Sir Douglas Haig reports that the British made successful raids south-eastward of Armentieres. LONDON, Friday. ...
Article : 89 wordsA Russian communique received at the Admiralty states: Eastward of Tarnopol we retired under pressure to the Gniezdiezno and Gniezna Rivers. Superior ...
Article : 169 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Socialist member moved a resoluton declaiing that the recent resolution of the German ...
Article : 843 wordsSecrecy concerning the Irish Convention is being strictly observed. Sir Francis Hopwood has been elected sectetary. ...
Article : 186 wordsThe following military honours have been conferred:- MILITARY CRCSSES. Lieutenant A. J. She[?]herd, Australian ...
Article : 108 wordsAn important meeting of Toowoomba railway employees was held near the coal dumps in the railway yards during the lunch hour to-day, having been ...
Article : 874 words"The time has come when every man old or young, rich o[?] poor, will have to make [?]erifice, because I believe the tide of battle has turned against [?]s. After ...
Article : 828 wordsA French communique states that the Germans are most nervous at night time, and resumed their attacks obstinately last evening on a front of three ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Press Bureau states that three Austrian cruisers on May 15 attacked 48 British drifters which were watching anti-submarine [?] in the Otranto ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Berne correspondent of the "Daily Express" quotes telegrams from Budapest stating that Russian prisoners narrate that M. kerensky (Russian Premier) was ...
Article : 487 wordsMichael and Austin Brennan, two brothers, who are Sinn Feiners, were arrested at South Clare for illegally drilling, and handed over to the Limerick ...
Article : 39 wordsBritish war correspondents state that the a[?]tillery battle is reaching great intensity on certain sectors. The Germans are concentrating their fire about ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Secretary for War (Mr. Newton D. Baker) has sent to the House Committee estimates for additional war expenditure amounting to 5,917,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 174 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day Lord Rhondda (Food Controller) said the Board of Trade estimated that the cost of food had doubled. The cost of living to ...
Article : 341 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, correspondent at British headquarters states. The enemy's gunfire is increasing at various points ou our front. The coast sector ...
Article : 245 wordsMr. Warner Allen, the American war correspondent, states that the success at the castern extremity of the Chemin des Dames is only comparable to the capture ...
Article : 354 wordsOnly five men offered their servces for the A.I.F. yesterday at the Adelaide-street Depot, and all were accepted. Three requested that their names should not be ...
Article : 47 wordsAt tue town Hall to-day 33 men volunteered and 18 were accepted. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn amendment to the Address in Reply, moved by Mr. Coombs, Labour member for Lyttelton. directed agaisnt the creation of new brigades out of ...
Article : 76 wordsMrs. J. W. Palmer; Shafston-avenue Kangoroo Point, has received a cablegram from her son, Driver Perey Palmer, notifying his safe arrival in camp at ...
Article : 372 wordsThe arrival of vessels in French ports this week numbered 1063, and 937 sailed. There wen no sinkings. Six vessels were unsuccessfully attacked. ...
Article : 390 wordsMrs. Parker, Lord Kitchener's sister, in opening a bazaar at Hastings, said she did not share the general belief that her brother went down in the Hampshire. ...
Article : 86 wordsNine thousand miners of Tredegar Valley (Monmouthshire) have struck on accouut of several alleged grievances. ...
Article : 24 wordsA Russian wireless message received at the Admiralty states that the Council of Workers and Soldiers' Delegates has issued a manifesto, which says: "Great ...
Article : 212 wordsAt a meeting of members of the Warwick branch of the Queensland Railway Union on Thursday night an address on the subject of the application of the recent ...
Article : 135 words[?]ay was a fair day for the "Courier" Patriotic Funds, a total of £120/4/3 coming to hand. Of this sum £4/5/ was for the Nurses' Equipment ...
Article : 306 wordsThe threatened demonstration in the House of Commons which the Speaker was guarding against by the presence of detectives in the preciners of the House ...
Article : 270 wordsIt is reported that the German steamer Norderney which was torpedoed by a British submarine when earning coal from Rotterdam to Denmark, was ...
Article : 54 wordsA court-mart[?]al has sentenced to death, on a charge of espionage, Michaelsen, a Finnish officer, also Marguerite Zelle, the divorced wife of a Dutch officer, and a ...
Article : 143 wordsThe railway ballot on the North Queensland railways is the principal topic of conversation, and an doubt is expressed that an emphatic "Yes" will be returned ...
Article : 192 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Mr. J. Hope (Junior Lord of the Treasury) said in reply to a question: "We hold 44,018 German prisoners of war ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the height of the disturbances at Petrograd the Ministry of Marine telegraphed to the Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Fleet ordering rour torpedo boats ...
Article : 115 wordsIn the House of Lords Lord Beresford said that between January and July the Allies and neutrals lost 4,000,000 tons of shipping, and were likely to lose 8,000,000 ...
Article : 162 wordsThe outstanding result of the Russian reverses is the necessity for an AngloFrench alliance. The public thoroughly realise this; hence the instinctive ...
Article : 61 wordsSenator Pearce states that the opinion still prevaisl that the Defence Department is staffed by eligibles whose proper place at present should be France. As a ...
Article : 176 wordsA remarkable incident occurred in the House of Commons to-day. Mr. Noel Pemberton-Billing cast inflections on officers in connection with reports to Mr. ...
Article : 162 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Bonar Law in reply to a question said that passports to Russia had been refused to Mesdames Snowden, Pethick ...
Article : 59 wordsSince Wednesday there has been trouble imminent in connection with the handing of sugar at the new shed being er[?]ted at the Adelaide C[?] wharf. It appears ...
Article : 303 wordsDr. Mrchaelis, the German Chancellor, has had a series of conferences with party leaders, the largest being with the Socialists. Deputies representing the ...
Article : 48 wordsA wireless Press messuge received by the Adimiralty contains a Russian official statement as follows:—The Roumanians on July 24 md 25 took over 1000 prisoners, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsThe Germans spent £300,000 in suborning the Chinese Navy. The defection makes it difficult for the Pekin Cabinet to declare war on Germany. ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral Pilsudzki, the creator and commander of the Polish army, has been arrested it Warsaw and conveyed to Germany in reprisal for the Poles having ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Allies' Village" Fair, which will be opened in Brisbane on Saturday. August 4. has been entirely rebuilt and redecorated. The designer, it is announced, ...
Article : 158 wordsThe executive of the Womens Com[?]ulsory Service Petition League met yesterday afternoon. It was announced that in future the offices would be situated in ...
Article : 101 wordsThe auction mart was crowded by leading financiers for the sale by public trustees of enemy interests in the Pacific Phosphate Company, consisting of 185,279 ...
Article : 86 wordsThe extreme Socialists in Petrograd organised a great revolt. The Government troops interfered, and violent street fighting took place on Wednesday and ...
Article : 44 wordsHis Majesty the King witnessed a nocturnal sham fight at Aldershot, and inspected the Canadians and Australians training there. His Majesty was greatly ...
Article : 45 wordsThe newspaper state that 20,000,000 marks of gold (about £1,000.000) have arrived from Germany with a view to improving exchange. The shipment ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. W. A. Holman (Premier of New South Wales) will visit France to hand over the New South Wales contributions on the occasion of France's Day to the ...
Article : 45 wordsNo meeting will he held at the G.P.O to-night, but one will be held in Marketsquare. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 28 Jul 1917, Page 5
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