The following official announcement: has been issued:—The Commander-inChief in Egypt reports that on April 13 a column of Australian troops carried ...
Article : 244 wordsIn continuation of the discussion on hospital arrangements, recently cabled, Australians and New Zealanders in London are anxiously awaiting a decision ...
Article : 211 wordsAn officer of the cruiser Emden and another German prisoner escaped in a boat from Malta, but were recaptured off Sicily. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe contributions to the "Courier" Patriotic Funds received on Saturday and last night announted to £38/8/9, which was a very good week-end response. ...
Article : 649 wordsThe Queensland Recruiting Committee is drafting an urgent appeal to the country shires, particulary the far-out ones, to make some provision out of their ...
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Article : 53 wordsSkippers report that a German crusier squardron is patrolling outside the Gulf of Riga. There are many new German ...
Article : 34 wordsThe latest triumph for French engineers is a new 16in. howitzer, which is said to be equal to the German gun of similar dimensions. ...
Article : 37 wordsA severely damaged torpedo boat passed Helsingborg, on the southern coast of Sweden, proceeding southward. The damage is attributed to an attack by a ...
Article : 38 wordsA most important Cabinet meeting this afternoon considered the Army Council's statement regarding the requirements of the Army in view of Mr. Asquith's ...
Article : 386 wordsTwo German deserters have informed a Dutch correspondent that they were glad to escape from the "hell" of the Verdun front. They witnessed the recent fight ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Germans are laying a huge sub merged steel net, with meshes six yards in diameter, across the international waters south of the Drogden lightship, ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the " Daily Telegraph" wires that the Italian' offensive simultaneous with the German attack on Verdan has resulted in the ...
Article : 172 wordsA Berlin official statement says: Eighty enemy merchantmen were sunk by German submarines and mines during March, of a total tonnage of 207,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe number of men accepted throughout Queensland on Saturday for service with the Australian Imperial Forces was 64. At the Adelaide street Drill Shed, Brisbane, ...
Article : 78 wordsPrincess Louise attended the Aza[?] Day matinee at His Majesty's Theatre. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, to-day hade farewell to 100 officers and men who were leaving for New Zealand. ...
Article : 34 wordsA semi-official statement has been issued in Berlin to the effect that the English report on the condition of the prisoners' camp at Wittenberg during the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Foreign Office points out that Germany's statement regarding the Sussex outrage, that a submarine attacked some vessel at a certain moment, is ...
Article : 68 wordsA largely-attended recruiting meeting was held at Grafton and South Grafton last night. Addresses were delivered by Senator Grant, Mr. Burns, M.H.R., ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is announced that the British Government has decided to make a grant to carry out the recommondations of a Royal Commission to facililate the ...
Article : 58 wordsA British prisoner at the German concentration camp at Cassel in a letter, describes the conditions there, recalling the revelations concerning the Wittenberg ...
Article : 106 wordsIt is officially announced: General Sir Perry Lake reports: Our troops on the south bank of the Tigris on April 12 forced back the enemy's lines over a ...
Article : 119 wordsIt is stated that two submarines attached the British steamet Angus, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. The remainder of the crew have now landed. ...
Article : 36 wordsAn Austrian communique states: Heavy outpost fighting developed at the mouth of the Lower Strypa and south-east of Duezaez. In the most southern part of the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Parliamaitary correspondent states that the construction of hundreds of vessels has been hung up for months because labour has not been ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Times" publishes a statement to the effect that a submarine attempted to destroy the steamer on which Lord Chelmsford (the newly-appointed ...
Article : 42 wordsA series of presentations took place recently at the establishment of Messrs, Simpson, Halligan and Co., Ltd., printers Petrie Bight, when several ...
Article : 895 wordsA team of Australians played a West Wales team of footballers at Swansea, and were defeated by 27 points to 7. It was a fast game, witnessed by 15,000 ...
Article : 141 wordsA strong conseription movement has been started here. Sir R. L. Borden Prime Minister of Canada, answering a deputation which waited upon ...
Article : 78 wordsFood mastication drill is the latest German weapon against England's starvation plan, according to the " Kolonische Volksveltung." That journal started a ...
Article : 92 wordsLloyd's report that the British steamer Shenandoah (3886 tons) struck a mine and sank, and that two of the crew are missing. ...
Article : 31 wordsA Turkish communique states: The enemy on the Irak front is extending his fortifieations. Three thousand British were Killed on April 7. They belonged ...
Article : 52 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports: We exploded mines east of Vermelles on Thursday evening, considerably damaging the enemy's position. We successfully ...
Article : 89 wordsA German submarine in the Cattegat captured the Danish steamer Kasan, bound from Liverpool. ...
Article : 24 wordsA Russian communique states: The German offensive between Lakes Sventen and Ilzia was twice hurled back, the enemy abandoning a large number of ...
