News from the seat of war is meagre, if not unsatisfactory. Perth has been agog with rumours of a sanguinary engagement in the North Sea between the ...
Article : 484 wordsThe Germans continue to shoot summarily residents in Alsace whom they suspect of giving information to France respecting German movements on the frontier. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe whereabouts of the German battleship Goeben (23,000 tons) which was reported some days ago to be at Messina, sheltering after a pursuit by two British cruisers, ...
Article : 171 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Lord Denman, late Governor-General of Australia, speaking, on the request of Rushall's cadets to join the Territorial forces, ...
Article : 74 wordsFurther details are now available with respect to the sinking of the German liner Wonigen Luise by the British destroyer Lance, and the subsequent loss of the ...
Article : 208 wordsThe British Government has appointed an influential advisory committee to deal with war distress. The Postmaster-General, Mr. Samuel, presides, and the committee ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Tenth German Army Corps, reinforced by cavalry, attacked Liege on Wednesday. As the Germans crossed the mined zones they exploded, and whole battalions ...
Article : 136 wordsWhen the Naval Reserve was mobilised, Sir Ernest Shackleton offered the services of his whole Antarctic expedition, and placed his stores of provisions at the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Cabinet committee on food sipplies has held a conference with representative firms owning 7,000 food distributing shops. The committee discussed measures for the ...
Article : 52 wordsA high official of the German Foreign Office farewelled the British Ambassador, Sir Edward Goschen, and the Kaiser sent his aide-camp to apologise for a hostile ...
Article : 316 wordsH.R.H. the Prince of Wales has been gazetted to a commission in the Grenadier Guards. Lady Reid, wife of the High ...
Article : 55 wordsA Bill has been passed through the House of Commons subjecting to court-martial, without the death penalty, all persons communicating with the enemy of ...
Article : 167 wordsThe fighting on the Franco-German frontier for the next 10 days will not be a struggle between main armies, but merely the conflicts of covering troops designed to ...
Article : 68 wordsThe general in command of the German army of the Meuse, after the repulse at Liege, asked for an armistice of 24 hours, apparently to remove dead and wounded, ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) speaking in the House of Commons last night on the special war vote of £100,000,000, said that posterity would pay to Sir ...
Article : 657 wordsIt is computed that 100,000 Americans came to England and the Continent this spring. Twenty thousand returnd in June and July, 20,000 are now in London, and ...
Article : 64 wordsA White Paper has been issued containing Sir Edward Grey's correspondence with the European Powers. It states that Britain's active participation in the dispute ...
Article : 579 wordsThe following Ministerial changes are announced as the result of the Asquith Government's decision to support the neutrality of Belgium, and the moral ...
Article : 83 wordsAn eye witness of the combat at Vise affirms that a squadron of Prussian cavalry moved towards the Vise Bridge, in which the Belgians made a breach 60 metres wide. ...
Article : 152 wordsThe London building trade strike has been settled owing to the war. The marine engineers' strike is ended, in favour of the shipowners. Other strikes have been ...
Article : 47 wordsRear-Admiral Frederick Tudor, Director of Ordnance, has been appointed third Sea Lord of the Admiralty, in succession to Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore, who returns ...
Article : 35 wordsAccording to reports received in Brussels, there have been some severe conflicts in Alsace between the French and German forces. The German casualties in Alsace ...
Article : 231 wordsPresident Wilson's offer to mediate between the Powers at war has produced an excellent effect, and it is officially stated that Italy will support the proposal. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Postmaster-General (Mr. Samuels) outlined the steps which were being taken for the prevention of distress. The Board of Trade ...
Article : 72 wordsThe northern gap in the frontier defences of France leads to the rugged Argonne country. The southern gap leads to the basins of the Meuse, the Marne, and ...
Article : 158 wordsWhen infuriated Russian workmen wrecked the German Embassy on Thursday and found on the premises the dead body of a Russian employee, who had been ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that war between Germany and England does not constitute a state of war between Austria and England. The case is, it is asserted, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Austrian troops have made seven attempts to cross the Danube, and have failed. They tried once to cross the Save, but also failed. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Cabinet committee on food supplies in conjunction with the principal retail provision dealers, has appointed a standing committee to meet at intervals, and fix the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe speech in which Sir Edward Grey set out England's reasons for war with Germany was received with genuine relief in Vienna, because it did not contain any ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Montenegrin Government has handed passoprts to the Austrian Minister. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Duma will meet to-day. Amongst the Bills to be introduced is one giving municipal self-government to Poland, and also granting the Poles permission to use ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Danish Government has issued a declaration of the strictest neutrality in the Austro-Russian war. ...
Article : 21 wordsLiege overlooks the Brussels plain; on the other side are hills, with narrow valleys between them, as in Derbyshire. The fortifications of Namur and Antwerp ...
Article : 386 wordsThe "Daily News" states that the Government has decided to send an expeditionary force to the Continent, and that preparations for the despatch of the troops have ...
Article : 76 wordsBritish destroyers captured the Austrian steamer Laconia off Deal, in Kent, last night. Two shots were fired across her bows before the Laconia stopped. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Servians have entered Austria at Euvatz, which the Austrians abandoned after firing the barracks. ...
