Points in dispute between the Federated Seamen's Union and the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association were submitted to Mr. Justice Higgins, sitting in ...
Article : 240 wordsLord Landsdowne (Minister without portfolio) delivered a striking speech on Red Cross work at a meeting of the St. John Ambulance Society in London on ...
Article : 415 wordsRemarkable German defence measures, which enable the enemy to hold a front with the scantiest forces, have been brought to light by a Rnssian success at Kemmern, in ...
Article : 224 wordsThe announcement by Lord Derby, director of recruiting in Great Britain, that the enlistment groups under his voluntary scheme will positively close on ...
Article : 510 wordsThe carnival and procession for this day, to be held on December 17, are being arranged by the artists of Melbourne. The pageant will be representative of "Peace ...
Article : 36 wordsFor weeks past there have been persistent rumours of distensions between the Turks and Bulgars, who have rival interests in Thrace. The latest report specifically mentions King Ferdinand's claim to the territory he won before the disastrous second Balkan war as the cause of ...
Article : 425 wordsThere were 81 applicants for enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force in Victoria yesterday, and 54 men were accepted. Details supplied by the various recruiting ...
Article : 63 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—During a discussion on the proposal to saddle the municipalities with the responsibility of finding work for those returned soldiers who did ...
Article : 147 wordsThe State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee met at Parliament House yesterday, and considered the circulars which will be sent to municipal councils and other local ...
Article : 146 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—Mr. J. C. Watson, Commonwealth honorary organiser for War Council work, has spent the week in Hobart, and discussed fully with the State War ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsA mass meeting of the Melbourne branch of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Union has been convened for Saturday night, December 18, to consider what ...
Article : 105 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—The daily openair meetings in Adelaide in connection with the Becond State recruiting campaign were continued to day. A number of returned ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is reported from Zurich that, owing to heavy movements of German troops to Alsace the Swiss-German frontier has been closed, and the civil population at Altkirch ...
Article : 213 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.—The responsibility resting on every fit man of military age was emphasised by Major-General McCay this evening, when he was ...
Article : 272 wordsTo-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock the Twelve Nights' Carnival at Luna Park, in aid of our wounded soldiers, will be opened by the Governor of Victoria (Sir Arthur Stanley). Luna Park has ...
Article : 113 wordsA mass meeting of the members of the Federated Carters' and Drivers' Union will be held at the Bijou Theatre on Sunday afternoon next, to "consider the ...
Article : 251 wordsThe weather having improved on Monday, the Bulgarians bombarded the entire British line on the Strumnitza all day long, infantry attacks following. These ...
Article : 268 wordsReplying to a question asked in the House of Commons by Mr. P. Snowden (Socialist), the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) said that Entente Powers had "mutually" agreed not ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsSubscriptions to the special "Our Day" Red Cross collection, made in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, yielded £797,000, of which Canada gave £220,000, Egypt ...
Article : 38 wordsRome reports thal the Standard Oil Company's tank steamer Communipaw, which was attacked by an Austrian submarine while bound from Genoa to Alexandria ...
Article : 34 wordsA committee which reported recently on the Liverpool (N.S.W.) camp, recommended the establishment of a "wet canteen," The matter was referred to during a discussion ...
Article : 208 wordsThe United States Government, says [?] Washington message, is believed to possess information showing German efforts to begin a revolution in Mexico, with a view to ...
Article : 90 wordsThe cold is intensive, in Southern Serbia, and there are piercing winds. The ink actually freezes in fountain pens, and eggs explode. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 484 wordsLord Newton, on behalf of the Government, announced in the House of Lords on Wednesday, that a reduction in the meat ration served to the troops in the ...
Article : 42 wordsFollowing the plaint lodged by the Federated Clerks' Union of Australia with the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, covering the industrial conditions of the ...
Article : 213 wordsA graphic description of the recent terrible fighting on the isonzo front, supplied by an Italian soldier, has reached London. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe House of Lords has passed the second reading of the Judicial Committee Bill, which will enable the Judicial Committee to sit in two divisions simultaneously, ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Secretary of State for India (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) said that the British casualties in Mesopotamia reached a total ...
Article : 244 wordsReplying to Sir Edwin Cornwall (Liberal), in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) said that Great Britain ...
Article : 110 wordsTRARALGON, Thursday.—The Rev. W. H. Scurr, the chairman of the Schmidt protest committee, has received the following letter from the secretary to the Minister for ...
Article : 137 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" of Thursday:— AUSTRALIANS COMMENDED. ...
Article : 498 wordsRe[?]ter's correspondent at Athens says that a Franco-Greek military commission in conferring, and that responsible circles in the Greek capital are confident of a ...
Article : 248 wordsThe adjourned compulsory conference between the Broken Hill branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association and the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and ...
Article : 130 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—In a proclamation issued to day under the Sugar Acquisition Act, authorising the acquisition of meat in, or to arrive in, the State, the Queensland ...
Article : 71 wordsThe United States has despatched another note to the Austrian Government, making formal demands in connection with the sinking of the Italian passenger liner ...
Article : 136 wordsThe committee of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund met at the Town Hal Yesterday afternoon the Lord Mayor (Sir David Hennessy) presiding A letter was ...
Article : 122 wordsThe steamer Ruahine called at Cape Town on "Wednesday with 130 wounded New Zealanders on board, homeward bound. They have greatly benefited by ...
Article : 166 wordsSir,—The v[?]hemence of "Father of Two Soldiers" on the subject of the two "German schools" in New South Wales is quite unnecessary. The Prime Minister, whom ...
Article : 447 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.—Mr. J. W. Truswell, the secretary of the Ballarat branch of the Federated Mine Employees' Association, states that the miners are ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Victorian Chamber of Mines intends to furnish a complete set of instruments for the formation of a band for presentation to the Miners' Corps now being equippe[?] for the front. All ...
Article : 174 wordsIt is understood that Field-Marshal von Mackensen has paid a visit to the Turkish front on Gallipoli. A number of German 12in. guns were ...
Article : 77 wordsDifficulties in maintaining the services and the cost of passenger traffic between England and Australia are likely to increase. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe British and French War Oflices have early and energetically commeneced to re[?]victual and equip the Serbians via Albanian ports. The first supplies arrived in ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Union Prime Minister (General Botha) was reported to have stated in the South African Parliament on Monday that had a real civil war broken out the man ...
Article : 89 wordsINGLEWOOD, Thursday.—To prevent the approaching holidays interfering with the output of work the Red Cross Society on Wednesday held an "All Day Work ...
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Article : 50 wordsA number of returned soldiers were entertained by the citizens of St. Kilda in the St. Kilda Town Hall last evening, the arrangements being carried out by the patriotic committee. There was a large ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 10 Dec 1915, Page 7
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