A wireless message from Berlin states that Austrian torpedo boats and the cruiser Aspern engaged Italian cruisers and six destroyersin the Adriatic on ...
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Article : 339 wordsEarly this morning airships raided the east const of England, and another airship raided the Scottish coast Three women and a child were killed and 14 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 767 wordsCardinal Hartmann, replying to the Pope on behalf of the German Government, stated that owing to the difficulty of feeding the dense populations of the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Parliament of Portugal was opened yesterday The Finance Minister announced that Great Britain was advancing loans to Portugal for war purposes, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 wordsA German communique states: We repulsed enemy attacks at some points on the Sereth. Russian efforts to gain ground on the Stokhod were without result, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 334 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson has resigned his position in the Cabient as President of the Board of Education. It is understood he considers that his Labour ...
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Article : 127 wordsThe news that civalians have been ordered to evacuate Lemberg, the capital of (laicia, has been confirmed. On August 4 the Governor issued a proclamation ...
Article : 87 wordsParcels of magazines and newspapers have been received for the troops from Mesdames O'Driscoll (Wooloowin), Walter Campbell, Sutton, and T. S. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Labour Party at a meeting at the House of Commons passed a esolution deploring the failure of the Government to give legislative sanction to ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Brisbane Girls' Club has received from Q. R. Paull, Ltd., a framed picture as a prize for the art union for comofrts for soldiers at home and abroad. This ...
Article : 59 wordsThe irish Trades Congress at Sligo adopted a resolution expressing abhorrence at the action of Mr. Redmond and the Nationalists in accepting Mr. Lloyd ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Danish passenger boat Ydun, while returning to Copenhagen with 200 school boys and girls who had been spending a holiday in Jutland, was captured in the ...
Article : 40 wordsA meeting of the Soldiers' Residential Club was held in the Town Hall yesterday. The mayoress (Mrs. Hetlierington) presided A letter was received ...
Article : 744 wordsA new regulation under the War Precautions Act provides for the submission to the censor before printing of matter referring to recruiting for the Australian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 799 wordsMrs. Beatrice Huck, a Queenslander, has taken an active interest in the entertainment of our soldiers in London for the past year in an honorary ...
Article : 216 wordsFrench aviators hombed the railway station and troop trains with enormous quantities of material at Mons. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Y.M.C.A. has made arrangements to suitably entertain and cure for the Anzacs who are spending their leave in London. On an average 4000 visit the ...
Article : 52 wordsMore German wounded passed through Mons, in Belgium, in the first fortnight in July than during the previous year. ...
Article : 28 wordsAlbany, the well-known sculler, has been killed in action. LONDON, Wednesday. Second Lieutenant Harold Carver, of ...
Article : 37 wordsOfficers of the Intelligence Section of the Defence Department on Saturday afternoon visited the Headquarters of the Australian Socialist Party and there ...
Article : 158 wordsA military train was blown up near Liege, blocking all German trains in Belgium on the left bank of the Meuse. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt a meeting of the Queensland War Council on Monday night, over which the Minister for Lands presided, Colonel Thynne submitted a comprehensive ...
Article : 540 wordsThe House of Commons voted £6,000,000 for supplementary pensions after, Mr. M'Kenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer) had stated that the Government did not ...
Article : 80 wordsStatements made by German prisoners show that the troops in the trenches have one day weekly without meat, and those behind up to four days. The meat ...
Article : 115 wordsMrs. Ford, East Brisbane, has been notified by the military authorities that her second son, Private Samuel Ford, a member of the process staff employed by ...
Article : 363 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons, as to whether in the terms of peace the Allies would insist on taking from Germany an equal amount of shipping to ...
Article : 66 wordsThe inquiry was continued to-day by the Military Court concerning the escape of six German prisoners from the Holdsworthy concentration camp. The m[?]n ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Portuguese Government has announced that Great Britain is hiring all the German ships that were seized by Portugal, and are not wanted by her. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe wheat market is quiet, and rather easier. The quotation in Chicago for September wheat options is 1359 cents per bushel; ...
Article : 30 wordsHis Majesty the King has conferred the Military Cross on Stanley Wootton, the well-known Australian jockey, who is serving at the Front. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Local Authorities' Clerks' Association of Queensland last night an honour board bearing the names of members of the association ...
Article : 57 wordsCounsel for the German Government has filed a formal appeal against the occision of the United States Court, which declared that the British steamer ...
Article : 72 words[?]ing to a question by Sir G. Kinloth-Cooke in the House of Commons regarding the settling of soldiers on the land, Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State for the ...
Article : 87 wordsApropos of the letter of W. A. Fisher in yesterday's "Courier" on the subject of the sale of regimental colour badges on Red Cross Day, it is pointed out by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,632 wordsThe Senate has adopted the Army Appropriation Bill, which provides for an expenditure of £53,000,000. The appropriation includes £2,600,000 for aviation ...
Article : 31 wordsEleanor M. Little writes from Caringa, Albion:—I strongly approve of individual comforts funds, and am on the committee of the 5th L.H. Fund. What I asked at ...
Article : 68 wordsA youthful Irish chemist has invented an a[?]ne dye. The Government is expermenting with it, and is paying him £650 per quarter. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Church of England Soldiers' Help Society will entertain returned soldiers and their friends at a social and dance this evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Anzac ...
Article : 34 wordsIn order to safeguard the power houses at Niagara Falls which supply power to Canadian munition plants, a ring of barbed wire entanglements has been ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Federal Ministry has adopted regulations prohibiting importation of soap into Australia. The object of the prohibition is to encourage the local manufacture ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the House of Representatives Mr. Bennett spoke in favour of the use of the American navy to break the British "black list." by a system of having ...
Article : 43 wordsThe military authorities invite applications from wireless operatprs fpr servoce in the Signal Squadron (wireless), under the Government of India. Full particulars ...
Article : 37 wordsA largely-attended meeting was held in the Clayfield College on Monday evening, when final arrangements were made for the carnival, which will be opened at 2.30 ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 10 Aug 1916, Page 5
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