A patriotic meeting was held this evening in the Sea Lake Hall. Cr. Gregson. J.P., was voted to the chair. It was decided to form a fund to be called "The ...
Article : 75 wordsAn Amsterdam telegram states that the German exchequer is seizing all balances standing to the credit of Japanese in German banks. ...
Article : 25 wordsAdvices from Peking indicate that Tsing Tan is reported to be able to stand an eight months' siege. ...
Article : 34 wordsSome gratifying additions to the patriotic funds were made to-day. Daring the morning the Mayor of Collingwood handed to the Lord Mayor £355 contributed by ...
Article : 118 wordsA contingent of St. Paul's Church workers is busily engaged collecting donations of money for material, and making the latter into regulation garments for the soldiers. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe annual Dairy Show, which is fixed to take place at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, London, will be held as usual despite the war. Numerous entries ...
Article : 37 wordsAs references are being constantly made in the messages to the "army corps" of the different armies, it may be as well to give the numbers in the army corps of different ...
Article : 552 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) is preparing a letter for the Lord Mayors and Lord Provests urging then to call great meetings emphasising the nightecusness of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe second Japanese squadron reports that there are now no German ships outside Kiao-Chau. ...
Article : 24 wordsLieut-Col. T. S. Marshall, Chief Officer of Country Fire Brigade's will deliver an address on the war at the Bendigo Fire Station this evening at 8 o'clock. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following are extracts from Mr. Stead's "War Book":— The only country in the world which could be quickly starved by the cutting off ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Japanese Embassy at Washington has issued an official denial of the report that Japan intends to send a fleet to the Adriatic Sea in consequence of Austria's ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is reported that the King of Roumania is abdicating, owing to ill-health. If so, Roumania will probably join the Allies. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Lord Mayor stated this morning that half the proceeds of the Wattle Day campaign on Tuesday would be contributed to the Patriotic Fund, and the other half to ...
Article : 84 wordsThe ladies connected with the Golden-square patriotic depot meet from 3 to 5 o'clock every afternoon for the purpose of making up material for the oversea force, ...
Article : 106 wordsThe British Empire Industrial League suggests that the Dominions should help so capture the enemy's trade by removing or reducing during the war the tariff on ...
Article : 51 wordsCol. Hughes, Minister of Defence, has announeed that the Canadian Government would immediately begin the training of two additional army corps with the object ...
Article : 66 wordsThe appeal of the Lady Mayoress's Patriotic League for clothing and comforts for the troops, and of the Minister for Defence for 6000 additional kit bags, is meeting ...
Article : 115 wordsThe places at which shilling contributions Can be left every afternoon between 3 p.m. and 5 p m. are as follow:—Charing Cross (shop until recently ...
Article : 452 wordsAs several groups of workers have now in hand finished garments, it has been arranged that they may be sent to the Town Hall to be packed and forwarded ...
Article : 79 wordsA member of the crew of one of the vessels in the Australian navy has written a letter to a Bendigo relative, stating that the fleet had captured a German ...
Article : 84 words"The Soldier's Text" was the subject of the Rev. J. Worboys's sermon at the Hargreaves-street Baptist Church last night. The circumstances giving rise to this sermon ...
Article : 1,075 wordsThe Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund now totals £77,084/10/7½. The contributions include:—Citizens of Collingwood, £355; John Sanderson and Co., £250; City of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Lord Mayor's patriotic fund now totals £55,821, the Chamber of Commerce food fund £19696, the Red Cross fund £6957, the Belgian Relief Fund £8494, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsThree British warships have been sent to Mexican waters, says a message from Galveston (Texas), to protect British oil and cotton ships in the Gulf of Mexico, ...
Article : 50 wordsThis morning Mr. R. G. Casey and Mr. H. Byron Moore representing the Victoria Racing Club suggested to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Murray) a means of increasing ...
