An official communique issued to-day states: The only important occurrences in Belgium yesterday were some progress in the ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Chilian Minister at Washington has issued a statement to the effect that Chile strongly protested to Berlin against the violation of Chilian nentrality ...
Article : 48 wordsThere are now 600,000 Austro-Germans in West Galicia attempting to relieve Cracow and Przemysl, and they have sustained heavy losses in futile attempts ...
Article : 55 wordsDay after day the mails bring cheques, sometimes large and sometimes small, to add to the total of the Courier" Patriotic Funds, and each day shows that the call ...
Article : 997 wordsThe appeal published yesterday by the defence authorities for further volunteers for service abroad has met with a remarkably enthusiastic response. At the ...
Article : 56 wordsA pile of 4048 Mankeits and rugs would make a fairly high wall of wool, but even such a number as that will be few in the trenches way out in some ...
Article : 183 wordsThe first connected narrative of the severe fighting in which the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment was engaged on August 26, when in killed and ...
Article : 594 wordsOne of the problems of naval warfare which may be expected to be solved within the next few weeks is that of the "big ship." There are experts who declare that ...
Article : 1,500 wordsBelgrade was recaptured after a desperate struggle. Until the demoralisation set in the Austrians put up a good fight. The fall of a position at Torlak ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. John Hays Hammond, jun., announces the invention of a new projectile, which seatters molten metal over the object attacked, and fills the [?] ...
Article : 69 wordsA. R. Ogden, a member of the Expeditionary Forces, died in the Mebourne Hospital to-day from injuries received in a collisior with a [?]inker in Bourke-street ...
Article : 52 wordsFive volunteer left to-day to join the reinforcements for the Expeditionary Force. They were L. M'Gown, A. C. Lord, H. Trend, H. L. Helbronn, and ...
Article : 151 wordsThree months ago Mr. James Howard, managing director of the Howard Motor and Cycle Co., Ltd., offered to the "Courier" Patriotic Funds a sum of ...
Article : 339 wordsThe wheat market is firm at an advance of 1/ per quarter, and there is a scarcity of offers. ...
Article : 24 wordsA Reuter message states that following on Bulgaria's assurances regarding the maintenance of neutrality, the Triple Entente Powers have given guarantees at ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the Prize Court to-day the President (Sir Wm. Cullen, Chief Justice) delivered his reserved judgment in relation to the application by the ...
Article : 244 wordsThere was a slight recurrence of the disorderly conduct of soldiers and civilians in the city last night, which resulted in the arrest of several men, who appeared ...
Article : 192 wordsIt is officially reported that the Turks have evacuated the Sinai Peninsula. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe damage at Hartlepool is estimated at £150,000." Mr. Bonar Law, speaking at Cootle, said it was difficult to realise that a large ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Dunkirk correspondent of the London "Mail" reports that the airmen of the Allies dropped bombs and set fire to the Zeppelin shed at Brussels. A night ...
Article : 70 wordsThe following letter received by Mr. W. F. Finlayson, M.H.R., from the Minister for Trade and Customs, has been forwarded to the secretary of the ...
Article : 142 wordsA telegram from Brussels, via Berlin, states that the German military and civil authorities are convoking a Provincial Assembly for the whole of the conquered ...
Article : 98 wordsThe "Times," announcing the receipt of a further £3000 from Australia to the Red Cross Fund making a total of £50,000, states that it is a splendid gift, ...
Article : 55 wordsFour beautiful dolls have been donated to the Toowong Sewing Guild for the Belgian Fund, and will be disposed of to-morrow. They are on view in the ...
Article : 36 wordsAs the Government has discovered that some of the wheat arriving in Sydney recently has been shipped out of the State a new proclamation was issued ...
Article : 552 wordsIn the midst of his Imperial worries I feel sure the Kaiser is pausing to ponder over the woful collapse of his "American Policy" (writes F. W. Wile in the London ...
