The Official Press Bureau announces that the British expeditionary force has been safely landed in France. The embarkation, transportation, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsIt is believed in Brussels that not only have the German plans been hopelessly overthrown, but as a consequence of the check many German ...
Article : 404 wordsThe Servian Legation has received a telegram from the Servian Premier to the effect that the Austrians have been completely routed in the mountains near ...
Article : 113 wordsWhether Sir Percy Scott was right or wrong, Britain has little to fear in this war from submarines. The British submarine flotilias are exceedingly bold and ...
Article : 142 wordsAfter a conference between the two Houses, the Senate refused to open the United States coastwise trade to foreign ships; but it extended the United States ...
Article : 103 wordsThe success of the Australian naval and military preparations, in so far as they have been a success, is in a great measure due to the personal work which the Minister for Defence ...
Article : 245 wordsM. Viviani, President of the French Republic, announces that the State is adding a bonus of 33 per cent, to all out-of-work grants made by trades-unions. ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Dutch army is strongly holding the frontier. Numerous barbed-wire entanglements have been erected, and barricades have ...
Article : 82 wordsA report is being circulated from Paris to the effect that the German Crown Prince (who was recently stated to have been wounded in leading a charge of the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the British Government and the Japanese Government have been in communication, and have decided that each must take action ...
Article : 116 wordsThe advance guards on Sunday came into contact at several points near Wavre, 10 miles from Waterloo, also at Gembloux, 10 miles north-west of Namur, and ...
Article : 198 wordsAnother attempt has been made to wreck the Government wireless station at Sault, Sainte Marie, between Lake Superior and Lake Huron. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe seat of Government has been moved to Antwerp. Important measures have been taken to safeguard Brussels against surprise by ...
Article : 115 wordsPort Jackson is to-day protected from any immediate attack by the fleet, which, fortunately for herself, Australia established within the last few years. From serious attack, of ...
Article : 195 wordsAt Sir Edward Grey's request, all active English war correspondents at the front are being asked to keep away or return to England, as any indiscretion on their part ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is stated that a Uhian patrol entered the Belgian village of Hechtel, near Gheel, about 25 miles south-east of Antwerp, and demanded money. ...
Article : 54 wordsThere can be no question that the Allies believe that a strong movement will be made to envelope their northern flank. Although there is a strong force, probably Belgian, in ...
Article : 141 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Britton introduced a resolution directing Mr. Bryan, Secretary of State, to protest against the action of Japan in sending ...
Article : 51 wordsThe practicability of a renewal of the Balkan Alliance, with the addition of Roumania, is now the subject of diplomatic conversations. ...
Article : 60 wordsIt may be interesting to Australians to know that the new head of the great war staff at the Admiralty was to be Admiral Sir F. C. D. Sturdee, who was on the Australian ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Germans burned the town of Barzweiler, in Alsace, after having blown up the factories there. They alleged that the inhabitants fired upon the troops, and ...
Article : 36 wordsTelegrams report that fresh fighting has occurred between Belfort and Altkirch. ROME, Aug. 18. A telegram from Basel, in Switzerland, ...
Article : 100 wordsPresident Wilson informed the press representatives yesterday that he had no reason to question Japan's bona-fides respecting the transfer of Kiao-Chao after ...
Article : 48 wordsJust at the moment when the Germans are said to be withdrawing their first line troops from the Russian frontier, comes the report that the Russians are invading Prussia. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsIt was officially announced at 9 o'clock last night that no fighting had occurred on Monday, and that Germans were taking up a defensive attitude, and were ...
Article : 61 wordsBrazil has instructed her Minister at Berlin to ask for explanations regarding an attack on Senor Bernardino Campos, a former President of Sao Paulo, one of the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Atlantic Transport Company's steamer Marquette has arrived here with hundreds of American passengers, from Antwerp. ...
Article : 68 wordsA telegram from Tokio states that Japan has declared that she will limit any eventual action she may take in China to proclaiming a protectorate over Kiao-Chao. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe latest mail news from Europe, received yesterday. makes it practically certain that the Great German battle cruiser Derfflinger has joined the German fleet as flagship of its ...
Article : 98 wordsA feature of the recent engagement at Dinant was a prolonged artillery duel. It is probable that not more than 8000 men were engaged. All the afternoon ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Chinese Government is perturbed regarding Japan's ultimatum to Germany, and suggests that Germany's only course is to cancel the lease of Kiao-Chao, and ...
Article : 37 wordsOwing to the enormous number of bills tendered for discount at the Bank of England to-day, under the arrangement by which the Government guarantees the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe first German flag captured during the war, which was taken in Alsace, has arrived in Paris. ...
Article : 24 wordsThere will be no Lord Mayor's Show or banquet this year. The death is announced from heart disease of Lieutenant-General Sir James ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsThe weather is still ideal in the North Sea. Perhaps landsmen do not realise what that means. It means that the eye of a keen watch-keeper on the bridge has a fair chance ...
Article : 149 wordsWhen the new German ships join their navy—four of them were due about the present time or a little later—some of the older ships were to be moved into reserve; and ...
Article : 190 wordsIt is stated here that Japan intends to capture all Germany's Pacific possessions, including Samoa, German New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. The statement, ...
Article : 34 wordsThe mobilisation of the French army was so rapid that, on August 12 France had 1,250,000 field troops at their posts, in addition to the troops in the garrisons. ...
Article : 35 wordsOwing to a breakdown two Belgian airmen were compelled to land near a body of Uhlans and they abandoned the aeroplane. ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is reported that four British battleships chased the Austrian mine-layer Aureo and the cruiser Szigetvar, which were blockading Antivari, the sole seaport ...
Article : 153 wordsA big argument has been going on in England over just this point—how far you can "spot" the submarine and attack her through the medium of her periscope. Immediately ...
Article : 213 wordsThe steamer St. Leonards, which left Sydney on June 19 with a cargo of wheat and other foodstuffs, has arrived at Bristol. ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Martin Donohoe, war correspondent for the "Daily Chronicle," telegraphing from Brussels, supplies details of an outpost affair near Louvain on Sunday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 353 wordsA chess champion sends us the following summary of the military position from a chess player's point of view:—Europe just now is a huge chessboard, on which Kings, castles, ...
Article : 325 wordsLast night a German aeroplane dropped bombs into Louvain, 15 miles from Brussels. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Russians have crossed the frontier near Memel, the most northerly port of the German Empire, about 10 miles from the Russian frontier. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the export of live cattle to Germany through Jutland is so great that the route ...
Article : 63 wordsThe statement that the submarine perlscope is plainly visible at great distances drew from Sir Percy Scott this answer:—"My experience is that even at a short distance it is ...
Article : 222 wordsGermany is pouring her troops into Belgium through Aix-la-Chapelle at such a rate that each army corps is said to be almost stumbling over the heels of the one in front ...
Article : 121 wordsThe weather in the North Sea continues beautifully fine and the atmosphere is clear. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt is estimated that on August 1 Germany had 635 merchant steamers, aggregating 3,000,000 tons, and valued at £200,000,000. Of these 200 have already ...
Article : 87 wordsIt is officially announced that the Germans are feverishly strengthening the fortresses on the Vistula, especially Graudens and Thorn, which are situated in ...
Article : 47 wordsThe German protected cruiser Leipzig, of 3200 tons, is coaling here. It is believed that she is bound for Samoa. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says that the Germans on Saturday burnt the remainder of Vise. They sent the men prisoners to ...
Article : 55 wordsSome of these reports come from Amsterdam, and it is of course just possible that they are intentionally spread by the German Staff to deceive the Allies. But, on the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 19 Aug 1914, Page 11
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