A Reuter message announces that Germany has declared war against Great Britain. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. ...
Article : 126 wordsWhen Count de Pourtales (German Ambassador at St. Petersburg) visited M. Sazonoff (Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs) he carried two replies—one to ...
Article : 428 wordsSir Edward Carson has advised all Ulster Volunteers who are liable to be called out to respond immediately, as then first duty is to the King. ...
Article : 663 wordsThe House of Commons passed all the outstanding votes of Supply, amounting to £100,000,000, in 10 minutes. ...
Article : 27 wordsTurkey is mobilising her army. ...
Article : 9 wordsThe city is calm. Hundreds of women and children, mostly Germans, are at the Gare du Nord, waiting to leave, but the railway services are wholly used for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 490 wordsA German aeroplane bombarded Luneville to-day. [Luneville is a town in France, in the department of Meurche-et-Modelle, which ...
Article : 68 wordsViscount Morley, Lord President of the Council, has resigned from the Cabinet. [It is expected that this has been done to make room for the appointment of a member ...
Article : 84 wordsSweden has notified that she will remain neutral in the present conflict. ...
Article : 19 wordsGerman warships chased the British light cruiser Pathfinder, 2940 tons, which eluded her pursuers. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) stated in the House of Commons that Germany had been asked for a satisfactory reply by midnight respecting the ...
Article : 270 wordsVice Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe (Second. Sea Lord of the Admiralty, and Commander of the Second Squadron of the Home Fleet) will assume ...
Article : 80 wordsThe French Embassy states that the German protected cruiser Breslau bombarded Bona, Algeria, at 4 o'clock this ...
Article : 52 wordsA wave of patrotic inthusiasm is sweeping over Canada, which has not been approached at any time in the country's history. Bonfires were lighted in ...
Article : 342 wordsThe proclamation mobilising the British Army was read at the Royal Exchange amid a scene of great enthusiasm. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe following message from his Majesty the King has been received by his Excellency the Governor-General, through the ...
Article : 138 wordsIn making his official statement in the House of Common-yesterday Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) spoke for an hour and a half. When, ...
Article : 1,220 wordsThe British Government ha's taken over the control of the railways in order to insure the movement of troops, stores, and food. ...
Article : 76 wordsIt is stated on diplomatic authority that the German High Sea Fleet has passed through the Kiel Canal, steaming westward. ...
Article : 31 wordsExcitement has been caused in London by a rumour that German cruisers have been seen in the Atlantic. If the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe United State Government has issued a formal proclamation of neutrality. A Bill to exclude from the United States ...
Article : 62 wordsGermany has detained the British steamers Slixou and Castro at Cuxhaven and Humburg respectively. ...
Article : 22 wordsCavalry skirmishes are occuring on Germany's easterm frontier. Twenty Russians were killed. The Russians attacked in this instance. ...
Article : 108 wordsDetails of the military and naval operations are meagre and misleading ewing to the censorship. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) read a telegram which he had sent to the British Ambassador in Berlin early this ...
Article : 435 wordsA Reuter message from Stockholm states that information has been received from a reliable source that a battle took place ...
Article : 229 wordsThe German cruiser Leipzig is reported to have captured the British steamer Queen Maud off the Californian coast. The British warship Shearwater has ...
Article : 135 wordsThe French troops are keeping well off the frontier line, and are not playing Germany's game by exciting themselves. The German raiding parties arr only ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 99 wordsThe mobilisation of the Dutch army is progressing smoothly. The authorities are prepared if necessary to open the sluices and submerge the country west to ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is expected that, though the warlike feeling is spreading in Bulgaria that country is not likely to abandon its attitude of neutrality at present. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Giornale d'Italia" states that Germany called the attention of Italy to France's so-called hostile acts, ond declared that these constitute a easus ...
Article : 71 wordsA Bill has been introduced in the Reichstag providing for an extraordinary credit of £250,000,000. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is believed that Austria has abandoned an active campaign in Servia, and is attending to pressing matters in Gulicia (Austrian Poland). ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Monday bank holiday has been prolonged over Thursday. Eighty-five guineas per cent has been paid at Lloyds to insure against war ...
Article : 141 wordsBy calling up all the naval reserves the Admiralty will obtain 200,000 officers and men with which to place the third fleet on a war footing ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequr) announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Government had adopted the war risk scheme of the ...
Article : 99 wordsHis Holiness the Pope has sanctioned the return of the Swiss Guards to Switzerland. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe German Ambassador, Baron von Schoen, has quitted Paris. Germany has declared a state ...
Article : 99 wordsThe mobilisation of the army has been ordered. The blockade of Antivari is expected. [Antivari is a fortified town in Montenegro, ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. Harcourt (Secretary of State for this Colonies), referring to t he offer made by Australia through his Excellency the Governer-General of ships and ...
Article : 53 wordsThe steamer Niagara has been detained here, and will not sail for Sydney. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 6 Aug 1914, Page 7
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