With enthusiasm befitting the occasion, a public meeting of citizens in the Exhibition Hall last night decided to form a branch of the Navy League in Brisbane. ...
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Article : 105 wordsThe sixth day of the monster battle finds the British and Germans fighting tigerlike across the Pozieres Ridge, which was wrested from Marshal von Hindenburg in the autumn of 1916. There is furlous fighting in every direction. The enemy ...
Article : 161 wordsStrenuous fighting is taking place at Pozieres Ridge. The British are vigorously resisting the advance also from the vicinity of Montauban towards ...
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Article : 23 wordsSenator Lodge created a sensation in the Senate by asserting that the United States Front in France had not been supplied with a single aeroplane and had no ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe map shows how the battle frontfrom Arras southward has changed during the past twelve months. The heavy continuous line remained as the German Front, after the great figthing on the Somme, until in March of last year the heavy and continuous Anglo-French pressure caused the retirement to the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 31 wordsVarious bodies in Berlin feted the crew of the German raider Wolf. ...
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Article : 530 wordsThe Press Bureau announces: There were no further attacks last night northward of the Somme. There were local engagements in which the enemy was ...
Article : 147 wordsAmericans follow every move of the great offensive with the most tense interest The extra editions of the newspapers are rapidly bought up, but the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association telegraphs: The sixth day of the monster battle finds the British a Germans fighting tiger-like across ...
Article : 447 wordsA sad feature of the battle is that civilians are again forced to abandon their homes in the Peronne region, where many villages had been repaired and the ...
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Article : 52 wordsA report from Paris states that the French launched a great gas attack near Lens, and used 6000 drums of lethal gas, causing heavy German casualties. ...
Article : 36 wordsSemi-official advices state that the Austrians are transferring large calibre artillers from the Russian Front to the West Front. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. L. Ginnell, M.P., who was tried at Dublin on a charge of inciting people to enter lands in Westmeath, was ordered to find sureties to be of good behaviour. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe vagaries of the Jules Verne gun continue to excite the public. It is now believed that there are two guns. The shells reach a height of 20 miles, taking ...
Article : 283 wordsM. Clemeneeau has cabled to the French Embassy: "The Allies are absolutely confident. We will not sheathe the sword until we have exacted full and complete ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Deputy Postmaster-General advises that owing to cable interruption soldiers' week-end cablegrams have been [?]jected to considerable delay, and as ...
Article : 54 wordsMany London newspapers have decided to publish on Friday in view of the importance of the battle, but as it is likely that many country newspapers will ...
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Article : 40 wordsMr. A. Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) has handed Sir George Perley (High Commissioner for Canada), the Commonwealth contribution of £50,000 to ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 28 Mar 1918, Page 7
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