A battle of gigantic importance has been raging for more than a week in the north of France extending eastwards across the Belgian order, and southward to La Bassee, which lies between Lille and Arras. Determined efforts have been made by the enemy from the sea ...
Article : 411 wordsAccording to the "Daily Mail" the Germans have been beaten back over the Yser River, with very great loss. Heavy fighting took place on Monday. ...
Article : 74 words"Armoured motor cars, equipped with machine guns, are most successful in dealing with small parties of German [?]ted troops. In their employment the Belgians ...
Article : 83 wordsColonel Morath, the military expert of the Berlin newspaper the "Berliner Tageblatt, expresses the opinion that the battle now raging between Lille and Dunkirk, in ...
Article : 17 wordsAt Haubadin, four miles south-west of Lille, the British general gave the honour of silencing the German guns to a Scottish regiment. The Scotsmen made short ...
Article : 102 wordsA message to the "Observer" from its Calais correspondent says:—The Allies have forced the Germans to retire to Thielt (12 miles from Courtrai), and taken ...
Article : 84 wordsThere are three main canals between Nieuport and Dixmude. The Germans crossed the second channel on Sunday and reached Pervyse, a village midway between ...
Article : 101 words"The Times" publishes a message from its Copenhagen correspondent, stating that the Kaiser has commanded the capture of Calais at all costs. ...
Article : 92 wordsIt has been officially announced in Paris that the French on Saturday refused a German request for an armistice to bury their dead and gather their wounded, ...
Article : 19 wordsThe latest news in regard to the positions in the north of France and in Belgium is contained in a war Office report which was issued on Wednesday, October 28. In this ...
Article : 88 wordsThe French army recruits who joined the colours this year are now ready to go the the front after two months' training. They have been joined by a section of the ...
Article : 41 wordsA correspondent of the Paris, newspaper "Le Journal" writer that, with the object of drawing the enemy towards Dixmude, the Allies pretended to have abandoned the ...
Article : 109 wordsAccording to news from the seat of war published on Monday, October 26, fierce fighting continues both in south-western Belgium and the extreme north-west of ...
Article : 112 wordsA new and telling phase of the fighting has been introduced by British warships attaching the German forces on the Belgian coast, and the enemy's advance is being ...
Article : 268 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," describing the fighting in the neighbourhood of La Bassee (west of Lille), mentions the circumstances in which the ...
Article : 240 wordsDetails have been received from Paris of the recent successes of the British at Vielle-Chapelle. The engagement began with the ...
Article : 121 wordsDuring the past week a fierce battle had been raging, extending from various points in the north of France eastwards across the Belgian frontier, and southward to La ...
Article : 34 wordsA French officer, writing to "Liberte," narrates that there has been fearful slaughter in the Argonne, in the north-east of France. ...
Article : 16 wordsFighting at Nieuport, to the south-west of Ostend, conntinues with extraordinary violence. A German column which was advancing— ...
Article : 92 wordsA further report has been issued by the War Office of the fighting in France from October 13 to October 21. When the arrival of reinforcements ...
Article : 51 wordsThe occupation by the French of the village of Melzicourt, west of the Argonne, and commanding the route from Warennes to the Aisne Valley, a few days ago, was ...
Article : 9 wordsOn Friday, October 23, the British War Office reported as follows:—"The enemy are endeavoured to make a fresh effort along the greater part of the line ...
Article : 39 wordsIn a later Paris communique it is stated that the Allies maintained their from between Nienport and Dixmude on sunday. The Germans who crossed the Yser had ...
Article : 4 wordsIn an official communi[?] issued in Paris on Tuesday October 27 it [?] reported that a particularly fierce struggle continued between the month of the Yser and the Lena ...
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The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Sat 31 Oct 1914, Page 31
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