Brigadier-General W. T. Bridges, who is to command the Australian Imperial Espeditionary Force for Europe, was to-day promoted to the rank of Major-General ...
Article : 135 words"Novoe Vremya" reproaches statesmen for not insisting on the complete crushing of the German empire. It adds: "It is necessary for Europe to burn out the ...
Article : 46 wordsAn eye-witness of the bombardment of Reims Cathedral states that the German shells killed three or four of their own wounded who were in the Cathedral. Four ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Canadian Expeditionary Force has been increased to 31,200 men and 7500 horses. The firing line will consist of 22,500 men, and the remainder will act ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,187 wordsThe German Humanity League has issued an appeal "to the civilised" from Rotterdam, in which it is stated that the inevitable end of the war must be ...
Article : 141 wordsA German aeroplane dropped a bomb at Maastricht, in Limburg, 19 miles N.N.E. of Liege. The bomb wrecked a house, and other damage was done, but ...
Article : 43 wordsAdvices from Tsio state that a German cruiser sank a Japanese torpedo boat outside of Kiau-chau. ...
Article : 25 wordsM. Anatole France, the distinguished French author and Academician, in an indignant protest against the destruction of the Reims Cathedral, declares:—"The ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Abbe Delebeque, of Dunkirk, who was conveying letters from French soldiers to their families, was arrested by Uhlans, court-martialled as a spy, and shot on ...
Article : 36 wordsThe ranks of the Divisional Ammunition Park (motor transport) Section art rapidly filling, but there are still a fair number required. The men required are ...
Article : 484 wordsA list of 73 German and 13 Austrian vessels, detained or captured by Russia, has been gazetted. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe concert organised by Miss Myrtle Robinson in aid of the "Courier" Foodstuffs and Milk for the Babies of Britain funds will be given in the Albert Hall, ...
Article : 99 wordsReuter's Ostend correspondent states that a number of villages in the neighbourhood of Plilippeville (a fortified town in Belgium, 15 miles S. by E. of Charlero[?]) ...
Article : 127 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" accuses the Belgians of using their churches as military works, and declares that this is a burning shame, as the German troops had ...
Article : 43 wordsBritish ladies, including some Australians, from Germany, state that patriotism there is very strong. The war loans have been subscribed, even servants giving ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following cable message has been received by the Minister for External Affairs from the High Commissioner's Office:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 392 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Ghent correspondent states that an eye-witness, in a sworn statement, has revealed a most brutal massacre at Tamaines. Only one ...
Article : 99 wordsIt is reported from the Continent that King Albert of Belgium had a narrow escape from capture. During a tour of inspection he noticed that his chauffeur ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Italian Government has determined to remain neutral. Many demonstrations have been made, especially in Rome, Venice, and Bologna, in favour of ...
Article : 54 wordsThe New York newspapers publish long editorials denouncing the bombardment of Reims. The "Tribune" says: "This act again puts Germany on the defensive ...
Article : 135 wordsAt the outbreak of war there were 200 English visitors at Carlsbad, Austria, including the late Sir J. Henniker Heaton. They were mostly invalids, and were ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, speaking at Nottingham, said: "Germany's aim was to establish a military despotism from the North Sea to ...
Article : 124 wordsThe passengers by the Singapore, liner Paroo, which arrived at Fremantle to-day, had a most exciting time during the voyage south, and it was a relief to all ...
Article : 535 wordsReims Cathedral, which was begun in 1212, but not quite finished till 1430, is in the form of a Latin cross on the plan; its length from east to west is ...
Article : 81 wordsA wounded non-commissoned officer relates that early in the battle of the Marne the Irish Guards were selected to dislodge the enemy from a commanding ...
Article : 304 wordsA telegram from Petrograd states that in the pursuit of the broken Austrian army a fresh defeat was inflicted. Their retreat convinces Russian headquarters ...
Article : 110 wordsGrain merchants in London state that the fixing of the price of wheat by the Victorian Foodstuffs Board at 4/3 is equivalent to an embargo, the price being ...
Article : 105 wordsIt is understood that Mr. A. Wynyard-Joss, of the Canada Cycle and Motor Agency, Ltd., Queensland, has been granted a commission in the Divisional ...
Article : 216 wordsMerchants are complaining that cargoes for Australia in German vessels which have been seized are being held at Capetown. They suggest that as soon as they ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Russians have occupied Jaroslau, in Galicia. It is announced that the Fiftieth Hungarian regiment was completely decimated, ...
