Of the 106 applicants for enlistment yesterday, 75 were accepted and 31 were rejected. Melbourne supplied [?] volunteers and 47 recruits, while 37 volunteers and 28 ...
Article : 153 wordsWashington reports that the United States Ambassador (Mr. C. Penfield) at Vienna has been instructed to inform the Austro-Hungarian Government that the ...
Article : 284 wordsNothing could exceed the warmth of the welcome given by the people of Melbourne yesterday to the batch of wounded soldiers who returned on the hospital ship the ...
Article : 671 wordsMr. Lloyd George (Minister for Munitions) addressed the Trades Union Congress at Bristol on Thursday, and was accorded an ovation when he appeared on ...
Article : 907 wordsDescribing the German air-raid on England on Wednesday night, a Berlin communiqu[?], issued to Amsterdam on Thursday, says:— ...
Article : 112 wordsAthens learns from what is stated to be an authoritative source that the Sultan of Turkey has sent on urgent demand to the Kaiser for help, declaring that the Turks ...
Article : 369 wordsThe German Armies in Eastern Galicla, which have been attempting to break the Russian line and penetrate to South-Western Russia and Bessarabia, have been fo[?]ed again, this time at Trombov[?]a, on the Sereth River front. The official Petrograd reports describe the success ...
Article : 181 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The number of recruits accepted at the metropolitan depots to-day was 123, being the lowest for a day for a considerable time past. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 wordsThe Trade Union Congress, sitting at Bristol yesterday, carried the following resolution:— "In view of the importance of the ...
Article : 167 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—The quarantine of the Bendigo camp was again relaxed to-night, when 15 per cent[?] of the men were allowed leave to enjoy themselves in the city ...
Article : 66 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Friday.—Captain Brisbane has been appointed commandant of the local camp in succession to Major Davidson, who is to organise a new battery ...
Article : 113 wordsGermany's Note to America regarding the sinking of the s.s. Arabi[?] has been received at Washington. It contends that the liner changed her ...
Article : 87 wordsThe "Daily Graphic" demands reprisals for the Zeppelin raids "In England" it says "we are engaging in the war with kid gloves, while Germany ...
Article : 78 wordsRapidly following up their success at Tarnopol, in Eastern Galicia, the Russians stemming the Germnn advance towards South-West Russia have achieved another ...
Article : 708 wordsThe Argonne has been again the scene of a heavy attack by the Crown Prince's army. The communiqu[?]s published are as ...
Article : 259 wordsTireless work for the men in every camp in the State has been done by a band of women without appealing to the public for help. The ladies who constitute the ...
Article : 290 wordsAccording to the "Daily News," the Cabinet committee appointed to inquire into the expediency of introducing a quota system similar to that adopted in South ...
Article : 163 wordsAthens reports announce that the Greek Premier (M. Venezelos) has arranged a conference of the Premiers and military attaches of Serbia, Roumania, Bulgaria, ...
Article : 187 wordsThe destruction of a Zeppelin airship near Brussels is narrated by travellers reaching Amsterdam from Belgium. According to the reports, a Zeppelin on ...
Article : 96 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Mitylene correspondent in forwarding horrible details of the Turkish fixed policy of exterminating the Armenians, describes how the ...
Article : 231 wordsAbout 130 of the wounded soldiers who had reached the convalescent stage were taken to the Mont Park Military Home. When they arrived at the institution a ...
Article : 178 wordsOne of the chaplains attached to the A.[?].F. has supplied the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) with a report dealing with a visit he paid to a number of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—In connection with the manifesto urging the adoption of compulsory military service, winch is being published simultaneously in all the States ...
Article : 279 wordsIt was recently reported that the 8th (Victorian) and 10th (Western Australian) Light Horse Regiments had been practically wiped out in the fighting at Gallipoli early ...
Article : 295 wordsThe only public building in Melbourne upon which flags were not flying yesterday morning in honour of the return of the wounded soldiers was Federal Parliament ...
Article : 145 wordsThe German account of the British bombardment at Zeebrugge, which endeavoured to minimise the results of the bombardment, is contradicted by the ...
Article : 114 wordsSir,—In connection with the appeal made by the Lady Mayoress of Melbourne for Christmas gifts for soldiers, I desire to intimate that I have called a meeting of the ...
Article : 113 wordsArrival.—At London: Limerick, from Sydney June 30. Departures.—For Sydney: Westmeath, Iron. For Townsville: Anambs. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" on Friday:— BULGARIA AND TURKEY. ...
Article : 297 wordsSir,—My son has been missing at the Dardanelles since the commencement of hostilities, and I have not since received any further word excepting the original ...
Article : 93 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.— An application was made to Mr. Justice Ferguson in Chambers to-day for bail to be granted to Thomas Barker, who, it was stated, had been ...
Article : 91 wordsSir,—May I, though you, express my complete sympathy with the movement initiated by the Lady Mayoress of Melbourne to provide Christmas gifts to our ...
Article : 153 wordsThe S.S. Moana has arrived in San Francisco with large gold shipments intended for New York. Altogether about 8,000,000 dollars (£1,600,000) worth of gold have ...
Article : 99 wordsIn view of representations made to the Minister for education (Mr. Livingston) regarding the anticipated shortage in labour during the approaching harvest, it has been ...
Article : 372 wordsA meeting of the State Munitions Committee was held yesterday, and at the conclusion the chairman (Mr. Baillien, M.L.C.) said:— ...
Article : 228 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Speaking at a luncheon at the Commonwealth Club to day His Excellency the Governor-General said:—"I think we may congratulate our ...
Article : 238 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Gus Nolan Johan Hermann Leopold Burghurdt, a native of Germany for Having tampered with a naturalisation certificate contrary to the ...
Article : 275 wordsJewish soldiers who have returned from the front on Thursday took part in new year services at Aldgate (London), conducted by the Chief Rabbi (Dr. Hertz). ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsA Pretoria message states that 42 followers of the Boer rebel Kemp have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from nine months to three years. ...
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Advertising : 229 wordsMilitary orders for the Victorian district, dated September 3, contain news of the escape of n prisoner of war named Frank Werner von [?]ungardy whilst he ...
Article : 88 wordsTALLANGATTA, Friday.— In connection with the correction from the Defence authorities which appealed in "The Argus" yesterday, to the effect that an officer ...
Article : 144 wordsA number of returned soldiers are endeavouring to organise an Australians Soldiers' League, to protect the interests of the soldiers incapacitated, and generally ...
Article : 79 wordsIt was officially announced yesterday that an instruction has been issued to postmasters that approval has been given for newspapers addressed to the Australian ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 11 Sep 1915, Page 17
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