Article : 688 wordsYesterday the Premier (Hon. D. F. Denham), accompanied by the Commissioner for Railways (Colonel C. Evans), visited the Railway Works and partook ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Sluis correspondent of the "Tijd" states that the Allies, assisted by the fleet and the British artillery, occupied unopposed Lombaertzyde, St. Georges, ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Maharajah of Gwalior has presented the King, as a Christmas gift, with 41 ambulance cars, 4 motor cars for officers, 5 motor lorries, repair waggons, and ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. Deane, of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, has forwarded to the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) a cheque for £100, for presentation to the crew of ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant" states that there are 3000 German officers in Berlin whose nerves have been wreeked, and ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-morrow afternoon, at the Palace Gardens Theatre, the Buckler-Paget Company will give a special matinee performance in aid of the funds of the Red ...
Article : 142 wordsIt has been arranged by the Postal Department with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. that week-end cables may be sent to the Australian troops in ...
Article : 43 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle" states that the Allies are gradually driving back the enemy from Lille through morasses and mud, and hundreds of prisoners have ...
Article : 112 wordsMessages of sympathy with the Viceroy of India (Lord Hardinge) on the death of his gallant son, who lost his life at the front, have been most numerous. ...
Article : 66 wordsFollowing is a portion of a cabled report by Mr. M. Douohoe, was correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" —the first part of the message not having ...
Article : 172 wordsLieutenant-Colonel C. F. Plant (hon. treasurer) acknowledges the following additional donations:—Previously acknowledged, £14,228/2/1: Mrs. O'Neill. 10/; ...
Article : 306 wordsIt was stated recently, according to "Berliner Tageblatt," that China would bo Germany's next ally. It was also said that, doubtless, German secret agents are ...
Article : 527 wordsBrand Wessels member for Bethlehem in the Union House of Assembly, has been arrested at Bethlehem. It is understood that the arrest is in connection ...
Article : 39 wordsLille is without food. The German commandant, replying to the demand of the population, for food, said England's naval efforts to starve out Germany ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Dewee, Minister for Justice, speaking at Johannesburg, said over 4000 rebels had been imprisoned, and 1200 had been released on parole. ...
Article : 31 wordsA wireless message from Berlin states that an army order signed "Joffre" has been found upon a French officer. It declares that the enemy ...
Article : 114 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that the United States Government has drafted a Bill providing for fines or imprisonment for those who violate ...
Article : 125 wordsA communique states: The Germans in the Mlawa region have retired on the Lautenburg-Neidenburg line. No material incident has occurred on the left of the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe delegation of Queensland members, consisting of Colonel Rankin, Messrs Caine, Swayne, Lennon, Barber, and M'Cormack, arrived in Melbourne ...
Article : 184 wordsAn expression of the loyalty of the Australian Evangelical Lutheran Church has been received by the Prime Minister (Hon. A. Fisher) from the President of ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Messagero" confirms the report of a complete defeat of the Germans to the northward of the Vistula, and states that ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Evening Standard" states that fresh stories of German atrocities in Belgium are daily coming to light. One of these is that 60 ...
Article : 95 wordsA diplomat in Vienna has telegraphed to the American authorities to the effect that the leading financial and commercial men in Austria are anxious for peace. ...
Article : 59 wordsIn our school days we all read a simple little child's poem of birdie asking when she could fly, and its mother's reply of "Birdic must wait a little longer till its ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Kaiser has telegraphed to his aunt, the Dowager Duchess of Baden, as follows:—"Marshal von Hindenburg has announced that the Russians have retired ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—Real patriotism is the love of one's country, and is a virtue because of its unselfishness. The present war has appealed to the best instincts of our ...
Article : 178 wordsM. E Havenihh, Belgian Minister to the United States, has issued a statement in which it is explained that Germany's claim that proofs existed that the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe mail steamer Marie Henriette arrived last night (says an Ostend message of September 7) with a Red Cross Ambulance of the British Field Hospital, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe "Tijd" states that the Germans have evacuated Middelkerke. The aeroplanes of the Allies are busy examining the whole region between the Yser and ...
Article : 53 wordsDuring the fighting round Prasnyz, which finally ended in the Germans retreating, the enemy repeatedly assailed the Russian positions, but were swept ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Longreach Patriotic Fund now totals £3493. CUNNAMULLA, December 22. The Cunnamulla Patriotic Fund now ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 23 Dec 1914, Page 7
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