Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: Our artillery broke up the enemy's attack on our advanced posts south-westward of Epehy. We took German prisoners ...
Article : 806 wordsAn Italian communique states: We extended our positions at Vodice and drove back dense masses of the enemy attempting to stop our progress. The enemy in ...
Article : 300 wordsThe War Department is arranging for a second, and probably larger, expedition to France in the near future. NEW YORK, Sunday. ...
Article : 74 wordsFrom the statement of receipts and expenditure for the nine months of the financial year ended March 31, which was made available to-day by the Secretary ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsYesterday 25 men offered then services for King and country. Fourteen were accepted and for were deferred. Of the total four were under the age of 21 and six were ...
Article : 179 wordsThe complaint of Mr. Mahon, which was published to-day, to the effect that the soldiers at the Front had been compelled to vote without knowing the ...
Article : 223 wordsVon Rintelen and Lamar Martin have been found guilty of conspiracy to prevent the shipment of munitions to the Allies, but have not yet been sentenced. The ...
Article : 42 wordsThe French naval vessel Colbert was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on April 30, and 51 of those on board were drowned. ...
Article : 285 wordsIn Victoria to-day 79 men volunteered, and 29 were accepted. ADELAIDE, May 21. To-day 16 men were examined and seven ...
Article : 36 wordsAn appeal was made yesterday for funds to complete the equipment of 30 nurses who are about to leave Queensland on an errand of morey to relieve the suffering ...
Article : 285 wordsMr. William Robert Wilkinson (Toowoomba) was accepted at the Toowoomba recruiting centre to-day. IPSWICH, May 21. ...
Article : 56 wordsA French communique issued to-day states: A most violent artillery struggle took place in the region of Chemin des Dames, and on the whole front between ...
Article : 327 wordsSome additional figures came to hand yesterday. Between 400 and 500 votes were distributed to each of the Nationalist and Caucus Senate candidates, ...
Article : 188 wordsThe employes of John Hicks and Company, Limited, assembled in the warehouse on Friday to bid farewell to Mr. Kurt Hansen, who has enlisted for ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Admiralty has received a wireless Press message containing the following Russian communique: Our artillery repulsed an attempted attack eastward of ...
Article : 46 wordsOn Sunday afternoon a family gathering was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Gynther, Walker's Way, Nundah, in honour of Private W. C. Gynther, ...
Article : 961 wordsA Russian communique, received by the Admiralty by wireless Press, contained the following: We repulsed a combined attack of Turks and Kurds northward of Bitlis, ...
Article : 33 wordsWhen Mr. A. W. H. Cunningham, chairman of the Wangaratta Shire Council (North Queensland), was in Brisbane a few days ago he spoke interestingly of ...
Article : 920 wordsThe Coalition Government s programme is welcomed with profound satisfaction in all quarters, particularly the rejection of all ideas of a separate peace, and the ...
Article : 298 wordsA parcel of magazines for the troops has been received from Miss Girdlestone, Sandgate, and an anonymous giver has forwarded a parcel of songs and music for ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Government has decided to recruit coal miners medically classified in class A, who entered the industry since August, 1914, excepting engineers and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 wordsThe familiar inscription on a Church of England hut at the Front reads: "The Church Army, open to all men of his Majesty's Forces." Sometimes the names ...
Article : 350 wordsIt is officially announced that the renewal of the embargo on the exportation of wheat from the Argentine is due to the shortage of the crops. ...
Article : 39 wordsFrederick Adler, who was tried at Vienna for the murder of Count Stuergky, the Austrian Premier, in October, 1916, has been condemned to death. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says: Thirty-two miles of the French front, between St. Quentin and Laffaux, has been a mystery since the ...
Article : 277 wordsA German communique, which was contained in a wireless Press message received by the Admiralty, stated: We heavily repulsed several attacks on a hill eastward ...
Article : 40 wordsMessrs. R. F. Duncan and H. Grant, the Nationalist candidates for Caprieornia and Rockhampton respectively, entertained a very numerous gathering of ...
Article : 90 wordsAs the principal speaker at the recruiting rally in Martin Place to-day, the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Cook) emphasised the gravity of the present war ...
Article : 184 wordsM. Thomas (Minister for Munitions) is visiting Petrograd. He will remain as French Ambassador until his successor has been appointed. ...
Article : 25 wordsCOOK.—Catts (C.), 17,500; Sleath (N.), 9090. HUME.—Cruickshank (C.), 12,456; Falkiner (N.), 13,034. ...
Article : 30 wordsOne of the chief spectacular displays in the procession on the King s Birthday will be that section given up to representing the diversity of the countries ...
Article : 359 wordsDr. Weizman, presiding at the English Zionist Conference, said that, though it was premature to talk of the establishment and independence of a Jewish ...
Article : 85 wordsGerman papers publish the political testament of the late General von Bissing, Military Governor of Belgium, which states: "Belgium must be added ...
Article : 316 wordsThe unveiling of the Grandchester honour board was performed on Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Arthur Mort (Franklyn Vale station) in the presence of one ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsThe harvest prospecte in Sweden are very bad. The production of alcohol has been reduced owing to lack of grain. CHRISTIANIA, Sunday. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe return of Mr. Penfield, late American Ambassador at Vienna, and other sources of information, have disclosed a most ambitious German scheme for the ...
Article : 149 wordsAt about 3.30 a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in a carpenter and joiner's workshop in Herston-road, Kelvin Grove, which was occupied by Mr. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe newspapers express satisfaction at the conclusion of the munitions strike. It is understood that all prosecutions will be dropped, though this has not been ...
Article : 49 wordsA meeting of the 9th and 49th Battalion Comforts Fund was held yesterday. The following donations were received:—Art union, £7; Mrs. Selwyn ...
Article : 242 wordsCaptain Ball, the famous British airman, who has been reported missing since May 7, is now a prisoner in Germany. ...
Article : 27 wordsGiven a fine day the Soldieis' Sock Fund should benefit considerably by the fete which is being organised for Saturday, June 9th, in the University grounds. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe United States will assume the financial responsibility for Belgian relief, and therefore the Relief Committee has suspended appeals to the British Empire. ...
Article : 32 wordsViscount Harcourt, in a letter to a correspondent, warmly approves of the annual meeting of the Imperial Cabinet, and he claims that this is practically ...
Article : 88 wordsDuring the past week there has been an epidemic of fires on farms throughout the State, all of which are unaccounted for, except from a now ...
Article : 93 wordsThe secretary of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' League notifies that the promoters will be glad to see at least 50 returned soldiers at the patriotic concert, ...
Article : 44 wordsThe State Government, in Cabinet, to-day decided to give notice to the Lutheran schools of its intention to take them over after June 30 There are 49 ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the German casualties for April, as officially announced, were 42,838, and these included 11,970 deaths. The total casualties up to ...
Article : 57 wordsThe "Arbeiter Zeitung" states that grave strikes have occurred in the war factories and naval dockyards at Elbing. Stettin, and Konigsberg. ...
Article : 33 wordsWm. Haughton and Co. are in receipt of a cablegram from their London office, under date 17th instant, stating that the rate for insurance on cargoes under the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 22 May 1917, Page 7
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