A Pretoria message to the "Cape Times" of September 29 says:- A detachment of our forces, operating from the south against German South-west Africa, ...
Article : 163 wordsA communique states: The Allies have progressed slightly east of Nleuport. On the right bank of the Yser the German attacks were renewed on Wednesday from ...
Article : 137 wordsAt midnight no details whatever had come to hand regarding the naval action off the coast of Chill. The whole thing was wrapped in mystery. All that was definitely known ...
Article : 254 wordsViolent fighting continues on the Franco-Belgian battle line, and details of further progress by the Allies are published. ...
Article : 123 wordsCamp was broken by the men of the 7th (A.I.) Light Horse Regiment at Liverpool yesterday, and a transfer made to a site at the rear of the public school, a distance of ...
Article : 758 wordsGeneral Cherif Pasha, leader of the Opposition in Turkey, has telegraphed to the French Premier (M. Viviani), saying he is dismayed that a handful of bandits have ...
Article : 57 wordsAs for the "Invasion" itself, it could hardly amount to anything that Canada could not quite easily cope with. There are certainly many thousands of Austrians and Germans in ...
Article : 165 wordsIt is reported that the Government is aware of German plots to lay mines in the Bay of Fundy, with the object of interfering with the winter trans-Atlantic services. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Greek Legation announces that Turkey's belligerency does not affect Greece, as Greece's newly-acquired islands in the Levant are guarded [?]y the allied warships. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief of the Union of South Africa Forces has had a notable and consistently successful career. Born in 1862 at Greytown, In Natal, he accompanied his ...
Article : 1,114 wordsA message from Luderitzbucht says:—A force comprising Imperial Light Horse and Rand Light Infantry, belonging to Colonel Boves's column, came in contact with a ...
Article : 247 wordsThe second Canadian contingent of 15,000 men are in training, and it is expected they will be ready to leave in January. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe mine sweeper Mary was destroyed by a mine in the North Sea. Eight persons were drowned. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe somewhat humorous way Turkey generally goes about things is again exemplified in the semi-official message that "for the present she will restrict herself to war against ...
Article : 300 wordsIt is officially stated that there have been eavy German losses on the East Prussian front, only 80 being left in some companies. ...
Article : 146 wordsWireless communication via Tuckerton, New Jersey, with Germany, has been suspended until further notice. The reason for this has not been given. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Martin Donahue, war correspondent to the London "Daily Chronicle," says:- "The Germans for two days fiercely attacked the Allies along the line between ...
Article : 288 wordsBrigadier-General Scriven, head of the Army Signal Corps, reporting to the Secretary for War on the use of aeroplanes in war, has recommended the United States ...
Article : 81 wordsReuter's Upington correspondent telegraphed on September 28:—I returned yesterday from a trip near the border in the direction of Nakob and met Corporal Smit, of the old Free State ...
Article : 586 wordsSir George Reid cables under date, London, Nov. 5:- Official: Owing to hostile acts committed by Turkish forces under German officers, ...
Article : 253 wordsSignor Sunnino has accepted the position of Minister for Foreign Affairs in succession to the late Marquis di San Giullauo. ...
Article : 31 wordsBut it would seem that, Turkey will be extraordinarily lucky if her only troubles are to be those from without. Although Germany secured sufficient influence at ...
Article : 210 wordsA communique issued at midnight stated: There is no notable change to report. We progressed slightly towards Messines. ...
Article : 63 wordsNegotiations between Canada and Australia to promote closer trade relations are to be reopened immediately. British Columbia interests are urging great ...
Article : 142 wordsThe German Emperor witnessed the renewed attacks upon Arras, the violence of which was due to the Emperor's desire to see the town taken. ...
Article : 47 wordsA meeting was held yesterday afternoon in the Equitable-building to discuss the ways and means of supplying the troops at the front with waistcoats of tanned sheepskin. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe report that the German cruiser Konigsberg has been "put out of action in the Indian Ocean" bad not been amplified or even confirmed up till a late hour last night. She ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Earl of Selborne, speaking at Chiswick, said that the voluntary response had been wonderful, but the young men. who did not enlist, though they had no one ...
