The Shire Hall, Nundah, was crowded last night, when Corporal Sizer, the soldier Nationalist candidate, fired the first shot of his campaign, Mr. E. ...
Article : 940 wordsCasualty List No. 384 was issued last evening, and contained the names of the following Queenslanders. Unless otherwise stated the soldier referred to is a private. ...
Article : 746 wordsAs there is a surplusage of candidates in some of the electorates at the forthcoming State elections, it is expected that there will be some withdrawals as ...
Article : 75 wordsM. Lenin and M. Trotsky are reported to have accepted, on behalf of Russia, the new German peace terms. These set out, among other conditions, that Livonia and Esthonia must be immediately cleared of Russian troops and Red Guards. A Press ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) made an important announcement to-day on the subject of recruiting. Responding to the toast of his health at a function ...
Article : 628 wordsThe National candidate for Bulimba (Mr. W. H. Barnes) opened his campaign in the School of Arts, Bulimba, last evening. The accommodation of the hall was ...
Article : 1,013 wordsMr. Plilip Gibbs, the war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports: The enemy is preparing to bring tanks into action, and he has been training troops to ...
Article : 65 wordsLord Rhondda (Food Controller) has sent a message to the troops stating: "Be of good heart about the home folk. The health statistits were never better, ...
Article : 242 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported at midday: We repulsed raiders in the neighbourhood of Broodseinde. There was hostile artillery firing in the ...
Article : 34 wordsSergeant N. R. Worrall, one of the 20 returned soldiers who are championing the National flag at the State elections, and who is the selected National ...
Article : 823 wordsA French communique states: There was fairly great artillery firing in the regions of Vauxaillon, Chaviguon, Butte du Mesnil, and on the left bank of the ...
Article : 80 wordsA Russian wireless message intercepted by the Admiralty states that, replying to Russian proposals on February 19, Germany on February 21 intimated ...
Article : 358 wordsMr. N. D. Baker, Secretary for War, has issued a communique in which he declares that the Germans' plan is to seize Esthonia, Livonia, Petrograd, and part ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Labour correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" writes: It is doubtful whether all the delegates to the Inter-Allied Socialist Conference endorse the application of ...
Article : 290 wordsSir Auckland Geddes (Minister of National Service), in the course of an address to discharged soldiers and sailors, said there was never a greater need of ...
Article : 133 wordsThe White Guards drove back the Red Guards at many points, and captured Bjoerneborg and Tammerfors. They are now advancing towards the important ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Samuel Gompers, the President of the American Federation of Labour, has announced that he has received a message from Karl Legion, the head of ...
Article : 70 wordsInformal peace negotiations between Dr. von Kuhlmann (German Minister for Foreign Affairs), Count Czernin (Austro-Hungarian Minister for ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. W. T. Massey, the Australian correspondent with the British headquarters in Palestine, telegraphs: The capture of Jericho was a most brilliant operation. ...
Article : 391 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation fixing the minimum price of wheat at 220 cents, (9/2) per bushel and urging the farmers to serve humanity by ...
Article : 57 wordsThe two Australians, Lance-corpora[?] Pitts and Private Choate, who escaped from Germany, and arrived in London aftet an adventurous journey, belonged ...
Article : 435 wordsThe Rev. Father O'Donnell, who took a prominent part in the two conscription referendum campaigns in Tasmania, arrived in Melbourne on Sunday in ...
Article : 200 wordsThe correspondent of the "Morning Post" reports: The Germans are moving towards Petrograd at the rate of fully 50 miles a day by motor car dashes, ...
Article : 465 wordsThe War Trade Board has announced that the American embargo on food exports from Northern European neutral countries to Germany will cut off 65 to 85 ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Sidney Cook, the Caucua candidate for Nundah, addressed a meeting in the Sandgate Town Hall this evening. The hall was about half filled, and the Hon. ...
Article : 129 wordsIt is officially announced that a submarine has not returned to its base. ...
Article : 19 wordsSeven men offered at the Adelaide-street Drill Shed yesterday. Five were declared fit and two were unfit. Those who offened were Thomas Frederick Jones (Ipswich), ...
Article : 107 wordsPan-German newspapers are demanding that Socialist Deputy Cohen shall be prosecuted for high treason for declaring in a speech in the Reichstag that ...
Article : 60 wordsPersons who are anxious to seek news of sick, wounded, or missing men are invited to call at or write to the Information Bureau, Spencer Block, Queen-street, Brisbane, and the ...
Article : 43 wordsRecently the secretary of the Mirani branch of the National Political League, after an exhaustive scrutiny, found 473 names improperly on the roll—names that ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. John Mann's meeting was shamefully interrupted on Saturday, and it was impossible for him to deliver his address. Some of the Nationalist ...
Article : 102 wordsThe body of the man which was floating in the sea off the Black Rock Pier on Sunday was to-day indentified at the morgue by his wife as that of Alfred ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. A. L. Petrie, the National candidate for Toombul, opened his election campaign last evening, when he addressed a meeting of electors in the Eagle Junction ...
Article : 680 wordsThe price of the "Daily Telegraph" will be increased to 2d. from March 4 onwards during the continuance of the war. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. George Richard Wm. (Paddy) Fitzgerald (Oakey) was aceepted at the toowoomba recruiting centre to-day. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsAt Enoggera yesterday afternoon a flag was presented to the 15th Reinforcements of the 31st Battalion by Mr. R. B. Stark (managing director), on behalf of ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. T. R. Roberts, the National candidate for East Toowoomba, addressed a representative gathering of ratepayers tonight in the East State School. ...
Article : 102 words"L'Homme Libre" states that 1000 hostages were selected from prominent French people, including refined girls, who were taken from their homes, and ...
Article : 122 wordsA section of the Elections Act provides that soldiers at the Front may appoint proxies to exercise the franchise on their behalf on election day. The Electoral ...
Article : 69 wordsThe reported shipping merger was widely discussed in shipping circles to-day. The Sydney offices of the companies concerned denied any knowledge of the proposed ...
Article : 188 wordsThe trouble which has been simmering for several days at the Small Arms Factory, Lithgow, came to a head to-day, and as a result the factory, so far as ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsThe Caucus campaign for the Ipswich and Bremer seats was opened this evening when a largely attended meeting was held in the Town Hall. Prior to the ...
Article : 117 wordsPrivate E. D. Stewart was warmly welcomed home by the Q.P. and A. Society and Chamber of Commerce an Allen's rooms that afternoon. Mr. R. P. Watson ...
Article : 230 wordsThe meeting of Valley Nationalists, held in the Boys' State School last night, was well attended. Alderman G. Down presided, and the candidate, Lieut. B. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe advance of the Germans has aroused the masses, who are rapidly enrolling to defend the capital, where martial law has been proclaimed and a drastic Press ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Asquith, in addressing Liberal agents, referred to the necessity of preparing for an inevitable general election when the new register, which will double ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Premier (Mr. T. J. Ryan) is expected to arrive back in Brisbane from his Northern tour on Thursday. The State Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) ...
Article : 88 wordsAt a meeting of the National Association on Friday evening Lieut. W. F. [?]orogood withdrew from the Bundaberg contest, and the nomination was lodged ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Premier. Wang Shih-Chen, has resigned owing to the party which is in favour of open hostilities against the Central Powers dominating the ...
Article : 44 wordsA well-known identity here, Philip Lynch, a dam sinker, dropped dead in Eagle-street this afternoon, from heart failure. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 26 Feb 1918, Page 7
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