Two terrific explosions occurred in a munitions factory at Courneuve, near St. Denis (two miles outside the city wall of Paris), on Friday afternoon. ...
Article : 186 wordsZurich reports state that a new strike movement has begun in Austria. The workers on a number of railways struck, and the military authorities vainly ordered ...
Article : 416 wordsThe Victorians have scored honours in two neat little raids during the night in front of Messines. The larger was carried out by a party of 60 men armed with ...
Article : 1,226 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph News Agency states that the Soviet conference at Moscow ralifled the Russo-German peace treaty by 453 votes to 30. ...
Article : 1,726 wordsMr. John Dillon, the new leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, replying to congratulations from Inniskilling, said:— "My first step will be to tell England ...
Article : 322 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting aerial operations to the War Office on Saturday night, said:— "British aeroplanes on ...
Article : 717 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the special correspondent on the West front of the London "Daily Chronicle," describing the latest position, says:— ...
Article : 1,102 wordsAccording to a message from Amsterdam the Netherlands Government objects to the use of Dutch ships in dangerous European waters, but is prepared, if they are not to ...
Article : 601 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General is in receipt of a cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies intimating that His Majesty the King has been pleased ...
Article : 1,037 wordsThe National Union of Railway-men, whith represents 400,000 employees on British railways, is applying for an advance of 12½ per cent[?] in wages. ...
Article : 125 wordsSydney's Lord Mayor (Alderman Joynton Smith) has set his city the task of raising half the new War Loan of £40,000,000, and he believes that the feat will be ...
Article : 588 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Tribune" says that advices have been received by an Allied Embassy to the effect that representatives of Austria, ...
Article : 72 words"Happy" Sullivan the New Zealand sculler who has just been released from the civilian prisoners camp at Ruhleben (Germany) where he was interned on the ...
Article : 719 wordsIn his reply, which closed the debate in the House of Commons on mercantile shipbuilding, Mr. Bonar Law (Leader of the Government) said that the essence of the ...
Article : 226 wordsAustrian military critics state that Austria is concentrating troops on the Italian front for an offensive which is imminent and which will be co-ordinated with the ...
Article : 56 wordsDr. Solf, a member of the German Ministry, who still retains the title of Secretary of State for the Colonies, declared in a speech at Cologne that a lasting peace was ...
Article : 113 wordsCitizens are asked to unite to-day in prayer, for the Empire and the Commonwealth, and for the soldiers at the front. Prayer meetings will be conducted at the ...
Article : 46 wordsSir George Alexander, the well-known actor-manager, died in London on Friday, in his 60th year. [?]Sir George Alexander was born at Reading in ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Stockholm newspaper "Politiken' publishes a remarkable private and secret memorandum by Prince Lichnowsky (who was German Ambassador at London when ...
Article : 258 wordsSir,—How long are the loyal members of the community expected to endure the insults which every few days are heaped upon them and upon the Motherland by Dr. ...
Article : 370 wordsIt is estimated that 6,000,000 persons in Great Britain are being supplied with extra rations, which consist of bacon, poultry, and rabbits. These extra rations will not ...
Article : 158 wordsA number of drawings by William Blake have been purchased from the Linnell collection for the Melbourne Art Gallery. They include the "Creation of Eve," for ...
Article : 231 wordsHis Majesty the King on Saturday received Commander Worsley and Lieutenant Stenhouse, of the S[?]ckleton Anta[?]tic ex[?]dition, and conferred on them the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe packet steamer Rathmore (1,509 tons), with 640 passengers on board, came into collision with a naval vessel in the Irish Sea on Friday. ...
Article : 57 wordsInjuries which shortly afterward resulted in her death were sustained at Brunswick on Saturday night by Mrs. Bridget McMahon, owing to her being run over by a train. Mrs. McMahon, who ...
Article : 204 wordsA lucky escape was experience yesterday afternoon by a motoring party, consisting of Mrs. Stanley Green, of Stevenson street, Kew, and her children. Another car, owned by Mrs. McKean, ...
Article : 137 wordsThe discovery that horses and mules which are now arming in England and France from the Argentine are suffering from glanders leaves little doubt that ...
Article : 56 wordsJohn Miller, of Park street, South Melbourne, railway employee. Cuases of insolvency—Illness of wife and children and high cost of living. Liabilities, £40/14/; ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 18 Mar 1918, Page 5
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