An official communique issued in Paris states:—We maintained our front at Nieuport and Dixmude on Sunday. The Germans, who crossed the Yser, made no ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,250 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Messagero" states that the Austrian right has been completely turned. The Germans in Poland continue to retreat ...
Article : 51 wordsSince the announcement first was made that the military authorities intended to enrol a Second Expdeitionary Force very little publicity has by request been given ...
Article : 382 wordsThe "Tribuna" states that the hasty return of the cruisers Goeben and Breslan to the Bosphorus from the Black Sea was due to the Russian and British ...
Article : 80 wordsA deputation representing the Victorian Mill Owners' Association waited to-day upon the Price of Goods Board to ask that the board should take action to ...
Article : 152 wordsVienna newspapers state that a new Austrian aerial Dreadnought, which cost £5400, collapsed at the first trial and was destroyed. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is reported that the Japanese artillery sank an Austrian cruiser in Kiau-chau Bay. [The only Austrian warship which was known ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Italians whom the Tsar proposes to sent to Italy number 5000. [A message published in the "Courier" on Monday stated that the Tsar had made an offer ...
Article : 122 wordsJapan has protested to the United States Government against the German cruiser Geier being allowed to remain longer at Honolulu, as her repairs have been ...
Article : 37 wordsAn official return prepared for the Minister for Labour (Mr. Estell) sets out that there are at present 13,500 unemployed in this State. This includes 5600 ...
Article : 106 wordsColonel Van der Venter is engaging the force of Colonel Maritz in the Calvinia district, in the north-west of the Cape of Good Hope Province. Ninety-two ...
Article : 99 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, attended a meeting of the Frivy Council, and afterwards was received in audience by the King. ...
Article : 36 wordsGratification has been expressed in Melbourne at the generous action of the Wertheim Company, which has given no fewer than 18 pianos for the benefit of ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following is a copy of a cablegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated London, 24th October, 11.40 p.m.:— ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Board of Trade has decided not to permit the use of a "British Empire" trade mark. ...
Article : 25 wordsDr. H. B. Follett, who has been appointed a surgeon in the First Australian Field Hospital, has been for four years captain of the A.A.M.C., in Maryborough. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Institute of Industry and Commerce proposes the formation of a Trade Bank, supported by leading English banks, which will make advances to the extent of 60 ...
Article : 38 wordsCount Bernstorff, the German Ambassador to the United States, claims Germany's right to land troops in Canada if possible because the sending of troops ...
Article : 69 wordsThe wheat market is steady, and more wheat is offering. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that for a fortnight the Germans have been showing the greatest bravery, and making ...
Article : 422 words"District Orders" to hand contain the following information:— Second Lieutenant H. G. Hinton, 2nd Light Horse, has passed an examination for lieutenant. ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Bradford wool market is buoyant, and prices are against buyers, but there is only a meagre business, owing to the scarcity of stocks. ...
Article : 29 wordsA communique issued at midnight last night states that Nieuport had been violently bombarded, and the German effort was continued on the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" commends the action of the Sydney auctioneer in refusing to take bids for wool on German account in view of the ...
Article : 57 wordsGreece has announced its intention to reoccupy Northern Epirus, in view of the breakdown of the Albanian Government. The Greek Government emphasises that ...
Article : 37 wordsThe "Journal" states that with the object of drawing the Germans towards Dixmude, the Allies feigned the abandonment of the town. A Prussian regiment ...
Article : 115 wordsSilly stories have been current for several weeks discrediting the loyalty of Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg. The "Globe" discusses the subject apologetically, ...
Article : 194 wordsIn further reference to a recent notification concerning the use of abbreviated telegraphic indicators in the addresses of telegrams accepted in British territory ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 164 wordsIt is officially announced that an Italian naval expedition has occupied Valona, in Albania, for the purpose of safeguarding the neutrality of Albania. ...
Article : 31 wordsGeorge Field, a wharf labourer, and a married man, was late last night sitting on the street doorstep of his home in Seal-place, off Goulburn-street, city, when ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Belgians lost 10,000 dead and wounded in the nine days' fighting at the Yser. No fewer than 2500 bodies of German soldiers were found in the Yser ...
Article : 77 wordsThe London correspondent of the New York "Evening Post" having accused the censorship of seeking to conceal German successes and blacken Germany's ...
Article : 60 wordsTheodore Oswald Lattorenf, an old German, who lived the life of a hermit and miser, has died leaving a fortune in cash and property valued at about £20,000. ...
Article : 80 wordsDetails concerning the sinking of the German submarine by the torpedo boat destroyer Badger show that the Badger was cruising off the Dutch coast when the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Telegraph" states that the Germans have reoccupied Roulers, in Belgium, 10 miles north-west of Courtrai. The Allies have gained ground near Nieuport. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe "Telegraaf" published a message received from German sources to the effect that the French are greatly strengthening the forts in the vicinity of Belfort and ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the amendments made by the Legislative Council in the Local Government Bill were considered. Mr. Webber said he ...
Article : 426 wordsA naval officer writes that the latest German dodge is re place an imitation periscope on a mine, hoping that some British warship will ram it on the ...
Article : 52 wordsThere were 250,000 Germans massed at Ypres. The British force held them in check for five days, despite the siege guns from Antwerp sometimes burying the men ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Berlin papers state that up to October 21 the number of prisoners of war in Germany were:— French, 2472 officers, 146,807 men. ...
Article : 76 wordsHaving discharged the Adelaide nortion of the cargo, the captured steamer Griefswald was to-day cleared at the Port Adelaide Customs House for Brisbane, via ...
Article : 88 wordsPrincip and the other men who were charged with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand have been found guilty, and they will be sentenced ...
Article : 59 wordsA steamer conveying a number of Belgian refugees struck a mine off Boulogne. A panic ensued, and 30 of those on board were drowned. The rest ...
Article : 222 wordsThe hon. treasurer (Mrs. W. H. Barnes) acknowledges the following additional donations:—Previously acknowledged, £8092/11/9; Kirchheim branch, ...
Article : 202 wordsIt is stated that the recovery of Prince Oscar, the fifth son of the Kaiser, is considered doubtful. He is suffering from partial paralysis of the vagus (or ...
Article : 52 wordsCaptain Svensen, accompanied by Mrs. Svensen, returned to Brisbane last night by the steamer Eastern after a trip to Norway and Sweden. Captain Svensen ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs has received the following messages from the High Commissioner:— London, October 26, 6.55 p.m. Paris ...
Article : 308 wordsAn official announcement in Berlin states: The enemy is obstmately defending Nieuport and Dixmude. The German artillery forced the British fleet eight miles off the ...
Article : 94 wordsGeneral Falkerhazn has succeeded the late General von Moltke as Chief of the General Staff of the German Army. ...
Article : 26 wordsM. Pichon, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs, writing to the "Petit Journal," expresses regret that the Allies have not appealed for the co-operation ...
Article : 48 wordsCorporal Cole, of the Field Artillery, has arrived at Aberdeen wounded. He narrates a thrilling charge of the Bengal Lancers. The British had been fighting ...
Article : 149 wordsA correspondent writing from England closes his letter thus:—"From the way we are taking and doing in this 'millionenschelacht'—an accursed word so beloved of ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Germans in the Straits Settlements and the adjacent British territorios have been interned. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 28 Oct 1914, Page 7
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