A review of the enlistment figures since the beginning of the year shows how rapidly the movement has declined. In January Melbourne alone supplied 3,567 applicants ...
Article : 204 wordsThe first net of war between Austria and Italy was committed on Monday, when Australian artillery shelled Italian outposts on the Ad[?]ge River, which flows through the Tyrol into northern Italy, emptying into the Adriatic close to the Po. It is 250 miles long and is 650ft. ...
Article : 378 wordsGerman and Austrian newspapers (states an Amsterdam report) hysterically accuse Italy of having attacked Austria in the belief that that country was ...
Article : 40 wordsA sensation has been caused by the announcement of the acceptance of the resignation of Baron von Burian, Austro-Hungarian Minister of the Imperial and Royal ...
Article : 302 wordsAthens advices are that the Turks have been largely reinforced with men and guns, and that more than 200,000 are now opposing the Allies in the Dardanclles The ...
Article : 193 wordsIt was expected in London on Tuesday that the constitution of the National British Cabinet would be announced that night. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fisher has ...
Article : 300 wordsThere is reason to hope that the Austro-German pressure in Galicia has expended itself. The Kaiser has received doleful reports from his generals. The French troops are greatly encouraged to further ...
Article : 104 wordsAccording to Home advices German and Turkish officers have gone to Tripoli and Cyrenaica with the object of raining an insurrection. They took with them money ...
Article : 34 wordsTwo Taube aeroplanes flow over the northern part of Paris and dropped 50 bombs. ...
Article : 18 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Helen Munro Ferguson visited the camp of the 1st Royall Australian Naval Bridging Train at the Domain yesterday ...
Article : 356 wordsDetails of the Austrian attack on Ancona, the Italian port on the Adriatic, show that 10 torpedo-boats and destroyers bombarded the town for 40 minutes. ...
Article : 48 wordsDr. E. J. Dillon, the "Daily Telegraph" correspondent, now in Rome, declares that Italy's decision, coupled with the consolidation of the Russian forces in the ...
Article : 282 wordsWounded soldiers who have returned to Cairo from the Gallipoli Peninsula state that the Turks were less prepared to meet the Australians and New Zealanders, who ...
Article : 243 wordsThe most important news in the cable messages this morning is from the eastern front where the Russians have assumed the offensive against the German line in ...
Article : 1,105 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—The following cable message, dated May 24, 11 p.m., and stated to have come from a private source, is published by the "Daily News" to-day:— ...
Article : 436 wordsBetter news than has come for the past few days is contained in the Petrograd communique issued at midnight on Monday. It reads as follows:— ...
Article : 380 wordsSuccess continues to attend the efforts of the Allies lo reach Lille, and expel the Germans from the strongly fortified position that they have occupied there for months. ...
Article : 311 wordsA service "in memoriam" to the late Major-General Bridges will be held in St. Paul's Cathedral this afternoon, at a quarter to 5 o'clock. Their ...
Article : 188 wordsSir,—The destruction of the Dante monument at Trent has in it an historical significance which makes it more than a mere act of vandalism by the Australians. ...
Article : 345 wordsLieut.[?]General Coun[?] L. Cadorna (chief of the general staff) has gone to the front. It is believed that he will command the Italian armies in the field, with ...
Article : 180 wordsBaron Sonnino, the Italian Foreign Minister, in a circular Note to the Powers, says that Austria-Hungary violated the letter and spirit of the Triple Alliance, especially ...
Article : 324 wordsWriting from France a British officer describes in a letter the battle of Richebourg, in which the British, between May 9 and 17, forced a gap in the German lines, and made ...
Article : 357 wordsReturning Australian and New Zealand soldiers from Egypt, numbering in all 411, and including six officers, nearly all of whom are described as "medically unfit," ...
Article : 267 wordsField Marshal Sir John French reports:— "Our guns on May 24 silenced three German batteries, one being destroyed by direct hits, and the ammunition blown up. The ...
Article : 97 wordsA message from Woolf's News Agency, in Germany, which has been received in Bas[?]c (Switzerland), states that Germany has declared war against Italy. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 140 wordsDespite appeals by the North-East Coast of England Armaments Committee, many men at the Tyne shipyards and engineering works were absent on the Whit Monday ...
Article : 131 wordsA Petrograd message gives further details at Teutonic excesses. Having failed to secure the swift victory that they calculated on in Galicia, the ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is noted that for some time past the German Crown Prince's movements with the army have not been reported by any official agency. ...
Article : 76 wordsInflammatory pamphlets are being circulated in Sweden urging the Swedes to secure Finland's independence by making a military attack on Russia at the present ...
Article : 85 wordsIt appeals that the death of Anthony F. Wilding, the famous lawn tennis player, was particularly sad and painful. A petty officer writes that a "Jack ...
Article : 86 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Ever since it was announced that each State would have to provide accommodation for its own wounded, there has been considerable ...
Article : 176 wordsThe official intimation is made that the American Ambassador in London (Mr. W. H. Page) has communicated to the British Foreign Office an announcement by the ...
Article : 121 wordsExtraordinary details of the fighting at Careny, north of Arras, are leaking out in Paris. This engagement, like that in which the British took part at Rich[?]bourg, was ...
Article : 166 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday, 1 a.m.—For the past hour a large force of firemen has been engaged in a very stre[?]ous fight with a great fire in the city. There fire has ...
Article : 213 wordsIt was reported last that Sir Edgar Speyer, a native of Germany, had offered to resign the Privy Councillorship to which he was appointed by Kingl Edward VII. in ...
Article : 96 wordsLieutenant John Neville Bigge, only son of Lord Stamfordham, private secretary to His Majesty King George, was killed while fighting with the King's Royal Rifle Corps ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Hamburg-Amerika (German) Company's steamer Macedonia, 4,347 tons, which was interned at the Spanish port of Las Palmas, Canary islands, slipped out of port ...
Article : 103 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Premier (Mr. Holman) to-day received a number of offers to accommodate would soldiers from private citizens. In a couple of cases the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsIt is stated in messages from Paris that a Taube aeroplane dropped bombs on the northern suburbs of Paris, inflicting only slight damage. ...
Article : 27 wordsA few formal Empire Day celebrations were held in England on Monday, the majority being at schools. Many leaders of the movement are engaged in other national ...
Article : 70 wordsA message from Athens at midnight on Monday stated that King Constantine, who is suffering from pleurisy, was improving, the crisis having been passed ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 26 May 1915, Page 9
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