In the Prize Court to-day the Solicitor-General produced an affidavit by Major Dillon, of the War Office Staff, in which he estimates the numbers ...
Article : 118 wordsAn official communique states: We captured 500 prisoners and six machine guns east of Pontevesz. The enemy progressed on the right bank of the Narew ...
Article : 207 wordsA further official report on German atrocities gives details of numerous cases in which French civilians were used as screens for German attacks. Many ...
Article : 141 wordsThe "Courier" Patriotic Funds are having a splendid run of good fortune just now, and the liberal givings of the preceding days were well maintained ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsThe murder of the Austrian HeirApparent at Serajevo was committed on June 28, 1914, and on Tuesday, July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Servia. ...
Article : 592 wordsAt the Victoria Barracks yesterday 92 men presented themselves for enlistment, 79 being accepted and 13 being medically rejected. In the country 21 men were ...
Article : 91 wordsEight recruits presented themselves for enlistment to the recruiting officer (Captain E. J. Gilmore) to-day. Three were rejected, one has not got his papers ...
Article : 576 wordsThe bank holiday to-day is being observed in the munitions areas and the Welsh coalfields, all the workers undertaking to resume work to-morrow. The ...
Article : 64 wordsGermany is taking an inventory of cotton throughout the country, even including the supplies of men's underclothing. Special permission is now needed for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsThe Italian artillery rapidly advanced and commenced an attack on the second Austrian line from Rubbia to Pietraossa. The extraordinaiy daily captures of ...
Article : 134 wordsSir Edward Carson, Attorney-General of Great Britain, in a statement to the Associated Press, said: Britain hates war, but is resolved to see this matter ...
Article : 158 wordsIt will be some few days before the accounts in connection with the above can be closed, but, as numerous inquiries are being made as to the financial result ...
Article : 159 wordsThe steamer Ballarat arrived at the outer harbour to-day with a large complement of wounded Australian soldiers. There are over 600 soldiers on board, and ...
Article : 101 wordsReading matter was received from L. R. Jones, Mrs. W. E. Thompson, Murgon, Mrs. J. L. Finlay. Piltown, and an anonymous donor. Mrs. Charles O'Reilly ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle " states that the fall of either the Tarvis fortifications, or those of Tolgino or Gorizia, will result in the whole ...
Article : 344 wordsA large German cruiser was launched to-day at Wilhelmshafen. The Kaiser ordered it to be named the Hindenberg. ...
Article : 26 wordsPrivate R. Watson, 15th Battalion, who died of wounds on May 17, was a son of Mrs. E. Watson, of Benarkin. In the last letter Private Watson wrote to his ...
Article : 337 wordsThe Misses Gladys and Elsie Wardle and Miss Daisy Harvey, Moynihan-street, Albion, recently entertained over 60 guests at a coin evening in aid of the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Vice-Admiral commanding in the Eastern Mediterranean reports that a British submarine in the sea of Marmora torpedoed a Turkish steamer of 3000 tons ...
Article : 303 wordsThe "Times," commenting upon the passage in the Petrograd communique suggesting active co-operation between the Allies, expresses the opinion that there ...
Article : 261 wordsTo-day is the anniversary of the outbreak of war between the British Empire and Germany, and arrangements have been made to hold a mass meeting in ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Caudron glider, built by the members of the Queensland Volunteer Gliding Civilians, who are all under the age of 21 years, will make an interesting ...
Article : 236 wordsIt is officially stated that the movements of large German reinforcements from France to the Russian front began in the fourth week in July, when General ...
Article : 103 wordsA presentation was made to Dr. F. C. Wooster, resident surgeon at the Rockhampton General Hospital, last Saturday, on behalf of the staff of the ...
Article : 220 wordsA German communique states: Our troops, after some fighting, occupied M[?]an, in Courland, the town on the whole being undamaged. We stormed ...
Article : 149 wordsAs a result of the decision of the Federal Cabinet, instructions have been issued that members of the Commonwealth Public Service who are disabled ...
Article : 86 wordsHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams), attended by his A.D.C. (Captain Cozens), visited the Naval Depot yesterday for the ...
Article : 130 wordsAn 18-pounder shrapnel shell has been made at the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Co.'s workshops, complete except for the narrow copper band and the primer, ...
Article : 207 wordsAn official communique states: Our torpedo boats in the Black Sea set fire to a coal depot and sunk ten vessels laden with coal. They also destroyed over 200 ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" states that owing to the Italian successes the Austrians have resumed the fortification of Vienna, which was stopped ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following official statement has been issued:—West of Ivnngored our Transylvanian regiments took, at the point of the bayonet, eight vantage points ...
