Since the famous feat of the late Flight Sub-Lieutenant Warneford, V.C., who, singlehanded in an aeroplane, destroyed a Zeppelin airship in mid-air, near Brussels, ...
Article : 221 wordsThe desperate resistance being offered by the Russians on the fronts north and south of Warsaw are at least having the effect of delaying the fall of that city. Encouraged by the signs, the inhabitants are returning to their ordinary avocations. One report states that the best battalions ...
Article : 201 wordsThe climax in the recent lignt for the possession of the western end of the Carso Plateau (which runs eastward from the Isonzo Valley behind Trieste) was reached ...
Article : 348 wordsTo mark the anniversary of the declaration of war, leading foreign statemen telegraphed messages to the London newspapers. ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Australian and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula took part in a brisk engagement on Monday. As the safety of an advanced post known ...
Article : 331 wordsThe reply of the Secretary, of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) to the American Note complaining of the attitude of British prize courts has been published. ...
Article : 622 wordsAn unprecedented scene was witnessed in the Duma, many members weeping when the Minister for War (General Polivanoff) described how a Siberian Fusilier regiment ...
Article : 202 wordsIt was announced yesterday by the principal medical officer (Lieut-Colonel Cuscaden) that the s.s. Ballarat, with a large number of sick and wounded Australian ...
Article : 391 wordsMilitary critics at Petrograd are coming to the conclusion that the centre of gravity of the Russian front has shifted definitely from the south to the north. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 542 wordsOpinions expressed in the United States on the position of the two groups of combatants after 12 months of war are restrained, in deference to the exhortations of ...
Article : 170 wordsPrivate information received at Zurich (Switzerland) indicates that the Russian defensive has necessitated a complete change of the German plan of campaign. ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Belgian Grey Book issued at Havre, the temporary Belgian capital, contains a despatch from Baron Beyens, then Belgian Minister at Berlin, proving that four ...
Article : 259 wordsThe Crown Prince is reported from Paris to have resumed his effort to reach the Verdun to Chalons railway in the Argonne. ...
Article : 539 wordsAdvices from Mitylene state that the dissensions continue between Enver Pasha, (the Turkish Minister for War) and General Liman von Sanders, the German officer ...
Article : 141 wordsM. Clemenceau, the French, statesman writing in his newspaper, "L'Homme Enchaine," invites the exiled German editor, Herr Maximilian Harden, to visit France. ...
Article : 137 words"H Secolo," a Milan newspaper, announces that in the Note which she is about to send to Washington, Germany will inform the United States that the Lusitania incident ...
Article : 52 wordsLetters received in Paris state that 40,000 Armenians in Cilicia, a province in Asia Minor, bordering on the Mediterranean, have perished as the result of Turkish ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Sir David Hennessy) stated yesterday that he had arranged with the Defence department to tender the 250 wounded Australians who are returning ...
Article : 89 wordsIn commemoration of the anniversary of Great Britain's entry into the war, a service will be held at St. Paul's Cathedral at noon to-day ...
Article : 141 wordsThe German transport which was sunk by a British submarine in the Baltic carried reinforcements for Liba[?] for General von Bulow's hard-pressed army in the Baltic ...
Article : 71 wordsLieutenant the Hon. Gerald William Grenfell, eldest surviving son and heir of Lord Desborough, has been killed in action in Flanders while leading a charge against ...
Article : 139 wordsPrussian casualty lists numbered 284 to 289, which have reached Amsterdam, contain 24,008 names. The total German casualties on land, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe fact that the account cabled by Capt. C. E. W. Bean, the official press representative with the Australian Imperial Force, of the landing of the Australian troops at ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Lady Mayoress yesterday received the following letter from Lady Willingdo[?], (daughter of Lord Brassey), wife of Lord Willingdon, Governor of Bombay:— ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Russian Duma has adopted a resolution providing that legal proceedings should be taken without delay against all who were responsible for the Russian shortage ...
Article : 79 wordsThe exportation of coal, which [?]itherto had been permitted to British possessions and to allied countries, is now prohibited except to British possessions. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe London "Evening Standard" declares that it is useless for Australia to abrogate her spelter contracts with the Germans. "If the contracts can be enforced here," ...
Article : 91 wordsAn official message from Berlin states that Dr. Seitz, the Governor of German Southwest Africa, has reported to the Kaiser that he was obliged to surrender 3,400 ...
Article : 161 wordsThe political crisis in Japan continues. At the end of last week, allegations of bribery in connection with the recent elections were levelled against Count Oura ...
Article : 71 wordsThe publication of the following statement by the "Deutsche Tages-Zeitung," the organ of the German Agrarian Leauge, commenting on the Pope's appeal to the ...
Article : 128 wordsYesterday afternoon Madame Mary Conly, assisted by Misses Natali[?] Dawson, Ethel Croker, Margaret Smith, Kitty Conly, Carruthers, Mudge (N.Z.), and Mrs. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following official reports of operations have been made available:— Petrograd, Tuesday, Midnight. Our seaplanes drove a German gunboat ...
Article : 407 wordsTwo more deaths, making a total of three are reported in connection with the explosion at the Ardeer [?]onworks, near Glasgow, on Friday last. Thirty others were ...
Article : 60 wordsHis Majesty the King presented the colours to the newly formed Welsh Guards at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. The Queen, accompanied by many Royal ...
Article : 112 wordsSir,—The Patriotic Leagus has been deputed by the Military authorities to superintend the removal of our wounded soldiers from port to ...
Article : 110 wordsA German deserter who has reached Holland states that the Belgian village of Battice was razed to the ground by the Germans because it was alleged that ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Russian Duma has passed the following resolution:— "The military trials of the past year having fortified among the whole population ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Austrian Minister for Railways has ordered railwaymen in Austria to learn German, which hereafter is to be the language of the service. The Minister explains ...
Article : 38 wordsThe United States Embassy at Berlin reports that the Indians taken prisoner by Germans are confined in a camp at Zossen which is clean and comfortable. The various ...
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Article : 31 wordsThe Minister for Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George) has appointed Sir Frederick Black temporarily to the position of directorgeneral of munitions supply. Sir Frederick ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Havas News Agency announces that a flotilla of Anglo-French aeroplanes flew over Strassburg, the capital of Alsace, and dropped 25 bombs. The extent of the ...
Article : 41 wordsFrom Stockholm it in reported that Austro-Hungary is arranging for the exchange of prisoners with Russia through the medium of Sweden. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 5 Aug 1915, Page 7
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