A wireless message intercepted by the Admiralty contains the following Austrian communique: In Eastern Galicia the [?]rtillery fire increased [?]esterday to ...
Article : 214 wordsThe French communique issued at midday states: Despite the recrudescence of the bombardment east of Cerny, only local engagements occurred in the sector ...
Article : 396 wordsThe chief business: brought before the meeting of the general committee of the Red Cross Society yesterday was a report by the general secretary (Mrs. ...
Article : 216 wordsThe sad news has been received by relatives at Kingaroy that Sergeant J. W. Nicholson, who had been reported missing as from April 11 last, was kille[?] ...
Article : 969 wordsTwenty-three men offered then services for the A.I.F. at the Adelaide-street Depot yesterday. Of these 17 were declared fit, 2 were r[?]ferred to the ...
Article : 244 wordsYesterday was an excellcat one for the "Courier" Patriotic Funds, a total sum of £163/12/9 being received. The bulk of this, £150/14/1, was the proceeds of the ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Secretary to the Federal Treasury (Mr. Collins) to-day made available certain [?]igures relating to the financial operations of the Commonwealth for the year ended ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,037 wordsIn a report issued last night FieldMarshal Sir Douglas Haig reports that during June the British captured 8686 Germans, including 175 officers, 67 guns, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe first meeting of the Australian Soldiers' Settlement Board was held in the Senate club room at Federal Parliament House to-day. All the States, with ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies has passed a vote of confidence in the Government. Signor Bosselli (the Premier) expressed the intention of Italy to continue the war, ...
Article : 51 wordsIn Victoria, on Saturday, 37 men volunteered for active service. Of these 16 were accepted. In Victoria to-day 47 men volunteered, ...
Article : 68 wordsFor the three months ended March 31, imports of Australian goods into Japan show an increase of £307,485 over the corresponding period of last year. In ...
Article : 85 wordsThe correspondent of the "Morning Post, in a special article on the West Front, states that there are abundant indications that the Germans are short of ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. Capford Bevans, of Bundaberg, has been accepted here fer active service. TOOWOOBA, July 2. Messrs. Mervyn Themas Stephen ...
Article : 62 words"Baby Week," which is the outcome of a national effort to protect child life, was begun to-day with pulpit references throughout the Kingdom. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day made available the amended regulations about separation allowances. Mothers, as well as the wives, of ...
Article : 423 wordsThirty-ninth list of Queensland collections to the Southern Cross Tobacco Fund, organised by the Overseas Club, is as follows:—Previously acknowledged, ...
Article : 75 wordsSir Douglas Haig reported to-day: Following yesterday's [?]ceess southward of Lens we attacked last night on the north bank of the Sonchez River and captured ...
Article : 112 wordsIn consequence of the strike of boys' at the Randwick tramway workshops over a demand of an extra 6d. per day, the workshops will be closed down to-morrow, ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. E. R. Anderson who has relinquished his position with Mr. H. M. Russell, of Eagle-street, Brisbane, in order to volunteer for active service, was ...
Article : 597 wordsBritish officers arriving here said they were informed that the British had destroyed four of the [?]ost modern U boats —two at the south end of the English ...
Article : 40 wordsA meeting of the committee of the War Nurses' Fund will be held this afternoon at 3.30, in the Nationnl Political Council rooms, opposite the G P.O. ...
Article : 33 wordsA stop work meeting of the Wharf Labourers' Union was held to deal with matters in connection with the union's application to the Arbitration Court for a ...
Article : 82 wordsAt a mass meeting of the members of the Moulders' Union, when the proposals of the Federal Government in regard to the shipbuilding industry were considered, ...
Article : 155 wordsThe arrangements for the celebration of France's Day (July 14) in Brisbane are well advanced. A procession will start from the top of Queen-street at 2.30, and ...
Article : 423 wordsM. Basset, correspondent of "Le Petit Parisien" on the British Front, was killed near Lens by a sniper's bullet. He is the first Press correspondent killed ...
Article : 91 wordsThe correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that at a French port, while General Pershing, the commander of the American troops in France, and ...
Article : 107 wordsCanon' M. O. Hodson, vicar of St. Cyprian's, Durban, and the Rev. H. S. C[?]gnell, vicar of St. Peter's, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, are arriving in ...
Article : 339 wordsLieutenant Arnold Edwards, an aviator, has arrived, en route to his home in Sydney. He stated that nearly all the German veteran airmen had been killed. ...
Article : 78 wordsList Saturday afternoon, at the Chermside State School, an honour board bearing the names of the lads who had attended the school, and ...
Article : 716 wordsThe reports of the bombardment of Ostend by the British show that little damange was done to the residential portions, but there was much wreckage of ...
Article : 54 wordsA special meeting of the 15th Battalion Comforts' Fund Committee will be held on Thursday next, at 4 p.m., in the room, No. 2 Fourth Floor, Kodak Building, to ...
Article : 629 wordsThe disturbed atmosphere conditions prevented anxiety from the absence of news of the Mongolia, and the inability to re-establish wireless communication ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Herman long range guns fired 48 shells on Dunkirk, killing a few civilians. ...
Article : 22 wordsWriting early in May, Lieutenant C. D. Scott, who recently received the Military Cross, and was killed at the Front early in June, stated that he had had a short ...
Article : 209 wordsProfessor von Eulenburg in an article in the "Munchner Post" says: "Politically the hostility of the United States is not without significance for our world ...
Article : 209 wordsSt. Mary's Parish Hall was crowded to-night, when an offical welcome was accorded to the Right Rev. Monsignor Byrne, V.G., as parish priest in ...
Article : 430 wordsAn inquiry from a correspondent has prompted us to obtain and publish the following information. Since the first regiments went away from Brisbane, with ...
Article : 429 wordsThe Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon) is now preparing a table which will show exactly how many men will have to come forward in each ...
Article : 143 wordsIt is officially announced that the steamer Himalaya, which was under charter to the Messageries Maritimes Co., was sunk in the Mediterranean at ...
Article : 80 wordsThe following further contribution to the Belgian Relief Fund have been received at the Belgian Consulate, Brisbane:— Previously acknowledged, £184,408/10/, ...
Article : 214 wordsThe North German "Gazette," in mentioning that Baron von Hautenfels, the Kaiser's courier, who was arrested in Norway and returned to Germany, will ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Minister for Defence has given the percentage which each religious body has contributed to the first 209,500 soldiers who left Austialia for the fields of battle ...
Article : 127 wordsThe financial year closed on Saturday, and a statement issued by the Treasury shows that the total revenue, including the Commonwealth grant, was £1,369,430, ...
Article : 111 wordsPolitical correspondents anticipate that a number of the 'culprits" mentioned in the report on the Mesopotamia Expedition will promptly resign. ...
Article : 135 wordsTo-day Mr. J. Ure M'Naught will be the principal speaker at the Post Office meeting. Mr. Rule and Sergeant Kelly will speak ...
Article : 69 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Toowoomba City Council it was, on the recommendation of the Committee of the Whole Council, decided to donate the sum of ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Allies' City terminated last night, when takings were £749, bringing the total takings to £6314, or, including two nights' takings for local charities, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe quarter's revenue returns in Great Britain included: Customs, £1,700,000; Excise, £9,114,000; stamps, £1,464,000; property and income tax, £23,954,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsChermside Red Cross.—Camera, W. Fogg, Samson Creek; clock W. Seriven, Kedron. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 3 Jul 1917, Page 7
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