The Official Press Bureau states that the British forces successfully reached a new and well protected position, despite continuous fighting, during which the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe French and British are now in their turn attacking the Germans along nearly the whole of the long Franco-Belgian frontier shown above. The British are protecting ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 194 wordsA great battle, extending from Mons to the frontier of Luxembourg, is in progress. It is expected to last several days ...
Article : 103 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, read a report from Field-Marshal Sir John French, in command of the British ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that Namur has fallen. ...
Article : 17 wordsA force of 30,000 Germans is attacking Malines (Mechlin), midway between Brussels and Antwerp. Skirmishing is now general in ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is reported that 300,000 German marched south from Brussels, half towarts Lille and the other half towards Charleroi and Mons. ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is officially stated that some of the Liege forts are still holding out. ...
Article : 20 wordsA telegram from Sanciovanni states that 30,000 Montenegrins have met with a series of successes on the Herzogovinian frontier. In a fierce bayonet fight at Grahove ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Earl Leven has been dangerously wounded. Sergcant-Major D. S. Jillings, airman, and Captain C. S. Akerman were also ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Union Company's steamer Willochra, which arrived from Wellington yesterday, will lay up here indefinitely. The Willochra left Sydney for San ...
Article : 59 wordsWar news from Berlin is being received here through the high-power wireless station at Sayville, on Long Island, the German steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm acting in ...
Article : 87 wordsIt is reported here that the condition of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary has become worse, and that his death is now only a question of hours. ...
Article : 37 wordsReuter has confirmed the report that the Germans in South-west Africa raided Union territory, and that they had been making preparations for some time past ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Official Press Bureau stated to-day that the British forces were engaged all day on Sunday, and held their ground in the neighbourhood of Mons, the capital of the ...
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Article : 104 wordsForty food steamers are running between Denmark and England. Produce importers are anxious to know when the Commonwealth Government is ...
Article : 161 wordsIt is not the first time that a British army has fought at Mons. A few miles to the south of it, just over the French border (Mons is in Belgium) is Malplaquet, a village where ...
Article : 242 wordsThe French mail steamer Sydney received orders to remain at Noumea, New Caledonia, after the outbreak of war. This decision proved very satisfactory to ...
Article : 53 wordsUntil this battle is won or lost it is really impossible to tell which way the war is turning. The French have clearly been driven back from the triangle which they held behind ...
Article : 156 wordsThe "Evening Standard" reports that refugees who have arrived from Germany state that there are persistent rumours of the death of the Crown Prince of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe seized German-Australian liner Berlin, which arrived at Sydney on Friday morning, proceeded yesterday morning to Woolloomooloo Bay, where she commenced discharging ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsSir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador, has conferred with Mr. W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, on the subject of United States neutrality. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Nippon Yusen Kaisha announce an alteration in their Australian service. The steamer Kumano Maru has been withdrawn, and the larger steamer Inaba Maru will [?] ...
Article : 48 wordsReuter's Agency reports that Austria [?] mobilising on the Italian frontier, espec[?] ally at Trent and Innsbruck. It is stated that 70,000 men have a[?] ...
Article : 41 wordsOf the twelve German Zeppelin airships, five have already been destroyed by the French. ...
Article : 21 wordsMons, where the British troops joined the French, is on the far left of this fight. It is 105 miles as the crow flies from Boulogne, where the British troops finished landing on ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Sydney Marine Underwriters' Association are in receipt of a cablegram stating that the last rates of war risks are unchanged. The last cable read:—"British and ...
Article : 44 wordsMons—like Ostend, Charleroi, and Valenciennes—used to be a fortress of some strength; but in each case, as the old walls and forts became obsolete, they have not ...
Article : 80 wordsTraffic has been resumed from Rotterdam and Amsterdam to England, and cross-Channel traffic to Southampton has been resumed. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is officially announced that the Bel gians are now entirely concentrated i[?] Antwerp. The Allies' plan is being carried o[?] ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Servians captured Loynitza and Lechnitza on August 20. Aug. 25. In the recent fighting on the Drina, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 wordsThe Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) to-day received the following cable message from the Agent-General:—"London, Aug. 24. Am advised Zieten left Colombo July 29 for Aden, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe French explanation of the defeat in Lorraine, and very possibly the true one, is that French troops in this part were drawn from the excitable city population of ...
Article : 140 wordsFifty papers, mostly trade and sporting journals, have suspended publication since the outbreak of the war. The Germans have established German ...
Article : 75 wordsThe "Evening News" states that the Government placed Treasury bills to the value of £15,000,000 last week, and that it is about to issue another £15,000,000 ...
Article : 86 wordsThe steamer Atua, en route to Fiji, called here at 6 a.m., and left at 10 a.m. She has no mails or passengers. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is possible that the duty assigned to the British army has been to lie with its left on the coast, and to protect at all costs the French communications with the Channel. If ...
Article : 128 wordsThe R.M.S. Maloja arrived to-day after a somewhat exciting voyage. Whilst in the Mediterranean she received a wireless message to call at Brindisi for mails, instead of ...
Article : 355 wordsA sentry challenged two foreigners a Yarrow and Co.'s shipyard, Clydeside, a midnight. They did not answer the chal lenge, and the sentry fired his rifle in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 wordsThe Germans are said to be attacking Malines. This beautiful old city, which until a day or two ago was unknown even by name to most Australians, is really chiefly famous ...
Article : 284 wordsIf only the British can keep clear their communication with the sea, then the war would not be lost to France oven if Paris were taken. In fact, the taking of Paris may ...
Article : 166 wordsAnglo-Saxons can face the truth, even if it is an unpleasant truth; nothing is to be gained by disguising from our people the facts, whether they are good or bad. And the truth is ...
Article : 204 wordsCount von Bernstoff, the German Ambassador, in an interview, stated that Germany was bound to win, because her cause was just. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe "Aachenerpost" states that Pro fessor Lieman, who was in command a Liege, was found half suffocated undo the wreckage of a fort which the ...
Article : 70 wordsIt comes to this—that at the worst we may see the position of the Napoleonic wars repeated with only this difference, that the German Emperor stands in place of Napoleon, ...
Article : 303 wordsFlying columns have driven the Ger mans out of the district round Antwerp a far as Malines ...
Article : 23 wordsAt the same time that battle, important though it may have been, probably does not compare in importance with the great battle —the greatest so far in the war—which has ...
Article : 279 wordsThe Austrian protected cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth has been ordered to join in the operations of the German fleet at Kiao-Chao. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Northern Russian Army, at Insterburg, is 360 miles from Berlin. Its advanced troops at Soldau are 300. But if the Russian army of the cent[?]e enters Prussia near Posen or ...
Article : 69 wordsA message from Valona states that the insurgents entered that city, and hoiste[?] the Turkish flag there. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 26 Aug 1914, Page 11
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