Lists of Victorian officers who had been awarded decorations for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty, and a description of their deeds, were published in ...
Article : 421 wordsGeneral Sir John Monash left the Australian Army Corps recently in order to take up his new duties in London as the head of the demobilisation scheme. The ...
Article : 616 wordsPolling for the British general elections began at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning. In London the weather was mild, but the streets were muddy; rain fell later in the ...
Article : 731 wordsBoth British and American troops have now crossed the Rhine. In a report sent on Friday night Sir Douglas Haig says:— "Our advanced troops crossed the Rhine ...
Article : 1,183 wordsFrench and Serbian troops have arrived at Vienna, and French detachments have entered Budapest. An American squadron has arrived at ...
Article : 90 wordsPresident Wilson landed from the George Washington at Brest on Friday. French and Italian cruisers and a destroyer flotilla met the Washington in the open ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,356 wordsA mass meeting held at Cape Town on Saturday agreed to a motion declaring that in the interests of humanity and peace and the safety of South Africa the German ...
Article : 427 wordsThe counsellor to the Department of State (Mr. Frank L. Polk) has made available for publication the text of the Note sent to Chile and Peru. The United ...
Article : 118 wordsParis messages state that General von Kluck said in a recent interview that the Germans had a colo[?] flag 400 yards square, which it was intended to hoist on ...
Article : 152 wordsAt the Camberwell Court on Friday, Peter Forbes, dairyman, of Canterbury, was charged with the theft of milk valued at 12/, the proper[?] of another dairyman, Samuel Morley, of Mont Albert ...
Article : 357 wordsJoseph Tribitch, the Hungarian who took the name of Lincoln when be became naturalised as a British subject, and was a member of the House of Commons for a ...
Article : 216 wordsSwitzerland has, on Germany's behalf, urged the United States to hasten the Peace Conference because of the fear of famine in Germany. ...
Article : 399 wordsAt the request of the inhabitants a French naval force has landed at Odessa to restore order and expel the 4,500 German troops there. The Germans, together with ...
Article : 177 wordsLLOYD.—Mrs. A. Lloyd has been notified that her second [?]dest son, Serg[?]ant G. R. P. Lloyd (7th Batt., late 22nd) has had his right arm amputated at shoulder (third time wounded). P[?] ...
Article : 357 wordsThe French Government has placed at the disposal of the American armies in France its higher educational system, including the universities. American officers ...
Article : 165 wordsIn view of the recent passage of German troops and material through the Dutch province of Limburg, Belgium is requesting Holland to grant facilities for sending war ...
Article : 161 wordsA valuable memento of the Gallipoli campaign has been presented by Mr. Justice Higgins to the Australian War Museum. It is a complete record in photographs of ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the activities of the anti-submarine home coast patrol during the last seven months of the war had included the sighting of 216 hostile ...
Article : 245 wordsIt is stated in Amsterdam that the Allies have sent separate Notes to Holland about the ex-Kaiser. The Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" anticipates ...
Article : 129 wordsThe undermentioned persons are requested to communicate with the officer in charge, Base Records, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, as early as possible:— ...
Article : 102 wordsA correspondent of the "Morning Post" relates that a British prisoner of war who reached Tournai, in Belgium, after the armistice had been signed, had the word ...
Article : 76 wordsAt the meeting of the Mulgrave Shire Council on Thursday night, it was resolved on the motion of Councillor G. S. Cotter, seconded by Counc[?] Garnett, that the free offer of a site for the shire ...
Article : 49 wordsAt Scots Church yesterday the Rev. W. Borland continued a series of sermons on Christian belief, taking at, his text the words of St. Matthem, chapter xi., ...
Article : 280 wordsPartly owing to the success of the entertainment given in the Wilson Recreation Hall on Friday night, the Brighton State school's contribution to the Flower Day Fund will now reach £[?]00. ...
Article : 81 wordsA sensational inquest took place in London on Thursday touching the death of "Billie" Carleton, the well-known beauty and leading lady of the Haymarket Theatre, ...
Article : 189 wordsIt appears that the Australian soldiers who refused to embark for Australia were aggrieved because they were not given leave in England before sailing. It is understood ...
Article : 171 wordsAbout 2 o'clock yesterday morning Constable P. C. Miles brought to the Williamstown Hospital in Dr. J. Jona's car a young man, who had been found in[?]sible by a railway porter on the ...
Article : 100 wordsAs the result of a conference in London between representatives of the Lancashire cotton spinners and the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) a basis for the ...
Article : 62 wordsAdmiral Charles J. Badger, a member of the United States General Naval Board, argued before the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives on Friday that ...
Article : 165 wordsJohn Dunlop, confectioner, Nicholson street, Fitzroy, was the victim of an assault at half-past 10 o'clock on Friday night. A man about 40 years of age entered the shop and made himself ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Under-Secretary for War (M. Deschamps) announced in the French Chamber of Deputies that the demobilisation of reservists would begin on Christmas Day. ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Criminal Court on Friday, before the Chief Justice, John Collier was presented on two charges of of[?]ces against his stepdaughter. The evidence for the Crown was that the offences ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Privy Council has dismissed the appeal in the case of Denham versus the Clan steamship line, with costs against the appellant. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe annual meeting was held on Friday at the [?] in the Block Ar[?] The Lady Mayoress [?] [?] presided, and moved the adoption of the annual report and balance-sheet. The ...
Article : 153 wordsGeneral Mannerheim, the leader of the Finnish White Guards, has been elected Administrator of Finland by the Finnish Diet, and will shortly visit London. ...
Article : 27 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Mr. Holman explained yesterday that the scheme for the care of Australian war graves in France by a committee under General Pau was ...
Article : 69 wordsAt an inquest at Lambeth on Friday the coroner warmly praised the brave conduct of Private Frank Cosgrove, an Australian soldier, who pluckily rescued a youth named ...
Article : 93 wordsA raid was made at about 8 o'clock on [?] evening by several of the licensing police, under Inspector Ryan, on a house in Little Lonsdale street west. Drunken persons were found lying ...
Article : 111 wordsBritish officers released from Germany who are now comfortably housed in Jutland (Denmark) include two Australian[?] —Captain A. Robertson, of the 21st ...
Article : 36 wordsA message from Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) reports that the Allan line steamer Corinthian (7,300 tons) has been stranded on Brier Island. ...
Article : 24 wordsSenator Fairbairn will entertain the returned Anzacs of Prahran and the Red Cross and patriotic workers of the district at a smoke concert in the City Hall, Prahran, this evening. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 16 Dec 1918, Page 7
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