On his return yesterday from the Premiers' Conference the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) said that on Friday representatives of some of the States would confer with him ...
Article : 1,382 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported to the War Office on Tuesday night:— "After heavy artillery preparation the enemy attacked on a mile front ...
Article : 655 wordsAs one measure of reform in the methods of price fixing which are being reviewed by the Assistant Minister (Mr. Massy Grene), it has been proposed that a ...
Article : 1,211 wordsThe Lausanne (Switzerland) "Gazette" says that the Allies have replied to the Genova Red Cross communication in reference to the disuse of poision-gas, pointing ...
Article : 108 wordsMajor General F. B. Maurice, formerly Director of Military Operations at thw War Office, who was placed on retired pay last week for his breach ot the King's ...
Article : 1,051 wordsSerious trouble has arisen at Smichow, a suburb of Prague (capital of Bohemia). Several hundred women on Sunday made a demonstration outside the house of the ...
Article : 538 wordsRecruiting continues to improve, as the returns from the several States for the first two days of the present week, show. The returns for Monday were:—New South ...
Article : 1,710 wordsIn a speech in London on Tuesday in reference to the Irish question, Mr. Austen Chamberlain (a member of the War Cabinet) said that we were going to face a ...
Article : 366 wordsA Russian official message from Petrograd states:— "The Foreign Commissary has sent a message to the German Government directing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,889 wordsThe strOng agitation continues in the United Kingdom against the Government's proposal to increase the rates for season tickets on the railways, in order to lessen ...
Article : 44 wordsPermission is now given to mention that the late Commander Alfred E. Godsal commanded the Vindictive when she took port in the second raid on Ostend. ...
Article : 270 wordsThere is still room in Victoria for a considerable extension of repatriation work by local committees, acting under the direction of the Minister for Repatriation. It ...
Article : 814 wordsThe Liquor Control Board reports steady and continuous progress in the control of the liquor trade for the better prosecution of the war. ...
Article : 186 wordsA drastic regulation under the Defence of the Realm Act empowers the Board of Trade to requisition horses and horse-drawn vehicles for road transport of any goods, ...
Article : 52 wordsLord Newton, on behalf of the Government, announced in the House of Lords on Tuesday that France and Germany have agreed to an equal exchange of military and ...
Article : 254 wordsThe proceedings at the "Bonnet Rouge" treason treial in Paris had been tame up to Tuesday, when the court suddenly became crowded'on the circulation of the report ...
Article : 186 wordsA medical congress which will meet in Chicago in the middle of June will deal to a large extent with interesting problems in medicine and surgen arising out of the war. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Government has taken further steps to prevent men of military ago going to Ireland. This has been a public scandal for a long time. ...
Article : 33 wordsSpeaking at the first meeting in London of the Australian war pictures selection committee, Sir Luke Fildes, R.A., praised the scheme of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. James Gordon Bennett, the millionaire proprietor of the "New York Hearald," died at Nice (France) on Tuesday, four days after his 77th birthday. ...
Article : 332 wordsAn impressive speech was delievered by the Acting Prime Minister at a recruiting rally held at the St. Kidla Town Hall last evening. Mr. Watt emphasised the gravity of ...
Article : 498 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" on Wednesday:— "THE KING'S CERTIFICATE." ...
Article : 345 wordsDunish trawlers report that an extensive German minefield is blocking the approaches to the Cattegat (an arm of the sea between the cast coast of Jutland and ...
Article : 63 wordsThe American Labour Delegation, which has been visiting the destroyed regions in Northern france, on its return to London, passed a resolution declaring that it would ...
Article : 101 wordsIt was revealed during the Budget debate in the Housee of Commons on Tuesday that Great Britain has already paid 23.3 per cent, of her total war costs to date. ...
Article : 37 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—In the police court to-day Oscur Styman, who claimed to be a Norwegian, was charged with having been found yesterday unlawfully on a ...
Article : 191 wordsLord Stimfordham (private secretary to the King) has written to the Lord Mayor of London, saying:— "Their Majenties the King and Queen are ...
Article : 100 wordsAt a crowded meeting of dog-owners held in the Cannon Street Hotel, in London on Tuesday, a resolution was passed condemning any Government interference with dogs, ...
Article : 55 wordsAbout a month ago Holdenson and Nielson Proprietary Limited, wholesale produce merchants, of Flinders street, city, consigned two boxes of butter by rail to ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Walter Long) has introduced in the House of Commons a bill to improve the existing organisation for affording ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 16 May 1918, Page 5
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