Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his report on aviation, states; Our aeroplanes dropped eighteen tons of bombs and heavily machine-gunned a great ...
Article : 135 wordsViscount French (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) has issued a proclamation as follows:— "In pursuance of a promise, we now ...
Article : 412 wordsThe Press Bureau reports: The Supreme War Council held its sixth session in circumstances of great gravity for the alliance of free peoples. The German Government ...
Article : 330 wordsOn the anniversary of Italy's entrance into the war the Austrian commander in the Udine issued a manifesto stating that the Italians should not blame the ...
Article : 88 wordsSenator Pearce, in a recruiting speech at the Town Hall, expressed the hope that the disbandment of Australian Battalions would be only temporary. He ...
Article : 55 wordsThe following American news received by wireless message has been made available by the United States Consul:— Washington.—The ten days Red Cross ...
Article : 598 wordsFollowing is the itinerary of No. 1 Recruiting' Column from June 10 to June 30:—Leave Warwick June 10 and arrive at Glengallan same date; at Allora June ...
Article : 197 wordsFierce fighting is still in progress between the Oise and the Oureq, where the Germans have attacked with redoubled violence, and between the Oise and the Aisne. Pernant fell into the hands of the enemy after an obstinate defence, during ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "scrapping of battalions" has become a sorry reality (writes the Recruiting Committee). Of three bataalions mentioned by the official reporter with ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Admiralty reports: Between Thursday and Sunday naval aircraft carried out night and day raids on Bruges docks, Zeebrugge, and Ostend. Several ...
Article : 130 wordsThe French communique issued this afternoon states that during June 1 and 2 29 German aeroplanes were shot down and 24 driven down out of ...
Article : 55 wordsYesterday the Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon), Mr. G. P. Barber, M.L.A., Mr. A. White, and Captain Pike visited the Cannon Hill ...
Article : 303 wordsCorrespondents on the French Front detail the experience of the four British divisions between Craonne and Guigmcourt. German trench mortars opening ...
Article : 681 wordsM. Clemenceau, the French Premier, made a long exposition of the military situation to the Army Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, explaining how the ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. G. H. Roberts (Minister for Labour), speaking at a demonstration by girls at Sheffield, announced: "We are going to have women aviators. They will ...
Article : 72 wordsSpeaking at the G.P.O. last evening, the Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon) made an eloquent appeal for recruits, and referred in candid words to ...
Article : 436 wordsAt the request of the Premier the Leader of the Opposition (Sir Thomas Smartt) has commenced a recruiting campaign in the Eastern' provinces, ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is announced in the London "Gazette" that military medals have been awarded to five women nurses for bravery and devotion to duty during enemy ...
Article : 104 wordsGreat excitement has been caused by the reports that German submarines were operating off the coast of America. One U boat has been captured. Unconfirmed ...
Article : 673 wordsDublin newspapers interpret Viscount French's proclamation as an admission that conscription has been abandoned, and thus the purpose has been achieved ...
Article : 156 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Paris states that the French and American troops have pushed back the Germans, and forced them across the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Osservatore Romano" (the orgam of the Vatican) has officially published the correspondence dealing with the German request that Englans should refrain ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 189 wordsA Turkish communique reports: We have occupied Tank, in Mesopotamia. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon) had an interview with the Premier (Mr. T. J. Ryan) yesterday, and matters in regard to recruiting were ...
Article : 73 wordsAn American official report states: North-westward of Chatean Thierry we broke up an enemy attempt to advance sothward through Neuilly woods, and ...
Article : 95 wordsMrs. Euston Young, The Grange, Beaudesert, has received a cablegram from her husband, Captain C. Euston Young, advising that he has been awarded the ...
Article : 573 words"I read with very great interest this morning the report of Mr. Ryan's statement in connection with the stop-the-war resolutions of the Brisbane Industrial ...
Article : 275 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon states: The battle was resumed with great intensity during last night and to-day. The Germans, with ...
