The first year of the active existence of the Red Cross Society m Australia has been both a strenuous and a difficult one; how stremous and how difficult very few ...
Article : 1,485 wordsIt was decided at a mass meeting of about 500 members of the Melboune branch of the Storemen and Packers' Union held in the Old Trades Hall last night to go on ...
Article : 635 wordsIn both shipping and political clroles the declaration by the Allies of a cammercial blockade of Greece has caused a sensation at Athens. In the course of an interview with an English journalist, the Minister for Justice is represented as having lost his temper, and declared that the British Government ...
Article : 521 wordsThe brief official announcement was made in the press on October 28 that the British transport Marquette (7,075 tons) had been torpedoed in the Egean Sea, but that only ...
Article : 974 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" announces that reports received from Constantinople indicate that the Allies have begun a great offensive at the Dardanelles. ...
Article : 63 wordsADELAIDE, Thusday.—At the latest sitting of the Prices Regulation Commission cvidence was taken from representatives of flour milling companies. The report of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsIt is reported that one of Garmany's newest Dreadnoughts struck a mine in the Baltie and sank. All on board with the exception of 33 men ...
Article : 336 wordsIt is reported at Bucharest tint two 16½in. guns have been landed by the Austro-Germans in Bulgaria for transport to Galhpoli. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe recruiting figures for the Commonwealth, made available by the military authorities yesterday, show an increase in the number of men enrolled in comparison ...
Article : 140 wordsSYDNEY. Tuesday.—Last week the Sydney chese market fell ld. lb. This fall coincides with the substantial fall in the price of Victorian checese. The Necessary ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is repotted by a Zurich telegram that a Turkish transport with 50O troops on board struck a mine in the Sea of Marmora and sank. Nearly all on board were ...
Article : 40 wordsTwo now cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis occurred in the metropolitan area yesterday, and one death from this disease was reported, the name of the victim, who ...
Article : 48 wordsAn official account has been issued in London of an aviation incident on the Aegean coast. Two British aeroplanes on Friday snccessfully attacked the railway ...
Article : 176 wordsIn consequence of an alfcction of the car, Corporal John Wren has been declared by a military medica] board to be unfit for active service. Corporal Wren cnlisted in ...
Article : 84 wordsFrom Paris it is announced that the Turks and Germans are much concerned about the disappearance of nine submarines in the Mediterranean, fearing that they have been ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. A. Ward Price, the "Daily Mail" correspondent at Salonika, says that the French are holding 15 miles of a triangular plain, with the apex pointing at Veles, on the ...
Article : 336 wordsBENDIGO. Thuesday.—A freslf case of cerebro-spinal meningitis was reported at the Bendigo Hospital to-day. The sufferer is John Brown. 16 years of age, who was ...
Article : 72 wordsIt has become more or less a custom for men who desire to enlist and become officers to obtain the services of a sorgeant-mojor of the permanent staff in order to become ...
Article : 115 wordsSome little time ago citizen forces officers from the various States were sent to Duntroon Military College to, undergo a special course of instruction. At the time ...
Article : 138 wordsTravellers reaching Switzerland from Germany report that from 7 to 1O German army corps are concentrating behind the Western front, the majority having come ...
Article : 120 wordsThe latest Rome advices are that the struggle for Gorizia has continued for eight days with aninterrupted fury. Assaults on every Austrian position have ...
Article : 118 wordsApplications were recently invited for the position of principal military medical officer for Victoria, it having been decided to make the post a permanent one, at any rate ...
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Article : 266 wordsA compulsory conicrence was held yesterday by Mr. Justice Higgins, in order to ascertain if an arrangement could be entered into whereby the fruit crops at ...
Article : 198 wordsMr. Jeffrics, a special correspondent of the "Daily Mail," who has gone to Athens, has been rganted an interview with M. Rallis, the Greek Minister for Justice. ...
Article : 334 wordsA visit to the French headquarters is described by Mr. Philip Cribbs, the special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle." In the article he says:— ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. R. Beckett asked Mr. Baillieu, in the Legislative Council yesterday, whether an announcement would be made that in filling vacancies in the positions of deputy ...
