Mr. Chandler Hale, of the staff of the United States embassy, has forwarded to Washington a report on the detention camp ut Douglas, Isle of Man, where ...
Article : 156 wordsMr. Lionel Hurley of the N.S.W. London office, who is driving an ambulance waggon at the front, gives a vivid description of the bombardment of the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe recapture by the Belgians of the village of St. George places the Allies in possession of several positions of great tactical importance. The Germans at ...
Article : 317 wordsGradually the Germans are beginning to recognise that the British army is not at all the "contemptible" body of troops that the Kiaser scornfully [?] ...
Article : 163 wordsAlmost as hazardous as, and certainly not less arduous then, the work of the troops in the light leg line, is the task imposed upon the men of the ambulance ...
Article : 156 wordsApologist for Germany declare that the allegations of ferocious brutality and unmitigated savagery against the Kaiser's troops are a fabricated tissue of ...
Article : 285 words"Three minutes latter," said, Mr. Hurley, continuing his description of the incidents and the sensations he experienced, "other shells flopped into buildings ...
Article : 116 words"We wakened just after dawn to the sound of heavy firing" (writes Mr. Watkins), "and without waiting even for breakfast we at once moved off. Early in ...
Article : 207 wordsA wounded German officer; in a letter to the Berlin "Ta[?]eblatt" pays a generous tribute to the fighting qualities of the British. ...
Article : 116 wordsAbout the middle of November, there was some dissatisfaction with the quality of potatoes served to the prisoners, and on November l8th the men declared ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. Hurley and his party took photographs under a rain of shells, and conversed with the inhabitants. Never before," he said, "have I seen such abject ...
Article : 107 wordsAs if to give point to the fire-cating general's words, the Munich "Nachrichten," led than a fortnight ago, published a letter from a certain Lieutenant ...
Article : 60 wordsThe German socialist newspaper "Vorwaerts" publishes a German, soldier's letter, deploring the current description of the British troops as "contemptible ...
Article : 48 wordsDuring the fighting in Flanders on Christmas Eve, the germans exploded a mine underneath a trench on the Allies' right, and several yards were blown in. ...
Article : 124 words"I talked freely with the wounded." says Mr. Hale, "and gathered that the prisoners were in the wrong and had only themselves to blame. One of the most ...
Article : 108 wordsIt has been asserted that all the stories of looting, lust and murder come from Belgium, and that this fact alone is sufficient to stamp them as untrue. But ...
Article : 196 wordsWhat the quality of our men is soldiers letters and official reports abundantly testify. Sir Frederick Treves in a recent report says: "A motor cyclist has just ...
Article : 64 words"At La Rosiere, about two miles from the fighting line, we formed a dressing station, and at once went out with the bearers to seek for the wounded. Our ...
Article : 125 words'It is interesting to see from the English illustrated papers what some people think war looks like writes a British Officer). Really it looks Just like any ...
Article : 112 wordsA private in the Royal Sussex Regiment writes:—"We were only 300 yards from a battery of German death 'screechers, which naturally opened fire into ...
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Advertising : 568 wordsAs the outcome of strenuous Inbors by more-than 2,000 workmen, the sluices at Zeebrugge have been repaired, and the Germans are again making use of the ...
Article : 79 words"The scenes in the searchlight-streaked darkness are [?] in the extreme" (writes an officer, who witnessed several of the night attacks on the Yser. "Shells, ...
Article : 218 words"Later came 'Orders'—we were in full retreat, the infantry fighting a desperate rearguard action; dead and wounded must be left where they lay; we must trust to ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the village of Coinabes near to Saint Die, a detachment of German soldiers broke into the villa occupied by Madame Edouard Deffin, and what ...
Article : 200 wordsA British officer who has returned from the front speaks in glowing terms of the work of the Indian troops. He says: "Their cleverness in spring out the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe [?] country between Festubert and Givenc[?]y has again been the scene of [?] ...
Article : 96 words"Here and their we added to our load of wounded men until our ambulance waggons were full of the fruits of the fight. One, an officer of the Bedford ...
Article : 153 wordsA Berlin telegram a few days ago stated that there were more than a quarter of a million soldiers from Russia, Belgium, France and Britain in ...
Article : 206 wordsGermans vigorously attacked the [?] and hand gren[?] for hours the struggle con[?] the Indians resisting [?] ...
Article : 95 wordsDuring the fighting near Arras, a section of the Germans, with a certain grim appra[?]eness [?]ttenched themselves in the cemetery. The French bayonet attack ...
Article : 88 words"Darkness had closed in upon us. but sill we trekked on. No halt to rest either horses or men was possible; for every half meant a dreadful payment in the lives ...
Article : 101 wordsFrench, English and Indians [?] desperately side by side in a confused line regardless of nationality or regiments, with bayonets, knives and ...
Article : 108 words"While the doctors were busy doing what they might for the wounded men, at the request of Colonel Crawford, I rode into the neighboring village of Villars ...
Article : 190 words"You can have no idea." said a Belgian officer in describing the battle in which he tool part, [?] can adequate idea be conveyed in words, of the hideous ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. James Sparkes, of Jimbour (Q.) has received a letter from his sister, who is performing nursing duties in England in connection with the war. Writing from ...
Article : 329 wordsFrance and Italy are thrilling with admiration of the heroism displayed by Bruno Garibaldi (a grandson of the great Italian patriot) who died while leading ...
Article : 168 words"I have shot some Germans," writes a sergeants in the King's Own Royal Lancaster in a letter to his children in Manchester, " and we have caught three spies ...
Article : 88 wordsMuch interest has been aroused in the United States by an article that Mr. Poulten[?]y Bigelow has published in most of the leading journals in the country. ...
Article : 227 words"The dogs with the field hospitals and ambulance corps of the Allies, are wonderful," says Miss Marie Segur, in a letter to friends in Sydney. "They have ...
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The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 - 1955), Tue 5 Jan 1915, Page 3
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