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Advertising : 52 wordsNotwithstanding that they have been reinforced by about 60,000 men who have advanced across Belgium the German forces in France have been driven back ...
Article : 166 wordsField-Marshal Sir John Trench, Commander-in-chief of the British expeditionary force, sends the following interesting report on the operations of his ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Arethusa, which took such a prominent part in the British naval victory off Heligoland, did its gallant work almost in the dark. ...
Article : 165 wordsThose persons (if any such there be) that imagined the Allies would present an insurmountable obstacle tu the German advance on Paris have, by this time, ...
Article : 137 wordsA message from Rome states that the advance guard of the Russian centre, having invaded Silesia, is marching towards Berlin. The capture of Breslau ...
Article : 167 wordsWell may the "Times" say in a leading article: "Gladly and joyously the Empire is responding to the King's call. In every ...
Article : 181 wordsThe German Ambassador in New York, when not engaged in issuing accounts of imaginary German victories, is busy trying to make mischief between ...
Article : 160 wordsMessages from both Petrograd and Co[?]enghagen state that the Emperor Francis Joseph is in fairly good health. It is also stated that in the near future ...
Article : 148 words"Reports were received on August 23rd that the enemy were commencing to attack the Mons line, apparently in some strength, and threatening particularly ...
Article : 128 wordsOn that fateful day in July, 1870, when Napoleon the Third declared war against Prussia, M. Emile Ollivier, the Emperor's right hand man, assured the ...
Article : 244 wordsA telegram from Scutari, states that General Vukotitch, with three, Montenegrin columns, after a stubborn resist and succeeded in occupying Focha, an ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Austrian army, stated to be 600,000 strong is being caught between two Russian armies, and a fight is raging from Lublin, in Russian Poland, to ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is [?]mate for any hostile ship, whether war vessel or merchant vessel in war time to fly the flag of any neutral country it pleases. The only check that ...
Article : 151 wordsWithin the next twelve months the British navy will be increased by twelve first-class ships. Obviously the battleships that were to have been ready in October, ...
Article : 238 wordsThe result of the last four day four days' fightling shows that the southern division of the German army of invasion is being caught between two fires. The French ...
Article : 138 wordsRecruits in Great Britain average 30,000 a day. Remarkable scenes of cri[?]thusiasm are of hourly occurrence. On Monday, London had a records day 4,833 ...
Article : 76 wordsEugitives from Austria-Hungary state that the Australians are now menaced with a rising in the Duchy of Bukovina, south of Galicia. In that district Hungarian ...
Article : 53 wordsA message from London says that the Russians have occupied four passes in the Carpathians. They are everywhere victorious, and ...
Article : 73 words"In the meantime, about evening. I received a most unexpected telegram from General Joffre that at least three German army corps were moving on my position ...
Article : 86 wordsA message from Petrograd confirms the news of the German rush to defend East Prussia. It is estimated that the enemy has ...
Article : 52 wordsWhat Australia is dong we all know, what Canada would do we all guessed but the almost prodigal patrio[?] of india is as welcome as it is unexpected ...
Article : 224 wordsMilitary critics state that there are several puzzling features of the recent operations, and that it is difficult to account for the turn of the tide in view of the fact ...
Article : 191 wordsIt is to be hoped that no trouble will arise with the United States concerning the vexed question of buying ships. Mr. Cecil Spring-Rice British ...
Article : 91 wordsRefugees from Kalize, on the boundary, of Russian Poland and Germany, state that a German patrol on the outskirts, of the town fired on their own ...
Article : 171 wordsAt the outset of the war," says a high military official. "Austria was the most serious enemy Russia had to contend against, because except for four ...
Article : 106 words"A certain amount of fighting continued along the whole line throughout the night, and at daybreak on the 24th the second division from the ...
Article : 133 wordsDuring the next year it is probable that Germany will have ready the battleships Markgraf and Grosser Kurfurst (if these are not already in the fleet), and the ...
Article : 121 wordsIt is not to be expected, however, that perfection characterises each detail of the military organisation, and every report that has come to hand tells of the ...
Article : 161 wordsMr.W.G,McAdoo, Secretary to the Treasury, in speaking before the merchant marine committee in the House of Representative, which was engaged ...
Article : 77 wordsA cable from Rome states that the Russian left assaulted a strongly-fortified position on the Gnilalpa, a tributary of the Vistula. ...
Article : 48 words"Towards this desirable end. the fortress of Maubeage may be able to contribute materially, Owing to the spirited defence of the fortress against the ...
