On Saturday we published the portraits of the Waterston brothers, who, to the number of five, have enlisted. It was inadvertently stated that Seegeant A. D. ...
Article : 130 wordsYou ask me, O women, across the sea, What I would do if war came to me? What I would say to the one I love, What I would pray for to heaven above? ...
Article : 256 wordsAt the Bendigo Town Hall recruiting room yesterday 13 presented themselves for examination, and 10 passed. Two were rejected and one was deferred. The ...
Article : 94 wordsGeneral Monro's despatch regarding the evacuation of Gallipoli states that he found the position of the troops unique in history. They possessod every possible ...
Article : 386 wordsA stirring account has been published of the rescue of the crew of the British steamer Tara (6322 tons), which was sunk by a submarine in the Mediterranean last ...
Article : 311 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent in Paris states that it is now believed that the German offensive at Verdun, after 30 days, has finished, and that only desultory ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the opening of the Eight Hours sports yesterday Mr. Jensen, Minister for the Navy, in referring to the navy and the part that the British navy had played ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 wordsThat, the enemy still contemplates an attack on Salonika is exemplified in a message received in London from Athens on Sunday. ...
Article : 52 wordsMinor French successes in the Verdun region are reported in a communique from Paris. This reads:—"We have made progress in trenches south of Douanmout ...
Article : 188 wordsIn answer to cards sent out by the recruiting committee of the Shire of Huntly, a number of men of all ages attended the Agricultural Hall on Saturday night. Each ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Greek Minister of Finance (M. Dragoumis) has resigned his portfolio, despite the entreaties of his colleagues. His action is said to be due to the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe British Admiralty denies as "a sheer invention" the story of a Dutch mercantile skipper, published in a Dutch newspaper, that he saw captured German submarines ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Federal Government by proclamation to-day fixed the charges which may be made in Melbourne and adjacent suburbs for bread booked or delivered or both. The ...
Article : 601 wordsThe P. and O. liner Simla, and the Glasgow steamer Chantala were both sunk without warning. It has been ascertained that the 11 Lascar ...
Article : 73 wordsLieutenant-General Smuts has discovered official documents providing for a settled policy for the suppression of Mahometanism in German East Africa. Recommendations ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. James Cumming, of Flora Hill, has seven sons on active service. Private Richard Cumming was killed in action at Galli poli. Private James Cumming has been ...
Article : 111 wordsThe local branch of the Red Cross Society packed and forwarded a hamper to each of the Nyah recruits who had left without having had a presentation. Each ...
Article : 762 wordsMr. Pemberton Billing, M.P., formerly of the British air service, speaking at Sunderland on Saturday, stated that within two years aeroplanes would be capable of ...
Article : 141 wordsSome of the conditions described in the report of the Government committee which has inquired into the outbreak of typhus among British prisoners in the Wittenburg ...
Article : 374 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports:—"A Fokkcr aeroplane came down in our lines at Saturday. The occupant was prisonered. We hold a considerable portion of the ground ...
Article : 47 wordsThe soldiers in the Bendigo camp were granted a holiday yesterday for the Eight Hours sports. Training will be resumed to-day. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. A. Staples, of Ironbark, who enlisted in the mining section of engineers some six weeks ago, has been promoted to the rank of corporal. ...
Article : 27 wordsCorporal A. H. Swift, whose photo, appears on page 2, was a well-known resident of Golden-square until about four years ago, when he went to Melbourne. ...
Article : 402 wordsPtes. Clark and Dick were admitted to the Bendigo Hospital yesterday suffering from minor illnesses, and Cpl. Paul and Pres. Bickerton and F. Hayes were ...
Article : 33 wordsAn official statement gives the information that the German military casualties sustained since the outbreak of war in A[?]ust, 1914, now total 2,700,000. This number ...
Article : 42 wordsTenders are elsewhere invited by the Defence department for the supply of groceries to all camps and hospitals in Victoria, and bread for the Ballarat, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Daily Mail" says that the methods of Lieutenant Immelmann, Germany's hero of the air, are scientific. He mounts sometimes 13,000ft. over his ...
Article : 134 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" in a semi-official announcement complains of the Allies'folly in not wishing to consider Hollweg's peace terms seriously. The "Gazette" adds:— ...
Article : 75 wordsMiss Dorothy Oates, A.L.C.M., White Hills, Bendigo, has received the following letter from a corporal in B Coy., 22nd Batt., 6th Infantry Brigade, A.I.F.:—"Dear ...
Article : 387 wordsA German communique alleges that four naval aeroplanes dropped 20 bombs on the Russian aerodrome on Ossel Island, which is situated across the entrance to the Gulf of ...
Article : 40 wordsMessages from Amsterdam give details of further heated seenes in the German Reichstag. Herr Liehkneecht (Socialist) declared that ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) spent a quiet Sunday. He was tired after his outing to Folkestone on Saturday, but his condition is ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Liberal Parliamentary party to-night elected Mr. Lee as leader. The Labor Ministry intends to resign on Thursday, when Mr. Lee will be sent for. ...
Article : 38 wordsRemarkable scenes were witnessed in Trafalgar Square, London, on Sunday, afternoon. An earlier announcement had notified ...
Article : 190 wordsIn a letter to Mr. G. Mackay, Miss Nancy A. Byrne, formerly of "Gannawarra," View Hill, Bendigo, but now of 69 Madeley road, Ealing, London, a ...
Article : 313 wordsSir,—Would you kindly allow me space in your widely-circulated and valuable paper to correct a few errors that have crept into your correspondent's report of ...
Article : 238 wordsA successful euchre and [?] the "Queen of Music" (Miss Vera O'Donnell) was held in St. Kilian's Hall last night. A large number participated in ...
Article : 132 wordsAn official communique states:—"A violent artillery duel is 14 progress opposite Postava, south of Dvinsk. The enemy attempted to attack but was driven back." ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas (organising secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants) addressed a meeting of railway men on Sunday. ...
Article : 184 wordsA [?] states:—"Our destroyer, Strogyi, nammed and sank an enemy submarine in the Black Sea, near where the Russian hospital ship Portugal was recently ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. G. Gunnell presided over a large number of Sailors' Gully residents on Saturday night, when a meeting was held to further the interests of the "Borough ...
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