Herr Von Heydebrand, speaking on the Budget debate in the German Diet, said: "Our worst enemy is the man who, like America, wished to prolong the war for ...
Article : 89 wordsLast night, well to time, a special train, containing about 40 returned wounded or invalided soldiers and a couple of nurses, drew into the Central Station, the scene ...
Article : 1,126 wordsMessrs. Cherry and M'Cann have inspected 3500 cases of Queensland corned mutton which were offered to the Government at 10/ per dozen tins. The War ...
Article : 52 wordsRecruiting continued brisk yesterday, 189 volunteers presenting themselves. At the Adelaide-street depot 141 men offered and 99 were accepted. The figures at ...
Article : 56 wordsTowards the close of last year the appointment was announced of Major-General J. W. M'Cay, C.B., V.D., as Inspector-General of the Australian ...
Article : 1,528 wordsAt about 9 o'clock last night there was a slight disturbance in the bar of a Queen-street hotel. Some soldiers were in the bar, and Staff Sergeant ...
Article : 161 wordsYesterday was indeed one of small offerings for the "Courier" Patriotic Funds, but the amounts to hand were given with the heartiness that has marked ...
Article : 416 wordsIt can hardly be said that the Bradford market during the past week has shown any pronounced change from last, but if prices show a tendency to move in any ...
Article : 1,972 wordsWheat is dearer, and the market is very quiet. Early Australian wheat is very sparingly offered. 68/6 per 480lb. has been bid for a cargo by steamer at the ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. A. E. Winterford, Land Commissioner for the Atherton and Herberton Land Agent's districts, who served as a sergeant with the 2nd Q.M.I. in the ...
Article : 651 wordsThe "Neue Zurcher Zeitung" states that the measures under consideration at a meeting, concerning Germany's post war financial liabilities, included war ...
Article : 83 wordsYesterday afternoon at a city hotel some trouble occurred between several soldiers and civilians, one of the soldiers alleging that a civilian had tried to take ...
Article : 240 wordsA German East African force, consisting of 150 Europeans, 600 regulars, and many native troops, with Hutchkiss, Maxims, and field guns, attacked the ...
Article : 79 wordsTo-day 243 men were enrolled for the Expeditionary Forces at the Sydney recruiting depots. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe total number of men accepted to-day in Victoria for active service was 202. ...
Article : 23 wordsTo-day 130 men volunteered at Adelaide for active service, and 88 were accepted. The enlistments to date total 18,362. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe first fruits of the visit to the Pope by Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Mechlin, in Belgium, are that his Holiness has consented to conduct an independent and ...
Article : 99 wordsWho has put up a sniper record. He is a Queenslander, a member of the 5th Light Horse. A cablegram published in yesterday's "Courier" stated:—"The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 152 wordsThirty-four men enlisted on Monday, making a total for the Tasmanian battalion of 209 in eleven days. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the Police Court to-day the mayor (Alderman Johnson) was charged with having assaulted Reginald William Ernest Robinson, a teller in the Union ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Military Service (Compulsion) Bill was discussed in Committee in the House of Commons to-day. Mr. J. Chambers, Unionist member for ...
Article : 484 wordsThe attitude of the Melbourne Trades Hall against recruiting is apparently unchanged. Five weeks ago the Trades Hall Council, on the motion of Mr. ...
Article : 379 wordsAmong the passengers from America who arrived by the Ventura to-day was Mr. G. W. Williams, a munitions expert, who has come to take charge of ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the latest statistics prove how the British blockade of Germany is nullified by the failure ...
Article : 211 wordsRegarding his recent announcement that all persons of enemy origin, whether naturalised or not, must be struck off the lists of shareholders of Australian ...
Article : 207 wordsThere was no apparent change to-day as regards the miners' strike. The Australian Society of Engineers has formally notified the A.M.A. that it cannot see ...
Article : 155 wordsThe employees in the Works Department workshops assembled on Friday afternoon to bid godspeed to one of their number, Mr. Richard Long, who has ...
Article : 636 wordsOwing to the war many men have been forced into a new mode of life— that of the prisoner. The Young Men's Christian Association has regarded this ...
Article : 675 wordsKing Gustaf of Sweden, in his speech at the opening of the Riksdag, urged the augmentation of the defences of the country in order to maintain neutrality. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Socialist National Defence Committee has issued a manifesto in which it declares that opposition to compulsion when our native land is attacked is ...
Article : 83 words"I have a list here of the names of persons of German of Austrian birth in the Government service, but it is not complete, is the notice to compile it has ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Prime Minister (Hon. W. M. Hughes) was the guest at dinner to-night of the New South Wales members of the Federal Labour Party. Amongst those ...
Article : 533 wordsQueen Wilhelmina of Holland has visited the flooded area in the Zuyder Zee, and her husband, Prince Henry, intends to go to the Island ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Prince of Wales, presiding at a meeting of the Naval and Military War Pensions Committee, said his association with the daily life of the army bad left ...
Article : 102 wordsLance-corporal H. R. Gauld, 7th reinforcements of the 15th Battalion, writes from Gallipoli to his mother (Mrs. C. W. Beak, Somerford, Wecker-street, ...
Article : 412 wordsSergeant Ross Burrell, 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, who was wounded at Anzac, has left for Sydney to rejoin his unit at the Front. ...
Article : 31 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Asquith, in view of "more pressing matters," declined to introduce legislation to remove the Duke of ...
Article : 51 wordsCaptain Geoffrey Laricount Harris (cousin of Dr. R. Hamlyn-Harris, Director of the Queensland Museum, and brother of Mrs. Hamlyn-Harris), who was ...
Article : 73 wordsTenders are being invited for tinned meat, but the quantities are not mentioned, indicating that the Government desires to ascertain what supplies are ...
Article : 166 wordsFour hundred buildings at Bergen, in Norway, of a total value of £1,100,000, were burned down in the recent conflagration. Food and clothing are being ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Queensland War Council strongly recommends every Queenslander to invest in the new Commonwealth War Loan now on the market any capital ...
Article : 118 wordsA well attended meeting of the Stanthorpe War Council was held in the Shire Hall last evening. Councillor C. P. Sheahan occupied the chair. The ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Ford peace party has returned to New York, owing to Mr. Henry Ford declining to pay further expenses. Grammar School girls deciding on ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 19 Jan 1916, Page 7
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