Intense interest was taken in the war news throughout Australia yesterday, and the various newspaper offices were rushed for copies of their special editions. Military and naval preparations are being pushed on with at fever heat, and a strict censorship of all cablegrams and telegrams has been ...
Article : 114 wordsThe British Admiralty has issued an order prohibiting the use of wireless telegraphy within the waters of the United Kingdom by amateurs. ...
Article : 64 wordsCitizens of Australia are for the first time feeling the effects of a great war in which they are practically participants; but they are facing the trouble ...
Article : 167 wordsThe New York bankers have arranged with the State Treasury Departments to send three and a half million dollars in gold to relieve the tourists stranded in ...
Article : 40 wordsShould the Imperial Government accept the offer of an Australian expeditionary force of 20,000 men it is certain that there will be a ready response ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Dutch people are reported to be making preparations to open the dykes for the purpose of flooding the country. The idea is to impede the movements ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Independent Cable Service received news of the declaration of war by Great Britain at 4 o'clock this morning. Owing to the military ...
Article : 43 wordsThis morning knots of sharebroke[?]s were discussing war news in the public hall of the Melbourne Stock Exchange. The question was whether the exchange ...
Article : 137 wordsIt has been ascertained that there are about 90 British reservists in South Australia. About 70 of these are living in the metropolitan area, and the remainder ...
Article : 310 wordsThe secretary of the Wharr Laborers Union states that the war will seriously affect the men attached to his union. Large numbers of men are already out of ...
Article : 54 wordsHis Holiness the Pope has ordered the Catholics throughout the world to offer up prayers in all the churches for peace. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe German cargo steamer Elsass, which was given instructions yesterday to leave Sydney not later than to-day, managed to secure sufficient labor to ...
Article : 94 wordsAlthough the navy office is still hard at work the strain that has been evident since Saturday relaxed to-day. Preparations for bringing the naval reserve ...
Article : 136 wordsActing under instructions from Melbourne the South Australian branch of the naval reserve was called out early on Monday morning. By 9.30 the whole ...
Article : 702 wordsFrench arms secured a victory in a ploody engagement at Aneti Croix. Uhlans attacked the French, who were [?]ched beyond the town. The ...
Article : 128 wordsIn the State Parliament to-day the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Wade) said he wished to intimate on behalf of his party that the Liberals appreciated ...
Article : 167 wordsIn the present crisis in international politics the German Government at least is thoroughly alive to potentialities. According to a cable received ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Orient Company has instructed its agents at Colombo to hold the mailboat Orama till further notice. It has also directed the Omrah, which is due at ...
Article : 52 wordsA large number of former members of the permanent or reserve naval forces of Great Britain, as well as of Australia, have communicated with Captain F. ...
Article : 224 wordsSir Oliver Lodge (president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science), who arrived by the R.M.S. Orvieto, when interviewed, said:—"The war ...
Article : 90 wordsThere was great excitement among bank [?]positors to-day and withdrawals were heavy. A run took place on the Government Savings Bank, depositors who ...
Article : 90 wordsAll military camps and schools of instruction have been postponed indefinitely owing to the necessity of concentrating all the resources of the military department ...
Article : 63 wordsSydney wholesale merchants advocate the issue by the State Government of a proclamation prohibiting the exportation of wheat and flour during the European ...
Article : 53 wordsThe boom in wheat values is over, and there was a strong pressure to sell in the markets this morning, the majority of holders being afraid of the financial ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Minister of External Affairs (Hon. P. McM. Glynn) was present at a meeting of the local branch of the Liberal Union at Mount Barker on Tuesday ...
Article : 1,167 wordsIntense interest is being taken in the war at Darwin. Six members of the local cable guard were summoned late last night. Two declined duty, thinking a ...
Article : 71 wordsThe military authorities have called upon the trainees of the Surry Hills and Redfern Battalion areas to report themselves at Victoria Barracks ...
