The military authorities have informed the Premier's Office that members of rifle clubs will not be called out at present. The art union organised by the Western ...
Article : 1,179 wordsSteady rain commenced shortly before 10 o'clock this morning, and up to 3 o'clock 42 points were recorded. It is still threatening, with every prospect of more rain. ...
Article : 2,486 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) stated that General Sir John French, the British Commander-in-Chief in Europe, had reported ...
Article : 73 wordsSir,—The present war, by the diversion of capital and labour from the production to the destruction of wealth, involves an enormous diminution in the world's total ...
Article : 2,432 wordsThree hundred thousand Germans have marched to the south, half towards Lille and half to Charleroi and Mons. The British and French opposed a German attempt ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Press Bureau states:—"The British forces in Belgium have successfully reached a new and well protected position. The fighting was continuous but the enemy ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Belgian Minister for War states that yesterday 300,000 Germans passed Brussels. An eye-witness of the march asserts that half of this force went in the direction of ...
Article : 144 wordsWhen the fort at Chaudfontaine, commanding the railroad from Aix-la-Chapelle (in Germany) to Verviers (in Belgium) was reduced to ruins by the Germans Major ...
Article : 58 wordsUnder the heading of "Is Germany Isolated?" the Berlin correspondent of the "Christian World" (London) wrote to that journal as follows about the middle of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,332 wordsThe man of whom, for some reason or another, officers of the navy seem to hold the highest expectations, is Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, who was sent recently ...
Article : 542 wordsBelgium has sent all her railway rolling stock, including 1,000 locomotives, to France to prevent the Germans securing possession of it. ...
Article : 30 wordsWhat was described by the Acting Chief Justice as a remarkable case was a suit by Arthur Harold McIlntosh, 25 years of age, driver, of Brunswick, for a divorce from ...
Article : 420 wordsReuter's message confirms reports that Germans in South-West Africa raided Union territory. They have been making preparations for some time to force a passage ...
Article : 117 wordsAustralian soldiers (observes a Melbourne newspaper) will feel confidence in Brigadier-General William Throsby Bridges, who goes to Europe in command of the expeditionary ...
Article : 163 wordsA telegram from San Giovanni states that 30,000 Montenegrins scored a series of successes on the Herzogovinian frontier with fierce bayonet charges. The Austrians ...
Article : 51 wordsAccording to the "Naval Annual" of 1914. the use of net defen[?] against torpedoes has been discontinued on the latest ships of the British fleet, through the Admiralty's ...
Article : 160 wordsM. Radoslavoff, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, states that Bulgarla and Roumania have settled all their misunderstandings and that their relations with Tuckey ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "Times of Ceylon" of July 31 wrote: "Our troops in Caylon are mobilised, and the Ceylon Engineer Volunteers have received mobilisation orders for the purpose of ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Czar, with the members of the Imperial family, went out to sea from Peterhof to bid farewell to the British squadron which visited Russian waters recently. His ...
Article : 273 wordsMons (Flemish Bergen) is a town of Belgium situated on a small river called the Trouille in the province of Hainaut, of which it is the capital. Population ...
Article : 1,190 wordsOn the occasion of a Mohammedan festival all the mosques throughout India were thronged with natives, who prayed for the success of Great Britain in the present ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 26 Aug 1914, Page 8
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