It is officially announced that the Austrians desperately attempted to stop the Russian advance on Lemberg, the captial of Galicia, by a flank, attack in the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe above map gives the position of the armies according to the latest cables. The point where the most severe fighting is going on is around Peronne, Ham, St. Quentin, and La Fere. The British are believed to be west of La Fete; that is to say, about Han; Peronne, or St. Just, Beauvais, to which the Allied left has retired, is only 40 miles from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 163 wordsThe German cruiser Nurnberg has arrived here, and under the Neutrality Laws she can remain only 24 hours, and take in sufficient coal to take her to the nearest ...
Article : 42 wordsHeavy and continuous fighting has been in progress all along the western line in France since the end of last week. ...
Article : 287 wordsIt is officially stated that on the Allies" left wing a series of circumstances favoured the Germans, and, despite counter attacks, the Allies had to give ground, but ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is stated that General Jadoski, the German Governor of Brussels, is having difficulties with the United States and Spanish Ministers, who refuse to obey the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Temps" military critic states that there is no reason, to te unduly alarumd by the German advance on the left. The German troops there are quite insufficient ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Germans have blown up the Hotel de Ville (Town Hall), at Namur. ...
Article : 17 wordsHeavily-censored messages narrate that the Germans' great wheel to the French left continued on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and resulted in a fierce encounter ...
Article : 285 wordsThe mission from Belgium," which is en route to the United States to protest against the atrocities committed by the Germans, is visiting King George and the Secretary of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Brussels, in reviewing the passage of 250,000 German troops through the capital, insists on the remarkable ...
Article : 207 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent states that numbers of people are leaving the city, but they are mostly provincials and men who are removing their families in order not to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Germans yesterday raided Alost, 15 miles north-west of Brussels, and occupied the railway station, Town Hall, and bridges. ...
Article : 38 wordsTravellers arriving in Italy state that the English, Prussian, and French pavilions [?]n the Printing Exhibition at Leipsig, containing remarkable art collections, have been ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Amir of Afghanistan has written to the Viceroy of India, assuring him that he will observe the strictest neutrality. ...
Article : 25 wordsAmong the war stories brought from the front is one related by a woundad Highlander, who, in referring to the four days' fighting last week near the Franco-Belgian ...
Article : 971 wordsThere has been a considerable movement of fresh German troops into Brussels. In all, 80.OOO are to arrive to-day. The German Governor has ordered the ...
Article : 156 wordsTwo Jesuit professors of the University of Louvain were shot because they had in their possession papers relating to the German atrocities. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe German newspapers contain descriptions of the death of Prince William of Lippe in the fighting before Liege. It appears that a force of Germans was ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Turkish Ambassador has announced that the Turkish Army was mobilised three weeks ago, but merely as a precautionary ineasure, and with [?]o ...
Article : 119 wordsThe French air scouts have invented a new sport, which consists of scoring points for bullet holes in their machines. Each hole is marked with red chalk to prevent ...
Article : 71 wordsA telegram from Boulogne states that incessant fighting has occurred since Thursday, in the Aisne district. Neither side has obtained much advantage, but after two ...
Article : 81 wordsIt is reported that the German Emperor has gone to the Russian frontier. PARIS, Sept. 2. The German Emperor visited the ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Willlnm Waldorf Astor has given £25,000 to the Prince of Wales's Relief Fund. The South Wales Miners' Federation, ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Martin Donohoe, war correspondent to the London "Dally Chronicle," cabling from a town in the Somme Department of France on Monday, states:—"The Germans ...
Article : 302 wordsNewspaper correspondents state that the spirit of Lord Kitchener pervades the whole expeditionary force. The ammunition has been supplied to the firing line ...
Article : 66 wordsA shell exploded a few yards from King Albert, who was directing the Belgian operations at Malines. One rear wheel of his motor car was torn ...
