The cruisers Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy had for some time prior to the disaster been patrolling the North Sea— in the words of a bluejacket, "out for ...
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Article : 266 wordsA French soldier states that a French officer, after tapping the telegraph wire between Peronne and Saint Quentin, impersonated a German officer, and ascertained ...
Article : 69 wordsRouter's Agency received the following [?]essage from its Paris correspondent on Wednesday:—"Wounded from the battle-field state that the Germans lost ...
Article : 133 words"Paris reports that while a German cruiser and two torpede boats were laying mines in the Baltic, all were sunk by the Russian cruiser Bayan." ...
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Article : 34 wordsThe Government, in calling for additional volunteers, says that the South African Union is aware that many South Africans are desirous of serving with the ...
Article : 55 wordsRegarding the disaster in the North S[?]a, it is stated that the Aboukir was hit in several places, and disappeared in five minutes. The Hogue, after lowering her ...
Article : 170 wordsThe German Consul states that the submarine U9 has returned safely and undamaged. None of the wounded British sailor[?] ...
Article : 33 wordsA deputation of French-Canadians is seeking sanction to incorporate a regiment recruited in Quebec for foreign service. Five thousand French-Canadians are ...
Article : 31 wordsNews from Berlin states that the sinking of the cruisers caused great enthusiasm in the German capital, where it was declared that Britain had received a mere ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Martin Donohoe, war correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," at present with the Belgian army, telegraphs that the Germans stampeded out of Termonde, St. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe steamer Mamari, which left Wellington on July 27, has arrived at London. The barque Bossuet, which left Port Victoria on May 25 with 35,977 bushels of ...
Article : 112 wordsMost of the victims belong to Chatham, where about a thousand homes are faced with mourning. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn official communique states:- "Our left, on the right bank of the Oise, has progressed about l8 kilometres (11 miles) in the Lassigny district, where ...
Article : 265 wordsA message from Berlin states that only one submarine attacked the Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy. It adds that the vessel has not yet returned. ...
Article : 31 wordsNearly 500,000 Austrian rifles have been captured by the Russian army; also many entire batteries of artillery. The Novoe Vremya states that up till ...
Article : 53 wordsLieut-General Sir Edward Hutton welcomed 1700 Northumberland men at the Aylesbury camp yesterday. There was a remarkable scene when every man raised ...
Article : 332 wordsThe trawler Kilmarnock (165 tons) has been sunk by a mine in the North Sea, and six of those on board have been drowned. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the [?]Daily Chronicle" states that it is [?]ot doubted that the German plans have been radically chnnged. While maintaining the ...
Article : 167 wordsA member of the crew of the lowestoft states that the Cressy continued firing until her guns, were nearly under water. The captain went down with his vess[?] ...
Article : 267 wordsSir George Reid cables under date of September 22, 10.45 p.m.:- Official: The following descriptive account sent from headquarters, dated ...
Article : 2,805 wordsThe Harwich correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the parent ship of the German submarine flotilla flew the Dutch flag, and made no effort to save ...
Article : 115 wordsDetails of the harassing of the Crown Prince's army state that the Chateau Mondement, which sheltered his headquarters staff, was taken and retaken four times, ...
Article : 301 wordsThe "Het Handelsblad" states that five British airmen f[?]ew over the Bickendo[?]f aviation grounds, near Co[?]ogne, where a Zeppelin airship shed is situated. ...
Article : 116 wordsA member of the Aboukir watch states: "The explosion shook the whole ship, and tore a great lump out of her side. Many men who were on the upper deck were ...
Article : 143 wordsThe captain of the Dutch steamer Titan, which has arrived at Rotterdam, stat[?] "I was 30 miles off the coast when I saw three English cruisers on the horizon. ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Red Cross Society has forwarded a case containing 20 shirts, 19 pairs pyjamas, kit bags, socks, handkerchiefs, bandages, writing materials, glass towels, literature, etc. ...
Article : 351 wordsThe official German version of the destruction of Reims Cathedral states:— "Since September 20 the white flag hoisted on the spire of the cathedral was respected ...
Article : 151 wordsDougherty, chief gunner on the Cressy, stated in an interview:—"The water was fairly rough. We were steaming slowly in [?]ne somewhere off the coast of Holland. A ...
Article : 380 words"September 23, 10.15 p.m.:—Reliable. The operations during the three days alo[?] an extended front were in favour of the Allies, and the enemy sustained a serie[?], of ...
Article : 102 wordsSapper Gilhooly, of the Royal Engineers, relates the following story: "Last week on the Marne we spent two days constructing a mine towards the German lines. When [?] ...
Article : 92 wordsLord Rosebery, speaking in Midloth[?] last night, declared, "We are fighting for public law in Europe, on which all international relations must be based, unless we ...
Article : 111 words"Official: The Admiralty reports that yesterday British aeroplanes from the naval wing delivered an attack on a Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf (on the Rhine, in ...
Article : 118 wordsAn escapee from Maubeuge states that [?]e town is full of German spies. The French discovered a telephone, whereby the Germans were kept informed ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 25 Sep 1914, Page 7
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