The British Embassy has issued a statement declaring that the ruthless submarining policy of the enemy has resulted in the loss of only one out of every 100 ...
Article : 83 wordsIn the House of Commons today, on the motion for the third reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill, Mr. A. A. Ponsonby (Liberal) urged the ...
Article : 691 wordsTrooper Harold Taylor, of the Light Horse, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Tayior, Anchenflower, writing from somewhere in Egypt, describes his experiences ...
Article : 327 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a report issued last night, states: Under cover of a heavy bombardment, which destroyed our trench, strong enemy ...
Article : 67 wordsThe committee on Commercial and Industrial policy, of which Lord Balfour of Burleigh was chairman, has, recommended, in view of the experience of the war, ...
Article : 1,120 wordsYesterday was a small day for the "Courier" Patriotic Funds. Only £2 was received, and this amount went to the Red Cross Fund. It came from the ...
Article : 130 wordsAn official communique issued to-day states: On Monday night the enemy entered one of our trenches through galleries excavated beneath the snow, near ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. C. E. Daniels, of Palmwoods, has received a cablegram, from his son, Corporal E. M. Daniels, notifying his safe arrival in England. ...
Article : 710 wordsGenoral Howzendorft has relinquished the position of chief of the Austrian Staff to take up the command on the Italian front. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Admiralty has received a wireless Press message containing the following German communique: We repulsed British attacks west of Messines, ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Italians occupied Konitza, near Durazno, in Albania, on Thursday. ...
Article : 21 wordsMiss Nellie Kiersnowski, Yarraman, forwarded a parcel of clothing for the Belgians, and three feather pillows were received from Mrs. E. E. Nicol, White-road, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe recent interview said to have been granted by Fiedl-Marshal Sir Dougles Haig to French journalists was the subject of questions in the House of Commons ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Admiralty has received a wireless Press message containing the following Russian communique: We repelled an attack north-westward of Podogaitze. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. R. Lansing (Secietary of Slate) and the Attorney-General attended a meeting of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, and urged the adoption of a resolution ...
Article : 64 wordsIn connection with Mrs. Stodart's appeal for help to swell her War Nurses' Fund, which will be made to-morrow, a further contribution of £1/1/ has been ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Admiralty has received a wireless Press message containing a Russian communique, in which it is stat d that a Russian submarine sank an enemy ...
Article : 44 wordsIrvine Barton writes to his mother from the Strand Palace Hotel, London:—"By the time this leaches yon I will be on some training school for officers. We ...
Article : 185 wordsTo-day 41 volunteers were examined, and 19 were passed as fit. ADELAIDE, February 21. To-day 22 men volunteered, and 18 were ...
Article : 37 wordsApart from the sinking of the Swedish steamer Hugo Hamilton, the only sinking reported this morning is that of a small fishing vessel. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe New York "World" says that President Wilson his called for report from the Navy and Military Departments on the exact condition of all the fighting ...
Article : 42 wordsAn official communication from Egypt states: We captured the Turkish posts at Nekhl and Birel Hassana, in the Sinai Peninsula, securing prisoners and booty. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Walter Samuel Face was to-day accepted for active service. Two other volunteers were rejected. TOOWOOMBA, Tebruarv 21 ...
Article : 116 wordsThe American Steamship line has paid off its crews, and abandoned sailings for the present. One theory is that the ships are being held in case they should be ...
Article : 72 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that the Germans claim that the recent victims of submarines include an 8200-ton steamer with a general cargo for Austria (? ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Journal d'Aeroplane" states that a new giant British machine, when recently tested, attained a height of 7000ft., while carrying 20 passengers and ...
Article : 40 wordsAccording to the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," Dr. Helfferich, German Minister of the Interiot, states that Germany will take all surplus food ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Minister for the Navy, (Mr. J. Cook) was advised by cable to-day that the Austialian transport Berrima, 11,137 tons, was torpedoed in European waters ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that Mr. Gerard, instead of going to Barcelone, will proceed direct to Madrid, to interview ...
Article : 49 wordsW. Martin, formerly of Woombye, Queensland, writes, giving some of his experiences since leaving Queensland with the A.I.F.: "I am glad to get your ...
Article : 383 wordsA French communique, issued this afternoon, states: There have been lively artillery actions between the Oise and the Aisne and in the sector of Avocourt. ...
Article : 53 wordsA coin tea for soldiers was given by the Young Women's Liberal Club in its rooms in Wharf-street on Tuesday evening. A very enjoyable programme was ...
Article : 126 wordsThe London conespondent of the "New York "Times" states that Sir Edward Carson's first importand speech as First Lord of the Admiralty will be made ...
Article : 109 wordsThere is a general impression that Austria will support Germany's submarine policy, and that a diplomatic break with Austria will not be long ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Paris newspapers make a great display in connection with the anniversary of the German offensive at Verdun last year, and the authorities are receiving ...
Article : 50 wordsThe newspapers here welcome the agreement between Great Britain and Norway for the removal of the coal embargo, as restoring good relations between the two ...
Article : 41 wordsReplying to a question by Mr. Noel Buxton in the House of Commons, Mr. W. H. Long said that his recent speech, in which he declared that the German ...
Article : 201 wordsAt a concert held in the Shire Hall last Friday night, Mr. Hamilton Smith (shire clerk), on behalf of the Queensland Recruiting Committee, introduced ...
Article : 159 wordsThe United States Senate, by 60 votes to 10, passed the Espionage Bill, which provides a penalty of 20 years' imprisonment in peace time, and imprisonment for ...
Article : 55 wordsThe German have sentenced M. Gossenaerts, a professor at the Ghent Royal Athenaeum, to a year's imprisonment for a Germanophobe propaganda. ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is announced that only British and Allied vessels will be allowed to enter the port of Plymouth until further notice. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following authoritative statement has been issued in Berlin: "We must repeat again and again that whoever penetrates the burred zone will perish." ...
