The War Office has announced that Australia, is supplying an additional Infantry Brigade and a Light Horse Brigade. Mr. Lewis Harcourt (Secretary of State ...
Article : 55 wordsWe had therefore, another 24 hours to spend in Tjilatjap. In dealing with Tuesday's events I omitted reference to one or two matters for the sake of keeping the ...
Article : 2,193 wordsA manifesto issued by the President (M. [?]oincare) and Ministers is as follows:— "Our armies are unimpaired. If some have sustained considerable loss the gaps ...
Article : 215 wordsAnother 45 infantry volunteers left by the express for the Morphettville camp. There was a big crowd to see the troops off, ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Swedish steamer Saint Paul, 2534 tons, built at Sunderland in 1906, struck a mine in the North Sea and foundered. The crew was landed at North Shields. ...
Article : 37 wordsA sergeant-major, in a letter from the front, says: "The worst about this war is not the fear of losing your life, but the hellish, nerve-racking noise. Townsmen ...
Article : 76 wordsIn order to assist refugees the Bank of England is cashing Belgian notes. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Government arranged for 2000 tons of Australian and Argentine meat at Liverpool to be sent to Paris last week and an additional 2000 tons are now being ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Russian troops under General Sansanoff drove back the Germans last week from Solda[?] to Osterode. The Russians fought with unflinching courage. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe wheat market is firm, and stocks are mostly held for an advance of 3d. to 6d. per quarter. A South Australian cargo by sailing vessel afloat is held for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 182 wordsThe anderwriters are demanding that stronger effort[?] should be made to capture the few German cruisers now at sea, chiefly in the South Atlantic, as fears ...
Article : 56 wordsTurkey has refused to allow United States warships to enter the Dardane[?]es with relief funds for stranded Americans, [?] mines have been laid throughout the ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is officially stated that apart from the enormous number of killed, the Austrians in East Galicia lost 40,000 prisoners, including many generals. The route ...
Article : 404 wordsIn celebrating "Sedan Day" to-day some French, Russian, and Belgian guns which had been captured were placed outside the palaces of the Kaiser and the Crown ...
Article : 40 wordsOn Monday last the Kaiser was with the Crown Prince's army, and he passed the night in the midst of the troops. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Germans bombarded Alost in Belgium, on Wednesday, and the cathedral was reduced to ruins. St. Rumbold's shrine was res[?]ued, and conveyed to ...
Article : 50 wordsA White Paper has been issued in which a description is given of the recent active support of the German Government to a secret organisation for the distribution ...
Article : 83 wordsStories of German brutalities are accumulating from all quarters. British army medical officers at [?]avre declare that when German soldiers are seriously ...
Article : 505 wordsThe correspondent at Dieppe of the London "Mail" states that on Tuesday night there was an unending stream of French troops into Paris. The ...
Article : 118 wordsA deliberate attempt was made in wreek a train on the Canadian northern railway near Port Hope. Spikes were placed on the rails, but they were ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Japanese report that certain staple lines of provisions at Tsingtan (Kiau-chau) are short, and frantic efforts are bemg made to collect foodstuffs of ...
Article : 52 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent states it is announced that the French Government will to-morrow proclaim the transfer of the Bank of France from Paris to ...
Article : 43 wordsTwenty thousand men enlisted yesterday, and the authorities in London are scarcely able to cope with the rush. Not[?] withstanding this enthusiam a circular ...
Article : 59 wordsReuter states that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, in replying to a message of good will from Buda-Pesth, the capital of [?]gary, declared that Hungary possessed ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Parliamentary committee of the Trade Union Congress in a manifesto strongly supports recruiting, and expresses gratification at the Labour Party ...
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Advertising : 56 wordsA British officer who was wounded at Compiegne states that the Germans were repeatedly repulsed on Wednesday, and sustained heavy losses. The Allies were ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Prime Minister has received the following message from the High Commissioner:— Official, dated September 3.—The ...
Article : 180 wordsHer Majesty the Queen, believing the prevention of distress to be better than relief, and employment better than charity, has inaugurated a "Queen's Work for ...
Article : 118 wordsPrince William of Wied, who was nominally King of Albania, left here to-day for Venice. ...
Article : 28 wordsA communique issued at midnight on Thursday states that since yesterday the Allies have not been in conduct with the enemy. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle" states that several German naval prisoners who were taken at Heligoland and confined in the barracks at Edinburgh, led by the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe United States Government has agreed to allow all belligerent nations to send and receive wireless messages in code or cipher through United States ...
Article : 34 wordsThe War Office has issued the following list of further casualties sustained by the British troops on the Continent: —Officers: [?] killed, 78 wounded, 86 ...
Article : 63 wordsThe subscriptions to the Australian Voluntary Hospital now total £8000. The Australian Contingent Association fund amounts to £4529, and the New ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsPresident Woodrow Wilson intends asking a joint session of Congress for a war taxation measure to raise £20,000,000 annually, the money to be used for various ...
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Advertising : 71 wordsMany of the Rugby Union and British Association Clubs have cancelled their fixtures. ...
Article : 19 wordsA cable message from the High Commissioner states:—"London, 3rd, [?],30 p.m.— Official: The Germans continue to advance. The enemy has pushed back ...
Article : 136 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the Duke of Westminster, in a recent hot engagement, carried to safety at great personal risk, under a heavy fire, Captain ...
Article : 41 wordsA lance[?] corporal in the Connaught Rangers, who was wounded, states:— "The disconcerting thing of the present fighting is that we seldom see the enemy. ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Hon. Sir James Sivewright, who was detained in Germany on the out-break of war, has reached England. He states that the hardships of Britishers ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Taube aeroplane, which has been dropping bombs on Paris, was brought down at Champigny, 7½ miles E.S.E. of the cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) has received the following cable messages from the Agent-General:—"Bank moratorium to be extended one month in ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Ulster Unionist Council at Belfast has adopted a resolution deprecating any attempt to interfere with the truce on the Home Rule question, and urging the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) to-day appointed two officers from the public service to make inquiries in connection with the export of foodstuffs, ...
Article : 98 wordsThe King and Queen visited 300 wounded soldiers in the London Hospital yesterday, and received a popular ovation. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Pickles, the Australian aviator, has been appointed a sub-lieutenant in the British Naval Flying Corps. ...
Article : 23 wordsColonel Debonho[?] reco[?]ts a surprising incident. Despite the rapidity with which the French guns changed their position, the fact was immediately known ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Bank of England return for the week ended yesterday is as act out in the following table, which for purposes of comparison shows the return for the ...
Article : 116 wordsA French airman, whose thin polished wooden planes were armoured below, sighted a German air scout at Chantilly at a great height. He then soared and ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 5 Sep 1914, Page 5
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