The enlisting of men for the second Australian expenditionary force proceeded busily to-day at Victoria Barracks, and over 300 men were put through. A Methodist ...
Article : 162 wordsThere has been a full in the fighting between the Allies and the enemy in France; the news of active hostilities referring mainly to the engagements of last ...
Article : 649 wordsThe steamer Runo, 1,645 tons, belonging to T. Wilson and Co., Ltd., of Hull, bound from Hull to Russia, with 300 Russian refugees from Germany, yesterday struck a ...
Article : 395 wordsThe Austrian flight to the south-west of Lemberg continues. It is reported that a whole detachment asked to be taken prisoners, owing to the fact that their ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Germans have been repulsed from Termonde. Many German wounded have arrived at Antwerp including a [?], who declared that only three of his ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Austrian defeat between Lublin and Kholm (Poland), places the main Austrian army in a critical position, as it is now forced to retire southwards, and is in ...
Article : 171 wordsReuter's Agency has received information that the Spanish Government has taken measures to protect the submarine cable from Bilbas, in the north-west of Spain, ...
Article : 47 wordsImportant recommendations dealing with the exportation of wheat, flour and meat were made to the Commonwealth Government to-day by the Federal Royal ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states:—"The Germans are feverishly reorganising the famous gigantic gun factory and ironworks at ...
Article : 73 wordsThe British Embassy yesterday issued the following statement: "The fighting strength of the allies in France is unimpaired. The Russians are about to enter Central ...
Article : 88 wordsThe special correspondent of the London "Observer." telegraphing from Ostend, describes the German advance upon Mauberge, when the allied troops retired ...
Article : 306 wordsThe Germans seized the president and a number of citizens in a Polish town as hostages for the good behaviour of the inhabitants. Later a German general, on the ...
Article : 99 wordsTravellers report that a Hamburg butcher is doing a thriving business because the floor of his shop is covered with British flags, enabling customers to tread on the ...
Article : 41 wordsAn official announcement issued late last night stated:"The allies" advanced troops defending Paris came into touch on Saturday with the enemy's forces, which seemed ...
Article : 216 wordsReports from Capetown indicate that the South African Union is making energetic preparations to deal with 30,000 German troops and armed settlers in German ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is officially announced that Jews will be admitted to commissions in the army and navy. Already several hundreds of them have been promoted from the ranks ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 223 wordsEfforts are being made in Australian commercial circles to have sent on to their ports of destination under prize crews the German ships now interned in South ...
Article : 263 wordsA Norwegian engineer on board a British trawler, which was fishing with other trawlers to the north-west of Dogger Bank, states that on August 28 a German ...
Article : 65 wordsA refugee states that near Vonziers recently 30 youths and women, armed with rifles, ambushed a body of Uhlans, and killed nearly all of them. Next day a big ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the Japanese Diet on Saturday Baron Kato, Minister for Foreign Affairs, reviewed the events which led to war between Germany and Japan. German warships, he ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Rouen correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states:—"Throughout the British retirement from Mons and Compiegne the Germans were uncannily acquainted with ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Official Press Bureau has issued a general survey of the past week's operations stating that no new main trial of strength has occurred, though there have ...
Article : 513 wordsThe Germans have demanded ransoms of £280,000 from Lille, £20,000 from Armentieres, £28,000 from Lens, and £40,000 as well as 100,00 cigars from Amiens. ...
Article : 33 wordsA meeting largely attended by fruitgrowers was held this afternoon in the Town Hall, in view of the war, to consider the prospects of the coming fruit ...
Article : 227 wordsIn a fight at Decateau on August 26 all the men in one British battery, with the exception of a subaltern and two gunners, were either killed or wounded. The ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Turkish Government is apparently apprehensive that its action in respect to the German warships Goeben and Breslaumay bring about a naval attack. The ...
Article : 115 wordsAt a large and enthusiastic meeting this afternoon it was decided to form a company which will be known as the Adelaide Volunteer Guards. The object is to enrol at ...
Article : 125 wordsAn official announcement states that on Friday the Russians continued energetic offensive action along the whole Austrian line, the enemy's centre suffering most. The ...
Article : 336 wordsThe Premier yesterday received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner for the Commonwealth:—"Following is a summary of the Press Bureau review ...
Article : 576 wordsInteresting details of the sinking of the New Zealand steamer Kaipara by the German commerce raider Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse are given by Mr. Herbert Wilde, ...
Article : 413 wordsThe contributions to the various funds organised in Sydney in connection with the war now amount in the aggregate to over £150,000. The Lord Mayor's Patriotic ...
Article : 36 wordsThe British success in the Compeigne Forest campaign was of considerable magnitude, and it involved the employment of a large force of artillery. Great numbers ...
Article : 91 wordsNo objection was offered by the Government to-day to the Prize Court allowing the German steamer Wildenfels to proceed under guard to Sydney and Newcastle, but ...
Article : 68 wordsDetails of the death of General von Buelow, one of the German leaders in Belgium, have just been published. These show that a Belgian lad, named Hailes, 18 ...
Article : 291 wordsThe list completing the British casualties to the first of the present month shows he following figures:—9 officers and 33 men killed. ...
Article : 123 wordsAmout previously acknowledged £8,106 3 2 Sleeper Hewer 0 10 0 Mayor of Albany 111 0 0 ...
Article : 258 wordsSome Sixth Dragoon Guardsmen relate that when the German guns were captured at Compiegne the German and British batteries were only 500 yards apart. The ...
Article : 68 wordsThe new German movement in abandoning the advance on Paris and marching eastward through La Ferte-sous-Jouarre. on the Meuse towards Rheims, is interpreted ...
Article : 94 wordsAmong the unnaturalised Germans in England is Captain von Herbert, author of a history of the Defence of Plevna by the Turks against the Russians in 1877. ...
Article : 88 wordsLieutenant Drake, of the Eleventh Hussars, with a corporal, has arrived at Boulogue. He states that their squadron was routed at Mons, but, entrenching ...
Article : 186 wordsAdvices from Vienna show that the Russian victory at Lemberg was really the rout of the whole Austrian army in Galicia. The only Austrian hope now rests on a ...
Article : 72 wordsBelfast correspondents mention the extraordinarily stimulating spectacle of Protestants joining the National volunteers and rervists, and leaving Ulster towns for ...
Article : 60 wordsThe newspapers consider that when the time comes for a settlement, the allies' declaration that they will not conclude peace without consulting each other, will ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 8 Sep 1914, Page 7
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