Madame Sarah Bemhardt, the great French "tragedienne, is seriously ill, and the medical attendants report that her condition is most critical. ...
Article : 30 wordsDear Sir—The present state of war imperatively demands that the exercise of the full strength of the Empire and its Allies should ...
Article : 381 wordsA number of returned soldiers assembled at the Cheer-up Hut on Wednesday evening, when the first business meeting of the Returned Soldiers'. Association was ...
Article : 244 wordsA marriage took place under most unusual conditions at the Adelaide State Children's Department on Wednesday. The bride was Violet Alary Adelaide Paul ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the Exchange News Agency has reported that Russian warships, which escorted 16 transporte, have bombarded Varna, the chief ...
Article : 121 wordsThe House of Commons, after an all-night sitting, has approved of a vote to equip a further 1,000,000 men. The Government has hinted that it will shortly ask for extended powers in regard to raising military forces. German official lists aggregate more than 2,500,000 casualties to the end of ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Manchester Guardian states that the first landing at Gallipoli is now recognised as the supreme exploit of British infantry in the whole of its history. The London ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Russian communique says:—"Muscovite aviators in the northern sector have successfully bombed the rear approaches to the enemy's position in the Godutzychke ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Russian forces in Pensia have occupied the town of Kum, 80 miles south-west from Teheran, after having completely routed the enemy. Kum is a famous place ...
Article : 55 wordsA soldier, Michael Higgins, aged 33 years, a passenger by the Indarra from Western Australia to Sydney, was standing with other soldiers near the No. 3 hatch of ...
Article : 116 wordsReinforcements and munitions for the Quadruple Entente forces are being poured into Salonika in a continual stream; but experts declare that it will require several ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Hon. R. D. Denman (Liberal. Carlisle) asked, in view of the share of the overseas dominions in the war and the importance ...
Article : 152 wordsSTOCKPORT, December 22.—Mrs. Cuneen, an elderly lady, who was on a visit to her daughter (Mrs. Pilkington) got a small splinter in her finger, and ...
Article : 394 wordsMonday, December 27, will be a red-letter day, in the history of the Grange, as a patriotic carnival in aid of Red Cross funds has been fixed for that date. A large number of ...
Article : 272 wordsIn view of the Government announcement of the abandonment of Anzac and Suvla by the British forces, there is a spice of comedy in the latest wireless ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Athena representative of the London Exchange Telegraph Company says a sensation has been reported from the frontier. It is stated that fighting has ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Asquith, in moving a vote to equip a further 1,00,000 men, said already Great Britain had 1,500,000 British fighting men at ...
Article : 286 wordsThe serutiny in connection with the Greek elections has progressed sufficiently to show the practical position. The followers of M. Gounaris (who preceded M. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Finance Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Lords. The British steamers Belford and Huntley, have been sunk. The Huntley was ...
Article : 38 wordsWhen the Commonweahh Powers Transfer Bill was brought on for discussion in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Speaker (Sir Frank Madden) ruled ...
Article : 213 wordsA bright and happy gathering of children of those who have enlisted from Port Adelaide was held in the basement of the local town hall on Wednesday afternoon. It was arranged by the ...
Article : 319 wordsReferring to-day to the Remington Typewriter Company having been placed on the enemy list the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) stated that the action had been ...
Article : 180 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports that the enemy has made determined efforts to occupy mine craters opposite Armentieres, but that after stubborn ...
Article : 81 wordsA German wireless message says that the booty seized from the Allies at Ari Burnu was in immeasurable quantity. A thick fog enabled the British to escape. ...
Article : 32 wordsSir Edward Carson said the only criticism he had to offer on the vote was that it had come too late, and was not larse enough. It was a great public scandal ...
Article : 105 wordsA British submarine has sunk the German Levant liner Lerus (2,679 tons) and other craft in the Sea of Marmora ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Under-Secretary for War (Mr. Tennant) deplored the accusation made by Sir Edward Carson that the Government had been guilty of dilly-dallying. Sir Ian ...
Article : 125 wordsA traveller who has arrived in Denmark from Turkey reports that British airmen have destroyed Krupp's big new ammunition factory at Constantinople. ...
Article : 33 wordsMILLICENT, December 21.—Mr. R. Pretty, of Beachport, was bitten by a enake on Thursday. He was reclining on the ground, and the snake bit him on the ...
Article : 72 wordsAnother application in connection with, the recent elections to the City Council came before Mr. Justice Ferguson to-day. Mr. Samuel Bowen, one of the unsuccessful ...
