The lowest figures of the week were recorded yesterday at the Victoria Barracks recruiting office, when 157 men applied for enlistment, and 101 were accepted. ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is reported from Rome that another British submarine has reached Constantinople, where it torpedoed and sank two vessels and a large steamer in the Golden Horn. ...
Article : 102 wordsIn the threatoned trouble with the members of the Amalgamuted Society of Engineers, who, in an ultimatum delivered to the engineering section of the Chamber of ...
Article : 879 wordsThe position in Galicia continues to rivet attention. Highly interesting reports are supplied by Reuter's and the official "Eye-witness" with the Russian army. In Northern France a battle of the fiercest ...
Article : 120 wordsThe fighting in Northern France, northward of Arras, has been extremely intense, and numerous desperate infantry actions and violent artillery duels continue. ...
Article : 720 wordsAmerica's second Note to Germany complaining of the present methods of submarine warfare against merchant shipping has made a deep impression in Germany. ...
Article : 244 wordsVigorous action is being taken to organise the resources of Great Britain in order to ensure an increase in the output of munitions of war. ...
Article : 244 wordsThere was a large and influential gathering in the old Council Chamber at the Town Hall yesterday, at which Lady Stanley presided, to consider the question of ...
Article : 1,180 wordsThe Minister for Railways (Mr. Mackinnon), who is chairman of the State Committte winch has been formed With the objcet of co-operating with the Federal ...
Article : 169 wordsThe British Press Bureau has published the story of interesting encounters which have taken place at the Dardanelles between a Turkish force and the Allies. ...
Article : 167 wordsAt the public meeting, which the Lord Mayor (Sir David Hennessy) has convenced for Monday night in the Town Hall, to stimulate recruiting in Melbourne, ...
Article : 67 wordsA deputation of workmen from the steel works of Messrs. W. Beardmore and Co, at Glasgow was recently sent to the front in France to see for themselves the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Prahran branch of the A.N.A. will hold a meeting towards stimulating recruiting at their hall. High street (near Chapel street). Prahran, on Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. Addresses will ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is reported from Washington that the German Embassy there denies the allegation that the Dr. Meyer Gerhard who recently toured America as a German Red ...
Article : 206 wordsThe italian military authorities have published the following bulletin:— "ROME.—In the Trentino we are progressing on both sides of the ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Russians have renewed their attacks at several points in Galicia, with encouraging results. For the present they are succeeding in ...
Article : 306 wordsPerhaps the most interesting of the cable messages this morning is that from Reuter's Agency at Petrograd, which suggests that the situation in G[?]licin is not so bad as it ...
Article : 1,143 wordsThe Naval authorities are joining the military branch of the defence service in the appeal for recruits to reinforce the Australian troops at the front. They have ...
Article : 231 wordsThe British Board of Agriculture has appointed a committee, with Lord Milner as chairman, to report as to what legislation is necessary to increase food production in ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Pans "Matin" is responsible for the important announcement that Turkey is about to cede to Bulgaria the whole of the right bank of the Lower Maritza River, ...
Article : 163 wordsThe inquiry into the loss of the Lusitania has been concluded, expert for a private sitting, at which questions relatinng to navigation will be discussed. ...
Article : 215 wordsSEYMOUR, Friday.—Satisfaction is expressed by the soldiers in camp at the running of a special train from Mclbourne to Seymour on Sunday. There was some ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Kolnische Volkszeitung," who was an evewitness of the Allies' air raid upon Karlsruhe, five miles east of the Rhine, reports ...
Article : 520 wordsMalines, 14 miles from Antwerp, has been the scene of a serious anti-German outbreak on the part of the populace. The Amsterdam correspondent of the ...
Article : 95 wordsSir,—As there is a constant demand for magazines, illustracted papers, &c., at the Seymour camp, the management of the "Seymour Telegraph" has undertaken to ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Sr Alexander Peacock) has given authority for the Engineers' Wages Board to consider the question of wages. Last April the ...
Article : 526 wordsReuter's correspondent at Petrograd states that the culmination of the Galician situation is approaching, and that German forces are advancing from the San towards ...
Article : 135 wordsThe official reporter with the Russian army in Galicia asserts that during the fighting in Galicia in the first weeks of May the Russians found it necessary to remove ...
Article : 91 wordsThe steamship Strathnair[?] (4,336 tous, owned in Glasgow), bound from Cardi[?]f (Wales) to Archangel, on Russia's White Sea coast, with a cargo of coal, has been ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the House of Representatives yesterday the Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Jensen), replying to a question by Mr. Groom (Q.), said that it was not ...
Article : 114 wordsThe trial was continued in Glasgow on Wednesday of Robert Irving Dale and Henry Wilson, partners in the well-known firm of William Jacks and Company, iron ...
Article : 221 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—There is a likehood of Sydney Government House, from which the Governor-General was evicted by the State Government, being occupied shortly ...
Article : 132 wordsA Russian official reporter, who writes under ths name of "Eye-witness" has issued an interesting report of the operations covering the period from May 3 to 18. ...
Article : 357 wordsGeneral de Wet, who is being tried as a rebel at Bloemfontein, gave evidence in his own behalf on Thursday. "While I considered the operations ...
Article : 105 wordsA memorial service for Captain E. F. R. Bage, of 3rd Field Company Engineers, who was killed in the fighting at the Dardan[?]lles, was held in the Trinity College Chapel ...
Article : 174 wordsMr. E. L. Jeffrey, of Notting Hill, was on Thursday evening granted by the Mulgrave Council the face use of the Shire Hall for the manufacture of tent pegs, tent poles, ...
Article : 80 wordsCULCAIRN, Friday.—The Germanton Shire Council has selected Holbrook in renaming the townn, shire, and parish. The final selection was narrowed to two names, ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—Clearly Mr. Woodfull is determined that the "shall be heard for his much speaking," laboured and irrelevant as it is. There can now no longer be any doubt as to ...
Article : 267 wordsA message from Amsterdam states that the German Vacumn Oil Company's warehouse, at Hamburg, has been destroyed by fire, the damage being enormous. ...
Article : 51 wordsSergeant Xavier de Bavay, who joined the 10th Regiment 3rd Light Horse, Western Australia, as a private, is reported dangerously ill. While at [?]avier College, Kew, ...
Article : 38 wordsA rare event in naval warful—a combat between submarines—is reported from Rome to have taken place in the Adriatic. An Austrian submarine torpedoed the ...
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Advertising : 261 wordsThe Fa[?]lkner Smith concert direction invite all soldiers in uniform who are on leave to be present at the Town Hall to-night at the Scottish National Festival, as the guests of the management. ...
Article : 42 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. McKenna) foreshadowed some form of borrowing at an early date. ...
Article : 45 wordsSir,—We have made and distributed nearly 2,000 rabbit-skin coats to our soldiers and sailors, which have been much appreciated. Now we wish to make 1,000 more, ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,—I am one of many others wishing to brighten the "week-ends" (or any other day) of our brave lads going to the front. I would be glad to welcome any ...
Article : 87 wordsThe following movements of Australasian shipping are reported from London:— Arrival at London:—S.s. Muratai, Wellington May 6. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 19 Jun 1915, Page 17
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