Article : 98 words"At about 7.30 o'clock in the morning Major-General Allenby received from Sir Charles Ferguson, commanding the fifth division, a message that he was very ...
Article : 168 wordsAdvices from Melbourne state that the Secretary for the Colonies in London has forwarded a message from the King to the Governments and peoples of the overseas Dominions. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe operations of the war have been so varied and have covered, [?] filed, also the news that has been permitted to filter through is so fragmentary, and disjointed that many persons have only hazy notions respecting the actual position of affairs. A concise ...
Article : 532 wordsAccording to Mr. Lewis Harcourt only four German cruisers and one Austrian have been sunk. In view of information previously received from other sources, ...
Article : 108 wordsProfessor Hale, one of the leading educationalists of America, advocates, that the United States should immediately declare war against Germany for the ...
Article : 67 wordsGood as the artillery is admitted to be, our men declare that the Germans' use of machine guns is even better, and that neither artillery nor rifle fire has ...
Article : 91 wordsMr, D.Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been, telling an English audience of the importance of money in warlike negotiations. ...
Article : 121 wordsElsewhere along the whole trout, from the Swiss frontier to Verdun the French are holding the enemy at bay. It is reported that the Germans evacuated ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is announced that the President of the united States intends to ask the joint session of Consress for a war taxation measure to raise £20,000,000 ...
Article : 89 wordsA cable from Copenhagen reports that a squadron of German battleships, with cruisers and destroyers, has been seen in the Gulf of Bothnia, between Finland and ...
Article : 35 words"The French were still retiring, and I had no supports, except such as were afforded by the fortress of Maubeuge. The enemy's determined attempt to get ...
Article : 168 wordsObviously, the slaughter of the foe is the main object desired: less obviously, and only slightly less influential, is the demoralisation that this continuous ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Oceanic, a merchant ship converted into a British cruiser, which has been wrecked off the cost of Scotland, was the famous Atlantic greyhound in which ...
Article : 95 wordsThirteen hundred Belgian refugess have arrived at Folkestone, the Kentish port in the south of England. In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith ...
Article : 54 wordsThe correspondent of a London newspaper describes how he came upon the battle at Meaux. Driving along, his car surmounted a hill overlooking the little ...
Article : 161 words"At length it was apparent that in order to avoid being completely annihilated a retirement must be attempted. The retirement was commenced at 3.30 ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Holland-America [?]ner Norrdam from New York for Rotterdam, with many German reservists and a general cargo also destined for Germany has been ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Admiralty announces that a British naval airship will cruise about London during the next few days and nights, ...
Article : 24 wordsAnother disturbing factor, especially upon the morale of young troops, is [?] lustrated in a letter from the front:—"One disconcerting thing about the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe third list of British casualties issued by the War Office gives the following totals:-Killed, 42: wounded. 147: missing, 4.607. Between 2,000 and 3,000 ...
Article : 43 words"The Flying Corps, although fired at constantly by friend and foe, did not hesitate to fly in any kind of weather, By actually, fighting in the air they ...
Article : 39 wordsLieutenant-General [?], with the first division, was heavily engaged on the 25th south and east of Maroilles. Partly owing to the assistance of two ...
Article : 67 wordsSir John Jellicoe is generally regarded us one of the most scientific officer in the British navy. He is in the front rank of gunnery experts—a fact of which full ...
Article : 181 wordsMr. Reginald McKenna, Home Secretary announced in the House of Commons that 9,000 cases of suspected espionage on the part of aliens in England ...
Article : 79 wordsSir John French adds: "I cannot close the brief account of the glorious stand of the British troops without recording my deep appreciation of the valuable ...
Article : 128 wordsMuch,too, depends upon the man behind the gun and in the German army he has been trained and disciplined until he is little more than an automaton. ...
Article : 130 words"At daybreak, on August 20th, it was apparent that the enemy were throwing the bulk of their strength against the left of the position occupied by our ...
Article : 126 wordsDuring the German retreat in the Martie Valley on Tuesday the French and British cavalry smashed a German patrol, while the Horse Artillery, directed by an ...
Article : 48 wordsMaximilian Dinz. a German cigarette manufacturer, in London, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, and has been ordered to be deported at the ...
Article : 57 wordsA brigade of 8,000 Zouaves went with a terrible dash into the recent battle at Meaux but fewer than 1,000 emerged from it the remainder having been mowed ...
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The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 - 1955), Sat 12 Sep 1914, Page 1
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