"The Argus" Office, Saturday, 2.30 a.m. ...
Article : 4 wordsThe Secretary of State for War (Lord Kitchener) has returned to London after having spent three days at the western front. He expresses himself as being more ...
Article : 808 wordsFighting of the severest nature, in which both sides lost heavily, has occurred on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Fresh British reinforcements were landed ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Germans are making the weight of their blows felt in Northern Poland at a terrific sacrifice of men. It is estimated that their losses in this regard cannot be less than 80,000 a week. The object of the enemy appears to be to advance as far as possible before the autumn rains ...
Article : 221 wordsTlis Excellency the Governor-General, accompanied by Lady Doris Blackwood and Miss Mandeville, and attended by Captain Fane, A.D.C., was present at the Belgian ...
Article : 149 wordsWithout warning and despite the fact that she was engaged regularly in the Atlantic passenger trade, the White Star liner Arabic (15,801 tons), the day after ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 482 wordsIt it announced that the Germans have captured the Russian fortress of Novo Georgievsk (north-west of Warsaw), taking 20,000 prisoners. ...
Article : 193 wordsIn view of Sir George, Reid's early retirement from the office of High Commissioner, an interesting fact may be mentioned. A resident of New South Wales, who is an ...
Article : 562 wordsIt is stated in a message from S[?]a, the Bulgarian capital, that the Kaiser has sent a telegram to King Constantine of Greece, in which he urges Greece not to make ...
Article : 71 wordsTelegrams from Innsbruck (Austria) which have reached Geneva (Switzerland) state that the capture of Kovno cost the Germans several army corps. They lost ...
Article : 384 wordsReuter's correspondent, in a review of the past four months on Gallipoli says:— "The period has been one of hard experience ever since the Australians and New ...
Article : 336 wordsAs a counterblast to the recent publication in Germany of manifestoes urging the innovation of Belgium, 82 politicians and intellectuals including Dr. Dernburg (who ...
Article : 225 wordsA German communique-admits a French success between Angres and Souchez, in Northern France, and also "temporary successes" at Lingekopf (Vosges). ...
Article : 117 wordsLieut.-General Ivan Fitcheff has resigned the office of Minister of War in the Bulgarian Cabinet, with a view to resuming the position of Chief of the General Staff, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Pope, in welcoming M. Regout, the Dutch Minister to the Vatican, expressed the hope that the appointment of a representative for the Netherlands, after an ...
Article : 105 wordsItalian officers state that the enthusiasm of the Italian soldiers is unbounded. They go into battle as if to a fete. Fighting with the bayonet is their ...
Article : 145 wordsSir George Pragnell, chairman of the National Patriotic Association, has expressed himself as being dissatisfied with many business men, who, he says, by failing ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Sofia correspondent of "The Times" says that the antagonism between the German and Turkish officers is increasing. The Germans receive full pay monthly, while ...
Article : 260 wordsGeneral Botha (Prime Minister of South Africa) and General Smuts (Minister for Defence) received an ovati[?]n on attending the South African Party Congress at ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Union Trustee Company of Australia Limited and Mr. William McKenzie are applying for probate of the will of John McKenzie, late of Yarram Yarram, retired farmer. Testator died on ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the disaster has created a sensation there, and that drastic action by the United States is ...
Article : 146 wordsThe following reports from the army headquarters have been published:— Petrograd, Thursday, Midnight. Our warships protecting the Riga Gulf drew ...
Article : 434 wordsThe following official bulletins have been issued in connection with the operations on the Italo Australian front:— Rome. ...
Article : 141 wordsOn June 4 we published a precis of the correspondence between members of the Panama Commission and Mr. Mahon, Minister for External Affairs, detailing the ...
Article : 308 wordsOn the afternoon of May 7, the German submarine pirates committed the most in-famous outrage of which they have been guilty by torpedoing and sinking the famous ...
Article : 400 wordsThe "North German Gazette" (semi-official) denies that the Governor of German South-West Africa ever negotiated with the Boer rebel leader Maritz in an ...
Article : 113 wordsWomen shopping in London are constantly finding that emporiums cannot match colours. It is predicted that the city will soon be ...
Article : 52 wordsThe British steamer Dunsley (4,930 tons), which was torpedoed by a German submarine in the vicinity of the Arabic, was still afloat at latest advices. ...
Article : 87 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—Confirmation of his fears regarding his son[?] Lieutenant Merz, was received to-day by Mr. G. Merz from the Defence department. A few days ago, ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Reginald McKenna) on thursday conferred with the High Commissioners and Agents-General of Australia, Canada, and South ...
Article : 245 wordsCommander Norman Holbrook, who was awarded the first naval Victoria Cross, has been wounded. [When in charge of the British ...
Article : 78 wordsThe British Embassy at Washington has announced that cotton is to be declared contraband of war. The date upon which this will become ...
Article : 94 wordsIn connection with the reported seizure by a German submarine of mails which were being carried by the Norwegian steamer Haakon (1,640 tons) from ...
Article : 113 wordsSince the early closing of hotels there has been, according to city shopkeepers, a greater consumption of "soft" drinks. No harmful results, however, need by feared, ...
Article : 231 wordsThe residents of Perak, one of the Federated Malay States, have presented two aeroplanes to the British Army Council. Altogether the States have now ...
Article : 41 wordsThe death has occurred at Rome of Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli, Bishop of Ostia, Porto, and S. Rufina, and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. He was 81 ...
Article : 42 wordsUp to the present time 535 establishments in Great Britain which have been used for the manufacture of munitions have been brought under Government ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 21 Aug 1915, Page 19
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