Great Russian successes on two portions of the East front are reported from Petrograd. The meagre announcement yet to hand ...
Article : 128 wordsNotifications of 36 cases of meningitis reached the Board of Health during the week ended Sunday last; 28 being amongst the civil population and eight amongst ...
Article : 88 wordsLarge fleets of Dutch fishing craft did good work in life-saving. H.M.S. Lion was where the fight was hottest, though at one time such a volume of fire was ...
Article : 249 wordsIt is freely stated that the enemy's loss was not less than 22 ships. It is officially stated in Germany that Wilhelmshaven will be closed to visitors ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is freely stated that the enemy's losses in the great naval battle fought off the coast of Jutland on Wednesday last were not less than 22 ships. The British Navy League, after considering all the information available, states in unqualified terms ...
Article : 325 wordsFive deaths from cerebro-spinal meningitis were reported from the Alfred Hospital to-day. Of these, one death, that of a civilian, ...
Article : 50 wordsA Paris communique states that the enemy's repeated efforts to gain ground on the slopes of the Erimin Wood have been completely checked. ...
Article : 205 wordsThe "So[?]tsman" publishes a graphic narrative of the part played by the Grand Fleet. It is told by an eye-witness of the battle, who was on board one ...
Article : 682 wordsMr J. Sternberg, M.L.C., to-day called on the State Commandant, Gen Williams, and informed him that a strong feeling existed in Bendigo that the ...
Article : 138 wordsNew York reports state that the concensus of newspaper opinion is that the German Navy is still a navy in gaol, which assaults it [?]ailer now and then, ...
Article : 74 wordsIn addition to the other ships already mentioned, German official statements are claiming that a submarine sank a British destroyer off the Humber River, and that ...
Article : 73 wordsA naval officer who was a participant in the great fight has reached Edinburgh. He has related a thrilling narrative disclosing the great share borne ...
Article : 750 wordsThe decision of the Defence authorities to transfer the soldiers in the Bendigo Camp to another locality was carried into effect to-day when 1350 men ...
Article : 332 wordsAn official report from Paris states that German at [?]anes dropped bombs on the French fortress of Toul, killing 6 and injuring 10 men. A French ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is reported from the Hague that the German Conservatives and National Liberals are unitedly and determinedly striving to secure the recall of Grand Admiral ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Australian Prime Minister (Mr Hughes) and the High Commissioner (Mr Fisher) have visited the West front and inspected the A[?]zaes ...
Article : 71 wordsThe destroyer Spitfire (1000 tons) performed a thrilling piece of work in torpedoing and blowing up a big battleship in the pitch darkness. ...
Article : 52 wordsParis reports that Mr Hughes, in the course of an interview, said that he had been profoundly impressed by his visit. The spectacle of France in this great ...
Article : 108 words[?] line of battle was the Lion first, [?] the Princess Royal, Queen Mary, [?] New Zealand, and Indefatigable. [?] the brunt of the fighting ...
Article : 727 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that wounded sailors arriving at Shields report that the Germans on Wednesday night used searchlights with which to ...
Article : 62 wordsA soldier from the Bendigo Military Camp was admitted to the Bendigo Hospital to-day suffering from cerebro-spinal meningitis. A lad who was undergoing ...
Article : 57 wordsA communique issue in Rome shows that though several Austrian attacks in the Lagarina Valley and elsewhere have been repulsed, the Italians in the ...
Article : 54 wordsForty naval men who were killed in the recent battle were buried at an East Coast town yesterday. The scene was most impressive. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn view of the outbreak of meningitis, the city clerk has telegraphed to Brig-Gen R. E. Williams, State Commandant, as follows:— ...
Article : 97 wordsthe Petrograd Council of the Empire has adopted a resolution sympathising with King George and the British people in their painful losses, and expressing ...
Article : 25 wordsIt is understood in Dublin that Mr Lloyd-George (Minister of Munitions), who is acting as mediator in the Irish situation, has drafted a Home Rule ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Danish newspaper "Ribe Stifts-Tidende" states that British warships were seen off Fane Island on Thursday morning, chasing the German ...
Article : 162 wordsTo-day Mr Jensen, Minister for the Navy, announced that he has received in formation that the Dreadnought cruiser H.M.A.S. Australia was not in the battle ...
Article : 77 wordsMessages from Pekin indicate that the financial muddle in China is worse. So serious is the position that holders of Government banknotes are selling their ...
Article : 37 wordsMr James Reed, a well-known farmer of the Glenloth district, died on Sunday from cerebro-spinal meningitis. The deceased is supposed to have contracted the ...
Article : 53 wordsMr Jensen (Minister for the Navy) ha received a cable message reporting, with regret, that two sub-lieutenants of the Royal Australian Navy, Goorge M. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Gorman spy, Ignatius Tribich Lincoln, a former member of the House of Commons, who has been extradited to England from America to answer a charge ...
Article : 394 wordsIt was announced by the Defence Department to-day that the training of adult units in the citizen Forces will be resumed on 1st July. This training was ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Kaiser has telegraphed to the commander of the German High Seas Fleet (Admiral von Soh[?]r) as follows:—"Sincerest congratulations on your ...
Article : 79 wordsThe crew of the armored cruiser Warrior, which was abandoned by her clew, and which afterwards sank, have arrived at Chatham (on the Medway). They ...
Article : 327 wordsCharles Walker, of Fremantle, has received advice from the British Admiralty that his son, Robert, was lost in the destroyer Shark in the naval action on ...
Article : 193 wordsThe London correspondent of the "Chicago News" states that the British fleet smashed the German battle formation completely. Although the British ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Minister for Defence, S[?]ator Pearce, has received a donation of £62/9/6 from the citizens of Williamstown towards the provision of a travelling kitchen for ...
Article : 43 wordsMany affecting scenes are occurring at the British Admiralty, where there in a constant stream of enquiries after the members of the crews of the lost ships. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Greek Government an Athens message states, has protested against Gen Sarrail's proclamation of martial law at Salonika as a grave infringement of ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Premier of Queensland (Mr Ryan). in a speech which he made at Harefleld Hospital on Sunday, referred to the naval fight. He paid a tribute to the British ...
Article : 82 wordsSir Hartmann Just, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Colonial Office since 1907, has retired. He has completed 37 years of work at the Colonial Office, at ...
Article : 82 wordsThe crew of the Super-Dreadnought Marlborough narrate that at one time six Zeppelins were flying over the [?]eet. Their reco[?]itring greatly helped the ...
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The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1896; 1914 - 1918), Wed 7 Jun 1916, Page 3
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