A communique issued to-day states: We repulsed violent attacks by at least three battalious of the enemy near Four-de-Paris, inflicting heavy losses, and ...
Article : 206 words"Wait till we get in action!" If you bear it once, you bear it a hundred times a day; it is our stock expression. We look forward with a curious yearning to ...
Article : 1,204 wordsWhen the retreat from Mons was an almost accomplished fact the privates, at least, of the British, army thought that the war was over, that they had been ...
Article : 1,202 wordsThree German submarines chased the steamer Kirkham Abbey from Rotterdam towards Hull, for 90 minutes, on the Dutch coast. The steamer went full ...
Article : 44 wordsThe cable news to-day conveys the intelligence that Germany is reaching that stage when she cannot supply foodstuffs for the people. The aposties of ...
Article : 765 wordsThe steamer Navau, which brought back the remainder of the first Australian Expeditionary Force from the Pacific, reached Sydney to-day. A close medical ...
Article : 112 wordsA. J. Carvosso and L. R. Bliss, 7th Battery A.F.A., 3rd Brigade, Mena Camp, Cairo, Egypt, write to the "Courier"[?] "Will you kindly insert the enclosed ...
Article : 138 wordsThe British collier Dulwich, which was sunk off Cape Antifer, was torpedoed on a clear night, without warning. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe steamer Waipara arrived at Cairns last night from London, via ports. The vessel had between 300 and 350 immigrants. Interviewed on arrival, Captain ...
Article : 321 wordsThe German submarine U16 on Tuesday last blew up and sank the French steamer Ville de Lille, between Cherbourg and Dunkirk, giving the crew ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Denham) is in receipt of the following letter from the managing editor of the London "Daily Chronicle"- "Dear Sir,—I beg to tender my most ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Sir Edward Grey's reply to the American Note on the question of contraband of February 10 points out the nowadays trade and finance ...
Article : 1,030 wordsThe age of retirement of Major W. Mailer, D.A.Q.G., 1st military district, was at to-day's meeting of the Federal Executive extended for two years. ...
Article : 35 wordsA proclamation was issued to-day by His Excellency the Governor-General prohibiting the export of leather from Australia except by the permission of the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Archbishop of Brisbane (Dr. Donaldson), in St. John's Cathedral, yesterday afternoon, delivered the first of a series of four addresses on "Christian ...
Article : 758 wordsIntroduced by Mr. F. Brennan, M.H.R., a deputation waited upon the Minister tor Customs (Mr. Tudor) to-day with a request that the fodder duties should be ...
Article : 328 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Hon. Neil Primrose (Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs) announced that Great Britain had made strong representations ...
Article : 55 wordsA "Gazette" issued to-night devotes 27 pages to field-Marshal French's recommendations for gallant and distinguished services. About 3000 names are ...
Article : 31 wordsBishop Walravens, of Tournai, in Belgium, is dead, and the Berlin clergy assert that his death was hastened by German ill-treatment in compelling the bishop, ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. H. J. Tennant (Under Secretary for War) stated that there had beera 9175 cases of frostbite amongst the British troops up to January 24. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe eleventh report of the Belgian Commission, which was appointed to inquire into the atrocities committed by the Germans, givese details of outrages in the ...
Article : 74 wordsA debate on the question of food supplies took place in the House of Commons to-day. Mr. Runciman (President of the Board of Trade) stated that there was no ...
Article : 95 wordsA wireless message from Berlin states that Admiral Behneke informed the American naval attache that the stoppage of food supplies had forced Germany to a point ...
Article : 79 wordsAn official communique stales: Fighting on the right bank of the Vistula is proceeding with extreme desperation, but there have been only encounters of patrols ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Grain and Foodstuffs Board has made available a statement regarding the gristing and local distributing of seed. It has been decided by the board that ...
Article : 470 wordsThe Board of Trade has announced that compensation will be payable to all persons on British merchant ships who are injured owing to the present hostilities. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe State Governor (Sir Gerald Strickland) to-day signed the Royal assent to the Meat Supply for Imperial Uses Act. This new Act will remain dormant for ...
Article : 94 wordsThe wheat market in firm, but quiet. ...
Article : 14 wordsGermany has notified the United States that a state of strained relations exists between Germany and America. It is understood, however, that war is not ...
Article : 80 wordsThe trial of ex-General De Wet in connection with the rebellion in South Africa was continued to-day. A witness stated that General Bothe ...
Article : 106 wordsThere are from eight to ten German army corps in East Prussia. The Russians expected this mano[?]avre, and being outnumbered tenfold they retired betimes, ...
Article : 76 wordsThere is nothing, perhaps, that a shipmaster fears more than a le[?] shore in a gale of wind, and when, in addition to this grim danger, he is called on to ...
Article : 378 wordsIt has been felt by the members of the Queensland quota of the Australian Imperial Force that the interest of the people of Queensland would be maintained ...
Article : 357 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that the Kaiser was in the midst of the fighting line at the Masurian Lakes, in East Prussia, and only remnants of the ...
Article : 55 wordsAlthough they did not see any of the actual fighting, the passengers by the Orsova, which arrived this morning, experienced a very anxious time during the ...
Article : 172 wordsAn explosion destroyed a Zeppein at Fanoe Island, off the south-west coast of Jutland. The crew, numbering 16, has been interned in Denmark. ...
Article : 187 wordsThe case in which the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor is making an application for the confirmation of the appointment of Mr. H. B. Allard as receiver of ...
Article : 211 wordsFurther representations with regard to the early closing of hotels and the restriction of the sale of liquor to soldiers were made to the Premier (Sir Alexander ...
Article : 160 wordsMr. Martin Donohoe, war correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," witnessed the Austro-German attack on Czernowitz, the ...
Article : 218 wordsIt is officially announced in Berlin that Germany's reply to America is that the blockade declared by [?] ...
Article : 957 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Federal Executive new regulations were authorised with regard to the issue of passports. For the future applicants must submit to ...
Article : 82 wordsWhen the Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) a few days ago announced his decision with regard to certain applications to avoid or suspend enemy trade marks and ...
Article : 70 wordsForty British aviators who took part in the raid on Ostend and other places on the Belgian coast have returned safely. ...
Article : 32 wordsBetween August 28 and February 11 365 men from the Northern Rivers districts of New South Wales joined the infantry sections of the Expeditionary ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 19 Feb 1915, Page 7
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