Yesterday's mails brought more encouraging letters respecting the "Courier" Patriotic Funds, and donations for them amounting to £123/3. Included in these ...
Article : 1,444 wordsAn official communique issued to-day states: We have seized several points of support at Perthes and [?]-Hurles. We have made ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Defence Department advises that it is officially reported that Driver Norman Matthews, 9th Batt., First Expeditionary Force, died of heart failure at ...
Article : 150 wordsLast Friday the "Courier" published an appeal from Private F. J. Thorpe, of the A.S.C., Enoggera camp, asking if some patriotic individual could provide a ...
Article : 138 wordsA Renter message from Washington states that Great Britain has informed America that turpentine and resin, shipped before Great Britain declared them ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. William Redmond, in an article in the " Daily Chronicle," says:—"By every consideration of honour and sentiment Ireland is heart and soul with the Allies ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Ship Purchase Bill, which is now before the United States Senate, has been made a strictly party measure. Senator Lodge described it as being thoroughly ...
Article : 148 wordsDocuments in an Eastern language have come into the possession of the Broken Hill police, purporting to give an account by Mahomed Gool and Mulla Abdulla of ...
Article : 376 wordsThe recruiting boom which eat in at Victoria Barracks yesterday was well maintained throughout to-day. It was announced that 165 recruits had been ...
Article : 35 wordsThree thousand members attended the [?]eopening to-day of the London Stock Exchange, which had been closed since the outbreak of the war, and they sang ...
Article : 140 wordsCharles Upgold, Clifford Richardson, James Pascoe, and A. F. Richardson left by last night's train to join the Expeditionaiy Force. Alexander Ingram and ...
Article : 174 wordsA sum of £8// was received yesterday for the aeroplane Fund. A donation of £ was received from the Beach Mountain Progress Association and ...
Article : 253 wordsThere are indications that 30 German reservists and German-Americans will be prosecuted for participation in the fraudulent passport conspiracy. The ...
Article : 143 wordsA telegram from Berlin states that the first exchange of permanently incapacitated prisoners will be made at Geneva this month. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Berne correspondent of the Morning Post" states that the death sentence passed by Court-martial on the British prisoner of war Lonsdale for alleged ...
Article : 64 wordsIn response to a request from the editor of the London "Daily Chronicle" (Mr. Robert Donald) for an expression of "Queensland's feelings towards the Mother ...
Article : 146 wordsThe wheal market is firm at an advance of 3d. to 6d. 'per quarter owing to the anticyclonic weather prevailing in Argentina, and the buoyancy of the markets in ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt, in an article appearing in the "Independent," entitled "Utopia or Hell?" says that while a breach of an international agreement ...
Article : 176 wordsThe price of bread has been advanced to 7½d. per quartern (41b.) loaf. The corn merchants attribute the advance to the rise in freights and the failure of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe German Government is forming a co-operative comoany with a large capital for the purpose of controlling breadstuffs. The company will be empowered ...
Article : 64 wordsActing in conformity with a royal proclamation issued on December 23 the Federal Executive notifies, in a special edition of the "Commonwealth Gazette," ...
Article : 602 wordsThe Blanket Fund is using steadily and before this some of the blankets at first contributed should have reached their destinations. Yesterday an ...
Article : 102 wordsTo be fully prepared for the economic struggle after the war, busy investigations have been made by the Japanese Government. Commissioners have been ...
Article : 401 wordsThe Agent-General for New South Wales, Sir T. A. Coghlan, has sent the Sydney Citizens' War Chest Fund consignments of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe expulsion of the Germans from Steinbach was largely due to the effect of the French 3in, quick-firing guns. The Germans abandoned 2300 killed and ...
Article : 45 wordsA communique states: Unimportant work has taken place on the left bank of the Vistulu. There was some desperate fighting on January 2 and 3 in the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe New Year message sent by the Premier of Tasmania (Mr. Earle) to the Motherland has been published. The newspapers [?] a New Year ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. G. B. Brooks (Instructor in Agriculture) will shortly return to the Burnett to give advice in furtherance of the Minister's scheme to encourage farmers ...
