It is reported at Basic that the German right wing is slowly retiring in good order towards the Belgian frontier. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Russian fleet in the Baltic, aided by mines, is considered competent to frustrate any attempt by the Germans against the Finnish ports or Reval. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe lighting along the Aisne continues. It is considered just possible that the Germans will make a drawn ...
Article : 131 wordsSome of the Russian ships in the Baltic are stated 'to have come in damaged into Helsingfors. Holsingfors is the port of Finland—it is on the north side of the Gulf of Finland, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe possibility of a siege still looms. Exceptionally heavy rain momentarily hampers the military movements of the enemy, but the Germans have been ...
Article : 162 wordsA British cavalry officer declares that the fighting alone the Aisue was desperate, especially in the neighbourhood of Laon, where the Germans concentrated their ...
Article : 193 words"Terrible fellows! We have seen nothing like it," was a Frenchman's comment on the doggedness of the British. Fighting on the slopes above Soissons had been of ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is rumoured in Amiens that the Germans are beaten, and that their artillery fire is slackening, owing to the ammunition giving out. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe third report of the Belgian commission which is inquiring into the German atrocities states that between 6000 and 8000 inhabitants of Louvain were confined for a ...
Article : 342 wordsWe warned our readers that the story of the German cruiser Emde— and the Russian cruiser Askold sinking one another off Weihai-wei at the beginning of the war was not ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Germans declare that they can hold the Aisne position for three months if necessary. The natural fortress of bills, woods, and ...
Article : 233 wordsThe French Consul in Sydney has received the following message from his Government, with reference to the destruction of the wonderful cathedral at Reims ...
Article : 152 wordsGermans blew up the railway bridge near Staples. The Germans caught at Cise Missel, attempting to blow up a bridge, were court-martialled, and ordered to be ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Koenigsberg has disabled the Pegasus at Zanzibar. Theoretically their guns were much the same—but the fight was just what one might imagine—with a poor little "P ...
Article : 136 wordsNow that the Belgians have returned to Malines, they have discovered that the spire and fabric of the cathedral are not seriously damaged. ...
Article : 48 wordsA communique issued this afternoon states: "Our left Sank has made further slight progress on the bank of the Oise, and the Algerian division has captured ...
Article : 185 wordsIn connection with the collisions betwen Prussians and Bavarians it is slated that the Bavarians intentionally allowed six train loads of French prisoners from ...
Article : 52 wordsMany dead are unburied in Maubeuge. Most estimates of the losses there exceed 50,000. ...
Article : 17 wordsAt the declaration of the poll to-day for the division of Hindmarsh, the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Archibald), in moving a vote of thanks to the returning officer, said: ...
Article : 220 wordsThe "Daily Chronicles" Petrograd correspondent describes how General Rennenkampf rushed a brigrade forward from Grajewo, and discovered German ...
Article : 238 wordsThe following cablegrams have been received from Sir George Reid:- Official: There has been no change in the situation. The weather is still very bad. ...
Article : 638 wordsAdvices from Bordeaus state that Reims is a mass of ruins, the colleges and public buildings, in addition to the cathedral, being destroyed. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere is still very little news of the battle which has been going on for ten days in France. But there is one piece of news which will be remembered when the battle ...
Article : 143 wordsReims Cathedral has been razed to the ground. The French Government is protesting to the Powers against German vandalism. ...
Article : 27 wordsA German official communique states:— "The French at Reims compelled us to reply to their fire. We regret the city was damaged. Orders were issued to spare ...
Article : 39 wordsThe German headquarters staff, during the battle of the Marni, occupied the chateau of the Due de Rochefoucauld at Montiral. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe enemy made a night attack over a wide area in an effort to pierce the line covering Soissons. The attack was made during tremendous rain, which made it ...
Article : 196 wordsGerman officers wildly caroused at the chateau of M. Menier, a chocolate manufacturer, near Ville le Cotterets They then looted the chateau and carried off the ...
Article : 46 wordsGerman patrols have been seen 30 miles from Kakamas. The Germans have destroyed the wells within 30 miles of the frontier, rendering ...
