General Sir Douglas Haig reports: Twenty-seven hostile aeroplanes were encountered by a British squadron on Tuesday. Three captive balloons were ...
Article : 334 wordsLast nights communique was of a laconic and uneventful nature. It was to the following effect:—"The full in operations, which has lasted for several ...
Article : 458 wordsSergeant W. Ashwin, of the 14th Kits. to the 15th Btn., which are leaving shortly for the Front, makes a timeous appeal for the gift of an Australian blue ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. H. J. Tennant, Parliamentary Under Secretary to the War Office announced in the House of Commons to-day that General Sir Ian Hamilton's ...
Article : 54 wordsNew musical installments are easier to learn than the accordion, and this doubtless accounts for its popularity among the soldiers. A number of these ...
Article : 75 wordsThe correspondence has been published in which General Botha (Prime Minister of South Africa) protested against Christian De Wet, who was recently liberated ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Right Hon. Andrew Fisher, P. C. (High Commissioner of Australia), had a most cordial official reception by the French Government on his landing at ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Dominion liner, Norseman, a vessel of 9542 tons, trading between Liverpol and Canada, which was reported to have been sunk, has been ...
Article : 42 wordsDonations may be sent to the "Courier," or to Mr. P. Frankel, 114 Edward-street, Brisbane, and will be acknowledged in these columns. ...
Article : 87 wordsAt the wool sales to-day there was a good demand for all merinos at late rates Greasy crossbreds were firm Slipes advanced a halfpenny. The following ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour (First Lord of the Admiralty), in answering some questions in the House of Commons, said that the Government had no evidence that ...
Article : 115 wordsQuestioned yesterday with respect to the position of Russians in Queensland in the matter of enlisting, the Russian Consul (Mr. B. W. Macdonald) stated ...
Article : 372 wordsThe wheat market was firm. The cargo by the Dongarra, expected in April, sold at 72/. ...
Article : 21 wordsA wireless message states that the total number of recent Turkish casualties in the Caucasus against the Russians was 80,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsAustralia Day was remembered in all the hospitals where the Australian wounded lay, huge bundles of wattle being used to decorate the walls. The ...
Article : 354 wordsMr. A. Shirley Benn (Unionist member for Plymouth), in the House of Commons, moved a resolution urging the Government to enforce an effective blockade as ...
Article : 2,004 wordsAt the weekly sales of Australasian tullow to-day 65½ casks were offered and 115 sold. Prices were unchanged. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the recent fighting between General Aylmer's force and the Turks was 23 miles below Kut-el-Amara, and not seven miles. The mistake ...
Article : 60 wordsParis was able to buy Australian frozen meat for the first time on Friday, when two shops were opened in the Menil, Montant, and Lavillette districts. Others ...
Article : 61 wordsThe War Office announces that General Wallace's force of British, Indian, and Dominion troops advanced in two columns against the Senussi on January ...
Article : 167 wordsIn recent discussions, summarised in our cable messages, as to the relative efficiency of British and German aeroplanes, reference has been made to the ...
Article : 437 wordsThe Queensland Railway Commissioner, in carrying out the work of making munitions, has been handicapped by the want of steel suitable for the base ...
Article : 130 wordsA French communique states: We have expelled the remnant of the Germans who gained possession of a crater to the cast of Neuville, after a mine had ...
Article : 43 wordsMiss Eva Dawson, "Hanley," Masters-street, Valley, is in receipt of a letter from Driver F. J. Harman, 7th Battery, A.I.F., now on active service, with regard ...
Article : 189 wordsGeneral Smith-Dorrien who is in command of the British forces in German Last Africa, reports that he advanced on January 24, and occupied Serenget's ...
Article : 938 wordsA deputation from the Paper Makers' Association met Mr. Runciman (President of the Board of Trade) in regard to the rumour that the Government intends to ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. H. J. Tennant (Parliamentary Under Secretary for War), in the House of Commons, in reply to a question, said that no British soldier had been shot ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State for the Colonies) offficially acknowledges the gifts of 12 biplanes, including one from South Australia, and one from Poverty ...
Article : 38 wordsVery large Austrian forces on Monday, favoured by a thick fog, attacked our positions at Oslavia. Some of our first line detachment, to prevent being ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the summons division of the Central Police Court to-day, before Mr. Clarke, S.M., Julius Blan, a well-known merchant, was proceeded against on an ...
Article : 581 wordsDr. C. Addison, M.P. (Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Munitions Department), in the House of Commons, announced that the convictions far ...
Article : 61 wordsRobert Burns concludes his poem, "When Wild War's Deadly Blas was Blown, with the following lines, which are very appropriate during the present ...
Article : 704 wordsThe debate on the third reading of the Military Service (Compulsion) Bill was continued in the House of Lords Lord Denman said that from his ...
Article : 122 wordsThe London "Daily Mails" correspondent cabled yesterday that he travelled from Sofia to Constantinople in Germany's Balkan express, the handsomest ...
Article : 417 wordsCount Bernstorff, German Ambassador in the United States, has offered further concessions regarding the sinking of the Atlantic liner, the Lusitania, on May 7, ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. and Mrs. W. J. Arrell, Kianawah, Bank-street, West End, have been advised officially by cble message that their son, Captain W. Llewellyn Arrell, who ...
Article : 51 wordsSpeaking at the opening of a new outdoor ward built by money subscribed by the Queensland railway employees, and handed over to the military authorities ...
Article : 162 wordsA large and representative reception by New Zealanders was held in the Whitehall Rooms as a mark of appreciation of the recent knighthood conferred on Sir ...
Article : 465 wordsMr. W. C. Anderson (Labour member for the Attercliffe division of Sheffield) presided over the Labour Conferenee at Bristol, representing 2,093,365 unionists. ...
Article : 513 wordsA handsome honour board has been erected in the Wharf-steret Congregational Church inscribed with the names of present and former adherents of the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Premier was asked yesterday whether he had received any communication from the Commonwealth Government touching its proclamations regarding ...
Article : 81 wordsAt the meeting of the Esk Shire Council yesterday a motion by Councillor Lord, —"That the council consider the advisability of establishing a fund for the ...
Article : 87 wordsA wireless message states that Essad Pasha, the leader of the Albanians, has defeated a Bulgarian vanguard at El Bassan a town in Albania, south of ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 28 Jan 1916, Page 7
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