An official report states: The air-raid alarm was sounded at 11.52 p.m. on Thursday, and enemy aeroplanes, which were furiously cannonaded, dropped ...
Article : 72 wordsArchbishop Donaldson, referring recently to his tour of the Western districks, expressed gratification at the steady growth of Church life in places ...
Article : 1,194 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes delivered an address to the British Empire League at a meeting held in the Mansion House to-day. ...
Article : 694 wordsAs already announced, the invalid soldiers whose names are given in list "O" will reach the Central Station this evening at 6.[?]0, and it is hoped that they ...
Article : 185 wordsMr. W. T. Massey, the war correspondent, in a despatch, wired on Wednesday, relating to the operations in Palestine, states: On Monday night the ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the German losses are greater than in any previous battle, while the total Allied casualties do not amount to the ...
Article : 1,307 wordsReports from Sweden state that the flight of the Petrograd Soviet to Kronstadt is due to peasand bands in the neighbourhood marching on the capital. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Allies continue to advance slowly against the Germans. The French are gaining ground at the Lassigny massif, and between the Matz and the Oise. The British line has been advanced slightly in the neighbourhood of Rainecourt. ...
Article : 157 wordsMr. John Dillon (Leader of the Irish N[?]ionalist Party) at an in-door meeting at Omagh, denounced the authorities' prohibition of the proposed gathering, and ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of the "Chronicle" states that a diplomat from Petrograd, who was interviewed, says: The population is unnerved by rumours, ...
Article : 216 words"I could never refuse to help at any recruiting wherever I am asked to come," said Mr. E. Jowett, M.H.R. (Grampians, Victoria), addressing a large ...
Article : 374 wordsIn circles reputedly in close touch with the Government the position of merchant shipbuilding is being canvassed, and the wold "faillite" is being applied to the ...
Article : 34 wordsA report from Paris states that it is believed that a further German retreat is pending. Another report states that the French ...
Article : 80 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in his report dealing with the aviation, announces: Enemy activity has decreased. We dropped 22 tons of bombs on Peronn[?] and Roisel, ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" has interviewed neutral travellers in close touch with German sentiment. They warn the Entente ...
Article : 189 wordsThe United States and Gteat Britain have protested to Mexico against its decree regarding oil, contending that it amounts to confiscation of the oil ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is reported that it has been decide that the Dominions shell keep a Minister permanently in London to confer with the War Cabinet. ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is reported that American troops are landing at Vladivostok. It is understood that the Japanese f[?]rce in Siberia will strike westward ...
Article : 54 wordsA French communique states: The night was marked by fairly great artillery activity between the Avre and the Oise. A second communique reports: As the ...
Article : 78 wordsRecruiting has been opened throughout Cannda to secure a force, which it is intended to despatch to Siberia. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe military committee of the Senate has learned from General March, Chief of the General Staff, that the United States ought to send 4,000,000 men to ...
Article : 201 wordsThe British Government is installing a large plant for the manufacture of sulphate of ammonia for use as manure. ...
Article : 25 wordsBryan Hughes, a captain of the Dublin Fusiliers, and son of the late Mr. John Hughes, of Sydney, has been killed in action. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Italian regiments which have arrived at Vladivostok consist of men from the unredeemed provinces, who were taken prisoners by the Russians and ...
Article : 58 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: Severe local fighting on the night of August 14 was to our advantage eastward of Rainecourt. Our line was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that delay in the developments regarding the exchange of prisoners is due to Germany's neglect to ratify the agreement. Certain ...
Article : 49 wordsOil Thursday 22 men parsed before the medical officers. Two for medical examination only were passed fit, and a returned soldier was accepted for the ...
Article : 121 wordsReports from Riga state that a Social Revolutionary assassinated von Sengbusch, a German sheriff in the Wenden district, Livonia. The murderer escaped. ...
