It is officially announced that the Victoria Cross has been bestowed to Captain Percy Herbert Cherry (killed in action), of the 26th Infantry Battalion, "for bravery and ...
Article : 440 wordsA British communique from Salenika says:— "After several days of artillery fire, we on Tuesday night attacked the trenches ...
Article : 540 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the American United Press says that he has received from the German Foreign Office the following statement of the German view of ...
Article : 594 wordsThe Lord President ot the Council (Lord Curzon), speaking in the House of Lords on Thursday, reminded members that the Admiralty had the first call on British ...
Article : 867 wordsAdditional returns received yesterday from 53 of the Federal electorates made no change in the state of the parties in the House of Representatives. In one or two ...
Article : 2,573 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Sun" telegraphed on Thursday:— "Some circles regard the Russian situation as the most critical since ...
Article : 297 wordsA secret session of the House of Commons was held on Thursday. The Press Bureau has issued the following account of the proceedings:— ...
Article : 311 words"The fighting at Bullecourt on Wednesday was severe and continuous." reported Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig to the British War Office on Wednesday ...
Article : 734 wordsThe way in which New Zealand raises her men for the front, her methods of safeguarding their interests while they are away, and what is done for them when they ...
Article : 658 wordsPETROGRAD, Thursday.—"There has been intense enemy artillery fie in the Lake Miatiziol and Smorgon regions (Vilna seetor). ...
Article : 101 wordsSpeaking in New York on Thurrday, the French Vice-President and Minister for Justice (M. Viviani) declared that France would not make peace until Alsace-Lorraine ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Australian Red Cros report for April shows that the society handled 6,579 inward parcels and 8,268 outward pareels. Arrangements were made to pack ...
Article : 103 wordsAn interesting proposition as to the right of an organisation registered in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court under the Arbitration Acts to carry on a trading ...
Article : 421 wordsM. Venizelos (the leader of the Salonika Nationalist Government) has disapproved of M. Zaimis accepting the Premiership of Greece, considering it undesirable to ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that a conference of representatives of fifty trade unions connected with engineering and shipbuilding met at the Ministry of Munitions, Mr. ...
Article : 290 wordsDuring a discussion in the Reichstag on the colonial vote, Herr Noske, an Official Socialist member, said: "Peace without annexation implies the restitution of our ...
Article : 66 wordsAt a meeting of the Association of Racehorse Owners, Breeders, and Trainers it was contended that the British Government had not adequately considered the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe British Admiralty has issued the following report:— "A scouting force of light cr[?]sers and destroyers from Harwich, under ...
Article : 285 wordsThe American Secretary of State (Mr. Lansing) has announced that in the event of any German peace proposals the United States would probably act only in concert ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Ministry of Munitions in Great Britain has fixed the maximum price of copra (the dried pulp of the cocoannt, which is used in oil-making) at £46 a ton ex ship ...
Article : 39 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" of Friday:— ANTI-SUBMARINE DEVICES. ...
Article : 443 wordsAt the Bow Street Police Court on Thursday the hearing of the Whitehall recruiting charges was opened. Dr. Bishop and Dr. Sinclair, medical ...
Article : 110 wordsThe by-election for the Southern Division of Longford (Ireland), which was formerly represented in the House of Commons by Mr. John Philips (Nationalist), was held ...
Article : 266 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—Large contracts for the supply of jams and sauce for the use of the troops have been secured by the Bendigo Jam Factory, whose "Digger" brand ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Minister for War (Lord Derby), speaking at South Kensington on Thursday, said:— "It would be underestimating the number ...
Article : 113 wordsThe third conference of the Allies' Parliamentary Commercial Committees will open in Rome next week. It is expected thal all the Allies will be represented except ...
Article : 139 wordsFurther evidence was heard on Thursday in the King's Bench Division in the case in which John Gruban is suing Mr. F. Handel Booth, M.P., for damages. ...
Article : 210 wordsThere has been sent to the German Imperial chancellor (Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg) a telegram on behalf of the whole of the Berlin press, stating that owing to the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Stockholm newspapers unanimously welcome the Premiers and Foreign Ministers of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, who are meeting at the Swedish Royal ...
Article : 48 wordsThe leading Hamburg merchants have discussed the improvement of the canal systems in order to restore Hamburg's lost trade. ...
Article : 83 wordsSince February the bishops in Great Britain have released 5,666 members of the clergy. The majority of these volunteered their services as chaplains, but 2,012 have ...
Article : 37 wordsHerr Hein, leader of the agrarians in the Bavarian Chamber, in a speech made at Neustadt, said that 70 per cent. of the male population of 2,837 Bavarian villages ...
Article : 82 wordsThe German Wireless Press describes the report of an attempt on the Kaiser's life as "pure invention." ...
Article : 24 wordsThe general belief is that the bishops' manifesto condemning the partition of Ireland and the letter of Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, werre the final causes of the Sinn ...
Article : 103 wordsDuring this week 65 returned soldiers applied for employment at the State War Council, making a total of 272 men on the books. In the same period employment was ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 12 May 1917, Page 19
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