The British ships approached Hellgoland in dark but clear weather, promising a successful raid, but a fog descended when they were near the coast. ...
Article : 218 wordsWe continued our advance west of Lore baertzyde and have now reached the dunes, where the enemy has established a line of resistance. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe latest communique states:—Isolated German attacks between the Lower Vistula and the Pilltza rivers have proved abortive, and the German attack ...
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Article : 42 wordsA German official wireless message states that while general confidence is felt in the Austro-Germans' progress on the east, official reports from the front ...
Article : 59 wordsThe raid was kept secret in Germany until Saturday, when it created much alarm, especially in Hamburg, until the German official report was issued. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Patriotic Funds amount to £511,560. The Lord Mayor's Fund stands at £176,275, War Food £79,984, and Belgian £118,697. ...
Article : 249 wordsAdvices from Hungary state that two regiments at Przemysl sortied nightly for a fortnight, and scldom more than one regiment returned. The garrison has now ...
Article : 91 wordsCasualty lists, Nos. 101 to 108, pub-fished in Berlin, show 35,383 Prussian casualties. Altogether 250,000 Prussians and ...
Article : 55 wordsA New York military expert describes the raid on Cuxhaven as the best strategic move of the war hitherto, inasmuch as it proved the possibility of landing ...
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Article : 60 wordsThe case in which Francis H. Snow, a well-known Adelaide merchant, stands charged with having attempted to trade with the enemy, was again called on at ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Mahon, the Minister for External Affairs, to-day received the following cable message from Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner, dated Cairo; 20th ...
Article : 95 wordsA naval expert, who refuses to allow his name to be used, expresses the opinion in the New York Press that Great Britain will only be able to attack the ...
Article : 108 wordsCroatian and Slav artilleryman in the Montebrione and Saint Nicholas forts, near Riva, in the Austrian Tyrol, revolted. Troops had to be called in to quell the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe "Post," in an article commenting on the proposals of Mr. Fisher, the Prime Minister of Australia, for co-operation in naval defence, declares that Australia ...
Article : 134 wordsDistress and famine are increasing in Austria-Hungary, especially in country districts. The authorities, in order to allay ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. E. Catrell, a Keptuckitan, who was for seventeen years a resident in Belgium, states that on visiting Liege immediately after the occupation, ...
Article : 67 wordsCaptain Walter Penrose Pritchett, of Victoria, has died from wounds. Captain Alfred Barnes Rose, a member of the New Zealand contingent in South ...
Article : 144 wordsAn inquest was opened at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday morning, by Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, into the circumstances of the death of Eliza ...
Article : 148 wordsMention has been made of the Monroe Doctrine as originally intended. As everyone knows, it constituted the United States judge of the Americas. ...
Article : 270 wordsThe "Morning Post's" Petrograd correspondent says the disposition prevalent in England to believe that Russia is concealing serious reverses is, groundless. ...
Article : 38 wordsNew Zealand has already sent 12,400 men to the front, and intends to sent 1800 every month until the war ends. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Handelsblad's" correspondent at Antwerp states that 300,000 Germans at Antwerp are preparing to resist a siege. Three thousand men day and night are ...
Article : 36 wordsReuter's Sofia correspondent states that messages from Constantinople confirm the reports of increasing discontent, due to the serious damage to the Goeben and ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Spence, the Postmaster-General, states that he intends to introduce a number of reforms into the department, with a view to standardising the work. ...
Article : 43 wordsAt a civic reception tendered to Mr. Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, Councillor Parr, the Mayor of Auckland, said that the visit was a most ...
Article : 246 wordsGermany's efforts to induce Argentina to recognise German sovereignty in Belgium has completely failed. This is in accordance with the decision ...
Article : 91 wordsJudgment was delivered in the Adelaide Police Court to-day by Mr. T. Gepp, S.M., in the ease in which certain officials of the Adelaide Plumpton Coursing ...
Article : 102 wordsThe correspondent of the "Express" states that General Joffre, in an army order, dated the 17th instant, says :—"We have proof that a lieutenant commanding ...
Article : 156 wordsCastrignano, an ex-officer of Customs, and Doctor Fiorl, have been arrested for attempting to bribe a Customs official to issue a permit for the export of corn to ...
Article : 59 wordsUnless we have a Court of Compulsory Arbitration for the nations in rain the efforts of the Carnegle endowments. To suppose that human nature is going of its ...
Article : 251 wordsA difference between the machine operators and the management has prevented work proceeding at the Lambton colliery for some days. The management wished ...
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Article : 83 wordsIt is reported that Southern woolgrowers are strenuously opposing the Government's negotiations for the removal of England's embargo on the export of wool. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Wed 30 Dec 1914, Page 5
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