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  2. THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN.

    An official message from Palestine states. We have further advanced over three miles along the Nablus-road, occupying Beeroth, also Hizmah, Jeba, Burkah, ...

    Article : 91 words
  3. SCOTS' COMMUNION.

    The guns are booming over the low, swampy levels of Flanders. The vicious "wumph" of the bursting shrapnel searching the roads beyond Ypres comes ...

    Article : 1,103 words
  4. A QUEENSLANDES BRAVERY.

    Attacked by enemy machines over Mons, at an altitude of 18,000ft., and wounded in several places. Such was the experience of Captain Herbert David Parry ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. A NEW ARMY BATTERY.

    In modern trench warfare, the actual battle, that is to say the manoeuvre of mobile forces over an extended terrain, has given place to a perpetual state of ...

    Article : 1,080 words
  6. THE EFFORT TO BREAK THROUGH. TWO-WILE-WIDE ATTACK.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported this afternoon as follows: We repulsed a local attack in the neighbour hood of the Ypres-Staden Railway. We ...

    Article : 265 words
  7. PUSSIANISED GERMANY.

    On September 26 last Mr. Otto H. Kahn delivered an address before the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Chamber of Commerce, and it contained the following ...

    Article : 1,518 words
  8. BREST-LITOVSK PEACE CONFERENCE. RESTORATION OF OCCUPIED TERRITORIES.

    The text of the Russian and Austro-German peace proposals contains 15 clauses, the principal of which provide for the restoration of ...

    Article : 41 words
  9. AUSTRALIANS AT BULLECOURT

    Before the battle of Bullecourt the German Emperor exhorted his troops to break the Allies' resistance. Light is thrown on the incident by a document ...

    Article : 283 words
  10. RUSSIA AND PEACE.

    The Milan correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" gives the full text of Russia's peace demands. These contain many more details than those hitherto reported. ...

    Article : 228 words
  11. "OVER THE BAGS."

    Private W. H. Harding, of a machine gun company, writing to his mother, Mrs. G. Harding, Bartley's Hill Reservoir Albion, from "Somewhere in Belgium," on October ...

    Article : 477 words
  12. BATTLE-SCARRED VERDUN.

    The Paris correspondent of the "New York World" declares that the massing of troops behind the German lines is proceeding uninterruptedly day and night ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. BREST-LITOVSK CONFERENCE.

    A German wireless message from Brest-Litevsk states that the discussion on December 28 related to the final arrangements between Russia and the ...

    Article : 818 words
  14. ADMIRAL JELLICOE'S RETIREMENT.

    The Germans are rejoicing at the retirement of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe from the position of Tirst Sea Lord of the Admiralty. In Germany the people ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. BOLSHEVIK BANKING "SCHEME."

    The Bolshevik banking scheme provides that the shareholders in the private banks shall become shareholders in the people's bank, with representation on the ...

    Article : 265 words
  16. THE ITALIAN FRONT.

    The Milan correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" supplies a fuller account of the great air raid west of Treviso. Twenty-five bombing machines supported by 50 ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. THE LOST DESTROYERS.

    In connection with the loss of three British destroyers which were mined or torpedoed during a fog off the Dutch coast on the night of December 22-23, a ...

    Article : 89 words
  18. THE NEED FOR MEN.

    The State Recruiting Committee, in an appeal to conscriptiomsts and anti-conscriptionists, urges them to remember that men of both policies are fighting in the ...

    Article : 183 words
  19. HELPING THE ALLIES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 words
  20. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.

    It is reported that 84 British officers and 455 men have been released from Germany for internment in Switzerland, as a result of the recent agreement for the ...

    Article : 269 words
  21. THE ALSACE QUESTION.

    Herr Maximilian Harden, the editor of "Die Zukunft," declares that the question of the future of Alsace and Lorraine cannot be considered as an ...

    Article : 42 words
  22. SANDGATE PATRIOTIC CARNIVAL

    The programme of the patriotic carnival to be held at the Sandgate Racecourse to-day will commence at 9.30 a.m. with a procession from Moora Park, in which ...

    Article : 134 words
  23. WORLD'S WHEAT YIELD.

    The International Agricultural Institute estimates the wheat yield of the world in 1017, exclusive of Russia, the Central Powers, and Australasia, at 998,038,000 ...

