The following official communique was issued to-day: The British have captured a small wood at Wyteschaeto, in West Flanders. We have retained the ...
Article : 189 wordsAn official communiue states: Our success in the Mlawa region has been maintained. Large German forces are concentrating on the left bank of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,011 wordsMr. H. T. Mac[?]lane (ex-Police Magistrate) continued in the Executive Buildings yesterday an inquiry into certain circumstances which arose on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsCommander Stirling, of the Atlantic submarine flotilla, questioned by the Naval Investigation Committee, stated that a large and mobile army was required to ...
Article : 115 wordsMessrs. Harland and Company, steamship brokers, in a letter to the "Morning Post," state that it is understood that a group of financiers have much considered ...
Article : 95 wordsConstable M. Hart, of the local police force, who has joined, the Australian Expeditionary Force, left here to-day to go into camp at Enoggera. Last night, ...
Article : 74 wordsA communique admits that the German column advancing via Mlawa was forced to occupy its former position owing to superior Russian forces. ...
Article : 31 wordsA communique states: Our offensive south-east of Valjevo (47 miles south of Belgrade) encountered the enemy in far superior numbers, necessitating the ...
Article : 125 wordsTenders have been received for the construction of eight new submarines. The specifications provide for a surface speed of 21 Knots, and when submerged ...
Article : 56 wordsPrivate Stanley P. Evans, of Coorparoo, who is at present with the 15th Infantry (Queenslanders), at Melbourne, on his way to the front, was yesterday ...
Article : 156 wordsFurther captures of isolated bands of rebels have been made at Conroy. The only important bodies of rebels still at large are in the Orange Free State. ...
Article : 40 wordsReports which the Government of India receive regularly from the provinces indicate that the internal situation continues satisfactory. Consequent on the ...
Article : 216 wordsThe financial conditions in the United States are now approaching the normal. Money is cheap, the reserves of the banks are abundant, trade is improving, ...
Article : 52 wordsFrequent revolts of Bohemian and Moravian troops have taken place. In several cases the troops refused to fire. A Bohemian battalion refused for two ...
Article : 54 wordsThe newspapers publish the thanks of Major-General Sir Henry S. Rawlinson and Major-General Byng to the Seventh Infanliy and Third Cavalry divisions for ...
Article : 101 wordsThe following message has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, under date London, December 15, 6.35 p.m.:— ...
Article : 102 wordsA draft of 100 horses for military purposes, purchased here by the Defence Department, left for Guyra yesterday, to be trucked to the Liverpool military ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 392 wordsThe chief object of the meeting of the Kings of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, to be held at Malmo on December 18, is to discuss the question of neutrality and the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Munich "Nachrichten" publishes a letter from Lieut. Eberlein, in which he boasts that he placed three Civilians in front of the German advance on Saint ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Dunkirk correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle states that a desperate three days 'battle at Ypres began with, the Genman bombardment of ...
Article : 259 wordsA Constantinople telegram states that the Khedive of Egypt attended the opening of the Turkish Parliament. The Sultan, in his speech, declared that when ...
Article : 90 wordsThe official report upon the explosion on the battleship Bulwark, in Sheerness Harbour, on the morning of November 20, which resulted in the ...
Article : 159 wordsNow that the German Pacific squadron has been destroyed, it is the intention of the Minister for Defence to reduce the garrison forces at present employed at ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Kaiser, in replying to a telegram from the President of the Reichstag with regard to the loss of the G[?]man warships off the Falkland Islands, no longer ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Italian Senate has unanimously voted the Cabinet complete political power to deal with the foreign situation, and also with financial measures. ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Heitmann, the Government Whip, gave notice to ask the Premier. If he is aware that the military censor seized the third ...
Article : 120 wordsThe General Superintendent of Sugar Experiment Stations (Mr. H. T. Easterby) has returned to Brisbane from a visit to the districts round Bundaberg. Of ...
Article : 456 wordsThe General commanding at Munster, in Westphalia, has made an appeal to the burghers to exchange gold for paper, in order to assist in the war ...
Article : 58 wordsThe attack by British submarine B[?] on the Turkish battleship Messudieh, when the latter was torpedoed and sunk, occurred off Nagara, a village and fort on ...