Article : 27 wordsDuring the last few days a hundred corpses of German sailors have been washed ashore on the west coast of Jutland. Most of the bodies had only been ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Press here praises the British recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks, and urges the United States to follow suit. [?] Masaryk, President of the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe butter supplies are, diminishing somewhat but they are ample for the new scale of rations—two ounces of butter and four ounces of margarine weekly, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe United Press Association states that signs are accumulating that changes in policy have been imposed on the Germans by the Allied successes. General ...
Article : 130 wordsA large number of people have offered to contribute to the cost of Mr. Hughes's defence in the Merton libel action. Lord Epury offers £500 for a large fund to ...
Article : 75 wordsEnemy banks in London were closed to-day. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe New Zealand troops achieved remarkable successes at the Southern Counties Military Sports, and won all the principal events. Auckland won the cross country ...
Article : 39 wordsIt was recommended by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day that friends of prisoners of war should send them post cards rather than letters, as ...
Article : 65 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) entertained the New Zealand Press delegation at Claridge's. Lord Burnham, Lord ...
Article : 568 wordsThe freedom of the city of Aberdeen will be conferred on Mr. Hughes on August 20. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Australians pressure southward of the Somme contiues, and they slightly advanced their lines last night. ...
Article : 21 wordsA report has been received that British troops have re[?]ch[?]d Baku, on the Caspian Sea. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Bowser) said to-day that in many countries an age limit was placed on children unattended at picture theatres, and in the Bill ...
Article : 93 wordsSir Thomas Robinson (Agent General for Queensland) introduced to Mr. Clynes (Food Controller) a deputation from the Australian and New Zealand Meat ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsMr. G. L. Gilmour, correspondent of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association, writing on Wednesday, says: The Australian units are ...
Article : 429 wordsA German official wireless message states: We evacuated a projecting sector near Puissicux and Beaumont Hamel. We repulsed partial attacks on both sides ...
Article : 58 wordsHerr von Hintze, the new German Minister for Foreign affairs, in an interview with the "Cologne Gazette," complained of the ambiguity of Mr. Lloyd ...
Article : 130 wordsIn response to the invitation of Mr. Powley, the Albert Hall was crowded yesterday afternoon by soldiers' dependents. The position of the Patriotic Fund ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Kaiser, after a headquarters conference, appointed Admiral von Bohneke to succeed Admiril von Capelle as German Minister for the Navy. ...
Article : 32 wordsAn interesting motor tour was recently accomplished by Lieutenant Tom Russell live stock manager for Carter and Co., Charleville, and Mr. Harry Butcher, also ...
Article : 420 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association reports: Amiens is no longer a salient: it is deserted. One of the most dramatic ceremonies of the war was ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Presbyterian and Methodist Schools' Association have selected the above as its device. It was considered desirable to have something that would ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 239 wordsMrs. Kathleen Nugent, of Thornbury-street, Valley, has received the following letter from the secretary of the Australian Red Cross Society:—"Federal ...
Article : 162 wordsLord Wrenbury's committee, which is inquiring into necessary amendments to the company law to meet the changed conditions after the war, has issued a report. ...
Article : 286 wordsA telegram, apparently inspired, appears in all the German newspapers stating that the Kaiser and Emperor Karl of Austria held a conference to discuss ...
Article : 93 wordsThe engineer was killed and four sailors wounded when a British steamer was torpedoed. The survivors have arrived. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Y.W.C.A. building campaign will open on Monday next. Already some generous responses and appreciative tributes to the association's work have ...
Article : 192 wordsOne resolution of the House of Peers in Prussia expelling Prince Liebnowsky, whose memoirs recently caused such a sensation in Germany, owing to the blame ...
Article : 52 wordsAn American schooner has been shelled and sunk off the coast. The crew escaped. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Bonar Law states that the subscriptions to the National war bonds this afternoon had reached the stupendors figure of £1,000,000,000. (No ...
Article : 51 wordsSir Joseph Cook has inspected the Australian base post office, kit store, and the War Chest Club. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn Italian official message says: Our borsaglien on crossing the Piave occupied an islet south-westward of Grave di Papadopoli, taking 36 prisoners. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 17 Aug 1918, Page 5
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