A resolution which was introduced in the Senate providing for on army total of 5,000,000 has been referred to the Military Affairs Committee. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe following honours have been awarded:— Lieutenant Jerrard, the Victoria Cross, for a wonderful series of air fights, ...
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Article : 137 wordsA report from London states that the British are within 120 miles of Mosoul. They have captured 1200 Turks and many guns. ...
Article : 102 wordsIn the Senate to-day, senator Millen moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Repatriation Act. He explained at length the repatriation scheme, ...
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Article : 148 wordsThe Trades and Labour Council of New South Wales discussed for several hours to-night the reports of delegates regarding the business of the Governor-General's ...
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Article : 142 wordsGeneral Foch has cabled to Mr. Strong, governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, praising the valour of American troops, and urging ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. and Mrs. W. Hopp, of Musgravestreet, Paddington, received a communication from the military authorities with reference to the regrettable loss of their ...
Article : 1,061 wordsMr. Edmund Candler, war correspondent with the British Forces in Mesopotamia, writing from Mesopotamia, says: Immediately after the capture of ...
Article : 100 wordsFranz, Bopp, the former German ConsulGeneral, who was found guilty of conspiracy on American soil to stir up a revolution in the British Empire, has ...
Article : 82 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported at midday: We repulsed an attack on our post in the neighbourhood of St. Julien. We rushed enemy posts in the ...
Article : 184 wordsThe lull in the fighting enables correspondents to describe stirring incidents in April's battles. Mr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent of the "Daily ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Premier was asked yesterday if there had been any practical result of the Melbourne conference on recruiting so far as the Queensland Government ...
Article : 213 wordsAn official message from Palestine reports: Early this morning our faces eastward of the Jordan attacked the enemy holding the footh[?]ls southward of Es ...
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Article : 51 wordsSix men offered at the Adelaide-street Drill Shed yesterday, three being declared fit. Those who offered were Cecil Henry Evans. Charles Alex. M'Intyre, and ...
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Article : 65 wordsM. Clemenceau, the French Premier declared in the lobby that the general situation now clearly favoured the Allies. ...
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Article : 26 wordsHarry Oliver Fletcher (Warwick) and Cecil Robert Hopgood (Leager street. Toowoomba) were accepted at the Toowoomba recruiting centre to-day. ...
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Article : 93 wordsThe "Kolnische Zeitung" repudiates the report that the Australians killed, after landing, Baron von Richthofen, the skilful German aviator, who claimed to ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Admiralty states that, owing to Germany's unrestricted and ruthless warfare by mines and submarines against all shipping, Britain notifies the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe State Recruiting Committee announces that yesterday a recruit said he would have enlisted long before, only he was averse to having his name in the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Council of the Catholic Union of Great Britain has passed a resolution regretting that Irsh Catholic bishops have organised disobedience to the law, and ...
Article : 101 wordsA French warship accidentally rammed and sunk the American steamer City of Athens in a dense fog off the coast of Delaware, 74 persons being drowned. ...
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Article : 31 wordsThe Minister for Recruiting (Mr. R. B. Orchard) will arrive in Brisbane on Sunday night, and on Monday morning will commence his work in Queensland to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British reply to the Netherlands' note concerning the requisitioning of shipping, in Allied ports regrets that the allegations published in the Netherlands ...
Article : 294 wordsThe Indian Army secured 450,000 recruits last year. MAN POWER AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE. ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, the war correspondent of the "Daily Express," in continuing his report on the failure of the enemy assaults against the Flemish hills, ...
Article : 472 wordsA crowded and enthusiastic recruiting meeting was held in the Hobart Town Hall this evening, at which all sections of the community were represented, ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce), in the Senate to-day, moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Defence Act, so as to provide for ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Express" says that the positon of Count von Hertling (German Chancellor) and his whole administration ...
Article : 248 wordsA French communique this afternoon stated: There was fairly violent artillery firing in the region of Villers-Bretonneux and on both banks of the Avre. ...
Article : 48 wordsEmperor Karl and his entire military staff, with Baron Burian, the Premier, and the diplomatic stuff, will proceed immediately to the German headquarters ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is not true to state that Holland has yielded to the German demand. Though the sand and gravel question has probably been settled in Germany's favour, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 337 wordsThe Upper House of Convocation of Canterbury has passed a resolution calling on the Church to bring about a truer fellowship between all engaged in ...
Article : 235 wordsNews has reached Sydney to the effect that the Union Steamship Co.'s steamer Wailhemo has been sunk in the Mediterrancan. It is understood that the ...
Article : 68 wordsSeventeen British prisoners who escaped from Germany have arrived in London. They include G. H. Reed, of Sydney, and P. G. Cooke, of Brisbane, ...
Article : 97 wordsA telegram from Vienna states that the anger of the German Court over the letter of Emperor Charles to Prince Sixte concerning France's just claims to ...
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Article : 99 wordsThe curtailed train services operated from to-day. An Order in Council empowers the authorities to decline to issue or to cancel season or other tickets or ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsThe "Star" understands that the distribution of milk throughout the country will be controlled by the State not only during the war period, but permanently. ...
Article : 87 wordsGabriel Prinzep, the murderer of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Serajevo, has died of tuberculosis in a fortress near Prague. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Government has appointed a committee to consider whether cereals should be used in the manufacture of dog biscuits, or whether the number of dogs in ...
Article : 43 wordsTo-day a further sum of £5000 was subscribed to the War Loan, this bringing Rockhampton's total subscriptions to £376,075. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Liverpool "Courier" reveals the fact that the biggest wooden vessel in the world, called the War Mystery, has been launched for the Cunard Company. She ...
Article : 64 wordsTwo official Australian artists are represented in the Academy. H. S. Power has three large war pictures, two on the line, and James Quinn's portrait of ...
Article : 53 wordsBy a proclamation in the "Commonwealth Gazette" to-day export from Australia is prohibited of empty glass bottles, unless the consent in writing, of the ...
Article : 38 wordsAdditional collections in connecticn with the Anzac Day celebrations have brought the total to £760/15/11½. A meeting of the executive will be held in the ...
Article : 39 wordsA German official wireless message reports: We repulsed French assaults against Dranoutre. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe British' and Foreign Bible Society has distributed 40,000,000 Bibles during the war period. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 3 May 1918, Page 7
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