General Smuts, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces operating in German East Africa, has occupied Tanga. The Press Bureau states that General ...
Article : 106 wordsThe boilermakers and shipwrights on the northeast coast have agreed to the dilution of labour similar to that carried out on the Clyde. The Admiralty has ...
Article : 54 wordsA Russian communique states: We are successfully advancing west of Platana, in the Caucasus, also south of the Taurus. At Pontique we captured an important ...
Article : 47 wordsOn June 24 a conference of local confidential committee was held in the Town Hall, Brisbane, under the auspices of the Queensland. Recruiting Committee, ...
Article : 1,816 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief in France, reports this afternoon: Severe fighting for the past 48 hours centred at Trones Wood, which is of ...
Article : 320 wordsThe French are now within three-quarters of a mile of Peronne. [Peronne is an important German head-quarters on the Western Front. The French ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 272 wordsA Turkish communique states: We attacked the Russians, and defeated them after a seven houns' fight near Sinekon, on the way to Hamadan. The Russians ...
Article : 70 wordsA United States officer who boarded the German submarine Deutschland, which has arrived at Baltimore, says that her papers show her gross tonnage ...
Article : 386 wordsA second German air raider on the coast of Kent dropped seven explosive bombs. A few windows were broken, but no casualties have been reported. ...
Article : 39 wordsAn Italian communique states: The enemy's attempted attack on Mount Seluggio, in the Trentino, was promptly checked by detachments of the Alpini, ...
Article : 60 wordsAt a meeting of the Air Committee, General Henderson, Director-General of Military Acronautics, replying to Mr. Pemberton Billing, denied that the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Italians have buried 10,000 corpses on the plateaux evacuated by the Austrians in the Eastern Trentino. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe difficulty regarding the registration of the new Commonwealth steamship line is largely due to the pressing urgency of the wheat ...
Article : 317 wordsAustria is withdrawing Hungarian troops from the Italian Front and substituting Croats and Poles, while despatching the Hungarians to Galicia. ...
Article : 27 wordsA special general meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association was held in the Albert Hall last night, when matters in connection with the proposed ...
Article : 178 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the well-known war correspondent, in describing the attack on Gontalmaison, says: The Germans were heavily sheiling Mamitz village, but ...
Article : 647 wordsA parcel was yesterday received from an anonymous source for "A Lonely Soldier," and a box of cigarettes for the troops from "A Friend." Mrs. A. Dow ...
Article : 37 wordsAn Austro-German military and diplomatic mission has arrived at Sofia. It is reported that it made an urgent demand for Bulgarian troops to rienforce the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe complete occupation of the Austrian province of Bukovina is announced. Civil organisation is progressing, and the entire region is provisioned with cercals ...
Article : 388 wordsOn Friday, July 21, the Brisbane Girls' Club will hold what will be known as Mascot Day, and many interesting features will be associated with this ...
Article : 191 wordsA party of 150 Bulgarian soldiers arrived at Florina from Monaster to surrender to General Sarrail, commander of the Allied forces in Macedonia. The Greek ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the new agreement between Russia and Japan is to some extent a joint declaration of the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe additions to the A.I.F. yesterday numbered 39, the recruits coming from the following centres:—Brisbane 14, Rockhampton 4, Toowoomba 4, Lismore 2, ...
Article : 52 wordsDetachments of Malissori at Podgoritza (Montenegro) and the environs of Scutari (Albania) revolted, and massacred the Austrian garrisons. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe supreme Court recently decided that Mrs. Hopkins could not claim the life insurance on her husband, who was drowned in the Lusitania, because he had ...
Article : 70 wordsThe members of the Brisbane Girls' Club continue to work untiringly in connection with the various movements which they are interested in to benefit ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. S. G. Smith, manager of the Bank of Australasia here, left for Sydney on Saturday to enter camp. Mr. Smith enlisted several months ago, but was ...
Article : 154 wordsSir Samuel Evans, in the Prize Court to-day, awarded the officers and crew of submarine E9 bounties of £1050 and £350 for sinking the German cruiser Hela and ...
Article : 55 wordsThe United States House of Representatives has passed the Revenue Bill, which provides for raising £40,000,000 a year, chiefly through an income tax. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Asquith made a statement on the Irish position. He said that Mr. Lloyd George consulted all sections in Ireland. Only ...
Article : 507 wordsThe drawing for the art unions run in connection with the Wistaria Fete, held recently, has taken place with the following results:—The nightdress which came ...
