The position has changed very little. The British array, which has been thrown against tre brunt of the German attack on the northwestern flank, is still performing its duty ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Prime Minister stated in the House of Commons that the report of FieldMarshal Sir John French in regard to the fighting on Wednesday stated that the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe German steamer Grecia has left for Europe, and will try to evade all the British cruisers. VANCOUVER, Aug. 27. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Japanese Embassy has officially denied a report that has been circulated that Japan is sending a fleet to the Adriatic Sea. ...
Article : 32 wordsA message has been received in Rome from St. Petersburg, saying that Russia has practioally completed the mobilisation of 8,000,000 ...
Article : 235 wordsAdmiral Sir John Jellicoe has sent the following message to General Sir John French:—"The Navy expresses their admiration of their commades' magnificent stand ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that Field-Marshal Sir John Frencn had reported that on Wednesday the ...
Article : 172 wordsGeneral Joffre, in a message to General French yesterday, stated that in the recent fighting the British Army did not hesitate to throw their whole strength ...
Article : 136 wordsPrince Ernest of Saxe Mciningen has been seriously wounded, and is lying in hospital at Maubeuge. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe British protected erulser Highflyer is reported to have sunk the Nord-Deutscher Lloyd mail steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (14,349 tons), off the West ...
Article : 188 wordsIt must be remembored that the Germans are makins colossal offorts to strengthen the army which is carrying out this flank attack, because it is planned to be the decisive attack, ...
Article : 187 wordsA Marconi wireless station has intercopted a German official statement to the officct that, owing to arms and ammunition having been distibuted among the civil ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, moved the adoption of an address to King Albert of Belgium. ...
Article : 557 wordsMiners from Frameries, near Mons, report that the Germans reached the village on Sunday, and the first thing they did was to close all the pit-mouths, despite ...
Article : 153 wordsTwo men last night attacked and severely injured a signalman at Hitchin, in Hertfordshire. After cutting the signal wires, they escaped on motor cycles. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe official communique issued at 11 o'clock last night stated:— "Our armies on the right maintained their positions while in the Vosges ...
Article : 72 wordsIn order to rush every available man into the Dring line against France and Britain, the Germans have been taking the almost unheard of risk of leaving their lines of ...
Article : 189 wordsFurther reports have reached England in regard to the part played by the British in the fighting on Sunday and Monday. The march to Mons was a heavy one, ...
Article : 808 wordsRussian shells destroyed the funnels of the German cruiser Magdeburg, which went ashore on Odenshelm Island, in the Gulf of Finland, and caused an explosion, ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Evening News" publishes another version of the story about the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse holding up the British steamer Galician. ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Russians are reported to be nearing Lemberg, capital of Galicia. ...
Article : 19 wordsAn officer from Namur states that the forts there are holding out with the exception of Marchoveletic and Cognelee. The Belgians, he said, without ...
Article : 331 wordsMr. MeKenna, Home Secretary, in reply to a question by Mr. Outhwaile (Liberal) in the House of Commons, said that no spies had been shot in Great Britain. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe British fleet has landed a strong force of marines at Ostond in order to protect this town from German raids. Ostend is only 50 miles at the most from the main German line ...
Article : 103 wordsA steamer which has arrived at Brindial states that she saw a British destroyer sink an Austrian destroyer. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is reported that insurrectionary movements have begun in the provinces of Austria. Six German and Hungarian regiments ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is now clear that the British army by making forced marches managed to arrive only just in time to prevent the German attack on the French flank succeeding. Had the ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Prime Minister, in reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, said that he rocogaised the strain on the public regarding the scarcity of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 215 wordsIt is officially announced that Longwy, a fortified town of France, on the Belgian frontier, with its, garrison, has surrendered after 24 days' bombardment by ...
Article : 48 wordsAn official report from Germany states that the German protected cruiser Magdeburg went ashore in a fog at Odensholm Island, in the Gulf of Finland, and could ...
Article : 122 wordsInstructions regarding the transport of the troops have been received from the War Office, and they indicate that the Canadian contingent will go direct to the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe carliest British infantry arrived on the field on Saturday night. They held on through Sunday, and until 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, when they began to retrent. During ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Maharajah of Mynora has given 50 lakhs of rupees to the Indian forces. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 wordsThe Foreign Office has issued the text of the despatch from Sir Edward Goschen, British, Ambassador at Berlin, to Sir Edward Grey, respecting the rupture of ...
Article : 365 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. Keir Hardie (Labour) asked why the Government had rejected the suggestions which had been made by Count ...
Article : 138 wordsIt now appears that a British fleet arrived off Ostend on Saturday, but when the Admiral offered to land sufficient men to defend the town against marauding ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Gottfrid (1610 tons), bound to Blyth, struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. Eight members of the crew were killed. ...
Article : 273 wordsThe fleet which called at Ostend to land marines is not by any means necessarily one of the three British battle fleets. Marines are carried on cruisers, and the marines are more ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Canadian provincial Governments are making vigorous provision to deal with all unemployment in Canada arising from the war. Public works will be continued ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 427 wordsThe people of Barbados have offered £20,000 towards the patriotic fund. Mr. Lewis Havcoirrt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has replied that the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Kalser Withelm der Grosse, which was sunk by the Highflyer, was evidefitly the ship which had been proviously reported as having stopped the Gritish steamer Galician. The ...
Article : 208 wordsAfter a magnificent defence for two days, the Belgians have evacuated Malines, mid-way between Brussels and Antwerp. It appears that the 4th German army ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Patents Bill, allowing British manufacturers to make any German inventions patented in England, has been passed by the House of Commons. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Ministeis of France and Russia met the Relgian Foreign Minister at Antwerp and discussed the violation of the Hague Convention by the Germans in dropping ...
Article : 43 wordsA message from St. Petersburg says it is officially stated that Russia has practically completed the mobilisation of 8,000,000 men. ...
Article : 225 wordsThose killed at Charleroi include Xavier Castelnau, the twenty-year-old son of General Castelunu, Chief of the General Staff. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe danger of the merchant cruiser to commerce is well instanced in the case of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. This ship, which was of 14,349 tons and 23 knots speed, was ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 29 Aug 1914, Page 13
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