Article : 189 wordsThe German Reichstag has approved of a credit vote of £500,00,000. A Socialist minority opposed the vote for the purpose of showing its disapproval of political ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. Jensen) stated to-day that information had been received by cable that A.B. Arthur Harry Snape and Hope Masterton ...
Article : 42 wordsOn Monday evening a firewell social was tendered to Pte. H. S. Muir by the staff of Messrs. A. & E. Le diessurier, and the captains and officers at the Coast Stemstrips, limited, in the ...
Article : 173 wordsOn Wednesday morning an accident occurred to a motor car driven by Mr. Williams, of McLaren Vale, owing to its coming into collision with the 10.30 a.m. train ...
Article : 174 wordsNHILL, December 21.—General regret was expressed ab Zanac North and in Nhill to-day, when it became known that Mr. Henry Stockings, one of the pioneers of ...
Article : 326 wordsThe Under Secretary for War (Mr. Tennant), in the House of Commons to-day, said the officially published lists of German casualties in the Kingdoms of ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Asquith, questioned in the House of Commons, said Sir Ian Hamilton was not about to return to a command in the Near East. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe withdrawal from Anzac had not involved a similar operation at Cape Holies, where a naval and military force commanded the entrance to the Dardanelles. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman) said the Government was seeking to adjust its scheme to the needs of the national service, the army and navy ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the Equity Court to-day Mr. Justice Street granted an application for the appointment of a provisional liquidator of Messrs. Julius Blau & Sons, Limited. The ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Hon Secretary of the British Women's Hospital (London) writes to the Register by the latest mail:—"Her Majesty the Queen has given the site of the Star and Garter Hotel, at ...
Article : 619 wordsOn Tuesday the London wheat market was very firm, with a strong enquiry. A steamer parcel of 1,500 tons, January-February dispatch from Australia, was sold ...
Article : 148 wordsHerr Moralit, in an article contributed to The Berlin Tageblatt, says:—"We Germans have abandoned all illusions. We know we are engaged in a life and death ...
Article : 105 wordsAfter an all-night sitting the House of Commons passed the vote in favour of the Government estimate to prorate a further 1,000,000 men. The House adjourned at ...
Article : 37 wordsAt the Liverpool Police Court to-day William Thomas Skewes, a soldier, was fined £5, or two months' imprisonment, for smashing the window of a railway ...
Article : 125 wordsA sensational yachting accident occurred at the Grange, about 7.30 on Wednesday evening. Three men who were sailing in a seaward direction, about half a mile ...
Article : 313 wordsMr. Stanton (ex-deader of the Miners' Association, who succeeded Mr. Keir Hardie as Labour member for Merthyr-Tydvil) was cheered on rising in the House ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Prime Minister asked the House to join the Government in taking the earliest opportunity of expressing admiration and gratitude to Gen. Monro, Gen. Birdwood ...
Article : 120 wordsThe first statutory meeting of shareholders of the War Munitions Supply Company was held last night The shareholders at present number 12,000, holding ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Asquith, during the course of his remarks in the House of Commons on the progress of the war, said that Major-Gen. Sir Archibald Murray, K.C.B., D.S.O., was ...
Article : 149 wordsKAPUNDA, December 22.—The men working at Clutterbuck's phosphate mine, Koonunga, had a narrow escape on Tuesday. Half a dozen of them were engaged ...
Article : 254 wordsThe United States Government has protested to Great Britain against the presence of British cruisers off American ports. It is admitted, however, that the ...
Article : 41 wordsIn September, Mr. Justice Bray, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, dissolved as from August 4, 1914 (the day war was declared), the contract entered ...
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Article : 48 wordsMr. Asquith, continuing, raid that Major-Gen. Sir William Robertson had been recalled from France to become the Chief the Imperial General Staff. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe release of Gen. De Wet and 118 rebels convicted of high treason in South Africa, followed upon the payment of the fines inflicted in each case, and the ...
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Article : 51 wordsThe leading newspapers of the Dutch capital comment on the magnanimity of the British toward Gen. De Wet and the Boer rebels. They contrast the leniency ...
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Advertising : 1 wordsPERTH, December 22—Alfred Hayward, aged 16, was accidentally shot through the head by Fred Beard, while out rabbit shooting at Boorabbin, on Sunday ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. John Redmond, the Nationalist leader, leader as soon as the Prime Minister had resumed Iris seat, opened a fierce attack upon Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton. He said it ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Thu 23 Dec 1915, Page 5
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