A battle is proceeding between Lemburg and the Vistula, with a front of 300 kilometres. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the British losses in the fight in Heligoland Bight were as follow:— Killed, 2 officers and 27 men. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe British made a successful raid on a number of German warships near the naval base of Heligoland, in the North Sea. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsWith a view to meeting the enemy's attempt to drive a wedge between the British and the coast, a new French army is being formed to take the offensive against the ...
Article : 48 wordsA general battle is in progress in the district around Lublin and Kholm, in the southern portion of Russian Poland. A magnificent Russian bayonet charge ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Russian advance in West Prussia continues. Fighting has occurred between the Russians and the garrisons at Thorn, on the ...
Article : 91 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 : 73 wordsFurther news of the recent fighting states that during the Servian advance on Shabatz the Austrians attempted a sortie, but were dispersed after a series of sanguinary ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Government Press Bureau reports that British destroyers on Friday, supported by crnisers, attacked the German fleet in Heligoland Bight. ...
Article : 343 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Arras states that the defence of the frontier from Lille to Valenciennes was recently entrusted to Territorials, but these ...
Article : 146 wordsIt is officially announced that the military governor has ordered all residents within the zone of the city's defending forts to evacuate and destroy their houses ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Japanese navy is searching KlaoChao Bay for mines. ...
Article : 15 wordsA wounded gunner, just returned to Southampton, who was in action for 73 hours, describes the bayonet charge at Mons, in which the British killed 250 ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, the armed liner which was sunk by the British cruiser Highflyer off the West African ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Germans are now advancing in four columns, the first of which is making for the gap of Stenay, 12 miles west of Longwy, where they hope to strike the ...
Article : 178 wordsIn the House of Lords to-night Earl Kitchener stated that in addition to the reinforcements which would shortly be proceeding to France the Government had ...
Article : 114 wordsSergt. A. Loftus, in a letter from the front, says when the British artillery opened fire the Germans replied, but knew nothing of the shell-proof shelters which ...
Article : 118 wordsThe British Moslem Association has expressed its indignation at the German press threatening to incite the Moslems of the British Empire to revolt. ...
Article : 31 wordsLieutenant Deane, who had been taken as a prisoner from the steamer Galician by the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, when interviewed, said the German vessel ...
Article : 459 wordsSpeaking in the House of Lords, Earl Crewe (Lord Prlvy Seal), in referring to the proposal to utilise native Indian troops, said that the Government had been deeply ...
Article : 99 wordsExperts ane of the opinion that reserves have joined the seven German army corps in the Cambral district, and that with cavalry the German forces there ...
Article : 76 wordsA soldier, who has returned from Amiens, relates that the British-Hussars on one occasion galloped through the German lines. When they pulled up they found ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is officially announced that several of the Liege forts are resisting the Germans. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe safeguarding of communications has been hitherto left to the army, but as men are urgently required at the front, the German Emperor has ordered the ...
Article : 73 wordsTwo hundred of the prisoners from the naval battle off Heligoland have arrived at Sheerness. The destroyer flotilla returned to ...
Article : 250 wordsDuring the fighting last Sunday an English aeronaut, emerging from a cloud, found a German aeroplane just below him. Swooping within a revolver shot he emptied ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" Amiens correspondent states that the Germans are advancing incessantly, and that there is no hope of checking them. The Germans have ...
Article : 58 wordsGeneral Lacroix, summarising the situation, says the Allies must keep the Germans busy to prevent them transferring troops eastward. The Allies, therefore, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe German official version of the fight off Heligoland confirms the British statement. The victory has aroused great ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Labour party in the House of Commons has unanimously decided to support the proposal for joint co-operation of all political parties, and to hold public ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is officially announced that the Russians have completely invested Konlgsberg, in the north of East Prussia. They have occupied Allenstein, about 60 ...
Article : 127 wordsWireless messages received here state that the main German army in the Cambral district advanced for nine days, gaining a continuous victory. ...
Article : 88 wordsOstend has been transformed into a military camp. British warships and transports are pouring marines into the town. Some are housed in barracks and others ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsOn Sunday last British troops were brought to Mons by forced marches, to prevent the Germans turning the French army's left. After retiring to Manbeuge ...
Article : 511 wordsMany German prisoners have arrived from the Nancy district. One German officer, pointing to 40 soldiers, said: "That's all who remain out of a whole division." ...
Article : 56 wordsPrincess Patricia of Connaught's Light Infantry Regiment, composed exclusively of Canadian veterans of the South African war, and raised through the generosity of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 448 wordsThe Jack Tarr tell thrilling stories of the battle. They describe the fighting as sharp and terrible. A non-commissioned officer on the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Canadian papers are full of wa[?]m praise for the part played by the battecruiser New Zealand in the North Sea fight. ...
Article : 86 wordsRefugees state that a battle is raging at Hirson, 20 miles west of Rocroy, and that the Germans have been thrown back to Chimay, 13 miles north-west of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe thousands of refugees from East Prussia who are flocking to Berlin have caused much dismay there. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 28. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Ostend correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says that the Belgian army is gradually forcing the Germans back on Brussels. ...
Article : 122 wordsThree Austrian warships shelled Badua, about 20 miles south of Cattaro, but no damage was done, and they returned to Cattaro. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Allies have abandoned Boulogne on the ground that it is strategically unimportent, and in view of the urgency for strengthening the troops on the left of the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe victory off Heligoland proves to be even more splendid than the official report indicates. The consensus of survivors' narratives ...
Article : 463 wordsThe Belgian Minister states that the Germans after their check at Malines withdrew to Louvain in disorder. A German guard mistook those in retreat for Belgians ...
Article : 500 wordsThe Alsatian army under the Grand Duke Frederick of Baden, is reinforcing the Germans in East Prussia. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 30. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe second Japanese cruiser squadron reports that there are no Chinese ships outside Kiao-Chao. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. ...
Article : 50 wordsPassengers from France report that the Governor of Boulogno has departed. They say that Uhlans are advancing in that direction, and they are also within ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Germans bombarded Maltnes at midnight on Thursday. Most of the public monuments were hit. When the bombardment ceased the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 31 Aug 1914, Page 7
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