Following M. Trotsky's arrival at BrestLitovsk, the peace negotiations between the Bolsheviks and the Central Powers were reopened on Monday afternoon. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 617 wordsPresident Wilson delivered the following message to-day to Congress. Once more, as repeatedly before, the spokesmen of the Central Empires have ...
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Article : 40 wordsThe Australian Red Cross Society, in a report for December, shows that 30,000 Christmas-boxes were distributed to the hospitals, while the gift of 2/6 per head ...
Article : 237 wordsIt is officially announced that the King has exchanged a New Year's message with the Emperor of Japan, expressing the warm friendship mutually felt ...
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Article : 229 wordsBritish soldiers repatriated from Germany are of opinion that the whole country is blighted. During a journey of 26 hours they only passed two trains, and ...
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Article : 23 wordsThe Food Controller has fixed 2/ as the maximum price for wild rabbits, or 1/9 skinless, including imported. The price of part of a rabbit is to be 10d. per 1b., ...
Article : 39 wordsPrivate J. Budgeon, who recently returned after 18 months with the A.I.F., was welcomed home at the meeting of the Valley branch of the Australian ...
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Article : 107 wordsA Brisbane doctor, now in France, who has been on active service for three years without a spell of more than a few days, writes:—You know a lot of "Australians" ...
Article : 144 wordsThe following have been appointed a (Royal Commission to inquire into the war expenditure of the Dominion:— Brigadier-General Sir Robert Anderson ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 288 wordsThere are pitable scenes of morning at Waterford, where tow Irish vessels have been sunk by submarines without leaving any trace of the vessels except that a ...
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Article : 36 wordsA meeting of the Anzac Committee of the Queensland War Council was held yesterday morning at the office of the Minister for Railways. Mr. J. H. Covne presided, and others ...
Article : 278 wordsAn official Turkish communique states: It is reported from Yemen that our troops near Aden continue their enterprises, and safety prevails in the whole of ...
Article : 127 wordsLicutenant Howard Ellis, of the Royal Fiying Squadron, and Private V. S. Pace. who were prisoners of war, have arrived in England. Nineteen other New ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the Mansion House Police Court the case against John Graban was dismissed. The action against Gruban was taken by ...
Article : 214 wordsGeneral Allenby, British Commander-inChief in Palestine, has arrived here from Jerusalem. He was enthusiastically welcomed. ...
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Article : 59 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), speaking at the Bristol branch of the Colonial Institute, advocated bringing the Eastern ...
Article : 54 wordsThe annual dinner of the Queensland branch of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia will be held in the Residential Club on ...
Article : 62 wordsPrivate Harry Mitchell, a New Zealander, was walking in a dark lane in Essex, when he was accidentally killed by a motor car, which overtook him. The ...
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Article : 231 wordsThe winning members of the art union at the combined dog show for the Red Cross Society are:—247, 279, 281, 353, 491, 1000, 1300, 2521, 2571, 3527, 3661, 3671, 3922, 3931, 3948, 3986, ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 10 Jan 1918, Page 7
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