The Secretary of State for the Colo[?]les telegraphed to the Dominions yesterday "His Majesty's Government does not contemplate a session of the ordinary ...
Article : 643 wordsThe Admiralty has received the following wireless ofticial message from Petrograd: The Tsar, in an order of the day to the Army and Navy, states: "It is ...
Article : 547 wordsThe correspondent of "Le Journal" ga[?]e the first news of the British extension of front on the Somme. It was a busy Christmas for the Tommies entering ...
Article : 440 wordsThe "Courier" Patriotic Funds received the substantial addition of £40/17/ yesterday. Three objects benefited—the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, the Nurses' ...
Article : 481 wordsA German communique states: We captured 5500 Russians in the last few days in the Great Wal[?]chia Mountains, south of Rimnicu-Sarat. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 671 wordsA Bulgarian communique states: Enemy monitors bombarded Tulcea. The retreat. ing Russians destroyed the bridges over the Danube at Isaceea. Fighting is ...
Article : 36 wordsA Russian official communique states The German offensive in the Kovel region has been blood[?]ly repulsed. The Germans delvered attacks on nearly the ...
Article : 64 wordsAuthoritative circles in Holland regard Germany's promptn[?]s in replying to President Wilson as an indication of the urgency of escaping overwhelming ...
Article : 287 wordsAn official communique issued in Vienna states that the fighting in Wallachia continues favourably, despite the arrival of strong Russian reinforcements. ...
Article : 26 wordsA Russian communique states that the Turks have been driven back in the region of Lake Van, in Armenia. ...
Article : 26 wordsMap of the Egyptian Campaign, showing the positions of EI Arish and Birel Magdhaba with relation to the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean. EI Arish, it will be observed, is on the coastal route taken by the Turks in their advance on the Canal in 1915, and Bir el Magdhaba is not far from the main route of that advance. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 61 wordsThe "New York Tribane" quotes a recent article by a writer in the Berlin "Lokal Anzeigen" as follows:—"We began the war a year too soon, and when we ...
Article : 116 wordsA German communique states that British attacks north-east of Doiran were repulsed. ...
Article : 21 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in a report issued last night, states: We searched and bombed a few hundred yards of trenches and dug-outs north-westward of ...
Article : 107 wordsGerman agents are discreetly inquiring for hotel accommodation for delegates to the Peace Conference. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Tribuna" says that Greek troops continue to pass towards the Peloponnesus, according to the demands of the Allies, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe State Department announces that Sweden has forwarded a peace note to the belligerents resembling that sent by Switzerland. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 629 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" states that the reply of the Allies to Germany's peace note cannot surrender a potential victory. Peace will be a German peace ...
Article : 217 wordsLetters found on prisoners indicate that a spirit of revolt is spreading in Austria, whore famine torments the people, and the soldiers are suffering acutely from ...
Article : 79 wordsThere is great artillery activity on the whole of the Italian front. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Cyril Browne, who is at the German front at Bapaume, in a despatch to the "New York Times," states: The Somme is now peaceful. The German ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Germans executed 12 Belgians for alleged espionage at Hasselt, including one woman. They also sentenced many Belgians to imprisonment for life, three of ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. J. T. Isles, who has just returned from Melbourne, states that the Mechanical Transport Company was in excellent spirits, and all desired to express ...
Article : 400 wordsM. Pobrovsky, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, declared that the close economic union of the Allies after the war would give freedom to Russian trade, ...
Article : 83 wordsEnthusiastic approval is given here to Mr. Lloyd George's proposal to hold an Imperial War Conference. The Press [?]ils Mr Lloyd George as a statesman ...
Article : 52 wordsThe situation in the Sinai Peninsula is developing satisfactorily. The mounted troops are well beyond El Arish, and the southern portion of the Sinai Peninsula ...
Article : 41 wordsThe inclusion of India in the Conference has attracted special attention regarding the well-merited recognition of India's loyalty and services. It is recalled in some ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Geneva correspondent of the "Daily News" states A party of Austrian diplomats has arrived here. It is believed that Austria, though unwilling ...
Article : 80 wordsThe French General Damade has sent the following message to Sir Joseph Ward:—"I wish to convey to your country my admiration and pride at having ...
Article : 95 wordsA German communique claims that nine aeroplanes were brought down in the Wester[?] theatre of war. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr Massey, the war correspondent, describing the defence works at the Suez Canal, emphasises their permanency as well as their enormous magnitude. The ...
Article : 185 wordsThe following communique was issued last night: There has been marked artillery activity in some of the sectors south of the Somme, where an enemy battery ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. M[?]ssey), in an interview, said the decision to call the overseas' representatives to the War Cabinet marked a ...
Article : 194 wordsJapan notifies her entire adhesion to all the decisions of the Allies regarding the German, American, and Swiss peace notes. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Socialist Congress now sitting in Paris adopted a resolution declaring that Germany's note did not constitute a genuine peace proposal, is it did not ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Sno, of 1823 tons, has been sunk by a German submarine. MADRID, Thursday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 wordsGeneral Herbert Lyantey, Minister for War, in a letter to the President of France, says: "The dignity of Marshal of France, which has been in ...
Article : 109 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that a second American note has been received in London, explanatory of the first, but its terms have no been ...
Article : 44 wordsThe list or New Year honours has been delayed, and will be issued during the first fortnight in January. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Home Office has interrogated the various Chambers of Commerce as to the verdict on the adoption of "summer time," and the replies show that it was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,955 wordsThe Army Council has ordered that no wool of the 1916-17 clip consigned to the United Kingdom from Australia and New Zealand on growers' account shall be sold ...
Article : 69 wordsSir Robert Borden, Canadian Prime Minister, in a letter to the Labour unions, states: "If conscription should prove to be the only effective method of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe wheat market has a holiday tone, but is firm, and prices are unchanged. The American visible supply of wheat is estimated at 72,624,000 bushels, as ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Liquor Control Board has published statistics showing a remarkable decrease in drunkenness, and in the number of suicides throughout the United ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 29 Dec 1916, Page 7
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