Cabinet is contemplating the purchase of three Dreadnoughts, now nearing completion in Great Britain, for foreign countries, and the presentation of the vessels ...
Article : 339 wordsAll over Australia there is manifested a spirit of Imperial enthusiasm. Thousands of volunteers are offering for service in the expeditionary force which the Commonwealth has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsExcitement was caused on the steamer Stolzenfels, lying in Woolloomooloo Bay, yesterday, when Customs officials paid a visit to the steamer. ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Admiralty has chosen Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe to command the British fleet. This means that they have chosen a commander seven years younger than Admiral ...
Article : 214 wordsBritain is at war. It is not a Boer war this time. It is a fight for life, in the old country. Britain has been plunged into it, head over ears, in order to fulfil two ...
Article : 191 wordsThe steamer Niagara has been detained, and will not sail for Sydney. Owing to the cancellation of the sailing of the Niagara, scores of Australians and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe steamer Scharzfels, from New York, running in the interests of the United Tyser line, but flying the German flag, arrived at the semaphore about noon. The captain was ...
Article : 76 wordsThe commander of the German High Seas Fleet is Admiral von Ingenohl, with Admiral Pohl as his Chief of Staff. The man on whose shoulders will fall the heavy office work which ...
Article : 210 wordsThe censorship on messages from Canada is very severe. All cables to London newspapers have been stopped lest they should give details of Canada's ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Norwegian barque Ferm Intended leaving the port this morning fot Caleta Colosa, with 3064 tons of coal, but when her agents applied for the necessary permission they ...
Article : 82 wordsEarl Kitchener had embarked on a Calais steamer, on his way to Egypt, when he was recalled by telegram. He returned to London. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt may be taken as quite certain that fighting is continually in progress between the German fleet and the British. Those two are the only ones to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 520 wordsThe general committee of the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales held a special meeting yesterday to consider the trade situation as affected by the European crisis. The ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in replying to the offer of Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson of ships and men, stated that the Government was ...
Article : 49 wordsA regrettable incident took place on the Gorman Island trader Germania, now lying at No. 10 Brown's Wharf, Woolloomooloo Bay, yesterday afternoon, when the German national ...
Article : 274 wordsPractically the whole of the British and German fleets can be rushed in a few hours into the North Sea. The so called Baltic fleet of Germany is as much for the North ...
Article : 151 wordsThe German battle-cruiser Goeben, which is said to have been sighted in the Atlantic, is a ship similar to the Australia, which was, when the last mail left England, on a visit ...
Article : 112 wordsMuch uneasiness is felt here concerning the European situation. ...
Article : 15 wordsArmy chaplains yesterday held an openair service, the soldiers marching in full kit around the Bismarck monument. There was a huge attendance of the ...
Article : 79 wordsA meeting was held to-day at Walla Walla. one of the principal centres of German settlement in Riverina. Reference was made to the European war, and the Germans, who ...
Article : 161 wordsThe members of the Sydney Stock Exchange did not meet yesterday for the usual "calling" of the investment and mining lists. It has not yet been decided as to when the ...
Article : 55 wordsTasman, s, 5023 tons, Captain Lucardic, from Batavia, via ports. J. H. C. Stuart, agent. Buninyong, s, 2070 tons, Captain Campbell, from Eden. G. S. Yuill and Co., Ltd., agents. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe fleets must now be fighting in the North Sea—but it will probably be the torpedo fleets only—that is, if naval opinion in recent years has been correct. If there were no other ...
Article : 181 wordsThe position of shipping companies was explained this evening by Sir William Irvine "I have no doubt " he said, "that the various shipping companies are familiar with the ...
Article : 216 wordsSir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, when he made-his speech in the House of Commons on Monday, evening announcing the attitude of ...
Article : 682 wordsSydney, F.M.S., for Noumea. Kurwah, s, for Brisbane. Urilla, s, for Queensland. Tango Maru, J.M.S., for Japan, via ports. ...
Article : 45 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the council of the National Rifle Association last night Colonel Wallack, State Military Commandant, and the president of the body, attended and ...
Article : 174 wordsErina, s, for Gosford and "Woy Woy; Eden, s, for Wollongong, Kiama, Ulladulia, Bateman's Bay, Nelligen, Bermagul, Tathra, Merimbula, and Eden; Benandra, s, for Moruya. Narooma, and Wagonga; ...
Article : 96 wordsDiscussing the position which is likely to arise here on account of the gravity of the crisis in Europe, the Premier (Mr. Holman) said:—"The position which has now arisen ...
Article : 357 wordsA single flotilla of German destroyers or submarines in Channel waters would make the transport of British troops across the Channel too dangerous for contemplation. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 wordsIt was unofficially reported last night that the destroyer Parramatta had captured the Norddeutscher-Lloyd mall steamer Seydlitz, and was escorting her back to port. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Automobile Corps, with headquarters at Challis House, has been inundated with applications for service from every class of motor car owner, while many spirited young men ...
Article : 122 wordsWELLINGTON (1230m).—Arr: Aug. 5, [?] [?] from Sydney. ...
Article : 12 wordsThe Germans have always—even before they set out to possess a great fleet—rolled upon the great excellence of the training of their torpedo flotillas. The shallow German coastal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsThe following message was after consideration by the finance committee of the council, telegraphed by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Richards) to the Prime Minister of the ...
Article : 70 wordsCAIRNS (1418m).—Arr: Aug. 5, Matunga, s, from Sydney. TOWNSVILLE (1258).—Arr: Aug. 5, Kanowna, s, from Melbourne. ...
Article : 841 wordsWhen dawn broke to-day there was one German vessel in the port of Melbourne. This was the Pfalz, a cargo steamer belonging to the Nord-Dentseher Lloyd Company. The Pfalz ...
Article : 187 wordsIn response to the requisition presented by the council of the Millions Club, on behalf of 1300 members of that organisation, the Lord Mayor has arranged to canvene a public ...
Article : 134 wordsUnity was the keynote of all the speakers who took part in the meeting of Girl' Aids and the Red Cross League held at Cranbrook yesterday. Lady Edeline Strickland, who was ...
Article : 254 wordsGerman naval critics have long supposed the men of the British navy to be inferior in training and physique to German seamen, and statements have been mude even in ...
Article : 139 wordsA speech was delivered by the Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland, at a banquet tendered the Judges of the High Court and the Supreme Court of New South Wales at the Town Hall ...
Article : 654 wordsWhat is described on the circular letter as a "specially urgent" meeting has been called of the council of the Employers' Federation for 11 o'clock to-day, at the federation rooms, ...
Article : 175 wordsIt is known to British officers that Germans rely largely on the use of mines—possibly even on the high seas. Germany refused to agree to the clause in the Hague Convention ...
Article : 142 wordsThe German-Australian liner Oberhausen is now loading 750,000ft, of timber ot Port Huon for a South African port. Directly the official notification of the outbreak of war ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 6 Aug 1914, Page 8
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