All able-bodied men from 20 to 42 years of ago have been called up for military service. ...
Article : 31 wordsInformation from Nairobi, in British East Africa, states that volunteers have been despatched to deal with a party of Germans which crossed the border, and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Company states that the Allies defeated the Germans at Tirlemont, and that the enemy sustained ...
Article : 69 wordsColonel H. G. Chauvel, C.M.G., Commonwealth officer on the Imperial General Staff in England, has began duty with the Commonwealth officers ...
Article : 28 wordsTelegrams received in London from Maastricht, in Holland, state that the forts at Liege are still holding out London doctors hold the opinion that all ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Russian troops have occupied Gunbinnen, in Eastern Prussia, 36 miles south-south-east of Tilsit, capturing 12 guns and many prisoners. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 238 wordsSir R. L. Borden, Prime Minister, in his speech in the Canadian House of Commons, pointed out that Canadians had no quarrel with the German people, ...
Article : 191 wordsMr. William Cain, of Liverpool, has offered the British Government a Bleriot aeroplane, which he wishes ultimately to be presented to the Australian ...
Article : 46 wordsLord Tredegar has turned his private yacht into a hospital ship at Portsmouth. ...
Article : 27 wordsExtensive preparations havo been made to defend Antwerp. Woods have been cut down and villages destroyed outside the town so as to deprive the Germans ...
Article : 71 wordsA force of 400,000 Swiss is guarding the frontiers of Switzerland. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Storthing has voted 15,000,000 kroner (about £830,000) to meet the situation which has arisen through the war. ...
Article : 29 wordsA slow advance of the Germans is reported in the region of Longwy and Briey. The enemy entrenched themselves before Briey, with support from ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Germans at Mulhausen, knowing the French were sparing the Alsatians as much as possible, concealed themselves in houses prote[?]ted by the Red Cross, whence ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 92 wordsThe Germans have occupied Brussels. They threatened to lay Brussels in ruins if a shot was fired from the entrenchments. The Belgian War Office ordered ...
Article : 1,121 wordsThe State Department has received a statement without comment from Germany that the Kaiser intended to immediately code Kiau-chau back to China, ...
Article : 151 wordsHis Majesty the King, in a message to President Poineare on the occasion of the latter's birthday, expressed the, firm conviction that success would attend the ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is officially stated that the Germans murdered 11 persons at Badonviller, 20 miles east-south-east of Luneville, including the mayor's wife, and bu[?]ned 78 ...
Article : 158 wordsIt is officially stated that the French yesterday advanced rapidly, reaching Morhange, 19 miles south-east of Metz. The French also occupied Chateau-Salins, ...
Article : 178 wordsThe German steamer Cannstadt was moved from South Brisbane yesterday, and moored opposite the Botani[?] Gardens. The steamer is only a short distance from ...
Article : 49 wordsFully 250 merchants, co[?]signees of goods on board the captu[?]d German steamers attended a meet[?]ng Convened by by the Chamber of Commerce to-day. The ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Austrians attacked Vladimir Volhanskiy, 17 miles north-east of the spot where the frontiers of Poland, Russia, and Galicia meet. Desperate and repeated ...
Article : 71 wordsDr. Morrison, Political Adviser to the President of the Chinese Republic, has left England for Peking, via Canada. ...
Article : 22 wordsLondon underwriters have increased the war risks on Japanese vessels to 6.3 per cent. ...
Article : 22 wordsA Dutch official who was recently in Berlin states that wages have fallen there by 30 per cent. The slaughter of cattle is restricted, the object being to obtain ...
Article : 105 wordsThe German hatred of the Cossacks is proved by their refusal to bury the bodies of Cossac[?]s killed in frontier engagements, saying the ravens can devour the ...
Article : 43 wordsA wounded officer has given details of the capture of the first German flag at St. Blaise, on the Meuse, in Belgium. The engagement lasted from 5.30 in the ...
Article : 102 wordsAustrian Galician troops in a night attack surprised 1000 Cossacks at Miechow, a town of Russian Poland, 48 miles south-west of Kielee. The Cossacks lost 400 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsA Reuter telegram states that it is understood that the Ottoman force which entered Bulgaria recently has returned to Turkey. ...
Article : 25 wordsA heartrending feature of the war is the suffering of the horses. The Danish Government is prohibiting the export of horses owing to the large numbers sent ...
Article : 39 wordsFurther details of the fighting at Shabatz, on the Save, 37 miles west by south of Belgrade, show that the Servians annihilated two Austrian cavalry ...
Article : 47 wordsA bomb was thrown at a train from Naples to Rome, near Coggioruale, and five persons were injured. ...
Article : 27 wordsA French airman, at a place the name of which has not been disclosed, encountered a division of German cavalry, and dropped several bombs, which did great ...
Article : 89 wordsFive steamers are now at Barry, U.S.A., with wheat aggregating 30,000 tons, and originally consigned to Hamburg. Lloyd's report that the steamer ...
Article : 46 wordsThe London "Mail's" Venice correspondent states that the news of the Anglo-French naval raid in the Adriatic has produced an indescribable panic at ...
Article : 86 wordsM. Pegoud, the well-known aviator, has returned to Paris after a flight of 300 kilometres (186 miles) into Germany. He blew up two convoys with bombs, and ...
Article : 114 wordsThe French fleet, in conjunction with the Montenegrin artillery, bombarded the forts of Cattaro, in Dalmatia, Austria, on Tuesday and Wednesday. One fort was ...
Article : 80 wordsOne of the early arrivals at Sydney Heads this morning was the (German Australian Company's steamship Berlin, of 4200 tons, commanded by Captain ...
Article : 259 wordsIt is officially stated that a bread famine is feared in Holland, as the stocks of wheat will suffice, for only two or three weeks. The Government has seized ...
Article : 45 wordsHaving sufficiently recovered from the injuries received by him in a recent exhibition flight, the French aviator, M. Guillaux, intends to leave at once for ...
Article : 42 wordsA British military aeroplane fell, and the pilot (Geard) was killed. The observer (Lieutenant Robert Smith-Barry) was injured. ...
Article : 28 wordsA court-martial at Belfort condemned to death the wife of a German fores[?] guard, who cut off the head of a French soldier, and her husband was ...
Article : 67 wordsA great military funeral and public demonstration took place at Boulogne on the removal of General Sir James Grierson's body of General ...
Article : 54 wordsThere was a very large and representative gathering of business men in the rooms of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon when, at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsAt the annual service for the repose of the souls of the French soldiers who fell in the Crimea, the French Ambassador said: "The present war is a war of ...
Article : 81 wordsThe first batch of French-Canadian reservists, numbering 150, has arrived. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Government Press Bureau states that the Belgian army has been forced to fall back, and that communication with Brussels has been rendered difficult. ...
Article : 200 wordsIn response to an inquiry, the Premier to-day received a cable message from the Agent-General stating that the Ceramic arrived at Tilbury yesterday, but that no ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 22 Aug 1914, Page 5
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