A shocking railway accident occurred at Newcastle (England) on Friday. A passenger train collided with an empty train. Five persons were burnt to death ...
Article : 50 wordsA sensational discovery has been made in regard to Captain Boy-ed, the German naval attache at Washington, who, with Captain von Papen, the military attache, has been ...
Article : 165 wordsLord Lansdowne went to considerable palns on Thursday to assure the House of Lords that the Government was doing its best for the Allies by concluding a trade agreement with Denmark, under which certain articles can be re-exported from that country. He made the admission ...
Article : 250 wordsThe bill dealing with enemy companies trading in the United Kingdom, which was introduced in the House of Lords by Lord Halsbury, passed the committee stage on ...
Article : 546 wordsA representative of the Australian Press Association accompanied a party of American journalists on a recent inspection of the German prisoners' camp at the Dorchester ...
Article : 926 wordsAll doubt as to whether it is obligatory upon those to whom recruiting cards are issued to fill them in and return them was set aside by the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 192 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Lord Robert Cecil) said that the immediate object of the Allies was to regularise the ...
Article : 444 wordsIt is expected that the new British Exchequer bonds will be popular abroad, because if held abroad they are free of income tax. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe committee appointed by the State War Council to formulate a scheme to assist returned soldiers to settle on the land had arranged to hold its first ...
Article : 257 wordsReferring to Austria-Hunngary's reply to the American Note of protest against the sinking of the Ancona, the Washington correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is reported from Milan that two American bankers at Gorizia, which the Austrians are defending against Italian attacks, refused to resume payment of bills. They were ...
Article : 44 wordsDetailed information of how Australia's new army of 50,000 men and the monthly reinforcements of 16,000 men arre to raised was made available by the Minister for ...
Article : 2,165 wordsThe newspapers this morning comment on the retirement of Field-Marshal Viscount French from the command of the British armies in France and Flanders. ...
Article : 196 wordsReports reaching Belgium continue to forecast a big German offensive on the West front at the end of December. Duke Albrecht, of Wurtemberg, has ...
Article : 215 wordsEvidence is daily coming to hand that a considerable number of returned soldiers will prefer to follow some outdoor occupation rather than return to the confinement ...
Article : 276 wordsThe police have raided the Women's Social and Political Union in Kingsway, London, and seized the type used for Mrs. Pankhurst's new weekly newspaper, ...
Article : 33 wordsA deputation of Liberal and Labour members of the House of Commons on Thursday waited on the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) to protest against conscription ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Serbian Minister in London (M. Boskovitch) has issued a special message thanking Australians and New Zealanders for their generous help, which includes ...
Article : 162 wordsA Vienna communique issued on Thursday evening states:—"Our troops captured advanced Italian positions on the Isonzo front." ...
Article : 20 wordsA question was asked in the House of Commons on Thursday as to whether large quantities of food were being sent through the United States Post-office to Germany. ...
Article : 86 wordsMajor Winston Churchill, who joined his regiment in France on November 20, after having resigned from the British Cabinet, has had a narrow escape. ...
Article : 46 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—The Governor-General and Lady Helen Munro Ferguson accompanied by Captain. Haskett Smith, arrived in Bendigo at 5 o'clock this evening, ...
Article : 286 wordsArrival.—At London—Waimate, s.s., from Sydney Oct. 1. Departure.—For Fremantle—William Mitchell. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe latest reports received at Petrograd agree that the Germans are preparing for a great battle in the Dvinsk region. The enemy are bringing up a number of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Attorney-General (Sir F. E. Smith) informed the House of Commons on Thursday that the English law officers had themselves suggested reductions in their ...
Article : 41 wordsLord Bryce has accepted the chairmanship of the committee formed to strengthen relations between the British and French Parliaments. ...
Article : 24 wordsThere are three Serbian armies, totalling 150,000 men, in Albania, between Skutari, Durazzo, and El Basson, and another of 50,000 men in Southern Montenegro. ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the request of the Unionist Business Committee, the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) has fixed January 4 for the debate in the House of Commons as the the ...
Article : 167 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—At a lit[?] after noon to-day a fire broke out on the Orient Company's Royal Mail steamer, Omrah, berthed at Circular Quay. When the wharf ...
Article : 365 wordsAdvices from Bucharest, received via Geneva, show that fighting occuired between the Turkish and Bulgarian regiments in Serbia, at ishtib (41 miles east south-east ...
Article : 153 wordsIt is requested that local committees in town and country should notify the State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee when recruiting sergeants are required. Only ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Bendigo train due at Spencer street at 5 minutes to 11 o'clock last evening did not reach Melbourne until 5 minutes past 12 o'clock this morning. Many of the ...
Article : 191 wordsThe French Minister of Finance (M. Rihot) announces that the French loan, which closed on Thursday, surpassed all expectations. Subscriptions amounting to ...
Article : 99 wordsAlluding yesterday to the Wide Bay (Q.) election, won by Mr. E. B. C. Corser (Liberal) by a majority of 89 votes over the Labour candidate (Mr. Andrew Thompson), ...
Article : 109 wordsSir,—When moving the resolution to ignore war cards, Mr. Katz is reported to have said something about refusing to sell their liberty. Why do unionists ever use ...
Article : 155 wordsFollowing upon the Prime Minister's visit to the Trades Hall Council on Thursday night relative to that body's attitude towards the recruiting scheme, an ...
Article : 133 wordsNow that something more definite has been placed before the public as to the requirements of the Commonwealth in troops, it is hoped that recruiting will show a ...
Article : 282 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has received a cable message from ex-Senator Colonel C. St. Clair Cameron, C.B., in the following terms:— ...
Article : 104 words"Should I enlist?" This question daily comes To each man's heart, and answer he must give. And why? Because the nation's calling now On him, and you, and me, that it may live. ...
Article : 187 wordsWilliam Bell, aged 16 years, employed as a message boy, by Messrs. Stoddart, Fitcher, and Millist, of Flinders lane, fell down a lift well, a distance of 40ft., in the ...
Article : 64 wordsSir,—What a splendid example of patriotism our Trades Hall authorities are setting us. and how loyally they are supporting the Governemnt whom they clected by ...
Article : 86 wordsLieut.—General Townshend, in command of the British force operating on the Tigris, in Mesopotamia, reports that according to the Arabs the Turks lost 2,000 in the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe bill [?]mpowering the British Government to obtain control of American and Canadian securities has passed the committee stage in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 85 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The metropolitan council of the Labour Federation last night considered a resolution, moved by Mr. Edwards (the Typographical Union ...
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Article : 112 wordsOn the motion for the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Menzies directed attention to a case where an Australian-born youth, whose ...
Article : 117 wordsSunday, December 19, being St. Nicholas Day, the nameday of the Emperor of Russia, a doxology is to be held in the Greek Chuch in Melbourne, and a special ...
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Advertising : 60 wordsA contingent of medically unfit New Zealanders has left Plymouth for the Dominion, a band playing the vessel out of port. A part of Maoris accompany the men. ...
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Advertising : 32 wordsSir,—When a man refuses to answer the questions imposed by the Government recruiting circular, questions that to the ordinary mind are fair and s[?]are, the natural ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 18 Dec 1915, Page 19
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