Details of the sinking of the transport Ballarat state that the explosion of the torpedo smashed one of the steamer's propellers. A number of the troops ...
Article : 1,542 wordsThe Admiralty has issued the following statement: The shipping arrivals at ports of the United Kingdom for the past week numbered 2716, and the sailings 2600. ...
Article : 172 wordsAt the Brisbane recuriting depot, yesterday, 33 men were examined, of whom 18 were fit and attested for the A.I.F. Two were referred to the P.M.O. for ...
Article : 300 wordsVery good support was accorded the "Courier" Patriotic Funds yesterday, when donations amounting to £21/13/6 were received. This sum was distributed ...
Article : 426 wordsA great mass meeting of peasants which is announced to assemble here at the end of May will probably have immense importance in Russia's future, as the ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer) delivered his Budget Speech in the House of Commons to-day. There was little excitement in connection with the ...
Article : 547 wordsThe Legislative Council Watches legislation, Exposes political shams, Guards expenditure, and ...
Article : 1,283 wordsIn the course of a final appeal to the electors Mr. Joseph Cook says:—"The prospects, so far as I am able to gather from my reports, are distinetly ...
Article : 264 wordsA wireless press message received by the Admiralty contains a German communique, which stated: We repulsed with heavy losses Russian attacks north ...
Article : 38 wordsField-Marashal Sir Douglas Haig reports: There was dual night activity on the part of the artillery between St. Quentin and Lens. We repulsed a German raid at ...
Article : 197 wordsA wireless Press message reveived by the Admiralty contains the following Russian communique: We repelled. Turkish attacks south-westward of ...
Article : 76 wordsA r[?] propared by the Commonwealth Electoral Department show that there are 2,836,177 electors on the rolls in Australin. The totals for the various ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Henry Norman Hill was to-day accepted at the local recruiting depot. ...
Article : 17 wordsMr. F. A. Stimpson, the chairman of Stephens Shire, and also of the local War Council[?] has received a wire to the effect that his son Willie has been wounded in ...
Article : 660 wordsA wireless Press message received by the Admiralty contains a Russian communique, which states: A Russian submarine in the Bosphorus sank a sailing ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. R. Lansing (Secretary of State) has warned the United States that the submarine situation is undoubtedly serious. He further stated that the United States ...
Article : 494 wordsA figure, white-headed, ruddy of cheek, with clear blue eye, broad shoulders, genial of countenance, and a typical Britisher, stood undaunted before ...
Article : 620 wordsA German communique received by the Admiralty by wirless Press states: Fighting continues in the Cerna bend, on the west bank of the Vardar. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe French communique issued to-day states: There has been great reciprocal artillery work in the region of Chemin des Dames on the ...
Article : 212 wordsThere was a good attendance last night at Princess Court, when Mr. H. Grant, the Nationalist candidate for Rockhampton, opened his campaign, assisted by Mr. J. ...
Article : 792 wordsAn official despatch from Egypt states: Our artillery in the neighbourhood of Gaza dispersed working parties of the enemy[?] and put out of action two guns. ...
Article : 40 wordsBrigadier-General Page Croft, in the House of Commons, protested that the intolerable grievances of the Dominions with regard to the double income tax had ...
Article : 72 wordsReplying to Mr. Ronald O'Neill, in the House of Commons to-day, Lord Robert Cecil stated that as a result of Mr. Pratten's report on the New South Wales ...
Article : 70 wordsAn official despatch from Mesopotamia states: General Maude on Monday attacked the Thirteenth Turkish Army Corp, which was strongly entrenched on ...
Article : 96 wordsLord Hawke, speaking at a meeting of the Marylebone Cricket Club, said that, seeing that so many famous Australian cricketers were on active service, it was ...
Article : 57 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, the well-known French military writer, says that between April 16 and April 30 the British and French captured 40,693 prisoners, 437 heavy guns, ...
Article : 94 wordsThe King's proclamation, issued to-day, states that abstention from unnecessary consumption of grain is the surest means of ...
Article : 163 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the War Council on Monday evening, under the chairmanship of Mr. J. M. Hunter (Minister for Lands), consideration of the ...
Article : 428 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" says that Herr Cohens, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, proposed the appointment of a committee to consider Germany's ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day the Archbishop of Canterbury strongly protested against the policy of reprisals, including the recent air [?]aid on Fre[?]burg, ...
Article : 169 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the 9th Field Artillery Brigade Comforts Fund was held in the room[?] third floor, Courier Building, yesterday morning. The following ...
Article : 164 wordsA message from London states that Captain Pathurst (Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Control Department)[?] speaking in the House of Commons, said ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the "New York T[?]ns" says that Parliamentary circles expect that the Imperial German Chancellor, in his speech in the ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. Leahy, M.L.C., writes under yesterday's date: Sir,—The article in to-day's "Courier" giving the views expressed by Mr. Theodore in June, 1915, with regard ...
Article : 439 wordsDetails of the May Day demonstrations in Germany are scanty. Berlin admits that a few strikes have occurred, but the majority of the workmen did not ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Admiralty [?]ces that the Bri[?]sh steamship Gena was sunk on Tuesday by a torpedo discharged from a German seaplane off Aldeburgh, on the coast ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Brisbane Operatic Players visited the White City at Enoggera on Wednesday evening, and gave a most entertaining camp concert. There was a large audience ...
Article : 252 wordsTalaat Pasha (the Turkish Grand Vizier, who has lately been on a mission to Berlin) has discussed peace terms and Dardanclles concessions with Count ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Hon. Frederick Ivor Thesiger, the eldest son of Lord Chc[?]msford (Viecroy of India and a former Governor of Queensland), who was in the Royal Artillery, has ...
Article : 61 wordsThe following cable, was despatched from here to-day to the commanders of the Australian troops in France and Egypt:—"Please convey to the boys that ...
Article : 110 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that further changes in the Admiralty organisation are impending, notably in connection with the strengthening of the war ...
Article : 66 words[?] Smats will be entertained by members of the House of Lords and House of Commons at a banquet in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords on ...
Article : 47 words[?]en Boyne Lambert, who is alleged to have been shot in the head at West Maitland yesterday by a domestic servant, with whom he had beer keeping ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law stated that the Government was requisitioning all ships except small coasting vessels, and thus would take ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Soldiers' Comfort Club in connection with the Y.W.C.A. will meet this month at the Y.W.C.A., Adelaide-street, on Saturdays, May 5. 12, and 26, at 7.30 ...
Article : 46 wordsThe wheat market is firm, but there are few offers. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 4 May 1917, Page 7
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