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Advertising : 19 wordsPrincess Patricia, daughter of the Duke of Connaught has presented the colors worked by herself to Princess Patricia's Light infantry Regiment, ...
Article : 82 wordsIn response to a general desire that a Patriotic Fund should be instituted, to which all can give even in the smallest contributions for the ...
Article : 105 wordsMr Millen, Minister for Defence, has issued the following cable received from Sir George Reid:—The British forces successfully reached a new position. The ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the allies' first line of defence at Namur has been taken by the Germans, necessitating the withdrawal of portion of ...
Article : 82 wordsBrigadier Alliston, of the Salvation Army, has received word by cable from the international headquarters, London, and through the Melbourne headquarters ...
Article : 80 wordsMr Balfour on behalf of the Government, is meeting Lord Joicey, a large English Colliery proprietor, and Sir Alfred Haslam, principal proprietor of ...
Article : 78 wordsOn Monday evening at the Shire Hall a meeting in connection with the patriotic fund was held. The list were opened, and the sum of £52 was at once ...
Article : 58 wordsSir George Reid cables from London, 4.40 p.m.:— The Germans have taken Namur. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Patriotic Fund now amounts to £39,500. Large sums continue to pour in from all parts of the State. Numbers of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Porte has assured the British Ambassador at Constantinople of the intention of Turkey to remain neutral. Assurances have been given to ...
Article : 120 wordsSir George Reid cables, 7.10 p.m.:— The enemy conducted a movement south from Brussels, their chief strength being massed between Mons ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is reported that the condition of Francis Joseph, the aged Austrian Emperor, is worse, and that his death is only a question of hours. ...
Article : 37 wordsFor the patriotic concert to be held in the Sebastopol Town Hall on Saturday night the arrangements for the programme which was left in the hands ...
Article : 71 wordsThe United States Government has allowed the steamer Mazlatan to clear the quay. The Government has declared that any ship which leaves ...
Article : 122 wordsSir George Reid cables, 7.10 p.m.:— The British forces were engaged on Sunday and Sunday night in the neighborhood of Mons, and they held ...
Article : 108 wordsFifty papers, mostly trades and shorting journals, have suspended publication since war broke out. ...
Article : 26 wordsGeneral Pau, who is leading the French force operating in Alsace-Lorraine, is a veteran of the 1870 war. He lost his right arm in the battle of ...
Article : 89 wordsHis Excellency announced that many offers of goods had been received, including one of £200 from Mr J. A. T. Hassell, to provide them with pipes and ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Canadian Trade Commissioner at Rotterdam has telegraphed that the Dutch Government has seized the wheat in all the warehouses. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt united patriotic services on Sunday, held in the public hall, in aid of the Lord Mayor's Fund, the Rev C. Robertson acted as chairman, and the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe following cablegram has been received to-day by the Premier, Sir Alexander Peacock, from the Agent-General Mr M'Bride:—"Am advised ...
Article : 54 wordsDEFINITE NEWS IMPOSSIBLE. The French War Office states that the new extent of front renders it impossible to follow the movements of each ...
Article : 49 wordsAt a meeting of public servants to-day a resolution was adopted recommending a minimum voluntary contribution of 1 per cent. of the year's salary of a fund ...
Article : 87 wordsCount Bernstorff, the German ambassador, to United States, when interviewed, said that Germany was bound to win, because her cause was just. ...
Article : 189 wordsThe High Commissioner, Sir George Reid, cables officially that the Russian Commander-in-Chief confirms the news of the battle at Gumbennin. After two ...
Article : 54 wordsNorddentscher Lloyd cargo steamer Elsass, which immediately prier to the outbreak of war between Britain and Germany made such a flurried ...
Article : 85 wordsAt a public meeting held in the Mechanics' Hall on Saturday night it was decided to hold a patriotic concert on September 16th. Collectors and an ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Austrian official telegraph agency announces that the Austro-Hungarian army is required to resist Russia, and therefore it will abandon ...
Article : 58 wordsThe patriotic fund now amounts to £4450. ...
Article : 12 words"What is your name?" came the sudden wireless challenge through the night to a British merchant ship, which reached Fremantle this ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Lord Mayor stated this afternoon that a movement had been instituted to raise about £500 with which to purchase band instruments for use ...
Article : 120 wordsAt a largely-attended public meeting, convened by the shire president, it was decided to establish a fund, to be called the Towong Shire Patriotic ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Liege forts are still holding out. The French have withdrawn from the passes in the vicinity, as the holding of them is considered to be no longer ...
