The Admiralty has issued the following account of the operations at Ostend. It is dated Dunkirk, May 11, and states: The Sirius was lying in the surf some ...
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Article : 147 wordsThere were no developments yesterday at the Soldiers' Industrial Institute, but the deadlock continues. One interesting phase of the day's wait—that is now the ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, a member of the War Cabinet, speaking at the Central Hall, Westminster, said the Government was not indifferent to peace, but ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. J. B. Charlton (Charlton and Elliott) has sent to the "Courier" his oheque for £250, to hold in trust for presentation to the first Queensland recruit ...
Article : 136 wordsA German communique relating to the Austro-German Conference, especally with reference to the contractual agreements, is generally interpreted in London ...
Article : 228 wordsRecently the Attorney-General announced that the Parliamentary draftsman and Assistant Crown Solicitor (Mr. A. J. Hannan) had offered to enlist, but that ...
Article : 100 wordsAn Italian official message says: Hostile attempts to renew attacks on Monte Corne failed. Eleven hostile aeroplanes were brought down. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" has appointed Major-General Mourice its military correspondent, and he has contributed an article adhering to the statements ...
Article : 666 wordsA recrniting rally held in the South Brisbane City Hall last night was attended to an extent far from commensurate with the serious importance of the ...
Article : 1,029 wordsMr. Hardacre said yesterday that until reports from the experts came in he had nothing further to announce in connection with the future of the ...
Article : 413 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Plant has received official notice that his youngest son, Major E.C.P. Plant, D.S.O., (and bar), has been specially memtioned in Sir ...
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Article : 83 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in a report issued this evening, states: After heavy artillery preparation the enemy attacked on a mile front south-westward of Morlancourt, and ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "New York Globe" interviewed a Dutch traveller from Germany, who says that bitter hatred of Austria is growing in ...
Article : 94 wordsThe trial in connection with the "Bonnet Rouge" newspaper had been tame up to to-day, when suddenly the court became crowded on the report being ...
Article : 172 wordsA French communique states: There was a fairly lively artillery duel in the sectors of Butte du Mesnil, the Champagne, and the Vosges. ...
Article : 101 wordsSerious trouble has occurred at Smichow, near Prague, in Bohemia, Several hundred women on Sunday made a demonstration outside the burgomaster's ...
Article : 102 wordsReferring to the Australians' successful counter-attack at Morlancourt, Mr. Philip Gibbs (the war correspondent of the "Dally Chronicle")says: The biter was ...
Article : 119 wordsReports from Liege states that the troops are arriving westwards from Roumania, and include cavalry. ...
Article : 26 wordsLord Newton (Assistant Under Sceretary for Foreign Affairs) announced in the House of Lords that France and Germany had agreed upon an equal ...
Article : 139 wordsThe House of Commons has passed the second reading of the Soldiers' Small Holdings Bill for the purchasing of 60,000 acres of land in England and 20,000 acres ...
Article : 49 wordsA wireless Russian offical message says: The Foreign Commissary has sent a message to the German Government calling attention to the terrible position of ...
Article : 226 wordsThe men who were working and receiving tuition at the Soldiers' Industrial Institute stopped work on Tuesday of last week, and since that time have been ...
Article : 309 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph's correspondent at Paris says: The enemy's concentration is principally at three points, viz., from the North Sea to ...
Article : 123 wordsAfter negotiations all day the Johannesburg Council Committee, subject to the confirmation by the Full Council, conceded the full demands of the men by a ...
Article : 38 wordsOfficials are puzzled at the statement from Ottawa attributed to the British Cabinet regarding the utilisation of the American forces. ...
Article : 128 wordsIt transpired durinng a debate in the House of Commons that Great Britain has already paid 23.3 per cent, of her total war costs to date. ...
Article : 39 wordsColonel Sir Arthur Stamfordham, private secretary to the King. has written to the Lord Mayor of London, stating that their Majesties have been much touched ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs reports: The Sonune battlefields are again a quagmire, following heavy rain. The Germans are experiencing the difficulties our men had in ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. W. Long, Secretary of State for the Colonies, introduced a Bill in the House of Commons to improve the existing organisation affording ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Ministet for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that whilst the Government has not been able, for reasons which have been explained at ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Moscow correspondent of the "Popolo Romano" says that of a million square kilometres of grain lands in Ukraine onlyl 50,000 kilometres were ...
