The German Crown Prince's army in the Verdun district, was attempting to join forces with the other German Army in Champaigne, by way of the Argonne ...
Article : 106 wordsThe following statement, compiled up to September 11 has been received in London from a Belgian lady who is the wife of a British colonel. The lady is well known ...
Article : 1,091 wordsTo-day's cables do not indicate any material change in the desperate struggle which is proceeding on the north-eastern frontier of France and the ...
Article : 318 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs has received the following cablegram from Sir George Reid:— London, Oct. 25. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Botha Government has made public the text of the treaty which the Boer traitor, Colonel Maritz, had made with the Governor of German South-West Africa ...
Article : 106 wordsWith respect to the dearth of food in Antwerp, it is explained that when the Belgian troops were obliged to evacuate the city, it was impossible to clear the cold ...
Article : 91 wordsThe destroyer Badger, commander Capt. C. N. Fremantle, which recently ran down and sunk a German submarine off the Dutch coast, arrived at Sheerness ...
Article : 57 wordsThe war correspondent of the "Times" in France, explains the escape of the main Belgian army from Antwerp. He attributes it largely to the heroism of a few thousand ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 146 wordsEnglish military experts utterly discredit the alarmist reports of a premeditated aerial invasion of England. These reports have arisen in consequence of Continental ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Constantinople correspondent of the "Tribuna" reports that the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, which though alleged to be purchased by Turkey, and still ...
Article : 145 wordsThe great fight in Belgium between Dixmude and the sea on Wednesday, was witnessed by two English war correspondents, Mr. Ashmead Bartlett and Mr. Philip ...
Article : 851 wordsLloyd's Agency reports that the Tenerific telegram stating that the German cruiser Karsruhe had sunk 12 steamers in the Atlantic is not quite correct. She captured ...
Article : 55 wordsAn alliance of Liverpool and New York shipowners has been formed and has subscribed the capital necessary to acquire a fleet of 20 cargo steamers. These are to ...
Article : 93 wordsDetails of the fight at Ville-chapelle show the British artillery bombarded the German position from dawn till 3 p.m. Then the boyonet was ordered, and the British ...
Article : 133 wordsGerman airmen had a distastrous time last week. At Montdidier the French brought down with rifle and machine gun fire two German aeroplanes. Another was ...
Article : 46 wordsThe R.M.S. Ophir which had sailed for Australia has returned to port, leaking in her after hold, but not seriously. The leak was at first reported to have been ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, a few weeks ago expressed the desire that an entire army should be raised in the Principality of Wales. In ...
Article : 53 wordsSir George Reid has cabled from London as follows:— Official: A further account from General Headquarters dated Oct. 17, deals with the ...
Article : 1,557 wordsThe official communique issued to-day reports that there is no change in the continuous fighting, between Arras, in the north-west of France, and the Belgian coast south ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following official communique states the position of the campaign in Poland and Galicia. In Poland, Lowice, Skierunevice, and Rawa have been taken with the ...
Article : 109 wordsField Marshal Earl Roberts yesterday visited the encampment of the First Canadian Contingent on Salisbury Plain and gave the following address:— "We are ...
Article : 95 wordsBefore the Isle of Wight Bench last month Frederic William von Herbert, author of "The Defence of Plevna," was fined £25, with the alternative of two months' ...
Article : 349 wordsThe following instructions with regard to coded cable messages have been cabled to the Federal authorities by the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— ...
Article : 245 wordsReports from Ostend state that shells from the British warships which engaged the German troops between Ostend and Nieuport, damaged several building in ...
Article : 49 wordsA communique issued at midnight states: A very violent battle is proceeding between Nieuport and the Lys. The Germans have crossed the Yser between Nieuport and Dix. ...
Article : 140 wordsA French officer engaged on the eastern front of the long line of fight in France. writing to "La Liberte," describes a fearful slaughter on the Argonne ridge. A French ...
Article : 143 wordsThe British War Office has ordered 1,500,000 army shirts in Canada. This is enough to keep every shirt factory in the Dominion busy for several months. Another ...
Article : 159 wordsReuter's Agency at Petrograd reports that the German troops which recently occupied Lodz. a considerable town in Poland, south-west of Warsaw, have now ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Emperor Nicholas of Russia who recently put a peremptory stop to the sale of vodka, which is a Government monopoly in Russia, has extended his teetotal order ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 27 Oct 1914, Page 1
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