Article : 148 wordsA German communique, after denying, now admits that the French have taken Steinbach it adds that the Trench also captured positions on the heights west ...
Article : 41 wordsThe order issued by the Government commandeering troops for service has been well received, and the burghers are readily responding to the commandoes. ...
Article : 33 wordsA statement issued by the RuDbcr Club asserts that the British embargo on the export of rubber is costing the industry about 230,000 dollars (£50,000) daily. It ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the London " Daily Mail" states that one Russian army is pursing the Austrians on the Hungarian side of the Carpathian ...
Article : 77 wordsThe fighting at Cernay was formidable, [?] the roar of the guns was unceasing for three days. The valleys were filled with the bodies of cattle and the debris ...
Article : 268 wordsTwo Britsh cruisers bombarded Dar-esSalaam, the capital and principal port of German East Africa, and disabled all the enemy's shipping. Fourtten Europeans ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Archbishops of New York, Baltimore, and Boston have approached President Woodrow Wilson, urging him to send a special mission to the Vatican, as was ...
Article : 44 wordsThere is a great danger of a shortage of bread in Tasmania soon if the millers do not immediately get a supply of wheat. the Premier (Hon. J. Earle) ...
Article : 421 wordsThe German steamer Otavl has arrived from Pernambuco in Brazil, and landed 38 sailors from French ships which were sunk by the German auxiliary cruiser ...
Article : 113 wordsAn official communique states: The battle of Sarykamish continues to develop to our advantage. We dislodged the enemy at Ardagan after fierce ...
Article : 54 wordsIn connection with the recent transfer of troops from Brisbane to Sydney and Melbourne, it is interesting to note (while the question of uniform guage is ...
Article : 320 wordsA telegram from Durazzo states that the Albanian insurgents on Sunday demanded that the French and Servian Ministers should be handed over to them. ...
Article : 100 wordsSome time ago, at the request of the Imperial Government, the export of wool hides, and skins from Australia was stopped. The Imperial Government has ...
Article : 165 wordsA Norwegian shipmaster from [?] reports that some German steamers attempted to sail under Norwegian names in order to avoid seizure. The ...
Article : 69 wordsYard by yard the Germans in Belgium are being forced towards the Dutch frontier. A large force of German marines is constructing defence works two and a ...
Article : 80 wordsThe war loan of £40,000,000 issued by the Italian Government has been oversubscribed. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that Dr. W. H. page (American Ambassador to England) has informed President Wilson ...
Article : 105 wordsFour German spies, including a man disguised as a priest, have been arrested at Belfort. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe "North German Gazette" publishes an article justifying the shelling of Scarborough, because, it says, there is a redoubt there with 6in. guns. The ...
Article : 53 wordsAt a mass meeting of hotelkeepers, held in the Sydney Town Hall this afternoon, it was resolved that a beginning should be made to monow with the charging of ...
Article : 85 wordsThe hon. treasurer (Lieutenant-Colonel Plant) acknowledges the following additional donations:—Previously acknowledged, £14,831/13/; Kangaroo Point ...
Article : 195 wordsAction has been taken on behalf of the naturalised German natives of the Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union, in connection with the recent decision of the union, ...
Article : 145 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" publishes a letter from a German seaman testifying to the absolute comfort and the great kindness he and his comrades are experiencing ...
Article : 61 wordsAdmiral Sir John Jellicoe in a letter states that the navy spent Christmas Day waiting for the Germans. Church services were held, but the communion was ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the Coburg Court, William Scott, a prvate, attached to the military forces at Broadmeadows camp, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on a charge ...
Article : 96 wordsSpecial intercessory services were held in the Chruch of England throughout the parish of Laidley on Sunday. At St. Saviour's a large number of ...
Article : 112 wordsGerman and other delegations appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign The Saloon de Luxe, the Pall Mall, ...
Article : 71 wordsIn a new year message to the Kaiser the Berlin Chamber of Commerce said it trusted that all the wounds inflicted up German economic life would be healed and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "New York Times," in an article on British naval strategy, the authorship of which is attributed to an American naval writer ranking next to the late ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 6 Jan 1915, Page 7
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