A great victory on the Somme is reported. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that Guillemont has been captured. ...
Article : 611 wordsThe Committee of National Defence is exerting its authority in a determined manner. It has forbidden Greeks between 19 years and 45 years of age to ...
Article : 704 words"Still going strong," remarked one of the walkers at the depot for Christmas boxes, and aheady many willing hands have packed hundreds of boxes ready to ...
Article : 781 wordsAn official statement has been issued as follows:—The Zeppelin raid last night was the most formidable that has yet taken place There were 13 airships, ...
Article : 1,727 wordsAn official communique states: The Germans, in the region of Riga, attacked the Lettish battalions, whose counteroffensive drove them back, with severe ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Minister for Defence had a conversation to-day with Mr. D. M'Kinnon (chairman of the State War Committee) on the subject of the recruiting campaign ...
Article : 145 wordsThe raffle for the bride doll, donated by Mr. Coakes, of Tinney, Isles, and Co, Ltd., and dressed by Mrs. Dent, Coorparoo, for the War Nurses' Fund, was won ...
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Article : 90 wordsOwing to the Chamber of Commerce rooms being required for the use of the members this afternoon, to meeting of the Naval Cheer Fund Committee, which ...
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Article : 31 wordsIn the Central Police Court to-day Charles Reeve, Donald Grant, and Peter Larkin, three men who addressed a meeting of the I.W.W. in the Domain on ...
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Article : 94 wordsIt is regrettable that no progress was mado yesterday with the fund which is to be distributed amongst the nurses who leave our shores for service abroad The ...
Article : 96 wordsMAP SHOWING THE BIG ALLIED MOVE ON THE SOMME. (Le Forest, which is not shown on the map, is situated north of Clery, and southeast of Combles, a little above a line drawn through Maurcpas). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsSpeaking at the opening of the new premises of the Catholic Club last evening, his Grace Archbishop Duhig said it was, perhaps, dangerous to say anything ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsDjemal Pasha, the Turkish commander, is angry at the failure of the attack on Romani, which von Kursh, the German Chief of Staff, arranged ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Australian Flying Squadron made a successful reconnaissance in the Sinai Peninsula. The airmen flew back a distance of 80 miles, and, despite the enemy's fire, ...
Article : 44 wordsA statement issued by the Federal Treasury this morning showed that up to August 28, a total of 11,542 war pensions were granted out of a total of 18,286 ...
Article : 76 wordsGeneral Smuts, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in East Africa, on Saturday reported: The pursuit of the enemy is being actively pressed in the ...
Article : 158 wordsReturning to Sydney by the steamer Osterley are Sisters Brendan and Hilda, two Australian Sisters of Mercy who have recently lived at Poreions, Belgium, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 510 wordsMrs. J. T. H. Bird, East Brisbane, has received a cable from her brother, Private Charles B Allen, announcing his safe arrival in England. Private Allen served ...
Article : 623 wordsAccording to British, French, and German communiques, 189 aeroplanes were brought down during August, including 121 German machines, and of these the ...
Article : 31 wordsAn enlightening statement was made today by the Minister for Defence in reply to a question whether, under the proposed scheme of compulsion, youths ...
Article : 155 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief in France, reports: The night was generally quiet. Fighting took place in the morning near Mouquet ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Minister for Defence states that the export from Great Britain of many materials, often raw material used in Australian industries, is prohibited by the Minister for Munitions, ...
Article : 277 wordsColonel Du Paty de Clam, who was prominently connected with the Dreyfus ease some years ago, has died from wounds. ...
Article : 30 wordsKarl von Wiegand, the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," has interviewed Henr Ballin, the managing director of the Hamburg-Amerika ...
Article : 172 wordsIt is significant that the German censor has allowed the Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" to make unqualified admissions regarding the ...
Article : 172 wordsAmong the correspondence pouring in to the Minister for Defence comes sometimes a note of an heroic character from parents who have lost their sons ...
Article : 143 wordsA message from Peking states that as an outcome of the recent incident at Cheng-chia-tun, in Manchuria, where Chinese troops attacked the Japanese ...
Article : 205 wordsA German communique states: Artillery activity on the Somme was increased with the greatest violence. Strong French attacks between Maurepas and Clery ...
Article : 51 wordsFrom 1500 to 2000 members of the A.I.F. at present in camp, who are destined to leave Queensland at some future date as reinforcements to battalions which have ...
Article : 86 wordsThe general commanding the Ru[?]ian troops in the Roumanian province of Dobrudja has arrived here. ...
Article : 21 wordsAn [?] communique states: A violent artillery engagement took place on the Struma front and at Lake Doiran. Our patrols frequently reconnoitred the ...
Article : 52 wordsGeorges Carpentier, the French champion boxer, who has been serving with distinction as an airman during the war, says that army life and physical culture ...
Article : 71 wordsIf Queensland is to succeed in the voluntary system of enlistment and raise the 5000 men for September required to sustain this effort the number of men ...
Article : 147 wordsAn arrest in connection with the disastrous explosion in New York on July 20 has revealed the mysterious movements of an Austrian named Michael Kristos. ...
Article : 45 wordsA service for returned soldiers was held in St. Luke's Church on Sunday morning, when there was a fair attendance of men, including officers. Luncheon ...
Article : 60 wordsA German communique states: On the Roumanian frontier legion the Bulgarians mid Germans crossed the Dobrudja border between the Danube and the Black ...
Article : 41 wordsA young artillerist in digging a shelter on the Picardy front uncarthed an iron box, inside which he found securities for 1,000,000 franes (£40,000). A will was ...
Article : 56 wordsAs a result of the passing by Congress of an eight-hour day for railwaymen, many newspapers express the opionion that there will be widespread demands for an ...
Article : 42 wordsA meeting of the members of the committee of the "Queen of Trade and Commerce" will be held in the rooms of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce this ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 5 Sep 1916, Page 7
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