The appointment of the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Hon. F. W. Young) some time ago to be Agent-General for South Australia, and his impending departure ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 814 wordsThe Germans were constructing a pontoon on which to cross the River Vistula, when a Russian officer and 20 men, under a fearful fire, conveyed a barge downstream ...
Article : 84 wordsThere is a great public demand for prospectuses of the war loan of £350,000,000, but no rush is occurring on account of the fact that copies are obtainable at every ...
Article : 106 wordsCardinal Mercer, in appealing for food in behalf of starving and destitute Belgians at Malines, writes:—"Famished children, in desperation, frequently go to ...
Article : 65 wordsSurgeon J. G. Beaumont, an officer aboard the Olympic, stated upon She arrival of the liner here that it was absolutely untrue that the Olympic ever ...
Article : 106 wordsThe latest official communiques from Paris state that an almost ceaseless cannonading is proceeding along the whole front in the north of France. The Germans in Belgium are preparing to make a stand on the historic field of Waterloo, and a continuous procession of the ...
Article : 358 wordsThe Times states that in the flooded areas of Belgium, particularly at Dixmude, Oostkerke, and Kaskerke, many German military detachments were isolated at ...
Article : 129 wordsThe correspondent of The Daily Mail says that there are indications that the Germans are strengthening their lines to-wards Soissona, on the Aisne; by hurrying ...
Article : 65 wordsThe German Government has sent £600,000 to the Danish National Bank, because the exchange on German banknotes has been daily falling since the outbreak ...
Article : 42 wordsThe German soldiers operating on the Belgian coast, noticing, that the artillery from the British warships spared the houses on the seaport of Middelkerke, went ...
Article : 59 wordsThe war loan is quoted at 2/6 per cent. premium. The Financial News says that the loan was oversubscribed by noon yesterday, although the list does not close ...
Article : 39 wordsBerlin newspapers state that the Germin Emperor has telegraphed to the Crown Prince that the Sheik-ul-Islam at Conatantinople has proclaimed a holy war for the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Belgian town of Dixmude, which has been the scene of so much fighting, and has been alternately occupied by the Allies and the Germans, is now little ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Calais correspondent of The Daily Chronicle says that vast numbers of German transport wagons are choking the road leading from the battle area in West ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Marquis of Crewe (Lord Privy Seal), speaking in the House of Lords, said that at the beginning of the war the position of the British in East Africa was less ...
Article : 108 wordsA courtmartial has been opened to enquire into the circumstances of the total wreck of the armed auxiliary cruiser Oceanic, early in September, on Foula ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Russians have repulsed the enemy in numerous skirmishes in the direction of Erzerum, and have occupied Doutakh, which is an important point in the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Young Turks Party believe that the Turkish Minister of War (Essad Pasha)—who installed himself as ruler of Albania under the Sultan of Turkey at the clase. ...
Article : 67 wordsAccording to a Berlin official communique a battle between Russian and German Armies is developing north of Lodz, in Russian Poland. So far the ...
Article : 73 wordsDuring one of the battles in the north of France, a shell from a German gun fell near to a French battery, but failed to burst. An artillery lieutenant, desiring ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Department of State las been offcially informed that the Turkish forts at Smyrna, Asia Minor, fired upon the American cruiser Tennessee. It is uhderstood that ...
Article : 190 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Churchill) announces that the British naval losses so far during the war total 222 officers and 3,455 men killed; 37 officers ...
Article : 75 wordsA message has been received from Constantinople that the Japanese Ambassador departed from the Turkish capital on ...
Article : 33 wordsA Dutch newsagency states that the late King Charles of Roumania wrote to King Albert of Belgium in July, advising that Belgium should devote herself to defence ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Germans claim that Gen. Hindenburg achieved a great victory over a Russian Army which was advancing upon the Prussian city of Thorn, on the right ...
Article : 62 wordsThe communique issued at midnight on Wednesday states that a very violent and almost ceaseless cannonade was continued throughout the day along the northern ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Wednesday midnight communique states:—"The Muscovite advance guards in Russian Poland, between the Rivera Vistula and Warta have fallen back in the ...
Article : 87 wordsTwo German cruisers and 10 torpedo boats on Wednesday evening bombarded the Baltic naval port of Liban, in Courland, Russia. The incendiary shells ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Kaiser, replying to a message of condolence from the townspeople of Emden, the port and naval station of Hanover after which the German war ...
Article : 97 wordsIt is reported that the Germans are making a new effort to cross the river Year. An extensive movement of the Landsturm troops has been made from Ghent, while ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Germans have assembled their chief available forces in the neighbourhood of Thorn. Their immediate objectives are Plock and Kutno, but inasmuch as they ...
Article : 97 wordsMjr.-Gen. Wotherspoon a retired American military authority, writes to the newspapers pointing out that it is impossible to protect the Panama Canal and the ...
Article : 84 wordsDetails are to hand regarding the Russian annexation of the Austrian province of Bukowina, the area of which is 4,000 square miles, and the population about ...
Article : 307 wordsA British cruiser has seized the American steamer Kroilland in tie Mediterranean with 2,500 tons of war munitions from New York destined for Germany. ...
Article : 40 wordsIt was stated yesterday that a squadron of the Russian Navy had left Helsingfoes, in the Gulf of Finland, and was steering toward the Baltic to do battle with the ...
Article : 80 wordsForty-six men belonging to the Canadian Contingent, which has arrived in England for service at the front, have been rejected on account of their German or ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Russian Black Sea Fleet has cannonaded the fort and barracks at the Turkish garrison port of Trebizond, on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Earl of Meath, in the House of Lords, hinted that there was a German minefield, off the north-east coast of Ireland, laid by Irish fishing boats, in the ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 20 Nov 1914, Page 5
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