The Acting Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Adamson) believes that farmers have no cause for complaint concerning the guarantee of 3/ a [?]ushel by the Commonwealth ...
Article : 715 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson (Labour representative in the British War Cabinet), alluding to the speech delivered by him at Manchester on Friday, said that apparently he had ...
Article : 481 wordsGreat activity is being shown throughout the Henty electorate in the present recruiting campaign, and there are now 28 district committees at work. Last night a ...
Article : 1,240 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer describes the response to the "Victory" War Loan as an amazing financial effort. Money is still coming in, but ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Allied legations at Athens have lssued a statement in which it is explained that the continuance of the blockade of Greek ports is due to the incomplete ...
Article : 237 wordsA new time-table has been prepared for the Win-the-War Day procession on Saturday, providing for an earlier start, so that more time will be allowed for the recruiting ...
Article : 1,707 wordsAccording to information which has reached Rome from Switzerland, Germany has lost 115 submarines up to February 15 and Austria 13, or 128 in all. The losses ...
Article : 1,512 words"The new money subscribed-to the War Loan, without direct contributions of the bania, amounts to at least £700,000,000," said the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Bonar Law), in answering questions by Mr. Asquith, formerly Prime Minister, in the House of Commons on Monday, said that ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Petit Parisien" has had an interview with Lord Milner, a member of the British War Cabinet, who is now on a special mission ...
Article : 99 wordsExtracts from the regulations for the establishment of the Australian Army Reserve have been published and distributed by the Defence department. It is provided ...
Article : 772 wordsColonel Croft (Unionist) asked whether enemy sugar would be prevented from coming into unfair competition with the homegrown product when the war was over. ...
Article : 54 wordsReporting at midnight on Monday, Sir Douglas Haig said:— "We carried out a successful raid to the south of Souchez, blew up a mine shaft, and ...
Article : 190 wordsMr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., contriburtes a striking impression of Mr. Lloyd George to the "Journal," He made the Premier's acqunintance within a few days of his first ...
Article : 989 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Mr. J. Hodge), in a speech at Nottingham on Monday night, urged all who were capable of helping to join the Voluntary National Service, ...
Article : 65 wordsA well-attended public meeting was held last evening, in the Assembly Hall, Collins street, for the purpose of awakening fresh interest in the cause of the people of ...
Article : 300 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday Mr. J. H. Thomas, the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railways Servants, criticised the Government for allowing the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Paris newspaper, "Le Temps," states that, according to reliable narratives from Serbia, 40,000 people have been torn from their homes there and sent to ...
Article : 118 wordsThe interim report of the Committee of Inquity into the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign will be published in a fewdays. The report will include a minority ...
Article : 66 wordsAlbert Sander and Charles Wunnenberg have been arrested in New York on a charge of having conspired to employ agents to obtain military information, maps, and ...
Article : 144 wordsIn connection with the camp of annual continuous training A.M.E., at Broadmendows from February 27 to March 13 inclusive, for the 5th and 7th Light Horse ...
Article : 147 wordsThe death is announced of Major-General Frederick Funston, of the United States army, at the age of 51. [Major-General Funston was born in ...
Article : 248 wordsAir. Arthur Lynch, Nationalist member for West Clare, asked whether accredited representatives of Ireland would be allowed to attend any international peace conference ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The trouble in the Waverley Council, which led to certain aldermen being lined, and resigning from the council, after court proceedings ...
Article : 168 wordsReports from Athens state that there has been great British artillery and aerial activity at Salonika. On Saturday the Allies captured 100 prisoners and one ...
Article : 33 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The question of women entering upon clerical work in competition with men is dealt with by Mr. P. E. Coleman, general secretary of the ...
Article : 170 wordsThat the Government did not admit any liability for the munitions explosion in the east of London, by which nearly 100 people were Killed and about 500 injured, but was ...
Article : 63 wordsAn official despatch from Mesopotamia says:—"We occupied two front lines, one 350 yards and the other 540 yards in length, at Sannaiyat (near Kut-el-Amara). Two ...
Article : 81 wordsDr. Oswald, of the Glasgow Asylum, states, in a report, that the worries and strain of the war have not led to an increase of insanity, as was feared, This is ...
Article : 61 wordsItaly will again adopt the daylight saving system for the coming summer. The act will come into operation on March 25. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe second quarterly report in connection with the Northcote cable tramway, since it has been under municipal management, came before the Northcote Council meeting on Monday evening. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Hamburg newspapers give some idea of the death-roll in the recent munitions explosion near the town, for they describe the funeral of 105 young women who were ...
Article : 48 wordsA man named John Bailey was placed on trial in the Criminal Court yesterday on a charge of having committed an offence against a girl between 8 and 10 years of age. Mr. Wo[?]nar[?]ki ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Criminal Law Amendment Bill introduced by the Home Secretary (Sir George Cave), which provide a further punishment for sexual offences, and also aims at the ...
Article : 57 wordsMessages from Amsterdam state that the German newspapers announce that there is an epidemic of small-pox in Berlin, Hamburg, Magdeburg, and Essen. The epidemic ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 21 Feb 1917, Page 9
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