Though in one sense yesterday was a small day for the "Coureir" Patriotic Funds, yet in another it was a good day for with the amounts recorved practical ...
Article : 656 wordsRe[?]ter's Salonica correspondent wires: —The destruction of the railway bridge at Demirilissar has caused d sensation in Greek circles, as it almost cuts off ...
Article : 332 wordsDisturbances by soldiers and civilians took place again this evening, demonstrations being made against a shop kept by Plisch, a pastrycook. The trouble began ...
Article : 113 wordsA scheme for the military training of the Expeditionary Force has been prepared by Major-General M'Cay. This provides for a complete routine of ...
Article : 113 wordsLord Sydenham stated in an interview that he was in favour of allowing neutrals to recieve their normal imports, plus a small percentage, and then sketching a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 wordsPrivate Wells, of the suffolk Regiment, who has returned to England from Germany, where he was a prisoner of war, in describing the horrors of the treatment ...
Article : 123 wordsThe German newspapers, in commenting on Sir Edward. Grey's reply to the German allegations of alleged cruelty by the crew of the British cruiser ...
Article : 219 wordsAt the Adelaide-street Drill Shed yesterday 136 volunteers offered their services, and 100 were incepted. At Toowoomba there were 27 enlistments, at ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Acting Premier (Hon. E. G. Theodore) informed a "Courier" representative yesterday that be took exception to the headline, "No great evil in ...
Article : 300 wordsMr. H. G. Wells, writing to the "Daily Chronicle," pays a striking tribute to the German thoroughness and adaptability. He states: "A Russian named Bloch, ...
Article : 305 wordsThe following 13 volunteers were accepted for active service on Saturday morning: —Messrs. Peter O'Neill, Robert, Leitch, Thomas Childs, James O'Reilly. Thomas ...
Article : 833 wordsA meeting of the Brisbane Girls' Club will be held in the room, 3rd floor, Courier Building, to-morrow afternoon, at 3.30. ...
Article : 25 wordsPrivate Ernest Snow, a brother of Mr. W. J. Snow, jeweller, Toowoomba, writing from Anzac, Gallipoli, gives an interesting description of an exciting ...
Article : 479 wordsCaptain Swanston and five men from the steamer Clan Maclarlane, which was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine in the Mediterranean, have been picked up ...
Article : 46 wordsCondemnatory remarks concerning the attitude of the Federal Government in regard to its policy of refusing to enlist direct descendants of Germans, or to ...
Article : 341 wordsThe floods in Northern Holland, caused by the bursting of the dykes, are the worst that have been experienced since 1825. Sixteen persons were drowned at ...
Article : 37 words[?] is correspondent at Rome cables that it is stated in ecclesiastical circles that an operation was performed on the Kaiser on 13th instant, and was ...
Article : 99 wordsAn Austrian communique states: The most stubborn buttle yet fought in the region of the Bessarbian frontier is in progress at Tororatz and east of ...
Article : 74 wordsA fire broke out in Bergen, the great fishing harbour and manufacturing town of Norway. It raged throughout the night, spreading to 20 district quartets, and ...
Article : 110 wordsA singular feature of the fighting at Czernowitz, in Bukowina, is that a German regiment became panic stricken and began to run. The Austrian artillery, ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Red Cross Society estimates the war losses up to June, 1915, as follows:— Dead. Wounded. Prisoners. Total. British 180,000 200,000 90,000 470,000 ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Brisbane guns brought down a German aeroplane which was flying over Salonica, and both the airmen were killed. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 491 wordsA communique regarding the operations in the Caucasus states: We captured on Friday 20 officers, 400 men, six guns, and much ammunition. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is officially announced that General Aylmer (who is advancing to the relief of General Townshend's force at Kut-el-Amara, on the Tigris) on 13th instant ...
Article : 195 wordsAdvices from Constantinople state that in consequence of the Entente Powers having refused to liberate the consuls who were arrested at Salonica, the Porte will ...
