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Advertising : 450 wordsSaturday last, December 5th, will long be regarded as a red letter day by the British navy, for at half past seven in the morning a British squadron, under ...
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Advertising : 447 wordsThe London "Evening News" states that German firms having businesses in London and the English provinces are exerting all their wits to keep business ...
Article : 210 wordsThere is little room for doubt that the Germans have again captured Lodz, the "Manchester of Russia" from which they were driven with heavy slaughter ...
Article : 231 wordsThe disaster that overtook two German army corps belonging to General Makensen's force, south of Lodz, towards the end of November, was due to ...
Article : 101 wordsEvery foot of the road was sharply contested, and the Germans were at a disadvantage from the beginning. They marched in every direction, seeking an ...
Article : 74 wordsThen they buried their guns, abandoned their transport, and, leaving the highroads, marched through the fields to avoid the Russian fire. They finally ...
Article : 128 wordsThere is one important area close to Villiers, south and west of Soissons, previously known chiefly for its excellent canal and its sugar factory. But the lie ...
Article : 237 wordsOn the outskirts of Lodz, the Germans bombarded a lunatic asylum, and a terrible scene ensued. The shells exploding inside the buildings caused fires to ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Russian artillery was unable to locale the enemy until an aeroplane, on December 3, reported their approximate position. A colonel of artillery, with a ...
Article : 73 wordsAn unwounded officer narrates that Prince Joachim, a son of the German Emperor, narrowly escaped capture at Breziny. When his detachment was ...
Article : 88 wordsThe engagement appears to have been the result of a "drive" that was started immediately after the fall of Tsing-Tao on November 5th. The warships that ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Siberians marched sixty miles and reached the heights of Rzgow, dominating the country south of Lodz. Finding the Germans in possession, they did ...
Article : 138 wordsA spy, hidden in the belfry of a church at Lampernisse, a village eastward of Dixmude, caused heavy loss among a company of French soldiers a few days ...
Article : 97 wordsA correspondent with the Russians notes the rapidity of the German retreat in parts of Poland. They had prepared with great care elaborate defensive ...
Article : 165 wordsDuring the struggle the Germans mistook the sounding of the Angelus at the ancient Monastery of Tuzh for a signal to the Russians, and thereupon ...
Article : 65 wordsRemarkable activity has prevailed at the Zeppelin factory at Friedrichsha[?] since the outbreak of war. Five hundred experts have been working in ...
Article : 215 wordsSeveral motor cars belonging to the Fourth Russian Armoured Motor Corps ran into a large German force, which was advancing to occupy a wood near ...
Article : 45 wordsOn some parts of the front in Belgium, the works of the opposing lines are often only forty yards apart, and the strangest situations occasionally arise. Our men ...
Article : 108 wordsThe result of the action off the Falkland Islands amply avenges the defeat of the British squadron off Coronel, Chili, on the 31st October when the Monmouth ...
Article : 158 wordsFourteen German army corps were engaged in the sanguinary battle of Lodz. The Germans are attempting to conceal their losses, which are estimated at ...
Article : 61 wordsA German who was wounded was lying in the field hospital, and told one of the Russian surgeons that Germany was getting reinforcements from Kalitz. A ...
Article : 113 wordsIn some districts in France the opposing trenches are so close to each other that familiarity and goodfellowship have grown up between the opposing ranks ...
Article : 103 wordsSince the British aviators' raid upon the factory, extraordinary precautions have been taken to guard against any repetition of the daring exploit. The ...
Article : 74 wordsA terrible broadside from the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau crippled the British flagship and her engines stopped. The Monmouth, recognising the distress of ...
Article : 108 wordsA thrilling story of heroic self-sacrifice is being told in the Paris newspapers. A French general, it is said, received orders to advance along a certain road that was ...
Article : 125 wordsSome of the soldiers roll up French and German newspapers and toss them between the trenches. The balance of enlightenment being on the side of the ...
Article : 149 wordsWhile the great battle near the Vistula was in progress last week, a German airship dropped bombs outside the United States' consulate in Warsaw ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Good Hope, badly damaged, hung on until an explosion occurred on board. She withdrew to the westward at 7.30 o'clock. As she disappeared she was seen ...
Article : 71 wordsThe French in Alsace sent up a balloon with three dummy aeronauts over the German lines on Thursday, and three Taube aeroplanes immediately attacked ...
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The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 - 1955), Fri 11 Dec 1914, Page 1
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