A wireless Press message received by the Admiralty contains the following Russian communique:—There was intense enemy artillery firing at Lake Miatiziol ...
Article : 87 wordsThe House of Representatives and the Senate, after a conference, reported the Army Bill An agreement was made eliminating the Roosevelt Volunteer ...
Article : 231 wordsLord Derby (Secretary of State for War), speaking at South Kensington, said that it would be underestimating the number to say that we ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Irish members of the House of Commons are perturbed at the recent c[?]cal manifesto regarding the partition of Ireland. The Unionists point out that ...
Article : 253 wordsMr. H. W. Frampton, of Duke-street, Kangaroo Point, has been notified that his son, No. 270[?], Private Harold James Frampton, who is attached to a famous ...
Article : 1,411 wordsDonations which were rece[?]ved ye[?]terday towards the "Couner" Patriotic Funds were well up to the aggregate which has prevailed of late. The ...
Article : 368 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported to-day: Fighting yesterday at Bullecourt was severe and continuous. We progressed, despite the enemy's ...
Article : 356 wordsM. Kerensky (Russian Minister for Justice) has made a fervent appeal to the Socialists to co-operate with the Government, and states that there will ...
Article : 140 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law stated that of the available shipp[?]g t[?]nnage 92 per cent had been allotted to the Food Controller, the War Office, the ...
Article : 335 wordsA British communique from Salonica states A[?]ter several days' ar[?]ery work, we on Tuesday night attacked the tr[?]es south-westward of Lake D[?]an, ...
Article : 222 wordsA fire damaged the dome of the City Hall, which was decorated in honour of the visiting French Commissioners. The fire threatened serious damage, but was ...
Article : 296 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the following military honours have been conferred:- THE VICTORIA CROSS. ...
Article : 313 wordsThe third conference of the Allies' Parliamentary and Commercial Committees will open in Rome next week. It is expected that all the Allies will be ...
Article : 88 wordsA German communique, which was contained in a wireless Press message received by the Admiralty, states: The battle has continued with the greatest bitterness and ...
Article : 152 wordsCable messages published on Thursday gave the news that Gunner Gordon Ferrier, third son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ferrier, of Bellevue station, Roma, had ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 109 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the King has sent the following message: "I have much pleasure in approving of the awards for recognition of the splendid action ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the following statement:—A conference of representatives of 50 trade unions connected with the engineering and shipbuilding ...
Article : 236 wordsAn Australian who was in Gallipoli from the start to the finish said, in the course of an interview:—I have been in two real fights—Lone Pine and ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Admiralty states: A scouting force of light cruisers and destroyers from Harwich, under Commodore Tyrwhitt, while cruising this morning between the British ...
Article : 114 wordsM. Venezelos has disapproved of M. Zaimis accepting the Premiership of Greece, considering that it is undesirable to prolong the present situation. M. ...
Article : 74 wordsA Russian Commission is expected from Petrograd shortly. Mr. R. Lansing (Secretary of State) has not been informed whether it is dipl[?]matic or military, or ...
Article : 128 words"From the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Windsor, and the Citizens' Send-off Committee, this is a token of their esteem of your great sacrifice, and ...
Article : 379 wordsIn the discussion on the Naval Estim[?]s in the G[?]man Reichstag a Cons[?]ative m[?]mber declared that the Ger man fleet was l[?]ging to meet the British. ...
Article : 88 wordsLord Curzon, speaking in the House of Lords, reminded the House that the Admiralty had the first call on shipbuilding. When the war was over our ...
Article : 252 wordsTo-day's French communique states: The enemy at night attempted rather weak infantry reactions at various points on the Chemin des Dames, all of which ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Australian Red Cross Society's report for April shows that it handled 6579 inward parcels and 8268 outward. The arrangements made to pack prisoners' ...
Article : 104 wordsA section of the Italian Commission to America has arrived. They point out that tonnage, coal, and communications are Italy's greatest needs. Signor ...
Article : 104 wordsAdmiral von Capelle (German Minister for the Navy), in presenting his naval estimates to the Reichstag, said the Admiralty had expected to sink ...
Article : 278 wordsIn the action in the K[?]'g Bench Division, in which John Graban is s[?]g Mr. Frederick Handel Booth, M.P., for damates for depriving him of his business in ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the United Press has received from the Foreign Office a statement of the German view of America's entrance into the war. ...
Article : 112 wordsIt is becoming more apparent to all those connected with the Australian Repatriation Fund that it will become more necessary, with each passing week, to ...
Article : 426 wordsThe newspapers unanimously welcome the Premiers and Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The meeting will take place at the Royal ...
Article : 41 wordsThe members of Court Foresters' Hope, No. 6535, A.O.F., met in their hall at Paddington on Wednesday evening to do honour to their brethren who had gone ...
Article : 212 wordsThe leading Hamburg merchants discussed the question of an improvement in the canal systems in order to restore to Hamburg her best trade. Dr. Mathies ...
Article : 76 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. A. Fisher) tendered a d[?]nner to B[?]gadier-General Sir R. M'A. Anderson at the United Service ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 words[?]brugge was twice raided by airmen last night. E[?]glish warships were in the vicinity of the coast. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. W. F. Massey), in receiving the freedom of the city of Bristol, said every one agreed that the Empire's commercial ...
Article : 58 wordsA German wireless message received by the Admiralty describes the recent report of an attempt on the life of the Kaiser as a pure invention. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe whole of the Berlin Press has telegraphed to Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg (German Chancellor) that owing to the shortage of paper and coal it may be ...
Article : 69 wordsThe hearing of the charges in connection with alleged fraudulent medic[?] exemptions certificates at recruiting headquarters at Whitehall was opened at ...
Article : 119 wordsSince February the Bishops have released 6661 clergy, the majority of whom have volunteered. Chaplain[?]ies for 2012 have been offered in the national service. ...
Article : 30 wordsA wireless message from Berne states that Herr Hein, leader of the Agrarian Party in the Bavarian Chamber, in a speech at Neustadt, said that 70 per ...
Article : 95 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Kedren branch of the Soldiers' Comforts Fund was held at the residence of Mrs A. P Rode, on Wednesday last. There was a ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Ministry of Munitions has fixed the maximum price of copra at £46 per ton, ex ship or warehouse. ...
Article : 24 wordsDuring a discussion on the colonial vote in the German Reichstag Herr Noske, of the Official Socialist Party, said that peace without annexation implied the ...
Article : 69 wordsIn accordance with a suggestion made by Mr. R. E. Prothero (President of the Board of Agriculture) with regard to the cancellation of fat stock gnows, the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe wheat market is unchanged. The [?]our market is firm, but there is little offerin[?] ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 12 May 1917, Page 5
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