Article : 65 wordsThe battle continues in the Dixmude, Ypres, and Roulers district. The Belgians are fighting with great spirit. Their splendid bayonet work in Tuesday's battle was ...
Article : 88 wordsFarmers in Western Canada, assisted by the Government, are preparing huge areas for wheat. It is intended next season to place the largest area under wheat in ...
Article : 60 wordsOwing to a check in recruiting during the past three weeks, and the wear and tear of the army in Flanders, the newspapers are prominently discussing ...
Article : 46 wordsThe return of Admiral Sir Percy Scott to the Admiralty brings once more into prominence an officer who loomed largely in the public eye during the Boer war, for he it was ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Pearce) said to-day that he had received a cable from the Admiralty in which It was stated the only news that had been received ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Norwegian barque Dea has left Gothenburg for Adelaide. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Spanish and United States Ministers at Brussels estimate that 60,000 tons of grain, 16,000 tons of maize, and 3000 tons of rice and peas will be needed monthly to ...
Article : 70 wordsThe barquentine Laura arrived from the Ellice Group yesterday afternoon, after having spent a lengthy period in the group waiting for the steamer Dawn, which did not put ...
Article : 312 wordsWriting from London to her brother, Major Timothy, chief selector of recruits at the Victoria Barracks, Miss Timothy Bays that overyone ia delighted with the exploits of the ...
Article : 145 wordsReports from Valparaiso state that the German cruiser Nurnberg sought the British squadron fruitlessly after the supposed battle, but only heard wireless calls ...
Article : 66 wordsOne of the most picturesque incidents of the war ia that of the capture of the Prussian ammunition on the River Marne (says the Paris correspondent of the "St. Jaines's ...
Article : 297 wordsAn old soldier, one of the Emperor Nicholas I.'s "iron men," has tramped a hundred miles to Kostroma to offer his services at the front as a volunteer. The veteran is 103 years of ...
Article : 256 wordsThere is much comment in the press with respect to Germany not taking steps to rescue the victims of the war in Belgium, and leaving to other countries the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe reported British naval defeat in South American waters is scouted in Government circles, although the report is everywhere credited by the press in the ...
Article : 37 wordsAnother illustration of tho solidarity of Russians in the war is supplied by a letter which appeared in the "Times," from Mr. v. Bourtzeff, who has been for the last six ...
Article : 305 wordsThe chief point of interest in the news that the Germans and Austrians in the United States are planning an invasion of Canada is in the bearing the affair has on the neutrality ...
Article : 317 wordsIt is officially stated that the Allies are enclosing Tsing-Tao. Shells are now falling in the streets, and have destroyed the power-house. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe "London Gazette" announces that Britain has declared war on Turkey. The Turkish Ambassadors at London and Paris have received their passports. ...
Article : 36 wordsPrivate telegrams received from Tokio indicate that the fall of Tsing Tao is imminent. ...
Article : 22 wordsWith reference to a paragraph published in the "Herald" on Thursday, to the effect that a "subpicious-looking" steamer, name apparently unknown, had been brought into ...
Article : 110 wordsMadame Schumann-Heink has described to a New York interviewer how the war broke up a Wagner performance at Bayreuth. She was singing in "Parsifal" on the night of ...
Article : 124 wordsReims Cathedral, tesides being "the Parthenon of French national architectare," has played an important part in the world of music (says a London journal). It was here ...
Article : 107 wordsWe have received a copy of the third edition of "Songs for Soldiers," written and pictured by Captain George A. Taylor, of the Australian Intelligence Corps, and published ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Secret Service Department has discovered that there is great activity in the United States amongst German organisations, with the object of invading Canada. ...
Article : 134 wordsReuter's correspondent at Alexandria states that through the intervention of the United States Ambassador, British, French, and Russian subjects have been allowed ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 7 Nov 1914, Page 13
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