Anzac Day appropriately was marked by generous contributions to the "Courier" Patriotic Funds, the amount received being £15/14/6. The principal ...
Article : 319 wordsWhile recruiting is slow, a vigorous opposition to conscription has developed in both Houses of Congress. Mr. Champ Clark (Speaker of the House of ...
Article : 235 wordsAn official despatch from Egypt states: Reinforced Turkish forces hold a strongly entrenched position from Gaza to Beersheba. Our organisation of the positions ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Director-General of Recruituig (Mr. Donald Mackinnon) made a powerful appeal for more recruits from the steps of the Post Office last night. A ...
Article : 704 wordsA French communique issued to-day states: Our artillery beat down some enemy batteries in the region of St. Quentin. One or two German ...
Article : 224 wordsF[?]ld-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig report[?] Severe lighting continued on Mo[?]day evening and night on the whole fr[?]t from Croiselles ro northward of ...
Article : 1,525 wordsOver one hundred useful amendments to Bills were suggested and passed by the Legislative Council last session. The Council stopped many a piece of ...
Article : 1,283 wordsA report from London states that the British have occupied Samarra Station, on the railway north of Bagdad. LONDON, Tuesday. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Admiralty states that three British naval aeroplanes attacked five destroyers which were steaming between Blankenbuge and Zeebrugge on ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" states that Spain's note to Germany emphatically repeats her demand that Spanish lives and ships shall be respected. ...
Article : 35 wordsLieutenant-General Bridges, who accompanied Mr. Balfour to America, stated: Conscription is vital to the United States before the nation can have any success ...
Article : 214 wordsThe natives of Orissa (India), where German missionaries worked for many years, have been discovered invoking the Kaiser as a native deity to assist in the ...
Article : 40 wordsBritish aviators had a record day yesterday. Forty German aeroplanes were brought down, and 15 were seen to crash. Only two British machines were ...
Article : 39 wordsAdvice has been received by Mrs. Laidlaw, "Dunaross," East Brisbane, from the military authorities that her son, Private Harold F. Laidlaw, has been wounded in ...
Article : 861 wordsTwo German aeroplanes, 20 miles north of Zeebrugge, brought down the British airship which was recently reported to be lost. There were eight men in the ...
Article : 140 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. R. E. Prothero, President of the Board of Agritulture, in moving the second reading of the Corn Production Bill on the lines ...
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Article : 10 wordsThe French mission, including Marshal Joffre and M. Viviani (French Minister for Justice and Vice-President), have arrived. ...
Article : 332 wordsThe Queen of Sweden has telegraphed to the Burgomaster of Freiburg (Baden) expressing her sorrow at the air raid made on the town recently by the Allies. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe German Government warned the strikers in Berlin, [?]dan, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Stettin, Hamburg, Bremen, Kiel, and Essen, and the industrial ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following men offered their services for the A.I.F. yesterday, all being from Brisbane, excepting when otherwise mentioned:—S. Conway, W. J. ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" states that the German Socialist journa, "Vorwaerts," in an article, insists that Germany must ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Canadian budget of war expenditure to the present date amounts to £120,000,000. The Canadian national debt is now £180,000,000, and at the close of the ...
Article : 55 wordsYesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock the members of the various local Recruiting Committees within a radius of about 50 miles of Brisbane, met at Preston House ...
Article : 94 wordsA Moscow newspaper publishes private telegrams between the Tsaritsa and the Tsar in December and March last, while the Tsar was at the Front. All the ...
Article : 287 wordsPathetic scenes were witnessed at Dover at the funeral of the British and Germans who were killed in the recent Channel fight. The old Market Hall was ...
Article : 132 wordsIn Victoria to-day 65 men volunteered for service, and 31 were accepted. ...
Article : 21 wordsSenaten Gardiner, formerly Assistant Minister for Defence, speaking in the Oddfellows' Hall, Bathurst, last night, denied Mr. Hughes's statement that the ...
Article : 135 wordsNight sittings of the Imperial War Conference begin to-night. The Conference will sit all day to-morrow, and is hopeful that it will complete its work ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Government war risk on steamers has been raised to £5/5/ per cent. ...
Article : 20 wordsLord Derby (Secretary of State for War), speaking in the House of Lords, said the prohibition of the foreign circulation of the newspaper "Nation" was ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the conviction of Dr. Caley, who was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment in connettion with alleged ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "New York World" states that a mob, led by a pro-German Socialist, who said America was the enemy of Socialism, ...
Article : 83 wordsThe second son of Mr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Lieutenant C. J. Bonar Law, of the Borderers Regiment, is reported wounded and ...
Article : 36 wordsA recruiting rally was held on the R.A. Show Grounds this afternoon, the speakers being Mr. Mat. Reid (one of the three endorsed National candidates ...
Article : 105 wordsSpeaking at Wangaratt to-night the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) repeated the explanation which he gave at Bridgewater on Monday, of the difference ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Stock Exchange will close on Saturdays to enable members and clerks to engage in national service. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe High Commissioner for New Zealand (Sir Thomas Mackenzie) has compiled a list of 800 New Zealanders who are lighting in the army and navy outside the New ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Gerard Jurgens, a Dutch margarine merchant, who expended £17,000 on a house at Egham, in Surrey, was fined £50, and two builders were ...
Article : 47 wordsThe quotations in Chicago for May wheat options are from 241 down to 231½ cents per bushel; July, 207[?] to 198 cents. The American visible supply of wheat ...
Article : 45 wordsMrs. A. E. Finney, of Tewantin, is anxious to hear from any returned soldier who knew her son, Private Rov W. Finney, No. 3046, C Coy., [?]9th Battalion, ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 26 Apr 1917, Page 7
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