Enlistment has slackened considerably during the last few days, and the figures hive been lower than at my previous period since service abroad has been offering. On ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Paris communique that gave the result of the fighting at Bois d'Ailly, in the Woevro country, a position won by the French, afforded no idea of the desperate ...
Article : 586 wordsThe conference of the Coal Miners' Federation, which met to consider, the situation that arose through the attitude of certain sections of the miners, defeated the motion ...
Article : 104 wordsAn official intimation is made from Amsterdam that the British authorities have issued a notification that all shipping between Holland and the United Kingdom is ...
Article : 62 wordsCharges of having attempted to trade with the enemy were heard by Mr. Goldsmith, P.M., yesterday in the City Court. The first was against Theodore Zwicker, ...
Article : 916 wordsThe part played by artillery in modern warfare was exemplified in the battle of Bois d'Ailly. For hours the position was swept by a hurricane of steel and iron that was accompanied by a continnous ...
Article : 117 wordsSir,—I have read with admiration Mr. Adamtson's stirring speech to the boys of Wesley College and agree with him that while it is wise to encourage athletic games ...
Article : 130 wordsGeneral country leave of absence from camp has been granted to members of the Sixth Infantry Brigade in camp at Broadmeadows. It has been the ...
Article : 75 wordsAccordiiig to an official message form Berlin, British submarines are being observed repeitedly in the Heligoland Bight. The same message asserts that the ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,—I was pleased to read "Sport's" letter yesterday, announcing his intention to abstain from attending professional football matches, having previously come to a ...
Article : 129 wordsDrum-Sergeang John Rush, Drummer John J. Walshe, and Piper James P. Fogarty, three well known players of the Irish Pipe Band Melbourne, have ...
Article : 44 wordsAs the outcome of a meeting which the president of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman) has had with them, the coalowners have agreed to recommend the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe failure of the boasted German "blockade" by Germany of Great Britain is clearly shown by the following figures. For the week ending April 21 it is ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Defence department has been advised of the deaths of the following soldiers in Egypt:— Lance-Conporal ARCHA BANKS (Q.), 10th Army ...
Article : 76 wordsSir,—Surley there are men among those controlling professional football who think as Mr. Adamson does. I feel certain there are. I ask them to stand up and object to ...
Article : 225 wordsA twenty-four-day trip from Suex to Melbourne has brought back to Austrlaia 322 Commonwealth soldiers, who, for various reasons, have been released from their units ...
Article : 511 wordsThe Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. H. J. Tennant), speaking upon the Estimates in the House of Commons on Thursday, declared that the Secretary of ...
Article : 172 wordsIt is announced by a wireless message from Berlin that 20,000 British and French troops have been landed at Enos, a seaport on the AEgean coast of European Turkey. ...
Article : 172 wordsThe population of the Austrian seaport of Trieste, on the Adriatic, which is largely of Italian nationality, is becoming more disturbed. ...
Article : 201 wordsNew York Customs returns show that the imports into the United States from Germany during March last were worth £1,269,000, compared with £2,292,000 in ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,—Bravo, Mr. Adamson, may you long be spared to this community to be able to inculcate such splendid sentiments into growing youth. How we all wish a man of ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Paris "Petit Journal" publishes a stirling account of the brave dash into safely by the pilot and observer of a French aeroplane. ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) has announced that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd George) will introduce into the House of Commons on Wednesday ...
Article : 73 wordsSir,—In reply to "Soldier's Dad," I, wonder how the writer came to his conclusion that the young men in question may be doing their best in seeing their ...
Article : 98 wordsThe India Office states that the defeat by the British of the Turks at Shaiba, near the head of the Persian Gulf, was more complete than had been hoped. ...
Article : 89 wordsStill fighting hard to regain their lost ground in the Carpathians, the Austrians are meeting with no better result than the weakening of their own troops in costly ...
Article : 180 wordsIt is reported from Paris that French troops have carried two lines of German trenches, which formed an embarrassing salient, or advanced position, in the ...
Article : 257 wordsSir,—Mr. Chas. Tucker, writing under the heading of "Stay at Homes," says that "Soldier's Dad's" letter touches the only black spot on this war as far as Australia ...
Article : 182 wordsA loan of £2,250,000 is being floated in Loudon by the Government of Victoria, the rate of interest being 4½ per cent, per annum, and the price fixed is par. ...
Article : 118 words[?] the next case Ullathorne, Hartridge, [?] Company Limited, of Lonsdale street, [?] charged with having attempted to [?] with the enemy. Mr. Cohen ...
Article : 380 wordsA leding medical officer accompanying the Australian Expenditionary Force, in a letter to a Melbourne practitioner from Egypt, writes:— ...
Article : 238 wordsTwenty-four men of the Royal Field Artillery are known to have been drowned during the attack by a Turkish torpedoboat on the British tranport Manitou ...
Article : 285 wordsDuring question time in the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. Will Thorne, Labour member for the South Division of West Ham, suggested that Thomas ...
Article : 215 wordsSir,—Under present conditions shirkers cannot be shifted, but at the close of the war another aspect will open. Our boys who have gone to the front (only some of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 513 wordsSir,—I do not consider it right to abuse the young people of Australia in such a way as "Soldier's Dad" did. He gives no consideration to those poor fellows who would ...
Article : 150 wordsReplying to Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, in the House of Commons on Thursday, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Neil Primrose) stated that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday the Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade (Mr. Robertson) stated that German property in Great Britain was of the ...
Article : 45 wordsSir,—"Soldier's Dad" refers to a crowd of young fellow standing on the pier smoking and laughing while others went away to fight. Now, I happen to be one who ...
Article : 205 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—When the hearing [?] the charge against Francis H. Snow, of [?] attempted to trade with the enemy, [?] resumed in the Criminal Court, before ...
Article : 272 wordsSir Percy Girouard, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., has resigned his position on the board of Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., of Elswick, the great British ordance ...
Article : 125 wordsEnos is a Turkish seaport in Thrace, ona rocky isthmus near the mouth of the Mariza River, the course of which marks the new western houndary between Turkey-in-Europe and Bulgaria. It has a population of 8,000, and is a seat of some trade, although the barbour is choked with sand, and admits only small vessels. Enos is 15 miles from Bulgaria's AEgean port of Dedeagatch, and is 35 miles north-west of the peninsula of Gallipoli, the European side of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 114 wordsSir,—Would you please insert the following in the columns of your powerful organ. I would like to see a strong movement to protest against such an iniquity as ...
Article : 189 wordsIn their march northward through German South-West Africa, the British forces are meeting with success after success. An official message from Cape Town ...
Article : 95 wordsThe first forecast made by the statistical bureau attached to the Agricultural Department at Washington estimates the yield from the growing winter wheat crop of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 24 Apr 1915, Page 19
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