It is officially stated that the Germans only occupy the suburbs of Antwerp. Twenty-four forts on the 3 heltt are resisting energetically. [This cable came through last night preceded by the word ...
Article : 237 wordsComplaints have been the within the past week or two of the great damage caused to growing wheat at various centres on the Downs by, it was ...
Article : 676 wordsThe picture shows one of the great German slege guns used in the reduction of the forts at Antwerp. The gun is mounted on a motor-driven carriage with large wheels and an immense trailer. The second picture shows the gun in position for firing. The shell has very high trajectory. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 67 wordsGuns Disappeared. Guns in Action. Type of Guns in use in many Belgian, fortresses. They are contained in a redoubt with a cupola which itself is a disappearing and armour-clad turret made of hardened steel plates. It is raised and lowered by hydraulic power. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 63 wordsThe German cavalry have entered Ghent and hoisted the flag. The Unlans arrived at Soizante and announced that 6000 troops must be ...
Article : 40 wordsMessages from northern France on Sunday state that the Germans are heavily massed in a triangle at Dousi, Bethuno and Arras, but the forces ...
Article : 44 wordsA great movement of Germans has taken place from Lille in the direction of Courtrai. There is also increasing activity between Lille and the coast. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent says that Cassel was a particularly important position owning to a series of six or seven hills rising above Palin. ...
Article : 188 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Aniens correspondent states that the battle of Alarm ended without anyone knowing it. The new battle front forms the letter z, beginning at the North Sea, passing north of Lille, through Compeigne and ...
Article : 195 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that owing to the great losses the German army sustained, all officers and non-commissioned officers who have ever been ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Mayor of Gravesend, has notified residents that in event of hostile air craft coming they should shelter in cellars on the sound of firing. ...
Article : 122 wordsA communique issued at midnight says there was a violent attack on the front at many points. We gained ground and nowhere lost any. ...
Article : 37 wordsNewspapers make ferocious attacks on the British in connection with Antwerp which, they state, was sacrificed to England's brutal, ...
Article : 112 wordsNear Scissors the French managed to get a battery in position and enfiladed some German trenches on the plateau. ...
Article : 130 wordsThere are four civil cases listed for hearing before the Dalby District Court on Friday, as follows:— D R. Underwood (Mr W. H. Vowles) ...
Article : 150 wordsThe news of the fall of Antwerp has caused a great stimulus in the enlistment of the new army. A total of 2000 recruits joined in London to-day. ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Donohue, the well-known war correspondent in a message to the London "Daily Chronicle" states that while many military men in Antwerp ...
Article : 91 wordsFifty Uhland on bicycles boarded a train at the little wayside station of Borra, and compelled the driver, at the point of the bayonet, to take the ...
Article : 151 wordsLord Curzon, speaking yesterday at Harrow, said that Germany's action in Belgium was the greatest crime in history for which it was ...
Article : 151 wordsDuring the fighting outside Antwerp on Thursday, a party of Britishers with a machine gun began to play at a point where they knew the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe fall of Antwerp has been followed by some alterations in the bat the front. The allies now have [?] northern position, extending from the sea eastward in a line of Lille. Then the line runs south to Compiegne and thence eastward to Verdum. The Germans are now rapidly evacuating the line on the river Aisne. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 63 wordsA magisterial inquiry was held at Brisbane to-day into the death by poisoning of Frank Dudley Beaumont. Deceased had served in the South ...
Article : 69 wordsMajor G. S. Richardson, of the New Zealand Staff Corps participated in the defence of Antwerp. He has returned to London. ...
Article : 30 wordsThirty British naval men, a portion of the 2000 interned in Holland, have returned to London. They were released because they are Red Cross ...
Article : 52 wordsA communique says that during a 24 hours engagement at Lassigny on Friday a brigade of marines killed 200 Germans and look 300 prisoners. The ...
Article : 126 wordsA communique states that submarines in the Baltic on Saturday attacked the cruiser, Admiral Mararoff, which was searching for suspicious ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. Donohue status that the naval brigade was terribly cut up on Thursday night. Some sailors and marines were in the ...
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Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1881 - 1922), Wed 14 Oct 1914, Page 5
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