It is officially announced that the Prince of Wales has arrived in Egypt, and has been appointed staff-captain to the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that the latest fighting in the Verdun region showed that the enemy's ardour is daily waning, and their confidence in victory is becoming ...
Article : 159 wordsYesterday was one of those quieter days in the "Courier" Patriotic Funds, when, although the aggregation of the day's offertories was not large, a number of ...
Article : 715 wordsThe Minister for Education (Hon. H. F. Hardacre), who is a member of the Executive of the Munitions Committee, and one of those who decided that the ...
Article : 614 wordsMr. Sidney Low, Lecturer on Imperial and Colonial History at King's College, University of London, in a letter to the newspapers, approves of Mr. Denman's ...
Article : 221 wordsThere must be some folk who could spare a few coins to assist our soldier boys, and if there are the Brisbane Girls' Club, which is organising the Easter ...
Article : 141 wordsEight of the crew of the Russian steamer Innovo Jasalboda have been landed. The captain, his wife and children, and ten of the crew were killed. ...
Article : 41 wordsIn addition to the volunteers who were recorded at the Adelaide-street depot on Saturday, the following country figures were received:—Townsville, 16; Darwin, ...
Article : 127 wordsFour German seaplanes dropped bombs on Dover and Ramsgate to-day, killing nine and wounding 31 persons. A British seaplane pursued and brought down a ...
Article : 459 wordsThe Y.M.C.A. has always taken a kindly interest in the social and religious welfare of the men in the tended cities, and the latest phase of its activities, and club ...
Article : 948 wordsMr. Ezra Horne, of Coolabunia, is the latest recruit to go into training at Enoggera. He is one of the oldest farmers in this district. ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Times" states that the Allied Conference will probably meet on March 27. There appears to be some misapprehension in ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Bulgarians and Germans are feverishly fortifying their positions, fearing that General Sarrail, the Commander-in-Chief of the Allies' forces, will ...
Article : 100 wordsA communique issued to-day states: A French aeroplane brought down a German machine in flames in our lines near Montzeville. Five double-motored ...
Article : 117 wordsAdvices from Salonica state that the Germans are badly in want of fuel, and crossed the Greek frontier to make requisitions. General Sarrail, the ...
Article : 53 wordsOn Saturday Mr. H. M. Robinson, Sub-Collector of Customs, on behalf of the Customs and Excise Department, presented Mr. W. H. Edwards, an officer of the ...
Article : 54 wordsSir Thomas Smartt, Leader of the Unionist Party, denouncing General Hertzog's motion in the South African Assembly, refusing a vote for war ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" states that the Government of Greece is greatly embarrassed by lack of money. The coffers ...
Article : 85 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports: The enemy, by exploding mines, recaptured three craters at the Hohenzollern Redoubt. There have been many air combats, and ...
Article : 80 wordsTheir Majesties the King and Queen will entertain convalescent soldiers at Buckingham Palace at afternoon tea and a concert on Tuesday, Wednesday, and ...
Article : 50 wordsA general meeting of the Soldiers' Church of England Help Society will be held to-day, at 3 p.m., in St. Luke's Church, Charlotte-street. The executive ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the South Brisbane City Council yesterday a letter was received from Alfred Cooke, chairman of the Maleny Patriotic ...
Article : 171 wordsTo-day's recruiting figures were: Offered, 162; accepted, 109. MELBOURNE, March 20. Of 306 men who presented themselves ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. (organising secretary of the National Union of Railway men), addressing the railwaymen at Chester, said that the only solution of the ...
Article : 211 wordsReports have been received that a British cruiser captured a German hydroplane and the aviators at the island of Thasos, near the Macedonian coast. ...
Article : 35 wordsOwing to the incidents connected with the German raider Moewe, the British blockade has been tightened, and it is now impossible for enemy ships to pass ...
Article : 72 wordsA German communique issued to-day states: North-east of Vermilles, after artillery preparation, we captured the small British gains made during the ...
Article : 170 wordsAt the Naval yards at Garden Island to-day some 60 engineers ceased work at noon because of a disagreement with the electricians as to who should do certain ...
