The murder of Field-Marshal von Eichhorn has created consternation in official circles in Germany, and has focussed public attention in Great Britain and France ...
Article : 453 wordsA cable message telling of the great need for reinforcements for the A.I.F. was received by the Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon) yesterday from Mr. ...
Article : 720 wordsWithin a few weeks of the assassination at Moscow of Count von Mirbach, the German Ambassador to Russia, comes news of the murder of the Kaiser's chief representative ...
Article : 851 wordsEarl Beauchamp, a former Governor of New South Wales and a member of the Asquith Cabinet when war broke out, presided on Wednesday at a meeting at the ...
Article : 1,555 wordsThe British Air Ministry reported on Wednesday night:— "In addition to the attacks reported on July 20, we bombed a railway station at ...
Article : 244 wordsThe price-fixing fiasco was the subject of caustic comment throughout the city yesterday. Right through the meat trade confusion prevailed, and even violent partisans ...
Article : 1,607 wordsWith the exception of isolated counterattacks by the Germans between Soissons and Rheims and enemy artillery firing on the whole front between Montdidier and ...
Article : 644 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — A definite warning against extreme pacifism was uttered by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) at an enthusiastic ...
Article : 436 wordsThe Canadian Prime Minister (Sir R. L. Borden), in a speech at the Savoy Hotel in London on Wednesday, emphasised the importance of the Imperial War ...
Article : 328 wordsThe British War Office has purchased, through the South Australian trade commissioner, the whole of the South Australian Produce department's output of ...
Article : 48 words"Fate has always been against me," said Joseph Smith, a prisoner of the Crown, in the course of his appeal to the Full Court yesterday against a sentence of 12 ...
Article : 369 wordsThe following Italian naval official bulletin was issued at Rome on Wednesday:— "On the Upper Adriatic our air service early in the morning of Tuesday bombarded ...
Article : 76 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting, under the auspices of the Liberty League, was held in the Carlton Hall, Princes street, Carlton, on Thursday evening. ...
Article : 360 wordsAn Italian official communique, issued in Rome on Wednesday, says:—"We completely repulsed a strong attack against Monte Cornone (Asiago sector)." ...
Article : 23 wordsA club for overseas officer cadets has been opened at Cambridge Gate, Regent's Park, London[?] catering for the many hundreds of Dominion youths now training in ...
Article : 140 wordsAn oil tank steamer has arrived at an American Atlantic port after an exciting five hours' fight with a U-boat. The encounter took place 600 miles off the coast. ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is officially announced at Washington that the loans to the Allies by the United States amount to £1,298,400,000. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe United Press Association of America correspondent in France, in an optimistic review of the situation on the West front says:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 930 wordsKALGOORLIE (W.A.), Thursday.— About three weeks ago five men employed at the Great Western railway depot, Parkeston, loading and unloading trucks, were ...
Article : 160 wordsAn Austrian official bulletin, dealing with the operations in [?] Albania, says:—"The enemy, under continuous pressure, has evacuated the front lines at many points." ...
Article : 27 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—A comparison of the Treasury department reports with the newly issued British financial statement shows that the American war ...
Article : 143 wordsThere was a large audience at the municipal concert given in the Town Hall last night. Madame-Minnie Waugh gave a convincing reading of Charpentier's "Depuis le ...
Article : 205 wordsMr. J. [?]. Ma[?]pherson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office) announced in the House of Commons on Wednesday that His Majesty the King has ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Luxury Tax Committee proposes a tax of 3/4 in the £1 on all purchases of thoroughbreds and racehorses over the value of £150. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsPresident Wilson has signed the resolution of Congress revoking the charter granted by Congress in 1900 to the National German-American Alliance of the United ...
Article : 43 wordsNews from a Pacific port of America states that the Japanese liner Canada Maru (5,760 tons) went ashore on a reef in a dense fog. ...
Article : 57 wordsRailway gangers employed in country districts feel aggrieved at the action of the classification board in fixing their rate of pay at 10/6 to 11/ a day, while men engaged in doing similar work ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Duke of Connaught announced at a gathering at the London Mansion House on Wednesday that His Majesty the King intended to hand the silver wedding gift of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday. — Mr. James Hall's boot factory, in Nolan street, Ballarat North, was the scene of a destructive fire this morning, and as a result of it 40 ...
Article : 128 wordsThe British Press Bureau announces that the food controllers of Great Britain, France, Italy, and America have been appointed a permanent committee to study ...
Article : 40 wordsA curious point connected with the administration of an estate was the subject of a judgment of the State Full Court, delivered yesterday on appeal from an order of the Chief Justice on an ...
Article : 493 wordsA verdict of accidental death was returned by the city coroner (Dr. Cole) yesterday in the case of Lyle James Henry Phillips, 2 years of age, of 40 Dryburg street, West Melbourne, who, while ...
Article : 197 wordsThe monthly meeting of delegates from the branches of the Lady Mayoress's Patriotic League was held yesterday at the Town Hall. Lady Hennessy (vice-president) was in the chair. The ...
Article : 208 wordsTOWNSVILLE (Q.), Thursday. — Following an incident which occurred at 2 o'clock last Saturday morning in a shop at Home Hill, forming part of a building ...
Article : 68 wordsSir,—The statements made by some [?] your correspondents as to the late arrival of public servants and their freedom from overtime are true in only a few cases. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 2 Aug 1918, Page 5
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