The "Daily Chronicle's" Cairo correspondent says that the evacuation of El Arish ends the Turco-German pretensions to the Canal. The Turks quitted the most ...
Article : 554 wordsThe young Anzac seated, Private Les S. B. Greenbury, was a driver and had not reached his twentieth birthday annivernery when a severe attack of cerebro-spinal meniagitis cut him down (in England or in France) in the very flower of youth and at the threshold of manhood. He was a bright and bouny ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 153 wordsInvestigations made by Mr. G. H. Knibbs, Federal Statistieian, show that in the month of November there was an increase of 8 per cent. in the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Board of Trade has promised the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Massey) and Sir Joseph Ward to make provision for the carriage of butter ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Russian ultimatum, threatening flogging as a disciplinary measure for German prisoners unless Germany abolished the torture, called "suspension," practised on ...
Article : 76 wordsSomething like £20,000 worth of damage was done by a fire at Smeoton’s grocery shop at Auckland. The fire burned through four floors, and a ...
Article : 37 wordsThe motor speed trials were continued to-day on the main beach at Southport They were witnessed by about 600 persons, who displayed Keen ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Danish and German Governments recently agreed to exchange German iron for Danish horses and chemicals. It now is announced that iron cannot ...
Article : 59 wordsCaptain Davis, of the Aurora, has telegraphed by wireless that he is making favorable progress on his voyage to the Antarctic, and that the ...
Article : 36 wordsA wireless Press message received by [?] Admiralty, conveys the following Italian official announcement: "On the [?] [?] [?] of Montfait, we ...
Article : 46 wordsIt was ascertained to-day from the Under Secretary for Public Instruction (Mr. J. D. Story) that the results of the examinations for State scholarships at ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Petit Parision" states that the Venezelist Government has arrested sevenal Germanophile Gournarists at ...
Article : 102 wordsA Mesopotamian official report is to the effect that British detachments advanced to the right bank of the Tigris and consolidated the position southward ...
Article : 44 wordsThe speakers at the Socialist Congress included Mr. Arthur Henderson, a member of the British War Cabinet, and the Parliamentary Secretary to the ...
Article : 130 wordsLater particutars in connection with the Yeppoon bathing fatality, in which two girls, Lilian Stover and Ethe Campbell, and a young man numed ...
Article : 134 wordsThe "Petit Parisian" says that two men were passing the Toplane arsenal on Christmas morning. One dropped a parcel. loud explosion followed. All ...
Article : 70 wordsA decrce is being issued promoting General Joffre to the rank of Murshal. ...
Article : 19 wordsBritish operations in South Doiran and west of Dolzeli were entirely successful, despite the weather and heavy [?]ud. The preliminary operations on ...
Article : 73 wordsGermany's reply to President Wilson note says that the note leaves the choice of the road open. Therefore in the sense of the declaratron of ...
Article : 505 wordsThe conference of State Premiers is to be resumed in Melbourne on 5th January. The business to be [?] with includes the Joan arrangements ...
Article : 90 wordsThe most devastating storm ever recorded in this district occurred on Sunday evening, when torrential rain fell, accompanted by a hailstorm, caus ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Spanish steamer Marquis de Urauijo, 2530 tons, has been sunk by a submarine. ...
Article : 25 wordsAttention of meteorological observers throughout the Commonwealth is specially called by Mr. Hunt, the Commonwealth Meteorologist, to the Daylight Saving Act ...
Article : 174 wordsAn order-in-council, which has been issued, empowers the naval and military authorities, or Minister of Munitions, to close, or further restrict, the hours of ...
Article : 74 wordsEldest son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Greenbury, of Glenvale, Trooper Sid Greenbury is with the Second Light Horse and fought in the big battle at Romani (Sinai), where he was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsA communique issued to-day states: —"Ten French aeroplanes bombed the railway station and hutments at Nesle, in the Somme region, and bivouaes in ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. Neville E. Chamberlain, Director General of Department of National Service, interviewed, said it was his duty to find lator essential for industries, munitions. ...
Article : 61 wordsSenator Gardiuer, leader of the Labor Party in the Senate, on Tuesday referred to the attitude of the Senate towards the Government; "We cut ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Federal Reserve Board's action, in empowering the Now York Federal Reserve Bank to appoint the Bank of England as its agent, will permit the ...
Article : 82 wordsCompared with the mouth of October the prices of food and groceries in November increased 8 per cent. Figures published by the Commonwealth ...
Article : 218 wordsA Russian communiquo is as follows: "The considerable increase in the enemy forces in the Dobrudja secton suggests that the German commanders intend ...
Article : 238 wordsGermany has replied to Presdient Wilson's note. The reply suggests an immediate conference of belligerents. Government officials here are of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsThe following cablegram has been received from General J. C. Robertson:— "Field P.Q. France: Noon, December 20.—Bravo friends, with your Christmas cheer ...
Article : 57 wordsAfter ranging for years over about 12 square miles of country between Deepwater and the Dunce River, kiliing in that time over 600 sheep and ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. and Mrs. R. W. Lyon, of Knightsbridge, and their family of five small children, went to Port El liott on Saturday for the holidays, and ...
Article : 130 wordsLance-Corporal G. W. Bentley gave his life for Toowoomba’s freedom. Who could give more? Then what will Toowoomba give in return for that brave ...
Article : 538 wordsThe Home Secretary (Hon. J. Huxham) to-day stated that he honed to have the Health Act Amendment Bill, which was road a second time in the Legislative ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Cyril Copp (Commercial Bank, Pittsworth) yesterday was in town, in connection with voluntary service abroad. Mrs. J. Mattingly, Muir-street is in ...
Article : 395 wordsSeveral enemy ships on the night of the 23rd, attacked the small guardships in the Olranto Canal. French destroyers espied them, when a sharp engagement ensued, in ...
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The Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld. : 1902 - 1922), Thu 28 Dec 1916, Page 5
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