Article : 37 wordsProclamations were issued by the Federal Executive this afternoon prohibiting, except by the permission of the Minister for Customs, the export of wheat ...
Article : 46 wordsQueen Alexandra's Red Cross Fund has reached £250,000. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Tribuna" states that all the fortifications in Galicia have fallen except Przemysl and Cracow. The siege of ...
Article : 34 wordsThe officers of the Y.M.C.A. were heartened in their work yesterday by the receipt of three substantial donations from the men in the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe King has expressed his appreciation of the work of the 30,000 special constables in London and suburbs. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn Irish Guardsman, who was wounded, reports that the German front line at the Aisne battle [?]oisted the white flag. A company of the Coldstream Guards, half a ...
Article : 107 wordsHer Majesty Queen Mary visited the Belgian refugees in the Alexandra Palace to-day. Sixty-seven thousand refugees, mostly ...
Article : 35 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Petrograd states that German troops were landed at Memel, but penetrated only ...
Article : 51 wordsIn connection with the patriotic celebrations here to-day a most regrettable incident occurred at the railway works. It appears that some of the men ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. R. M'Ghee, Nationalist member for Mid-Tyrone (Ireland) in the House of Commons, speaking at the headquarters of the United Irish League, said that 99 ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce has received the following letter from the Secretary to the Department of External Affairs (Mr. Atlee Hunt), dated September 23: ...
Article : 117 wordsJapan has presented £2000 worth of surgical instruments to Russia. ...
Article : 18 wordsReuter's correspondent at Ostend states that the Germans are entrenching strongly between Wavre and Louvain, and between Gemloux and Wavre. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) states that no Australians officially attached to British regiments have yet gone to the front. The only known ...
Article : 88 wordsDuring the past 20 years Germany has established 46 companies, engaged in electro-metalurgical and mining works in Russia, with a total capital of £9,000,000. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Minister for Defence stated yesterday that he had approxed of the formation of a veterinary corps to be attached to the Australian Imperial Expeditionary ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Martin Donohoe, was correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," telegraphing from Courtrai, states that storms have made the roads difficult for ...
Article : 140 wordsCaptain J. Minnsen, in command of the Norddeutscher Lloyd liner Pommern, has arrived at the Hawaiian Islands after an exciting experience in the Pacific (writes ...
Article : 222 wordsWith the approval of the Federal Executive Council, Colonel W. H. Hall was yesterday withdrawn from the retired list of officers and was appointed ...
Article : 202 wordsA report from Nish states that the Montenegrins and Servians have formed a firing line about Serajevo, with a radius of 80 kilometres (nearly 50 miles). ...
Article : 90 wordsSitting in Prize Court Jurisdiction to-day his Honour Mr. Justice Hood made an order to allow the steamer Hessen, which has been unloading cargo consigned ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Board of Trade is issuing a report from various Foreign Consuls mentioning the classes of goods lutherto imported from Germany which their ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Imperial War Office has intimated to the Federal Ministry that only one Australian correspondent will be allowed at the front with the Commonwealth ...
Article : 124 wordsIt is reported from Milan that 37 420-millimetre (16½in.) mortars have been placed in a fortress (place not given) which now is garrisoned by 70,000 ...
Article : 44 wordsMadame Nicaud, wife of the commandant of Belgian artillery, who was engaged in Red Cross work, has supplied details of many atrocities by the Germans at ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Australian Workers' Union Council has resolved to suspend the recently-adopted policy of demands for higher wages by the rural workers section of ...
Article : 64 wordsFour hundred English women and girls have arrived at Oldenzaal, in Holland, en route for England, in exchange for the German girls who were sent back to ...
Article : 42 words"District Orders" to hand contain the following information:— While every effort is to be made to assist the formation, equipment, and ...
Article : 914 wordsMany women are among the prisoners captured in the fighting on the East Prussian frontier. The Cossacks seized over 100 women at Willenburg, and one woman ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Hon. W. G. Spence) stated to-day that the new provision with regard to 10 letters being considered as a word in cable messages ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Diplomat, reported as having been sunk by a German cruiser, was a steel screw steamer, of 7608 tons, classed 100 A[?] at Lloyd's. She was built in 1912 by ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 24 Sep 1914, Page 7
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