Many thousands of lives will be sacrificed before France is finally cleared of the invading enemy. Fighting has continued without intermission for almost ...
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Article : 108 wordsThe Federal Royal Commission on Foodstuffs and on Trade and Industry to-day submitted the following recommendation to the Governor-General:—"Having ...
Article : 189 wordsIt is estimated that the total Austrian casualties in Galicia represent 35 per cent. of the 1,000,000 men engaged. The Russian casualties are estimated at 25,000. The ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Belgian Atrocities Commission's third report states that between 6,000 and 8,000 of the inhabitants of Louvain were confined a whole night in a riding school. The space ...
Article : 387 wordsPreviously acknowledged £743 2 7 W.M. (per Liberal League) 5 0 0 A. R. Richardson 20 0 0 Engine-driver (first instalment) 2 10 0 ...
Article : 178 wordsThe "Bourse Gazette" declares:—"Before peace is declared Russia must secure the freedom of the Slavs from the foreign yoke and from the nightmare of German ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Germans (attired in the uniforms of French prisoners), who were caught in the act of attempting to blow up a railway bridge, with the object of destroying ...
Article : 51 wordsThe enemy unsuccessfully tried to resume the offensive on the approaches to Saint Die. Our attack progresses slowly in this region, owing to bad weather and ...
Article : 116 wordsDiscussing the present position in the mining industry as affected by the war, Mr. Appel (Secretary for Mines) said to-day that the Government were trying to ...
Article : 147 wordsA report from Vienna states that Henryk Sienkiewich, the celebrated Polish novelist author of "Quo Vadis," who was reported as killed in one of the early ...
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Article : 691 wordsThe Queensland Patriotic Fund now totals £49,947. To-day's receipts include £1,000 from Barcaldine and district, and £2,117 from Ipswich and district. ...
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Article : 120 wordsAustrian troops, to the number of 200,000 have been concentrated on the Italian frontier. Hundreds of Italians at Trieste have been wrongly denounced for spies, ...
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Article : 231 wordsPopular feeling is strongly in favour of Roumania abandoning neutrality and joining the allies. A series of street demonstrations have been made, urging the ...
Article : 82 wordsAn official communique issued late last night announced: "On our left wing below Soissons our troops were vigorously attacked by superior forces and gave some ...
Article : 385 wordsA Berlin telegram states that the German Education Department has taken measures to protect Belgian works of art—because military protection is inadequate now the ...
Article : 77 wordsPreviously acknowledged £11,363 8 5 P. C. Anderson 19 0 0 J. A. Thompson, Yarloop Patriotic Fund, 2nd ...
Article : 1,018 wordsTo-day further details of the death of Captain B. C. A. Pockley reached his father, Dr. F. Antill Pockley. Captain Pockley accompanied as medical officer the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Austrian fleet, which has taken little part in the war, its operations having been confined to shelling by cruisers on the Montenegrin coast, is still sheltering behind ...
Article : 65 wordsIn connection with the collisions that occurred between the Prussians and the Bavarians at Brussels, it is stated that the Bavarians intentionally allowed six ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Czar has conferred upon Crown Prince Alexander of Servia, the Russian order of St. George. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe "Daily Mail" asserts that Baron von Kuhlmann, who was until recently Counsellor to the German Embassey in London, is conducting the German campaign in the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Athens branch of the Exchange Telegraph Agency states that at Constantinople on Thursday the Sultan held a review of the Turkish fleet. which accompanied by the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Danish newspapers and people express warm admiration for the gallantry dash and endurance which the British troops have shown in the war. ...
Article : 119 wordsA message from Berlin states that the "Berliner Tageblatt" declares that the German policy in North Schleswig has hitherto been a great mistake, and that the new ...
Article : 50 wordsA British warship has captured the German ship Ponape, bound from Iquique, Peru, for Antwerp and laden with nitrate and brought it to Falmouth. The Dutch ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) paid a visit of inspection to the camp of the expeditionary force at Enoggera to-day. His Excellency first inspected the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Russian Legation here has issued a communique stating that General Rennenkampf has definitely checked the German offensive from East Prussia. The Germans ...
Article : 97 wordsThe French newspapers have obtained possession of a document revealing Germany's plan of campaign. The document was found in a railway carriage five months ago by ...
Article : 201 wordsIn the Prize Court at Sydney to-day application was made to the President of the Court, Sir William Cullen (Chief Justice), for an order authorising the proper ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Germans declare that they can hold the Aisne position for three months if necessary with the natural fortress of hills, woods, and quarries which the enemy had ...
Article : 1,182 wordsThe W.A. Flour Millers' Association states that, as an embargo has been placed upon the export of flour from the Commonwealth, except to Great Britain, the ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" describes how General Rennenkampf rushed a brigade forward from Grajewo (in Poland) and discovered ...
Article : 246 wordsGerman patrols have been 30 miles from Kakamos (Cape Colony). The Germans have destroyed the wells within 30 miles from the frontier, ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is officially announced that the Japanese, landed in Kiau-chau Bay on Thursday, and attacked the enemy in a fortified position at Wangko-Huang, near Tsina. The ...
Article : 93 wordsAdvices from Bordeaux state that Rheims is a mass of ruins. The colleges, public buildings, the Cathedral have all been destroyed. ...
Article : 97 wordsThree representatives of each of the building trades met the Minister for Works (Mr. Johnson) and various departmental officers yesterday and discussed the ...
Article : 131 words"They are terrible fellows. We had seen nothing like it," was a Frenchman's comment upon the doggedness of the British. "The fighting on the slopes about Soissons ...
Article : 221 wordsAll Frenchmen between the ages of 21 and 48 years at present in New South Wales, excepting those who were 45 years of age on August 13, 1913, are required to ...
Article : 70 wordsThe following cable messages have been received from the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid):—September 21. Official: Since the outbreak of ...
Article : 675 wordsAfter selling 1,500 bags of wheat to-day to the City and Suburban Millers, whose establishment was closed owing to shortage, the Government still has 140,500 bags ...
Article : 187 wordsThe possibility of a sieze of Antwerp still looms ahead. Exceptionally heavy rain momentarily hampers military moves, but the Germans have been bringing up ...
Article : 230 wordsAn official statement issued yesterday stated:—"The Austrians, who endeavoured to arrest our advance on the Baranoff-Ranichsoff front, were repulsed with great ...
Article : 121 wordsDealing with the war, the current number of the Chamber of Mines' monthly journal states:—"On these goldfields, we are perhaps the people who, in the whole of the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 22 Sep 1914, Page 7
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