The great battle along a line extending from Tergnier near Laon eastward to the Argonne district has been in progress for a week, but the issue apparently yet ...
Article : 726 wordsThe British Medical Association and Pharmaceutical Society have arranged with the Government to give free medical attendance with medicine and appliances. to the ...
Article : 118 wordsViscount Buxton (Governor-General of South Africa) and Lady Buxton were accorded an enthusiastic welcome at Pretoria yesterday. ...
Article : 122 wordsAn officer of the battalion of Coldstream Guards writes:—"The Coldstreams and two other battalions, with cavalry and artillery, were detailed to fight a rearguard ...
Article : 179 wordsOn Friday six Austrian torpedo boats, in the absence of the Anglo-French fleet, bombarded the French wireless station at Antivari, a Montenegrin seaport in the Adriatic ...
Article : 69 wordsDetails of the fighting on Lake Victoria Nyanza in the British East African Protectorate, show that at Karonga, a British force surprised the enemy in the early ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Ferreira, a prominent supporter of Mr. Hertzog, declared yesterday that if Mr. Botha's Government had not complied with Great Britain's request to take military ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Davis saw little wanton damage done—nothing comparable to the horrors perpetrated in Belgium. Other observers state that during the siege of Mieux a ...
Article : 140 wordsTravellers from Germany relate that there hae been many peace demonstrations in Berlin. One night the walls were placarded with "We Want Peace." ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Germans are showing the greatest enmity to British prisoners, the German soldiers declaring that they should be shot in all cases. This does not represent the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe King's message of sympathy with the family of General Delarey who was recently shot dead by a policeman through having been mistaken for a bandit, has been ...
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Article : 125 wordsThe Democratic paper "Cef" states that the Nationalist Reform Socialist and Republican parties have resolved in favour of immediate hostilities. The consensus of ...
Article : 64 wordsA wounded German prisoner, aged fifteen and three-quarter years says all his school-fellows over fifteen have been mobilised and placed in regiments. ...
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Article : 117 wordsDespatches from various German railway centres announce a sudden and general movement of German concentration towards the Luxemburg frontier. The ...
Article : 95 wordsAccording to information from a high diplomatic source, Germany's essential conditions to peace include the dropping of all suggestions of dismemberment of the ...
Article : 252 wordsWidespread satisfaction is felt at the declaration of the Triple Entente to make peace altogether, when the time arrives. Russia is not fighting for territorial ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Jackson brigand gang, which was the cause of General Delarey's death, took refuge in a cave on the East Rand. They were summoned to surrender, and offered ...
Article : 61 wordsDespite the severity of the battle which the Germans are fighting on the Aisne River, no anxiety is felt in Paris. The German right was very strongly placed, and ...
Article : 163 wordsIn a third fierce battle at Termonde the Germans marched through the wrecked town singing and shouting. One party went to the Cathedral, ringing peals of ...
Article : 270 wordsThe results of the war are reflected in American foreign trade. A statement of imports shows a decrease of eight million for August as compared with 1913. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe latest casualities include Captain D. K. L. Lucas-Tooth, Lord Guernsey, and Lord Arthur Vincent-Hay, who were killed. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Archduke Nicholas, by proclamation to the people of Austria-Hungary, states: "Russia is bringing you freedom and the fulfilment of national aspirations. The ...
Article : 86 wordsA communique states that the allies' left has progressed near Noyon, and holds all the heights on the right bank of the Aisne against the enemy, who have apparently ...
Article : 302 wordsA report from the front states: "A young lad belonging to the Dublin Fusiliers found himself in an isolated outpost in a recent engagement, and he fired upon the Germans ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) made his first speech on the war yesterday afternoon, when he addressed a big meeting of Welshmen in London. He ...
Article : 730 wordsThe consensus of opinion is that the battle of the Aisne is the most important campaign. It is evidently not a rearguard action to protect the retreating German ...
Article : 464 wordsA letter from a German officer, published in a Danish paper, states that the Germans on retreat in France were foodless for 24 hours, but they had plenty of ...
Article : 123 wordsDetails of the battle cabled on the 15th inst. in Bosnia, show that 90,000 Austrians on the nights of the 7th inst. crossed the mouth of ...
Article : 142 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" states that Germany will not lay down her arms until she was assured that her position in the world has improved. ...
Article : 105 wordsA French soldier now in hospital at Lens states that as he lay wounded on a battle-field a German sergeant, about 23 years of age, pointed a revolver at him. The ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Germans are entrenching strongly along the Sambre, from Mauberge to Namur, and have erected important works at Thuin, Farciennos, Tommines, and ...
Article : 62 wordsThe fortress towns along the Rhine, from Viersen north of the Belgian frontier, to Cologne, are being hastily strengthened, and similar activity prevails in Lorraine. ...
Article : 43 wordsAn official communique respecting the conflict proceeding between the attacking ellies and the retreating Germans states that battle continues from the Oise to ...