Article : 23 wordsLondon is swinging back to as near normal as possible, and the rush to lay in stores of food has practically ceased. The people are viewing the situation coolly, but ...
Article : 374 wordsIt is announced that Russia will not permit any war correspondents with her armies or her headquarters staff. A German squadron of 19 vessels ...
Article : 94 wordsSir R. S. S. Baden-Powell is quickly mobilising the Boy Scouts, 40,000 of whom are now available for public service in London. It is proposed that their duties ...
Article : 80 wordsGermany and Austria are beginning to threaten Italy. They declare that her neutrality is contrary to her obligations under the Triple Alliance, and if she persists in ...
Article : 53 wordsThe centre of the fighting with the German invaders is at Liege. The city is defended by six forts and six "fortines," or little forts, forming a ring five miles in ...
Article : 342 wordsThe German patrol which entered Swiss territory is being pursued by a superior force. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe "Standard" asserts that the German plan of campaign included the despatch of raiders into the enemy's territory, to strike at the vital points, such as arsenals, ...
Article : 91 wordsIt is officially announced that troops from the British Gold Coast Colony in West Africa, have seized Lome, the chief port of German Togoland, and that the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Chancellir of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, has announced that Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Turkish Government, which has declared its neutrality in the European War, announces that the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, through which Russia's Black Sea ...
Article : 56 wordsAt a special meeting of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce on Saturday the president (Mr. H. Y. Braddon) asked the merchants not to withdraw their money from the ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Portuguese Parliament have decided to support England in the present war. ...
Article : 19 wordsA meting of advocates for peace at any price, held yesterday, at Saffron Walden, in Essex, was broken up by a crowd of war sympathisers. The mob then marched ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Germans have surrendered to the British troops a large area of German territory in South Togoland (German West Africa). ...
Article : 29 wordsA number of British correspondents accompanied Sir Edward Goschen (British Ambassador) from Berlin. They state that when the allegation that England had ...
Article : 270 wordsLarge numbers have informally enrolled for the South African contingent, and the public are contributing liberally towards the war movement. The Dutch are ...
Article : 34 wordsThere is intense anxiety in England for news from the North Sea. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Winston Churchill) has denied the report that in a big naval ...
Article : 131 wordsIt is estimated that 400,000 Germans are likely to attack France through Belgium. It is possible that the German attack on Liege was designed to prevent interference ...
Article : 65 wordsPrince Lichnowsky, German Ambassador in London, having been withdrawn, it is announced that Dr. Walter Page, the United States Ambassador, has taken ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Ottawa Government is completing a scheme to provide pensions for all men injured while fighting, and to provide suitably for the families of those killed in action. ...
Article : 140 wordsAll native rulers are tendering resources, and there have been several offers of services. ...
Article : 52 wordsAs yet no account has been published of the encounteer between the British and German fleets, but the Press Association states that the Admiralty informed ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Queen has approved of the appeal now being made for the Queen Mary's Naval Hospital Fund. The Palace Hotel, Southend, has been acquired for the ...
Article : 319 wordsThe Seventh and Tenth German Army Corps have now entered Aixe-la-Chapelle. in Rhenish Prussia, on the Belgian frontier. ...
Article : 69 wordsKing Albert of Belgium personally commands the Franco-Belgian troops, with a combined French and Belgian staff. Before leaving for the front the King placed his ...
Article : 335 wordsProminent Indians in London, in a letter to the King, express a desire for Great Britain's success, and they declare that whatever differences exist in time of ...
Article : 51 wordsSoldiers who took part in the recent fighting in Belgium state that some of the trenches around Liege are filled with German corpses, piled, in some cases, four and ...
Article : 116 wordsA party of police, supported by a section of Territorial infantry, to-day made a said upon an hotel in the Euston-road, suspected to be a rendezvous of German ...
Article : 207 wordsA telegram from Montmedy on the Belgian frontier, states that the sound of cannon is heard in the direction of Longwy. Other reports state that two officers and 20 ...
Article : 199 wordsThe captain of the liner Olympic (45,000 tons) has received orders to hold his vessel at the disposal of the British Admiralty. ...
Article : 29 wordsNorth Sea trawlers which have put into Aberdeen report that they heard heavy firing in the North Sea, and saw two cruisers flying the French flag. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Kaiser has issued another proclamation. In this he states:—"In the midst of perfect peace the enemy surprises us. Therefore, the order is: To arms. To be or ...
Article : 85 wordsThe citizens of Yorkton and other towns in Saskatchewan have petitioned the Prime Minister (Mr. Borden) asking him to report Bishop Budka, the head of the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Millen, announced last night that the duty of organising and taking the expeditionary force to England had been confided ...
Article : 201 wordsAmsterdam has received from Berlin a remarkable message, which reads as follows:— "The news of the fall of Liege spread with ...
Article : 134 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, officially denies the report published in London evening papers, that in a naval engagement in the North ...
Article : 63 wordsReports from Maestricht, in Dutch Limburg, near the Belgian frontier, state that cannonading by big guns is heard, and that smoke can be seen from the church ...
Article : 75 wordsDaniel von Hainhausen, head of the German Embassy at Washington during Count Bernstoff's absence, in giving his version of the European situation to a Press ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 10 Aug 1914, Page 7
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