Article : 61 wordsMany thousands attended a public demonstration this afternoon to pass resolutions in favor of the Government beginning relief work, especially the Broken Hill to ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Hamburg-Amerika line's cargo steamer Graccia, 2799 tons has left New York for Europe. She will attempt to evade the British cruisers in the Atlantic ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is officially announced from Paris that the Germans are attacking the eastern frontier of the Belgian Congo. [The Belgian Congo has an area ...
Article : 120 wordsDescrters will be pardoned provided they rejoin the army before 4th October, says a cablegram received to-day by the Belgian Consul-General from the Belgian ...
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Advertising : 1,730 wordsDuring the night rain fell at the camp at Broadmadows, rendering the fields some what muddy. Some of the commanding officers, determined not to lose any time, ...
Article : 270 wordsThe patriotic fund now amounts to £5372. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe Launceston patriotic funds stand as follows:—Mayor's, £660; "Examiner's," £15[?]6. Total, £2196. ...
Article : 16 wordsRecrniting for the second army of 100,000 which is being organised by Earl Kitchener, is proceeding briskly. ...
Article : 27 wordsCastlemaine, 29th August. After the patriotic meeting held in the Town Hall last night, those members of the local branch of the A.N.A. who are to accompany the Australian Expeditionary ...
Article : 98 wordsAt a meeting of the Labor Party at the House of Commons to-day it was unanimously decided to support a proposal for joint co-operation of all political parties, ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Mayor (Cr. Andrew) has been success ful in his endeavors to secure the return of the Bendigo members of the Expeditionary Force to the city in order to say good-bye ...
Article : 182 wordsTelegrams received in Rome from Albania state that a committee of six citizens is now governing Skutari the population having refused to recognise Bevzi Bey, ...
Article : 42 wordsThe collections on behalf of the patriotic fund now amount to £179/14/. A patriotic service was held to-night in the Temperance Hall. There was a large ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Public Works department has been busy in putting out works in addition to the works already in hand. During the week just concluded tenders for £13,000 worth ...
Article : 91 wordsTwo men attacked and Severely injured a signalman at Hite[?] an important railway junction in Her[?]shire. After cutting wires they escaped on motor-cycles. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe local Pierrot Company, which has done so much for public institutions during the past 12 Months, gave an entertainment in the Town Hall last night in aid ...
Article : 65 wordsMessages received in Christiania state that Germany is endeavoring to capture the Norwegian pres. The newspapers in Norway are ...
Article : 68 wordsDonations are coming in freely towards the Kerang Patriotic Fund. The total now is £131/18/6. ...
Article : 23 wordsWe have received the following letter from Bendigo soldiers who are now in camp at Broadmeadows:—"Just a line to thank you on behalf of the Bendigo troops ...
Article : 265 wordsSpeaking in reference to the Imperial reservists, the Minister for Defence said to-night that the men were reservists of the British army, and were under an ...
Article : 159 wordsA well-attended patriotic meeting, convened by the Mayor (Cr. Gunn), was held in the Town Hall last night. Owing to continued [?]ll-bealth, the Mayor was ...
Article : 279 wordsPrime Albert second son of the King, who is a midshipman attached to H.M.S. Collingwood has been landed from the battleship owing to an attack of ...
Article : 43 wordsThree Bills recently passed by Parliament received the Royal assent: to-day. They were the Currency of Banknotes Bill, the Patents Bill, and the War Loan ...
Article : 34 wordsLarge crowds visited the camp to-day. Most of the troops have now received their outfit, and the camp presented a more military aspect than it did a week ago. The ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Press Bureau has repudiated press sllegations that it is unnecessarily suppressing news. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. Cook) made the following statement to-night:—The struggle in which we are involved, together with the rest of the Empire, promises to ...
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Advertising : 69 wordsThere is a prospect of a shipment of Siberian butter being despatched to England from Archangel, on the White Sea. British warships have guaranteed the ...
Article : 46 wordsA very fine display of the work of the Y.W.C. Association's Patriotic league is on view in View-street, two doors from the Association rooms. The work of the league ...
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Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), Mon 31 Aug 1914, Page 8
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