An interesting gathering took place at the officers of the Howard Motor and Cycle Co., Ltd., Brisbane, on Thursday afternoon, when Mr. Jas. Howard ...
Article : 136 wordsReuter's Agency states that the British on Thursday captured an important strategic point at La Bassee. The German losses were heavy, many prisoners ...
Article : 87 wordsNinety-three of the most prominent men of Germany distinguished in various branches of science, art, education, and literature, have recently circulated ...
Article : 1,502 wordsDisappointment awaited theo small group of spectators who went out to Richmond to-day to see Captain Henry Petre, of the Australian Aviation Corps, and his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 689 wordsA high power wireless station has been found in the Isthmus of Panama through the investigations of British agents. Other similar stations, situated somewhere in ...
Article : 61 wordsThe hon. treasurer (Lieutenant-Colonel Plant) acknowledges the following additional donations: Previously acknowledged, £15,378/14/5. Paddington Pictures, Uc., ...
Article : 247 wordsFather Bernard Vaughan, speaking in the East End of London, in reply to the German Jesuits' Society, who denounced him for his views on the war, asserted ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is salisfactory to be able to announce that the difficulties in the way of sending another larger force to the front have been surmounted to a considerable ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsWedder's Annual Review of the meat trade states that the experiences of the war have already shown that for case of transport, capacity to stand exposure, and ...
Article : 137 wordsThe German Minister at Copenhagen has told the correspondent of the "Petrograd Courier" that had weather alone prevented the bombardment of London ...
Article : 42 wordsCommander Colonel Holmes and 250 men of the Commonwealth naval and military expeditionary force to New Guinea will return home to Sydney to-morrow by the ...
Article : 102 wordsA fifth consignment of clothing for the Belgians was sent to the old country this week by the Toowong Sewing Guild. The number of new garments totals about ...
Article : 82 words"Le Gaulois" states that the Germans are prepared to defend Lille, street by street. Cement trenches have been constructed and four naval guns placed in ...
Article : 37 wordsA communique says: A mist hampered artillery operations in Belgium, but there was a violent cannonade around Nieuport and Ypres. The Belgians blew ...
Article : 226 wordsWheat is firm, and dearer, with few offers from sellers, who prefer to hold for a further rise of 6d. or 1/, in sympathy with the American market. Northern ...
Article : 84 wordsThe social evenings arranged by the church people of St. Mary's, Kangaroo Point, for the naval men on active service were resumed on Thursday evening ...
Article : 186 wordsHer Majesty Queen Alexandra says that she has tend of the work of the Young Men's Christian Association among the Army and Navy with much ...
Article : 455 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph's"- correspondent at Havre states that the reply of his Holiness the Pope to King Albert was most cordial. His Holiness ...
Article : 98 wordsThe aquatic, bodies of the metropolis, including the Queensland Rowing Association, the Queensland Amateur Swimming Association, the Queensland ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Bank of England returns for the week ended yesterday are as set out in the following table, which for purposes of comparison shows the return for the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe attempt of the Germans to move new guns to the coast has been abandoned. The guns sank up to the breechblocks in mud. An epidemic of fever ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Bundaberg Patriotic Fund is now approaching £3000, practically all of which will be devoted for relief in Belgium and Grear, Britain. At a meeting of ...
Article : 162 wordsA wharf-labourer named Alfred Holdway (35) came before Mr. C. A. M. Morris, P.M., yesterday, in the Central Police Court, charged with having ...
Article : 384 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" states that the resignation of Court Berchtold from the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs in Austro-Hungary, who opposed ...
Article : 78 wordsNearly 90 German officials from the islands that were till a few months ago under German rule will be passengers from Sydney by the Sonoma to-morrow for San ...
Article : 99 wordsGeneral von Kluck is commanding the German troops in the neighbourhood of Soissions. The attack north-east of Soissons was of ...
Article : 141 wordsSir,—The present international crisis invites self-analysis from all pioneers of peace. What force creates to-day force may destroy to-morrow. The only true ...
Article : 654 wordsAn official communique states: During the last 24 hours we made considerable progress along the right bank of the Vistula, and occupied Serpice. ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Agriculture to-day it was decided that the executive of the chamber should wait on the Minister for Customs and ...
Article : 62 wordsDriver Jack Stanley Allan, of the Third Artillery Brigade, who is a son of Mr. J. Allan, of the Survey Office, in a lette to Mr. J. Allan, states:—We called at one ...
Article : 321 wordsThe Germans have begun a bombardment of the whole of the Russian front with [?]in. and other types of guns, Maxims, and rifles. Russian communiques ...
Article : 89 wordsKitchcner, Ltd., a city firm of outfitters, was charged in the Water Police Court to-day with having penalised an employee, Robert Halliday, serving in the ...
Article : 194 wordsThe battle in Flanders is confined to artillery and aircraft. The fields are converted into lakes and the trenches into deep ditches, making it impossible for the ...
Article : 94 wordsThough only £5/12/7 was added to our Aeroplane Fund yesterday, quite a number of birds were responsible for the sum. For instance:—Severeal of Mother ...
Article : 422 wordsA force of Cossacks ambushed two companies of Turks and 120 gunners on the Caucasian frontier, and killed or took prisoners the whole of the enemy. The ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Legislative Assembly passed the second reading of the Industries Assistance Bill, without division, after protests from some of the agricultural ...
Article : 115 wordsAnother German aeroplane has been brought down at Amiens. Its occupants lost their lives. PETROGRAD, Friday. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Minister for Works (Hon. A. H. Griffith) stated to-day that he had refused, and would continue to refuse, to receive deputations from unemployed, as ...
Article : 128 wordsSir,—In a Brisbane Labour paper of Wednesday's date appeared a grossly disloyal article, to which the attention not only of all Liberals but also of all ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Russians in the Caucasus have been reinforced by Armenian volunteers and Siberian Cossacks. The Turkish rearguard, which was ...
Article : 48 wordsThe first opportunity of seeing the world's fastest swimmer—Duke Kahanamoku—and his speedy swimming companion—George Cunha—will be afforded ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Germans have removed the famous copper group from the Church of the Sacred Heart, at Turnbout, in the north of Belgium, and ...
Article : 54 wordsTwo hundred of the German survivors of the naval battle off the Falkland Islands have arrived in England. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Dutch authorities, without any explanatin, suddenly have removed 30 british officers from the intermittent camp at Groninam to the fortress of ...
Article : 43 wordsSir,—I stand corrected about my misstatement [?] the [?]agle on the buttons of the 87th Regiment. At the time of writing my letter I could not put my hand on a ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Geo. Marchant, Taringa, has received from Mr. R. B. Shackleton, Glass House Mountains, a picture from an English paper headed "The Only One." The ...
Article : 61 wordsA member of the crew of the steamer Bellevue, which was captured by the converted liner, Kronprinz Wilhelm, relates that at the outbreak of the war the liner ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 16 Jan 1915, Page 5
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