The King and Queen to-day motored to Aldershot and made a complete tour of the garrison. They received ovations everywhere. ...
Article : 445 wordsReuter's correspondent at Brussels states that heavy cavalry engagements are proceeding between the French and Belgians and the Germans, but the message does ...
Article : 69 wordsThis map shows clearly tue country through which the great German army of attack is moving. The Germans appear to be holding fast on the long and well fortified French ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 513 wordsThe Government Press Bureau in London intimates that no news of importance can be expeoted, as movements of the British army or those of ...
Article : 320 wordsDetails are to band concerning tue receut encounter between British cruisers and German submarines in the North Sea. A cruiser squadron on Sunday sighted ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Union Government has undertaken the defence of South Africa. DURBAN, Aug. 12. Tho restrictions placed on shipping in ...
Article : 62 wordsAn Austrian steamer loaded with barley has been captured and taken to Plymouth. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Italian Consul here, who was of German nationality, was found shot dead yesterday. It is believed to have been a case of suicide. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe German war vessel which exploded and sank in the Baltic Sea last week was not a torpedo boat as at first reported, but a destroyer. She struck a mine off ...
Article : 77 wordsSix thousand Russians who were expelled from Germany have arrived here by steamer. They declare that they suffered barbarous treatment at the hands of ...
Article : 34 wordsCaptain Terjeson, of the Norwegian fruit steamer Lovland, reports that he saw a fight between a British and a German cruiser 250 miles to the north of San ...
Article : 64 wordsGermans near Verviers ordered the in habitants of Waronga to assemble, and they then chose 17 and shot them. Thirty peasants at Berueau were ...
Article : 51 wordsThere is perfect calm throughout Britain, and apparently it will be unnecessary to fix maximum prices for foodstuffs. Prices at present are practically normal, ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the following statement:—"At this period no news of importance can be expected. No movements of the British army or the allies ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Bank of England has received further shipments of gold, amounting to £250,000. The total receipts since the 5th instant have reached £9,000,000. ...
Article : 64 wordsIt turns out that the Birmingham saw the periscopes of the German submarine flotilla which was sent to attack the First Light Cruiser Squadron. A periscope shows very ...
Article : 230 wordsThe captain of a Greek steamer has reported that he met the German cruiser Gooben approaching the Dardenelles on Monday. ...
Article : 60 wordsBogaerts, a Belgian lancer, is becoming famous. He sallies forth alone, and generally kills or wounds one Uhlan. Bogaerts has already secured 14 ...
Article : 53 wordsIn connection with Lord Kitchener's second army, there are now 4700 enlistments daily. The mobilisation of the Territorials is ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, has telegraphed to the British authorities that Germany has requested permission to send code messages through London to the ...
Article : 72 wordsRegarding the death of Prince William of Lippe and his son, the "Peuple" states that during the street fighting at Seraing a hundred Germans hastily retreated ...
Article : 74 wordsA strange vessel which has been seen in the St. Lawrence Uns caused the closing of the port. The Defence Department is making an ...
Article : 83 wordsThe military correspondent of the "Times" states that the present disposition of the Germans shows that 20 army corps are ready to advance, including eight ...
Article : 377 wordsWar prices for food ure spreading throughout the United Slates. They are rising daily, slowly, but decidedly. Farmers and stock-holders are holding back ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsOwing to the withdrawal of Austrian troops from the frontier, the Servians have captured Vardichte and Dobrunie. ATHENS, Aug. 12. ...
Article : 49 wordsTravellers from Berlin report that serious riots are occurring daily owing to the rise in the price of food. Many tradesmen and dealers have been ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is a strange coincidence that the Birmingham is one of three British cruisers which are the only warships, other than German, that ever passed through the Kiel Canal. The ...
Article : 154 wordsAfter the conscripts in Herstel left, the women and old men defended the national small arms factory. Armed with revolvers and other ...
Article : 55 wordsThis afternoon ten thousand German cavalry, followed by a detachment of infantry, commenced a methodical reconnaissance of the French and Belgian ...
Article : 248 wordsMontenegrins have occupied Jelivitch, and joined hands with the Servians. Aug. 12. A telegram from Rome asserts that the ...
Article : 47 wordsA man who was concealed, shot at a sentry on the Redhill railway station, in Surrey, and escaped. Numerous German suspects have been ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Germans have evacuated Swakopmund, the chief port of German Southwest Africa, after blowing up the jetty and sinking the tugs in the harbour. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsIt is officially announced that engagements have taken place along the frontier at Longwy, Longuyon, Virton, and Marville. ...
Article : 52 wordsBy to-day the main German concentration must be so far finished, and the advance of the invading army has reached such, a stage that the beginning of the first great battle ...
Article : 162 wordsLord Mersey is to preside over the Board of Arbitration relating to requisition of British ships for the King's service. He will be assisted by a panel of ...
Article : 100 wordsThe text of Lady Dudley's appeal for funds for an Australian hospital service is as follows:— "I appeal to the people of Australia to ...
Article : 124 wordsM A. Neton, French Consul-General at Dusseldorf, who was at Cologne on Friday, states that the Germans are being told that Liege has been taken at the point ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsIt this view of the German plan of campaign is correct, as the "Times" military correspondent believes it to be, then the lines of the Prussian invasion ot France in 1870 have been ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Government has forbidden the publication of numbers of casualties, and of the names of killed or wounded. A bureau has been opened where ...
Article : 60 wordsOwing to the rush to enlist, the authorities in Ottawa oro raising the standard, and only picked troops will be sent from Canada. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Senate has adopted a measure allowing the President discretion to admit to registry in the United States foreign-built ships less than five years old. ...
Article : 98 wordsOwing to several Russinn successes on the frontier the Austrians are evacuating Radzivilov, which is situated a few miles across the Russian frontier, near Brodig, ...
Article : 66 wordsReuter's Peking correspondent declares that there are convincing indications thatJapan will shortly declare war on Germany. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe route which the Germans are taking has already brought some of their cavalry within 25 miles of the great battlefield of Waterloo. From Tiriemont this fringe of ...
Article : 218 wordsA French detachment met a force of Germans with artillery near Nancy, and the Germans retired, leaving a young wounded officer on the ground. He proved ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Government Press Bureau has is sued the following:— "Reports which lack confirmation state that some of the small forts at Liege ...
Article : 97 wordsThe city has offered to the motherland a machine gun battery complete with motor trucks, men, and impedimenta, costing £20,000. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Bulgarian Government has aksed for a credit of £2,000,000 for mobilisation expenses. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 13 Aug 1914, Page 7
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