His Excellency the Governor-General announced this evening that his Majesty the King had been pleased to confer the following New Year's honours: ...
Article : 667 wordsThe sum of £15/6/3 came to hand yesterday, £10/6/3 going to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, and £5 to the Belgians. Of this, £10 was donated by Mr. F. J. ...
Article : 140 wordsField-Marshal Sir Doughs Haig, in a report issued last night, states: We capfined a strong system of trenches at the southern foot of Serre Hill, on a front ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Admiralty has received a wireless Press message containing the following Russian communique: Germans dressed in white overalls, penetrate our trenches ...
Article : 39 wordsOut of 24 men who presented themselves yesterday, 22 were accepted, including 5 for the Railway Unit. Ten of the volunteers were married men, and the ...
Article : 252 wordsSimultaneously with the commencement of Germany's ruthless, submarine campaign rumours were circulated throughout Australia—probably by German ...
Article : 146 wordsThe newspapers consider that the first weeks submarine frightfulness is disappointing to Germany's proclaimed object of starving Great Britain. Small vessels ...
Article : 107 wordsThe critical position of the sugar industry will be the leading subject at the half-yearly meeting of the Council of the Australian Sugan Producers' Association, ...
Article : 2,766 wordsThe Admiralty has received a wireless Press message containing the following German communique. We repulsed and are pursuing the Russians northward of ...
Article : 40 wordsIt has been disclosed that Germany did not expect that America would break off relations, and that the incident was another diplomatic mistake similar to that ...
Article : 215 wordsThe calm on the Riga Front marks the end of the recent operations. The Russians in their original advance nearly captured Mitan, and if they had done so they ...
Article : 155 wordsAn Italian communique states: On the night of Friday the enemy strongly at tacked enstward of Gorizia, but was nearly every where repulsed. ...
Article : 289 wordsA lieutenant colonel who was killed in action in France on January 4, in the course of a letter written shortly before his death, refers, to the disappointment ...
Article : 253 wordsTHe final function in connection with the Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Fund in the Beenleigh district was held in the Show Grounds on Friday night. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe enlistments throughout the State last week numbered 378. MELBOURNE, February 12. The enlistment figures to-day were: ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following circular letter has been sent out by the organiser of the Returned Soldiers' and Sailors' Impeiial League of Australia (Mr. B. R. Bird): ...
Article : 497 wordsThe Admiralty has received a wireless Press message containing the following German communique: The British attacked north-east of Beanmont, eastward ...
Article : 76 wordsA Russian communique suites: We sunk three schooners laden with corn on the coast of Anatolia (Asiatic Turkey). ...
Article : 27 wordsEight men enlisted for the Railway Unit on Saturday. One man was medically rejected for the A.I.F. to-day. TOOWOOMBA, February 12. ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is reported that the Kaiser has summoned Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg (Imperial German Chancellor), Herr Zimmerman (Minister for Foreign Af ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Chinese Legation states that if German submarines kill a single Chinaman China will sever relations with Germany. ...
Article : 28 wordsA German officer's report, found at Grandecourt, dated the night proceding the evacuation, admits the superiority of the British artillery, and states: "From 11 ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. J. Cass, James-street, Tencriffe, has received a letter from his nephew, who writes from "the sundy desert":— "I believe the commodities of life are ...
Article : 227 wordsThe German dertroyer V69, which was badly damaged in a conflict with British destroyers, has been patched up in the D[?]h port of Ymuiden, and left ...
Article : 35 wordsA euchre party and dance held on Friday night in aid of the Soldiers' Entertainment Fund was very successful. During the evening medals were presented to ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports that telegrams from Bellin state that Mr. Gerard, the American Ambassador, with ...
Article : 174 wordsThe following Austrian official communique has been received by the Admiralty by wireless: Enemy counter-attacks at Gorizia broke down, and we took a ...
Article : 39 wordsAs stated in the "Courier" last weet it has been decided, in view of the scarcity of recruits, to close the camp at Fraser's Hill. The work of shifting camp ...
Article : 76 wordsAt the Gundagai Police Court to-day William Edwards, who was returned at the head of the poll in the Adjungbilly Shire election, was fined £20, or four ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. R. J. Wilson (Wilson, Tait, and Co., Ltd, Brisbane) has received a cable grain announcing that his brother, Lancecorporal J. M. Wilson, has been severely ...
Article : 270 words"The Petrograd correspondent of "the "Morning Post" says it ia officially estimated that the enemy forces on the 1000 miles of Russian front average a division ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Minister for Defence has been asked by the Commandant of the Australian Headquarters, London, to the effect that the War Office has now issued ...