Article : 86 wordsA telegram from Monastir, received at Salonika, states that the situation there has unproved. The Bulgarians have retired from Prilep, and the Serbian cavalry have ...
Article : 72 wordsA Berlin communique, dealing with operations in Northern Russia, says:—"We repulsed a weak Russian attack at the cemetery at Illutsk, in the Dvinsk region," ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) announced in the House of Commons on Monday that he will introduce a Parliamentary Rogistration Bill to-day (Tuesday) dealing ...
Article : 486 wordsAlbert Barnes, 27 years of age. married, was brought from Sunshine to the Melbourne Hospital yesterday afternoon in a St. John ambulance with a bullet wound in ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Premier (Sir Alexander Peacoek) informed Mr. Bailey, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, that it was not proposed, cither this session or the next, to ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Geelong Wool Broke[?] Association yesterday issued a statement se[?] out that, at the compulsory conference, in offer was made by the employers' representatives ...
Article : 393 wordsAdvices from Geneva are that the occupation of Novi Bazar by the German force under General von Koevess was due to its having been reinforced. Owing to the heavy ...
Article : 155 wordsA meeting of 300 delegates, representing seven important trade unions, including the National Union of Railwaymen, has demanded the withdrawal of the restrictions ...
Article : 174 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—The Government has decided to curol 125 more nurses, making a total of 344 in the nursing service. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. McKenna) announced in the House of Commons on Monday that the sale of war loan serip and vouchers for small denominations ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Broadmeadows Mending and Sod[?]ers' Aid society has made an appeal in "The Argus" through the president (Mrs. Knight) for funds to provide a Christmas ...
Article : 66 wordsSir. —The action of the Richmond Council in refusing to give preference to a returned soldier when appointing a halkeeper recently will not come in the nature of a ...
Article : 468 wordsAnother reorganisation of the Austratian Army Medical Service has been effected in London. Surgeon-General Williams becomes ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Stock Exchange committee has announced that the minimum prices fixed at the end of July, 1914, in counection with British funds, corporation issues, Indian ...
Article : 54 wordsSir,—In accordance with a desire expressed by members of the Royal victorian Trained Nurses Assneiation at their annual meeting a subseription-list was opened ...
Article : 331 wordsThe London evening newspaper "Globe." which was suspended for having stated that Lord Kitchener had resigned the portfolic of Sceretary of State for War after ...
Article : 88 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Will Thoune (Labour) directed attention to an interview between the New South Wales canners and the Chief Secretary (Mr. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe bearing of the plaint of the Federated Mining Employees Association against a large nember of respondents in New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsA great fire raged throughout Monday night in the annexe of the Magasin du Bon Marche, in Paris, one of the largest shops in the world, the fifth floor of which ...
Article : 133 wordsThe President of the Local Government Board (Mr. Walter Lond) proposes to introduce a bill to deal with the increase in house rents. ...
Article : 30 wordsTrustworthy information reaching Bucharest states that 2,000 Russian prisoners interned at Debreczin, in Hungary, revolted in August owing to the had ...
Article : 54 wordsMessages from Ginginnati (Ohio) report that a British cruiser has seized the American collier Genesce off the West Indies, on the ground that the vessel is partly owned ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Frecmasons of Belgi[?]n have given 3,000,000 francs tabout £120,000) out of their funds for the relief of the allied war prisoners in Germany. ...
Article : 31 wordsSir,—Referring to the letter on "Solders" Boots" on Monday, Economy" is slightly inaccurate in stating that boots are discarded without being resoled. I have been ...
Article : 121 wordsArrivals.—At London—Cufie, s.s., from Melbourne August 10. At Vanconver— Niagara, s.s., from Sydney Oct. 28. At Port Townsend—Stimson, seh., from Melbourne ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Edward [?] is a candidate for the [?] in the St. Kilda City Council readered vacant by the reslg[?]tion of Councillor G. B. Renfrey. ...
Article : 72 wordsIn response to the appeal of the mayor of South Melbourne (Councillor Disney) for funds to asslst Mrs. McKay, of 300 Coventry strect, whose husband was burnt to death a few days ago, and who is left ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 24 Nov 1915, Page 9
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