General Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief in France, reports: The British overcame the resistance of the enemy, and entered Combles. Fifteen ...
Article : 529 wordsGeneral Scannon, Commandant of the Corfu garrison, has left for Salonica for the purpose of participating in the revolution. ...
Article : 416 wordsA Russian communique states: Our energetic fire repulsed an assault by two battalions northward of Lake Kaldytchev, and we inflicted great losses. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday Mr. Fowles moved,—[?] That this Council deplo[?]es the fact that certain dis[?]oyal statements, calculated to sow discord in ...
Article : 1,735 wordsCrystallised, the new war taxation proposals are:— REPATRIATION FUND. Levy of one half per cent. on all ...
Article : 174 wordsA German communique states: The Russians six times assaulted and failed at Manajow. The Roumanians captured the frontier heights astride the ridge ...
Article : 47 wordsAn Italian communique states: Our artillery prevented an enemy attempt to consolidate the positions we eva[?]uated on the summit of Mount Cimone. We ...
Article : 42 wordsA Brinkworth (president) and C. W. Wyeth (secretary), Toowoomba branch of the Royal Society of St. George, Toowoomba, write: We have been ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Italians did not accept the offer of a local armistice on the summit of Mount Cimone. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt is officially announced that seven airships attacked the south coast, cast coast, north-east coast and north M[?]dlands, last night, principally aiming at ...
Article : 283 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Fenton presented a petition from the Plymouth Brethren against ...
Article : 1,721 wordsEighty-four hours' bombardment of unprecedented violence preceded the general attack on Monday. The deafening roar of the guns suddenly ceased at 12.30 ...
Article : 1,163 words[?]ch communique states: Lively [?]ments and skirmishes took p[?] the Struma and the Varda[?], esp[?]ly on the English Front. At ...
Article : 66 wordsFrom several parts of the State, as well as from the metropolis, we have received reports of the distribution of ha[?]bills melting to sedition as a means ...
Article : 209 wordsA German communique states that the Bulga[?] were successful on both sides of Florina. ...
Article : 17 wordsA German communique states: On the fourth day of the artillery battle between the An[?]re and the Somme the French and British combined in an attack. The ...
Article : 84 wordsLieutenant Ball has gained the Military Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, and a special bar, for an extraordinary series of air exploits. Observing seven ...
Article : 222 wordsA Roomanian communique states. We compelled [?]e Bulgarian right wing in the Do[?]a to retreat. We picked up 5000 rifles in front of one Bulgarian ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Frederick Palmer, the American war correspondent with the British headquarters, cables the following graphic story:—"Combles differed from the other ...
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Advertising : 77 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the United Press states that several other members of the German Government visited Mr Gerard, the American Ambassador, last ...
Article : 69 wordsTHE SOMME FRONT. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 3 wordsThe Dardanelles Commission resumed its sittings to-day, and evidence was given by Viscount Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Maurice Hankey ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Earl of Rosslyn has issued a warning that, owing to money lenders tempting his son, Lord Loughborough, to borrow money, he will not he responsible ...
Article : 50 wordsLieutenant Cedric Graham, of the Durham Light Infantry, formerly of Auckland, has been killed in action. ...
Article : 23 wordsA French communique states: The enemy's violent attack on the Thianmont Work and Fleury failed, with serious losses. Yesterday our aviators ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the last Military District on Tuesday 88 volunteers were secured, this number bringing the total enlistments of this month up to 1407. Details of Tuesday's ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Hughes (Prime Minister) announced to-day that men who married after August 30, 1916, the date on which he announced the Government's proposals ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "London Gazette" notifies that Lieutenant J Stewart, of the First Light Horse, has been court-martialled and dismissed from the service. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. D. Watkins, Senator S. Barker, Mr. P. M. Glynn, Mr. A. J. Hampson, and other Australian and New Zealand members of the Parliamentary Association, ...
Article : 71 wordsIt is officially announced that all goods exported from the following countries to the United Kingdom, Australasia, South Africa, colonies not possessing responsible ...
Article : 129 wordsIn Sydney to day 119 men offered for active service and 71 were accepted ADELAIDE, September 27 To-day 116 men volunteered at Adelaide, ...
Article : 66 wordsA motion supporting conscription was carried to-night, with only three dissentients, in a packed public meeting. The speakers for the motion included Liberal ...
Article : 62 wordsThe wheat market is firm, but inactive The quotation in Chicago for December wheat options is 154[?] cents per bushel; May, 154[?] cents ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Acting Premier (Mr E G Theodore) is in receipt of a cable from the Queensland Agent-General (Sir Thomas Robinson, K C M G) intimating ...
Article : 73 wordsA large, representative, and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Town Hall, Charters Towers, last night. The mayor (Alderman Watts) occupied the chair. ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is reported that Great Britain is making an effort to secure the release of the steamers laid up in Russian and Finnish harbours. At Petrograd alone half a ...
Article : 93 wordsOfficial despatches received at Washington state that the increasing arrivals of large numbers of German children in Holland because of the absence of food in ...
Article : 66 wordsA French communique, issued to-day, states: We completed the capture of Fregicourt, and penetrated the Combles Cemetery. We seized a French south-west ...
Article : 242 wordsThe City Hall, South Brisbane, was crowded last night when a final recruiting concert was held. The Mayor of South Brisbane (Alderman J E Hilton) ...
Article : 131 wordsA meeting of the Toowoomba Ladies' Universal War Service Committee was held this afternoon in the Town Hall, Miss Cousens presiding Addresses were ...
Article : 74 wordsThe German Socialist journal, "Vorwaerts," states that the indignation of the working classes at the high rate of pay of army officers compelled the Kaiser ...
Article : 50 wordsA shortage of 200,000,000lb of wool is confronting the American clothing manufacturers owing to the poor wool clip in the United States, and the difficulty of ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 28 Sep 1916, Page 7
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