To-day's cables are almost barren of authoritative information of the fighting during the last two days in the long line of battle in France. A sensational ...
Article : 542 wordsTHE GERMAN ARMIES IN FRANCE. THE LINES OF INVASION AND RETREAT. APPROXIMATE PRESENT POSITIONS OF ENEMY. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 17 wordsThe Berlin newspapers publish a number of letters from the field complaining bitterly that German women and girls have received the French and Russian ...
Article : 109 wordsNearly 200,000,000 marks out of the loan of 1,000,000,000 asked for by the German Government have been subscribed in Germany. The German newspapers are ...
Article : 46 wordsTheir Majesties the King and Queen visited the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, near Southampton, yesterday, and addressed comforting greetings ...
Article : 361 wordsThe Germans have provided Pola, the chief Austrian naval station, on the Adriatic, with heavy howitzers and many modern guns, and steps are being taken ...
Article : 68 wordsA correspondent states: "The Plains of Champagne offer no natural positions for defence, and it is probable that the present fighting is only a rearguard action ...
Article : 117 wordsThe committee of the London Stock Exchange has fixed the prices of truestee securities, and has prohibited members from purchasing of selling at below the fixed ...
Article : 364 wordsAt Alexandrovo the Russians captured and court-martialled Major Presuka, a Prussian officer, who was the author of the atrocities committed at Kalisch ...
Article : 38 wordsThe following cable messages have been received from the High Commissioner:—"London, September 15, 12.45 p.m.—Reliable: The Russians' progress in Galicia has ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Antwerp correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," telegraphing yesterday evening, stated: "The military conditions have completely altered. There are now ...
Article : 72 wordsAll reports concur that the Germans made free use of the cellars in the Champagne district of France. Many officers were dead drunk when they were captured, and they ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Retch" remarks: "The allies would willingly see Trent and Trieste, the inhabitants of which for the most part speak the Italian language, once again become Italian ...
Article : 112 wordsThe fourth South African Mounted Rifles, under Colonel Dawson, after two night marches, surprised a German force occupying a drift sixty miles from Steinkopf, in ...
Article : 54 wordsDuring their retreat the Germans occupied Coulommiers (about 35 miles east of Paris), and arrested the Mayor and the Public Prosecutor, from whom they ...
Article : 97 wordsJohn Maggellan, of Brisbane, who recently joined the Army Service Corps, has been recommended for the Royal Humane Society's gold medal, for conspicuous ...
Article : 52 wordsA force of 1,000 French cavalry surprised 3,000 German cavalry encamped at Rousbrugge, in West Flanders, on the French border, and routed them after two ...
Article : 85 wordsAn official report received from Berlin confirms the Stockholm telegram respecting a naval engagement in the Baltic. The Berlin report states that 15 German ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Bonar Law, addressing a meeting of leaders of the Unionist Party on the proposals of the Government to postpone the Home Rule and Welsh Church ...
Article : 107 wordsGeorges Andre, the famous French sprinter and international footballer, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant owing to his gallantry. The Germans surrounded ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following cable message has been received by the Minister of External Affairs from the High Commissioner in London, dated September 15, 9.50 p.m.:—"Official: ...
Article : 622 wordsThe Earl of Selborne suggests, in respect to the German atrocities in Belgium, that a court of trained lawyers or judges of some neutral nation, like the Netherlands ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Servians have occupied Vishegrad, an important Austrian post on the River Drina, in Herzegovina. ...
Article : 25 wordsRefugees streaming into Holland from East Belgium tell harrowing stories of German butchery. They mention, amongst other outrages, that a German ...
Article : 133 wordsIt is officially reported that the Russian army, which is moving westward of Lemberg, has crossed the San without opposition and has occupied the town of Grodek. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Council of Ministers has decided to increase by 5 per cent, the Customs tariff upon goods imported from countries that do not grant Russia most-favoured-nation ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), in introducing the Legislation Suspension Bill in the House of Commons, denied that the Government was taking advantage of the ...
Article : 389 wordsThe German Chancellor Von Hollweg has issued a statement to the Press in reply to Mr. Asquith's speech on the violation of Belgium's neutrality. He asserts: "England ...
Article : 80 wordsBelfast alone has enrolled 8,000 recruits for Kitchener's second army. ...
Article : 16 wordsTelegrams from Valona (in Albania) state that the people of Albania are suffering from famine, and that malaria and small-pox are raging in their midst, particularly ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Tomlins, postmaster at Eastchurch, in the Isle of Shepply, who was arrested in suspicion of espionage, because some maps and plans of government works were found ...
Article : 50 wordsThe German Government, realising that little financial help is probable from neutral countries, is making frantic appeals for the internal loan of £50,000,000, ...
Article : 89 wordsSome Breitenberg troops slaughtered 182 civilians at Soumagn (near Liege), on the ground that rifles were found in some houses, despite the fact that the workmen ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the second report of the Commission of Inquiry into the German atrocities in Belgium. The report gives instances of German atrocities ...
Article : 284 wordsJapanese cavalry have captured Tsi-mo, a Chinese town 10 miles outside the Kisu-chau zone. ...
Article : 20 wordsAn official announcement issued at 12 o'clock last night stated:—"On the left our armies are in close contact with the enemy along the whole of the front marked by the ...
Article : 346 wordsThe German Charge d'Affaires yesterday notified the Chinese authorities that his Government reserved the right to deal with China owing to her breach of neutrality in ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "Messagero" in an editorial on Italy's war policy, foreshadows a reconstruction of the Ministry, and the inauguration of a new policy under the auspices of a National ...
Article : 71 wordsThe "Morning Post" correspondent at Petrograd states that General Rennenkanpt ordered the Russian advance into Prussia, regardless of losses, in order to ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) promised that an inquiry would be made into the statements made by wounded soldiers in ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Central News Agency correspondent at Dieppe, telegraphs that it is reported there that the extreme left of the German army commanded by General von ...
Article : 265 wordsThe Russian troops in Galicia have occupied Czernowitz, a town of 70,000 inhabitants, 165 miles south-east of Lemberg. The Austrians surrendered the town ...
Article : 36 wordsDetails of the Russian victory at Krasnik (Russian Poland), which followed the failure of the Austrian attack on the entrenchments at Dejvitze, 11 miles from Lublin, ...
Article : 157 wordsColonel, von Reuter and Lieutenant von Forstner, who earned a considerable amount of notoriety a few months ago by their tyrannical treatment of civilians at Zabern, ...
Article : 59 wordsA Servian official message states that 96,000 Austrians attempted to cross the River Drina near Racha and temporarily succeeded. Finally, however, they were ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 17 Sep 1914, Page 7
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