Article : 38 wordsThe camp of the Australian Expeditionary Force near the Pyramids presents a wonderful sight. There are eight miles of white tents, intersected by ...
Article : 76 wordsTwo British warships have recaptured the steamer Exford. [A cable message from Colombo under date October 30, stated: The captain and crew of ...
Article : 73 wordsA French aviator succeeded in setting file to a German train at Pagny-sur-Moselle Another airman, reconnoitring, saw the German trying submarine in the Bruges ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsThe Government Press Bureau has issued a statement that, after a period of quiet, fighting has recommenced in Northern Fiance. The Allies made a ...
Article : 64 wordsOf the three British aviators who were reported to have lost their way in a mist, and been blown out to sea, one has reached Holland. The others were picked ...
Article : 54 wordsA lengthy report from the Federal Commisson on Food Prices was presented to Parliament to-day. In connection with new sources of goods hitherto ...
Article : 237 wordsThe German steamer Rhakotuis has landed the crew of the British collier North Wales at Callao, in Peru. The North Wales was sunk by the German ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is announced that there are vacancies for 300 good riders and shots in the second detachment of King Edward's Horse, owing to the large number who have been granted ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Handelsblaad" states that Ostend has been without bread since last Monday week, and potatoes are the only food. Dairymen have to pay 10 francs ...
Article : 42 wordsThe official "Eye-witness" at the British headquarters in France, continning his narrative of events at the front, says: The weather is very wet, but ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Navy Department has learned officially that on the arrival at Guam, in the Marianne Islands, of the German converted cruiser Comorant, the commander ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Deputy Postmaster-General advises that notification has been received by his department to the effect that the British Government now permits the use ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Tinsley, an English directory, residing at Rotterdam, placed the Uranium Steamship Company's Hotel at the disposail of the municipality on the outbreak ...
Article : 171 wordsLord Kitchener has arranged for professional footballers who are joining the army to play until the end of the season. Thirty London professionals have joined ...
Article : 46 wordsLast Tuesday evening a large meeting of riflemen was held in the Gordon Hall, Sandgate, to elect officers and transact other business The Rev. A. Maxwell ...
Article : 118 wordsMajor Reginald Gauntlett Shuter, a Victorian, has been wounded in action. ...
Article : 17 wordsMartin Trojan, second officer of the steamer Thuringen, who is interned at Rottnest Island, Western Australia, writing to Berlin newspapers, acknowledges ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is officially announced that, subject to an emergency call for the supply of munitions for the Expeditionary Force, Lord Kitchener is closing the ordnance ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Germans at Vermelles collected the women and children in a school ground, in which they had placed machine guns. This put the French commander ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat till 1.30 this morning passing through Committee the Grain and Foodstuffs Bill, authorising the board to purchase or seize ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsThe board appointed to administer the Wheat Acquisition Act held its first meeting to-day. The proceedings were in camera. From statements subsequently ...
Article : 165 wordsSir,—Wheat, meat, butter, and cheese are the things the Empire wants now. And what is Queensland's capacity for raising them? It is limited only by the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe "Koclnische Zeitung" states that France, equally with Russia, rejected the proposal of the Pope for a truce extending over Christmas. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsSir Cecil Spring-Rice (British Ambassador at Washington) has notified the State Department that the British Government is willing to forego the right of ...
Article : 72 wordsThree hundred clerks and sorters have been sent to France to assist in dealing with the Christmas mails for the troops at the front. There have been streams ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "New York Times" publishes a seathing artical declaring that Germany is doomed to sure defeat. Germany is bankrupt in statesmanship, over-matched ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Fihelly asked the Home Secretary if it was a fact that a drill instructor in the police force, who ...
Article : 92 wordsA heavy cannonade is progressing between Armentieres and the nort-west of Lille, but the enemy have been obliged to withdraw their guns to a ...
Article : 78 wordsAt a meeting of the Dalby Patriotic Committee held last night, Mr. Victor Drury in the chair, it was decided to send £200 worth of foodstuffs for ...
Article : 168 wordsPresident Wilson has agreed to the despatch of warships to Panama to guard against any breach of neutrality in the Panama Canal Zone. Colonel ...
Article : 115 wordsThe War Office announces that no further voluntary hospitals whatever are required at present for the British Expeditionary Force in France. Any ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 17 Dec 1914, Page 7
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