The enrolling officer at the barracks put through 140 applicants yesterday, and accepted 120 for all ranks. The detachment for Liverpool numbered 99, 45 being allocated to the ...
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Article : 54 wordsRetails of the Russian annexation of Bukovina show that teh Cossacks made a dramatic entry into Czernowitz, The capital, with bunds playing and choristers ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Germans claim a victory over the Russian army that was advancing towards Thorn, and state that the Russians have retreated ...
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Article : 55 wordsLord Crewe, in the House of Lords last night, said that at the beginning of the war the position of the British troops in East Africa was less strong than the ...
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Article : 33 wordsUnder the heading, "Lot them join the Contingents," the Minister for Public Works yesterday made a further statement regarding the unemployed deputation from the ...
Article : 243 wordsThe State Department has been informed that Turkish forts in Smyrna fired on the United States cruiser Tennessee. It is understood that the cruiser was ...
Article : 79 wordsHeavy cannonading for an hour was beard off Gothland. ...
Article : 14 wordsThere is great public demand for prospectuses of the war loan, but as they are obtained at every bank and money order office there is no rush. ...
Article : 47 wordsFrom whichever point of view it is regarded there is reason for regret in the total British naval casualties to date as announced by the First Lord of the Admiralty. He states that ...
Article : 270 wordsA sharp debate took place in the House of Lords regarding the alleged slackness of the Home Office respecting spies. Lord Londonderry, during an angry ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe following message has been received from Sir George Reid:—Official: The first division of the British troops yesterday was subjected to a heavy ...
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Article : 137 wordsThe South Australian quota of the Second Expeditionary Force was reviewed by the Governor to-day, at Montefiore Hill, and his Excellency presented the troops with a flag. ...
Article : 52 wordsAn announcement was made by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce), a few weeks ago, that the Commander of the Australian Fleet (Sir George Patey) had been promoted ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe Tennessee has proceeded to Chios (an island of the Aegean Sea, belonging to Turkey). There is an indication that the fiction of ...
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Article : 70 wordsThe Agent-General for Victoria (Mr. McBride), on behalf of the Government and people of Victoria, has telegraphed to Lady Roberts: ...
Article : 69 wordsThe British naval casualties, announced by Mr. Churchill as 4148, do not include 875 lost on H.M.S. Good Hope, and 1000 naval men interned in Holland. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe local patriotic fund now reaches £239. The latest addition is £10 18s 6d, the proceeds of the sale of three fat lambs, presented by Mr. T. Dunn, of Kelvin Park. ...
Article : 349 wordsThe Australian War Contingent Association constituted at the request of the War and Colonial Offices, and with the object of cooperating with these departments in all ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Calais correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that German transport waggons are choking the roads towards Brussels, apparently preparatory to ...
Article : 72 wordsA court-martial has been opened into the wreck of the armoured cruiser Oceanic. The vessel was wrecked on Foula Island, one of the Shetland Islands, ...
Article : 43 wordsA communique states: The Russian advance guards between the Vistula and Warta are falling back in the direction of Szoura. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe King will attend the funeral of Lord Roberts. ...
Article : 11 wordsForty-six men belonging to the Canadian contingent have been rejected on account of their Austrian or German nationality and re-embarked for Canada. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Retail Pharmacy Board of Victoria has presented a fully-equipped motor ambulance to the field hospital attached to the second expeditionary force. ...
Article : 27 wordsSurgeon J. C. Beaumont, an officer aboard the Olympic, stated on arrival here that it was absolutely untrue the Olympic ever rescued a single bluejacket from the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Shielkh-ul-Islam, or Grand Mu[?]ti, who, according to the German emperor, has proclaimed a Jehad or Holy War throughout Islam, is the head of the hierarchy in Turkey. ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Russians continue fighting all the way towards the Gumbinnen-Angerburg front (East Prussia), which the enemy is defending (adds the communique). ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Germans are taking great defensive measures from Bruges to Courtrai. They are also strewing mines from the front towards Brussels. ...
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Article : 90 wordsThe Russians defented some Austrian troops at Lodovtiza. ...
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Article : 46 wordsMr. John Stewart, honorary secretary of the Highland Society of New South Wales, has received an acknowledgment of the society's cable of condolence on the death in action of ...
Article : 243 wordsSir,—The Rev. George Cranston is to be commended for his letter appearing in your issue of to-day on the above subject. It is admitted by everyone who has had the ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Germans on the coast, noticing that the British warships' fire spared the houses on the Middlekerke sea front, went there to reside. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe German stenmer Karnak, an auxiliary transport, has been interned at Antofogasta (Chili). ...
Article : 23 wordsArrivals: At Valparaiso, bq Woodburn; at Port Louis, bq C.J.S.; at Singapore, steamer Minderoo. Departure: For Wellington, steamer ...
Article : 24 wordsLibau, which has been bombarded by a German squadron, is an important Russian port about 45 miles north of the German border, and only about 100 miles from the ...
Article : 176 wordsGermans were constructing a pontoon on the Vistuala, when a Russian officer with 20 men, under a fearful fire, conveyed a barge, blowing it up against the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe City Council has decided to authorise the expenditure of £5800 on new works in order to find employment for soms of the me[?] affected as a result of the war. ...
Article : 90 wordsAs suggested in this column yesterday, the Germans are gaining ground in their new advance between the Vistula and the Warta. They must outnumber the Russians in this ...
Article : 255 wordsEarl Meath, in the House of Lords last night, hinted that the German mine field off the north-east coast of Ireland was laid by Irish fishing boats, in the service of ...
Article : 88 wordsDixmude is little more than a name. Since October 16 it has been the storm centre of artillery fire. Scarcely stone upon stone is left, and the ruins have ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 20 Nov 1914, Page 9
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