The French Admiralty describes a naval action which took place in the Adriatic Sea on the evening of February 6, when a British cruiser and a French torpedo boat, ...
Article : 179 wordsReuter's Agency announces that King George has quite yielded to medical advice that he should not undertake any ceremonics in his present state of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 485 wordsThe whole-hearted, sympathy of the crowds who assembled at the Central Station last evening, and who lined the roadway through which some 48 returned ...
Article : 1,415 wordsThe remarkable story of how Russia recovered from the munitions crisis of 1915 is related by M. Polivanoff Minister for War. He says: "The situation in ...
Article : 350 wordsWith regard to the recent offer of the Commonwealth Government to supply 50,000 men, to be formed in three divisions, and also reinforcements to bring ...
Article : 919 wordsThe war prayers of the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio have been played on the Index Expurgatorins. The prayers have aroused the enthusiasm of educated ...
Article : 53 wordsIn this State yesterday 165 volunteers were recorded at the various recruiting centres. At the depot in Adelaide-street, Brisbane, 62 applicants presented ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Kaiser has composed the words of a new German National Anthem, and has commanded Stranss to compose the music. The Germans are gratified, as they resent ...
Article : 49 wordsCopper is booming on strong American advices and the statistical position LONDON, Wednesday. The copper boom is attributed chiefly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 323 wordsThe economy compaign is proceeding apace. The Royal Commission on the Sugar Supply urges all classes to reduce their consumption of sugar, jams, ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says: "Tens of thousands of pounds of English money yearly are finding their way to Germany through ...
Article : 66 wordsA Reuter message states: German Consular officials in Holland refuse to accept payment of fees in German paper money. They demand either German gold or ...
Article : 45 wordsA German communique claims: We counter-attacked and recovered the positions lost south of the Somme on Sunday night. Our acrial squadron bombed the ...
Article : 62 wordsSir Edward Holden, M.P., recently made an analysis of the financial situation, which placed Great Britain in a remarkably good light compared with ...
Article : 100 wordsH. H. S. Christic, a member of the 12th Battalion, 26th Reinforcements, Thompson's Paddock, was cut to pieces last night between Traveston and Cooran. It ...
Article : 248 wordsThere was a large attendance at the Town Hall to-night, the occasion being a farewell to a number of Sandgate boys who have enlisted. Proceedings opened ...
Article : 396 wordsThe German Consul-General has been indicted in connection with a conspiracy to originate a military expedition against Canada, and also to blow up munitions ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is stated that the kinematograph films taken at the Front are proving immensely useful to the French staff. The photographers, are volunteers who must ...
Article : 117 wordsReading matter for the use of the men in camp came to hand yesterday from Mrs. Cook and "A.M.S." ...
Article : 26 wordsColonel Fiaschi, A.A.M.C., of Sydney, is now convalescent, and is furlonghing in France and Italy. He will then return to the Front. ...
Article : 37 wordsAn illuminating article appears in the "Daily Chronicle" on the Allies' sea power. It states that Captain Perseus, writing in the " Berliner Tageblatt," ...
Article : 236 wordsPrivate F. H. Cole, of E Company, 11th Depot Battalion, Fraser's Hill Camp, desires that thanks be conveyed to the generous donors of a flute and piccolo in ...
Article : 67 wordsThe wheat market is quiet, and prices are steady. The American visible supply of wheat east of the Rocky Mountains is 164,051,000 ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Hon. A. Fisher and Mrs. Fisher to-day inspected the Horse Ferry road Depot, the Great Peter street Depot, and the Peelhouse ...
Article : 183 wordsRenewed food riots have occurred in the Moabit district in Berlin. The police charged the crowd, and wounded many. Similar riots have occurred at Aachen, ...
Article : 51 wordsWhile they are waiting to avenge her, And the days seem dull and drear, Could you spare a coin of silver For our soldiers' Easter officer? ...
Article : 235 wordsIn the latest District Orders appear the following extracts from Army Corps Routine orders, issued by the general officer commanding the Australian and ...
Article : 457 wordsAn interesting and impressive function took place in the Parish Hall, Sherwood, last Monday evening the occasion being the unveiling of an honour roll in ...
Article : 216 wordsM. Briand (the French Premier) will visit Italy shortly to confer with Signor Salandra (the Italian Premier), with a view to the co-ordination of the two ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Government having called for all available men, and being in need of all the money the country can spare, the Governor-General will no longer attend ...
Article : 62 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that there is a rumour of the impending resignation of Admiral Sir H. B. Jackson. The Admiralty in response to an inquiry ...
Article : 46 wordsA Delhi communique states: General Townshend is holding Kut-el-Amara as a position of strategical value. General Aylmer's operations are inteneded to ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Federal Executive Council to-day approved of a regulation under the War Precautions Act to make it compulsory for all enlistment cards to be returned ...
Article : 66 wordsColonel Repington, the "Times" military critic, estimates that Germany commenced the war with 9,000,000 men, and has 3,600,000 now in the field, and ...
Article : 130 wordsSir George Reid, M.P., when presiding over a meeting of the Royal Humane Society, said, "I, as one of the old freetraders, passed the shortest tarff ever ...
Article : 98 wordsThe general meeting of the Soldiers' Church of England Help Society was held at St. Luke's on Tuesday, when among those present were Mesdames J. Philp, ...
Article : 439 wordsAttention is drawn to the fact that a meeting of subscribers to the "Courier" Aeroplane Fund will be held in Messrs. Hutton and M'Farlane's office, Parbury ...
Article : 57 wordsOne of the many fine patriotic efforts of the Brisbane Girls' Club culminated in a most happy fashion at the "White City," Enoggera camp, last night, when ...
Article : 973 wordsThe number of applications for passports to leave Australia have shown an appreciable increase during the last few days, but the Department of External ...
Article : 89 wordsAt Sydney to-day the services of 120 men were accepted. MELBOURNE, February 9. To-day's recruiting figures were:— ...
Article : 55 wordsLord Curzon presided over a meeting of the Colonial Institute, at which Mr. J. L. Garvin, editor of the "Pall Mall Gazette," delivered an address on the ...
Article : 556 wordsThe probability of the importation of picture films being forbidden has caused consternation in the industry. The speakers at a meeting of the trade ...
Article : 74 wordsLieutenant Berg, who was the German officer in command of the Appam when she turned up in an American port the other day, states that, with the exception ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that at a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday it was decided to ask the Interstate Commission to ...
Article : 70 wordsA deputation representing the master tanners of Australia waited upon the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) to-day and urged that the embargo on the export ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association on Tuesday received a telegram from the Marine Underwriters' Association of Victoria stating that the war rate on ...
Article : 125 wordsConsiderable public interest is being manifested in the exhibition of war posters of Australia, New Zealand, and the other overseas Dominions at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsCity shippers, discussing the capture of the Appan), point out that a Dutch steamer which recently arrived in America, and took six months to cross ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Miners' Conference at Lancaster is discussing in camera its attitude towards the Military Service Act. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 10 Feb 1916, Page 7
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