It is officially announced that the enemy's squadron fired upon the coastguard gunboat Haleyon, and then retreated. Our light cruisers were unable ...
Article : 408 wordsA message from the High Commissioner to the Minister for External Affairs, dated London, Tuesday, 3.40 p.m., states:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,164 wordsIt is understood that the members of the 15th Battalion of Infantry, and the [?]th Battalion of Infantry Reinforcements, will undertake a route march from the ...
Article : 612 wordsThe Attorney-General (Hon. D. R. Hall), answering a question put to him by Mr. T. Brown in the Legislative Assembly to-night, said that he had noticed ...
Article : 269 wordsThe State Treasurer, who is doing duty as Acting Premier, was approached principally in his capacity of Minister for Public Works yesterday by a "Courier" ...
Article : 543 wordsOwing to the intensity of the bombardment of the Austrian fortified port of Cattaro, in the Adriatic, the Administration has been transferred to Fiume. ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, inspected the camp of prisoners of war at Newbury, and as he walked among the men he was loudly cheered. ...
Article : 39 wordsAn official communique issued in Paris states: The enemy has apparently abandoned the left bank of the Yser below Dixmude. The Allies have ...
Article : 104 wordsThe London wool sales were opened to-day, when Messrs. Helmuth Schwartze and Co., Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Williams and Co., and Windelar offered a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 164 wordsA meeting of those concerned in various ways in the wheat trade took place to-day to endeavour to arrive at a solution of the difficulty that has ...
Article : 128 wordsAn official announcement states: The inndations to the south of Niewport, in Belgium, preclude all military operations. The whole district has been destroyed, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Premiers' Conference was opened this morning. The delegates present were the Hons. A. Fisher (Prime Minister), W. M. Hughes (Federal Attorney-General), ...
Article : 233 wordsWhile retaking Ramscapelle the Belgian troops captured three heavy guns, which had been cleverly concealed, and with which the Germans were bombarding ...
Article : 33 wordsSeveral hundreds more German officers acquainted with the organisation of the Turkish Army have arrived at Constantinople. ...
Article : 29 wordsA Belgian communique states that the enemy has retreated to the eastward of the Yser, between Nieuport and Dixmude. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe German authorities at Liege have posted a proclamation stating that the inhabitants need not be astonished if numerous German troops traverse the ...
Article : 45 wordsMany Turks have been arrested here, as aliens, and deported. Turkey has concentrated a large camel force on the frontier. ...
Article : 37 wordsOn July 29 last the Hamburg-Australian Company's steamship Adelaide, fitted with wireless, was off Capetown en route from Hamburg to Brisbane, via ...
Article : 793 wordsBelgian officers assert that the fire from the warships alone saved the Belgians from disaster at Nieuport, as they were worn out by many weeks of ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is notified by advertisement that experienced laundrymen are wanted for the Expeditionary Force. Applications should be made at once to the officer ...
Article : 36 wordsThe British authorities have proclaimed martial law in Egypt. A camel corps, numbering 1000, under 10 German officers, is concentrating on the ...
Article : 72 wordsAt a meeting of the Patriotic Committee last evening, Mr. Victor Drury presiding, the treasurer (Mr. Alex. Hunter) submitted a statement which showed ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Massey, the Prime Minister, said the New Zealand people had not yet had an opportunity of appreciating the valuable ...
Article : 172 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that an extraordinary number of wounded are arriving in Berlin. The people's enthusiasm is abating. All the hospitals are full, and ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Home Secretary was asked yesterday to express his views regarding the labour market. He commenced with the reassuring statement that ...
Article : 387 wordsThe wheat market is firm, and prices unchanged. Sellers are offering sparingly. ...
Article : 18 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly Mr. David Storey expressed anxiety to know the number of naturalised persons employed in the public service, whether there were ...
Article : 156 wordsDespite the assurance given that Turks would be permitted to leave Great Britain, the Porte has announced that a special train, organised by the American ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Treasury has appointed a committee representing the Treasury, the Bank of England, the Joint Stock Banks, and the Association of Chambers of Commerce to ...
