Communiques reveal increasing activity on the Western front. A German communique alludes to fierce artillery battles between the La Bassee Canal and Arras, ...
Article : 267 wordsA steamer has been ordered to proceed to [?], in Spanish Guinea, to embark 1000 fugitive Germans from the Cameroons and bring them to Spain for ...
Article : 40 wordsYesterday 152 volunteers in this State offered their services to the nation, 98 coming from the city depot and 54 from the country. Of the number who ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 751 wordsA case under the War Precautions Act, in which Franz Oscar Bauer, a naturalised subject of enemy origin, was alleged to have used a name for the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Turner Company has given to the Recruiting Committee the use of their room in Kodak Building, rent free, until March 22, to accommodate the voluntary, ...
Article : 395 wordsHeart-rending details are to hand as to Germany's terroristic manner of ruling the conquered provinces in Poland, and the consequent wholesale seizure of foodstuffs ...
Article : 190 wordsA fire broke out on the naval boarding steamer Peel Castie, in the Straits of Dover. Tugs from Dover and other craft assisted the fire-fighters by pumping ...
Article : 62 wordsThe following volunteers were accepted for active service on Saturday and Monday:—Messrs. Alex. Cruickshanks, Adam Gardiner, Samuel Calver, Francis ...
Article : 370 wordsMr. Fisher visited the Abbeywood depot to-day, and lunched at the officers' mess. Sir Newton Moore (Agent-General for Western Australia) ...
Article : 258 wordsLast night at the Picture Palace, Enoggera-terrace, Red Hill, in the presence of a very large audience of residents, who demonstrated the greatest ...
Article : 571 wordsYesterday a further supply of reading matter fof the use of the soldiers was received from the following:—Fifty magazines from Miss L. Bloomfield; boxes ...
Article : 58 wordsTo-night the postponed presentation function at the "White City," Enoggera, of a piano and billard table, presented by the Brisbane Girls' Club, will take ...
Article : 278 wordsGermany has agreed that reprisals must not be directed against any other than enemy subjects, and it is probable that the United States will accept this phrase ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 wordsFollowing upon the Zeppelin raid on Salonica, several of the British insurance companies eabled offering to take all war risks. The result was that insurances ...
Article : 52 wordsGermany is attempting to induce the United States to co-operate with it in order to secure the freedom of the seas before the war ends. Concessions in the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for the month of January show that the imports into the United Kingdom increased by £7,701,850, compared with the previous ...
Article : 107 wordsA White Paper has been issued containing a selectiion of the papers found on Captain von Papen, the [?] German agent in America; also ...
Article : 365 wordsAnother batch of soldiers, numbering [?], was tendered a send-off in the School of Arts on Saturday night. The hall was well filled, notwithstanding the bad state ...
Article : 187 wordsA correspondent in Fiji writes that in Fiji the Germans are treated as brothers, and not one of them has been interiered with. German trading concerns have been ...
Article : 121 wordsThe total of the Patriotic Funds in Tasmania to the end of January 1 was £143,593. ...
Article : 25 wordsForty-thousand Turks have been concentrated at Smyrna, an important town in Turkey in Asia, on the Gulf of Smyrna, in the Aegean Sea, as an Allied landing is ...
Article : 49 wordsThe town was very quiet to-day. The "Barrier Miner" newspaper was issued and distributed as usual, and there was no interference with the sellers, but their ...
Article : 149 wordsA British officer tells a story of the chivalry of the Turks at the battle of Ctesip[?]on. A barge laden with 300 British wounded go[?] stuck in the mud, ...
Article : 72 wordsFighting in the Bukovina region in Austria, lying between Galicia and Roumania, is expected to recommence shortly. The Austrian positions at ...
Article : 95 wordsThe military authorities advise that 49 returned invalid soldiers will arrive from Sydney at No. 5 platform, Central Station, at 7 o'clock to-night. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 160 wordsWithin the next few days it is probable that an announcement will be made as to the negotiations now proceeding between the Imperial and Commonwealth ...
Article : 313 wordsA general meeting of the Sherwood Shire Local War Council Committee was held in the School of Arts Hall on Saturday evening last. Councillor F. ...
Article : 256 wordsAt Sydney to-day 116 recruits were accepted. MELBOURNE, February 8. In Victoria to-day 313 recruits were ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" publishes the full story of the Baralong case. It states that the steamer [?] had a cargo of mules, and had a crew and a captain and ...
Article : 487 wordsAt a meeting of the Toowong Town Coouncil last night a letter was received from the Recruiting Committee relative to the functions and personnel of the ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Peking correspondent of the "Times" cabled on November 17:— "Messages from Europe, declaring that German trade with China has been ...
Article : 411 wordsDuring the recent disastrous fire at Vilna the flames reached the German headquarters. The Germans believed that the fire was deliberate, and fined the town ...
Article : 41 wordsWhen Parliament reopens on Tuesday an amendment on the Address in Reply will be moved emphasising the importance of precautions against air raids. It is ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Government has received definite information that the statement that the Central Powers sent Roumania an ultimatum is unfounded. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe committee of the Soldiers' Help Society are greatly in need of funds for the purpose of continuing their good work in the cause of the soldiers in the ...
Article : 152 wordsMoving scenes were witnessed at the tunerals of the victims of the Zeppelin raid on Paris on January 29. Twentyfour coffins were brought from the morgue ...
Article : 243 wordsIn its monthly report the sub-committee of hospitals paid a tribute to the help received from the members of the men's auxiliary, who were responsible for ...
Article : 206 wordsGeneral Repington, the "Times" military critic, points out that General von Falkenhayn has not revealed his plan of campaign for the coming year. The recent ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Government Statist has issued a revised forecast of the wheat harvest. He now estimates that 2,547,768 acres will be stripped, and will yield 29,572,000 ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is interesting to learn that John Hicks and Co., Ltd., secured a record price for the high-class exhibit of furniture shown by them at the Panama. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe wheat market is firm but quiet. The Toromeo's cargo of wheat is quoted at 69/6, and that of the Falkirk at 68/. ...
Article : 29 wordsMembers of the Toowong Rifle Club attended at Enoggora Range last Saturday to complete their musketry course at 100 and 200 yards. The shooting was good and ...
Article : 87 wordsWith the object of equipping the new army with bands, Mrs. Arthur Mort, of Franklyn Vale, has organised a variety entertainment, and the first performance ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Geneva correspondent of "Le Temps" says that Prince Leopold of Bavaria is about to command the Turco-German Army that will attack the Suez ...
Article : 327 wordsThe Mayoress of South Brisbane (Mrs. J. E. Hilton) has convened a meeting [?] ladies to be held in the South Brisbane Council Chambers to-morrow night at ...
Article : 79 wordsA large party of wounded British prisoners from Germany have reached Tilbury on the Thames. Many of them lost limbs at Mons and Charleroi. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Admiralty denies the statement of the "Cologne Gazette" that a bomb dropped during the recent raid struck and sank the cruiser Caroline, in the Humber, ...
Article : 58 wordsA public meeting was held in the School of Arts last evening to form a Sandbag League. The mayor (Alderman C. W. Hooper) presided over a good ...
Article : 140 wordsAdmiral Sir John Jellicoe, in a telegram to the owners, says: "The magnificent fight shown by the Clan Mactavish tills the Grand Fleet with admiration." ...
Article : 63 wordsA concert, organised by Mrs. A. Mort, of Franklyn Vale, was given in the Town Hall in aid of the funds for securing band instruments for the band battalions ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 9 Feb 1916, Page 7
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