While retreating in good order, the Russians in Galicia are making vigorous efforts to check the advancing enemy and to deliver a crushing blow. At several points successes have been achieved. Only the German losses In men taken prisoner are known, and they are enormous. ...
Article : 235 wordsA war debate in the Prussian Diet last week led to tumultuous scenes. Herr Wiemer (Progressive) appealed for unanimity, which he said was essential for ...
Article : 144 wordsAlthough there is nothing in the news this morning from the eastern front to justify any definite conclusion, the position is much more satisfactory than it ...
Article : 869 wordsThe semi-official "Cologne Gazette" publishes a defence of the employment of asphyxiating gases. It says that the basic idea of the Hague ...
Article : 204 wordsOn Saturday a larger number of men applied at the Victoria Barracks for enlistment than on any other day this year, but the record was marred by the poor ...
Article : 214 wordsGermany's reply to the American protest against the sinking of merchantmen is the subject of a message from Berlin received in New York. ...
Article : 143 wordsFavourable messages regarding the progress of the Italian campaign have been received from Rome. It is stated that the bombardment of the ...
Article : 288 wordsBecause of the apparently greater number of volunteers rejected in Victoria than in other States, an idea has gained currency that the Victorian standard is higher than ...
Article : 286 wordsA neutral banker from Vienna states that Austria has issued £300,000,000 worth of paper money during the war. The gold covering it has diminished from ...
Article : 91 wordsSupplementary estimates have been issued by the British Parliament, requiring an additional 50,000 men for the navy, bringing the total to 300,000. ...
Article : 29 wordsA new American Note (states a Washington message) is being prepared for despatch to Great Britain. The United States will insist that ...
Article : 211 wordsThe inspired "North German Gazette," in announcing the suppression of the Socialist organ, "Vorwarts" for having published the Socialist leaders' manifesto, says:— ...
Article : 268 wordsA powder mill in the Ruthlandbaentz district was considerably damaged by an explosion. Six people were killed. Paris reports that British aviators ...
Article : 109 wordsA traveller who has reached Amsterdam from Prague states that the strictest censorship has been established by the Austrian authorities in Bohemia. The Czech ...
Article : 97 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Petrograd claims that Russia has taken an enormous number of Austro-German prisoners. ...
Article : 671 wordsMetzeral, in Alsace, has been captured by the French. The achievement ranks as one of the most glorious deeds of French arms. The ...
Article : 175 wordsFor dare-devil escapades in the Sea of Marmora, the officers and crew of the British submarine Ell have all been decorated. ...
Article : 128 wordsSEYMOUR, Sunday.—Fifteen hundred passengers arrived at Seymour from Melbourne to-day in three special trains, but the day was most unfavourable, heavy ...
Article : 329 wordsAccording to computations made in competent military circles Germany will be able to place 18 new army corps (about 900,000 men) in the field by the end of July. These ...
Article : 93 wordsDr. Dernberg, who has been acting as the Kaiser's financial agent in America, has arrived at Bergen, in Norway. He denies that he was molested when the ...
Article : 98 wordsCount Von Reventlow, the leading German naval writer, who is regarded as the mouthpiece of Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz (Miniter of the Navy), writes warning ...
Article : 273 wordsThe British Press Bureau announces that the 39 British prisoners in Germany (who were subjected to solitary confinement as a reprisal for Great Britain's treatment of ...
Article : 136 wordsIt is announced officially that Great Britain has been informed through the American Embassy at Constantinople that there are 65 British prisoners at Alia and Kara ...
Article : 106 wordsFrom Zurich it is reported that two Bavarian, two Prussian, and one Austrian Army Corps have reached Vienna from Galicia. ...
Article : 45 wordsA neutral observer, who has been interviewed by the "Daily Chronicle," after having paid several visits to Germany stated that the financial position is ...
Article : 209 wordsIn Northern France a Paris official communique says:—"There have been minor infantry engagements north of Arras where the state of the ground after the recent ...
Article : 451 wordsStockholm newspapers narrate an attempt on the Kaiser's life in Belgium at the beginning of May. A railway bridge was blown up, and the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Melbourne branch of the Y.M.C.A. inaugurated its 44th anniversary celebrations yesterday afternoon by holding a public patriotic service in the Auditorium. A ...
Article : 750 wordsIt was widely rumoured in Melbourne at the week-end that the Turks had capitulated at the Dardanelles. The report gained so much credence that ...
Article : 89 wordsMrs. Percy J. Russell, hon. secretary of the Melbourne Cigarette and Tobacco Fund, reports that the second £100 collected has been cabled to the "Daily Mail," London, ...
Article : 209 wordsA message from Johannesburg states that a South African contingent is being formed for service in Europe. ...
Article : 21 wordsA proclamation has been issued in Great Britain prohibiting trading with the enemy in China, Siam, Persia, or Moro[?]o. It takes effect from July 26. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the annual general meeting of the St. John Ambulance Society, held at the viceregal lodge, the Viceroy (Lord Hardinge), who is president of the society, said:— ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Canadian division which was action on June 13 and 17 near La Basse, in Northern France (says Reuter's Agency) was the 1st Ontario Regiment. ...
Article : 416 wordsSignificant messages have been received from Rome regarding Bulgaria. In one of these it is stated that warnings have been issued to Bulgarian reservists in ...
Article : 151 wordsA German submarine, after leaving Emden, the German naval station in the Prussian province of Hanover, on Tuesday exploded and sank. The cause is ...
Article : 173 wordsSub-Lieutenant O. Senhoue, of the Coldstream Guards, has been killed in action. He had previously been serving with the Australians. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Commonwealth of Australia has called for tenders for the salving of the German cruiser Emden, which was put out of action by H.M.A.S. Sydney at Cocos. ...
Article : 34 wordsAt a gathering of Brighton bowlers, held in the club pavilion on Saturday night, presentations were made to two members who are going on active service. Mr. J. J. Passe ...
Article : 97 wordsA cable message received from our London correspondent last night notified that the London newspapers had published sympathetic references to the death ...
Article : 236 wordsAt a send-off to local soldiers at Brighton on Saturday night, Mr. J. A. Boyd, M.H.R., said that it was the duty of those in power to compel men to go who were fit to go. ...
Article : 192 wordsGeneral Sukhomlinoff, the "Russian iKtchener," has resigned from the Russian Ministry of War. It is understood that General Poliwanoff, a former assistant at ...
Article : 183 wordsMr. J. H. Brand Wessels, a member of the South African Parliament has been sentenced by the Court at Bloemfontein to five years' imprisonment, and fined £5,000, ...
Article : 144 wordsThe High Commissioner's office in London announces that there is a great lack of Australian newspapers for the wounded who are in hospitals in Great Britain and ...
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Article : 46 wordsA commiseion of six Russians and six Poles, under the presidency of M. Goremykin (Russian Prime Minister), is sitting in Petrograd, studying the question of the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 28 Jun 1915, Page 7
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