Article : 106 wordsThe American Labour delegation, which has been visiting the destroyed regions in Northern France, has returned, and has passed a resolution setting out that ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Government has taken further steps to prevent men of the military age from going to Ireland—a thing which has been a public scandal for a long time ...
Article : 38 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported at midnight: We successfully raided north-eastward of Robecq and took a few prisoners. We suffered no ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) announced to-day that the British Government had advised that the American shipping authorities were anxious that all ...
Article : 103 wordsThe death has occurred, in the Kensington military hospital, of Major-General Davies, of the Australian Force. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in a report dealing with the operations of the Flying Corps. says: for only a few hours was flying possible on Monday but a great deal of ...
Article : 60 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the "New York Herald." Mr. Bennett has been in control of the "Herald" since the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Siberian Cossack movement under Colonel Semenoff, is meeting with considerable support in Trans-Baikalia. The Bolshevik force has retreated to Chita, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" says that there is much, speculation as to the reason for the continued delay in the resumption of the ...
Article : 140 wordsLieutenant Findley, of the 41st Battalion, who saw service in France, and has been sucessively recruiting officer in Toowoomba and Brisbane, will succeed Lieut. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe War Office announces the award of a special certificate of honour called "The King's Certificate on Discharge" to all ranks, except officers of the ...
Article : 112 wordsIt is understood that Great Britain has promised provisionally to acknowledge the independence of Finland until the final peace conference on condition that ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Shipping Board has announced that 25,000 tons of wooden ships and 32,000 tons of steel ships were launched in the week ended May 13. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe first recruit enlisting on Friday, and taking his seat in Car No. 751, will be insured for £200. This insurance will be generously provided by Mrs. Balls, of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Acting Premier (Mr. Hunter) was asked yesterday if the position had yet been made clear regarding Lieutenant Findley's statement that, until some ...
Article : 105 wordsThe "Gazette Lausanna" says the Entent Powers have replied to the Geneva Red Cross in reference to the proposed use of poison gas. The Entente Powers, ...
Article : 99 wordsGerman newspapers state that the Russian Dowager-Empress and the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicokaievitch are now in German hands. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the Police Court to-day Oscar Styma, who claimed to be a Norwegian, was charged with having been found unlawfully on a British ship at Hobart on ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Medical Congress will meet in Chicago in the middle of June to deal largely with interesting problems of medicine and surgery arising out of the ...
Article : 48 wordsColonel Repington, in the "Morning Post." says that though the next is the most critical stage of the German attack, and is expected this or next week, ...
Article : 235 wordsSir Luke Fildes, the well-known portrait painter, speaking at the first meeting of the Australian War Pictures Selection Committee, enlogised the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe military authorities request the next of kin to No. 6284, Private George Thomas Martin, 9th Battalion; No. 1526, Frederick Slater, war worker: No. 1572, Frederick ...
Article : 150 wordsReports from the frontier show that the repeated aerial raids on Zeebrugge are inflicting heavy losses on the Germans. The work of repairing the damage ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsIn the Wharf-street Congregational Church yesterday afternoon the first of a series of weekly intercessory war services, organised by the united non-Episcopalian ...
Article : 76 wordsTrawlers report that there is an extensive German minefield blocking the approaches to the Cattegat, one of the arms to the Baltic Sea from the North ...
Article : 59 wordsA crowded meeting of dog owners, held in an hotel in Cannon-street, passed a resolution condemning any Government interference with dogs, including such ...
Article : 59 wordsA strong agitation continues against the Government's proposal to increase the season ticket rates on tile railways, in order to lessen the travelling, ...
Article : 47 wordsMessrs, Horace Richard Cox and Victor Stanley Thomason (Toowoomba) were accepted at the recruiting centre to-day. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 16 May 1918, Page 7
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