Article : 39 wordsColonel Samuel Hughes, Minister for Militia and Defence, has announced that it is proposed, to train 1,000,000 Canadians to shoot straignt at 1000 yards' range. A ...
Article : 54 wordsIn regard to the death of Captain Xavier Castlenau, aged 22, son of General Castlenau, Chief of the Frenci. General Staff, it appears that he was killed while ...
Article : 82 wordsGeorges Leysen, a boy scont, of [?]ge, secured the arrest and execution of eleven spies. Leysen killed a Uhlan, and, though suffering from a fractured arm, captured ...
Article : 55 words"General Sir John French, commanding the British expeditionary force, has driven round the English lines and congratulated the troops on their splendid work. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Belgians agree that the German machine guns are most effective. One was installed in a parish church, and surprised a Belgian detachment 350 strong, who ...
Article : 46 wordsLord Lonsdale, in inspecting the Second King Edward's Horse, said that they were as good a lot of men as he had ever seen on parade. He admired the patriotic spirit ...
Article : 76 wordsThe following cable has been received by Mr. Glynn from Sir George Reid, dated London, September 1, 8.20 a.m.:— "The War Office, Paris, states that the ...
Article : 126 wordsTwo special constables in London have been remanded for failing to register as Germans. Magistrates are daily fining many ...
Article : 40 wordsThe House of Commons has passed a hill to remit the death duties on the estates of those killed during the war, or who die from wounds of disease within a year. ...
Article : 464 wordsThe German Zeppelin airship which recently dropped bombs on the cits reappeared at dawn to-day. It was, however. vigorously greeted with a rifle ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is officially stated that the casualties in one cavalry brigade and three divisions of infantry, minus one brigade, show that 30 officers had been killed, 57 wounded, ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Zulus, Bosutos, and Swazis have given assurances of loyalty, and the leading chiefs have placed their forces at the disposal of the Government. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe authorities at Lorenzo Marques found the seals broken in the wireless, room of the German steamer Kronprinz, and have therefore dismantled the wireless ...
Article : 37 wordsMessages from Bucharest state that the Austrian defeat in Galicia was colossal. Trains are transporting tens of thousands of wounded, and numerous regiments were ...
Article : 76 wordsFollowing the reductions of the Government war premiums on hulls, the Australian and New Zealand shipowners have reduced freights on fine goods by 2s 6d per ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. M. Donohoe, war correspondent for the "Daily Chronicle," relates that a sergeant in the Middlesex Regiment, who was wounded during the battle of Mons, law ...
Article : 98 wordsThe following cablegram has been rewired by the Premier from the Agent-General, dated London, September 1, 6.40 p.m.:— ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is reported that French cavalry captured an entire German battery after the gunners had been killed by bombs which were dropped from aeroplanes. ...
Article : 32 wordsThere are many indications of a boom in recruiting in London. On Monday a record was established, and satisfactory returns are reported from the provinces. ...
Article : 262 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo, Secretary to the Treasury, in speaking before the Merchant Marine Committee in the House of Representatives, which was engaged upon a ...
Article : 101 wordsOne of the bombs that were dropped in Paris on Sunday by German aeroplanes killed two women and wounded an old man. Another fell on a chimney, and wrecked a ...
Article : 72 wordsIt is officially announced that the archives have been removed from Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, in expectation of the Russian occupation. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Richard Harding Davis, the well-known United States novelist and war correspondent, who is one of those who visited Louvain states:— ...
Article : 265 wordsThe German casualty lists that have been received here occupy six full pages of the "Reichs Anzeiger." The killed and missing greatly outnumber the wounded ...
Article : 45 wordsThe German Embassy is continually issuing the reports of German victories. The latest appears to be the capture of 32,000 Russians at Allenstein, south of ...
Article : 42 wordsThe "Financial Times" states that 223 German vessels are laid up in Britain their cargo being valued at £13,000,000. A considerable portion of the proceeds ...
Article : 69 wordsThe index to to-day's paper appears on Page 8. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 3 Sep 1914, Page 7
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