Some time ago, it will be remembered, the State Government came into the cattle market at [?]noggera when prices were very high, and sold a small number ...
Article : 562 wordsThe Leader of the National Party (Mr. Macartney) addressed a large meeting in the Shire Hall last night. The attendance included a large percentage of ladies, ...
Article : 838 wordsMajor Fry, the soldier Nationalist candidate for Kurilpa, had an excellent reception at the West End School of Arts last night, when he opened his campaign. ...
Article : 836 wordsThe Press Bureau reports that Mr. Lloyd George, accompanied by Mr. G. N. Barnes (Minister without Portfolio), Sir Auckland Geddes (Director of ...
Article : 65 wordsA representative of the Australian Press Association has secured interviews with passengers of the Igotz Mendi, the steamer which was captured by the ...
Article : 503 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We successfully raided trenches at Nereenland Hill, northward of the Scarpe River, and positions in the southern portion of ...
Article : 200 wordsA report from Washington states that the Allies, including America, are considering the question whether a purely Japanese campaign in Siberia or joint action is more desirable. Japan has pointed out the necessity of military ...
Article : 137 wordsThe "Zeit" (Liberal) discussing the possibility of 750,000 Americans being sent to the Italian Front during 1918, points out that Austria is only able to provide ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Shanghai correspondent of the *Morning Post" advises that the Chinese Press states that Japan has decided to mobilise her troops for operations in ...
Article : 52 wordsReports show that the Americans are also located in the Chemin des Dames sector, where they repulsed a strong German attack, the American machine ...
Article : 45 wordsSpeaking at the Colonial Institute, the Earl of Denbigh revealed a curious diplomatic secret. The Germans early in 1916, he said, were seeking concessions at ...
Article : 151 wordsIn the course of a speech in the House of Commons the Home Secretary (Sir George Cave) made the following statement:—"We continue our diplomatic ...
Article : 443 wordsThe newspapers widely comment on General Foch's interview with an American journalist, in which he advised America to assist Japan in resisting ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Evening Post" reports that the United States Government is preparing to take legal possession of the ...
Article : 243 wordsColonel Rankin, the Nationalist candidate for the Burrum, addressed a meeting or electors in the Palace Hall last evening. Councillor A. Adie (the chairman of ...
Article : 273 wordsThe vote taken in the trenches has increased the Government's majority to [?]7. [It was announced a few days ago that the state of the parties was: Unionists 147, ...
Article : 47 wordsWhen the full story of the lost steamers of the Pacific comes to be written, some romance will be centred round a bottle picked up on the high seas ...
Article : 253 wordsA message from the British headquarters in Mesopotamia states: Our patrols came in contact with a Turkish force near Hit, and some prisoners were ...
Article : 35 wordsGeneral Hoffman, who was one of the German delegates to the Peace Conference with Russian representatives, has telegraphed to Ensign Krylenko, the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Glenart Castle, which was sunk by a torpedo while acting as a hospital ship travelling in the Channel, carried 182 persons. Thirty-three have been ...
Article : 348 wordsIn replying to a motion moved by the Labour leader condemning the resumption of recruiting among tropical natives for work in the mines, the Premier this ...
Article : 69 wordsThe "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" (an anti-British paper) states that it is expected that peace terms between Russia and Germany will be signed to-day. ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. Robert Swan, the Nationalist candidate for the Maranoa electorate, and Mr. J. H. Cecil Roberts (president of the farmers' Union) addressed a meeting in ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Board of Trade has abolished the flat rates for war risks on shipping, and is now changing premiums, graded according to the actual risks attaching to any ...
Article : 64 wordsThe case for the National Party was succinctly put before a meeting of the electors of Logan and Bulimba last night, in the Coorparoo Shire Hall, by Messrs. ...
Article : 1,124 wordsThe Premier (Mr. T. J. Ryan) returned on Thursday night from his Northern tour, yesterday morning he was in his office at the Executive Buildings, where ...
Article : 158 wordsIn the Reichstag Herr Stresemann urged the retention of Belgium as a means of bargaming for the return of the German colonies. ...
Article : 282 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that Germany is sounding Spain with a view to getting King Alfonso to make a proposal that air raids on towns outside the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Serbian Parliament has reassembled at Corfu. The Government resigned owing to the opposition shown to its nominee for the Presidency of ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Federal Cabinet will meet on Monday to consider the second report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the business methods of the Defence ...
Article : 85 wordsMarquis de Alhucinas, the Spanish Premier (President of the Council of Ministers), has tendered his resignation. King Alfonso has requested him to remain ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Charles Grasty, the correspondent at Paris of the "New York Times," states that the collapse of Russia will free the German fleet in the Baltic. The ...
Article : 418 wordsThe Premier's visit to Childers was extended to Cordalba, Booyal, and Dallarnil, whither he proceeded by train, returning to Childers for the evening ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), standing at the bar of the House of Commons, brought up a message from his Majesty the King, ...
Article : 74 wordsM. Scheidemann (Socialist), in the Reichsteg, frankly criticised the Kaiser's assertion that the enemy must recognise Germany as the conqueror before peace ...
Article : 99 wordsThe number of war pensions granted up to February 22 was 88,299, involving an annual liability of £2,925,175. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe election campaign was opened here on Tuesday evening when Messrs. Hardacre and Payne, Ms. L.A., addressed a large open air meeting. On the ...
Article : 291 wordsThe opposition in the Melbourne Trades Hall to the signing of the shipbuilding agreement by the unions, based on the view that there were sufficient ...
Article : 109 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, the Parliamentary Secretary for Munitions (Mr. J. Kellaway) said the modification of the munitions programme would ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsMessages from Vienna state that a political crisis continues in Austria. The Austrian Government has sent an ultimatum to the Socialists to pass the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Cost of Living Commission recommends the fixing of the price of wheat at 32/ per bag of 200 lb., also the mixing of wheat and maize flour for the ...
Article : 89 wordsSergeant Buchanan, the Nationalist candidate for Barcoo, addressed the shearers at the Wool Scour yesterday, and had an exceptionally good hearing. ...
Article : 30 wordsA well-attended public meeting was held last night to consider the question of making an avenue of trees in memory of fallen heroes. The matter was ...
Article : 77 wordsA fair attendance including some ladies listened to an address by Mr. M. P. Alke (Caucus candidate for Drayton) in the Empire Hall, Helidon, on Tuesday ...
Article : 50 wordsM. Lazzari (Secretary to the Socialist Party) has been sentenced to 35 months' imprisonment, and has been fined 3500 lire, for sending out anti-war circulars. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 2 Mar 1918, Page 5
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