The references from Holland to the German peace offensive are evidently based on the receipt of certain proposals through a neutral source. ...
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Article : 235 wordsRecruiting continues to show a satisfactory upward trend. Though the full figures are not yet available it is evident that the number of enlistments last week ...
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Article : 52 wordsThe Shipping Board launched 10 steel and six wooden s[?]ps in the week ended May 5, the total tonnage being 89,195. An additional 80,180 tons was acquired by ...
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Article : 911 wordsAt the weekly meeting of the executive committee of the Brisbane branch of the Navy League, a letter was received from the private secretary to the Governor, ...
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Article : 164 wordsM. Litvinoff (Bolshevik Ambassador in London) has received a telegram from Moscow stating that the rumours of a counter revolution are absurb, and have ...
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Article : 80 wordsWar prisoners to the number of 107, who had been repatriated, reached Saint Pancras Railway Station amid remarkable scenes of welcome, the wives sometimes ...
Article : 305 wordsThe British War Mission has made a statement that with the French and British reserves now available the situation on the West Front has considerably ...
Article : 71 wordsThe following official wireless message from America has been made available by the Consul of the United States:— San Francisco.—The trial trip of the ...
Article : 366 wordsThe Admiralty announces: Between April 29 and May 5 our air force contingents from Dunkirk carried out bombing operations against Ostend, We[?]tend, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: By a minor operation our line westward and south-westward of Morlancourt, between the Somme and the ...
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Article : 328 wordsAt a meeting held on Saturday night under the auspices of the Orange Lodge, No. 88, the following motion, proposed by Mr. Mills (Grand Secretary), and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsThe annual Sunday school picnic in connection with the Yeronga Congregational Church was held in the Yeronga Park on Monday, when there was a large ...
Article : 277 wordsA report from London states that the British have advanced south-west of Morlancourt. A later report states that in the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe prosecutions in the "Le Bonnet Rouge" case has closed, and it is expected that at lease 100 witnesses will be called for the defence. M. Marchand, an ...
Article : 122 wordsThe war prayer meeting held in the Albert-street Methodist Church last night was well attended. After the intercessory prayers on behalf of the Army ...
Article : 203 wordsA French communique stated: An enemy attempt, after a violent bombardment, to reach our line south-west of Anchin Farm failed completely, many of ...
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Article : 21 wordsAddressing his constituents at Smithfield General Hertzog declared that their enemies wished the Nationalists to indulge in disorders to give a pretext for ...
Article : 107 wordsBy an overwhelming vote the organisation members of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States have decided to warn German business men that unless the ...
Article : 110 wordsAn amount of £10 to the Y.M.C.A. Fund is the result of a social and dance held at Glasshouse Mountains in the School of Arts. Mr. Will H. Lister ...
Article : 116 wordsComm[?]datore Bonamico, a high official in the Ministry of Munitions, who was awaiting trial on a charge of corruption, hanged himself in prison. ...
Article : 34 wordsA motion to dispense with the services of the two watchmen employed on Circular Quay wharf, in order to substitute returned soldiers, was submitted to the City ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 8 May 1918, Page 7
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