Metropolitan shops will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Now Year's Eve and New Year's Day. The only late shopping night in addition to ...
Article : 238 wordsSome time ago the Cheif Commissioner of Police circularised the country Police that troop horses were urgently required in the Force and instructing them to look ...
Article : 169 wordsIn the House of Commons, Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that since the Admiralty Controller was appointed in June the ...
Article : 547 words"Our first port of call after leaving Port Melbourne was Durban. As the troopship entered the outer harbor the "boy" beheld a young lady standing on the extreme end ...
Article : 1,156 wordsLondon, Thursday, 10.35 p.m.—An Austrian official message says:—"We took prisoner in the four days' fighting in the Meletta region 639 officers and ...
Article : 319 wordsThe German Press is full of hints and open threats of an impending decisive blow preparing on the West front. "The Cologne Gazette" says: "The events in ...
Article : 193 wordsGeneral Sir William Birdwood, who commanded the A.I.F. in France, stated on 28th October that the five divisions in France were 18,000 short, that there ware only ...
Article : 2,586 wordsMen previously rejected for military service previous to October, 1916, are requested to again present themselves for another medical examination, as men are required ...
Article : 116 wordsThe work of discharging the Moorabool, which has arrived with a full cargo of coal from Newcastle, will be commenced this morning. ...
Article : 57 wordsAustralian Steamships, Ltd., notify that the s.s. Edina will depart from Geelong for Portarling on and Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. this day arriving in Melbourne about 6.15 ...
Article : 162 wordsCol. Repington states there are now 150 German divisions in the West and 79 in the East. The latter have been denuded of all fighters between 19 and ...
Article : 194 wordsMrs. J. H. Lister entertained a few friends at afternoon tea at Plym House yesterday afternoon, to meet her father and mother, Rev. J. M. Bayley ...
Article : 297 wordsMany people are disappointed that the Coogee will not be making daily trips during the holidays, and the question is often asked why arrangements are not made for ...
Article : 131 wordsIt is estimated that 150,000 AustroGerman troops have been lost since the beginning of their offensive. Nevertheless, the enemy is renewing his ...
Article : 232 wordsReports from Zurich state that the determination of the Allies, as voiced by Mr. H. H Asquith, President Wilson and others, is increasingly ...
Article : 566 wordsIn Messrs. Bull and Owen's window the new honor board of the Geelong Naval Brigade may be seen. Of Gothic design, the board measures some 4ft. by 3ft., and ...
Article : 101 wordsSix months' interest (£1,800,000) is due to-day on the first four Commonwealth War Loans, and the Commonwealth Government appeals to the ...
Article : 54 wordsReuter learns from well-informed quarters that the Government knows with certainty the German minimum submarine losses, also their maximum ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Western District Motor Garage, which for the past 4½ years has been conducted by Mr. G. B. Hope, has been sold to Messrs. W. Bull and Co. For some time ...
Article : 105 wordsAs a result of a beer bottle bursting as he was working at Hodges' Brewery yes-terday, John Gibbs sustained a deep gash on his arm, which necessitated three ...
Article : 59 wordsIn a cable message to the State Department, the American Consul at Vladivostok reports rioting, but denies that there are any Japanese troops ...
Article : 75 wordsTwo fines of 10/-. one of 15/-, and one of 20/- were imposed on bicycle riders, for breaches of the regulation yesterday. Alfred Tadgell pleaded guilty to travelling in ...
Article : 149 wordsFive children from the Protestant Orphanage were yesterday placed in homes for the Xmas holidays. There are still several not provided for. No donations of ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Chief Rabbi has sent a letter to the King on behalf of the Jewish community of the Empire congratulating him upon the historic victory of the ...
Article : 120 wordsLondon, Friday.—Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam says that the German official explanation regarding Mr. Balfour's speech in the House of ...
Article : 129 wordsVisitors to the Orphanage this afternoon reminded that the opening of the handball and tennis courts takes place punctually at three o'clock. The Christian ...
Article : 93 wordsMiss Ivy Mawson and Miss Lorna Collier have passed the Practical Examination for the Diploma of Licentiate in Music of Trinity College, London. Both ladies were ...
Article : 334 wordsExtracts from a letter from Mr. A. H. Gordon, A.M.I.E.E., who was general manager for an engineering firm in Buenos Ayres, and gave all up to fight ...
Article : 382 wordsWhich has been put in play form by Miss Beatrice Irvine, an old Geelong Girls' Grammarian, will be given to-night by the boarders in the large schoolroom at the ...
Article : 68 wordsWhile the French public generally are delighted by the action taken in regard to M Caillaux the feeling expressed in the Press and Parliament is ...
Article : 188 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. J. King (Liberal) drew attention to the renewed discussion in Holland concerning the possible intentions of the Allies ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the last will and testament of the German Governor-General of Belgium, von Bissing: "Keep Belgium as a conquered province for the sake of the next war. ...
Article : 95 wordsOn the occasion of a recent recruiting demonstration in Brisbane there were three cars in the procession which attracted particular attention. The first bore the ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Duchess of Norfolk has given Norfolk House as a club for the wives and relations of overseas officers. The club will be opened on the 20th ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. Harold Ashton, the "Daily Mail's" correspondent at headquarters, says that Bavarians retained 500 yards after an extraordinary struggle, in ...
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Advertising : 113 wordsImports into Victoria from overseas for November, 1917, were £2,206,378. As compared with those for the corresponding month of 1916 they show a ...
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Advertising : 51 wordsThe Anglican Sunday school, established for six months is meeting with very satisfactory support. The adherents are now trying to raise funds to procure an organ. ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Sat 15 Dec 1917, Page 3
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