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  2. "COURIER" PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

    Anzac Day appropriately was marked by generous contributions to the "Courier" Patriotic Funds, the amount received being £15/14/6. The principal ...

    Article : 319 words
  3. AMERICA AND THE WAR.

    While 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 words
  4. FIGHTING IN EGYPT.

    An official despatch from Egypt states: Reinforced Turkish forces hold a strongly entrenched position from Gaza to Beersheba. Our organisation of the positions ...

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  5. THE CALL FOR MEN.

    The Director-General of Recruituig (Mr. Donald Mackinnon) made a powerful appeal for more recruits from the steps of the Post Office last night. A ...

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  6. FRENCH FRONT.

    A 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 words
  7. THE GREAT ARRAS BATTLE.

    F[?]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 ...

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  8. UPPER HOUSE REFERENDUM.

    Over one hundred useful amendments to Bills were suggested and passed by the Legislative Council last session. The Council stopped many a piece of ...

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  9. CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA.

    A report from London states that the British have occupied Samarra Station, on the railway north of Bagdad. LONDON, Tuesday. ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. NAVAL AEROPLANES.

    The Admiralty states that three British naval aeroplanes attacked five destroyers which were steaming between Blankenbuge and Zeebrugge on ...

    Article : 77 words
  11. SPAIN BECOMES EMPHATIC.

    The "Cologne Gazette" states that Spain's note to Germany emphatically repeats her demand that Spanish lives and ships shall be respected. ...

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  12. BRITISH GENERAL ON CONSCRIPTION.

    Lieutenant-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 words
  13. KAISER AS A DEITY.

    The 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 ...

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  14. 40 GERMAN AEROPLANES BROUGHT DOWN.

    British 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 words
  15. PERSONAL NOTES.

    Advice has been received by Mrs. Laidlaw, "Dunaross," East Brisbane, from the military authorities that her son, Private Harold F. Laidlaw, has been wounded in ...

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  16. LOSS OF A BRITISH AIRSHIP.

    Two 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 words
  17. BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY.

    In 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 ...

    Article : 647 words
  18. MAP OF THE GREAT BATTLE GROUND EAST OF ARRAS.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. THE FRENCH MISSION.

    The French mission, including Marshal Joffre and M. Viviani (French Minister for Justice and Vice-President), have arrived. ...

    Article : 332 words
  20. NEUTRAL SYMPATHY.

    The 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. ...

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  21. [?]ARNING TO GERMAN STRIKERS.

    The German Government warned the strikers in Berlin, [?]dan, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Stettin, Hamburg, Bremen, Kiel, and Essen, and the industrial ...

    Article : 68 words
  22. YESTERDAY'S ENLISTMENTS.

    The 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 words
  23. GERMANY AND PEACE.

    The Amsterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" states that the German Socialist journa, "Vorwaerts," in an article, insists that Germany must ...

    Article : 127 words
  24. CANADA'S WAR BUDGET.

    The 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 words
  25. RECRUITING CONFERENCE.

    Yesterday 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 words
  26. TSARITSA'S TELEGRAMS.

    A 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 words
  27. THE DOVER RAID.

    Pathetic 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 words
  28. ENLISTMENTS IN OTHER STATES

    In Victoria to-day 65 men volunteered for service, and 31 were accepted. ...

    Article : 21 words
  29. AUSTRALIAN DIVISIONS.

    Senaten Gardiner, formerly Assistant Minister for Defence, speaking in the Oddfellows' Hall, Bathurst, last night, denied Mr. Hughes's statement that the ...

    Article : 135 words
  30. IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE.

    Night 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 words
  31. [?]OVERNMENT WAR RISKS RAISED.

    The Government war risk on steamers has been raised to £5/5/ per cent. ...

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  32. PROHIBITION OF THE "NATION."

    Lord 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 words
  33. WHITE CITY CASES.

    The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the conviction of Dr. Caley, who was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment in connettion with alleged ...

    Article : 103 words
  34. SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

    The 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 words
  35. MR. BONAR LAW'S SON MISSING.

    The 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 words
  36. EMPTY SADDLES FILLED.

    A 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 words
  37. MR. HUGHES REITERATES HIS STATEMENT.

    Speaking at Wangaratt to-night the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) repeated the explanation which he gave at Bridgewater on Monday, of the difference ...

    Article : 142 words
  38. NATIONAL SERVICE.

    The Stock Exchange will close on Saturdays to enable members and clerks to engage in national service. ...

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  39. COMFORTS FOR NEW ZEALANDERS.

    The 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 words
  40. LUXURIOUS BUILDING.

    Mr. 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 words
  41. WHEAT MARKET.

    The 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 words
  42. A MOTHER'S APPEAL.

    Mrs. 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, ...

    Article : 45 words
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