That Russian troops had occupied the important Persian town of Hamadan (185 miles W.S.W. of Teheran) was officially announced in Petrograd on Friday. ...
Article : 455 wordsReuter's correspondent at Athens telegraphed on Friday evening that the situation in Greece was again acute. The German Minister at Athens has ...
Article : 380 wordsPresident Wilson has prepared a new Note, protesting against the sinking of the liner Ancona. It is understood that the second ...
Article : 335 wordsIt becomes more evident that the Germans are about to attack in force on either the East or the West front, but which one it will be is not clear. In the Riga region the enemy lines must be weak, because at several points they have been pierced by Russians in pursuit of reconn[?]tring parties. The ...
Article : 420 wordsReferring on Saturday to the Federal recruiting scheme, the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated that the Government had decided to adopt a ...
Article : 207 wordsFour classes of the recruits (namely, the 2nd 3rd, 4th, and 5th classes) who enlisted under Lord Derby's voluntary scheme have been called to the colours. They are ...
Article : 344 wordsMr W.A.S. Hweins, M.P., who is chairman of the Unionist Business Committee, has been interviewed in regard to the debate to take place in the House of ...
Article : 450 wordsCases have been brought under the notice of the State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee of Professional Men, and others similarly situated, who are desirous of enlisting, ...
Article : 109 wordsThe gross attestations of men under Lord Derby's scheme are said unofficially to be just over 2,000,000 Large reductions, of course, will have to be made in regard to the ...
Article : 346 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Mr. Catts, M.H.R., organising secretary of the State Recruiting Campaign Committee, said to-day that some confusion had been created in New ...
Article : 181 wordsThe "Daily Express" learns from what is believed to be an nuthentic source that eight of the crew of the Zeppelin which made a raid on London on October 13 were ...
Article : 177 wordsThere is great satisfaction in Rome at the successful landing of the first Italian expedition of 80,000 men in Albania with the loss of only one transport and a torpedo-boat ...
Article : 182 wordsAccording to a German wireless message, the German Imperial Treasurer (Dr. Karl Helfferich),in his speech in the Reichstag on Wednesday, when introducing the war ...
Article : 74 wordsGeneva reports that British warships in the Dardanelles have destroyed three Turkish fortress batteries, five German guns, and four guns supplied by Bulgarians, ...
Article : 41 wordsWhen the attention of the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) was directed to this message last night he said that if it were possible for all the dominions to be ...
Article : 93 wordsA Paris communique, issued on Saturday at midnight, says:—"We carried out between the Somme and the Oise an intense bombardment of the enemy's trenches at ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Moonee Ponds town Hall was [?]ded on Saturday evening, when Councillor J. Goldsworthy, ex-mayor of Essend[?], presented to the citizens a handsome ...
Article : 116 wordsRepresentatives of practically all the spel[?] ter-extracting companies have conferred with the spelter committee, which is the outcome of the deputation which ...
Article : 130 wordsA recent arrival at Malta from Gallipoli states that the life is interesting, if trying. The men are in the best of spirits, despite the weather. They greatly appreciate the ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Henry Ford, when interviewed at Christiansund (Norway) on the arrival of the Oscar H., with his peace mission on board, said that he was not allowed to land ...
Article : 75 wordsBritish transport are still landing troops and material, armoured motors, and heavy guns at Salonika. The installation of the heavy artillery of ...
Article : 165 wordsIn the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice on Friday the reserved judgment was given in the test case on the question whether a naturalised alien ...
Article : 483 wordsThe recruiting figures for Victoria are still low, but the returns for last week show a slight increase over the previous week's [?]. During the week ended December ...
Article : 102 wordsA splendid response has been made to the movement initiated by the Daily Telegraph to invite overseas soldiers in England to spend Christmas with English ...
Article : 206 wordsAccording to the Central News Agency, the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), having bound to secrecy the deputation of Liberal and Labour members of the House of ...
Article : 105 wordsA French torpedo-boat brought down a German hydroplane at Nienport, on the Belgian coast. It fell into the sea, but its two officers were picked up and made ...
