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  2. ITALIANS FALL BACK.

    General Sir Douglas Haig reports: Twenty-seven hostile aeroplanes were encountered by a British squadron on Tuesday. Three captive balloons were ...

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  3. "COURIER" PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

    Last nights communique was of a laconic and uneventful nature. It was to the following effect:—"The full in operations, which has lasted for several ...

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  4. APPEAL FOR AUSTRALIAN FLAG.

    Sergeant 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 ...

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  5. HONOURS FOR OUR SOLDIERS.

    Mr. H. J. Tennant, Parliamentary Under Secretary to the War Office announced in the House of Commons to-day that General Sir Ian Hamilton's ...

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  6. AN ACCORDION WANTED.

    New musical installments are easier to learn than the accordion, and this doubtless accounts for its popularity among the soldiers. A number of these ...

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  7. DE WET YIELDS.

    The correspondence has been published in which General Botha (Prime Minister of South Africa) protested against Christian De Wet, who was recently liberated ...

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  8. MR. FISHER.

    The Right Hon. Andrew Fisher, P. C. (High Commissioner of Australia), had a most cordial official reception by the French Government on his landing at ...

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  9. NORSEMAN BEACHED.

    The Dominion liner, Norseman, a vessel of 9542 tons, trading between Liverpol and Canada, which was reported to have been sunk, has been ...

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  10. RUSSIAN JEWS' RELIEF FUND.

    Donations may be sent to the "Courier," or to Mr. P. Frankel, 114 Edward-street, Brisbane, and will be acknowledged in these columns. ...

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  11. WOOL SALES.

    At 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 ...

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  12. BRITISH NAVAL CONSTRUCTION

    Mr. 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 ...

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  13. POSITION OF RUSSIANS.

    Questioned yesterday with respect to the position of Russians in Queensland in the matter of enlisting, the Russian Consul (Mr. B. W. Macdonald) stated ...

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  14. WHEAT MARKET.

    The wheat market was firm. The cargo by the Dongarra, expected in April, sold at 72/. ...

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  15. THE MIDDLE EAST.

    A wireless message states that the total number of recent Turkish casualties in the Caucasus against the Russians was 80,000. ...

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  16. AUSTRALIA DAY.

    Australia Day was remembered in all the hospitals where the Australian wounded lay, huge bundles of wattle being used to decorate the walls. The ...

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  17. THE BLOCKADE.

    Mr. A. Shirley Benn (Unionist member for Plymouth), in the House of Commons, moved a resolution urging the Government to enforce an effective blockade as ...

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  18. TALLOW MARKET.

    At the weekly sales of Australasian tullow to-day 65½ casks were offered and 115 sold. Prices were unchanged. ...

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  19. IN MESOPOTAMIA.

    The 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 ...

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  20. AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

    Paris 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 ...

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  21. SCATTERING THE SENUSSI.

    The War Office announces that General Wallace's force of British, Indian, and Dominion troops advanced in two columns against the Senussi on January ...

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  22. RIVAL AEROPLANES.

    In recent discussions, summarised in our cable messages, as to the relative efficiency of British and German aeroplanes, reference has been made to the ...

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  23. MAKING OF MUNITIONS.

    The Queensland Railway Commissioner, in carrying out the work of making munitions, has been handicapped by the want of steel suitable for the base ...

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  24. A COSTLY GAIN.

    A 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 ...

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  25. "OPENED UP TO PERFECTION."

    Miss 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 ...

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  26. GERMAN EAST AFRICA.

    General 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 ...

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  27. PROHIBITION OF PULP.

    A 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 ...

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  28. MILITARY OFFENCES.

    Mr. 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 ...

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  29. GIFTS OF BIPLANES.

    Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State for the Colonies) offficially acknowledges the gifts of 12 biplanes, including one from South Australia, and one from Poverty ...

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  30. A SURPRISE ATTACK.

    Very large Austrian forces on Monday, favoured by a thick fog, attacked our positions at Oslavia. Some of our first line detachment, to prevent being ...

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  31. ALLEGED BRIBERY.

    In 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 ...

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  32. DRINK AND THE WAR.

    Dr. C. Addison, M.P. (Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Munitions Department), in the House of Commons, announced that the convictions far ...

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  33. BRISBANE GIRLS' CLUB.

    Robert Burns concludes his poem, "When Wild War's Deadly Blas was Blown, with the following lines, which are very appropriate during the present ...

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  34. MILITARY SERVICE BILL.

    The debate on the third reading of the Military Service (Compulsion) Bill was continued in the House of Lords Lord Denman said that from his ...

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  35. THROUGH TURKISH EYES.

    The London "Daily Mails" correspondent cabled yesterday that he travelled from Sofia to Constantinople in Germany's Balkan express, the handsomest ...

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  36. THE LUSITANIA CRIME.

    Count Bernstorff, German Ambassador in the United States, has offered further concessions regarding the sinking of the Atlantic liner, the Lusitania, on May 7, ...

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  37. HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES.

    Mr. 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 ...

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  38. A MOTHER'S EXAMPLE.

    Speaking at the opening of a new outdoor ward built by money subscribed by the Queensland railway employees, and handed over to the military authorities ...

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  39. SIR THOMAS MACKENZIE.

    A 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 ...

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  40. LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    Mr. W. C. Anderson (Labour member for the Attercliffe division of Sheffield) presided over the Labour Conferenee at Bristol, representing 2,093,365 unionists. ...

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  41. HONOUR BOARD.

    A handsome honour board has been erected in the Wharf-steret Congregational Church inscribed with the names of present and former adherents of the ...

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  42. POSITION OF GERMANS.

    The Premier was asked yesterday whether he had received any communication from the Commonwealth Government touching its proclamations regarding ...

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  43. RELIEF FOR RETURNED DISABLED SOLDIERS.

    At 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 ...

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  44. IN ALBANIA.

    A 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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