"Eye-witness" with the Brisbane headquarters, reports:- The Germans made a big concentration at Ypres on Saturday, under cover of a ...
Article : 851 wordsThe renewed fighting on Hill 60 was of a most desperate character. Princess Patricia's (Canadian) Regiment and the Second Gloucestershires were almost ...
Article : 196 wordsA desperate battle is proceeding in the regi[?]n between the towns of Gallipoil and Maidlos, in the Gallipoli Peninsula.the British bittleship Queen Elizabeth is ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt, in a maga[?]ne article entitled "Murder on the High Seas," says America is being neutral as Pontius Pilate was neutral. President Wilson's ...
Article : 114 wordsLarge and small donations, amounting to nearly £500, which were received by the "Courier" from all parts of Queensland yesterday, carried the grand total to ...
Article : 1,000 wordsThe Russian fleet has destroyed an ultra modern fort on the Bosphorus. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt a large meeting of the Baptist Association last night the following resolution was parsed, on the motion of the Rev. A. G. Weller, seconded by the Rev. A. C. ...
Article : 133 wordsMonday's bombardment of the Dardanelles by the Allied warships was of unprecedented violence, and lasted for 13 hours. All the largest battleships ...
Article : 33 wordsEnemy aliens have been requested not to enter the Stock Exchange. The mayor has summoned a meeting to protest against the German brutalities. A German fiag ...
Article : 168 wordsGreat depression previls in Constantinople. The unmber killed in the recent battles exceeds that in the severest actions in the Ballkans war. The popular ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Admiralty have published detalis of the action in the North Sea which was reported on May 2 Two German torpedo boats attacked the auxiliary eraft ...
Article : 124 wordsIt is officially stated that the French success between Loos and Neuville St. Vaast was one of the most notable episodes in the Western fighting area. Carency, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Warwick branch of the Royal Society of St. George cabled yesterday to General Bridges as follows: "Warwick St. Georgians congratulate the troops on ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Asquith, speaking in the House of Commons to-day, made allusion to the progressive violation by the enemy of the rules of civilised warfare and of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 106 wordsCorporal A. E. Beresford is a son of Commander Beresford, who was associated with the good work done by the Naval and Expeditionary Force which went to ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Minister for Defence announced in the Senate to-night that he had received a cable from the Admiralty stating that so far they were not in receipty of any ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 99 wordsA Reuter message from Paris states that a wounded officer, refrring to the fact that 3000 Germans had been taken prisoners, remarked, "We have killed ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Mitylene states that the Turks on Friday were fishting desperately to prevent being pushed into the sea between ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 76 wordsWith a view to the constituting of a National Ministry during the war, Mr. F. H. Booth, Liberal member for Pontefract, in the Houso of Commons to-day, ...
Article : 86 wordsThe following communique was issued last night:—The engagements north of Arras continue with extreme violence. The enemy, who had been reinforced ...
Article : 81 wordsGerman aviators dropped bombs on Compiegne and Audry, but no damage was done. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is officially announced that except for the temporary surrounding of General Korniloff's division the fighting for the last nine days in Galicia has consisted ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. T. W. Gerard, American Ambassador in Berlin, has reported to Sir Edward Grey that typhus fever has broken out in ten camps in Germany where ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Asquith, replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, said the Government, in conjunction with employers and workmen, was taking all ...
Article : 45 wordsThe British attack commenced on Saturday with a terrific bombardment of the German trenches on the hills. Then the right and centre carried the first line of ...
Article : 307 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Temps" slates that it is known in wellinformed Italian circles that Germany intended to invade Italy after the ...
Article : 76 wordsIt is semi-officially estimated that the Australians and Germans have already lost 100,000 men in the eight days' battle in Galicia. The Russians continue an heroic ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. T. J. Macnamara, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, said the Admiralty was conferring ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Immature Spirits Restriction Bill, as foreshadowed by Mr. Lleyd George, prohibits the sale of spints for consumption unless they have been stored in a ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Coal Conciliation Boards have granted to the Durham and Northumberland miners an advance in wages of 15 per cent., and to the Scottish miners ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is announced officially that Lieutenant A. F. Wilding, the ex-champion tennis player, has been killed in action. LONDON, Thursday. ...
Article : 53 wordsAt the wool sales to-day there was keen competition for all crossbreds, and prices hardened. Merinos were firm, but unchanged Following were the prices ...
Article : 73 wordsA Blue Book has been published containing the report of Lord Bryce's committee on the alleged German outrages in Belgium. It states that it ...
Article : 811 wordsA lifeboat belonging to the Lusitania, floating bottom up, has been picked up off the Fastnet Rock. It contained the bodies of four women and two children. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe wheat market is quict. Walla wheat, February-March shipment, is quoted at 67/ per 480lb. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, informed Mr. R. P. Houston in the House of Commons to-day that it was impossible to employ ...
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Article : 14 wordsHis Majesty the King gave audience to-day to Sir Edward Henry, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, and Lieutenant Sladen, chief officer of the London Fire ...
Article : 78 wordsSpeaking at a recruiting meeting at Palmerston North, Mr. Marsey (Premier) described the sinking of the Lusitania as one of the foulest crimes in history. ...
Article : 190 wordsWild anti-German demonstrations have occurred in London, at Aldgate, Limehouse, Stepney, bethnal Green, and Poplar. A number of shops were wrecked. ...
Article : 505 wordsThe casualties now reported total 729. The details are: Twelve officers and 28 men killed or died of wounds, two officers wounded or are missing, 34 officers ...
Article : 61 wordsThe hearing was concluded to-day in the Central Court of the case in which Ernest Hugo Becker, gem merchant, was charged in two charges of trying to trade ...
Article : 133 wordsA message from Washington states that the United States note, in an emphatic tone, asks Germany to account for the loss of American lives by the torpedoing of the ...
Article : 215 wordsSir John French reports: We repulsed another attack south of the Menin-road— being the third costly failure of the enemy there—yesterday. The situation in ...
Article : 47 wordsContributions received yesterday made the success of the Second Light Horse Kitchen Fund doubly certain. Among these was a munificent donation of £150 from ...
Article : 443 wordsThe charges made in the method of enlisting recruits in the country for the Expeditionary Force will, it is expected, emove causes for grumbling by men ...
Article : 143 wordsAn official communique issued to-day sates: The Germans during counterattacks last night recaptured from the French part of the Loos-Vermelles ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 14 May 1915, Page 7
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