A report from Washington states that a submarine sank the French liner Athos (12,644 tons) cast of Malta on February 17. ...
Article : 119 wordsThere are many signs of uncasiness at President Wilson's lack of ac[?]ion to meet the submarine menace A hot debate took place in the Senate, where the Democrats ...
Article : 284 wordsMr. Lloyd Geoige delivered his promised statement on the food position. in the House of Commons to-day. He spoke to a crwded House, and was ...
Article : 2,086 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a report issued last night, states: We have improved our position northward of [?]endecourt, capturing a portion of a ...
Article : 192 wordsThe statement of prisoners, together with the reports of Russian scouts, indicate that Germany lost an army corps in the operations in the region of Riga. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe British steamers Wathfield (3012 tons), Belgian (4588 tons), and the barque Invercauld (1416 tons) have been sunk. Lloyd's reports the sinking of the ...
Article : 228 wordsSixteen men offered then services in the Australian Imperial Force on Saturday, and 10 were accepted. Their [?]es are as follows, their addresses being ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Greek Government has drawn up a reply to the Entente, promising the appointment of a committee, consisting of two persons nominated by the Entente, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Recruiting Committee has received a notification from District Headquarters that night passes for men in camp will be available till 12.15 a.m., unless ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says: "Lloyd George's spcech is a full and frank acceptance of the war situation and an abandonment of the policy of letting ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Anglo-Hellenic League states that the 8000 Greek troops who have been interned at Goellitz, in Germany, since September last, are in a pitiable plight. ...
Article : 59 wordsA submarine in the Mediterranean sank the Italian transport Minas (2854 tons). Allied ships rescued a portion of the troops and crew. ...
Article : 57 wordsIn Victoria on Saturday there were 100 volunteers, of whom 40 were accepted. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. and Mrs. Allan King, of Caloundra, have received a cablegram from then son, Gunner Edwin A. King, advising that he has arrived safely in ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Admiralty has received a wireless Press message containing the following German communique:—We repulsed several British reconnoitring attacks on ...
Article : 53 wordsAn Italian communique states: The enemy seized an outpost at Col Dilana, but our counter-attack drove him out, and we took prisoners. Our airship dropped ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Dutch Gazette," commenting on the submarine situation, says: "T[?] last shadow of doubt as to Germany's intentions has been swept away, and war has ...
Article : 527 wordsThe German submarine B30 has been stranded on the Zeeland coast, but was not damaged. The vessel was towed to Flushing, and the crew of 16 was ...
Article : 64 wordsA French communique issued last night states: Artillery engagements have taken place in Alsaee Lorraine. We repulsede enemy coups de main in the Soissions ...
Article : 142 wordsThe "Providence Journal" says that high officials state that they have intercepted letters showing that the spy plots now being investigated ...
Article : 45 wordsAn official report from Mesopo[?]amia states: We secured and consolidated two lines of trenches at the southern end of the Sa[?]aiyat position, ...
Article : 54 wordsA leading brewer, interviewed on the proposal to reduce the output of beer from 18,200,000 barrels to 10,000,000 barrels, said that this would be a ...
Article : 161 wordsA Dutch trawler in the North Sea noticed what appeared to be a floating German waterplane, which proved to be a sham, with a dummy aviator aboard. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Administration, without recommendation, submitted to Congress a Universal Training Bill drafted by the Army General Staff. It provides ...
Article : 82 wordsArranged with the idea of concentrating attention upon the vital necessit[?] of men coming forward to fill the gaps in the Australian divisions at the Front, the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" states that between February 1 and February 19 French vessels had 22 fights with enemy submarines, of which several went down ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Reberlion Commission has investigated 6471 compensation claims for a total of £420,600, and has granted £72,374. The report emphasises the gross ...
Article : 64 wordsThe correspondent of "Le Journal" states that the German losses have been heavy, considering the nature of the actions in which they have been engaged. ...
Article : 99 wordsOne of the worst cases of deliberate submarine brutality at present recorded was revelled in the case of a Lowestoft fishing smack, which was stopped on ...
Article : 108 wordsThe fruit merchants at Covent Garden and Liverpool, emphasising the effect of the restrictions placed on Australian fruit point out that the Canadian and ...
Article : 73 wordsAdvices from Paris state that the freight steamer Orleans, which was the [?]irst American ship from the United States to enter the submarine zone, has ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Auston Chamberlain (Secretary of State for India), speaking at the Baltic Exchange, said that the time had come when every ...
Article : 67 wordsLord Burnham, at a meeting of the Newspaper Fund, feared that the cutting down of paper supplies would mean less employment for journalists. It would be ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Germans have ordered the evacuation of the population of several places behind the firing line, particularly in the regions of Comines, La Bassee, ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Hoover (chairman if the Belgian Relief Commission) announces that Great Britain and Germany have agreed that Belgian Relief Commission's ships from ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the London "Observer" cables that an armed band of Germans, apparently sailors who had been interned in ...
