An Austrian communique states Severe fighting is taking place on the lower Pulwa, the enemy stubbornly defending every inch. The Italians suffered severe ...
Article : 67 wordsPrivate advices from Berlin state that the struggle at Brest Litovsk is developing into a big battle, extending along the wholee lin.e The Russians are constantly ...
Article : 142 wordsLess than £500 remains to be subscribed to the "Courier" Patriotic Funds to see the £100,000 mark reached, and a few of our good days would see this highly ...
Article : 1,049 wordsForty South African volunteers have arrived. Most of them participated in the recently concluded operations in German South-west Africa, and all are eager to ...
Article : 45 wordsYesterday the number of men who offered their services in the Empire's cause was 173, and 137 were accepted, 36 failing to pass the doctor. At the ...
Article : 188 wordsIt is stated officially that M. Ribot, the French Minister for Finance, and Mr. M'Kenna, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, met at Boulogue on Saturday ...
Article : 113 wordsA labour Congress, attended by delegates from all parts of the Union, met to-day, and after uproarious proceedings, adopted a resolution, ...
Article : 144 wordsWar with Turkey is enthusiastically approved throughout Italy. General Cadorna's army received the news of the declaration with frantic hurrahs, and the ...
Article : 111 wordsMrs. H. G. Hinton, widow of the late Lieutenant Hinton, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Mahony, Sandgate, has received many letters and telegrams of ...
Article : 156 wordsA member of the 10th—15th Battalion writes thus from Fraser's Hill camp:- "With all the appeals at the present time before the public, we fully recognise ...
Article : 108 wordsLord Esher, in the course of a letter to the "Glasgow Herald," says "We are all actors in a great tragedy." He urges the rich to abandon all profits derived from ...
Article : 164 wordsMr. Cyril Donkin, youngest son of Mr. Henry Donkin (Consul for Belgium) enlisted yesterday, and hopes shortly t[?] proceed to the Front. ...
Article : 29 wordsFive more recruits have left here to join the Expeditionary Forces at Enog[?] gera—Messrs, J Nicholson, V. G[?]ll, Geo[?] Mystrom, I Isgar, and J. Meeds. Mr. ...
Article : 471 wordsA British submarine torpedoed the Turkish coal ship Espatan near Constantinople. The German liner Tenedos, which was ...
Article : 45 wordsThe steamship Vida is being fitted up for the transfer of the dead from the lost British submarine E13 to Hull. Numerous wreaths have been sent. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Commonwealth Statistician intima[?]ed to-day that the war census would be taken from September 6 to September 15 inclusive. ...
Article : 34 wordsSome time ago the Mayor of Charleville (Aldorman H. J. Carter) forwarded to the office of the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) a cablegram ...
Article : 189 wordsHostile demonstrations were made outside several German shops and residences last night, and considerable damage was caused. A Jeweller in High-street, ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. J. Hodge, Labour M.P. for the Gorton division ol Lancashire, announces that the question of compulsory service will be thoroughly discussed at the Trade ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is neely rumoured in Bellin that the position of the Tinks is becoming desperate owing to the shortage of ammunition, and a collapse of the defence is ...
Article : 51 wordsThe liner Diomed, 4072 tons, belonging to Messrs. Scott and Co., Greenock, has been sunk. The captain of the Diomed and two ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. J. Hodge, Labour M.P., visited France, antl visited the Trade Union and Socialist leaders there. He allayed their fears regarding the attitude of British ...
Article : 55 wordsThe correspondent of the "Temps" at Dedeagatch states that at the last meet0 ing of the Turkish Cabinet under the Grand Vizier hard words were exchanged ...
Article : 143 wordsAt the conclusion of the assault case in the Police Court yesterday Mr. W. Harris, P.M., said that it was only right that all people should understand that if ...
Article : 402 wordsMessages from Berlin indicate that German official spokesmen, seeking to allay American irritation suggest that the White Star liner Arabic struck a mine, ...
Article : 512 wordsAn official communique states: The situation at Riga on land is unchanged. We held up the enemy's offensive on the Kovarsk-Wilkomir-Kooledary front, and ...
Article : 85 wordsEarly in July a cablegram was received from the High Commissioner in London to the effect that Surgeon-General Keogh, Director-General of the British Medical ...
Article : 351 wordsThe control of the Woolwich Arsenal has now passed from the War Office to the Ministry of Munitions. ...
Article : 29 wordsThirty thousand enemy aliens have now been interned in Great Britain. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Germans subjected the first captured fort at Kovno to a bombardment by 600 guns. Shells destroyed the [?]cade of the Cathedral. Three Zeppelins and 30 ...
Article : 116 wordsITt is reported that the fires which occurred at Constantinople in the early part of the month, when 1000 buildings were destroyed, were due to bombs ...
Article : 42 wordsAn official communiqua issued to-day, states: We captured several trenches on the Linge and Barrenkopf crests. Our aeroplanes bombarded the railway stations ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is officially announced that the promised decisions of Mr. Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, upon various deferred points connected ...
