A cable from Sir George Reid, giving an oficial description of the lighting in France between the 14th and l5th September, says: ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsSir George Reid, the Australian High Commissioner in London, furnishes a graphic official account of the fighting along the River Aisne. ...
Article : 316 wordsAfter terrific fighting between Peronne and St. Quentin the German right appears to have been turned. The Germans occupied a strong position ...
Article : 170 wordsFollowing was the first batch of cables received per Reuter's Agency last night. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe mother of a wounded Belgian soldier, in an open letter to the Kaiser, says: "Your son, Joachim, is commanding an army horde devoted to rapine and murder ...
Article : 160 wordsThe survivors of the three sunken cruisers have arrived in port. Of the number 39 were wounded, but not seriously. The chief petty officer of the Aboukir ...
Article : 118 wordsReuter's correspondent at Paris reports that wounded from the battlefield state the Germans lost enormously the last two days and will be unable to resist much longer. ...
Article : 118 wordsLater details indicate that the loss of life as the result of the torpedoing of the three British cruisers by German submarines was very heavy. It is reported that ...
Article : 1,274 wordsThe trawler Kilmarnock struck a mine and six of the crew were killed. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe news of the destruction of the Rheims Cathedral was received with delight in Berlin. The German Ambassador at Washington ...
Article : 93 wordsThere were nine miles of German dead in the trendies between Peronne and St. Quentin. The Germans contrary to their custom waited in the trenches. ...
Article : 194 wordsThe official German version of the Rheims affair is as follows: "Since the 20th the white has been hoisted on the spire of the Cathedral which was respected ...
Article : 100 wordsLord Roseberry, speaking at Midlothian, I said: "We are fighting for the public law of Europe on which all international relations must be based, unless we lapse into ...
Article : 104 wordsThe "Times" says: "Our Allies with our enemies are suffering more economically than ourselves, but the slow inexorable pressure produced by the suppression of sea ...
Article : 92 wordsAn eye-witness at Rheims states the Cathedral was not completely gutted. All the statues and windows were smashed and the interior woodwork burned. ...
Article : 52 wordsSapper Gilhooly, of the Royal Engineers, relates that last week on the Marne the Engineers spent two days constructing a mine towards the German lines. ...
Article : 98 wordsRetailing the charge by the Irish Guards during the battle of the Marne an officer states that the whole battalion were lined up within 1200 yards of the enemy's ...
Article : 292 wordsBritish ladies from Germany state that patriotism is very strong. The war loan has been subscribed. ...
Article : 22 wordsGeneral Botha takes supreme command in the operations against the Germans in South-west Africa. The Germans in Demara and German ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Matin's" New York message states that a race rivalry occasioned an affray aboard the German steamer Blucher, bound from Hamburg to Buenos Aires. ...
Article : 41 wordsDetails of the naval disaster show that the weather was beautiful at the time. The Aboukir was hit about 6 o'clock in the morning and the other ships, thinking ...
Article : 120 wordsIt is stated here that five British aviators bombed Bickendorf aviation grounds, where there was a Zeppelin shed, near Cologne. They dropped several bombs from a height ...
Article : 68 wordsPrince William of Wied has announced his abdication of the Albanian throne. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Montenegrins are placing on Mount Lovchon long range guns capable of dismantling Calturo's forts and bombarding the Austrian ships in the Larbor. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir George Reid has purchased 35,000 elasp knives at Sheffield for the use of the Australian troops. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe second batch of 400 British women and children have arrived at Rotterdam from Germany en route to England. ...
Article : 29 wordsGreat Britain has declared copper to be contraband of war, with the idea of preventing its importation into Germany for permament purposes. ...
Article : 27 wordsA message from Malta, delayed by the censor, describes the arrival of a force of London territorials on the 13th and 14th instant, as a garrison force to relieve ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Gemma Ambassador at Washington says that Germany has won the war, and it is for the Allies to propose terms of peace. ...
