A Russian communique states: There have been patrol skirmishes on our west front, the most serious being at Tirul, south of Riga. ...
Article : 28 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief in France, reports: Our new positions have been consolidated, and progress made in the direction of ...
Article : 303 wordsHis Majesty the King yesterday reviewed the Australian and New Zealand troops at Salisbury Plain. It was the largest body of Australians that has ...
Article : 602 wordsThe "Patris" states that M. Venezelos does not intend to interfere immediately with the status quo in Athens. The object of the movement is purely national, ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Minister for Defence made the following important announcement to-day. In connection with the intention of the Government to call out the single men ...
Article : 328 wordsThe number of recruits secured on Wednesday was [?]1, of which Brisbane contributed 43, Rockhampton and Toowoomba 4 each, Maryborough 3, Charleville, ...
Article : 64 wordsMrs. T. J. White, Chelmer, has received the following letter from her son, Ralph M. White (since awarded the Military Cross):—"On Saturday afternoon we ...
Article : 1,990 wordsA German communique slates: The Russians failed in the Endowa sector. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe "Journal's" Petrograd correspondent states that General Brussiloff is confident of the outcome of the war. He says: "We have put out of action 1000(?) ...
Article : 70 wordsIn Sydney to-day 129 men volunteered, and 85 were accepted. MELBOURNE, September 28. The recruiting figures to-day were: ...
Article : 63 wordsA Russian communique states: Our patrols took Turkish prisoners south of Elles, on the Black Sea coast. We forced back the Turks in the direction of ...
Article : 41 wordsTrooper Frank E. Whaler, writing to his wife after the battle of Romani, Egyot, in which he took part, stated: Our aeroplanes reported large numbers of ...
Article : 521 wordsThe following recruits have been accepted in the last two or three days through the work of Sergeant Vary:— Messrs. Neville Winthrop (Binjour), George ...
Article : 140 wordsThe news of Tuesday's victory was received with intense joy on the Allied Front, and particularly the news of the capture of Thiepval, which was not ...
Article : 547 wordsA semi-official report states that the eastern part of the Carso Plateau gradually widens southwards, and hence the enemy's persistent attempts to retake ...
Article : 70 wordsThe reason of the stonewall in the House of Representatives is stated to be the Government's intention to adjourn Parliament for six weeks. The ...
Article : 89 wordsA French communique states: The Serbians at Kajmakalan threw back three violent attacks with heavy losses, taking 50 prisoners. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Admiralty has issued the following statement: Our seaplanes raided the airship sheds at Evere, verchem, Saint Agathe, and Eterbeck. The ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Arthur E. Sharp, manager of the property department of Messrs. Noble and Shortt, who has enlisted in the Motor Transport Corps, was made the ...
Article : 744 wordsA German communique states. The Bulgarians defeated and pursued the enemy at Kajmakalan, capturing two cannon, machine-guns, and mine-throwers. ...
Article : 25 wordsA special general meeting of the Queensland Recruiting Committee was held last night, Colonel Thynae in the chair, to consider the urgent necessity ...
Article : 804 wordsA German communique states. We made good progress at Hermannstadt. ...
Article : 19 wordsA Berlin official message states: Naval airships on the night of September 25-26 dropped explosive and incendiary bombs with visible success on the naval harbour ...
Article : 64 wordsA French communique issued to-day states: We captured a strongly fortified wood east of Vermandovillers. We are consolidating the conquered positions, and ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Japanese Government has ordered the German banks in Tokio to close indefinitely owing to the discovery of complicity in suspicious specie movements. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Nationalist-Socialist Party, in a manifesto to the Socialists of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa, expresses surprise and regret to see by ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. Kuhn Loeb has arranged a loan of £10,000,000 to the city of Paris. This is the first time that the Paris municipality has borrowed outside France. The ...
Article : 47 wordsMajor Arthur Humphreys and Lieutenant Hugh Lovick, who were en route to Canada, were detained by the immigration authorities at Ellis Island because they ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsSergeant J. M'Conachic, of the Signallers, writes from France to his father, (Mr. J. M. M'Conachic, P.M.G.s Department): "No doubt you guessed ...