Article : 50 wordsThe[?]general editorial opinion is that Mr. Lloyd George has taken time by the forelock. His measures are termed heroically ruthless, but they do not ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Bald Hills Patriotic Committe[?] held a pleasant ceremony in [?] School of Arts on Saturday aftornoon, the occasion being the unveiling of the honour ...
Article : 819 wordsTheir Majestic the King and Queen entertained the following wounded officers at Buckingham Palace to-day:- Australians: Lieut-Colonel Flintoff, ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Germans have closed all the Belgian schools. Shortage of coal is the alleged reason. AMSTERDAM, Sunday. ...
Article : 76 wordsA thousand food rioters stormed the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and 50 were trampled upon and injured. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Lord Devonpott (Food Controller) notifies that speculative buying and the cornering of foodstuffs with a view to raising ...
Article : 36 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Times" states that he interviewed the editor of the "Economist," who stated: "If America, with her great ...
Article : 81 wordsThe towns of Swansea and Barrow are without potatoes. A riot took place at the Pontypool market owing to the dealers charging ...
Article : 49 wordsAn officer belonging to one of the seven Dutch vessels sunk has been interviewed at Paddington. He said: We had picked up about the western approaches ...
Article : 149 wordsGermany has imposed a tax of 20 per cent on the value of the output of the collieries. The tax is expected to yield 500,000,000 marks (£25,000,000). ...
Article : 36 wordsA White Paper shows that there are 5,000,000 troops on the Home and Coloniel establishments, exclusive of those serving in India, and also additional to the Navy ...
Article : 48 wordsLord Cheylesmore, presiding at a meeting of the National Rifle Association, stated that 6360 officers and non-commissioned officers qualified at Bisley during ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states thatn the French authorities have arrested at the frontier three men who were accompanying Mr. ...
Article : 92 wordsTwelve of the mon arrested in Ireland have been deported to England. LONDON, Sunday. Two men arrested in Dublin were tried ...
Article : 68 wordsSpeaking in the Re[?]stag Count von Roedern (Minister for Finance), in introducing the Budget, said that the submarine arm was only introduced in ...
Article : 209 wordsAt the London School of Economies Mr. E. Hitchcock, of the Raw Materials Branch of the War Office, read a paper on "The Importance of Imperial Wool." ...
Article : 206 wordsThe wheat market is steady but inactive. A parcel on passage to Liverpool has been sold at 82/ per 480lb. Flour is firmer, Australian on the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Dutch Socialist organ "Hetvolk," in reply to German Socialist appeals, says: The German Socialist Press tries to expound to us and other neutrals that ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Bavarian Diet his adopted a proposal to construct a canal from Aschaffenburg (on the right bank of the Main River) to Passau (on the right bank of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 413 wordsIn a Rugby football match the New Zealanders at the Codfbrd camp beat the New Zealanders at Hornchurch by 17 points to 8. Roberts, the international, ...
Article : 129 wordsIt is reported that Archiduke Friedrich has been imprisoned at the Palace at Vienna, a secret military court having found that be was responsible for the ...
Article : 40 wordsThree liners—the Celtic, Philadelphia, and Canada—left port together under convoy, and parted 12 hours out. Then the White Star liner Celtic (20,904 tons) ...
Article : 93 wordsSir Roger Cisement, who was executed for high treason, has left a sum of £135. He made his will during his imprisonment, and bequeaths everything he ...
Article : 42 wordsThe police tracked the German agent who has lately been operating at Cartagena, and effected a timely capture, when he was about to get away in a ...
Article : 170 wordsThe catalogue offered at the wool sales to-day consisted entirely of Government wools. There was strong competition, and extreme prices were realised. Some ...
Article : 74 wordsA large congregation attended St. Andrews Church, South Brisbane, yesterday morning, when the Rev. J. S. Needham conducted a memorial service for a ...
Article : 260 wordsAmong the nurses on whom the Royal Red Cross has been conferred, as mentioned in our cable messages published on Saturday, is Staff Nurse G. I. Echlin, of ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Maestricht "Nouvelles" says that there are 40,000 men on strike at Krupp's Works, the [?]ood question being the main grievance. Food riots have occurred at ...
Article : 44 wordsA wireless message from Berlin reports that out of 50 submarines which put to sea during February the first 16 have not been reported. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe King and Queen opened the School for Oriental Studies at Finsbury Circus to-day, and crowds watched the ceremony of receiving the sword fr[?]m the ...
Article : 112 wordsA German officer, in a pessimistic war article, says: "Students of the newspaper have a time of happy nights and jolly beer parties over the Pierrots' ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" declares unit the British are attempting to persuade neutral captains to carry poisonous foo[?] for the purpose of destroying the crews ...
Article : 53 wordsFive persons have been arrested on a charge of plotting to blow up an hotel at Groningen, where the British Consulate is quartered. The police found a ...
Article : 49 wordsThe food ration in Berlin has been reduced until March 15. It includes one egg monthly. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 26 Feb 1917, Page 7
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