A circular found on a German prisoner states: "It is the duty of every soldier to economise in food and forage to counteract the enemy's efforts to starve us out. ...
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Article : 264 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief in France, has been appointed a Knight Grand Croos of the Victorian Order. ...
Article : 30 wordsSydney Cox, aged 22, was at the local Police Court yesterday fined £2 on each of two charges of having attempted to leave the Commonwealth without a ...
Article : 81 wordsThe list for the sixth series of wool sales, to be opened on September 5, will close on Monday next. The opening of the seventh series has been fixed for ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Foreign Office states that no person over 15 years of age will be permitted to land in Australia without a passport. ...
Article : 33 wordsViscount Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has requested the United States Government to warn Germany that if, contrary to agreement, ...
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Article : 146 wordsAt the Newcastle Police Court yesterday Robert Clem, aged 28, was fined £20, or one month's imprisonment, for having, as a subject of the German Emperor, ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Kitchener National Memorial Fund now amounts to £235,000. ...
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Article : 87 wordsThe steamer Stampalia reached Genoa from New York in July, after a voyage of 33 days, under commission to the Italian Government, which is believed to ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the recent raid by Allied airmen bombs dropped at Namur exploded the [?]tadel, killing 150 German soldiers Bombs also set fire to several military ...
Article : 44 words[?] official announcement states: Naval [?]roplanes dropped 48 bombs from a [?]ight of 3000ft. on [?]nemy ammunition dumps at Lichtervelde, in Western ...
Article : 41 wordsAn Order in Council has been issued which empowers the Beard of T[?]ade to obtain information as to whether goods of any deseription are being held to the ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is announced that the Australian Air Squadron Fund now amounts to £12,721. Among the latest big cont[?]butions is one of £1000 from W. E. Abott, of Wingen. ...
Article : 34 wordsNorway has prohibited the export of fish. It will grant licenses to England and Germany, but [?]egulates the quantity by the quantities of coal, petrol, oil, &c., ...
Article : 41 wordsThough his attention was directed yesterday to a rumour in the city that the Imperial Government intended to commandeer the Australian wool clip, the Prime Minister said that he had ...
Article : 87 wordsPress correspondents at Lemberg, the [?]pital of Gali[?]a, described the frantic [?]oy of the Austrian troops and the population of the city in welcoming the ...
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Article : 33 wordsThe Pacific Mail Steamship Company will recommence its service between San Francisco and Japan and other Eastern ports on Saturday. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe "Church Times" deplores the terribly depraved language used by troops in the camps, and appeals to the hig[?] officers to abate the evil. ...
Article : 34 wordsA German communique states: German aeroplanes successfully attacked Russian destroyers and a submarine north-east of Kuraburnu, on the Black Sea. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 21 Aug 1916, Page 7
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