Correspondents of London newspapers, telegraphing from Petrograd, take the most hopeful view of the position on the Eastern front. Accord-_ ing to them, the Russian retreat from Warsaw has been a masterly operation, carried out with accuracy, and devoid of disaster. The fact that ...
Article : 192 wordsSenator Beranger, who has returned to Paris from the western front, reports:— "Our front won't give way, because we have enough of good soldiers, cannon, and ...
Article : 126 wordsA sensation was caused in the Chicago "Wheat Pit" on Friday when news waa received that large orders of whaat for Europe had been cancelled. ...
Article : 316 wordsA wave of enthusiasm in favour of America being placed in a position of preparedness for war is sweeping over the United States. Thousands of young men are ...
Article : 145 wordsDr. E. J. Dillon, the well-known special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," who is at present af Varese (Lombardy)[?] reports that negotiations are being ...
Article : 302 wordsThe operations on the Austro-Italian front are described in the following army reports:— Rome. ...
Article : 212 wordsIt was announced a few days ago that, with the sauction of the British Government the Nobel Dynamite Trust Company had arranged to sell its German assets to ...
Article : 190 wordsIn an Amsterdam message it is stated that the Germans have established three factories for the manufacture of asphyxiating bombs in Belgium. ...
Article : 56 wordsOfficial advices received in Rome from Bucharest disclose that the German commercial attache requested the Roumanian Minister for Finance (M. Costinesco) to ...
Article : 130 wordsA bill to secure ground to provide cemeteries for the fallen soldiers of the Allies has been passed by the French Chamber of Deputies. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Danish Government is planning an extra war tax of 20 per cent. on surplus shipping profits. It is estimated by the Copenhagen ...
Article : 52 wordsAn Austrian official version of the bombardment of Italian coastal towns, reported in a Rome naval communique on Wednesday, has been received from Amsterdam. ...
Article : 335 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the Germans appear to be definitely held in check, and that the Russians are in full command of ...
Article : 700 words"The worst of the fury of the storm is over," declares the Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." "Fears for the safety of the garrison ...
Article : 315 wordsA Paris communique says:—"Since August 6, the British have successfully landed in the region of Suvla Bay, and have made further progress at Gabn Tepe, where, ...
Article : 103 wordsA neutral lately in Germany describes the way in which war loans are being raised in Germany. An organisation has been started called "Darl[?]henskasse Fur ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Allied (Anglo-French) forces operating in the German Camer[?]ns (West Africa) recently occupied the important post of Tingere, near N[?]dere (the chief ...
Article : 139 wordsThe British Press Bureau announced that Zeppelins, between half-past 9 o'clock and midnight on Thursday night, dropped incendiary and explosive bombs at various places ...
Article : 139 wordsTelegrams from Athens which have reached have reached Paris state that a[?] decree han been issued by the Greek Government calling up the 1915 class to the ...
Article : 172 wordsA Berlin wireless message seeks to belittle the recent landing of French and British troops at new points on the Gallipoli peninsula. ...
Article : 136 wordsReferring to the recent change in German public opinion regarding his "Hymn of Hate," the author, Lissauer, has written to the "Berliner Tageblatt" agreeing with the ...
Article : 88 wordsAn officer who served in the campaign in German South West Africa states that 10 m[?] were found at one place, across a roadway 8ft. wide, and that three more ...
Article : 76 wordsA characteristic article appears in the "Hamburger Nachrichten," which has always been intensely anti-English. Under the beading "England's ...
Article : 116 wordsThe French Ministry of Marine announccs that on Friday, after giving the Turkish Governor adequate notice to enable the neighbourhood to be evacuated, a ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says:—"It transpires that Field-Marshal von Mackensen's effort to break the Russian line on the Bug [?]early ...
Article : 130 wordsThe two German officers of high standing who escaped from a prison camp at Old[?] castle, a Meath market town, 72 miles northwest of Dublin, have been re[?]rrested. ...
Article : 32 wordsDrastic German Action Proposed. Athens reports that Prince Hohenlobe[?] Schillingsfurst (Governor of the Austrian province of Kustenland, which includes ...
Article : 89 wordsThe reply of the United States to the Austrian Note protesting against the large munition supplies sent to Great Britain and the Allies from America has been ...
Article : 111 wordsDisaster overtook a French military aeroplane it Dijon on Friday. The machine was descending when it collided with a tree and crashed to the earth. Both the pilot ...
Article : 42 wordsThe British Press Bureau announces a number of shipping losses as the result of German submarine activity. The British trawler Thrust was sunk on ...
Article : 262 wordsA Petrograd communique, dealing with operations in the Ca[?]casus, states that the Turks twice assumed the offensive along the whole front in the Passin ...
Article : 75 wordsA labourer at Middlesbrough, the great iron manufacturing and shipping centre in Yorkshire, has been fined 40/ for having treated a man to a pint of beer. ...
Article : 48 wordsDr. Liebknecht, one of the leaders of the German Socialist party, is in favour of an immediate peace. He is at present on the Eastern frontier, ...
Article : 97 wordsAfter many months of comparative inactivity, the Serbian army is engaged willi the enemy. The following communique has been issued ...
Article : 415 wordsThe London "Spectator" says that the German left [?]ank is only 300 miles from Petrograd. "It now appears possible," adds the journal, "that the operations in ...
Article : 136 wordsTaxi-cabs in Vienna have had to cease running owing to the supplies of gasoline obtained from Lansanne (Switzerland) having been ex[?]sted. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" notifies that the workers at Krupp's munition works at Essen have been increased leccntly by 10,000 men and women. ...
Article : 49 wordsHis Majesty the King, accompanied by the Queen, and the Prince of Wales paid a visit of Friday to the hospital in London in which the New Zealand wounded soldiers ...
Article : 237 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of The Argus on Saturday:— SINKING OF THE INDIA. ...
Article : 292 wordsCaptain H. S. Smart, of the Indian Army, who broke leave in order to go to the front, and then enlisted as "Private Hardy," died like a hero. ...
Article : 236 wordsAn Italian Green Book makes an interesting disclosure regarding the apparent desire of Germany to escape another winter campaign by ending the war. ...
Article : 106 wordsReuter's correspondent at Petrograd states that it is unothcially reported [?]ere that a naval battle took place on Thursday [?] O[?]sel Island, which lies across the ...
Article : 230 wordsThe sinking of the British auxiliary cruiser India (formerly the P. and O. liner [?]ndia) by a German sub[?]rine took place in the Vest Fjord, and inlet between the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Dutch Anti-War Council has asked the Foreign Minister (Dr. London) to collaborate in the formation of a conference of the neutral Powers. which will sit ...
Article : 100 wordsAn English traveller who has reached Paris reports that a German "Aviatik" aeroplane was picked up in the English Channel a short distance from Folkestone. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe British and French Governments are arranging for credits for £100,000,000 in the United States in order to finance their war purchases in that country, and to ...
Article : 75 wordsA Freach semi-official Note has been issued to allay anxicty created by the British prohibition of the export of coal. It is explained that a French official had ...
Article : 75 wordsHis Holiness the Pope has shown his sympathy with the inhabitants of East Prussia, who suffered severely in the Russian invasion and subs[?]quent fighting, by ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Adjutant-General to the forces (Lieut-General Sir H. C. S[?]later) has assure dthe leader of the Irish Nationalist party (Mr. John Rodmond) that the War ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 16 Aug 1915, Page 7
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