The resignation of the Home [?]tary caused considerable stir in political circles. The usual meeting of [?] Cabinet was held to-day but the [?] ...
Article : 54 wordsA communique states:-- During the recent retreat part of the 20th Army Corps was surrounded between Goldap and Suwalki. They fought heroically, though greatly outnumbered, and marched 32 miles ...
Article : 152 wordsThe ammunition used in the German machine guns is me same as used for the rifles. The picture shows a portion of a machine gun bell with cartridges in position. The Germans use a gun of the Maxim type. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsThe death is [?] Kenneth Powel, the well known English tennis player, who was fighting with the [?] Artillery Company at ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Daily Mail" says that the Queensland loan will probably be [?] next week. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Hilaire Belloc, in "Land and Water,'' sums up in the following terms the results of the great war as the facts presented themselves to him ...
Article : 1,396 wordsAt Walcha to-day a lamb which was repeatedly sold on behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund realised £195. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Government has appointed Mr. Justice Ferguson, a Royal Commissioner to inquire and report concerning the Wheat Acquisition Act and as to ...
Article : 57 wordsWhen King George visited the front he gave the same order to General Foch (the Grand Cross of the Bath) as to the Commander-in-Chief of ...
Article : 1,003 wordsSeveral thousand persons demonstrated in favour of inter[?]ent on in the war, They smashed the windows of the "Avariti," a pro [?]trality and ...
Article : 62 wordsTheodore Tobias, a representative of the Wurtemberger Electroplate [?]oy, was to-day charged with attempted trading with the enemy through ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the dissatisfaction which has arisen in connection with promotions among the troops at Singapore resulted in riots ...
Article : 156 words"Though people in Sydney seem [?]th to credit the statements that have been published about the atrocities committed by German soldiers, I can ...
Article : 415 wordsOfficial despatches relating to the East Prussian fighting state that German troops were moved from tho west and brought up to full strength ...
Article : 38 wordsA communique states:-- Our batteries blew up a German ammunition depot, north west of Verdun, inflicting ...
Article : 54 wordsReplying to the Prussian Diet's congratulations regarding the fighting in East Pruasia, the Kaiser said "People, poets, and thinkers have transformed ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Government collier Branksome-Chine was torpedoed and damaged off Beachy Head. The crew was saved. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir Edward Grey has refused the monthly subvention to the Belgian Relief Commission because Germany as declined lo stop the monthly levy ...
Article : 36 wordsPresident Wilson states that he regards the mining of the Evelyn as an accident. He is informed unofficially that the captain ol the vessel had not ...
Article : 42 wordsA communique states:-- Fifteen hundred German shells fell in Reims mi Sunday and Monday. ...
Article : 45 wordsA communique states:-- The Turks were thrown back across the Itchkhalsu River, in the Tranchorok region. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Government has appointed a committee to secure the co-operation of mineowners and colliers in an endeavour to free the largest number ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Admiralty has prohibited the navigation of the Irish Channel between sunset and sunrise. Later. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe British near Givenchy occupied two German trenches on Saturday and having mined them, withdrew. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the Admiralty notifies that operations against the Dardanelles forts have been interrupted by a heavy gale. ...
Article : 28 wordsAmongst the successful exhibitors at the recent Allora Show was Mr. P. A. Tamer, who gained four first prizes for his apiary exhibits. ...
Article : 394 wordsGerman aeroplanes were seen at Maplin Sands on Tuesday, afternoon Colchester telegrams report them off the coast in the evening. ...
Article : 31 wordsA submarine attempted to torpedo the Folkestone-Boulogne passenger steamer on Monday night. A torpedo passed thirty yards ahead of the vessel. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Allies Governments have informed Mr. Bryan, Secretary of State, that Germany is not meeting the coat and maintenance of prisoners of war ...
Article : 42 wordsThe death has occurred of General John Edmond Gough, V.C., who was wounded on Saturday. General Gough, V.G., C.M.G., who ...
Article : 133 wordsGeneral French's report states [?] there has been considerable activity at Ypres. The enemy on the 21st [?] ...
Article : 86 wordsThe drift of the debate in House of Commons approved of a [?] for pooling the allies resources. Mr. Chamberlain thought that ...
Article : 126 wordsIt is understood that at a conference the Scandinavian Government recommended a trial of naval convoys for merchant men. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe United Slates has informally forwarded proposals to Great Britain and Germany suggesting a basis for an understanding on the subject of foodstuffs ...
Article : 65 wordsThe German Mauser rifle has a magazine holding five cartridges which are packed in a clip. The Mauser magazine is not detachable as ours is, and it is not externally visible, as in the case of the Lee-Metford. The pointed bullet which the Mauser rifle ordinarily fires was Introduced by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 89 wordsThe State regulations of the distribution of bread and flour has begun. Everybody, including the Kaiser, receives a card with coupons entitling ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Regin, bound from the Tyne to Bordeaux and laden with coal, was torpedoed and sank in ten minutes. ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is officially stated that a French warship attacked a German submarine eight miles south west of Capealprech, Boulogne. Several shots were fired ...
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Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1881 - 1922), Thu 25 Feb 1915, Page 5
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