In the House of Commons to-day Viscount Duncannon moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to the action of the War Cabinet in permitting ...
Article : 1,023 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig states: We improved our new line by night operations to the southward of Ypres and Commes Canal. We repulsed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 400 wordsThe following awards of the Victoria Cross have been made to Australians:- Captain Robert Grieve.—With utter disregard of danger[?] after all the officers ...
Article : 238 wordsA wireless Russian communique received by the Admiralty by wireless states: We attacked and carried a position in the region of Grzimaloy, in the direction of ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Government's soldier settlements soheme was the subject of another discussion yesterday in the Legislative Assembly. On July 17 Mr. Corser moved ...
Article : 1,255 wordsThe amount provided for in the War Tax Bill has been increased [?]om 1,670,[?]00,000 dollars (£334,000,000) to 20,000,000,000 (£4,000,000,000). The new ...
Article : 49 wordsIn an interview Genera: Sir Wi[?]am Robertson ([?]ief of the Imperial General Staff) was asked a soldrer's opinion of the progress of the war. He repued that the ...
Article : 298 wordsMr. Gapps, in a speech at a meeting of shipbuilders said: "We must' buid both steel and wooden ships quick." The meeting was called as a result of reports ...
Article : 154 wordsMany meetings are arranged for Saturday next, the 4th instant, to commemorate the commencement of the war. ...
Article : 291 wordsSerious trouble is expected in Poland. In Warsaw and other cities plots against the Austro-German armies were discovered, including one in which it was the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" with the French headquarters in Flanders states: The French Army is fighting in the sector between ...
Article : 712 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, correspondent with the British headquarters in France, states: The rainstorm veils the battlefield in a dense [?]. The wretched ...
Article : 1,185 wordsIt is semi-officially announced in Vienna that Count Czernin (Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs) is pleased with the statement made in ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. W. A. Holman (Premier of New South Wales), accompanied by Mr. G. C. Wade (Agent-General for New South Wales), has returned from ...
Article : 133 wordsEmperor Karl has entrusted von Scidler With the formation of an Austrian Governmeut. It is believed that von Scldier's programme includes a complete Parliamentary ...
Article : 38 wordsM. Guynemer, the celebrated Frenc' aviator, has brought down his fiftieth enemy machine within the French lines He has brought down many others withir ...
Article : 56 wordsAn official message from East Africa states: After sharp figthing, we drove out the enemy from positions on the Fugun River, south-castward of Iringa, and ...
Article : 66 wordsThe General Federation of Trade Unions and members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons met at the House of Commons to discuss the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Admiralty reports that the nember of arrivals of vessels at British ports during the past week was 2747, and the number of vessels that sailed 2776. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Empire Producers' Association has passed a resolution "that the Government must without delay give effect to the resolutions passed at the Paris ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Press Bureau states that an explosion, causing considerable damage, occurred in a munitions factory in South Wales yesterday afternoon. Six pensons ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Greek diplomatists from Sofia and Constantinople have returned, and report that the condition of the Greeks in both countries is lamentable. Those in villages ...
Article : 64 wordsSpeaking at a Parliamentary Committee welcome to the Socialist delogates, Mr. A. Henderson said: Great Britsin will never deal with a Government not expressing ...
Article : 112 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Lew stated that the German official statements give their expenditure for Febrliary to May at £130,000,000 monthly, ...
Article : 73 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. A. Fisher), when visiting the wounded Australians in the Huskard's Auxiliary Hospital at Ingatestone, referred ...
Article : 160 wordsTo-day's French communique states: After the magnificent success in Belgium we consolidated in torrential rain the positions won. ...
Article : 432 wordsA cable message form Stockholm states that the English Labourites have changed their minds on the question of attending the Peace conference, and ...
Article : 52 wordsFrank Sittle, the I.W.W. leader, was found hanging from a railroad trestle with a sign attached to the body which warned other members of the I.W.W. with a ...
Article : 138 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. J. R. Clynes (Parliamentary Secretary to the Allies' Minister) said that in order to get a 9d. loaf without loss to the Exchequer ...
Article : 56 wordsColonel Archer-Shee, M.P., has rejected Mr. Pemberton Billing's conditions for the proposed contest to settle the quarrel which originated in the House of ...
Article : 90 wordsThe first official report respecting the settlement of soldiers, signed by Mr. Gordon[?] Graham, the Under Secretary for Lands, was presented yesterday to ...
Article : 238 wordsMr. J. T. Macpherson (Parliamentary Under Secretary for War) stated in the House of Commons that 230,000 horses and mules hed died in the various theatres ...
Article : 85 wordsThe war prices of beer are causing a boom in brewery shares. The deferred stock of Wetney, Coombe[?] rose to £48. The shares paid the first dividend for ...
Article : 48 wordsA whireless German message officially announces that General Pilsudski, the creator and commander of the Polish army, was arrested for secretly organising the ...
Article : 41 wordsA soldier who is going into camp this month informs us that he has given up a good position to enlist, and his liabilities will now exceed his income. He wonders ...
Article : 76 wordsOwing to military necessities railway material is being brought from the Balkans to Germany. ...
Article : 24 words[?] the Senate Sir J. A. Lougheed, Minister without portfolio, declared that with only half Canada's population Australia could send as many men overseas as ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 3 Aug 1917, Page 7
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