Article : 339 wordsRecruiting for last week was 957, as against 1105 for the previous week. The details were: Queensland 72, as against 88; New South Wales 495, as against ...
Article : 66 wordsFive men offered at the Adelaide-street Drill Shed yesterday, and three were declared fit. Those who offered were:— James Wilson Dowric, George Edward ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Hector Martin M'Donald (Brookstead) was accepted at the recruiting centre to-day. GYMPIE, June 5. ...
Article : 35 wordsA British-Italian official message states: Since May 25 our acroplanes have destroyed 14 enemy machines. They also drove down another uncontrollable. One ...
Article : 38 wordsWarrant Officer Blake and Sergeant Buchanan, M.M., report that at the empty saddle parade at Bundaberg they got five saddlest filled. Subsequently three more ...
Article : 88 wordsSenator Pearce states that regulations are to be issued whereby the sale or gift of alcoholic liquors to returned soldiers in hospital. or on leave from hospitals, ...
Article : 571 wordsThe Press Bureau reports: Sir James Henry Campbell, Chief Justice of Ireland, has been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland in succession to Sir ...
Article : 50 wordsTwenty-onw courts have been created for the trial of arrested revolutionaries in Finland. The Government has requested the courts to accelerate the trials. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Admiralty reports: A British destroyer was sunk on May 31 as the resuit of a collision. There were no casualties. ...
Article : 33 wordsA wireless German evening official message says: We made fresh progress southward of Soissons. A later German official statement says: ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 399 wordsMr. Macartney, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, gave notice of his intention to ask the Premier if he would consent to an adjournment of the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Canadian and South African editers have accepted the invitation of the Government of Great Britain to pay a visti to England. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe court at Prague, where food riots recently occurred, has sentenced sixty of the rioters to terms of imprisonment ranging from six weeks to three months. ...
Article : 55 wordsPrivate John M. Sanderson, 25t[?] Battalion, who returned home last Sunday, has three years' service to his credit, although he landed home in time to ...
Article : 169 wordsIn November last William A. Casson, charged with corruption and conspiracy with Wing Commander John C Porte, was fined £6000, and the judge ordered ...
Article : 272 wordsMajor-General Maurice, the military correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle." reports: The battle front from Noyon to Chatcau Thierry is becoming established, ...
Article : 181 wordsA report from Le Havre, the temporary seat of the Government of Belgium, states that Baron von Broqueville has resigned the Premiership. M. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe wireless message made available by the American Consul to-day contained the following references to the submarinings off the American coast:— ...
Article : 272 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: The French repulsed raids northward of Bailleul. The total prisoners taken in the successful operation on ...
Article : 95 wordsLord Southwark moved in the House of Lords the second reading of the Decimal Coinage Bill. Lord Leverhulme moved to shelve the ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Frawely, one of the origiinal Anzacs. returned to Brisbane on Tuesday. During the day he called on the Minister for Railways, and was granted a free pass over ...
Article : 100 wordsPrior to conscription being passed in America the Navy and Army authorities there seized upon a striking moving picture entitled "Womanhood, the Glory of ...
Article : 216 wordsThe military authorities advise that information has been received from head quarters that 260 clerks, who must be competent typists or bookkeepers, are ...
Article : 165 wordsSignor Parodi, president of the Federation of Ship Owners, who was arrested recently, apparently on a charge of having traded with Germany, has been ...
Article : 82 wordsIn his midday report Field-Marshal Haig stated: We took a few prisoners in a successful raid on Monday night westward of Morville, and repulsed an attack on a ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Sizer, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, asked the Premier, without notice, if he was aware that a number of the original Anzacs had arrived in ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Controller of Food has permitted the unrestricted withdrawal of wine from bond for consumption ia the United Kingdom. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe German military authorities at Bucharest have arrested the Roumanian socialist leaders. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 6 Jun 1918, Page 7
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