It is reported that the French cavalry captured an entire German battery after the gunners had been killed by bombs dropped by aviators. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,825 wordsA considerable movement of fresh German troops has taken place in Brussels. Eighty thousand are due to arrive to-day. The Governor has ordered the ...
Article : 139 wordsAdditional casualties—three dead and nine wounded—are announced in connection with the recent naval battle in Holigoland Bight. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Australian, French, and British cruisers arrived at Apia at half-past 7 o'lock on Sunday morning. The admiral required the Governor to surrender the ...
Article : 108 wordsA Boulogne telegram states that there has been incessant fighting since Thursday in the A[?] district, in the north of France. Neither side obtained much ...
Article : 97 wordsthe authorities at Lourenco Marques, in Portuguese East Africa, found the seals of the Krouprinz's wireless room broken. They therefore dismantled the wireless ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Earl of Lonsdale, inspecting the second squadron of King Edward's Horse, said they were as good a lot of men as he had ever seen on parade. He admired ...
Article : 75 wordsThe "Financial Times" states that 225 German vessels are laid up in Great Britain, and, including cargoes, are worth £13,000,000. A considerable portion of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe official archives have been removed from Lemberg, the capital of Austrian Galicia, in expectation of the place being occupied by the Russians. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe House of Commons has passed a Bill re[?]ing the death duties in the case of those killed in the war or who die of wounds or disease within a year. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. M. Donohoe (war correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle"), cabling on Monday from a town in the department of Somme, states that the G[?] ...
Article : 392 wordsEnglish magistrates are daily fining careless Germans and Australians for neglecting to register or travelling beyond the five miles limit from their registered ...
Article : 55 wordsThe aviator scouts have invented a new sport, which consists of a competition in regard to the number of bullet holes scored in their machines each day. Each ...
Article : 86 wordsA message was received from the High Commissioner as follows:—"Official: War Office, Paris, states that on the right, after partial checks, the French have ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Turkish Ambassador has announced that the Turkish army was mobilised three weeks ago, but merely as a precautionary measure, and with no intention of ...
Article : 154 wordsWounded men of the West Kent Regiment state that at Mons the Germans came in great masses. It was like shooting rabbits, only as fast as one was shot ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Football League will carry out its programme, as the War Office offers no objection. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Germans made an ineffectual attack on a French aeroplane which twice circled over Brussels, dropping hundreds of handbills headed. "Take courage, you will soon ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Hon. P. M'Bride (Victorian Agent-General) is inviting Australians in London to contribute boots for the Balgian refugees. ...
Article : 28 wordsDuring the fighting at Mons an interpreter and guide in French uniform led the British advance party into many nasty situations, and eve[?] into the arms ...
Article : 79 wordsIt is officially stated that on the Allies' left wing a series of circumstances favoured the Germans and despite counter attacks the Allies had to give ground. ...
Article : 59 wordsA shell exploded a few yards from King [?] of Belgium while he was directing operations at Malines, and the back wheel of his motor car was torn off. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe following cable has been received by the State Premier from the Agent-General:—"The left wing of the A[?] army now rests on Beauveans, and runs ...
Article : 171 wordsThe wheat market is firm, and sellers very reserved. The cargo by the Sylfid had been sold at 46/ per 4[?] and the cargo by the Bossnet at 45/6. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe consensus of opinion among the British wounded who have arrived in England is that the German rifle fire is extremely poor, and even their ...
Article : 102 wordsColonel Sam. Hughes, Minister of Militia, has announced that the Militia proposed to train one million C[?] to shoot straight at 1000 yards range, ...
Article : 61 wordsInquires have been received from Great Britain and America regarding wool and wattle bark, if which germany has hitherto been the principal purchaser. ...
Article : 82 wordsA rumour is current that General Pau has brilliantly defeated the Cermans near Peronne. It is impossible, however, to obtain any confirmation of the rumour. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Germans have blown up the Hotel de Ville, at Namur. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe German cruiser Nurnberg has arrived here. Under the neutrality laws she can coal sufficiently to take her to the nearest German port after remaining ...
Article : 152 wordsIt is reported that the Kaiser William has gone to the Russian frontier. PARIS, Wednesday. The Kaiser visited the battlefield of ...
Article : 41 wordsFollowing upon the reduction in the Government war premiums on bulls, Australia and New Zealand ship owners have reduced freights on fine goods by 2/6 ...
Article : 49 wordsField-Marshal Sir John French drove round the English lines congratulating the men on the splendid work they had done. General Joffre, the french ...
Article : 77 wordsThe son of General Castlenau, Chief of the French Staff, whose death was recently reported, was killed whilst leading his company into action General Castlenau ...
Article : 79 wordsThere is a great movement by the Germans in Brussels toward Lierre and Termonde. This is interpreted as indicating an early attempt to invest and ...
Article : 37 words"The Liberal Party will not be beaten by the Labour votes, but it may be beaten by the Liberals who stay at home. The financial prospects are ...
Article : 266 wordsOver 4000 men were recruited in London yesterday, and satisfactory returns have been received from the provinees. There are many indications of a boom ...
Article : 225 wordsThe railway companies in Berlin announce that goods transport has been suspended for some days owing to the military measures. ...
Article : 28 wordsA meeting of all the members of the J. C. Hutton Proprietary staff was held at lunch time on Monday (writes our district correspondent), when the ...
Article : 88 wordsHeavily censored messages narrate that the Germans' great wheel to the French left, which was continued on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, resulted in a fierce ...
