The big battle between the Allies and the Germans in Belgium began in earnest on Sunday evening along both banks of the River Sambre extending ...
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Advertising : 584 wordsThe extreme rapidity of the advance of the Germans suggests that the fighting, up to the present has been chiefly with the German cavalry and ...
Article : 102 wordsWounded French officers who have reached Bourges describe the duplicity of Germans resident in Lorraine. When the French entered the ...
Article : 115 wordsEarl Kitchener. speaking in [?] ence to the British soldiers on the Contnent, said, that the troops a Mons had been for 36 hours in ...
Article : 57 wordsEye-witnesses of the fighting who have reached Ostend state that the Germans who descended on Charleroi were preceded by swarms of scouts. ...
Article : 232 wordsNo details have been received in London direct in explanation of the fall of Namur, but a message received from Paris states that on Saturday ...
Article : 158 wordsOn Tuesday evening, in anticipate of the arrival per the express [?] from Mclbourne of the Hon. W.A Watt. who. at the invitation of the ...
Article : 452 wordsThe following cable messages have been received from Sir George Reid: The enemy continues the movement from Brussels. and keeps it full ...
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Family Notices : 54 wordsThe following official message was received by the Commonwealth Government on Tuesday: "The French War Office states that the huge ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Back Page.—The markets will be found on the back page, also two crossheads of current political interest, Garden Notes and the report of ...
Article : 749 wordsThe French Embassy states that two French army corps attacked the enemy and drew from them a murderous fire. The French, however, ...
Article : 148 wordsGerman artillery posted on the outskirts of Charleroi shelled the railway station and the most salient points of the lower town. The Germans then ...
Article : 40 wordsHalf-way between Namur and Charleroi a battery of Frcnch guns shelled the Germans out of a wood. When the enemy came into the open a rifle ...
Article : 51 wordsThe German army that marched south was 300,000 strong. Half went to Lille, and half, towards Charieroi and Mons. ...
Article : 170 wordsOf Germany's 12 Zeppelin airsh, p five have already been destroyed. ...
Article : 14 wordsFurther reports from Nish, the temporary capital of Servia, with regard to the fighting on the Drina. between the Austrians and the Servians, state ...
Article : 282 wordsIt is officially stated in Paris that the Third Army, from the region of Chimay, moved forward to attack the German right between the Sambre ...
Article : 199 wordsIn the House of Commons on Wednesday the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) said that the British troops were hard-pressed, but they shook off ...
Article : 49 wordsAdvices from Ostend state that a party of Belgians captured 25 German Uhlans who were on patrol duty 10 miles inland from Blankenberg. ...
Article : 27 wordsTelegrams from Antwerp state that a Zeppelin airship flew over the town on Monday night and dropped bombs. Two houses were destroyed. Several ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 329 wordsA force of 30.000 Germans is attacking Malines. 15 miles south-east of Antwerp, and skirmishing is general in North-West Flanders. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that the Germans, with Strassburg as their stronghold, have established themselves temporarily in strong ...
Article : 79 wordsThe French Embassy in London. describing the battle around Charleroi, says that the British army behaved admirably whenunder fire. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe British Press Burcau announces that the British forces have successfully reached a new and well-protected position. ...
Article : 82 wordsEye-witnesses of the fighting state that the Germans werc held in check at all points to Sunday afternoon, when the cannonade ceased: but it ...
Article : 111 wordsA telegram from Nish. the tempora[?]y Servian [?]capi[?]al states that an Austrian monitor struck a mine near Orsova, on the Danubet The vessel ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "London Evening Standard" says' that reiugess who have arrived in England from Germany state that there are persistent reports there of ...
Article : 39 wordsReuter's correspondent at Rome telegraphs that Austria-Hungary is mobilising troops on the Italian frontier, and especially, at Trente and ...
Article : 42 wordsA sentry at Donaghdec in County' Down on Wednesday shot a lady motorist who made no answer [?] the sentry's three challenges. ...
Article : 28 wordsAustria in order to avoid war with Japan, has agreed to dismantle the cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth (3900 tons). which is now in Far Eastern waters. ...
Article : 59 wordsA circular which is calculated to inflame the Chinese against England. has been issued at Peking. and is bene scattered broadcast throughout ...
Article : 29 wordsMessages received from Ostend state that the German advance on Lille is expected to exert the most important influence on the battle. ...
Article : 25 wordsPortion of German army operating in Alsace-Lorraine has crossed into France and occupied Lnneville. 20 miles east of Nancy and the smaller ...
Article : 136 wordsAmerican advices from Tsing-tau, in Kiao-Chan. state that the Kaiser has directed the garrison to defend message was read at roll call on ...
Article : 85 wordsAll eye-witness of the affray. describes how a party of British Hussars suddenly met some German Cuirassiers in a small village near ...
Article : 57 wordsThe condition of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is worse. Reports from Copenhagen state that the death of Mis Majesty is now ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Press Buerau declares thai owing to the considerable forces which the Germans had massed, the French Commander in Chiei General Jo[?]re ...
Article : 67 wordsThe "London Evening News" states that the Government placed £15.000000 in Treasury hills on the market last week. Another hatch to the ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Germans have blown up a tramway station at Brussels beacuse the directors of the company reiuesed to carry out certain requirements. ...
Article : 26 wordsEarl [?]tchener Minister for War delivered a stirring speech in the llonseof Lords on Wednesday. He said that it the war lasted ont his ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Laege forts are still holding out. states an oficial report issued in Paris on Monday. ...
Article : 20 wordsI[?] is officially announced from Paris that the Germans attacked the French to the north of Nancy, and were repulsed with heavy losses. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe part that the British expedi tionsry force has taken in the operations is indicated by the Press Bureau report that the force was engaged all ...
Article : 335 wordsNews of aheroic fight put up by a Belgian corps is contained in a message from Antwerp. Five hundred men of the first ...
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Kyneton Guardian (Vic. : 1870 - 1881; 1914 - 1918), Thu 27 Aug 1914, Page 2
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