It is officially announced that 1200 Free State rebels, and all the leaders save one, surrendered on Tuesday. General Botha announces that the ...
Article : 164 wordsHerr Ahlers, German Consul at Sunderland, who was indicted on a charge of high treason under a statute of Edward III., concerning levying war against the ...
Article : 117 wordsAfter the action early in November, when the Good Hope and the Monmouth were sunk off Coronel Bay, Chili, the German squadron worked its way southward and round the Horn. They were evidently making northward, clear of the Argentine coast, when Sir Frederick Sturdee's squadron, coming southward, met ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 wordsEighteen Australian ambulances will be used near the front. Six will work on the line from Nieuport to Calais, six from Arras to Roulers, and ...
Article : 35 wordsThe German cruisers, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Leipsig were engaged and sunk by a British squadron in the South Atlantic. ...
Article : 130 wordsInquiries made by Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia) show that there is little prospect of Belgian children who have been rendered orphans by the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe only German cruisers now on the high seas are the Dresden and Nurnberg, which the British squadron is at present chasing, and the Karisruhe and the Bremen. They are ...
Article : 190 wordsPaul George Wentzell, a German, has been indicted at the Assizes on a charge of spying. He was found in possession of an ...
Article : 54 wordsSir Frederick Sturdee, K.C.B., C.V.O., C.M.G. entered the navy as a cadet in 1871, and became midshipman in 1873. He was promoted lientenant in 1880, and while holding that ...
Article : 190 wordsGiving evidence before the House of Representatives Committee on Naval Affairs. Brigadier-General Crozier said that as long as the German fleet was bottled up it was ...
Article : 334 wordsThe Bourse Gazette states that Turkey was unable to pay the State officials, und sent Fethi Bey to Berlin to interview Dr. Von Bethmnn Hollweg. Later he saw the ...
Article : 121 wordsEven if the presden and the Nurnberg elude capture by Vice-Admiral Sturdee's squadron, the search for the quartette of small cru[?]sers should now be pressed so vigorously ...
Article : 378 wordsLord Selborne, in a letter to tlie newspapers, urges the Government to institute an immediate inquiry as to what men can be called to the colours, so as to obviate ...
Article : 134 wordsIt is officially stated that the 110th Mahrattas, assisted by an armed steamer, on December 5, drove the enemy across the Tigris, opposite Kurnah, with heavy losses, ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Germans at Bruges shot a Frenchman who was accused of furnishing the Allies with the locality of the petrol depots upon which aeronauts recently ...
Article : 57 wordsThe news of the British success in the naval engagement off the Falkland Islands waa received with enthusiasm all over the Dominion. ...
Article : 30 wordsA cablegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies dated London, December 9, 6.55 p.m., states:- Russian headquarters report a grave ...
Article : 68 wordsThe battle cruiser Breslau attacked Russian transports on Wednesday. No damage was done. The cruiser was driven off by airmen. ...
Article : 27 wordsA Munich message states that the Bavarian General, Von Meyer, was killed while stepping out of his motor car, being transfixed by a steel dart dropped from ...
Article : 39 wordsThere is every reason for jubilation over the thorough manner in which the British navy has avenged tho loss of tho Good Hope and the Monmouth. Up till a late hour last ...
Article : 271 wordsThe "Giornale Nazionale" confirms a report that Austria has offered autonomy to the province of Trente, but the subject will remain in abeyance till the arrival in Rome ...
Article : 54 wordsThe keenest jubilation exists here over Admiral Sturdee's victory. General Birdwood sails on Saturday to assume command of the Australasian ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Government, which was transferred from Paris to Bordeaux, has now returned to Paris. ...
Article : 31 wordsA communique states:—The French advanced from Tarilllers. A German attack at Tracy-le-Val was repulsed. A communique yesterday stated:— ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is officially announced that the British Squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee, off the Falkland Islands, at 7.30 on the morning of the 5th, engaged ...
Article : 119 wordsA communique denies the German reports of heavy Russian losses at Lodz. The Russians abandoned Lodz at midnight on December 6. The Germans, fearing a ...
Article : 84 wordsDrummer Bent, of the East Lancashire Regiment, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Legheer. On the night of November 1, when the officer of ...
Article : 113 wordsIn reply to "Roseville," who asks for the relative numerical strength of the United States, French, and Italian navies, the following list of effective fighting ships from ...
Article : 115 wordsTrain loads of corpses continue to be despatched from Belgium eastwards for cremation. Some are being taken to the German glass furnaces. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Pan-American Union has appointed a commission, including Mr. Bryan, United States Secretary of State, and various South American Ambassadors, to study the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Dunkirk says that the German front has been bent back between Menin and Roulers, which is threatened with capture. ...
