The Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle'' says it is believed in official circles that a great and decisive battle in East Prussia is ...
Article : 76 wordsCaptain Meyer, of the German merchant cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which was sunk by the British cruiser Highflyer, has arrived, and ...
Article : 146 wordsOwing to the increasing proofs of Dutch merchants endeavouring to evade the neutrality regulations, the Government is considering the advisability of ...
Article : 88 wordsThe generosity and patriotism of Queensland citizens was manifested again on Saturday and yesterday, when further substantial' donations were made to the ...
Article : 1,267 wordsIt is officially stated that lighting has commented with the German troops on the Sopock line, to the south-eastward of Suwalki, in Russian Poland, near the ...
Article : 44 wordsA meeting of the Conservative Party passed a resolution in favour of war. Only the Clerieal and Socialists oppose the idea of war. The leading newspapers ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is officially stated that the Australians have fallen back to the west, and are utilising largely the railways to Cracow The Russians have occupied Turka, in ...
Article : 37 words" Il Secolo " reports a conflict between the king of Roumania and his Ministers. The King, actuated by family lies with the llohenzollerns addressed the Crown ...
Article : 134 wordsIn response to an offer from Rhodesia of a crops for the Expeditionary Force, the Imperial Government has cabled its thanks, and suggested that the contingent ...
Article : 39 wordsLord Desborough and influential business men in London are forming a league for the purpose of handing over to Britain's Allies all the trade diverted ...
Article : 51 wordsA message from A Vienna states that the Russians have occupied the greater part of the town of Przemysl, forcing the Austrians to shelter on the eastern fronts, ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Minister for Defence has received the following messages from the High Commissioner in London:— London, September 25, 12.15 p.m.— ...
Article : 152 wordsAn interesting display of physical culture was given in the Alibert Hall on Saturday by the pupils of Miss Dorothy Brockway, M.G.T.I., in aid of the ...
Article : 264 wordsAt the inquist on the body of General de [?], Rey both the police and civilians gave evidence that tht challenge of the police was discharged by the deceased ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Hesvik struck a mine in the North Sea. Two of her crew were killed. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Prize Court hass ordered the sale by auction of the first five of the enemy's captured ships on October 7 The proceeds of the sales of captured grain to ...
Article : 43 wordsDuring one of the engagements in Galicia the Russians lured the Austrians on to cross a small river. When the bridge over the river was crowded with ...
Article : 92 wordsA message from Trieste states that the. Austrian steamer Baron Gautseh, 2069 tons, has also struck a mine and sunk in the Adriatic. ...
Article : 32 wordsA telegram from Bucharest, announces that the first Roumanian army corps is directed against the Austrian frontier. The mobilisation of 200,000 men is nearly ...
Article : 37 wordsLord Kitchener has accepted the Lord Rectorship of Edinburgh University. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph," in its naval report, quotes it letter from Dr. William Lloyd to the effect that many trawlers captured in the North Sea were fitted ...
Article : 103 wordsThe King and Queen, accompanied by Lord Kitchener, made a day's tour at Aldershot, and inspected 130,000 men of the new army. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe wireless operator of the cruiser Cressy states that after the disaster in the North Sea there were many instances of heroism. One seaman, a splendid ...
Article : 150 wordsIt is understood that the Russian Government, has withdrawn the prohibition on the export of grain, as enormous supplies of grain are now in sight. ...
Article : 32 wordsAfter the withdrawal of the Russians from East Prussia, the Germans, approached the frontier town of Wirballen. The Russians occupying the trenches ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Minister for Defence has received a cable message from Messrs. Vickers Ltd., builders of the lost submarine AEI, expressing great regret that so many ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Milne, on behalf of the Board of Trade, has collected 430 samples of foreign hardware, hollowware, and aluminium goods, mostly German and Austrian, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) at the Mansion House, Dublin, had a great ovation when addressing a recruiting meeting. He came, he said, to summon ...
Article : 582 wordsA German steamer brought into port, 18 officers and 292 men belonging to the German auxiliary cruiser Cap Tratalgar. which was sunk by the,British auxiliary ...
Article : 39 wordsSpeaking on the occasion of the opening of the now Roman Catholic Church at Helidon yesterday, his Grace Archbishop Duhig deplored the fact that the ...
Article : 291 wordsWhent has declined on favourable weather reports. The quotation for September wheat is 107 cents, per bushel, and December 110½. ...
Article : 204 wordsMr. C. E. W. Bean, a leader-writer on the staff of the "Sydney Morning Herald," has been appointed, Senator Pearce announced yesterday, as ...
Article : 95 wordsPresident Wilson declares that he will ask for the removal of diplomatic representatives who are guilty of any indiscretions. ...
Article : 165 wordsMaxime Gorky, the well-known Russian novelist, has written to a friend at Capri stating, "I am unable to return, as when my countrymen are fighting for ...
Article : 43 wordsThe following cablegram has been received from the High Commissioner:— "London, September 25, 12.50 p.m.—The Admiralty announces that the number of ...
Article : 45 wordsVladimer Bourtzeff, the famous revolutionary, in an interview, stated, that Liberalism in Russia was stronger even than the Government and they must ...
Article : 63 wordsTwenty of the sailors reseued from the three sunken cruisers have started for England, and the others will follow at short intervals. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe following account of the taking of Narau (an abbreviated reference to which has already been made in the "Courier") appeared in last Monday's ...