Article : 36 wordsA public meeting, convened by Mr. E. Taylor, Morningside, was held at his residence last night to consider the election of an honour board for soldiers ...
Article : 267 wordsThe meat supplies at the Smithfield market last week amounted to 5057 tons, as compared with 6895 tons for the week preceding the adoption of voluntary ...
Article : 33 wordsIn connection with the alleged spy plot, detectives state that the communications were written in invisible ink, and afterwards an ordinay letter was written on ...
Article : 53 wordsThe session of the Reichstag is expected to continue until Easter. Several most important questions have to be discussed, including food questions and post-war ...
Article : 188 wordsThe "Meseagero" states that 14 Transatlantie vessels with cargoes, including coal and cereals, arrived at Naples and Genoa from February 15 to February 17, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Collector of Customs advised yesterday that instructions had been issued that until further notice no women or children will be permitted to proceed ...
Article : 56 wordsAn officer at the Front tells me (writes A.J.B.) that he and hundreds of others are suffering very much from chilblains. Here is a cure which will often be ...
Article : 76 wordsWhen the Christmas boxes were about to be sent to our brave boys at the Front in November last year the pupils of the Kelvin Grove Boys' State School ...
Article : 655 wordsThe American Consul at Queenstown report that the Norwegian steamer Dalbeatic was sunk by a submarine, which continued to shell the vessel after the ...
Article : 77 wordsAfter riotiously destroying push-cart ped[?] stocks of vegetables, hundreds of Ghetto women, with babics, made a demonstration in Hall Park, demanding ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "New York Herald" says that the British war loan was the most colossal financial enterprise that the world has seen, and its superb success has ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Minister for Defence intimated today that Dr. Crevelll, a resident of Albert Park, who had two sons at the Front, had called on him this morning, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe hon, treasurer acknowledges the following additional donations:—Previously acknowledged, £123,467/14/9; Wolfram branch, £6; Kelvin Grove ...
Article : 102 wordsMrs. Norman Shelley, in the course of an address at a "Win the War" meeting today, said workers for the "Win the War" League could name a country town ...
Article : 56 wordsThe advisability of issuing premium war bonds is again being discussed, and the subject is to be raised in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe newspapers are indignant at the sinking of the Swedish ship Hugo Hamilton, which, laden with saltpetre, was bound from Valparaiso to Sweden. ...
Article : 37 wordsCROW'S NEST, February 19. A dance in and of the Red Cross Society was held in Nolan's new brick buildings on Thursday night, when the attendance ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "Taglisehe Rundschau" states that the 300,000,000 marks (£15,000,000) to be lent by the German Government to the ship owners is merely an instalment and ...
Article : 40 wordsSecond Lieutenant Ernest Pearse, son of Captain Pearse, the editor of "The Pastoral Review," has been awarded the French Croix de Guerre for gallantry in ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Scottish bankers announce that only 20 per cent. of the deposits in the British banks were affected by the war loan, and if another loan were issued it ...
Article : 42 wordsBrigadier-General G. G. H. Irving assumes command of the Australian Military Forces, 1st Military District, from the ate of his, arrival in Brisbane last night. Brigadier-General G. L. ...
Article : 283 wordsA meeting of the committee of the Queensland Soldiers' Comforts Fund was held yesterday in Purbury House. Lady Cowley presided. It was reported that ...
Article : 330 wordsAt the inquest on a member of the crew of the steamer Lycia, 3715 tons, which was sunk by a submarine, the chief officer stated: "A ...
Article : 81 wordsThe fete in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, held at Ferny Flat (Main Camp, Terrors Creek line) on February 10 by the railway employees and farmers ...
Article : 58 wordsThe chief Government Bill in the Reichstag concerns measures to combat the epidemics that have broken out in Germany. ...
Article : 26 wordsAlthough it was estimated that the yield of the excess profits tax for the present financial year ([?]ing March 31) would ne £86,000,000, already a sum of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the manufacture of malt suitable for [?] brewing from barley and other cereals has been prohibited, except under the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Central News Anency states that Mr. Lloyd Georgo on Thursday will unfold a definite agricultural policy, which will be much more than a war time ...
Article : 193 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. C. B. Stanto[?] asked Mr. Long (Secretary of State for the Colonies) whether he has seen the report of the Colonial ...
Article : 162 wordsStarch for foot-case is one of those simple remedies which it is easy to overlook, and for lack of it much of the work of providing warm socks for the ...
Article : 97 wordsThere has been considerable activity on the Stock Exchange since the War Loan was finished. Imperial 2½ per cent. consols are quoted ...
Article : 40 wordsThe State Department has asked Turkey for assurances of the safety of the vessel which is going to Beirnt in order to bring 1000 American refugees to ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Neville Chambeilain (Director-General of National Service), at a meeting at the Stock Exchange, said the problem of organising man power was so ...
Article : 134 wordsThe catalogue offered at the wool sales to-day consisted entirely of Governmentowned wools, and all crossbreds were withdrawn. There was strong ...
Article : 32 wordsOn Tuesday evening a party of young prople from the Nundah Baptist Church gave an interesting programme of instrumental music and song at the Y.M.C.A. ...
Article : 106 wordsCaptain Eusor, of the Housetonic, says that the German submarine U53 sank his vessel. The American steaner Housetonic, which ...
Article : 131 wordsThe function of the committee of the Repatriation Fund has not only been to assist men to establish themselves in civic life, but to help others to improve ...
Article : 100 wordsThe wheat market is firm, but quotations are nominal. The quotations in Chicago for May wheat options are from 180[?] down to ...
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