Article : 36 wordsM. Gabriel d'Annunzio, the Italian novelist and dramatist, visited the battlefields of the Marne and the Aisne, and asserts that the things seen there were ...
Article : 47 wordsIn response to inquiries made by the Department of Labour and Industry, it has been ascertained that there are 450 unemployed labourers in Newcastle and suburbs. ...
Article : 163 wordsIt the Germans had bombarded Westminster Abbey till its old mullioned windows were a heap-of powdered dust, and the tombs of the kings and statesmen and poets of our race ...
Article : 266 wordsIn the closing hours of Thursday last the valley of the Aisne presented a terrible spectacle. It was raining heavily, the artillery ...
Article : 108 wordsTwo hundred thousand Austrian troops are concentrated in the Italian frontier. Italians at Trieste, wrongly denounced by spies, have been arrested, and their ...
Article : 35 wordsA Paris newspaper has obtained possession of a document alleged to reveal Germany's plan of campaign. It was found in a railway carriage five ...
Article : 199 wordsIt is stated that three German Army Corps are concentrated in the fortified position in the vicinity of Przemsyl, west of Lemburg, with orders to defend the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe victim of the armed liner Carmania was the Cap Trafalgar. ...
Article : 16 wordsA Frenchman reports that thousands of German corpses are still unburied between Meaux and Sezanne, and all the villages are destroyed. ...
Article : 184 wordsA start was made this morning with the earthworks of the Broken Hill-Menindie-Condobolin railway. The start was made just on the other side of the line of lode near the ...
Article : 82 wordsA Frenchman who was formerly at Oxford writes to an English friend stating that when the Germans abandon villages they destroy everything, and kill all the ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is reported that a few nights ago three Germans crept close to the British gun positions, where a sergeant shot two, whereupon the third surrendered. ...
Article : 168 wordsIt was beneath the columns of this wonderful church that every King of France was crowned from 1212 down to 1830, with three solitary inceptions—Henry IV., Napoleon I., ...
Article : 365 wordsIt is estimated that the total Austrian casualties in Galicia representas per cent, of 1,000,000 Austrian troops engaged there. The Russian casualties are estimated at ...
Article : 90 wordsDiscussing the present position in the mining industry as affected by the war, Mr. Appel said to-day that the Government was endeavouring to do what it could to relieve ...
Article : 97 wordsExcept for this there seems to be practically no change along the great line of battle. The position is very uncertain. Some accounts seem to hint that the Allies are a ...
Article : 187 wordsThe "Bonre Gazette" says that before peace is declared Russia must secure the freedom of the Slavs from the foreign yoke, and end the nightmare of German ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is officially announced that on the left wing below Soissons our troops vigorously attacked by superior forces, gave some ground, which was almost ...
Article : 238 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hutchinson) to-day conferred with representatives of shipping companies. who explained the reasons for the increased freight charges. ...
Article : 87 wordsIt is stated officially that Japanese troops landed at Lao Shan Bay on Thursday, and attacked the enemy, who occupied a fortified position at Wang Ko ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Richard Harding Davis, the famous American novelist and war correspondent, describes the Turcos and Senegalese as the fiercest fighters of all. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe news that General Rennenkampf has held up at several points the German army which was invading Russia from East Prussia is welcome and likely to be true. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Government of Nova Scotia is arranging for the despatch of a food steamer to Belgium. The "Daily Mail" correspondent at ...
Article : 320 wordsThe president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, acknowledges receipt of the following contributions to the Regimental Comforts Fund:—Amount already ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Russian official report of the negotiations which preceded the war shows even more distinctly than the despatches of Sir Maurice de Bunsen (British ...
Article : 50 wordsThe most important news of the great battle in France is the report of the position of the Allies' new army, which is now furiously attacking the German flank. Its position is now ...
Article : 154 wordsIt is important to notice that the Russians state that the German Army concentrating near Posen intends attacking the Russian central armies. The central Russian armies ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Premier cabled to the Agent-General some days ago an inquiry as to whether the press report that Germany was endeavouring to make a separate peace with ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 22 Sep 1914, Page 7
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