The Moscow newspaper Russkoye Slovo states that the German Generals, von Brelow and von Bromel committed suicide at Czenstochowa after the great German ...
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Advertising : 19 wordsThe latest communique issued in Paris stated that the cannonades continue at Soissons and Rheime, and that both sides are making violent attacks in the Argonne ...
Article : 89 wordsLieut.-Col. Hon. George Henry Morris, who commanded the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards, was killed in action France in September. He was the second ...
Article : 75 wordsHeavy snowfalls have occurred on the battlefields of northern France and Belgium. The whole countryside is now an expanse of arctic whiteness, and ice is ...
Article : 173 wordsThe newspaper Tribuna states that 40,000 East Prussian fugitives have arrived at Insterburg, where the entire papulation is in a state of panic and is preparing to fly ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is reported from Rome that tie commander of the Austrian forces at Przemysl offered to surrender the town on condition that the garrison was left at liberty. The ...
Article : 55 wordsOfficial advices state that the South African Union forces are in hot pursuit of De Wet, who, with his rebel commando, crossed the Vet River and headed towards ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Austrian defenders of the Galiclan fortresses of Przemysl have been decimated with cholera. The victims of the epidemic are being buried in quicklime in ...
Article : 134 wordsDuring the night of November 18 the inundation of the country to the east of Dixmude cut off 1,500 Germans from their main supports. Some attempted to escape ...
Article : 107 wordsAdvices from Berlin military circles state that the renewed efforts of the Germans to reach Calais are being made in accord with the express desire and command of ...
Article : 51 wordsGerman prisoners state that the leaders of their armies are exasperated at the success achieved against the enemy by the British armoured trains, and that the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe British troops operating in.Turkey in Asia, near the head, of the Persian Gulf, occupied the Turkish town of Basra on November 21. The Ottoman defenders ...
Article : 79 wordsThe German gunfire during the bombardment of Ypres has destroyed the former Cathedral of St. Martin, an elegant Gothic edifice, begun in the thirteenth ...
Article : 37 wordsThe arrival of the Prince of Wales to go to the front has caused the liveliest satisfaction in France. The newspapers contain eulogistic notices and recall the ...
Article : 46 wordsDe Wet's rebel bands have pillaged the township of Winburg, but the advanee of the Loyalists, under the Prime Minister (Gen. Botha) was so' unexpected that the ...
Article : 52 wordsDetails are to hand regarding the manner in which Lieut. J. H. S. Dimmer, of the King's Royal Rifles, earned the Victoria Cross. Lieut. Dimmer was in ...
Article : 159 wordsDuring a charge in one of the struggles connected with the battle of the Yser, a Highland regiment encountered German wire entanglements while under a heavy ...
Article : 103 wordsA telegram from Berlin states that the Kaiser's son, Prince August, has sustained a complicated fracture of a thigh, the accident haying been sustained through a ...
Article : 37 wordsAn official announcement states that Commandant Holl pursued the rebels) of Do Wet's following from Bultfontein to BothaVille. where more than 100 ...
Article : 34 wordsAdvices from Constantinople state that a large force of Turkish troops from Adrianople has sacked the shops of Christian merchants at Trebizond, a seaport ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Dutch newspapers affirm that discontent among the Bavarian officers of the Kaiser's army is increasing. They complain that they are sacrificed by the Kaiser, ...
Article : 318 wordsGen. De Wet with six others crossed the Vaal River on Sunday night after the remnants of their commando had been beaten back. ...
Article : 76 wordsAlter-the recent defeat of the Prussian Guards at Zonnabeke, Belgium, in a battle which the French newspapers described as one of the noblest episodes in the annals ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Russian midnight communique says: —Fighting on the Vistula and the Warta continues obstinately, especially in Russian Poland, north of Lodz. Everywhere ...
Article : 57 wordsAn official communique states that Russian warships which bombarded Chopa, to the south-west of Batoum, destroyed the harbour barracks and customs office, ...
Article : 46 wordsIn East Africa a strong force of the enemy has compelled the British, who made an attack' on the Germans, to retreat to cover. The British loss was heavy, ...
Article : 51 wordsTurkish Bedouin A[?] hare crossed the eastern frontier of the [?]uai Peninsula. ...
Article : 16 wordsEighty thousand Turks under German officers garrison the forts of Smyrna, and the port is guarded by a double line of submerged mines. ...
Article : 29 wordsA Berlin communique declares that the dispatch to France of fresh troops, from Warsaw has been deferred until the operations in Poland have a decisive result. ...
Article : 150 wordsTwo of the sons of the rebel General De Wet have surrendered to loyalist troops. ...
Article : 17 wordsA French cavalry column surprised three companies of German infantry in a wood east of Ypres. The men were starying, and had been reduced to the ...
Article : 45 wordsOfficial advices from the Caucasus region state that the Turkish warship Hamidieh, 3,800 tons,, and destroyers bombarded Tuapse. A number of Russians were killed ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) announced to-day that it had been decided to. prosecute in the case of F. II. Snow under the Trading With the Enemy Act, ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Plain of Flanders is still snowbound, and heavy frosts are being experienced. The extensive exchange of German troops continues, and the recruits ...
Article : 214 wordsThrilling narratives have been received of the bravery of the West Kents, who covered the retreat of the British 5th Division after Mons, and who also figured ...
Article : 200 wordsThere has been outpost fighting on the Egyptian frontier, with scattered forces of Turks. Of the members of one camel corps 13 are missing. A number of Turks ...
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Advertising : 12 wordsIt is officially reported that the AustroGerman forces, stretching from Czenstochowa to Cracow, took a violent offensive with the intention of helping the centre of ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 28 Nov 1914, Page 36
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