A further instalment of the story of the part played by the British expeditionary force in the fighting in Belgium adds still more to the credit ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Germans made extraordinary provision for the attack on Namur forts. They brought no fewer than 40 siege guns with a range of 12 ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Minister of Defence said on Friday that he recoginsed that there was a general desire for information about the movements of the Australian fleet, ...
Article : 226 wordsIt seems not improbable that one of the unforeseen results of the war in Europe may be a great forward move in all departments of social ...
Article : 876 wordsCOOK, JAMES HUME EDGAR, WILLIAM HASLEM. MAUGER, SAMUEL. McCOLL, JAMES HIERS ...
Article : 756 wordsIn the course of an address in Melbourne on Friday the State Governor, Sir Arthur Stanley, said:—"We are met to assist the patrioitc ...
Article : 703 wordsAfter making a magnificent defence for two days, the Belgians were compelled to evacuate Malines. They were overwhelmed by the superior numbers ...
Article : 48 wordsA telegram from Paris states that 2500 Belgian refugees, mostly women and children, have arrived in that city in a deplorable condition. The ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, speaking in the House of Commons, stated that a further message from General Sir John French, leader of the ...
Article : 113 wordsMilitarists wrecked the offices of the Berlin newspaper "Vorwarts," which published articles making the Kaiser "responsible for events which ...
Article : 32 wordsThe harvest prospects in West Australia have been greatly improved by splendid rainfall in some districts. It means the salvation of the crops. ...
Article : 30 wordsWhile still busy strengtheneing their positions, the British Were suddenly attacked on Sunday morning. Simultaneously other Britishers were ...
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Advertising : 724 wordsIt is reported that 150 German navy men have passed through Philloppopolis in Bulgaria, en route for Constantinople. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Official News Agency at Berlin announces that Lieutenant-General Prince Frederick of Saxe-Meiningen was killed by a shell at Namur on ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. J. Cook, the Prime Minister, on Saturday received the following message from Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner, dated Friday, 6.45 ...
Article : 180 wordsThe English artillery was magnificent, but there was not enough of it in comparison with the enemy's. The shells of the Allies burst without fail, ...
Article : 167 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, moved a vote of sympathy with Belgium. He said:— ...
Article : 258 wordsIn a leading article to-day, "The Times" says:—"We may be certain that a battle is now raging upon a line farther ...
Article : 54 wordsThousands of Germans fell. The enemy had made no progress by nightfall on Sunday, but their dead and wounded were scattered over the ...
Article : 165 wordsIt is announced by the British War Bureau that the Germans, receiving a check, withdrew from Louvain, a town east of Brussels, with a ...
Article : 45 wordsThe annual picnic of the above school was held on Wednesday last in Mr. H. Lamont's paddock, near the Methodist Church. The weather was ...
Article : 289 wordsAn Englishman describing the methods of the German Zeppelins says that the dirigible hovers about its objective at a height sufficient to keep ...
Article : 92 wordsA message from Paris, marked official, states that the French frontier town of Longwy has surrendered to the Germans after 24 days' ...
Article : 61 wordsDuring the morning scouting parties of German hussars and Uhlans tried to reach the canal. Most of them were killed by the artillery fire, ...
Article : 222 wordsField-Marshal Earl Kitchener, Minister for War, is recruiting another army of 100,000 men. The ages of the men will range from ...
Article : 141 wordsAfter a heavy encounter with the Russian fleet, the German light cruiser Magdeburg (4500 tons) ran ashore in a fog at Odensholm, at the entrance to ...
Article : 50 wordsThe defence of the huge metropolis of Paris—the largest-city in Europe, after London—is provided for by an elaborate system of fortifications ...
Article : 150 wordsThere has been much pathos in the public appearances of the aged Austrian Emperor in onnection with the funeral of his murdered nephew. In ...
Article : 138 wordsGeneral Leman, the defender of Liege, is confined to a military prison at Magdeburg, the capital of Prussian Saxony, and one of the chief fortresses ...
Article : 40 wordsOff the coast of West Africa the Norddeutscher-Lloyd armed merchant man Kaiser Wilholm der Grosse (1400 tons) has been sunk by the British ...
Article : 57 wordsOn account of the assistance Belgium is giving, the Allies, Austria has declared war on Belgium. ...
Article : 32 wordsBy 2 o'clock on Monday the British began to fall back. The Middlesex regiment suffered badly, but many of the British infantry were never with ...
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Advertising : 68 wordsA communique issued by the French War Office says that in the Vosges the French troops resumed the offensive, and repelled the Germans with ...
Article : 68 wordsThe first batch of the British troops wounded at Mons have arrived at Folkstone, and have been conveyed to Shorncliffe Hospital. ...
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Warracknabeal Herald (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Tue 1 Sep 1914, Page 3
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