"After bitter fighting," said a Berlin communique on Tuesday afternoon, "we captured the Predeal Pass (S.S.W. of Brasso), taking 60 prisoners. We have broken down ...
Article : 1,101 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" telegraphs that the French "Minister (M. Guillemin), after an audience with King Constantine, lasting for an hour ...
Article : 251 wordsIn reply to allegations of German support of his candidature for the Presidency, Mr. C. E. Hughes, the Republican candidate, on Monday made the most outspoken ...
Article : 241 wordsIt is announced in a despatch from Christiania that five German submarines have established a regular blockade of the Norwegian south coast. They sank seven more ...
Article : 554 wordsThe London "Daily Graphic" publishes the following summary of the situation on General Brusiloff's front from its Petrograd correspondent:— ...
Article : 341 wordsA French victory on the Verdun front was announced in Paris shortly before midnight on Tuesday. The official bulletin read:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 594 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday. — In many places in the country, as well as in the city, the anti-conscriptionists are determined not to hear the other side, and not ...
Article : 1,789 wordsThe British War Office announced on Tuesday afternoon:—"On the Doiran front we raided trenches north-east of Macukovo. The enemy resisted, and ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Paymaster-General (Lord Newton) announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday that arrangements had been completed between Germany and Great Britain ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) has issued the following appeal to the farmers of Australia:— "Amongst all the nations involved in the ...
Article : 701 wordsLloyds report that the s.s. Midland (4,247 tons), which left Melbourne on August 8 (calling at Las Palmas for orders) with a cargo of wheat, has been sunk at ...
Article : 174 wordsThe President of the Local Government Board (Mr. Walter Long) speaking at a meeting held at the Mansion House (London) on Tuesday to consider means of ...
Article : 379 wordsColonel Campbell, commanding the Coldstream Guards, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry in a recent charge. ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the House of Commons on Tuesday a number of members complained that the War Office had called up the attested men who reached 41 years of ago before June ...
Article : 100 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman) said that the rates for the carriage of refrigerated ...
Article : 51 wordsWith a view to economising coal and light, the Home Office has ordered that all shops shall close at 8 o'clock on Friday evenings, 9 o'clock on Saturday evenings, and 7 ...
Article : 60 wordsThree hundred thousand Lancashire weavers, of whom 75 per cent. are women, are about to receive an advance of 5 per cent. in their wages. This is additional to ...
Article : 52 wordsThe British Admiralty announced on Tuesday that a British naval aeroplane attacked four enemy seaplanes off Ostend on Monday afternoon. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe accompanying map affords a good idea of Roumania's position to-day. On her Western Moldavian and Northern Wallachian fronts she is being attacked by von Falkenhuyn's Germano-Austro-Hungarian armies, the enemy's object being to penetrate the passes of the Transylvanian Alps leading to the rail-heads. He has met with most success south of Brasso, having crossed the Predeal Pass into Roumanian territory. But, according to latest reports, he is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 251 wordsThe Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Munitions (Dr. Addison), in the House of Commons on Tuesday, paid a tribute to the patriotism of the great munitions firms, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe official opening of the Melbourne, Brunswick, and Coburg tramways will take place on Tuesday at Queensberry street terminus, at 3 p.m., and the whole system will thereafter be put into operation. ...
Article : 415 wordsThe Dardanelles Commission has concluded the portion of its investigations dealing with the inception of the enterprise. It is now examining witnesses in relation ...
Article : 70 words"General" Booth, of the Salvation Army, is making an appeal for the sending from Great Britain to the overseas dominions after the war of 200,000 emigrants. ...
Article : 88 wordsBritish Headquarters reported Tuesday: —"We have taken 80 prisoners southward of the Ancre. Heavy mutual shelling took place on Tuesday southwards of ...
Article : 546 wordsMore than 4,000,000 boys and girls in Great Britain have subscribed in a month £15,000 to the fund in memory of Jack Cornwell, V.C., the boy, hero of the Jutland battle. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" of Wednesday:— ARMENIAN OPERATIONS. ...
Article : 101 wordsPrivate Alfred J. Fitzgerald, fourth son of Mr. John Fitzgerald, of Moonee Ponds, has been wounded for the second time in France. His brother, Corporal G. Thomas Fitzgerald, has been ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 26 Oct 1916, Page 7
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