Article : 70 wordsLost Thursday's drill of the Coorparoo Rifle Club was a failure owing to the wet weather. This week the annual meeting will be held instead of the ...
Article : 337 wordsThe German raiding cruiser Moewe is being overhauled and refitted with heavier guns. Two other commerce raiders, the Adler and the Fuchs, are also ...
Article : 62 wordsFor some weeks little mention has been made of the 25th Battalion Comforts Fund, but that does not mean that those energetic ladies who have been working ...
Article : 178 wordsA send-off under the auspices of the Young Men's Patriotic League took place at Gleeson's Commercial Hotel on Saturday night, the guests being Messrs. S. ...
Article : 112 wordsA German communique states: Russian attacks on the Stokhod, west of Luck, and elsewhere, were all repulsed. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is semi-officialy reported that Germany has refused Austria's request for urgent assistance, alleging that the Austrian command is entirely responsible ...
Article : 37 wordsA sharp action betweem German and Russian patrolling squardrons took place in the Baltic, off Haefringe, on Sunday night. ...
Article : 28 wordsA German communique states: We repeatedly repulsed continuous attacks on both sides of the Somme, and ejected the enemy from ground temporaily ...
Article : 47 wordsColonel Gaedke, the German military critic, states that the German staff anticipated a British attack at the end of June or early in July. Germany ...
Article : 72 wordsIn Victoria to-day 88 men offered themselves for active service and 49 were accepted. ...
Article : 22 wordsA Russian communique states: A Russian submarine sank a large German steamer laden with iron ore in the Gulf of Bothnia. ...
Article : 28 wordsOn Monday afternoon, at Bell's Paddock Camp, Mr. Stark (of Messrs. Allan, and Stark) presented to the 14th Reinforcements of the 25th Battalion a ...
Article : 157 wordsThe correspondent of the "Morning Post" with the British Headquarters states:' It is rumoured that the Kaiser and his staff are directing the operations ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Anglo-French fighting on the Somme has temporarily deflected public attention from the Russian offensive, bus the latest news proves that it continues ...
Article : 410 wordsThe Minister for Defence announced to-night that Brigadier-General Sir Newton J. Moore had resigned his office as Agent-General for Western Australia to ...
Article : 82 wordsThe situation at the London docks is stated te be satisfactory, and is rapidly approaching the normal. Steamers arrive regularly, and cargoes are handled with ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says that an anxious note in the German comments on the West Front fighting is becoming ...
Article : 183 words"I strongly doubt whether the Germans, having their hands full at Peronne, will be able to get through at Verdun," said Mr. H. W. R. Holken in the course ...
Article : 322 wordsThe wool situation is easier on the eve of the opening of the London sales, and eleventh hour intervention by the Government is no longer feared. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Times" correspondent with the British Headquarters states that at one point the Germans allowed the British to recever their wounded. This, however, ...
Article : 78 wordsWheat is dearer, and the market firm, sellers being reserved. ...
Article : 15 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Southport Shire Council on Tuesday the secretary of the local Show Society wrote suggesting the advisability of securing ...
Article : 73 wordsIn a speech at Beecroft last night Mr. Joseph Cook (Leader of the Federal Liberal Party) said that the nation's need was now greater than ever. A ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is announced that Lord Montagu, of Beaulieu, has been appointed a permanent member of the War Committee. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Asquith said it was not proposed to trest the Irish prisoners who had been sentenced by court-martial as political ...
Article : 39 wordsWounded men narrate the death of a Brigadier-General. He was seen cheering the onrushing troops between the newly-captured German lines, when a big shell ...
Article : 99 wordsThe delegates from the Dominions Parliaments now in England, lunched to-day with the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. They will proceed next to Sheffield, and ...
Article : 57 wordsWattle Day was celebrated on Saturday. Sprigs of the bloom were sold in the street by a committee of young ladies— Misses Warneminde, Connell, and Gilbert. ...
Article : 120 wordsIn the House of Commons Lord Robert Cecil stated that the German reply to the protests regarding the treatment of British prisoners at Ruhleben denied that ...
Article : 59 wordsAll business and street traffic in Belfast will cease for five minutes from noon to-morrow as a tribute to the heroism of the Ulstermen on the Western Front last ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to-day it was unanimously resolved,— "That, in the opinion of this conference, ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Government has requisitioned all the potatoes in Jersey (one of the Channel Islands) which are not required to seed. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wed 12 Jul 1916, Page 7
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