mr. Phil O'Brien, secretary of the Australian Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association. Victoria branch, claimed that, in spite ...
Article : 97 wordsWidespread interest was excited yesterday over the action of the State Government in seizing a consignment of meat which was being exported by W. Anglis[?] ...
Article : 3,024 wordsA decidedly less arrogant tone is noticeable in the German press. Herr Maximilian Harden, in his jonrnal "Die Zukunft" ("The Future"), ...
Article : 391 wordsThe Institute of Industry and Science, acting under the auspices of the Governments of the overseas dominions of the Empire, has arranged to hold a great ...
Article : 62 wordsTributes to the devotion of the fallen and expressions of sympathy with relatives and friends, in connection with the operations at the Dardanelles, were recorded at the ...
Article : 289 wordsReading matter for invalid soldiers in hospital at langwarrin is asked for by the camp commandant (Major Lloyd). Illustrated papers, magazines, or books which ...
Article : 72 wordsA story of splendid British endurance on the part of an airmen is told by "Eyewitness," the official reporter with the British headquarters staff at the front. ...
Article : 224 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—At the conclusion of the Cabinet meeting to-day the Premier (Mr. Ryan) stated that investigation was being made into the operation of ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the course of a discussion at the meeting of the Northcote Council on Monday evening, Councillor McDonell used a deprecating expression regarding the Belgian ...
Article : 186 wordsComment has been published in what at first sight appears to be an attempt on the part of life assurance societies to penalise soldiers. Instances have been quoted where ...
Article : 316 wordsProgress reports of the Greek election indicate the triumph of M. Venezelos, the ex-Premier, who resigned because King Constantine refused to accept his advice ...
Article : 95 wordsArrivals.—At London—Maloja, s.s., from Melbourne May 4; Pakeha, s.s., from Wellington May 2. At Southampton—Middlesex, s.s., from Sydney April 16. Departures. ...
Article : 47 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—An acrimonious discussion took place at the meeting tonight of the Sydney City Council on a recommendation by the finance committee of ...
Article : 241 wordsDuring the past three weeks the 16th Canadian Scottish have performed magnificent bayo[?]et work round Ypres, in West Flanders. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe coroner's jury, which has inquired into the cause of the explosion on the minelayer, Princess Irene, in Sheerness dockyard, has confirmed that finding of the ...
Article : 126 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A generous gift by Mr. T. A. Dibbs, general manager of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, was announced to-day. Mr. Dibbs has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsAt the meeting of shareholders in the Suez Canal Company (Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez), held in Paris on Monday, it was reported that the ...
Article : 259 wordsIt is announced from The Hague that Germany, through the American Ambassador at Berlin, has agreed to treat as ordinary prisoners of war the 39 British officers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsBefore giving his presidential address before the members of the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers at Surgeant's Cafe on Monday evening, Mr. H. E. Brookes announced ...
Article : 117 words"The Belgians," states a Paris communique, "have crossed the Yser Canal south of Dixmude, in West Flanders, and have organised their new position. They ...
Article : 105 wordsA Canadian at the front writes to say that when his company captured a German tr[?]nch in West Flanders they found that it contained eight reservoirs of poison-gas ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 wordsBucharest messages state that the Austrians have landed on the Albanian coast, at San Giova[?]ni Di Medua, south of Skutari, and have distributed rifles, ...
Article : 59 wordsWitnesses at the trial of General De Wet, at Pretoria, has testified that the burghers did not intend to rebel against King George. The Boer rising was simply a protest against ...
Article : 41 wordsSir,—Referring to Lady Stanley's appeal on behalf of Australian wounded soldiers, I have pleasure in stating that this society has already decided to give an oratorio ...
Article : 153 wordsFor nearly four years the Brighton Council has been urging on the Government the need of re[?] ing land along the foreshore between Head street and Chatsworth avenue, E[?]sternwick, where fences ...
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Article : 43 wordsAn Anglo-French force from Nigeria entered the Cameroons, and attacked Garia, an important German station, on the Benue River, on May 31. The town surrendered ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 16 Jun 1915, Page 9
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