German marines who took part in the siege of Antwerp have rejoined the fleet. It is stated that the warships in the Kiel Canal have been extensively ...
Article : 43 wordsThe above map shows the late possessions of Germany in the Pacific, captured by the Allies. Our cable messages [?] morning announce that Japan now occupies the Ladrone (or Marianne) Group for military purposes. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsA communique states:—We have made detailed progress at various points. The Belgians, despite violent attacks, are maintaining their position on the line of ...
Article : 84 wordsPortugal, according to Lisbon newspapers, is sending 12,000 soldiers to France, and will eventually have 90,000 men at the front. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe occupation by the Japanese of the Marianne and Marshall islands and the east and west groups of the Caroline Archipelago means that Germany has lost the last ...
Article : 222 wordsA number of mines were washed up at Blankenberghe. Three exploded, two children being killed. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Holland-American liner Potsdam (12,522 tons) struck a mine in the North Sea on Monday night. She is in a crippled condition. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Daily Mail" correspondent at Rome states that Roumania has concluded an agreement with Bulgaria assuring Rounmnia liberty of movement in the event ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Holland-America liner Potsdam, which was reported to have struck a mine, has arrived, and the mine story has been contradicted. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the newspaper "De Tjid" says:—The Germans are depressed by the influence of the Aisne struggle, which the capture of Antwerp ...
Article : 91 wordsA communique states: The Germans made an effort along the whole front. The Belgians held their ground remarkably well at La Bassee, where there was a ...
Article : 72 wordsThe return to fine weather has opened out a hope that it will be possible to transfer the forces for the second and third contingents from Rosehill racecourse to Liverpool almost ...
Article : 566 wordsA great Nationalist meeting was held at Westminster, Mr. T. P. O'Connor presiding. A resolution was carried in favour of adherence to Mr. Redmond's policy ...
Article : 57 wordsThe German destroyer S90, which crept out of Klao Chao Bay in the darkness, but ran aground about 60 miles to the south, where she was destroyed, was the same class of ...
Article : 208 wordsIt is officially stated that the Germans attacked the whole of the Allies' front from La Bassee to the Meuse. The engagement was particularly violent at La ...
Article : 42 wordsIn order to counteract the socialists and clericals' propaganda in favour of absolute neutrality, the leaders of the Radical party are urging Italy to be ready morally to ...
Article : 101 wordsFrench newspaper's pay a tribute to the remarkable work performed by British engineers in repairing an important railway bridge which the enemy had ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Government will shortly permit a limited number of telegraphic business code messages between Great Britain and extra European countries. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe daring storming of Laidetle, westward of Lille, is reported. The enemy were strongly entrenched in front, of the village. All day the artillery ...
Article : 211 wordsSurvivors of L Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery performea one of the most heroic deeds of the war near Compiegne during the retreat. ...
Article : 135 wordsItaly is now on the very verge of war, and it looks as though the harsh measures adopted by the Austrians in connection with the Italians within their borders are going to ...
Article : 320 wordsKing Victor Emmanuel will review the fleet at Taranto on Thursday. Italian troops are on the Lombardy-Venetian frontier. ...
Article : 23 wordsAfter the first drunken orgy of the Germans in Ghent General Jung stopped the sale of liquor. A drunken soldier grossly insulted a ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Messagero's" war correspondent pays a long tribute to the British army. The correspondent contrasts the rigid mechanical Germans with the equally ...
Article : 64 wordsThe outstanding feature of this morning's cablegrams is that the Germans have delivered a furious attack against the whole Allied line from the Channel to the ...
Article : 254 wordsOfficial: The Belgian amy is maintaining its position on the line of the Yser, where it has been violently attacked. Actions are taking place in the regions ...
Article : 91 wordsThe "Scculo" and "Republico" state that Portugal is sending 8000 artillery to France under General Jaimes de Castro, also 4000 marines and artillerymen. ...
Article : 53 wordsMessages from Greece state that warlike preparations are energetically proceeding. It is stated that 450,000 of the first ...
Article : 39 wordsLieut.—General Sir Douglas Haig, in a letter to a friend in England, writes:— "We had the hardest time, but nothing in our history has surpassed the soldierly ...
Article : 38 wordsA wounded officer states that the public has not yet realised what the Allies' cavalry is doing in north-west France. Cavalry fighting consists no longer of ...
Article : 103 wordsA description of a thrilling fight in the air, which had a dramatic climax, was given to Queen Alexandra when her Majesty paid a visit to the London Hospital (says the ...
Article : 446 wordsThe "Evening News" reports the discovery of heavy concrete foundations at a German factory dominating Torbay. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Germans strongly attacked the trenches outside Dixmade (12 miles north [?] Ypres) at midnight on the 16th inst. The Allies were outnumbered, and ...
Article : 66 wordsThe battle has rolled back from Warsaw, aud the cannonading is now inaudible. A constant stream of prisoners and ...