Article : 214 wordsThe effect ofthe war is already being [?] in Mount Gambier. William [?] [?]ghton & Co's freezing works and skin[?] buying store were closed down this ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Sydney Stock Exchange is still open, but no business is reported. The exchange committee this morning considered the advisability of following the ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. J. Cook, the Prime Minister, issued a notification to-day setting out that the transmission of telegrams and radio-telegrams through the Commonwealth ...
Article : 416 wordsYesterday morning the Premier (Hon. A. H. Peake) forwarded the following telegram to the Prime Minister at Melbourne:—"My Government wishes to ...
Article : 66 words[?] Nothing as being taken on the Con[?] but gold and silver. This has [?] the 160,000 United States citizens [?] without resources. ...
Article : 39 wordsIt was stated in financial circles this morning that every precaution has been taken to guard a big gold reserve amounting to £2,000,000 belonging to the various ...
Article : 74 words"I have nothing to communicate," said the Minister of External Affairs (Hon. P. McM. Glynn) when approached yesterday afternoon. Mr. Glynn stated in reply ...
Article : 108 wordsPresident Wilson has made a direct ap[?] a large gathering of press cor[?]dents in the United States He im[?]red them to keep cool at the present ...
Article : 57 wordsAn order forbidding shipping to leave or enter Sydney Heads between sunset and sunrise is now operative and a drastic examination of all ...
Article : 66 wordsThe censorship established by the Federal Government at the Sydney cable offices this morning resulted in press cables being subjected to over eight ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. G. O. Middleton, railway stationmaster at Port Pirie, has received advice that from to-day 32 trains running to and from Broken Hill will be cancelled ...
Article : 478 wordsAn order has been issued by the authorities notifying officials of the Customs Department at all Australian ports not to issue clearances to German vessels. There ...
Article : 43 wordsA press censor took charge of the cables and telegrams at the general post office at 1 o'clock this afternoon and will allow only certain messages to be delivered. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Postal Department has called upon all owners of private wireless plants to dismantle and disconnect any radio-telegraph aerial gear within 24 hours. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn emergency currency has been put [?] circulation in consequence of the [?]cial crisis. Fifty truckloads of coin [?] sent from Washington for this ...
Article : 76 wordsA special meeting of the Master Butchers' Association was held at the association offices, Waymouth street, last evening to consider the effect of the war on ...
Article : 78 wordsPrivate messages received in Sydney state that England and Germany are at war, and that a great naval battle has already been fought in the North Sea. Eight ...
Article : 268 wordsThe German steamer Westfalen left Newcastle yesterday, ostensibly for Bremen via Thursday Island, but it is believed she will make a dash for Java or ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Barrier may feel the war worse than any other town in the Commonwealth, Mr. Gepp (manager of Debavay's treatment plant) has been advised to close ...
Article : 255 wordsMuch anxiety and a little consternation were created among Adelaide wheat merchants yesterday by the absence of the usual cable advices concerning the state ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the Theatre Royal last evening the orchestra, in recognition of the British and French interests in the present European war, played the "Marseillaise," "Rule ...
Article : 57 wordsThe naval authorities in Great Britain may have reason to feel thankful that a sea conflict with Germany is occurring now rather than a couple of years hence. ...
Article : 1,507 wordsThe Consul for France (Mr. J. W. Canaway) stated yesterday that he had, consequent on instructions received from Paris, issued a proclamation calling on ...
Article : 147 wordsThe committee of the Adelaide Stock Exchange met at 11 o'clock yesterday and decided to open the vestibule every morning until 11.30 to enable members ...
Article : 58 words"I can only say that I am one of those who would urge that England should go into it," said the Governor (Sir Henry Galway) in dealing with the European ...
Article : 327 wordsA strict censorship or all telegraphic and cable messages was established in Adelaide at midnight on Monday. Colonel Dyke and Captain Willcox took up their ...
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Daily Herald (Adelaide, SA : 1910 - 1924), Wed 5 Aug 1914, Page 6
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