Article : 89 wordsHis Honour Mr. Justice Rich, who has been investigating the charges made regarding the administration of the Liverpool Camp, has returned to Melbourne, ...
Article : 87 wordsAn Austalian artillery officer, in a letter to the "Morning Post," says: "I think we have done well with our guns. From all reports, the Turks have ...
Article : 275 wordsTo-day's attendance of volunteers at the Central Recruiting Depot at Victoria Barracks numbered 452, of whom 351 were passed as fit. This number was not as ...
Article : 177 wordsAn official communique issued to-day states: After repulsing several enemy attacks by means of hand grenades we occupied a section of trenches ...
Article : 115 wordsThe British steamer Benvorlich, 3381 tons, has been sunk by a German submarine. The chief officer and 16 of the crew have landed. The captain and the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe following further contributions to the Belgian Relief Fund have been received at the Belgian Consulate, Brisbane:—Previously acknowledged, ...
Article : 230 wordsIn the Duma, M. Bark (Minister for Finance) stated that, notwithstanding her enormous expenditure, Russia had succeeded not only in deriving the necessary ...
Article : 159 wordsThe recent trouble over nurses' uniforms has culminated in the Defence Department allowing an extra £6 for the purchase of outfits, the amount now ...
Article : 82 wordsAn official communique issued last night records the capture of a trench in the Argonne by means of bu[?]ing liquids. The French, however, immediately made a ...
Article : 45 wordsThree Americans who were on board the Leyland liner Iberian, which was recently sunk by a German submarine, were killed. ...
Article : 30 wordsA Bill has been introduced in the Legislative Assembly by the Attorney-General (Mr. M'Kinnon) to give full effect in this State to the legislation already passed ...
Article : 107 wordsTwo hundred and thirty-eight volunteers offered for enlistment during to-day and this evening, and of this number 189 were accepted and 49 rejected. ...
Article : 39 wordsAs a result of the pressure brought to bear by the Premier, the racing clubs have reduced their fixtures by 25 for the five months, August to December. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe official estimate of the American cotton crop is 12,000,000 bales, as compared with 16,135,000 bales last year. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Deputy Postmaster-General advises that approval has been given to the following arrangements (to apply to the week-end system only) as regards cable ...
Article : 175 wordsIt is learned that 140,000 Germans, mostly new troops, passed through Luxemburg during the past ten days, going westward. ...
Article : 37 wordsCount Benckendorff, the Russian Ambassador in London, has been interviewed, and stated: It has been said that the Russian public hoped for a strong ...
Article : 115 wordsThree thousand buildings in Constantinople were destroyed by fire last week, including a German hospital which was full of wounded. ...
Article : 43 wordsFrance asked American permission before landing troops at Port-au-Prince (Hayti) to protect the French Consulate, which was threatened by the ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Hughes (Attorney-General) was to-day interviewed by Messrs. R. G. Casey and J. L. Wharton, who represent the Mount Morgan Company, and the ...
Article : 188 wordsA German communique says: We occupied several French trenches in the Argonne, which we took by a surprise bayonet attack. Our artillery shot down ...
Article : 41 wordsThe desire of Germany toward worldwide dominion, her expected disintegration of the British Empire, the events leading up to the war, the co-operation ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Salonica correspondent of the "Correspondeza" states that grave differences of opinion arose between Enver Pasha, Minister for War, and the other ...
Article : 101 wordsThe British army is experimenting with 500 steel helmets for use in the trenches. ...
Article : 22 words"I offered my services to-day for any capacity in which I might be useful to my King, but was refused. That settles it. Good-bye." This passage was ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Prime Minister stated to-day that owing to the fact that there were so many financial matters to be looked into he would have to postpone his promised ...
Article : 72 wordsA British steam lorry skidded into a detachment of British soldiers at Rouen, and killed three of them and injured 10. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Enemy Contracts Annulment Bill, providing for the terimination of all contracts with enemy subjects, was passed through its Committee stage in the ...
Article : 87 wordsArrangements in connection with the entertainment in aid of the Wounded Soldiers, to be held in St. Mark's Hall, Clayfield, on August 7, are nearing ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Novoc Vremya" calls attention to the efforts of Germany to sow mistrust among the Allies. Paris and London, it states, are swarming with the Kaiser's ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 4 Aug 1915, Page 7
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