A regimental band is here [?] preceding the troops as they march through a Paris street on their way to one of the military stations. The French military bands are all good, and they have a most inspiring effect upon the soldiers, who, after a long and weary march, brighten up most wonderfully in response to the strains of the dearly-loved "Marseil[?] or some other marching air. THe gaiety of the French soldier is a most useful quality. It enables him, as an English critic says, to bear short commons, weariness, rain, and wounds without repining: to sing as he tramps ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 146 wordsNewspapers here are publishing full details of the destruction of Louvain. A Dutch eye witness said that prior to the outrages, the inhabitants were ...
Article : 114 wordsParticulars are coming to hand of the smashing defeat of the Austrians at Lemberg. The extreme right of the Austrians endeavoured to outflank the Podolia army. Meanwhile the main Austrian force was ...
Article : 445 wordsThe agent for the Belgian State railways describes cold-blooded massacres at Aer[?] A boy, brooding over the country's ...
Article : 181 wordsAt the beginning of the week one of our well-known farmers, Mr. Charles Castles, generously gave eight bags of potatoes the proceeds of which were ...
Article : 245 wordsIt was ma[?]isable for anyone not sporting a patriotic badge to be in the streets of Toowoomba yesterday. No one minded wearing an emblem ...
Article : 770 wordsYesterday's enlistments for Lord Kitchener's army of 100,000 totalled 20,000. The authorities in London were scarcely able to cope with the rush. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says that several German naval prisoners from Heligoland, who were confined in barracks at Edinburgh, desperately ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Germans bombarded Malines on Wednesday, and the cathedral was reduced to ruins. St. Rombold's shrine was rescued ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the Duke of Westminster, in a recent hot engagement, at great personal risk, under a heavy fire, carried Captain F. ...
Article : 50 wordsA lance corporal states that the Germans are sacrificing their men for the sake of making an impression, in appalling fashion. ...
Article : 111 wordsA patriotic function in the shape [?] a euchre tournament and social, [?] by the local school committees, [?] held in the Town Hall, Dray[?] ...
Article : 172 wordsAustralia's Minister for Defence, who is discharging his responsible duties in a very thorough manner. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsSecond son of King George and Queen Mary He has been sent ashore from the H.M. Battleship Collingwood suffering from appead[?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsA lance corporal of the Connaught Rangers, who was wounded, states:— "A dis[?]oncorsing thing in the present fight is that we seldom see the ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is officially announced that the President of France and the government have left Paris for Bordeaux. All the ambassadors and ministers also ...
Article : 51 wordsPresident Poincare in his manifesto states: "Our armies are unimpaired and if some sustained considerable loss the ...
Article : 112 wordsA sergeant-major in a letter from the front, says:—"The worst thing about this is not the fear of losing our lives, but the hellish nerve-racking ...
Article : 71 wordsPresident Poincare has addressed the following proclamation to France:— In order to watch over national welfare, it is the duty of public ...
Article : 114 wordsThis afternoon a meeting [?] convened to consider [?] mation of a Food Stu[?] The Rev. C. W. Tomk[?] ...
Article : 186 wordsThe War Office has issued a further list of casualties as follows:— Officers: 18 killed, 78 wounded, 86 missing. ...
Article : 47 wordsA Taube aeroplane which had been dropping bombs in Paris was brought down at Champig[?] The Two aviators were killed. ...
Article : 27 wordsUpon vacating their posts at nine o'clock the ladles brought the proceeds of the day's efforts to Mr. C. L. Alden's office at the Court House ...
Article : 261 wordsThe Ministers for Defence to-day issued circulars to mayors and presidents of municipalities inviting them to co-operate in recruiting work for the ...
Article : 100 wordsAn official message states that the torpedo gunboat, Speedy, of 800 tons, and a steam dredger, Lunstell, struck a mine yesterday morning, 30 miles ...
Article : 73 wordsOliver Madox[?]ffour, of Boulogne, interviewed the cure of little villages south-west of Brussels. The cure said that a German rode over a little child ...
Article : 96 wordsAn official message states that the Germans continue to advance. The enemy has pushed back by sheer weight, the allies left, including the ...
Article : 79 wordsAn American attached to the Consuta[?] at Brussels narrates how 17 English soldiers were captured near Waterloo, and marched to the nearest ...
Article : 63 wordsIn another column it is stated that the Toowoomba Baptists are opening a branch of their church at Harlaxton to-morrow, (Sunday). A Sunday ...
Article : 54 wordsWheat again rose to-day rapidly touching the highest point since the outbreak of the war. It is believed that Italy and Turkey ...
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Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1881 - 1922), Sat 5 Sep 1914, Page 5
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