Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: The Londoners successfully raided last night in the neighbourhood of Gavrelle, and several of the enemy ...
Article : 310 wordsA wireless Russian official message states: The enemy completely occupies the Oesel Island. We destroyed everything of military utility. The enemy ...
Article : 260 wordsMr. Gordon Gilmour (special correspondent of the Australian and New Zealand Press Associations at the Australian headquarters in Flanders) wires: ...
Article : 650 wordsThe Kaiser left Berlin on August 16 for the Front. I wrote to his Master of the Household saying that I wished an opportunity to be at the railway ...
Article : 2,010 wordsUrgent appeals, elequently uttered, were made by a number of speakers throughout Brisbane yesterday for men for Australia's depleted divisions at the ...
Article : 1,319 wordsGeneral contempt has greeted the reported extension of the U boat zone. Marine underwriters maintain their low rates of shipping, and shares have ...
Article : 127 wordsFollowing upon the conference in Bundaberg this week of influential business men and sugar growers, Mr. E. B. C. Corser, M.H.R., has been actively interesting ...
Article : 543 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that reports received by the State Department have convinced the officials that the war will end ...
Article : 74 wordsA German communique (picked up by wireless by the Admiralty) states: The captures hitherto at Oesel total 10,000 prisoners, only a few hundred escaping ...
Article : 124 wordsThe party under the leadership of Sir Wilfrid Laurier is organising throughout the Dominion. The elections have been tentatively fixed for December 17. The ...
Article : 57 wordsThe communique of Mr. N. D. Baker (United States Secretary for War) points out that the Alies are driving a wedge in the German front in Flanders, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 228 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the Queensland War Council on Monday, the Minister for Lands (Mr. Hunter) presiding, a report was presented by No. 1 ...
Article : 583 wordsA Golman warship was sunk in The Sound (between Denmark and Sweden), and a number of bodies of sailors have been washed ashore. ...
Article : 28 wordsOn receipt of the news that the strike was practically over and the boats resuming, the Palms, Pleystowe Homebush. Plane Creek, Cattle Creek, ...
Article : 70 wordsThere is a critical situation in Turkey. The Liberals are co-operating with the Old Turks openly, and gaining public support, rendering Enver Pasha's ...
Article : 62 wordsThe various steamship companies are getting their steamers under way now that the strike of seamen has ended. The A.U.S.N. Co. despatched the ...
Article : 150 wordsIt is reported here that a mutiny occurred on a German warship at Ostend. ...
Article : 25 wordsAn official message from Egypt states: The Arabs early in October successfully raided railway communications northward of Medina. ...
Article : 25 wordsLieutenant the Hon. Denis Buxton, of the Coldstream Guards, the only son and heir of the Governor-General of South Africa (Viscount Buxton), is reported as ...
Article : 50 wordsThe American fleet in American waters reports the wide cruising radius of the destroyers is compelling the U boats to make more lengthy submergings, and is ...
Article : 71 wordsOwners and breeders of racehorses have decided to request the Premier to allow a reasonable winter racing programme, and are asking Lord Derby (Secretary for ...
Article : 52 wordsA French communique at midnight stated North of Aisne our troops repuised an attack against Vauclere plateau. Artillery actions occurred in the Maisons ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that arrangements were in hand for the raising and despatch of additional reinforcements for railway ...
Article : 107 wordsThe last vestiges of the strike are disappearing. The wharf labourers are signing on in great numbers at the bureau, and seamen are also coming forward. The ...
Article : 244 wordsIn the House of Commons, Sir George Cave (Home Secretary) announced that the Government was prepared to introduce a scheme for the redistribution of ...
Article : 64 wordsThe national executive of the Labour Party has completed a new constitution, somewhat following the Australian methods. It proposes to retain the name, ...
Article : 75 wordsAustralians and New Zealanders participated in recent awards of honours, as follows:— Bar to the Military Cross.—Captain ...
Article : 95 wordsJohn Harris, who is said to have also gone under the name of Sulivan, was charged in the Adelaide Police Court to-day with having made statements likely ...
Article : 222 wordsThe National Conference of co-operative societies, which has been sitting in London, adopted a resolution in favour of closer unity between the co-operative and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe strike has ended after a general stoppage for 24 hours, the Government encouraging the men to hope that they will receive the wages asked. Anarchy ...
Article : 76 wordsAnswering a question in the House of Commons concerning the internment of Mr. Philip Alexius de Lombros Laszlo, Sir George Cave (Home Secretary) said ...
Article : 146 wordsMany of our readers may wonder who these Scottish women really are, the movement being comparatively new, if not unknown to most people here. They ...
Article : 280 wordsA French communique states: Enemy aeroplanes last evening again dropped bombs on Nancy, and there were a number of civilian victims. Six German aeroplanes ...
Article : 88 wordsHis Majesty the King visited the East End of London, and inspected the buildings proposed to be used as air raid shelters. His Majesty entered a secondary ...
Article : 80 wordsAlthough the members of the Seamen's Union did not apply for re-employment this morning in a body there were several enrolments of unionists through ...
Article : 349 wordsPrivate L. H. Thompson, who had been a member of the 27th Battalion, was found dead on the Gleneig-road, with two bullet wounds in the region of the heart. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that Major General Harry T Brooking, C. B., has been appointed to the Order of St. Michael and St. George in recognition of his services in ...
Article : 66 wordsThe butter shortage is acute, and the price quoted is 450/ per cwt. About 42,000 boxes of New Zealand butter has arrived in London. It met with the ...
Article : 144 wordsIt is officially announced that the United States will be represented at the forthcoming Allied Council in Paris. ...
Article : 25 wordsA successful euchre tournament and musical evening was given by Mr. Vic. Jensen and his staff last evening at the residence of Mrs. Vic. Jensen, ...
Article : 146 wordsThe weather for "Our Day" was bright and sunny The selling of flags commenced at 5 o'clock in the morning, when a brisk trade took place at Covent Garden. ...
Article : 86 wordsTwo pounds of cyanide of potassium was found in one of the United States aviation camps, and a plot to poison 600 student aviators is suspected. It is ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Albert Hall, Rosalie, was filled to overflowing last evening when a welcome home was extended by the Rosalie-Milton Improvement Association to some 21 men ...
Article : 140 wordsIn the House of Commons. Mr. J. I. Macpherson (Under Secretary for War) said that a despatch concerning the operations in the Salonica region has ...
Article : 73 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Times" has had an interview with a high naval authority, who said that Germany is weakening the crews of her ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsArthur Gordon, a temporary clerk in the military pay office, Victoria Barracks, was remanded to-day on a charge of forging the pay sheet of the ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. A. Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) has inspected two advanced schools for aviators, where 400 Australian flyers are completing their instruction. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 20 Oct 1917, Page 5
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