Article : 265 wordsThe Minister for Defence has received the following message from, the High Commissioner' in London (Sir George Reid):— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,920 wordsPrince Ranjitsinhji (Maharajah of Nawanagar) has placed his resources at the disposal of the Empire, and has promised to maintain 1000 men to ...
Article : 46 wordsDr. Derby and Mrs. Derby (formerly Miss Ethel Roosevelt) have sailed for France to assist the American ambulance in Paris. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is officially stated that the Russians repulsed the German vanguard at Suwnlki, a Russian town close to the border of East Prussia, and were also ...
Article : 66 wordsLast Thursday the social gatherings arranged by the congregation of St. Mary's, Kangaroo Point, for the benefit of the naval men now' on active service ...
Article : 98 wordsGerman despatches show that the success of the war loan raised by Germany was due to the Government attaching '25 per cent, of all bank balances, forcing ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Viceroy of India has accepted the gift of 60 lakhs of rupees (about £400,000) from the Nizam of Hyderabad to defray, the entire overseas expenses of ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Frankfurter Zeitung" reports that the famous violinist Kreisler, who is a lieutenant in the Landsturm, was ...
Article : 33 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette," commenting on the capture of German New Guinea and the official reports of the magnificent Australian contingents, says: "London ...
Article : 45 wordsSince the war broke out and there was a call for Australian volunteers 204 men of all grades of the Queensland public service, including the railways, have ...
Article : 34 wordsAustrian strategists belived that the fortified position of Jaroslav, which was captured by the Russians earlier in the week, was impregnable from the River ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Japanese have occupied the Skantung Railway up to Weihisir, and the town of Faugtse. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. W. H. East, who has been assistant secretary of the Y.M.C.A. for the past nine months, and who is now a gunner in the Expeditionary Force, was ...
Article : 270 wordsInquiries having been frequently made of the Department of External Affairs about remitting money to Australians stranded in Germany, the High ...
Article : 116 wordsEnslin's Horse, which is a Dutch irregular corps, volunteered en masse in response to the call of General Botha. It is officially announced that a ...
Article : 113 wordsGerman forces have been conveyed from Aix-la-Chapelle to the cast and south of Antwerp. Belgian soldiers dynamited the railway ...
Article : 44 wordsThe abandonment of Semlin by the Servians was due to their determination to devote the whole of their strength to the occupying of the Bosnian railways. ...
Article : 137 wordsTwenty members of the original committee of the Irish Nationalist Volunteers identified with the Sinn Fein have issued a manifesto repudiating ...
Article : 150 wordsKing Albert of Behrium pays daily visits to the firing line and the Queen is very active in missions of mercy. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe State Government's proposal to impose a 10 per cent reduction on salaries of civil servants in receipt of over £200 a year on account of the war is resented ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Belgian Mission has paid a brief visit here. They stated that Belgium was too clear to the Belgians to permit of any general emigration to Canada, despite the ...
Article : 44 wordsA semblance of a mutiny occurred among the prisoners of war interned on the Roberts Heights, but it subsided before any violence became necessary. ...
Article : 50 wordsAlong the frontier near Solvignano the Austrians are posting field and mountain batteries in the expectation of an Italian invasion of Istria. ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is officially, admitted in Vienna that the French fleel bombarded Lissa, the chief town of the island of that name, off the coast of Dalmatia, inflicting some ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Recruiting Committees which are organising General Botha's additional force are shaping, well. The force provides a much desired opening for ...
Article : 69 wordsThe citizens were given an opportunity yesterday afternoon of seeing something of the result of the training given to the members, of the Western Australian quota ...
Article : 122 wordsIn regard to the manifesto issued by 20 members of the original committee of the Irish Nationalist Volunteers identified with the Sinn Fein movement, Mr. John ...
Article : 68 wordsRober Polischenaky, son of an Austrian General, was arrested on landing from an Algeciras steamer, and has been committed for trial on the charge of being ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is officially reported that a force of 200 Germans captured the police post at Rietfontein, on the border between German South-west Africa and ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Canadian newspapers are flooded with anti-British reports, apparently emanating from the Bernstoff special war agency. Numbers of American papers were ...
Article : 92 wordsThe "Messagero" states that the Allied fleets have resumed the bombardment of cattaro, a fortified seaport in Dalmatia (Austia), and have dismantled the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Ulster army for foreign service numbers 16,524 Major-General Powell will be in command, with Captain J. Carig, M.P., as assistant ...
Article : 39 wordsReports from Broome state that the war has greatly injured the pearling industry. Berlin, Paris, and Vienna were the chid markets for the shell, and the ...
Article : 83 wordsSir,—Some persons are [?] on the fact that only one band accompanied our soldiers in last Saturday's match. I am proud to think that I and others went ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. Laloyd George, addressing a recruiting meeting at Criccieth, in Wales, said that 14 years ago he had stood on the same platform and opposed the South ...
Article : 182 wordsThe "Messagero" states that notwithstanding the frequent hangings of Slavs, the Bohemians continue their agitation for separation from Austria. ...
Article : 30 wordsA meeting of German residents at Katanning passed a resolution of loyalty and fidelity to the King and Empire as naturalised subjects or Australian born. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 28 Sep 1914, Page 7
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