The Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) informed Senator Grant (N.S.W.) in the Senate yesterday that members of the Expeditionary Force authorised to be armed ...
Article : 400 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" has been advised by its correspondent at Athens that Enver Pasha, the Turkish Minister for War, in a proclamation has exhorted the Turks to ...
Article : 202 wordsViscount Bryce, in the House of Lords on Wednesday, asked for confirmation of his information as to the extensive massacring of Christians in Armenia, and the ...
Article : 269 wordsIn the opinion of the Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post," the crisis on the eastern front has not yet developed. He likens the present position to a huge web, in wnich the Russian spider, with unspent strength, [?]s awaiting the coming of an enemy growing weaker in his ...
Article : 219 wordsThe House of Commons was crowded on Wednesday in anticipation of an historic resume of the war, which it was expected that the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) would ...
Article : 726 wordsInteresting memories should linger for many a day in the minds of those present at Madame Melba's concert in the Town Hall last night. A Melba concert is, of ...
Article : 1,313 wordsFollowing on the recent French successes in the Vosges, the Germans have launched a violent attack, in the hope of recovering lost positions. ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Minister for Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George) then made a statement as to progress in the manufacture of munitions, and in doing so paid a tribute to the number of ...
Article : 687 wordsA Malta message states that Lieut[?]Commander H. G. D. Stoker, of the Australian submarine A.E.2, who is now a prisoner in Turkey, has written a letter st[?]ing that ...
Article : 63 wordsThe thundering of the guns in a heavy action in the vicinity of Piaseczno, 10 miles to the south, echo through the steets of Warsaw, and with the ...
Article : 707 wordsThe following are the official bulletins issued at the capitnls:— Petrograd, Wednesday, 6 p.m. The Germans are making a heavy ...
Article : 308 wordsSir,—We have read, with much surprise and indignation, certain references to us, made in Parliament yesterday, concerning our charges for nurses[?] equipments, with ...
Article : 182 wordsAlarming news from the Holy Land has been received at the Vatican. The Turks have cut off all postal and telegraphic facilities from the Christians, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Under Secretary to the War Office (Mr. H. J. Tennant), in the House of Commons on Wednesday read a letter which the general commanding the forces in Egypt ...
Article : 152 wordsRecent operations have revealed the enormous importance of the bombs and hand grenades, states a despatch from the British headquarters in France, received ...
Article : 138 words"La Guerre Sociale," the Paris newspaper[?] publishes the narrative of a German socialist[?] purporting to be the account of the sinking of the Lusitania, as told by ...
Article : 382 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—The Court of Inquiry which recently investigated the disturbance that took place outside the Victoria Barracks on the night of July 21, has ...
Article : 154 wordsThe United States embassy at Berlin, in the course of a reporrt to the London embassy on the internment camp at Zerbast, in Germany, states that in a laz[?]t was a ...
Article : 62 wordsOperations on the Italo-Austrian front are dealt with in the official messages as follow:— Rome. ...
Article : 264 wordsAn old seandal was revived in the Senate yesterday when Senator Keating (T.) recalled the charges made by Senator Ready (T.) towards the end of last year regarding ...
Article : 376 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—Miss Ethel Willett has been appointed by the Education department to the position of organiser in the promulgation of domestic and public ...
Article : 68 wordsA telegram from Amsterdam contains the interesting information that a German submarine on July 12 left Antwerp, and, passing down the Scheldt River, the mouth of ...
Article : 52 wordsGallipoli! After whereon we laid That slothful Peace which new we know courted An Oblivion. Where Pride [?]troke That innate Spirit of us[?] to test our Faith ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. D. Dalziel (Unionist member for Brixton) moved as an amendment that the Rouse adjourn for a month. He said that he was not satisfied with the position in ...
Article : 244 wordsIn the House of Commons on Wednesday evening, Captain Frederick E. Guest, Liberal member for East Dorset, raised a discussion on the question of compulsory ...
Article : 162 wordsZeebr[?]gge, on the Belgian coast, now utilised as a naval base by the Germans, has been subjected to another bombardment by the warships and airmen of the ...
Article : 188 wordsConsiderable activity continues to be displayed by German submarines. The British steamer Hogarth (1,231 tons) wus struck by a torpedo off Aldeburgh, on ...
Article : 239 wordsAt the invitation of Mrs. Lowther Clarke about one hundred ladies met at Bishops[?] court, East Melbourne, on Wednesday[?] afternoon to make preliminary ...
Article : 136 wordsAt the end of the concert His Excellency the Governor-General said:— "We cannot let Madame Melba leave Australia without an expression of our ...
Article : 335 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—To-day was the concluding day of the inquiry by Mr. Justice Rich as a Royal commission into the charges made by Mr. Orchard, M.H.R., ...
Article : 282 wordsThe following cable messages were published in the later editions of "The Argus" on Thursday:— MACHINE-GUNS FROM CANADA. ...
Article : 201 wordsDr. Sven Hedin, the well-knwon Swedish traveller, has gone to the headquarters of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, outside Warsaw, at the invitation of the German ...
Article : 98 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—The House of Assembly to-day unanimously passed a resolution voting £1,500 for the purchase of an airship, to be named in conjunction with ...
Article : 78 wordsThe South African Prime Minister (General Botha) has left Cape Town for Pretoria, and his journey north can only be described as a triumphal progress. ...
Article : 49 wordsConsiderable damage was caused by a fire at the Dufferin Dock at Belfast on Wednesday afternoon. Five thousand bags of flour, part of the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Roumanian harvest is a very abundant one, and it is probable that the Government will remove the embargo it placed on the export of wheat. ...
Article : 59 wordsAccording to the original regulations issued under the War Precautions Act, competent naval and military authorities were authorised to require any person to ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. T. J. McNamara) states that up to July 27 approximately 1,550 people had lost their lives through German submarine ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 30 Jul 1915, Page 7
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