Article : 92 wordsAn Austrian communique issued to-day states: We captured the Italian position at the northern part of the Tolmino bridge-head, making prisoners of 449 of the ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is reported that three of the largest German submarines, each carrying 120 men, were completed at Antwerp last week, and are preparing for immediate ...
Article : 63 wordsDetails are given of an Italian air raid at Laibach, the capital of the Austrian province of Carniola, on March 19th. The aviators remained over the region for ...
Article : 89 wordsAn unusual incident occurred in the Police Court this morning, when Thomas O'Brien was brought in on remand or a charge of drunkenness and ...
Article : 261 wordsAt a meeting of the Queensland Rifle Association last night reference was made to the proposal to form a riflemen's company. Major A. T. Jackson ...
Article : 435 wordsThere is much speculation with regard to a speech delivered by M. Ribot, French Minister of Finance, in the Chamber of Deputies, in which he stated: ...
Article : 102 wordsQueen Mary received Mrs. Hughes at Buckingham Palace to-day, and during a long and cordial conversation her Majesty paid a tribute to the part which ...
Article : 46 wordsA German official statement claims that there were no German mines where the Dutch steamer Tubantia was lost, nor could German submarines have ...
Article : 183 wordsThe hon. assistant secretary of the Queensland Recruiting Committee (Mr. F. Wylde Ball) drew attention yesterday afternoon to the conditions under which ...
Article : 211 wordsIt is officially announced that an enemy submarine sank the French destroyer Renaudin, 756 tons, in the Adriatic. The commander and 46 men are missing. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe attention of Mr. Hughes, the Australian Prime Minister, was directed to a leader in the Melbourne "Argus," which stated:—"He adopted the idea that ...
Article : 154 wordsThis fund now stands:— Previously acknowledged £58 6 9 ...
Article : 13 wordsSenator Paes, late Minister for Portugal at Berlin, in the course of an interview, said that Germany had no lack of men, and the hatred of England, and also against ...
Article : 85 wordsA German communique states: Russian attacks on the Drysvjaty Lake post front, also on both sides of Narocz Lake, which began with the greatest ...
Article : 62 wordsThe following gifts in kind came to hand yesterday:—Mrs. G. R. Townsend, Wooloowin; Miss Peake, Mayne Junction; and Mrs. Fenton, reading matter for the ...
Article : 29 wordsSlowly but surely this deserving fund plods along, but those who are responsible for the launching of the fund (Mrs. Frank Wilson and Miss M'Swaine, the joint hon. ...
Article : 206 wordsSince the last progress [?]port (January 29) all the names mentioned in the casualty lists have been indexed by the Red Cross Inquiry Bureau, Spencer ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Russian war loan of £200,000,000 recently announced will bear 5½ per cent. interest, and will be repayable in 10 years. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states: The problem of the future can be made more definite without undoing the growth of sentiment, which is worth ...
Article : 211 wordsThe delayed report of the speech by Herr Liebknecht, the Socialist leader in the Prussian Dict, is now available. He stated that the Government was ...
Article : 91 wordsA good deal has been heard concerning the advisability of issuing to persons who have offered themselves to the Defence Department for active service some token ...
Article : 285 wordsThe naval expert of the "Daily Chronicle," commenting on the torpedoing of a second Dutch liner within two days, discusses the question whether there was ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Russian Government has taken over the Putiloff engineering and armament works for the duration of the war. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn connection with Club Hut Day next Friday the City Electric Light Co. is giving free of charge the current necessary to light Isles-street, which is to be converted ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Duke of Westminster's armoured motor cars at Sollum, on the Egyptian frontier, rescued all the survivors of the steamer Tara, which was sunk by a ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the conclusion of the meeting of the Marine Board of Queensland held yesterday afternoon the secretary (Mr. Morgan) reported that the matter of a proposed ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Kaiser, in an autograph letter to Admiral von Tirpitz, keenly regretting his resignation from the control of the German Navy, paid a warm tribute to ...
Article : 64 wordsIn connection with the French Red Cross and the street collection which was made on Thursday of last week, a final count, with the exception of the ...
Article : 85 wordsVide Sir Charles Cameron's Certificate on each bottle.[?] ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 21 Mar 1916, Page 7
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