A Russian communique states: We repelled an attack in the Toboly region. Against our positions on the west bank of the Stokhod the enemy fired over 2000 ...
Article : 76 wordsThe declaration of war by Roumania constitutes an indictment of Austria and Germany as the makers of the war Roumania foresces territorial and political ...
Article : 660 wordsIt is officially announced that there are no developments on the British Fronts on the Struma and at Do[?]n, in Macedonia. ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. A. Fisher, High Commissioner for Australia, gave a farewell dinner to-night to the Australian Parliamentary delegates at the Hotel Cecil. The guests included ...
Article : 655 wordsBusiness is still progressing briskly at the rooms for the Christmas Box Fund for our Queensland boys at the Front, and the secretary is having a busy time ...
Article : 802 wordsThe new war proposals of the Commonwealth Government, as announced by Mr. Hughes in the House of Representatives, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 345 wordsA German communique states: We repulsed feeble Russian attacks northward of the D[?]iester. Fighting is occurring in the Carpathians with the Russian ...
Article : 34 wordsThe military authorities have established a motor car service between Petrograd and Archanged to supplement the service by the railway. ...
Article : 29 wordsA Russian communique states: We are advancing on the Lake Van Front, in Armenia, driving out the Turks, whose attacks were repelled. One of our ...
Article : 52 wordsMessages from Bucharest state that the King of Bulgaria has left Sofia for Vienna. Prince Boris, heir to the Bulgarian throne, has become Russoph[?] ...
Article : 130 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief in France, reports: Minor enterprises are gradually consolidating our gains between the western outskirts of ...
Article : 159 wordsAn Italian official message says: Along the whole front on Monday the troops cheered the entry of Roumania into the war. The enemy replied with ...
Article : 106 wordsThe latest developments in Commonwealth affairs as regards defence will be discussed at a special meeting of the Political Labour League Executive to be ...
Article : 71 wordsA meeting of the committee of the Residential Club for Returned Soldiers and Sailors was held in the Town Hall yesterday morning. Mrs. T. Wilson presided, ...
Article : 231 wordsA wireless message states that serious events are reported from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, many Turkish and German officers having been assassinated. ...
Article : 57 wordsOn the occasion of the declaration of war by Italy against Germany, Viscount Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) telegraphed to Baron Sonnino ...
Article : 71 wordsThe State Premier (Mr. Holman) said to-night: "This is the moment for supporting the Government de facto. Mr. Hughes is in a frightfully difficult ...
Article : 236 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, correspondent with the British Headquarters in France, in the London "Daily Chronicle," tells the dramatic story of the repulse of the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Company's correspondent at Copenhagen states that German diplomatists expect Greece to enter the war shortly. Many Gre[?]ks ...
Article : 128 wordsIt is understood that President Wilson is considering the question of asking the authority of Congress to draft men for the military operation of the railways in ...
Article : 345 wordsMrs. L. G. Dixon, Irving-street, Auche[?]flower, has received a cablegram from [?] son, 2nd Lieut. W. S. Dixon, notifying his sale arrival in London, "all ...
Article : 718 wordsMr. Josiah Thomas has been spending a few days in Cornwall, but upon learning that his son had been killed at the Front he ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Premier of Tasmania (Mr. J. H. Lee), interviewed to-night regarding Mr. Hughes's pronouncement, expressed great surprise and disappointment. He had, ...
Article : 129 wordsIt is noteworthy that the German communique for August 27-28 pretends that violent French and British attacks were made and repulsed north of the Somme. ...
Article : 90 wordsA super-Zeppelin was blown away by a gale when passing Tordenck, in Belgium. It fell from a height of 2000ft. and exploded, and only debris and burned ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 308 wordsWith reference to the statement in the Australian newspapers of July 7, that the steamers purchased by Mr. Hughes were mainly manned by ...
Article : 78 wordsAn official communique, issued to-day, states: Our brisk evening operation south-east of the Thiaumont Work resulted in substantial gains of ground. German ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsA meeting promoted by the Universal Service League was held in the Albert Hall last night. Mr. Jno. P. Wilson, who presided, said that numbers of people had ...
