Once again the Western theatre is the scene of heavy fighting. In Northern France, the Allies have assumed a violent offensive. Despite the persistent claims of the Austrian and German ...
Article : 137 wordsThe recruiting room at the Victoria Barracks was again besieged yesterday by crowds of men, mostly young, and all eager to enlist. There were not quite so many ...
Article : 191 wordsAn important prosecution before the special commissioners, sitting under the recently passed Defence of India Act, is progressing at Lahore, against some 82 persons, ...
Article : 348 wordsThe inquest on one of the victims of the L[?]sitania disaster, which was opened at Queenstown (Ireland) on Saturday, was concluded on Monday. ...
Article : 203 wordsThe British Press Bureau has published a despatch from the British Minister at the Hague, enclosing a sworn declaration by Mr. J. Martin, the editor of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 401 wordsAt 3 o'clock on Monday morning a German Zeppelin airship flew over Essex, and dropped 80 bombs on a number of watering[?] places including Southend-On-Sea and ...
Article : 495 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at the Dardanelles reports that on May 7 the Allied ships penetrated Sari Siglar Bay, on the Asiatic side, below "The Narrows," and ...
Article : 174 wordsAt a meeting of the North Melbourne Citizens' Committee on Monday evening, Councillor Davidson presiding, it was decided to inqugurate a memorial fund for ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the course of a speech in London on Monday, the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Bonar Law) asked:— What did the sinking of the ...
Article : 117 wordsRome has been advised that there was a great panic at Constantinople when 15,000 wounded Turks arrived there after the first fighting with the Allies' troops on the ...
Article : 219 wordsThe St. Leonards Presbyterian Church, Brighton Beach, had initiated a movement to raise money for church purposes. On Monday evening, at the suggestion of Mrs. ...
Article : 172 wordsThe sinking of the Lusitania was the subject of several questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) gave a ...
Article : 191 wordsPresident Wilson has allowed it to be known that he does not intend to call a special session of Congress. This is held to show clearly that the United States intends ...
Article : 641 wordsFREMANTLE, Tuesday.—But for a timely warning from the British Admiralty, and the presence of mind of her commander, it is more than probable that the Orient ...
Article : 699 wordsThe Allies in the West are taking advantage of the German concentration against the Russians in Western Galicia to attack heavily in France. ...
Article : 371 wordsGreat importance attaches to the operations in Western Galicia, where the Germans are fighting hard to turn the flank of the Russians invading Hungary. ...
Article : 288 wordsSir,—Many of us, owing to the possession of too many years or two few teeth, are prevented from serving at the front. These prohibitions naturally make us all the more ...
Article : 214 wordsAn American missionary at Ur[?]miah, in Persian Armenia, in a letter written on April 8, describes an appalling condition of affairs as the result of Turkish excesses. ...
Article : 202 wordsMany exhibitions of angry feeling against Germans are being made in England. In Liverpool, owing to a continuance of anti-German rioting, the public-houses have ...
Article : 252 wordsSir,—When the Second Contingent left Australia out of six letters, exactly addressed and posted by the same mail, to catch the transport at Albany, one only ...
Article : 146 wordsA second White Paper has been published by the British Government, dealing with the treatment of prisoners. It contains reports of United States ...
Article : 77 wordsSir—Notwithstanding the long continued complaints regarding the non-delivery of letters to our soldiers at the front, there is, up to now, no improvement in the ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Germans hase again issued reports of pronounced successes in their operations in Galicia It is stated that General von Mackensen ...
Article : 66 wordsAt a meeting of the Red Cross Council, held at Federal Government House yester day, it was decided to send £5,000 to increase the previous grant of £10,000 for ...
Article : 49 wordsA memorial service for Canadians who have fallen at the front was held at St. Paul's Cathedral on Monday. The vast building was crowded, among ...
Article : 143 wordsA message from the Hague states that Germany has informed Holland that the Dutch steamer Katwyk (2,040 tons) bound from Baltimore (U.S.A.) to Rotterdam ...
Article : 192 words"Despite German counter-attacks," says a Paris communique, "we maintained yesterday's gains and enlarged them, notably between Carency and Souchez, north of ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Prime Minister yesterday despatched the following message to the Prime Minister of Canada in reply to the congratulatory message on the achievement of the ...
Article : 61 wordsAn Austrian communique received through Amsterdam asserts that the Russian Third Army, consisting of five corps and several Reserve divisions, have now lost 80,000 ...
Article : 59 wordsIn a message to the American people Dr. Dernburg, the Kaiser's financial agent in New York, declared that they will be safe only if they travel by American vessels not ...
Article : 142 wordsA German, Theodore Ahlzweig, was recently refused a noxious trades license by the Braybrook Shire Council, and at the last meeting Thomas Pridham made ...
Article : 84 wordsIn response to the Armaments Committee controlling the north-east coast of England (on which are many important manufacturing towns in Durham and Yorkshire), ...
Article : 44 wordsThe St. Kilda Council on Monday evening gave consideration to a communication from the Prahran Council, which asked for co-operation in opposing the one ratepayer ...
Article : 290 wordsThe Austrian account of the crossing of the Dunajetz River states that the AustroGerman forces forced a passage at Oftinov, where there are high banks on both sides. ...
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Article : 0 wordsThe following movements of Australasian shipping have been reported from London:— Arrivals.—At London—Tainui, s.s., from ...
Article : 79 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Macky, of Auckland, who are reported among the missing Lusitania victims, have friends in Sydney, where they spent a short ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Milan newspaper, "H Secolo," says:— "The torpedoing of the Lusitania happens at an opportune moment, because we (the Italians) are on the eve of entering on a ...
Article : 95 wordsIt is advised from Dunkirk that the Germans are preparing another offensive in the Ypres region, concentrating at Courtrai, Lille, and Ro[?]lers. Heavy infantry ...
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Article : 155 wordsThe German Foreign Office has sent a wireless message to the United States Government expressing deepest sympathy for the loss of Americans on the Lusitania, but ...
Article : 151 wordsQueen Mary on Monday visited the British Industries Fair, at the Royal Agricultural Hall (London), which has been organised by the Board of Trade as part ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 12 May 1915, Page 9
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