The president of the Local Government Board (Mr. W.H. Long) will next week introduce in the House of Commons a bill to provide for a register of national ...
Article : 295 wordsThere was no improvemtn in recruiting in Mclhourne yesterday. During the day 188 men presented themselves at the Victoria Barracks, and 101 were accepted. ...
Article : 58 wordsSultan Mahomed V[?] of Turkey has been operated on successfully for stone in the bladder. In view of the Sultan's illness, the ...
Article : 110 wordsLemberg has not disheartened the Russians. They continue powerful, and are inflicting losses on the Austri-Germans that are described as appalling. The Czar has gone to the front to join his army. Fighting between the Italians and Austrans is still confined largely ...
Article : 167 wordsThe British Government has communicated a memorandum to the American Ambassador in London (Mr. W. H. Page) respecting contraband. ...
Article : 357 wordsWhen the questions had been disposed of in the House of Representatives yesterday the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Cook) moved the adjournment of the House for ...
Article : 1,539 wordsAt the last meeting of the Dental Board, held on Friday, June 17, it was decided, on the suggestion of the treasurer (Mr. R.J. B. Yule)[?] to invite the dentists to subscribe ...
Article : 56 wordsThe debate inaugurated in the Senate on Thursday with regard to defence questions was continued yesterday on the Supply Bill. Further severe criticism was levelled. ...
Article : 482 wordsA memorial and patriotic service is to be held in the Collingwood Town Hall to[?]orrow evening by the united churches of Collingwood and Abbotsford. A collection ...
Article : 41 wordsThe principal military medical officers of the various States and the director of military services for the Commonwealth (Colonel Fetherston) met in conference ...
Article : 322 wordsAn official account published in Paris of the fighting at the Dardanelles on June 4 states that according to Turkish prisoners Germany is unccasingly sending trained men ...
Article : 88 wordsLord Kitchener (Secretary of State for War) attained his 65th year on Thursday, when he was the recipient of congratulations from all over the Empire. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe most important news of the operations on the Italo-Austrian front come via Turin, the nearest important city to France. The message reads:— ...
Article : 221 wordsSince their retirement from Lemberg, the Russian armies in Galicia have been fighting hard and inflicting severe blows on the Austro-Germans. The success of their fier[?] ...
Article : 543 wordsA hospital for wounded Australian officers, winch has been established under the direction of Sir John McColl (Agent-General for Tasmania), will be opened at South ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Attorney-General (Sir F.E. Smith), in reply t a question in the House of Commons on Thursday, stated that the Government did not intend to prosecute the ...
Article : 239 wordsThe "O[?]ervatore Romano," the organ of the Vatican, declares that the interview with the Pope, published in the Paris "Liberte," is full of inaccuracies. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Berlin newspaper "Neueste Nachrichten," commenting on the voyage of German submarines to the Dardanelles, warns America that in the event of her entering ...
Article : 92 wordsIt is understood that applications for the new British war loan are satisfactory. The Bank of England has issued four million prospectuses. ...
Article : 162 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Attention was devoted to-day, by the State Cabinet to a scheme propounded by the Premier (Mr. Holman) to stimulate recruiting in ...
Article : 159 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has voted the war credits of £240,000,000, bringing the total to date to £510,000,000. The Premier (M. Vivia[?]) said:—"The ...
Article : 143 wordsAt a meeting to be held on Wednesday night at the St. Kilda Town Hall, with the object of encouraging recruiting, the Governor (Sir Arthur Stanley) will attend, and ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Prize Court at Hamburg has ordered the confiseatin of the foodstuffs aboard the Dutch steamers Zaanstroom and batavier, destined for England and South Africa, but ...
Article : 140 wordsIt is reported from Berne (Switzerland) that Austria-Hungary has borrowed £25,000,000 from Germany for the purpose of meeting payments abroad. ...
Article : 40 wordsOwing to the bombardment of defenceless towns and the destruction of merchantmen, an Italian Royal De[?]ree has been issued at Rome, directing that compensation shall be ...
Article : 41 wordsDuring 30 days of the present war the British losses in officers were:—Killed, 741; wounded, 1,562; missing, 137. The total of 2,440 nearly equals that of ...
Article : 233 wordsAn official account of the fighting at the Dardanelles cabled to Paris on Wednesday says that an important point of success is where the Allies captured ground ...
Article : 127 wordsIt was in a spirit different from that animating them at smoke-nights in former years that the old boys of the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School ...
Article : 708 wordsDr. Dernburg, who, since the need for the German Minister of the Colomes has ceased to exist has been acting as the Kaiser's financial agent in America, has ...
Article : 149 wordsA neutral visitor to Berlin, who is passing through London, writes a letter to "The Times," emphasising the remarkable success of the German organisation of women. ...
Article : 138 wordsIn the past hernia has been an insuperable bar to enlistment in the Australian Imperial force. It is now announced, however, that men who have undergone ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is announced officially from Pretoria that General Botha has occupied Kalkneld, on the Swakopmund-Grootfontein railway. The enemy was outflanked, and retired. ...
Article : 121 wordsEmployees of the Melbourne Harbour Trust who enlist for active service are paid the difference between the salaries they received in the Trust and their military pay. ...
Article : 126 wordsThe balance-sheet of the National Bank of New Zealand shows a profit of £193,080, after an expenditure of £20,000 on premises and £3,500 in a bonus to the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office (Mr. W. Brace, Labour) has stated, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, that in consequence of the ...
Article : 103 wordsAnother story of brilliant deeds in the air is related from Paris. A French aviator and a mechanic were ordered on Thursday to bombard the ...
Article : 181 wordsThe medical inspection of volunteers was referred to in the Senate yesterday, when Senator Blakey asked if, in view of the necessity of obtaining every available ...
Article : 201 wordsA French communi[?], issued in Paris, reports that the Germans have bombarded the French position at Arras, one of the points that received particular ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Volkzeitung," of Leipsig, has been suppressed for a week for having published pronouncements by three Socialist leaders condemning the idea of Germany annexing ...
Article : 32 wordsArrivals.—At London—-Arawa, s.s., from Wellington May 11. At Junin—Asgerd, ship, from Port Pirie, M[?]o. Departures. —For Sydney—Commerce, Waimarino. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe aged Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria addressed, from the belcony of his palace, at Schonburg, on Thursday, a great demonstration, held to celebrated the ...
Article : 72 wordsAn Amsterdam message states that the entire bay crop of Belgium has been seized by the German military authorities. ...
Article : 27 wordsSir,—Following on his latter published in your issue of the 18th instant, and its prompt acceptance by the Master Process Engravers Association. "R.L." has, I have ...
Article : 333 wordsOf 19,648 boys and trainees from reformatory and industrial schools in the United Kingdom who have served in the British naval forces during the war, 3 have ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Parliamentary, Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. H.J. Tennant) announced in the House of Commons on Thursday that certain difficulties had arisen ...
Article : 192 wordsOwing to the heavy casualties at the Dardanelles, additional Roman Cathobe chaplains will have to be appointed. It has been arranged that the Rev. Father ...
Article : 100 wordsIn a message from Rome it is stated that General Vessovic, commanding the Montencgrin army, has arrived at the gates of Scutari, after feeble resistance on ...
Article : 56 wordsA package which was being handled at the Woolwich Post-office exploded, injuring three sorters. It is believed to have contained a live shell sent by a soldier at the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Allies' air raid last week on the Zeppelin shed at Evere, which was set on fire, caused extraordinary confusion. At the time the officers in charge were ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 26 Jun 1915, Page 17
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