BROKEN HILL, Friday. — Mr. W. D. Barnett, secretary of the Amalgamated Miners' Association, announced officially today that the strike had been declared off ...
Article : 696 wordsThe reassembling of the United States Congress has been followed by a political crisis. In consequence of the opposition offered ...
Article : 162 wordsTheir Majesties the King and Queen have given an audience to Lieutenant Clutha Mackenzie, the son of the High Commissioner of New Zealand, who has been ...
Article : 176 wordsGermany has issued a memorandum to neutral Powers, declaring that, beginning on March 1 next, armed merchantmen will be treated as belligerents, and she warns ...
Article : 644 wordsWhether it be due, as many assert, to the old superstition that it is unlucky to commence a journey or any great undertaking on a Friday, or to other causes, it ...
Article : 1,509 wordsThe struggle for the dominant positions on the Lens-Arras road, in Northern france, continues to be fiercely waged. It takes the form chiefly of ...
Article : 174 wordsMany trains filled with German troops have passed through Louvain, and are concentrating at Roulers and Courtrai, in West Flanders. ...
Article : 384 wordsThe German Crown Prince underwent an exciting experience while paying a visit to the Alsatian front. A Berne telegram says that on his ...
Article : 75 wordsThe members of the French Cabinet visiting Italy, in order to secure greater co-ordination in the war between that nation and her Allies, received an enthusiastic welcome ...
Article : 174 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the famous war correspondent, who arrived in Sydney this evening by the steamship Niagara, has a very high opinion of ...
Article : 466 wordsSir,—In the excitement of last year's recruiting many references were made to farmers' sons not enlisting, as if they were under greater obligations than any other ...
Article : 347 wordsHerr Meyer, the editor of "Worwarts," the leading German Socialist newspaper, has been prosecuted for having incited class hatred by publishing a pamphlet entitled, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Victorian Agent-General (Sir Peter McBride)[?] in reply to an inquiry from Mr. J. G. Jenkins (ex-Agent-General for South Australia) states that a person residing in ...
Article : 223 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe, the "Daily Chronicle" correspondent in the Near East, who is now at Athens, telegraphs to say that the Greek Premier (M. Skouloudis), on ...
Article : 473 wordsProfessor Masaryk, a former member of the Austrian Reichsrath (Parliament), who was exiled at the beginning of the war, and is now in Paris, emphasises the necessity ...
Article : 188 wordsSir,—Having read of recruits waiting from two to three hours to pass the doctor, I will relate my experience. Noticing a crowd at the Town Hall, Melbourne, waiting to ...
Article : 97 wordsA scheme for the repatriation of returned soldiers has been drafted by Mr. Rodgers, M.H.R. In explanation of the scheme, Mr. Rodgers said yesterday:— ...
Article : 908 wordsAs a result of the circular sent out to employers by the soldiers' employment committee of the State War Council, about 600 copies of which have been distributed, ...
Article : 353 wordsIt is slated in Swiss newspapers that massacres of the few remaining Armenians in Asia Minor have recommenced. Men and boy's are being shot, while the ...
Article : 48 wordsA Vienna communiqué reports increased activity in Eastern Galicia, and particularly fierce fighting north-west of Tarnopol. Fuller reports reaching Petrograd ...
Article : 475 wordsWARRAGUL, Friday. — At the meeting of the shire council to-day the question of compulsory military service was the subject of an animated discussion. Several ...
Article : 292 wordsIn the raid by Taube aeroplanes at Ramsgate on Wednesday afternoon, one of the enemy machines made a target of a tramway car full of women and children, but ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Imperial Industries' Club on Thursday entertained at luncheon the Commonwealth High Commissioner (Mr. Fisher). The secretary to the Commonwealth in ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), in replying to a deputation, refused to reconsider the decision to close the London Museums. He agreed, however, to keep open ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The State Attorney-General (Mr. Hall) announced to-day that he had ordered the embargo on the export of pollard to be removed, supplies now ...
Article : 60 wordsQueen Mary, Princess Mary, Princess Victoria, and Prince Albert on Thursday paid a surprise visit to the Australian Army Depot, at Horse Ferry road ...
Article : 50 wordsA Christmas billy sent to the front by Mrs. Allen Robertson, of Brunswick street, Fitzroy, reached Corporal R. H. Tanner, ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is reported from Bucharest that the explosion at the Austrian arsenal at Skoda occurred in December, and was caused by a 20in. howitzer, which was being tested. The ...
Article : 61 wordsOn learning of the destruction by fire of the Houses of Parliament at Ottawa, the President of the Senate (Senator Givans) and the Speaker of the House of ...
Article : 102 wordsException has been taken by returned soldiers of the action of military officers, in ordering them to remove from their [?]nies the medallions issued by the ...
Article : 115 wordsExplanation as to the cause of a recent delay in the delivery of letters from soldiers on active serivce was yesterday offered by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce). ...
Article : 58 wordsThe sub-committee appointed by the municipal conference on fish supply and distribution met yesterday at the Melbourne Town Hall, and decided that the ...
Article : 119 wordsTo those who sent gifts in money and kind for Christmas gifts for the navy, the following letter, received by Chaplain Hudson, of the Naval Depot, Williamstown, will ...
Article : 224 wordsA French wireless report states that the Russians in Persia are continually pushing back mixed bands of Kurds and Turks under German officers. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Baptist Handbook" shows a decline in the membership of the denomination of 3,176, partly owing to the war. Many Anglican training colleges have been closed ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,—There has been in existence for some time in America what is called the "Big Brother" movement. It has made considerable progress, having active branches in ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Sir David Hennessy) and Mr. Henry Meeks have been appointed to represent the Patriotic General Committee on the State War Council. ...
Article : 33 wordsEvidence was given in the Folkestone Court on Thursday, which showed that cocaine had been sold in a camp of Canadians in England. Forty men in one camp were ...
Article : 52 wordsIn addition to the agencies of the State savings bank that have for some time been established at the Broadmeadows and Seymour military camps, the commissioners have decided to open on Monday ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 12 Feb 1916, Page 17
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