Article : 37 wordsA Petrograd communique, made available in the Russian capital on Saturday at midnight, said:— "While repeiling reconn[?]issances ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British Board of Trade has announced that the exportation of the following goods, except under license, is prohibited to all destinations except in the British ...
Article : 153 wordsA German lieutenant and a private from his flying corps have landed in an aeroplane at Aardenburg in Holland (13 miles S.S.W. of Flushing). ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—During the past week 745 men were enrolled from New South Wales for the Expeditionary Forces. Of these 528 were enrolled in the metropolis ...
Article : 32 wordsThe London police have detained "Fighting Bob" Spencer, a boxer, on the ground that the applied for a passport as an American subject, whereas in reality he is a ...
Article : 65 wordsA Serbian official communique brands the Austro-Bulgarian claims to capture of prisoners and war booty as "greatly exaggerated and an improbability passing all ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Berlin "Lokal-Anzeiger" was not allowed to issue on Saturday, despite the fact that it is an inspired, if not semio[?]cial, organ. ...
Article : 161 wordsSir,—In order to raise the additional 50,000 men now required and at the same time to bury the vexed question of conscription, let every man who cannot or does not ...
Article : 110 wordsThe new Russian fiscal proposals contemplate a prospective income tax, industrial and land taxes, and also a special military tax. All indirect taxes will be assigned, ...
Article : 61 wordsAlready £500,000 has been subscribed for the work of the Young Men's Christian Association among soldiers in the different theatres of war. Of this sum £20,000 has ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is admitted officially from Berlin that the German cruiser Bremen (3,200 tons, ten 4.lin.guns, built in 1903) and a torpedo-boat which was accompanying her, have been ...
Article : 111 wordsSir,—If a man with a name suggesting enemy nationality were to move a motion at a meeting in Berlin, "That German youths refuse to serve their country," how ...
Article : 49 wordsA Vienna communique issued on Saturday afternoon stated:—"The Italians lost 70,000 men in a fortnight's continuous fighting on the Isonzo front, at the end of the which all ...
Article : 86 wordsIn view of the failure of Germany to comply with the French demands concerning food given to prisoners of war, the French War Minister (General Gallieni) ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" on saturday maintained that the absence of a responsible Opposition in Parliament was one of the disadvantages of the coalition, and it gave ...
Article : 148 wordsSir,—As an appreciation of the noble heroes of the Trades Hall Council, Melbourne, I am (although a working man) prepared to pay a photograper to take a ...
Article : 103 words"There is no doubt," declares the Cairo correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette," "that the winter will witness a renewal of the Turkish attacks on the Suez Canal. ...
Article : 228 wordsGeneral Marchand, of Fashoda fame, who was injured at the end of September, is returning to the front although his doctors consider it inadvisable, in view of ...
Article : 222 wordsPresident Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt were married on Saturday by the Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, the bride's pastor, assisted by the Rev. James ...
Article : 279 wordsSir,—When one is doubtful about the [?]eness of an application for money said to come from a soldier at home, and to be remitted by telegraph, a simple test ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Paris "Figaro" directs attention to the new issue of "Debrett's Peerage for 1916," which shows that more than 800 members of the English nobility have lost ...
Article : 78 wordsThe police deny having raided the offices of the Women's Social and Political Union in Kingsway (London). What they did was to seize a secretly installed printing ...
Article : 99 wordsThe steamer Liverpool, bound from New York to Rotterdam with a cargo of foodstuffs for the Belgian Relief Commission, has been found in a sinking condition off ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Swedish-America shipping line has practically completed the purchase of two of the Hamburg-Amerika Company's steamers which have been lying in New York harbour ...
Article : 64 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Archbishop Kelly attacked freemasonry at a meeting held in St. Aldan's Church, at Maroubra, this afternoon, after be had laid the[?] ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Australian transport Benalla rendered assistance to a British-India steamer which was attacked by an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 20 Dec 1915, Page 9
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