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Advertising : 140 wordsThe Japanese Embassy expect that Japan will meet with resistance from the Germans in the Far East, as Kiao-Chao is well defended by several thousand Germans. The ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Government Press Bureau reports that the British forces were engaged all day on Sunday, and held their around in the neighbourhood of Mons. News has been ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that 500,000 of the Allies occupy a triangle of country in Belgium, of which the apex is Namur. One side runs from Namur through ...
Article : 213 wordsAn attempt by the Germans to recapture Schirmek failed. Already there are 7000 Gorman prisoners interned in France. ...
Article : 30 wordsDetails of the fighting at Mulhausen on August 8 and 9 are becoming public. It appears that on Sunday the Germans shelled the town, the population taking ...
Article : 262 wordsIt is officially reported that a great battle, extending from Mons to the frontier at Luxembourg, commenced on Monday. The French forces everywhere have taken the ...
Article : 55 wordsM. Delcasse (Minister for War) stated in an interview, that Italy's neutrality was already of great advantage to the Allies. It was not for any foreigner to say whether ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Government Press Bureau states that Namur, in Belgium, has fallen. ...
Article : 16 wordsIt is reported that a big battle is progressing in Hainault, a frontier province of Belgium. This battle followed a sanguinary encounter at Luttre. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Porte has assured the Turkish Ambassador of the intention of Turkey to remain neutral. The British, French, and Russian ...
Article : 103 wordsIt is officially reported that the forts at Liege are still holding out. The Germans have occupied Luneville, Amona, and Deulcord, in the department of ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Germans have evacuated the whole region of Longuyon, and Briey, in Meurthe and Moselle. It is officially stated that Zeppelin No. 8 ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that the British forces successfully reached a new and well protected position, despite continuous fighting, during which the enemy ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Servians captured Loynitza and Lechnitza on August 20. In the recent fighting on the Drina, the Servians captured 4500 prisoners, 53 guns, ...
Article : 263 wordsThe correspondent of the "Gazette de Holland," who visited Liege, states that the streets were full of commandeered motor cars flying at breakneck speed in ...
Article : 129 wordsThe battle of Gumbinnen lasted two days, the Russian army, under General Rennen-kampf, being opposed to three German army corps with 200 guns. ...
Article : 128 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 Expeditionary ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is reported that 300,000 Germans marched south from Brussels, half towards Lille and the other half towards Charleroi and Mons. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe German commander has placarded Brussels, proclaiming that he is forced by circumstances to make levies. He requests the population to acquiesce and not to adopt ...
Article : 205 wordsA telegram from Vilna (Russia) states that the Russians, after a battle, occupied Insterbrg. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt is officially announced that the Belgians are now entirely concentrated in Antwerp. The Allies' plan is being carried out ...
Article : 90 wordsOur cables recently have described the perils of the Austrian fleet in home waters with French and British battleships of the Mediterranean fleet ready to pounce on them. One protected cruiser, the Kaiser in Elizabeth far from home, which evidently took refuge in the German port of Kiao-Chao, has found itself in no less ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 227 wordsA force of nine Russian squadrons attacked and routed a strong Austrian force near Pruhov, between Milotcheff and Sboroff. The Russians captured two ...
Article : 72 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 : 36 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 worth next ...
Article : 92 wordsIt is officially announced that three army corps, totalling in all 100,000, under General Potiorek, crossed the Drina and took up a position in the triangle formed by ...
Article : 150 wordsThe "Aachenerpost" states that Professor Lieman, who was in command at Liege, was found half suffocated under the wreckage of a fort which the ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is stated that the great battle began in earnest on Sunday evening on both banks of the Sambre from Manburge to Namur. It is believed that Charleroi, the centre of the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe crew of the Danish steamer Maryland, which was sunk by a mine in the North Sea, has reached Ostend. LONDON, Aug. 24. ...
Article : 72 wordsA telegram from Sanciovanni states that 30,000 Montenegrins have met with a series of successes on the Herzgovinian frontier. In a fierce bayonet fight at Grahovo the ...
Article : 68 wordsAfter informing the Burgomaster of Brussels that he would be made responsible in the event of acts on the part of the populace, the Germans made a triumphal entry ...
Article : 193 wordsFive columns have driven the Germans out of the district round Antwerp as far as Malines. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Government Press Bureau reports that Earl Lever has been dangerously wounded, and that Sergeant-Major D. S. Jillings, aviator, and Captain C. S. Akerman have been ...
Article : 84 wordsA force of 30,000 Germans is attacking Malines (Mechlin) midway between Brussels and Antwerp. Skirmishing is now general in north-west ...
Article : 29 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. A force ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. G. N. Barnes, M.P., speaking in London, said that Great Britain had to participate in the present war to maintain her international reputation. She must punish ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Austrian Official Telegraph Agency states that as Austria's army is required to resist Russia, she will therefore abandon the offensive against Servia. ...
Article : 56 wordsSenator Gervais, writing in the "Matin," inscribes the French retreat from Lorraine to the fact that a division of the 15th Army Corps composed of the Marseilles and ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is announced here that the Austrian Government has agreed to dismantle the cruiser Kaisern Elizabeth, now in far Eastern waters with the object of avoiding war with ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Corriere della Sera" publishes details of the sinking of the Austrian cruiser Zenta, which was reported in the cables of the 19th instant. ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Cologne "Gazette," in justification of the fines imposed by the Germans on Brussels and Liege, states that the war tribute exacted is a punishment for the bad ...
Article : 97 wordsCount von Bernstoff, the German Ambassador, in an interview, stated that Germany was bound to win, because her cause was just. ...
Article : 164 wordsThe united States Government has allowed the steamer Mazattlean to clear for Guayamas a Mexican port. The State Department declares that any ...
Article : 78 wordsReuter's Agency reports that Austria is mobilising on the Italian frontier, especially at Trent and Innsbruck. It is stated that 70,000 men have ...
Article : 33 wordsOf the twelve German Zeppelin airships, five have already been destroyed by the French. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe German mail steamer Zieten was last heard of in the Mozambique, channel. (The Zieten left Sydney on July 8 for Bremen, via ports. She called at Colombo, ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Temps" states that twenty of the Denths-Head Hussars entered Charleroi, 15 miles south-west of Namur, and rode quietly up the street calling out "We are friends," ...
Article : 85 wordsTelegrams from Rome state that the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is ill, and that his condition is critical. ...
Article : 30 wordsA message from Valona states that the insurgents entered that city, and hoisted the Turkish flag there. ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 29 Aug 1914, Page 2
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