Article : 55 wordsForty food steamers are running between Denmark and England. Traffic has been resumed from Rotterdam and Amsterdam to England ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsA Servian force captured the Austrian towns of Losnitza and Lechnitza on Thursday. ...
Article : 28 wordsIntelligence to hand states that the battle began in earnest on Sunday evening. on both banks of the River Sambre, from Maubeuge to Namur. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe produce importers are rather anxious to know when the Commonwealth Government will assume control of the food exports. ...
Article : 36 wordsWashington announces that it is believed Austria has dismantled the cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, now in far Eastern waters, with the object of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the Earl of Leven and Melville, or the Scots Greys, was dangerously wounded. ...
Article : 40 wordsWhile the Lord Mayor was inspecting the Broadmeadows Camp this morning Lieut-Coloned M'Cay intimated that the troops would be pleased ...
Article : 76 wordsAmong the passengers on the steamer Maloja to-day was Sir Josiah Symon, the eminent King's Counsel. When interviewed he said—"One ...
Article : 161 wordsSince the last bank return the Bank of England has received over three and a half millions in gold. The "Evening News" states that ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Servians captured 4500 prisoners, 53 guns 114 ammunition waggons and large quantities of stores and rifles in the fighting on the River Drina. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsNamur is strongly fortified, and it was expected from this fact, and its favorable situation at the junction of the Sambre and Meuse rivers, that it would ...
Article : 329 wordsIn addition to Luneville, the Germans have occupied Amanse and Deulcat, in the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. Apart from the changes necessitated by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsSince the declaration of war, the British Red Cross Society has received £50,000, including £200 from Ex-Empress Eugenie ...
Article : 25 wordsOther accounts state that 20,000 Austrian wounded were conveyed to Seraivo, Azram, Budapest, and Vienna. ...
Article : 31 wordsProduce importers are anxious to know when the Commonwealth Government is going to assume control of the food exports from Australia. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following shipping intelligence has been posted:—Arrival at Plymouth. Medina: departures for Sydney, Atua, Curtis, and Valetta. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe newspaper, "Novoe Vremya," states that the Austrians had railways to assist their concentration. The Servians had none but they responded ...
Article : 117 wordsA meeting was held in the Public Hall on Saturday evening for the purpose of raising funds to help the Red Cross Society and so enthusiastic was ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Evening Standard" states that refugees arriving from Germany state that there are persistent reports in circulation of the Crown Prince's ...
Article : 46 wordsWar news from Berlin is being received, here through the high power wireless station, at Sayville. News of German victories now reaches ...
Article : 52 wordsA significant fact, as showing that Great Britain was not taken unawares by the speedy development of events on the continent, which led up to the ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Australian branch of the Red Cross Society of which Lady Munro Ferguson is president, has sent £5000, to be handed to the British Red Cross ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Federal liner Whirshire, which arrived at the Semaphore to-day from Liverpool, obtained the first reliable information regarding the European war ...
Article : 180 wordsFor the patriotic demonstration to be held at the Coliseum to-night, under the auspices of the two municipalities, with the object of establishing an ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Germans have established German time in Brussels, instead of Greenwich time. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe "yamato Shimbun." a Tokio newspaper, states that the Japanese fleet has commenced to bombard Kiao-Chan, the German port in China from ...
Article : 39 wordsThirty thousand Germans are attacking Malines. Skirmishing is general north-west of Flanders. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Premier (Mr J. Scaddan) states that it is not the intention of the Government to introduce a Moratorium Bill at the present. "Information other ...
Article : 91 wordsSenator Gervais, writing to the newspaper "Le Martin," ascribes the French retreat in Lorraine to the fact that a division composed of Marseilles and ...
Article : 61 wordsJapan's declaration of war against Germany has set free the British China squadron, which now has the whole Pacific for its cruising ground, or may ...
Article : 383 wordsIt is officially stated that the Germans have occupied Luneville and Amduce otherwise the French front is unmodified. ...
Article : 35 wordsSir Cecil Springrice, the British Ambassador, conferred with Mr J. W. Bryan, American Secretary for State, on the subject of America's neutrality. ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is officially announced that a great battle is in progress, extending from Mons to the frontier of Luxemburg. The French are everywhere ...
Article : 66 wordsOf the Zeppelin airships used by Germany, five have already been destroyed. ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Wed 26 Aug 1914, Page 1
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