Article : 312 wordsAmong the war stories told is one by a wounded soldier of one of the Highland regiments. Referring to the four days' battle in which the British troops were ...
Article : 452 wordsThe Kaiser has despatched Herr Rochell, the well-known battle painter, to the western frontier to study the positions with a view to painting a series of ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is stated that General Jakdoski, the German Governor of Brussels, is having difficulties with the American and Spanish Ministers to Belgium, who refuse ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. C. Clefton, the New Zealand Trade Commissioner to the United States, is inquiring into the prospects of extending New Zealand's trade with Canada. It is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsTravellers arriving in Italy state that the English, Russian, and French pavilions at the International Printing Exhibition at leipzig, which contained remarkable ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Control of Trade Board appointed for the Southern division of Queensland began its sittings yesterday afternoon in the Excutive Building. There were ...
Article : 245 wordsA party of prominent New Zealanders, including an ex-Minister, the Hon. George Fowldes Mr. and Mrs. T. M'Govern, of Auckland, and others, are returning to ...
Article : 93 wordsRichard Harding Davis, the American novelist and war correspondent, who has visited Louvain, states: "President Wilson urges Americans to be neutral, but ...
Article : 315 wordsMessages from Bucharest state that the Austrian defeat in Galicia was colossal. The trains are transporting tens of thousands of wounded. Numerous ...
Article : 91 wordsA statement is being industriously circulated by Socialist supporters that the Cook Government, if returned, intends to abolish old age pensions. This ...
Article : 193 wordsColonel Donald Cameron, of Lochiel, and Lord Lovat (who raised and commanded Lovat's Scouts in the South African war) are raising a corps to ...
Article : 40 wordsBy an Imperial order St. Petersburg has been renamed St. Petrograd. This eliminates the German word "burg " from the name of the Russian capital. ...
Article : 35 wordsDuring the fight at Mons a handful of British troops held the canal bridge against overwhelming odds. The Germans, 100 yards away, were preparing to ...
Article : 116 wordsHer Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace gave an audience to Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia), Sir Timothy Coghlan (Agent-Geleral ...
Article : 109 wordsOn the first day of recruiting here 1293 men joined. The Lord Mayor of Birmingham (Colonel Martinean) resigned his office and volunteered. ...
Article : 31 wordsHon. W. G. M'Adoo (Secretary to the Treasury), in a statement made before the Merchant Marine Committee of the House of Representatives, which is ...
Article : 101 wordsThe miners of South Wales, representing in all 200[?]000, have decreed a weekly levy of 6d. per man, and 3d. per boy to the Prince of Wales's Fund. ...
Article : 87 wordsA "Government Gazette" has been issued, se[?]ing out that his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, ...
Article : 109 wordsA private in the Ross-shire Buffs declares that it was simply grand to see the cool way in which the men blazed away at the solid German masses. One company, ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Premier of Queensland (Hon. D. F. Denham) has received a communication from Sir Rupert Clarke and Mr. Robert S. Whiting, Victorians, who are ...
Article : 158 wordsAn official announcement has been made of the casualties in one cavalry brigade, and three divisions (minus one brigade). This shows that 36 officers were killed, 57 ...
Article : 82 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph's" Brussels correspondent, reviewing the passage of a quarter of a million troops through the capital, insists on the ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Hon. Archer Windsor Clive, second son of the Earl of Plymouth, has succumbed to injuries which he received at the battle of Mons. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe German Embassy is continually issuing reports of alleged German victories. The latest appears to be the capture of 30,000 Russians near Allenstein, ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Scotland, manager of the South African Territories, who was imprisoned by the Germans on a charge of endeavouring to instigate the Berseba Hottentots to ...
Article : 46 wordsThe German casualty lists so far received occupy six full pages of the "Reichsanzeifer." The killed and missing greatly [?]number the wounded. The ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Commission which was appointed by the Federal Government on Monday last to inquire into and report on the equirements and the amount of ...
Article : 176 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the District Grand Lodge of English Fremasons last night it was decided to contribute £500 to the Queensland patrotic Fund. ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. M. Donohoe, the correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," says that the nurses with the Australian voluntary auto-car are doing splendid work at the ...
Article : 31 wordsGeorges Leysen, a boy scout at Liege, secured the arrest and execution of 11 spies. Leysen killed a [?]lan, and though suffering from a fractured arm he ...
Article : 64 wordsA wounded lancer, in a letter to friends, writes:—"The Germans attach a lot of importance to massed artillery fire. For hours all their guns seem to play ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. M. Donohoe, the war correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," relates that a sergeant of the Middlesex Regiment, wounded at Mons, lay helpless ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Zulus, Ba[?] and Swazis have given assurances of loyalty, and the leading chiefs have placed their forces at the disposal of the Government. ...
Article : 109 wordsAnxiety is felt amongst wheat importers lest tho dislocation of the steamer traffic should cause a shortage in jute bags, and interfere with the Australian ...
Article : 37 wordsA physical culture display will be given in the Albert Hall on Saturday, September 26, from 3 to 5 p.m., by the pupils of Miss Brockway's classes. A small ...
Article : 48 wordsNewspaper correspondents state that the spirit of Lord Kitchener pervades the whole Expeditionary Force. The ammunition was supplied without a hitch. Of 1000 ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Finance Committee of the City Council to-night decided to recommend that the council should give 1000 guineas to the Patriotic Fund, £250 to the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Belgian mission to England in connection with the German atrocities is visiting his Majesty the King and Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 3 Sep 1914, Page 7
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