Article : 1,188 wordsA German communique states: The English repeatedly attacked with considerable force between Thi—pval and Pozieres, but failed, with sanguinary ...
Article : 70 wordsThe "London Gazette" contains particulars regarding the Distinguished Service Order awarded to Captain Arthur James Peterson, of the Field ...
Article : 107 wordsRobert Fay, the German bomb plotter, who was serving a sentence of eight years' imprisonment, has escaped from prison. It is believed that he was ...
Article : 38 wordsHis Majesty King George telegraphed to King Ferdinand of Roumania: "It was with great satisfaction that the news of Roumania's entry into the war was ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Kaiser has appointed Marshal von Hindenburg as Chief of the General Staff in place of General von Falkenbayn, who has been dismissed. ...
Article : 29 wordsWe have to again bring under the notice of the generous subscribers to the "Courier" Patriotic Funds the fact that within the next few weeks 15 nurses from ...
Article : 185 wordsGerman currency is now at a discount of 26 per cent., this being the lowest since the commencement of the war. ...
Article : 29 wordsLieutenant R. Leary, of the York and Lancaster Regiment, and formerly of New Zealand, was killed in France on August 23. ...
Article : 34 wordsGertrude Aberton, who has returned from the French Front, states that the Prussian atrocities are indescribable, and beyond the power of the human mind ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. T. S. Gaffney, United States Consul at Munich, who was recalled owing to unneutral acts, has arrived in New York. Fellow passengers assert that ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is announced that Sir Horace Rumbold, who was Charge d' Affaires in Berlin at the time of the outbreak of the war, will succeed Mr. A. C. Grant-Duff as ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsEight civilians, 22 soldiers, and four policemen were killed at Dresden during the rioting in connection with the sentence on Herr Liebknecht, the Socialist ...
Article : 55 wordsMessages from Bucharest state that great consignments of munitions from England and France have arrived in Roumania, and the country is abundantly ...
Article : 33 wordsIt was stated in the Bankruptcy Court that the cocoa venture of Sandow, Limited, resulted in a loss of £30,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe police raided the offices of the "Kerryman" and "Liberator" newspapers at Tralee (county of Kerry, Ireland), and removed from publication certain ...
Article : 34 wordsOn Saturday, September 9th, the Brisbane Gymnasium is to hold the annual display in the Gymnasium Hall and the proceeds will be devoted to the funds of ...
Article : 163 wordsNews of the Roumanian intervention in the war reached the Somme on Monday, and aroused tremendous enthusiasm. The news was telephoned along the trench ...
Article : 62 wordsA message from Paris states that a rumour has been received from Spain that King Ludwig of Bavaria is dead. ...
Article : 29 wordsThere is a cheerful tone on the Stock Exchange, and all Government securities are firm. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe children at a Dublin school refused to attend because they were prohibited from wearing political badges. They attempted to briing out the children ...
Article : 54 wordsAn honour board of the North Pine State School will be unveiled in the School of Arts, North Pine, next Saturday, at 3 o'clock. On this board are ...
Article : 130 wordsThe representative in London of the "New York Times" has had an interview with an American who was recently in Germany. He states that there is ...
Article : 137 wordsThe wheat market is recovering from yesterday's slump, which was largely sentimental, but was also due to the continued rain in England and fears of a ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Russians are throwing pontoons across the Danube, at Reni, where the Roumanians have erected miles of landing stages, suggesting a powerful Russian ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Eden George, who has been at the Front for several months with an ambulance which he presented to France, is returning to Sydney, suffering from ...
Article : 34 wordsAn Austrian communique states: Our troops are fighting in all the passes on the Roumania frontier. The enemy subtained heavy losses, especially in the ...
Article : 66 wordsUnder the heading of miscellaneous gifts the following contributions were received yesterday:—Magazines or reading matter from Mrs. Norman Thomas, ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 31 Aug 1916, Page 7
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