Captain Persius, the well known German naval authority, writing in the "Berliner Tageblatt," condemns Grand Admiral von Tirpitz's extravagant expectations ...
Article : 302 wordsThe intellectuals and professors of Germany have issued a "Kultur" manifesto, declaring:— "Peace-loving Germany only rose ...
Article : 98 wordsAs stated in The Argus on Wednesday, the Alfred Hospital has been requisitioned by the military authorities on account of the abnormal amount of illness in the ...
Article : 337 wordsFurther details of what has been referred to in an enrlier message as "Sensible progress by land at the Dardanelles during the first two days of the present week," are ...
Article : 264 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the well-known novelist, who is acting for the "Daily Chronicle" as correspondent with the British forces, has forwarded the following despatch ...
Article : 303 wordsA meeting was held at the Queen's Hall, London, on Wednesday to urge the declaration of cotton as contraband. Sir Charles Macara, President of the ...
Article : 450 wordsPresumably in order to shorten their line, the Russians, as they retreat eastward, are evacuating several hitherto important positions in the north. What must be a large enemy force is concentrating its efforts on a flank attack north-east of Warsaw, where, however, the Russians still hold an ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Petrograd newspaper "Novoe Vremya" persists in its statement that Germany recently made proposals to Russia for the conclusion of a separate peace. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe principal medical officer of the State (Colonel Cuscaden) yesterday visited the Broadmeadows camp where about 400 or 500 men are now preparing for the ...
Article : 237 wordsAnother report that Germany is seeking to arrange an early proclamation of peace has been received by "The Times" from its correspondent at Milan. ...
Article : 108 wordsA well-informed writer in an article in the "Novoe Vremya," of Petrograd, says that the true objective of the German offensive in Russia is the capital. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent states that the first German descriptions of the entry into Warsaw betray the truth that the enemy had grasped ...
Article : 442 wordsAthens reports that the Turkish battleship Goeben (22,635 tons, 10 hhin. guns, built in 1912), which was formerly in the possession of the Germans, has been ...
Article : 94 wordsA Paris communique issued on Wednesday evening states that a German attempt to attack Souchez (in Northern France) with petards was repulsed. ...
Article : 153 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that the German auxiliary cruiser Meteor (3,613 tons) sank the small British patrol ship Ramsey in the North Sea on Sunday. Four ...
Article : 157 wordsAmsterdam learns that Lissaucr's "Hymn of Hate" is losing favour. The "Berliner Tageblatt," the editor of which is the ablest journalist in Germany, ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Dedeagateh correspondent of the Pans newspaper "Le Temps" reports that the Young Turks have been greatly inspirited by the Austro-German successes ...
Article : 371 wordsSpeaking in regard to the great amount of illness in the military camps in Victoria, the State commandant (Colonel Williams) stated yesterday that this was inevitable ...
Article : 213 wordsThe British Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), accompanied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. McKenna), has visited the Grand Fleet. ...
Article : 182 wordsA group of city men, headed by Mr. R. Tilden Smith, has purchased the German combine's Swansea Vale Zinc Smelting Works. It is intended to increase the ...
Article : 365 wordsOwing to the stoppage of the engine, an aeroplane piloted by Georges Carpentier, the French champion boxer, was compelled to descend suddenly in the Vosges. ...
Article : 55 wordsDealing with naval operations in the Baltic, a German admiralty communiqu[?] says:— "We attacked on Tuesday the fortfied ...
Article : 407 wordsThe only Rome communique issued on Wednesday reads as follows:— "On the Carso plateau, in the Seibusi district, two companies of our infantry ...
Article : 211 wordsFrom Dunkirk (France) it is reported that a British airman on Tuesday commenced the attack on the damaged Zeppelin airship, which was towed into Ostend ...
Article : 90 wordsWhen questioned yesterday regarding the serious allegations made by a correspondent in "The Argus" of Thursday against the administration of the base hospital, the ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The attention of the Premier (Mr. Holman) was directed in the Legislative Assembly to-day to statements that a number ot Germans were ...
Article : 250 wordsFlight Sub-Lieutenant Lord, the British aeroplane pilot, who was killed while attempting to land in the dark after having engaged raiding Zeppelin airships on the ...
Article : 111 wordsMajor Gordon, consulting bacteriologist to the War Office, considers that Dr. Bull's reported discovery of the eucalyptus cure for cerebro-spinal meningitis is ...
Article : 217 wordsPrisoners and deserters state that the reason why the Austrians have not renewed their attack on Serbia is that the Austrian commander in not strong enough to ...
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Article : 39 wordsSister Cadlalo, an Australian, who accompanied General Botha's force in its march against the Germans in South-west Africa, states that a number of Australians took ...
Article : 203 wordsAdvices from Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, state that a financial catastrophe threatens in that country owing to the accumulation of stocks of wheat to the value ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 13 Aug 1915, Page 9
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