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Article : 236 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" says the cost of the German military administration is £3,000,000 a day. Germany's total expenditure on the war up-to-date is £132,000,000 ...
Article : 31 wordsReliable information from Brussels states that the Germans there are reinforced by two army corps, making 150,000. At Antwerp the Belgian mitrailleuses have ...
Article : 122 wordsA Reuter's correspondent has sent a message picturing the ruins at Termonde. He states that the Germans bombarded the public buildings and most of the private ...
Article : 140 wordsIn a recent fight at Villersbrock, the Germans were sweeping the Belgians across a canal with machine gun fire, and the Belgians were unable to cross at a bridge ...
Article : 69 wordsAn official report issued at midnight on Friday states that the allies have made a continual advance. On the left wing there is a slight lull in the battle of the Aisne. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Bordeaux correspondent of the "Times" states: "The allies' left is slowly working its way around, despite immense natural difficulties in the country where ...
Article : 107 wordsThe "North German Gazette" says that officials despatched to report on the sack of Louvain, declare that only one-fifth or one-sixth of the town is in ruins. Most of the ...
Article : 78 wordsAn officer who escaped from the siege of Maubeuge states that the forts were unable to respond to the German fire made from a distance of eight miles. The fate ...
Article : 63 wordsThe German Headquarters office at Berlin has issued a statement declaring that so far no decisive battle has been fought in France between the Rivers Oise and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Duchess of Sutherland (neo Lady Eileen Butler), who has been actively engaged in army hospital work in Belgium, has, with eight Red Cross nurses, arrived ...
Article : 96 wordsA message from Petrograd states:—"The Russians have completely cut off General Dankyl's force which forms the extreme left of the Austrian army, marching from ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Richard Harding Davis, the well-known American novelist and war correspondent, who witnessed the end of the late battle of Soissons, telegraphs a graphic ...
Article : 337 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Agency in a message from Antwerp, states that it possesses good news of the Noyon-Verdun battle, in France. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," Mr. William Maxwell, telegraphing from the neighbourhood of the Aisne fighting, states that a French officer ...
Article : 280 wordsThe news is now confirmed that the German destroyers, which on the 4th inst. were reported to have arrived at Kiel in a sinking condition, belonged to a flotilla engaged ...
Article : 77 wordsBanking interests are making every effort to solve the problem of reopening the Stock Exchange. Hitherto every effort has failed, as no scheme suggested would ...
Article : 119 wordsThe famous prima donna, Adeline Patti, and her husband, Baron Cedeistrom, were at Carlsbad, the famous medicinal bathing resort in Bohemia, when the war broke ...
Article : 71 wordsGerman officers state that nearly all the companies in the Prussian Guard and the 10th Army Corps have been reduced from 250 to 70. The first battalion of the Guards ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Russians captured 3,000 prisoners, 10 guns, and 3,000 ammunition waggons in the Sambor-Prezmysl region on the 15th inst. ...
Article : 187 wordsGerman troops have been interspersed with Austrians in the entrenchments for the purpose of raising the latter's spirits; but after a Russian attack in one locality the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Kaiser lately visited his wounded son Oscar at Vibon, near Longwy, and addressing the Grenadiers Corps fighting in the neighbourhood, said, "Longwy will be ...
Article : 98 words"Le Temps" states that information from prisoners shows that German aeroplanes are not flying over the French lines owing to a lack of petrol. Near an unnamed ...
Article : 73 wordsA widespread movement is on foot amongst American newspapers whereby American children will send a Christmas present to every boy and girl in Europe ...
Article : 71 wordsIn his speech in the House of Commons on Friday, the Prime Minister said that German culture was branded black by the occurrences at Louvain, Malines, and ...
Article : 188 wordsThe last War Office list of killed includes Captain B. Stewart, who was some time ago imprisoned for espionage in Germany. ...
Article : 124 wordsA party of Germans in a motor car in the uniforms of French prisoners. whose identification papers they carried, have been caught attempting to blow up a railway ...
Article : 82 wordsOperations on the East Prussian front are now completely on Russian territory, where the Germans are unable to utilise the railways, owing to the difference in gauge. ...
Article : 48 wordsA wounded private of the Inniskillings thus describes the battle of the Marne:—"I nfront of us one little space looked as though it had been visited by an eruption ...
Article : 143 wordsThe following messages have been received by the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Arthur) from the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid):— ...
Article : 259 wordsSir Alfred Sharpe, who traversed the district of the recent fighting, states the Germans are wrecking all unoccupied houses as a matter of principle. The [?] who ...
Article : 180 wordsWhen Mr. Davis reached Soissons the Germans had abandoned the hills to the south, and left a rearguard to protect their sappers in destroying the bridges. The ...
Article : 242 wordsAdvices from Vienna state that official reticence regarding the Galician operations continues. The newspapers seek to divert public attention to the campaign in France. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 21 Sep 1914, Page 5
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