Article : 71 wordsA German official wireless message reports that the British submarine E3 was sunk in a German bay in the North Sea. The Official Press Bureau has no ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the Assembly the Premier moved: "That this House expresses satisfaction that the offer of an Australian expeditionary force was accepted by the Imperial Government, and ...
Article : 106 wordsThe 30,000 Germans entrenched between Nieuport and Middlekerke, which is about half way to Ostend, seem to have been roughly handled, and the British men o' war ...
Article : 186 wordsIt is reported that a house at Kinghorn, commanding excellent views of the Firth of Forth, has been raided, and a wireless plant discovered. ...
Article : 27 wordsBetween Roye and Arras the Germans utilised the cutting of a new canal, sixty miles long, between Arleux, and Noyeau. This afforded facilities for formidable ...
Article : 53 wordsA battery of the French 75-millimetre guns destroyed 15 German mitrailleuses, of which two were steel-protected, at Vernelles. ...
Article : 34 wordsKarl Finck, a German, was remanded on a charge under the Official Secrets Act. A detective heard the defendant discussing with another person the plans of a ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. T. I. Campbell, secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, appeared before the Necessary Commodities Control Commission yesterday, to give evidence on ...
Article : 363 wordsThe battleship Flandre, of 25,000 tons, has been launched at Brest. ...
Article : 18 wordsA communique states that southward of Przemysl an entire Austrian battalion surrendered with all its officers' and mitrailleuses. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe military authorities have discovered a widespread plot, backed by ample funds from the Austrian Government, to smuggle from the country reservists, of ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Germans are re-fortifying Namur, and have erected bridges over the Meuse between Liege and Vise. They are building four Zeppelin sheds ...
Article : 37 wordsOwing to negligence, a powder magazine near Brasschaet, to the north-east of Antwerp, exploded on Sunday. Some German soldiers ware seriously injured. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Allies have made excellent progreas in Relgium. The British naval guns, find ing the range with marvellous accuracy, shelled the enemy along a dyke heavily, ...
Article : 197 wordsA terrible panic occurred at Tchortkoff, situated at the foot of the Carpathiaus, the Russians suddenly directing their fire on the Austrian defenders. A fierce artillery ...
Article : 164 wordsIt can be well understood, as a wounded officer at Boulogne has declared, that the public does not yet realise what the Allied cavalry is doing in the north-west of France. ...
Article : 266 wordsThe German losses at Nieuport totalled about 5000. Ostend is full of wounded. Reinforcements totalling 60,000, with many batteries, have arrived at Ghent. ...
Article : 41 wordsMany refugees have decided to return to Antwerp. ...
Article : 16 wordsIn Montreal 20,000 Austrians are destitute, and a soup kitchen is being opened. ...
Article : 18 wordsMany shops and houses have been broken open and plundered at Bruges, furniture being flung into the street. The Germans who are billeted on the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that the travelling kitchens for the first expeditionary force had been ordered from England. The reason for that ...
Article : 53 wordsPrince Wolrad of Waldech and Pyrmont, half-brother to the Duchess of Albany, was killed while on patrol duty on the western frontier. ...
Article : 31 wordsOver 100 distinguished British scientists have issued a reply to the manifesto of certain German professors explaining Germany's standpoint, and criticising Britain's ...
Article : 108 wordsGeneral Leman, the defender of Liege, is in captivity at Magdeburg, and has been engaged in writing a memoir of the siege of Liege. ...
Article : 247 wordsNews has been received in Melbourne from England by Mr. Clyde Meynell, of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., intimating that his brother, General van Straubenzee, had been ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Austrians made strenuous efforts to cross the river between Jaroslav and Przemysl, but were repulsed. They then endeavoured to outflank the ...
Article : 47 wordsAs the result of the Austrian invasion of Lublin and Kboln in the first stages of the war 4250 houses were burned, the damage being estimated at £300,000. ...
Article : 34 wordsWe can quite understand the relief expressed by the British cavalry on being moved northward to the open country after the long wait down near the Aisne, where ...
Article : 168 wordsThe "Telegraaf" states that 30,000 Germans are entrenched along a dyke between Middelkerke and Nieuport. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe German destroyer S. 90, which escaped from Tsing-tao in the darkness, has been found aground and destroyed 60 miles south of Kiao-Chao. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Postal Department notifies:- "Berne advises: Belgian Administration confirm that the service of private telegrams is suspended in Belgium." ...
Article : 63 wordsThe captain of the steamer Glitra states that a German submarine sent five men and ordered the English flag to be lowered, threatening to shoot the captain. ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is reported that the Germans are fortifying Ostend on the sea and south sides. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe steamer Redbridge, which left Bunbury on September 22, has arrived at East London. The berque Geryina, which left Newcastle on August 24, has arrived at ...
Article : 33 wordsAt a meeting of the Master Builders' Association on Tuesday the secretary. Mr. Richards, stated that the total of the Builders' and Allied Trades Fund had reached £10,943. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 22 Oct 1914, Page 9
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