Article : 68 wordsA telegram received here states that a mysterious wounded person arrived at Strasburg, and the Military Governor received him with extreme deference. The ...
Article : 61 wordsAn Imperial manifesto has been issued to the following effect:—"Having failed against Russia, Germany and Austria have incited Turkey to take up arms. This fresh ...
Article : 65 wordsMany merchants are complaining to the Post Office regarding the abolition of the ten-letter word system for cablegrams. ...
Article : 26 wordsFurther particulars of the dash by the German squadron show that some warships flying the White Ensign were seen approaching Yarmouth, and when ...
Article : 123 wordsSir,—Permit me space to bring before your readers a scheme whereby we may be of practical financial benefit to the truly galiant Belgian people without it ...
Article : 653 wordsThe shipments of meat from the Argenting during October were as follow: Frozen mutton, 141,491 carcases; lamb, 37,491 carcases; frozen beef, 169,457 ...
Article : 37 wordsA special meeting of the Red Cross Society will be held at 2 p.m. to-day to receive the sub-committee's report regarding the appointment of a clerk. The ...
Article : 280 wordsA spectator, during a review of German troops last week, states that he heard the Kaiser say: "They wish to kill Germany. If we gain—and we must ...
Article : 83 wordsRussia has a large army in the Caucasus, which many volunteers, including a number of Armenian students, are joining. Much war enthusiasm is being displayed. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Australian Voluntary Hospital has been established in an hotel, with nearly 200 beds, at Wimereux, near Boulogne, which is the base for the English ...
Article : 57 wordsServia has broken off diplomatic relations with Turkey. ...
Article : 17 wordsA bomb thrown by a British aviator at Thielt fell on a sport where the Kaiser had 15 minutes earlier given audience to the headquarters staff. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs has received the following message from the High Commissioner:— London, November 4, 12.20 a.m.—The ...
Article : 92 wordsIt has been officially announced throughout India that no religious question is involved in Turkey's action. France and Russia have joined in England's ...
Article : 59 wordsFrench aviators dropped bombs on the headquarters of the Wurtemberg Army at Thielt, 12 miles north-east of Courtrai, in Belgiu, on Sunday. They threw a large ...
Article : 70 wordsSir,—I read with surprise a letter which appeared in the Press of a recent date suggesting that amusements should cease while the present war is on. Not only as ...
Article : 392 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs has received the following message from the High Commissioner, dated London, November 3, 2.40 a.m.:— ...
Article : 372 wordsThe German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gniesenau, and Nurnburg arrived at Valparaiso, and resailed after taking in provisions. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Nizam of Hyderabad, in a stirring manifesto, states that the British cause is right and just, and the bounden duty of the Indian Mohammedans is to firmly ...
Article : 156 wordsA spy informed the Germans that M Poincare (the French President) and King Albert of Belgium were inspecting the Franco-Belgian cavalry in the square ...
Article : 112 wordsIn response to Mrs. E. S. Jackson's appeal for pillow slips for field hospital use, the Lutwyche Parish Church of England Girls' Club gave a successful ...
Article : 60 wordsA British cruiser has captured the German ship Melpomene, bound from Tocopilla, [?] Chile, with a cargo of nitrate. She has been taken to Queenstown. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn connection with a notification recently issued regarding the use of codes in cablegrams on and from 1st instant, the Deputy Postmaster-General advises it ...
Article : 99 wordsInformation was received in Brisbane yesterday that the work of discharging the phosphates from the steamer Signal was completed at Melbourne on Monday. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Russians are giving the Austro-German troops no rest, and their retreat, which was at first orderly, has now become confused and hasty. The ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is officially announced that the fleet of the Allies bombarded the Dardanelles, and blew up the fort at Cape Helles, the ...
Article : 43 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Fihelly asked the acting Chief Secretary if he would take measures to have rents fixed in a manner similar to ...
Article : 115 wordsA meeting of Mohammedans at Quetta adopted a resolution emphasising Baluchistan's fidelity to Great Britain. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. H. Morris, secretary to the committee, writes: Sir,—The children of the Dulong State School have decided to forego their annual school breaking-up ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 5 Nov 1914, Page 7
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