Article : 274 wordsThe "Franktuter Zeitung" states: The enemy obtained a tactical advantage on the Somme on Tuesday. It was terribly bloody for the attacker, and a test ...
Article : 85 wordsA German communique states: We lost a projecting angle at Thiepval. The enemy gained ground on both sides of Courcellette. Except for the occupation ...
Article : 60 wordsThe United States has provided a convoy of 12 warships for two German interned auxiliary cruisers, which are leaving Norfolk. (Virginia) for Philadelphia. The ...
Article : 57 wordsAt a meeting of the Queensland Branch of the National Referendum Council, held yesterday afternoon in the Overseas Club, the following officers were appointed:— ...
Article : 151 wordsGermany has called up the unfit men of the 1870-1875 class, and also those of the 1898 class, for re-examination? The strain on the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe capture of Thiepval was expected to give the Allies the command of the enemy's lateral communications. Mr. Beach Thomas, in articles in the papers received by a recent mail, ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War, replying to the congratulations of M. Poincare, the French President, on the two days' successes of the British ...
Article : 60 wordsTwo of Mr. Asquith's nephews, the Hon. Edward Wyndham Tennant, son and heir of Lord Glenconner, and Mark Tennant, of the Scots Guards, have been ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, war correspondent with the British headquarters, in his report of the recent fighting, says: The enemy troops between Morval and Sailly ...
Article : 280 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" says the capture of Combles has driven the Germans from an arc six miles deep, comprising 117 square miles ...
Article : 120 wordsIn a letter to his father, Mr. Ralph E. Wolfe. Paterson-street, Teneriffe, Private Wolfe writes: We have heard that they are bringing conscription into Australia. ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York World" has interviewed an American, who recently conversed with Count Zeppelin at Stuttgart. Count Zeppelin ...
Article : 99 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press at Berlin states: The stormiest session of the Reichstag since the beginning of the war is foreshadowed ...
Article : 181 wordsThe new rooms of the Toowoomba Church of England Soldiers' Rest and Comfort Fund were officially opened yesterday by the mayoress (Mrs. A. D. ...
Article : 99 wordsGerman newspapers report that the cargo submarine Bremen has reached America. NEW YORK, Thursday ...
Article : 42 wordsBerlin messages, which the censorship apparently has allowed to be sent to Swiss newspapers, emphasise the seriousness of the military situation. One ...
Article : 92 wordsThe military authorities advise that approximately 24 returned invalid soldies are expected to arrive by special train from Sydney to-night, at 8.30, at ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Red Cross Society will hold a carnival to-morrow in the Exhibition Hall and adjoining grounds. It will be opened by Lady Goold-Adams at 3 p.m., and continue until ...
Article : 262 wordsTrooper F. B. Campbell writes to his mother, Mrs. J. M. Campbell Kensington, Russell-street, Towoomba:—"We shifted from our old camp about a month ...
Article : 487 wordsBaron Yoshiro Sakatani, formerly Japanese Minister of Finance, who attended the recent Paris Conference, predicts that another winter will pass before peace ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Central News correspondent states: 1500 enemy dead were counted in the streets of Combles, and hundreds of wounded were extricated from the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe High Commissioner for New Zealand (Sir Thomas Mackenzie), in a speech at the Sailors and Firemen's Union dinner, said that after the war, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Koelnische Zeitung," in an inspired article, is preparing the German public for the loss of the East African colonies It says that "the German ...
Article : 67 wordsThe rates for six months Treasury bills has been reduced from 5¾ per cent., and for 12 months' bills from 6 per cent. to 5½ per cent., the same as thrre months' ...
Article : 96 wordsA Federal regulation was issued to-day making it an offence to make an incorrect statement in securing a grant, payment, or allotment in consection with soldiers' pay. The regulations ...
Article : 97 wordsThe wheat market is firm, but inactive. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 29 Sep 1916, Page 7
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