An official British, report from Egypt tuns as follows : Our mounted troops captured the strongholds at Maghdabah, taking 1,130 prisoners, two guns, and large ...
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Article : 163 wordsEleven hundred justices of the peace were appointed this year, many out of need to complete certain military machinery. ...
Article : 328 wordsOn TO-DAY (26th December), Boxing Day, there will be issued ONE EDITION only ; and On NEW YEAR'S DAY (Monday, January 1, 1917), ONE EDITION only. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe following arrangements will be observed at the General Post Office, and Chief Telegraph Office, the Post and Telegraph Offices, Albion. East Brisbane, ...
Article : 211 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports: "We raided trenches in the neighbourhood of Hebuterne, taking prisoners. We successfully discharged gas westwards of ...
Article : 101 wordsThe king sent the following message to the sailors and soldiers for Christmas and New Year : "Grateful thoughts with you for your victories, hardships, ...
Article : 211 wordsOn Saturday morning a boy named Norman Hill, of Duke street, off Ipswich road, was playing with an axe, when he almost Severed a finger on the left hand. ...
Article : 428 wordsCommuniques issued on the evening of 24th and the afternoon of 25th instant, record lively artillery actions, especially on the right bank of the Mouse. There ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Brisbane General Hospital was beautifully decorated for the Christmas season. The wards vied with one another for pride of place in the work ...
Article : 564 words"We have no room for mock modesty, in the treatment of venereal disease," said a doctor at the Langwarfin Red Cross Hospital. Of the 5,000 hospital ...
Article : 44 wordsBritish official message from Salonika states : "We successfully raided the enemy's main line of trenches between Lake Doiran and Boldzell. We ...
Article : 68 wordsAt Wellington, Peter Fraser and Thomas Brindle were sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months for sedition. A similar sentence was passed on James ...
Article : 57 wordsA wireless Press message is as follows: The "Stampa," published at Turin, learns that King Constantine, of Greece, is worse, and must undergo a further ...
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Advertising : 370 wordsArawatta, Cairns to Melbourne, leaves Sydney to-day Aramac, at Melbourne, Allinga, at Sydney from Mackay. Bingera, Townsville to Brisbane, calls ...
Article : 900 wordsThe year's work in relation to hospitals is set out in a departmental review. The maintenance of institutions cost the government £178,000, and new ...
Article : 128 wordsA wireless message from Petrograd advises that 4,000 Bulgarians have been drowned in Lake Babada. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn Italian official announcement shows that enemy patrols attacked south-east of Gorizia," but were driven off, and some prisoners were taken. ...
Article : 32 wordsEvery patient who spent Christmas in the military hospital at Erioggera cannot sufficiently thank the members of the Red Cross Society, whose kindness made what ...
Article : 157 wordsCaptain Basil Hood's patriotic three act light opera entitled, "Young England," with, music by Hubert Bath and G. Clutsam, had an enthusiastic reception at ...
Article : 109 wordsA decree prohibits the storing ol cotton, or its disvosal by anyone except residents without a special permit. The decree is intended to prevent shipments to ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilcania, has died at Bishops' House, Broken Hill,at the age. of 70 years. He had been ill for some ...
Article : 42 wordsA man named Edward Hansen, married, residing all Commercial road, Bulimba, was taken to the General Hospital on Saturday, suffering from ...
Article : 146 wordsAdvices from Fiji show that the Fijians of Rewa Province recently announced their intention of subscribing £1,500 to provide an aeroplane for the British ...
Article : 62 wordsThe shipping controller (Sir Joseph Maclay) "has initiated an important two-fold scheme, to revolutionise the steamer-carrying capacity, it comprises, firstly, ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Laird Smith) has made available the following message received by the Defence Department from Lieutenant-general Sir ...
Article : 245 wordsThrough the thoughtfulness of the Brisbane Girls' Club, backed up by the generosity of the general public, excellent Christmas dinners this year were provided ...
Article : 333 wordsThe trouble caused by a fall of earth on the main trunk line near Auckland, now has been rectified. The rain was torrential, and 6.22 inches were recorded ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsThe Danish steamers Hroptatyr and Dansborg have been sunk. The Swedish schooner Njord toppled over, and it subsequently was found abandoned and ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following casualties have been reported in the latest list: Fifteen men killed in action; 1 prisoner of war, in German hands 1 accidentally killed; 2 ...
Article : 62 wordsOn Sunday last, the State Recruiting Committee published reproductions of some telling cartoons of Louis Raemakers, the fumous Dutch cartoonist, describing the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe British India steamer Itonus (5,340 tons), was sunk on 20th December. The Navy Department announces that she carried no troops on the voyage, in ...
Article : 104 wordsThe annual poultry distribution organised by the Milton Volunteer Fire Brigade was drawn in the head station, Baroona road, on Saturday evening, ...
Article : 68 wordsIn beautiful weather, Christmas Day was celebrated. Christmas services in the churches largely were attended, the services, as a rule, being of a special ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsBefore Mr. W. H. Harris, P.M. in the City Police Court on Christmas Day, Thomas Farrell (25,labourer), was charged that on 23rd December, he stole a pipe valued at 7s. 6d. from the person of John Stapleton. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Admiralty reports that two destroyers were sunk in a collision in the North Sea on 21st December, during bad weather. Six officers and 51 men were ...
Article : 42 wordsA cablegram was received in Brisbane this morning from Lieutenant F. G. Lewis conveying Christmas greetings, and saving "All well." This message was ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Tue 26 Dec 1916, Page 5
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