Two Allied cruisers penetrated the Dardanelles on Sunday, and bombarded the batteries at Kahtanea. Desperate fighting continues in the sector between ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Press Bureau states: It is now possible to give a further account of the important operations since the 6th in the western extremity of Gallipoli. There ...
Article : 589 words"It seems to me that I have just been lifted up from the ranks, placed upon a pedestal, and the people everywhere gather around to worship me. I don't know why ...
Article : 1,213 words"Men must work and women must weep," said Charles Kingsley. Many women have had cause to weep during this ornel war, which has robbed them ...
Article : 880 wordsIt is learned that Germany possesses 58 submarines. The Baltic Fleet consists of 30 vessels. Six thousand marines from Kiel have arrived on the east front for ...
Article : 40 wordsMajor John Hughes, of the New Zealand Forces, has been gazetted an aidede-camp; Captain Alfred Morton, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, has been ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Government of Denmark has prohibited the exportation of cheese. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn official communique states: We captured the Gead Stimo Valley, securing eight of the enemy's hutments. The Austrians fiercely counter-attacked, but were ...
Article : 47 wordsRussian torpedo boats sank a large sailing vessel laden with coal bound for the Bosphorus. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Tsar has conferred decorations on 851 officers and men of the British Canadian, and Indian regiments, for gallantry. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn official communique states: The enemy's attacks in the Vilna region were repulsed. Our troops have left the Middle Niemen, and are concentrating ...
Article : 47 wordsThe declaration of war by Italy has caused confusion and demoralisation in Constantinople. The Turkish Ministers have made further offers to Bulgaria, but ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Tsar has conferred the Order of St. George of the third class on Corporal Issy Smith, of the Manchester Regiment, who was awarded the Victorian Cross for ...
Article : 55 wordsMilitary writers remark that with the occupation of Ossowieez, the Germans gain possession of a considerable section of the railway for bringing up supplies ...
Article : 35 wordsGeneral mobilisation in Greece is imminent. M. Venezelos, the new Premier, is energetically preventing the contraband trade in favour of Turkey and ...
Article : 44 wordsLord Hugh Cecil, M.P., in a letter to the Press, appeals for a discontinuance of the controversy on the question of national service. After agreeing to a ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Austro-German troops are experiencing difficulties in the Brest Litovsk region. Thick fogs and rain are turning the raods into quagmires, and the enemy ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is reported that the new offensive against Serbin avoids Western Serbia, and is concentrated against the northeastern districts, with a view to ...
Article : 87 wordsA German comminique states: Marshal von Hindenburg is successfully fighting at Birshi, 37 miles to the north-east of Poniowicz. General von Eichorn is ...
Article : 147 wordsOne thousand Welsh miners are striking as a protest against the tardy settlement of the question in dispute. The Coal Conciliation Board has failed to ...
Article : 41 wordsA stirring speech, which was punctuated with hearty interjections of endorsement from all quarters of the Chamber, was delivered in the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 958 wordsThe Nobel Dynamite Trust has adopted resolutions in favour of voluntary liquidation, and also sanctioning the arrangement for the sale of the Germans ...
Article : 40 wordsSir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in a letter to the Press, replying to Dr. von BethmannHollweg's recent speech, writes: ...
Article : 1,117 wordsThe wheat market is dull. White Walla wheat, early September shipment, is quoted at 56/ per 496lb. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Austro-German casualties southwest of Brest Litovsk last week numbered 25,000. The struggle is a desperate one. The whole of the country-side has been ...
Article : 39 wordsA number of persons of high rank, diplomatists, and interned British seamen were amongst those present at the funeral service for the victims of the disaster to ...
Article : 134 wordsEvidence has been given of German atrocities at Lipuoka. In one case failing to extract information from a dying Cossack named Antonoff they branded ...
Article : 95 wordsFive survivors from the Russian gunboat Sivutch (which was sunk in the Battle of Riga), out of a crew of 135, have arrived at Reval. They state that the Sivutch ...
Article : 87 wordsSweden has sent a protest to Germany against the shelling of the steamer Goethland and the detention of the vessel at Cuxhaxen, alleging that she was not ...
Article : 40 wordsReuter's correspondent at the Dardanelles states: The British troops landed at Anzae in the darkness, but there were only two casualties. The Anglo-French ...
Article : 200 wordsMr. E. Ashmead Bartlett, the war correspondent, in a further report of the operations in the Gallipolli Peninsula, states: For nearly three weeks prior to ...
Article : 1,063 wordsColonel Rankin, M.L.A., has volunteered for active service, and in the Legislative Assembly last night, after the adjournment, members on both sides of the ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily News" states that a Russian submarine on August 23 sank the German protected cruiser Augsburg, a vessel of ...
Article : 67 wordsA French correspondent states that the British front in France has been considerably extended, and British batteries have replaced the French at many points. ...
Article : 35 wordsA communique dealing with the operations at the Dardanelles states: The British left wing in the northern zone made fresh progress within the past few ...
Article : 125 wordsAn official communique issued to-day skills that French airmen bombarded the Lorrach railway station in Baden. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe President of the Prize Court (his Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Pope Cooper) heard an application yesterday by Mr. P. B. Macgregor (instructed by ...
Article : 86 wordsAs a sequel to the "Courier" appeal, one side drum has been presented to the 30th Reinforcements of the 15th Battalion, by Mr. Arthur Rickards, ...
Article : 127 wordsCol-Chaplain Rowe, asked for a few details of his experiences said: "I was detailed as chaplain to a troopship, which left Brisbane early in April for ...
Article : 2,453 wordsAn official denial has been given to a statement published in German newspapers, and professedly based on an extract from an English corporal's diary, ...
Article : 50 wordsSpeaking in regard to the British War Loan the Right Hon. R. M'Kenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer) said: "The man, be he rich or poor, is little to be envied ...
Article : 196 wordsSeveral incapacitated British non-commissioned officers were removed from a train bound for Holland, and were detained in Germany, on the ground that ...
Article : 40 words"J.H.S." writes regarding the request for books and games for the A.M.C. at Enoggera. "I am sending herewith some books and magazines, and enclose cheque ...
Article : 42 wordsA Turkish communique states: The enemy on Sunday evening, near Ariburner, after heavy grenade, machinegun, and rifle fire, attacked Kaulivau. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following gifts of leading matter, &c., are acknowledged: Mrs. F. D. Chippendale, Many Peaks, parcel of magazines for soldiers, and parcel containing one ...
Article : 138 wordsThe following details are given of the recent sinking of a German torpedo boat at Ostetid: A French destroyer sighted the German vessel, an immediately engaged ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 27 Aug 1915, Page 7
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