Article : 65 wordsThe King and Queen visited the Victoria League Club for Overseas Soldiers, and noticed Private Killeck, an Australian, who had lost in arm. Their ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" states that political circles in Vienna attach great importance to the visit to Berlin of Baron Burian, Austro-Hungarian Minister ...
Article : 51 wordsPresident Wilson and the State Department have agreed to despatch evidence of the submarine atrocities to Berlin, with what is described as "a ...
Article : 160 wordsA satisfactory settlement has been arranged with respect to the claims of leading Chicago meat packers against the British Government regarding wholesale ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following is a last of the third Queensland collections in connection with the Oversea Club Southern Cross Tobacco Fund:— ...
Article : 204 wordsCaptains Columbus Price and Hector Clayton, Australians, have been gazetted as attached to headquarters as embarkation staff officers. ...
Article : 29 wordsA Russian communique states: We took the offensive south of Garbunovka, in the Dvinsk region, cutting four lines of barbed wire, and occupying the hills ...
Article : 98 wordsAn official communique issued to-day states: Matters are relatively calm at Verdun. A small German attack south of Douaumont was completely repulsed. ...
Article : 149 wordsA woman fired two shots at Herr Liebknecht, the Socialist Leader, to-day in a street in Berlin, but missed him. She was arrested. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe police in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, arrested an aristocratic lady, and she was detained for several hours on a charge of being overfashionably dressed. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Peace Society is protesting against an anti-German fiscal policy after the war, and annexations of German territory without consulting the populations ...
Article : 36 wordsAll marine insurance rates have been largely increased over those ruling for March Australia via the Cape now is 80/. and London to the Mediterranean, ...
Article : 34 wordsFreights to Queensland ports direct have been railed to £4 per ton weight and £5/10/ per ton measurement. LONDON, Saturday. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe arrest of plotters in America in connection with the manufacture of bombs to blow up [?]tion ships was due to the arrest in London of a man giving the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe German newspapers are publishing an inspired statement on the question ot reprisals against Portugal. It says that owing to geographical and other ...
Article : 71 wordsGallacher, chairman of the Workers' Committed, and M[?], editor of the "Worker," have been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for publishing an ...
Article : 43 wordsA Russian communique states: The Turks, during six days, attacked our centre to the west of Erzeroum, but all the attacks were repulsed with heavy ...
Article : 95 wordsThese persons who have had books of tickets in connection with the Belgian Fund art union for a valuable collection of fancy work are requested to forward ...
Article : 51 wordsA good selection of crossbreds was offered it the wool sales to-day. The tone of the market continuer to improve, and prices to harden, and merinos were ...
Article : 185 wordsAn official announcement states: There is nothing to report from Verdun. The enemy attacked Marshal [?]on Hindenburg's army to the north-west, but were ...
Article : 129 wordsThe British Minister at Athens, interviewed by a representative of the "New Hellas," stated that if Greece had properly watched her own waters and ...
Article : 79 wordsAn Ordor in Council has been issued prohibiting the exportation to all destinations of pig iron, railway material, steel bars, girders, ingots, and tubes. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe proprietors of the Olympic Cafe, 350 Queen-street, which will be opened in a few days, have generously decided to donate £1 in every £5 taken on the ...
Article : 44 wordsCanon Garland, hon. secretary Anzac Day Commemoration Committee, states that the demand for badges is very great, telegrams reaching him from all parts of ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "Times" Balkan correspondent says that since the fall of Erzeroum the hostility between the Turks and Germans has been [?]sing. The Germans ...
Article : 172 wordsThe first address to be delivered by Mr. Hughes to Labour would have been on the occasion of the combined Labour Party's dinner on Wednesday next. In ...
Article : 601 wordsAdvices from Bucharest describe the alleged commercial treaty between Roumania and Germany as a German falsehood intended to influence German ...
Article : 35 wordsThe political [?]sis in Portugal has ended, and the members of the Cabinet have withdrawn their resignations. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe wheat market is slightly easier, but cargoes are firmly Leld. The quotations in Chicago for May wheat options are 115[?] to 118[?] cents per ...
Article : 140 wordsThe following semi-official comment has been published regarding the German explanation that " bad visibility" had caused a slackening of the offensive at ...
Article : 193 wordsFighting occurred at Canton on Wednesday evening. The revolutionaries attempted a landing, and the Republican troops resisted. There were a number ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Cologne correspondent of the "Tyd" states that the Catholic authorities have received advices from the Catholic Mission which confirm the previous statements ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Minister for Railways unveiled a handsome honour board at Townsville Railway Station this morning in the presence of a large crowd of railway ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Turkish paper "Tanin" states that people in Constantinople, Broussa, Augora, and Smyrna are dying of hunger. Thousands of unemployed, who are half ...
Article : 39 wordsThe regular meeting of the Soldiers' Church of England Help Society will be held to-morrow, at 3 p.m., in St. Luke's Church. The executive will meet at 2.30. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 17 Apr 1916, Page 7
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