    Article : 44 words
  24. THE PRICE OF VICTORY.

    Sir,—The "Noes have won a glorious victory! Germany and the gutter Press rejoice, patriots and the great newspapers of Australia mourn, and Great Britain ...

    Article : 542 words
  25. THE FOOD CONFERENCE.

    Speaking at the conference of representatives of the Trade Union Congress, Labour Party, and War Emergency Workers' National Committee, which is ...

    Article : 182 words
  26. FIRE AT TILBURY.

    The Orient S.S. Co.'s offices and stores at Tilbury have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £10,000. The workshops were saved. ...

    Article : 41 words
  27. A GRACIOUS PARDON.

    At the official request of Mr. Lloyd George, Mrs. Alice Wheeldon, who was sentenced on March 10 last to 10 years' imprisonment for conspiracy to murder ...

    Article : 57 words
  28. THE ALDWICH THEATRE.

    Some days ago we published a paragraph stating that the Y.M.C.A. had opened a theatre in London. The impression has got abroad that the ...

    Article : 108 words
  29. BED CROSS SOCIETY.

    ThE Red Oross Sub committee of Hospitals will be pleased to receive gifts of flowers for the decoration of the Military Hospital in honour of the wounded ...

    Article : 68 words
  30. SOLDIERS AT FOOTBALL.

    In the Rugby football matches played to-day between teams of soldiers the Australian Engineers defeated the Australian Headquarters by 14 points to nil; the ...

    Article : 57 words
  31. PATRIOTIC WAR WORK.

    The committee of the 47th Comforts Fund will hold its meetings on Tuesday evenings and Thursday mornings in the rooms of the City Girls' Club. ...

    Article : 196 words
  32. WYNNUM AND MANLY HONOUR BOARD.

    An honour board of the Wynnum and Manly Sailing Club will be unveiled by the Premier (Mr. T. J. Ryan), at Green Island, to-day. Mr. ...

    Article : 43 words
  33. A LACK OF INFORMATION.

    Sir,—Could you find space in your valuable paper to make clear to me the following:— When a soldier on active service abroad ...

    Article : 349 words
  34. CONTROL OF RAILWAYS.

    Speaking of the seizure of the railway lines and their operation by the United States Government under authority granted by Congress, Mr. W. G. M'Adoo ...

    Article : 126 words
  35. BOY THROWN FROM A HORSE.

    Late to-night the Ambulance received call to Greenlake-road 20 miles from Rockhampton. On the way out the car met Henry James Nitz, aged 10. who had ...

    Article : 73 words
  36. CRUSHING PRUSSIAN MILITARISM

    The Central News Agency states that Mr. Lloyd George is discussing the war aims with the executive of the Labour Conference. He explained that the ...

    Article : 94 words
  37. FALSE TO THEIR COUNTRY.

    A White Book containing cipher correspondence between Berlin and the Court of Athens discloses, contrary to the allegations of Greek Ministers at Berlin and ...

    Article : 51 words
  38. PRESENTATIONS

    The membtra of the local branch of the H. A. O. B. Society tendered Private P. Smith (who enlisted some three years ago, and who has returned on duty) a ...

    Article : 203 words
  39. FIRE AT TOOWOOMBA.

    Some children were playing near an empty house at the corner of Hume and M'Cook streets this afternoon, when they heaped some grass against a shed ...

    Article : 145 words
  40. BRITISH WAR AIMS.

    Mr. J. W. Lowther (Speaker of the House of Commons), while speaking at Carlisle, said that if our aims were right in 1914, nothing had, in his ...

    Article : 79 words
  41. DISPUTE OVER A STEAMER.

    Some irritation has arisen through Mr. Hughes offering the steel screw steamer Kangaroo, 4348 tons, owned by, the West Australian Government, to the Imperial ...

    Article : 106 words
  42. AIR RAID ON MANNHEIM.

    The "Petit Journall" has received information from Mannheim that the air raid on that centre resulted in 45 persons being killed and a number injured. A ...

    Article : 112 words
  43. JAPANESE TRADE.

    Mr. Bourne, a member of Congress, stated that Japanese trade with America had increased 400 per cent. since 1914. Japanese shipping controlled the Pacific, ...

    Article : 36 words
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