In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. W. H. Cowan (Liberal) moved the rejection of the bill to extend the life of the present Parliament, which expires, by ...
Article : 562 wordsAt Providence, Rhode Island, Johannes von Koolbergen, in an affidavit, soys that he was an agent in a German plot to destroy the Canadian-Pacific railroad tunnels ...
Article : 98 wordsThe way appears to have been paved for greater freedom of action by the Allies in and around Salonika, the Greek armies having been withdrawn from this area. The slight pressure exercised on Greece by the Allies when they detained some ships. In their ports had a remarkable effect. ...
Article : 458 wordsCirculars supporting the Federal recruiting appeal have been issued by the State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. In making the circulars available, the ...
Article : 1,460 wordsThe Constantinople correspondent of the Geneva (Switzerland) "Tribuna" says that he has learned from an absolutely reliable source that the Germans have prepared a ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Commonwealth scheme for raising the 50,000 men needed for the new force recently offered to the War Office was further discussed at yesterday's meeting of the ...
Article : 160 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—To-day thirtyeight men were examined at Adelaide, and twenty-seven were accepted. The total enlistment for South Australia to date is ...
Article : 29 wordsThe State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee met yesterday and discussed further the plans for the campaign. Recruiting sergeants, to be attached ...
Article : 132 wordsLord Bryce, in a letter to the "Daily Telegraph," returns to the subject of the Turkish atrocities in Armenia. He writes:— ...
Article : 230 wordsA meeting of representatives of the various amateur sporting associations of Victoria was held at the Amateur Sports Club yesterday Mr. F. Richardson, ...
Article : 442 wordsDutch East Indies shipping companies announce that they intend using the Cape route, ostensibly owing to coaling difficulties on the Suez route. The companies ...
Article : 277 wordsKORUMBURRA, Wednesday.—The circular from the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) relative to the method of organising with the object of obtaining 50,000 ...
Article : 187 wordsThe leader of the State Opposition (Mr. Elmslie), in commenting yesterday on the Federal postal appeal for recruits, stated that while he earnestly hoped for a full ...
Article : 168 wordsThe figures submitted to the Recruiting Conference held at the Prime Minister's official residence in Downing street on Tuesday to consider Lord Derby's ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. Asquith, replying to Mr. W. H. Cowan (Liberal) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, said that he was opposed to the suggestion to reduce by 25 per cent[?] the ...
Article : 97 wordsA Bulgarian communique repeated through[?] Amsterdam, says:—"The enemy has everywhere been beaten. There is not a single enemy soldier on Macedonial soil. ...
Article : 377 words"The Times," in a leading article in its issue of Tuesday, comments on the conduct of Australians in the war. It used to be said," it asserts, "that ...
Article : 182 wordsKALGOORLIE (W.A.), Tuesday.—The opposition of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council to the new recruiting scheme was referred to by the Minister for External ...
Article : 225 wordsOn the motion for the adjournment in the Legislative Council last night Mr. W. J. Beckett said that in a leading article on the recruiting scheme in the "Age" ...
Article : 592 wordsSubscriptions in the Punjab to the fund to provide seven aeroplanes, to be named after the big rivers in the Province, is making excellent progress. All the ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Boulogne correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that the British fleet on Saturday bombarded the German defences in the vicinity of Ostend and ...
Article : 226 wordsSir,—Discussing the need of men for the war a few days ago with two young married men, one childless, that other with one child, they stated that were it not for the fact ...
Article : 167 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The second State recruiting campaign was continued to-day. The usual midday speeches were delivered from the various platforms in the ...
Article : 205 words"New South Wales Under War Conditions" was the title of an address delivered by the Agent-General (Mr. B. R. Wise) at the Royal Colonial Institute on Tuesday ...
Article : 241 wordsSir,—The expenditure of £100 on obtaining ideas for posters by the recruiting committee will be money well spent, provided that something better is selected that the ...
Article : 218 wordsSir,—It was with amazement that [?] learned this morning of the disloyal attitude of a public body like the Trades Hall in advising its adherents to ignore the call ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsThe Germans in the Riga re[?] have decided to winter near Dvinsk, where that are certain of comfort. In pursuance of this resolve, states a ...
Article : 67 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—The Clerks' Union last night passed a resolution stating that in whole-hear[?]dly supported the proposals of the War Council in the recruiting ...
Article : 122 wordsSir,—All that the fathers of families—to whom General McCay referred on Tuesday —expect, is that the Government shall shoulder its proper responsibility, and send ...
Article : 293 wordsIn order to give the navy an idea of trench life Admiral Jellicoe recently thought of the good plan of sending a party of seamen to take their bearings ...
Article : 87 wordsThere was no indication at the recruiting depots in Victoria yesterday of the Prime Minister's appeal for more men having been immediately fruitful. Yesterday was the ...
Article : 401 wordsArrivals.—At London—Dorset, s.s., from Sydney September 8; and Clan Davidson, s.s., from Fremantle October 29. At Plymouth—Medina, R.M.S., from Melbourne ...
Article : 28 wordsHerr Schroeder, editor of the Amsterdam newspaper "Die Telegraaf," who was arrested on a charge of having endangered the neutrality of his country, has been ...
Article : 122 wordsGeneral Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien has been appointed to the supreme control of the British operations in East Africa. [Sir Horace Smith-Dorr[?]n commanded ...
Article : 156 wordsBENDIGO, Wednesday.—At a meeting of the Bndigo branch of the Trades Hall Council to-night, the following motion was agreed to:— ...
Article : 58 wordsTwo new cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis ocurred yesterday in the metropolitan area, the patients being admitted to the Alfred Hospital for treatment No deaths ...
Article : 35 wordsSir,—The advisability of ascertaining the nationality or the descent of certain individuals is decidedly timely. If the whole truth were known, it would shed a flood of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 16 Dec 1915, Page 9
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