Extensive preparations are being made to defend Antwerp. The woods have been cut down and villages destroyed outside the town to deprive ...
Article : 152 wordsSir Timothy Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, has forwarded the following cablegram to the Government:— "War Office has accepted two batteries of ...
Article : 403 wordsThe Germans have continued to retreat before the Belgians between Geinbloux and Jodoigne, about 25 miles south-east of Brussels, since Monday. ...
Article : 117 wordsTelegrams from Liege show that Prince Eitel and Prince August, second and fourth sons of the German Emperor, are how in that town. ...
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Article : 429 wordsThe Germans at Mulhausen, in Upper Alsane, knowing that the French were sparing the Alsatians as much as possible, concerned themselves in houses protected by the ...
Article : 76 wordsAn official communication from Nish to the French Government gives details of the recent Servian success. It appears that two Austrian army corps, ...
Article : 153 wordsThe latest messages state that a strong force of Germans on Tuesday shelled and captured Diest and Tirlemont. The Exchange Telegraph Agency asserts ...
Article : 306 wordsReuter's correspondent at Ghent reports a fierce action at Terschot on Wednesday. Two German aeroplanes reconnoitred the Belgian positions, and German infantry with ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Venice correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that the Anglo-French naval raid in the Adriatic produced an indescribable panic at Trieste. ...
Article : 100 wordsMerchantmen report that the funnels of the German cruiser Breslau, which has just been bought by Turkey, are severely damaged, said they add that her consort, the ...
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Article : 57 wordsOne thousand Italian volunteers, fully armed, I have arrived from America under Commander Ricciotti and Giuseppe Garibaldi, and have offered their services to ...
Article : 31 wordsFour hundred thousand Swiss are guarding the frontiers of Switzerland. ...
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Article : 57 wordsThe French fleet and the Montenegrins bombarded the forts of the Austrian port of Cattaro on Tuesday and Wednesday. One fort was destroyed, and others rendered ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Russians have occupied Gumbinnen, a town of East Prussia, capturing twelve guns and taking many prisoners. The attack on Vladimirvolynsk was ...
Article : 67 wordsCavalry conflicts have taken place at Turnhout, about 27 miles north-east of Antwerp, and at Herenthout, 25 miles east of Antwerp. ...
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Article : 183 wordsThe Allies are now in a vast semi-circle, curving from Diest, about 30 miles east of Brussels, by Quatre Bras, and Wavre to Givet, about 25 miles south of Namur. ...
Article : 362 wordsRussian outposts near Lunisk defeated an Austrian patrol, killing and wounding 60 and capturing 120. ...
Article : 22 wordsReuter's correspondent states that it is understood that the Ottoman force which entered Bulgaria has returned to Turkey. ...
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Article : 346 wordsTelegrams from Maastricht state that the Liege forts are still holding out. London doctors express the opinion that all the defenders must now be stone deaf as ...
Article : 49 wordsA court-martial at Belfort condemned [?] death the wife of a German forest g[?] who cut off the head of a French soldier and her husband was sentenced to 20 years ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is officially announced that at the batle of Shabatz, in which the Austrians were badly defeated by the Servians, the Austrian forces numbered 80,000. ...
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Article : 92 wordsThe Russians entered Bukovina, one [?] the eastern provinces of Austria-Hungary on Saturday. ...
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Article : 103 wordsAt the annual Service for the repose of the souls or the French soldiers who fell in the Crimean War, the French Ambassador said:—"The present war, is a war of revenge. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Galician troops made a night attack and surprised 1000 Cossaks at Miechow, 3 miles south-west of Kielce, in Russian Poland. The Cossack losses are reported a ...
Article : 59 wordsCritics point out that the Belgians at Antwerp are admirably placed to fall upon the German columns now pushing westward if they suffer a check at the hands of ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Kieff correspondent of the "Novoe Vremya" states that letters from Bohemia assert that the Czech and Polish troops shot down their officers, shouting "Down ...
Article : 106 wordsAfter three days' fighting the Russian have captured Lyck, an important town in East Prussia, about 20 miles from the Russian border. ...
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Article : 152 wordsColonel H. G. Chauvel, who succeeds Colonels J. G. Legge as the Australian representative on the Imperial General Staff (Dominions Section) has arrived in London, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Agency states that the Montenegrins have defeated the Austrians in an engagement in Bos[?] and that the Austrians lost 200 killed. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Germans have occupied Brussels. The Germans threatened to lay Brussels in ruins if a single shot was fired from the entrenchments. ...
Article : 367 wordsThe German Emperor, in bidding farewell to the First Foot Guards at Potsdam, drew his sword and flourished it, crying, "I draw the sword that, with God's help, I ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Wm. Cain, of Liverpool, has offered, the Imperial Government a Bieriot aeroplane which he wishes ultimately to be presented to the Commonwealth Government ...
Article : 56 wordsThe State Department has received [?] out comment a statement from Germany to the effect that the German Emperor [?] tended to cede immediately back to China ...
Article : 192 wordsLater details regarding the German advance on Brussels show that when the order for the retreat was issued the Belgians blew up many houses in Louvain in order to ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Official Press Bureau announces that Lieutenant E. Perry, an army airman, and his mechanic, have been accidentally killed in France. ...
Article : 231 wordsA bomb was thrown at a train between Naples und Rome, near Coggioruale, and five persons were injured. ...
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Article : 37 wordsLondon underwriters have increased war risks on Japanese vessels to 6.3 per cent. ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 29 Aug 1914, Page 12
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