Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: There has been 48 hours' incessant rain. The enemy yesterday afternoon succeeded. at great coat, is obtanining a foothold in ...
Article : 180 wordsA Russian communique contained in a wirleess Press message received at the Admiralty states: Between the Zbrucz and the Dniester our troops abandoned ...
Article : 105 wordsThe crew of the Norwegian steamer Benguela, which was insured for 4,000,000 kroner (£225,000), and while on a voyage from England to Philadelphia was sunk ...
Article : 216 wordsA confeience of the leading exporters of foodstuffs was held to-day to consider the resolution of the Wharf Labourers' Union to delcine to handle any foodstuffs intended ...
Article : 119 wordsMrs. Margaret Tudor, Vulture-street, South Brisbane, has been advised that her only son, Private Daniel Thomas Tudor, died whilst a prisoner of war in Germany. ...
Article : 2,019 wordsThe contingent of women that created the disturbance at Federal Parliament House yesterday asembled again this morning under the leadership of Miss ...
Article : 1,669 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies has passed a resolution of confidence in the Government by 395 votes to 70 votes. The Premier (M. Ribot), in a speech ...
Article : 351 wordsThe German pressure is aimed in the direction of Lamenetz, Podolsk, and Odessa. The Ausrians and Germans are graduallly conquering Bukowina, and are ...
Article : 122 wordsThe decision arrived at last Sunday by the wharf labourers not to handle any foodstuffs fot export, unless for war purposes, until prices for home consumption ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Minister in Charge of Repatriation (Senator Millen) said to-day that childless wars widows will not come under the scope of the Repatriation scheme. War ...
Article : 391 wordsThe news of the resignation of General Brussiloff and the appointment of General Koniloff has been confirmed. The London newspapers deeply regret General ...
Article : 126 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, answering several questions, Mr. Bonar Law stated emphatically that no representative of the Government would attend ...
Article : 280 wordsThis son of the late H. A. Hansen and Mrs. C. Hansen, of Kilcoy, volunteered for service with the forces in August. 1915. He was then under 17 years of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 187 wordsThe second Liberty Loan of three billion dollars will be launched on November 10. JAPANESE MISSION TO ...
Article : 163 wordsTo-day's French communique stats that had weather continues in Belgium. PARIS, Friday. The French communique at midnight ...
Article : 67 wordsA continuous joint session of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates and the Peasants' Delegates has been sitting since Sunday. To the ...
Article : 136 wordsIt is estimated that the German casualtics on the first day of the offensive numbered 20,000. The "Petit Parisien's" correspondent ...
Article : 352 wordsDr. C. Addison, formerly Minister for Munitions, addressing representatives of the chemical industires said we could only pay for the war by increasing ...
Article : 220 wordsDiplomatic advices state that exchanges of opinion with the Allied Governments are proceeding, and are likely to have important results regarding Austria's ...
Article : 54 wordsTo-day is the third anniversary of the declaration of war, and the occasion is to be marked by a meeting of citizens in Albert-square this aftenoon, at 2.30. His ...
Article : 363 wordsSeveral American regiments bearing arms, with banners flying and bands playing, will shortly march through London. The War Office is keenly ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the House of Lords Lord Kimberley said the farmers wore dumbfounded at the prices fixed for beef, ecnecially the prices after January next. Many had ploughed ...
Article : 118 wordsThe first batch of English, Scottish, and Welsh wounded have arrived in London. In interviews they stated that the battle was waged on both sides with ...
Article : 383 wordsProfessor T. Naresen, head of the Norwegian Mission, states that Norway's exports to Germany consist almost entirely of large quantities of fish, which is in ...
Article : 209 wordsThe "Courier" Patriotic Funds were swelled by the addition of £18/2/6 yesterday. Of this sum £10/11/ for the Tobacco Fund was collected by Miss A Ladbury, ...
Article : 403 wordsFifty-thousand have observed an idle day at the Lanarkshire Coalfields. At mass meetings they protested against the high price for food, and called on the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe conference of the Allies was held in a south coast town Mr. Lloyd George, Genetal Smuts (a member of the War Cabinet), Mr. Bonar Law, Baron ...
Article : 53 wordsA high military authority, discussing the battle on the West Front, says the Germans must not expect a longg respite: our guns will soon again he hammering ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Government has announced that it intends to purchase the Canadian Northern Railway. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Austrian Cabinet will include two Germans, a Southern Slav, a Ruthenian, and a Galician. [It won previously announced that the Emperor ...
Article : 37 wordsA Memorial Eucharist for those who have fallen in the the war will be held at 10.30 a.m. to-day in St. Luke's Church Charlotte street Relatives of those who ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that General von Fa;kenhayn has assumed charge of the Turkish forces, and inspected the Syrain Front. It is significant ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. F. L. Polk states that the United States will ignore the Teuton peace feelers which are designed to influente public opinion. Americans reply will be ...
Article : 38 wordsCaptain Mickle (Melbourne), of the Garrison Artillery, has been awarded the D.S.O. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe "Allies' Village Fair" will he officially opened by his Excellency the Governor this afternoon, at 1 o'clock The decorated buildings, with domes, ...
Article : 161 wordsIt is reported from Berlin that Dr. Michaelis (German Imperial Chancellor), after a visit to the Bavarian King, said to an interviewer "We discussed the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Tribune" states that it is predicted there that Mr. Balfour will be Premier within two months. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press says that one of the most amazing exploits of the was was the performances of the Air Corps on the opening day of ...
Article : 183 wordsThere is a calm behind the German Front in Flanders, Some 40,000 men concentrated at Kempen last week were hurried into the fighting line. ...
Article : 116 wordsA conference will he held at Vienna on August 4 between the German and Austrian Food Controllers to decide upon the division of the Roumanian grain cro[?], ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. W. A. Holman (Premier of New South Wales) has confeired with General Smuts on problems of the Dominions after the war. ...
Article : 59 wordsDr. von Bethmann-Hollweg (ex-Imperial German Chancellor) has retired to his country estate, whero he is writing his memoirs of his seven years' ...
Article : 30 wordsA hospital ship from England, with 600 Canadians aboard, is aahore outside the harbour, resting easy in a calm sea. The soldiers were rescued. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe imports last year showed an increase of £3,750,000 over the previous year. The exports decreased £3,250,000 compared with the previous year. ...
Article : 126 wordsTo-day's French communique states: There was great artillery firing last night at Braye-en-Laonnais and west of Craonne. There was also a violent ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsOfficial figures made available to-day show that the bank overdraft of the Australian Wheat Board has increased, and that the amount was £4,632,000 on ...
Article : 127 wordsYesterday we mentioned the case of a recruit whose early entry of the training camp will involve in financial loss to the extent of bringing his income below his ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, correspondent with the British headquarters in France, states the weather is still abominable. The battlefield is waterlogged through ...
Article : 599 wordsThe King Ldward Hospital Fund has received an anonymous gift of £35,000. ...
Article : 18 wordsSenor Date, the new Premier, commenting on the attitude of certain Germanophile newspapers, said the Government had decided to suppress any ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 4 Aug 1917, Page 5
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