Article : 100 wordsImperial Transport Lieutenant F. W. A. Steele, of the Royal Fusiliers, a Victorian, who was mentioned in despatches, has arrived in London. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe bagging of the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Leipzig, balances our account with Germany in the way of cruiser losses. But the most notable fact in regard to the cruiser ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Navy List shows Vice-Admiral Sturdee to be Chief of the War Staff. It appears that the Germans were surprised by an unknown squadron, of which ...
Article : 43 words"R.B.": There has never been any official announcement made as to the number of British troops on tho Continent; but it was stated by one responsible Frenchman that ...
Article : 60 wordsWith the assistance of the five fresh army corps and the five cavalry divisions, which were reported last week to have reached Kalisz, the Germans are largely ...
Article : 178 wordsMembers of the Opposition in the Japanese Diet asked Vice-Admiral Kato whether the Government was pledged to return Kiao-Chao to China. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Distinguished Service Order has been bestowed on the late Captain Douglas Lucas Tooth. ...
Article : 19 wordsThere were great rejoicings tnrougnout Canada as the result of the South American battle. Official circles express satisfaction, as the Pacific trade routes have ...
Article : 143 wordsThe tortuous ways of German diplomacy have been a by-word ever aince the entertaining Busch revealed some of the secrets of Bismarck's later years," says the Paris ...
Article : 279 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Montreal correspondent, commenting upon a despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Lewis Harcourt), respecting ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Prince of Wales has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Belgians on December 8 cleverly captured several German trenches along the Yser. Noticing that the Taube aeroplanes were active, the Belgians prepared ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau were sister ships. They were armoured cruisers of 11,420 tons displacement, with a length of 449½ft, a beam of 70[?]ft, and a draught of ...
Article : 255 wordsAt the time of the engagement between the Emden and the Sydney the landing party from the former vessel boarded the old schooner Ayesha, belonging to Mr. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe German Emperor is suffering from continual headaches, and he is extremely violent towards those around him. His nervous depression is due to ...
Article : 83 wordsA "Mahormedan loyalty meeting was held in the Khalikdana Hall, Karachi, attended by the leading local Mahomedan sitizens, writes a Karachi conespondent of the 'Times of ...
Article : 321 wordsThe movements of the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had been watched with the greatest interest in Australia. Whilst the career of the Emdon, which was ...
Article : 598 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent says that the Czar has made a journey to Ekaterinodar to visit the Black Sea Cossacks. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Page, United States Ambassador in London, has handed to his Government the British regulations under which the wool embargo will be lifted. He has also ...
Article : 59 words"Give me a piece of soap," I said, "and some towels and a tooth-brush, and I don't care much what happens." Such was the philosophical comment of Mrs. ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Basle correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says: "According to the 'Berliner Tageblatt' China will be Germany's nest ally. Doubtless German secret agents ...
Article : 46 wordsVice-Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee, tho hero of the Falkland Islands a[?]air, will be remembered by 'Australians as commander of the British force employed in Samoa in the ...
Article : 382 wordsA train of 40 carriages containing 1500 German wounded was derailed between Gemmenicht and Aachen. Fifty were killed and many injured. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Servians were forced to retreat further than they planned. The Austrians, elated at their success, threw a large force against the Servian left, which again fell ...
Article : 104 wordsThere are many protests against the War Office regulation requiring the police to keep registers of soldiers and sailors' wives, with the right to enter houses and ...
Article : 82 wordsA young Belgian airman dropped bombs upon a German transport column near Ostend, destroying three motor lorries and throwing the column into confusion. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe German Emperor visited a hospital in Metz and presented a French private with a red rose, saying: "Take this souvenir." The soldier refused the rose, and ...
Article : 53 wordsIn his book, "Three Years' War," General De Wet thus expressed himself concerning the Treaty of Vereeniging, which he has now deliberately broken: "It was a ...
Article : 136 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states that the Germans have removed the Waterloo collection from Mont-Saint-Jean. They, have also removed other Waterloo relics. ...
Article : 32 wordsPrince Alexander of Servia, telegraphing from Kragujevacs, reports a fresh disaster to the Austrians. The Servians captured 20,000 prisoners and 50 cannon. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe barque Erminia, which left Newcastle on September 5, has arrived at Toco[?] ...
Article : 19 wordsAn aeronaut in a Taube aeroplane dropped bombs upon Hazebrouck and killed six civilians and seven British soldiers. A dozen English people were also ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 11 Dec 1914, Page 9
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