Article : 50 wordsThe matter of the manufacture of shell bodies locally is at present being considered by the authorities in Brisbane. Mr. C. F. Pemberton (Deputy Railway ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs (Hon. H. Mahon) not having yet assumed the duties of Attorney-General, particulars were not available to-day, in ...
Article : 212 wordsThe newspapers are making a feature of the narrative by Malcolm Ross, a New Zealander, of the last days at Anzac. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn Austrian communique states: We captured 154 guns, and [?]0,000 rifles at Cettinje, the capital of Montenegro, and we have occupied Spezza. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" has published the exploits of an Australian trooper named W. E. Sing, who says he sniped altogether 200 Turks, his targets being ...
Article : 137 wordsWe have received the following appreciation from the warrant officers and sergeants stationed at Rabaul. The missive is dated Rabaul, December 30, ...
Article : 508 wordsKing George, in a message to king Peter of Serlda, says: "I am fully convinced that the Allies, together with the heroic Serbian Army, are in a position to win ...
Article : 63 wordsA send-off in honour of Mr. W. Temple, who has enlisted, took place on Friday at the bakery of Mr. Paine, Moorooka, where he was employed as a baker. On ...
Article : 1,350 wordsIt is officially announced that a British column on January 13 dispersed 400 Arabs 40 miles from Matruh. There were no British casualties. ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the investiture at Buckingham Palace the King, in handing the Distinguished Service Order to Major G. Smith, a New Zealander, showed ...
Article : 107 wordsMessrs. Sam Goodyear, William Goodyear, James Chapman, William Chapman, Joseph Lower, Jas. Hendry, Samuel Goodyear, and S. Goodyear journeyed to ...
Article : 77 wordsThe installation of the Serbian Army in the island of Corfu is proceeding satisfactorily. The Agrilleion Palace (owned by the Kaiser) has not been occupied by ...
Article : 72 wordsA Reuter message from Amsterdam states:—The German comander in Belgium called for volunteers for Egypt, offering 20 days' furlongh, but there was ...
Article : 40 wordsThe beautiful five-piece collection of Queensland furniture exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, California, and donated for ...
Article : 329 wordsA meeting of the general committee of the society was held yesterday in the B.M.A. rooms. There was a good attendance. The hon. secretary read the ...
Article : 329 wordsThe following communique was issued last night: Operating with the British artillery, we seriously damaged the enemy trenches at Hetsas, causing two ...
Article : 54 wordsThe members of the Serbian Government, with the diplomatic representatives of the Allied Powers accredited to King Peter, have arrived at Brindisi, in Italy. ...
Article : 32 wordsMajor Herbert Dumaresq, of the Rifle Brigade, has died from wounds. Major Dumaresq was aide-de-camp to the Governor of New South Wales from 1910 to ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Board of Trade "Labour Gazette" states that the growing shortage of male labour can only be met by a much larger influx of women. Food prices this month ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports: The Russians opened a stupendous battle in Galicia at Christmas, and the cannonade became a ...
Article : 296 wordsA Germam communique states: The British shelled Lille, causing a fire, which did some small damage. ...
Article : 21 wordsReports from the west front show that the steel helmet now widely used by the British troops has proved a protection from shrapnel and bomb splinters. The ...
Article : 54 wordsAnti-compulsion meetings, at which the proceedings were of a lively character, have been held in the provincial towns. Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, Liberal M.P. for ...
Article : 101 wordsA further contingent of returned wounded and sick soldiers was landed at Sydney to-day. They comprised 108 for New South Wales and 43 for Queensland. After ...
Article : 71 wordsThe German and Austrian Episcopates have refused the request of the Belgian bishops for a mixed commission to investigate the German atrocities in ...
Article : 53 words"Nix" sent along a pair of cocks. D. Dwyer, Yeerongpillj, "Anonymous," and Mrs. Walter Harding each sent a parcel of books. Miss Maughan sent a parcel of ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 18 Jan 1916, Page 7
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