Article : 139 wordsIt is stated that the Kaiser has issued an order to the German troops to cross the Yser, saying, "My armies have passed all the rivers hitherto met with, and now ...
Article : 49 wordsTrouble with the employees of the Australian Glass Bottle Manufacturing Co. at Alexandria and Waterloo occurred to-day. Shortly after the labourers, who ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Greek Government, in reply to the American note, declares that Greece is not in a position to contemplate concerted action for the protection of the ...
Article : 53 wordsFurther contracts for the supply of Victorian jam to the War Office have been accepted. The Director of Agriculture (Dr. Cameron) stated to-day that in ...
Article : 150 wordsAn official communique issued to-day states: We penetrated the enemy lines in the forest of Apremout and took prisoners. The Germans attempted a coup ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Admiralt[?] has received a wireless Press message containing the following German communique: A French thrust north-west of Monastir and a British ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Government is investigating reported plots by the Crews to destroy German vessels interned in Brazilian ports. All the harbours have now been closed at ...
Article : 38 wordsA surprise was sprung on Mr. John Adamson, M.L.A., yesterday, when a lady who had known him in North Queensland many years ago waited on him ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Republic of Belivia has protested against the German submarine policy, and assured the United States that Bolivia adheres to President Wilson's programme. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn inquiry was held to-day by Mr. T. H. Boddington, P.M., into the circumstances surrounding the death of George Evans, whose remains were found in the ...
Article : 576 wordsThe trouble in the profiling section of the small arms fnctory at Lithgow was settled this morning. The men will resume work to-night. At a meeting of the ...
Article : 67 wordsMany references to the war loan were made to day from the pulpit, and the people were urged to subscribe. LONDON, Monday. ...
Article : 119 wordsKipling is one of the few writers whose words come straight from the heart. I want to day to quote a fow lines from his verses on the war, which ought to be ...
Article : 517 wordsAn intimate study of the spirit which dominates the famous French Foreign Legion in the present world war is given by Lieutenant Zinovi Peehkoff, in a ...
Article : 568 wordsThe latest German atrocity in Belgium has just been reported. The military authorities removed 300 lunutics from the Bruges Asylum without allowing their ...
Article : 38 wordsThe American Consul at Queenstown reports that the British-India S. N. Co.'s steamer Mantola, 6828 tons, was torpedoed without waining on February 8 south west ...
Article : 184 wordsProposals for the establishment of State ferry services have been placed before the State Public Works Committee. The scheme provides for the ...
Article : 65 wordsFrom South Brisbane comes an [?]sistent call for reinforcements to au[?]mont the ranks of the Red Cross workers. Those desirous of helping the local [?]ranch ...
Article : 145 wordsPrince Leopold, the Kaiser's nephew, has been invalided out of the army owing to heart trouble. He asked the commandant of Berlin for civilian employment, and ...
Article : 56 wordsStrong complaints are made that the West End restaurants, especially the clubs, a[?]e not showing efforts to reduce food consumption, and the menus are virtually ...
Article : 81 wordsA fine, full-length portrait in oils of Sir William MacGregor, the property of the University of Queenaland, has been lent to the National Art Gallery, where ...
Article : 70 wordsTen German cities, including Wiesbaden, have closed all the theatres, music halls, Public halls, and cinemas owing to the lack of coal for heating purposes. ...
Article : 41 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting was held on Saturday, in the Shire Hall, Councillor Jas. Logan in the chair, when a Gatton branch of the Reel Cross Men's Auxiliary ...
Article : 208 wordsAs recently announced in the "Courier," a ballot of members of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church was arranged to decide whether the church should be ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "Libre Parole" states that the Roumanian General Soccen has been condemned by court-martial, at Jussy, to five years' penal servitude and ...
Article : 183 wordsAn official report from Mesopotamia [?]ates: We assaulted and took possession of the liquorice factory at Kut-el-Amara. and 500 yards of trenches. General ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Ward Price, the war correspondent at Salonica, states that the Greek Provisional Government has received information that the Kaiser sent a significant ...
Article : 191 wordsYesterday an elderly woman named Bridget Moran was admitted to the General Hospital in a bad way (our Rockhampton correspondent wired last night). ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Daylight Saving Scheme, which was in operation last year from May till October, will be resumed on Easter Sunday, (April 8). ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the Show Ground on Friday night recruiting address were delivered by Sergeant James, D.C.M., and Mr. M. Reid. Mr. W. T. Clarke (Chairman of ...
Article : 41 wordsA meeting of the members of the National Referendum Council and of the subscribers to its funds is called for to-day, at noon, to consider the winding[?] ...
Article : 38 wordsThe municipalities of Bergamo and Sestriponente have adopted food tickets, and it is expected that others will follow. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 13 Feb 1917, Page 7
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