Article : 32 wordsBritish survivors from the ill-fated cruisers were clad in all manner of clothes. Some were in Dutch clothes and others were soldiers' khaki jackets. ...
Article : 194 wordsThe "Novoe Vremya" states that up to the 14th the Russians had captured seven Austrian flags, 637 guns, 44 quickerers, and 64,000 prisoners including 535 officers. ...
Article : 34 wordsA German soldier writing to his wife said he had just been living through days that defied imagination. It was horrible and ghastly. For three days they were ...
Article : 78 wordsNews reached Sydney this morning of the sinking of the Burns, Philp Islad trading steamer Induma, which was rammed by a German warship while lying off Jaluit, in ...
Article : 271 wordsThe sunken cruisers had 28 naval cudets aboard who were called up for midshipmen's duties at the outbreak of war. ...
Article : 31 wordsTen per cent. of the British wounded are sufferomg from rheumatism, broncihitis, and overstrain, due to excessive marches. GERMAN PEOPLE INFURIATED. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Premier this afternoon, at the conclusion of a Cabinet meeting, said the question of the business of Parliament had been discussed. The necessity for making ...
Article : 186 wordsTwo hundred and sixty-six of the cruisers' survivors passed through here en route to Galeterlake. ...
Article : 21 wordsA Petrograd message states that the Austrians finding the abuse of the white flag an unsuccessful ruse adopted a new form of treachery. When threatened with ...
Article : 51 wordsOne hundred and nine German officers were killed and 271 wonded at the battle of the Marne. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir Edward Hutton welcomed 1700 Northumberland men at the Aylesbury territorial camp. It was a remarkable scene. Every man ...
Article : 76 wordsGeneral Von Kluck has established his headquarters at Mons. ...
Article : 15 wordsNearly half a million abandoned Austrian rifles were captured by Russians, together with many entire batteries of artillery. ...
Article : 25 wordsA corporal in the Lincolnshire regiment says that nearly all the approaches to the German trenches are mined for 200 yards, and some even for 1000 yards. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is estimated that 1000 lives were lost in the sinking of the British cruisers. Only 47 out of a complement of 843 on the Aboukir were saved. ...
Article : 206 wordsAll the forts in Galicia have fallen except Przemsyl and Cracow. The siege of Prezemstyl has begun. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe latest information from the battle front at Aisne states that the general situation in unchanged. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Germans in Belgium are still going southwards. An advance is being made against the German army corps based on Brussels. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Rand Mail" describes General Botha's appointment to command the British forces in German South-West Africa as "An answer to Beyers and his ...
Article : 33 wordsFrench officers, by a clever coup, blew up two trains which were badly wanted by the German reinforcement between Peronne and St. Quentin. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe poll for the New England electorate was officially declared at upon Tamworth yesterday by the Divisional Returning Officer (Mr. C. F. M. Teavers). The ...
Article : 129 wordsThe general secretary of the Gra d United Order of Oddfellows' states that circulars have been isued to 35,000 members of the Order, inviting them to subscribe ...
Article : 110 wordsLient. J. F. White, of Shannon Vale, who has volunteered for service with the expeditionary force, left for camp last night. ...
Article : 49 wordsA British Lancer, describing the fighting at the battle of Alsne, says: "When we came to close quarters the Germans screamed for mercy and held up their hands. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe tent mission, which was discontinued for a few weeks because the speakers went to conference in Sydney, will be re-opened next Sunday night, at 7.30 o'clock, with the ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. C. W. Wane. hon. treasurer to the Tamworth District Hospital, is in receipt of a load of cut firewood for the use of the hospital, from Mr. Fred Warner, of Gidley. ...
Article : 34 wordsGerman troops have landed at Memol, it the northern end of Prussia, and have in vaded Russia. Another force has advanced southward from the Masurian Lakes. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is reported that the Germans are building Zeppelins with feverish haste in order to attack England. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe various Sydney patriotic funds total £241,436. ...
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The Tamworth Daily Observer (NSW : 1910 - 1916), Fri 25 Sep 1914, Page 2
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