Captain C. E. W. Bran, the official reporter with the First Australian Force in Egy[?] says in his latest report that there are in the ranks "a prepa[?] of men ...
Article : 370 wordsThe New Guin[?] contingent that returned to Sydney by the Mo[?]da on Wednesday. fifty-three in all, are the men of the force that recently engaged ...
Article : 422 wordsThe power of the "mailed fist" is still being manifested in An oppressive manner in Belgium. A German proclamation forbids the population of Belgium to ...
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Advertising : 737 wordsMuch has been written about the conduct of the Bavaian troops serving with the German army, and it is strongly believed that they have very little ...
Article : 186 wordsSome of the prisoner from the Emdon were transferred to one of the transports conveying the Australian Expeditionary Force to Egypt, and a correspondent of ...
Article : 203 wordsIn a racy letter to his friends at home, a private in the London scoltish describes his experiences in action as the finest excitement going." "We've had our first ...
Article : 191 words"Then we found a deserted trench, and stopped there until dark, still being shelled, and hearing the regiment snapping away in the distance. At dusk we made ...
Article : 85 wordsAll this serves to five piquancy to a story that an aviator, who has just returned form a patt of the from front where the Freact, are or were, opposed by ...
Article : 107 wordsThere were many covet our ryes cast upon the cap ribbons with "S.M.S. Emden" silvered thereon, but very few of the sailors were willing to part with them. The ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. Alexander Powell, war correspondent in Belgium for the "New York World," in the preface to hip latest volume of war stories, entitled "Fighting in ...
Article : 266 words"Eventually, at 12.45, they come on live or six deep, singing their national anthem, and walking quite slowly. Not liking Germen music, we gave them rapid fire ...
Article : 165 wordsAll the while the Germans regularly destroyed a defence work that the French regularly reconstructed day by day, and the French destroyed a redoubt that the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe transport officers and men were rather sorry to see the prisoners depart—and that this feeling was predominant among the Germans was plainly shown by ...
Article : 81 wordsEveryone bears testimony to the fine soldierly bearing of the overwhelming majority of the men and even the Germans themselves pay tribute to the ...
Article : 90 wordsBefore separating, the officers exchanged newspapers, Ana one of the Bavarians said: "Our time is nearly up. We do not know what troops will take our place, but ...
Article : 74 wordsAfter wandering about for some hours the small party succeeded in rejoining their regiment. "We had only had one biscuit and jam since the previous ...
Article : 199 wordsCompany, which has just returned from New Guinea, has had a fair share of the military activities that followed' the hoisting of the British flag in the ...
Article : 162 wordsSir George Reid, who has just returned to London after visiting the troops in Egypt, says that "the type of men is magnificent, and has exceeded my ...
Article : 251 wordsCaptain von Muller, of the Emden, is well known in London, where he has left many friends. He was domiciled for tome years, acting as naval attache to the ...
Article : 174 wordsIn illustration of the extraordinary conditions prevailing at the front, where the trenches of the combatants are separated by only a score or two yards, a French ...
Article : 203 wordsGeneral von Kluck has followed that example of his less distinguished cols league, Cenerel Disfurth, in proclaim[?] to the world that Germany boasts her ...
Article : 72 words"I am longing for another die at them It is the finest excitement going, and the things you sec and hear make you absolutely-merciless. Fancy, they-came ...
Article : 90 wordsA second oaten of men of the Commonwealth expeditionary force returned to Sydney from the late German possessions tin Wednesday by the Morinda. ...
Article : 186 wordsThe editor of the "Independance Bel[?] writes that in the smaller towns the situation is heartbreaking. The inhabitantsz who stayed or returned are in the greatest ...
Article : 181 wordsA member of the A.S.C. at Colombo, writing to his parents in Queensland, says:—"We have the prisoners taken by the Sydney from the Emden, and they ...
Article : 165 wordsAn illuminating instance of grim, but unconscious, humor occurred in connection with a patrol of British soldiers that uns detailed to bury a large number ...
Article : 114 wordsA fino story of the bravery of the Cardon Highlanders in a recent engagement with the enemy is told by a sergeant in the regiment. The Gordons, he says ...
Article : 192 wordsIn a recent number of the "Frankfurter Zeitung," there is a paragraph trial will have considerable interest for Australians, and for the wives of Australian ...
Article : 378 wordsThe (Germans in Liege are conducting themselves with more or less restraint, but the) make their presence strongly felt (says a Belgian lady who has just ...
Article : 109 wordsCaptain Becket of the Clan Graham, which arrived at Sydney last Tuesday from Mauritius, relates a remarkable incident in connection with the German ...
Article : 366 wordsLieutenant Donald Cameron, of the Cameron Highlanders, and Lieutenant S. Cameron of the Royal Artillery, sons of Colonel Cameron, of Tasmania, are at ...
Article : 84 wordsAt one point of the line (writes art Irish soldier) German and French troops were not more than one hundred yards apart. They could hear each other talk ...
Article : 80 wordsThere has been a great outcry in Germany against exaggerations of the outrages in Belgium. Possibly it wan, in support of this movement that the ...
Article : 128 wordsA special report of the Belgian Commission of inquiry deals with the maltreatment of priests in Belgium by the Germans, it states that churches and ...
Article : 161 wordsColonel F. Lassetter, of the big Sydney emporium, who is a British military officer of long service, went to England on the outbreak of war and was ...
Article : 58 wordsFull of discomforts as is life in the trenches Tommy Atkins hits discovered that it is not without its possibilities of humor, and when opportunity offers he ...
Article : 154 wordsMilitary horse buyers are operating over a large area of Queensland and are securing sonic very line animals. Captain Towers and Major Corrie inspected ...
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Advertising : 40 wordsThe Assistant Minister of Defence (Mr. Jensen) on Tuesday made available the result of the examination for the year 1914 of candidates for admission ...
Article : 158 wordsWriting from Netley Hospital, where he is lying wounded, a trooper of the Royal Dragoon Guard, describes his escape from his German captors ...
Article : 231 wordsIn striking contrast to the diplomat's picture of life life at Cairo is the simple story told by an Australian officer In a letter to his parents, received in ...
Article : 114 wordsAt Shaffen, where the enemy accused the people of firing on the advancing troops, a priest was maltreated in every way, one of his punishments being that ...
Article : 192 wordsA letter from a resident in Sumatra gives an interesting account of the wanderings of the schooner Ayesha, in which some of the members of the Emden's ...
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The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 - 1955), Fri 29 Jan 1915, Page 2
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