A Russian communique states: The gallant Lettish battalions penetrated the enemy's first line entanglements at two points at Shmarden farm. Using anchors ...
Article : 74 wordsPresident Woodrow wilson, in a magazine article headed "America's Opportunity," says: "When the war closes America will be the creditor of all the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Federal Labour Caucus was still considering at midnight the proposals of the Mmistiy with regard to the steps to be taken to regulate and render more ...
Article : 177 wordsRoumania has declared war on Austria-Hungary. LONDON, Monday, 3.5 p.m. It is officially announced in ...
Article : 121 wordsThe British have repelled all the Bulgarian center-attacks against the recently captured positions at Doiran. The Bulgarian [?] is ...
Article : 260 wordsA very enthusiastic meeting of the Christmas Box Fund Committee was held in the Courier Building yesterday. Mr. J. J. Knight was chairman, and there was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,253 wordsThe Brisbane Gymnasium this year has decided to give its annual display in aid of the Brisbane Girls' Club Funds for soldiers at home and abroad. The function ...
Article : 132 wordsA German communique states: Repeated Russian attempts on the Duena Front to cross the river in boats eastward of Friedrichs Zennewafen were frustrated. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe "Figaro," by quotations from German writers, shows that Germany before the war contemplated the conquest of South America, firstly by immigration, ...
Article : 75 wordsA public meeting will be held it the Chamber of Commerce rooms, on Thursday, August 31, at 3.30 p.m., to appoint a Working Committee in support of the ...
Article : 88 wordsA Russian communique states: Stubborn fighting continues in the direction of Diarbekir, in Armenia. We reached the river Masladarsi, which flows into the ...
Article : 32 wordsThe committee of the 25th is now preparing to send away Christmas boxes to the men of this battalion, and have been very successful in procuring sufficient to ...
Article : 183 wordsHEADQUARTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH BANK, PITT AND MOORE STREETS, SYDNEY, OPENED LAST WEEK. (A description of the building appeared in Wednesday's issue of the "Courier.") ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsAdvices have been received that an Anglo-French flotilla bombarded all day on August 10 the coast of Asia Minor from Makari to Jaffra, destroying ...
Article : 67 wordsA Bulgarian communique states. We captured a village southward of Ochrida, taking prisoner an English detachment, including the commander. In the Vardar ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, correspondent with the British headquarters, in a despatch from France, says:—The Wiltshire and Worcestershire Regiments deserve the ...
Article : 194 wordsA German communique states. The Bulgarians are advancing on the east bank of the Struma, and are approaching the mouth of the river. ...
Article : 32 wordsTwo instructors at the American College, at Beirut, in Syria, who have traversed Turkey, have returned to New York. They assert that the British ...
Article : 77 wordsMrs. J. R. Loney received a cablegram on Wednesday advising that her brother, Pte. O. H. Tippett, had been wounded in France by sharapnel in the right arm, but ...
Article : 609 wordsThe Serbians continue to make important progress south of Staubino, and on the Kukuyoff slopes between Moglino and the Ostrovo, and they beat the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe "English Review" is promoting a memorial urging the return of Mr. W. M. Hughes as a member of the Inner War Council. The signatories to the memorial ...
Article : 136 wordsA wireless message from Berlin states that Italy has declared war against Germany as from Monday. LONDON, Sunday. ...
Article : 411 wordsThe British and French Ministers at Athens visited M. Zaimis, the Greek Premier, on Sunday. M. Zaimis afterwards called on the King of Greece, and ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says: The Prussian Guards advanced with great bravery, and charged six times, but were as often shattered. ...
Article : 92 wordsThere will be a meeting of the Organising Committee in the British Medical Association rooms at 3 o'clock this afternoon. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 287 wordsThe railwaymen organised an afternoon demonstration in Hyde Park to-day as a protest against the increased cost of living Speakers on five platforms ...
Article : 116 wordsSpeaking at Auchterarder, in Perthshire, Mr. Lloyd George said: We have had two anxious months—one when the German hosts were pouring through ...
Article : 80 wordsAmong those who elisted here on Saturday was the mayor, Alderman Donald James Hutchings, and to-day in other well-known citizen, Mr. John ...
Article : 92 wordsThe occupation of Demirhassir by the Bulgarians has increased popular anger in Greece, and the patriotic movement is spreading. There is much perturbation at ...