Article : 151 wordsRussian warships again destroyed the Turkish coaling stations and fortifications on the coast of Anatolia after their reconstruction, and also sank several ...
Article : 44 wordsThe drafting-room of the Department of Public Works witnessed a pleasant ceremony on Monday afternoon, when the opportunity was taken of ...
Article : 125 wordsA German communique states: Early on Monday morning an enemy fleet of 40 vessels appeared off Zeebrugge, and disappeared in a norht-easterly direction ...
Article : 102 wordsA German communique states: General von Eichorn's troops are advancing east and south of Kovno. We occupied the foretress of Ossowice, which the ...
Article : 110 wordsRoumania has ordered all railway material, from September 14, to be placed at the disposal of the Government. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is officially stated th it the Government has gratefully accepted the offer of the Transvaal Coal Owners' Association, on behalf of the Witbank Collieries, of ...
Article : 51 wordsA remarkable speech on "Some Aspects of the War" was given by Mr. Frank Brennan, M.H.R., in the Fitzroy Town Hall last night. The me[?]ing had been ...
Article : 451 wordsM. Venezelos, the new Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs in Greece, to-day announced the personnel of his Cabinet. General Danglis has accepted ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is announced officially that two French torpedo boats sunk a German destroyer off Ostend on Sunday night, after a fight in which the French torpedo boats ...
Article : 44 wordsSeveral letters having reached the "Courier" regarding the necessity for airing blankets at the Enoggera camp, the matter was referred to the military ...
Article : 115 wordsThe following official naval report has been issued:—On 16th instant the enemy renewed his attacks on out positions at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga. Taking ...
Article : 378 wordsThe wheat market is dull and weaker, in sympathy with the decline in America and Canada. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Minister for Defence stated this afternoon that he was convening a conference of the Federal and State Munitions Committees for Monday to make ...
Article : 76 wordsGeneral von Falbeck has ordered that equipment must not be abandoned on the battlefield, and helmets must not be placed on the graves of soldiers. The tunics ...
Article : 56 wordsVictoria Crosses in recognition of conspicuous bravery have been conferred upon the following:- Captain Paul Butler of the Gold Coast ...
Article : 342 wordsCHAPLAIN-COLONEL G. E. ROWE AND PRIVATE FRANK DOWNES, the blind soldier from Gallipoli, who will arrive in Brisbane by the Sydney Express to-morrow (Thursday) night. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsThe Casino Show Society has placed its grounds at the service of the military deparment for a camp if desired. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe remains of the Zeppelin winch was destroyed after taking part in the raid on the south-east coast of England on the 9th instant have passed Bruges on the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Commonwealth Treasurer has approved of the establishment of registries for the inscription of stock, Commenwealth war loan, at the capital cities of ...
Article : 212 wordsTo-day proved another brisk day as regards recruiting for the Expeditionary Forces. The number of men accepted at the metropolitan depots was 370. ...
Article : 31 wordsTo-day's recruiting figures were Volunteered 171, accepted 120. ...
Article : 15 wordsCanadian prisoners in Germany have been placed on reduced rations in consequence of the allegation that the Germans interned at Amherst, Nova Scotia, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe 11th Reinforcements of the 5th L.H. Regiment thank Mrs. Pyne, of Cloyne station, for her kindness in donating a trumpet, which has been greatly ...
Article : 34 wordsAn alleged deserter named Eric Hughes, going under another name, was ni rested last evening by the local police and remanded to Brisbane. Hughes is ...
Article : 54 wordsThe American Association of Commerce whose reports regarding Germany have hitherto been optimistic, has changed its tone. The reports now disclose that ...
Article : 77 wordsLieut.-Colonel Canon Gurland, organising secretar) to the Queensland Recruiting Committee, states that as a result of his inquiries he finds that the dentists in ...
Article : 198 wordsIt has been decided to thoroughly reorganise the audit work of the Defence Department. Colonel J. B. Laing, on his return from his special mission to Egypt, ...
Article : 130 wordsTwo parcels of books were sent in by Miss Bessied Batzlaff, Bulimba, and one parcel was received from Mrs. W. Ferguson, Cleveland. ...
Article : 29 wordsWilliam Tucker, a corporal in the Expeditionary Forces, was charged at the Seymour Sessions to-day with having on July 17, at Seymour, feloniously killed ...
Article : 115 wordsThe "Handelsblad" states that five British battleships bombarded Zeebrugge Harbour with good effect. The "Telegraaf" states: The German ...
Article : 310 wordsThe German birth rate has decreased by 25 per cent. since the beginning of the war. Copying Dep., strictly private. ...
Article : 49 wordsA member of the A.M.C. makes the following appeal: "Seeing through your columns that you do a great deal towards helping to procure comforts for the ...
Article : 325 wordsTwo trainloads of Australian and New Zealand wounded have arrived in London. Some of the wounded men took part in the battle in Gallipoll on August 8. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 25 Aug 1915, Page 7
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