An Italian official communique states: The struggle north-eastward of Gorizia continues. We took prisoner yesterday 26 officers and more than 500 men. We ...
Article : 366 wordsMr. Lloyd George had a rapturous reception at the National Eisteddfod at Birkenhead. He paid a moving tribute to the overseas Dominions. He said ...
Article : 545 wordsThe Admiralty bus received the following Russian communique: We are continuing out retirement northwards from Riga. We crossed the Melupe River in ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Premier stated yesterday, in answer to an inquriy, that he had advised the Railway Union in the North of the refusal of the Prime Minister to ...
Article : 125 wordsTen men offered then services for the A.I.F. yesterday. Six were declared fit, 3 were referred to the P.M.O., and one was unfit. The names of the volunteers are ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the Senate to-day the Northeren strike was discussed. Senator Gardiner (C.) asked if the Government intended to take steps to settle ...
Article : 1,049 wordsMr. J. B. Holme (Industrial Registrar) conferred with the strike leaders this afternoon on the subject of members of the railway unions returning to work on ...
Article : 858 wordsMr. J. M. Hunter (Minister for Lands) was the speaker at the recruiting meeting outside the G.P.O. yesterday, Lieut,-Colonel A. J. Thynne (chairman of the ...
Article : 504 wordsBoth Berlin and Helsingfors report that German squadions have been seen at the entrance of the Gulf of Finland It is believed they are preparing to ...
Article : 111 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig rePorts: The following are the details of Tuesday's bombing operations:—We dropped 24 bombs on billets at ...
Article : 322 wordsThe Premier was asked yesterday if he had received any late advices about the handling of goods it the border. Mr. Ryan replied that the handling of ...
Article : 62 wordsThere is no change in the strike position. Efforts are being made to procure provisions from Townsville, by the steamer Bopple, leaving there on Saturday. ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Government is in possession of the whole threat it of the cnnspnnc) Thonirests of the Grand Dukes were followed by others, including some ladies at Tobolsk. ...
Article : 92 wordsFollowing the failure of the Polish Kingdom, proclaimed last November, Austria and Germany are repartitioning the country. Germany will take ...
Article : 102 wordsAdmiral von Scheer, the Gemran Naval Commander, in an interview, expressed the hope that Britain would still experience Zeppelin attacks; but the weather ...
Article : 364 wordsIn Melbourne to-day 27 men volunteered and 19 were accepted. ...
Article : 18 wordsAt the local recruiting depot 11 men offered their services; 8 were fit, 2 referred to the P.M.O., and 1 was rejected. BLACKBUTT, September 6. ...
Article : 283 wordsA Roumanian communique dated September 4 states: Between Momaie and Varnitza and between the Varnitza and Marsti our artilleiy dispersed masses of ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Hon. T. C. Beirne. M.L.C., and Mr. E. B. Swayne, M.L.A., yesterday waited on the Premier and placed before him the position ...
Article : 182 wordsA French communique states: Our batteries in the Champagne area are dominating the enemy artillery, which is particularly violent in the sector ...
Article : 213 wordsSir Edward Carson, in replying to a correspondent, said: "There's much loose, talk about peace. Some people imagine that it is only necessary to conclude peace ...
Article : 159 wordsThe administrative board of the Exports Council has abrogated the agreement for the sailing of 20 Dutch grain ships from America, on the ground that an ...
Article : 191 wordsTo-day the waterside workers, though called on, refused to load four trucks of frozen sundries for shipment to Sydney, and the trucks were returned to the ...
Article : 243 wordsA deputation of formers waited on Lord Rhondda (Food Controller) complaining that the prices of cattle fixed were inadequate. Their principal argument was that ...
Article : 139 wordsThe recent air raid has aroused widespread criticism of the air defences of London. The formation of a Ministry of the Air is urged independent of the War ...
Article : 87 wordsIn the Admiralty Court the Chief Justice (Sir William Cullen) gave judgment to-day in the case in which the Turul was seized as a vessel owned by the ...
Article : 185 wordsMr. Haldane (Director-General of National Services) has supplied a report to Mr. Hughes denying that either he or Mr S. Whitehend (State Director of ...
Article : 260 wordsThe French Premier, M. Ribol, speaking at a cemetery where many heroes who fell in the Battle of the Marne are buried, said that France was not fighting to ...
Article : 138 wordsA high naval authouty stutes that the increases in submarine Makings are mainly due to flukes. Though Germany has put all her strength in ...
Article : 117 wordsThe annual Trade Union Congress at Blackpool referred the question of air defence to the General Pulposos Committee. ...
Article : 208 wordsCaptain Hedley Baxter, of the Warwickshire Regiment, and formerly of Ashburton, N.Z., has been killed in action. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe bonus system for special work and efficiency has been in force at the Ipswich railway workshops without a break for seven years Altogether, ...
Article : 243 wordsThe secretary of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from the Prime Minister's Dopartment, Melbourne, dated September 3, in which he ...
Article : 175 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, The Minister for the Navy told Mr. Poulton (N.) that telegrams to Adelaide ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Kaiser, in journeying to the Flanders Front, stopped a day in Brussels. The police ordered the inhabitants to hang out flags. The Belgians ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states Unit it has been informed that the Government will shortly increase the pay of non-commissioned officers and men of the British ...
Article : 73 wordsDr. Sun-Yat-Sen has formed a Provisional Government in Canton, and declared war on Austria and Germany. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe latest figures in connection with the strike show that 21,434 persons are now affected in Victoria. There are 10,491 actually on strike. To-day 313 ...
Article : 1,151 wordsSir Oswyn Murray has been appointed permanent secretary to the Admiralty, in succession to Sir Gralarm Greene, who becomes Secretary to the Ministry ...
Article : 34 wordsTwo arrests have been made in connection with the allegation of fraud concerning the Humber Graving Company—Eric Brotherton (mannger of the Immingham ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsPrivate M. C. Sowden, of the 45th Battalion, who was wounded in the feet and arms, while in a hospital in France, submitted himself for the transfusion of a ...
Article : 83 wordsThe remains of the late Driver T. Lynch were accorded a military funeral yesterday. No. 1 Military Band was in attendance, and also a firing party under the ...
Article : 100 wordsRegulations have been issued by the Navy Office to the effect that restrictions as to the use of coal will not apply till midnight on September 10. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe military have isolated Mannheim owing to the epidemic of dysentery. Doctors have been drafted from the Front to stop the ravages of the disease. ...
Article : 33 wordsCarpentier, the well-known French boxer, is to visit America as an aviation instructor. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe mail train from Sydney arrived in Brisbane 45 minutes late last evening. The train from Brisbane will be despatched this morning. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 8 Sep 1917, Page 5
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