Article : 52 wordsAn official communique issued to-day states: Bad weather continues to hamper operations. The Germans three times in the night attathed the wood at Vaux Chapitre, ...
Article : 105 wordsAn airman who attacked a Zeppelin in last Friday's raid ascended in the darkness, tenaciously followed the airship for many miles, and emptied his quickfirer at ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is reported that the Roumanian reservists have been mobilisaed, and that the Cabinet is asking for a credit of £24,000,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 213 wordsThe newspapers are discussing the like lihood of a prolongation of the war, and point out that all official indications, including those of the late Lord ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 321 wordsTwo Zeppelins passed Bergen, in the west coast of Norway, at full speed towards the north, witn two cruisers escorting them. This is the first time ...
Article : 39 wordsA German communique states After artillery preparation the English made repeated attacks southward of Thiepval and northward of Pozieres, but were ...
Article : 171 wordsThe hearing was concluded to-day, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., in the Central police Court, of the casein which Eugen Schroeder and Max Kabutz were accused ...
Article : 163 wordsA presentation of a bugle and kettledrum from the Brisbane Tramway employees' wives, sisters, and friends will be made to the 9th Reinforcements of the ...
Article : 48 wordsM. Julliot, the builder of the Lebaudy dirigibles, is sceptical as to the value of the super-Zeppelins. He states that only when then fuel has been largely used ...
Article : 81 wordsAn Italian communique states: There is considerable Austrian artillery, mortar, and rifle activity on the Trentino front. Our artillery damaged the defences on ...
Article : 137 wordsAn in memoriam service for the late Private Walter N. Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Stone, Wilde-street, Wynnum, who was killed in action in France, was ...
Article : 138 wordsAt the State Insurance Office yesterday the officers met and presented Mr. A. H. Kenrick, one of their number who has enlisted, with a suitably inscribed ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. Alfred Noyes, writing the "Daily Chronicle," says: "Great Britain's trawling fleet for mine sweeping and submarine hunting comprises 3000 vessels, ...
Article : 164 wordsAt the meeting of the Engineers and Miners' Comforts Fund last Thursday afternoon Mrs. Cecil Foott (president) read an interesting report of the work ...
Article : 337 wordsAccording to news from Amsterdam, the Germans are said to be abandoning further important action on the West Front, and will continue purely defensive ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief in France, reports: We have captured an additional 200 yards of trench northward of Bazentin-le-Petit. ...
Article : 211 wordsThree hundred followers of General Villa captured the town of Satovo, after six hours' fighting. The garrison, numbering 200, were without ammunition, ...
Article : 43 wordsThe "Echo de Belge" lerrns of constant night movements of German trains conveying troops from the Antwerp garrison to the Front. It is rumoured ...
Article : 69 wordsTo day's recruiting figures were: Offered 244, atceptcd 179. MELBOURNE, August 28. To-day's recruiting figures were the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe wheat acreage in Canada this season shows a decrease of 20 per cent. on the area sown last season. It is expected that the Canadian crop will show ...
Article : 48 wordsThe railwaymen have sent a majority of the leaders homeward to arrange a strike unless the managers yield to their demands, and a strike seems to be ...
Article : 80 wordsDuring the week three camp concerts, organised by Mrs. Shaw, under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A., were given in the camp hits at Fraser's Hill and ...
Article : 104 wordsThe following gifts in kind were received yesterday:—Parcel of papers for the troops from Miss Heuxhele, and a panel of stamps for the Belgians from ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Universal Service League will hold a meeting in the Albert Hall next Wednesday night, at 8 o'clock Chaplain Colonel Merrington, the Minister for ...
Article : 47 wordsMrs. G. L. Lee, the "Queen of the Soldiers," in the matter of the effort to raise funds for the Residential Club for Returned Sailors and Soldiers, has ...
Article : 72 wordsFood riots have occurred at Mulhouse (Alsace-Lorraine). The troops quelled the disturbances, killing 20 persons and wounding scores. The inhabitants have ...
Article : 36 wordsA meeting of the War Nurses' Fund Committee will be held in the Liberal National Council rooms (opposite the G.P.O.), Queen-street, to-morrow ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 29 Aug 1916, Page 7
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