The British Navy has rubbed something off the score registered against the enemy for the sinking of three cruisers in the North Sea. An official message conveys ...
Article : 827 wordsThe French fleet in the Adriatic has resumed the bombardment of Cattaro, with the greatest violence, both from the fleet and from Mount Lovchen. During the night ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Canadian Government has arranged for an advance, from the Bank of England, of the money required for military and naval expenditure in 1914. A permanent ...
Article : 39 wordsA telegram from Basle, in Switzerland, reports that the German forces at Cooln have been driven by the French over the passes of the Vosges Mountains with heavy ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Billson, a member of the Opposition, moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the question of employment in relation to local ...
Article : 280 wordsVisitors from Antwerp state that the Germans are energetically reconstructing the forts there. ...
Article : 19 wordsIt has been ascertained that the pro-German feeling which has been manifested in China is the outcome of the bribery of the Chinese Press. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Porte has further reaffirmed to the Powers Turkey's neutrality in the European war. This indicates that the reports are untrue, which were recently ...
Article : 103 wordsIt is reported here that by a surprise night attack the Japanese have captured Prinz Henry Hill, which dominates the town of Tsing-Tao. The casualties sustained by ...
Article : 94 wordsEight thousand Austrians, who participated in the siege of Antwerp, passed through Aix-la-Chapelle yesterday en route for Cracow. ...
Article : 31 wordsOf Antwerp's population of 300,000 only 15,000 remain in the city, and these are mostly old men, women and children. The refugees in Holland fear to accept the ...
Article : 129 wordsThe steamer Noordam, bound from New York for Rotterdam, struck a mine, but was able to continue the voyage on its own steam, though seven of the crew were ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Dutch have planted mines in the Scheldt between Antwerp and the south-eastern extremity of South Beveland. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe cargo from the German steamer Suedmak, which was captured in the Red Sea a month ago, was burned in a fire at the warehouse at Alexandria in which ...
Article : 47 wordsA picturesque ceremony took place yesterday, on Wimbledon Common, in the shape of the salutation of the Belgian flag. Tens of thousands of people assembled to ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. Augustus P. Gardner, Republican member for Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, who has just return to America from a visit to the war zone ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Japanese siege operations at Kiau-chau have now proceeded so far that all non-combatants, including the United States Consul, are leaving Tsing-tao, to ...
Article : 88 wordsAustrian regiments, containing Italian-speaking soldiers, have been ordered to relieve German troops in Belgium. A new Austro-Hungarian reserve of conscripts has ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Times" war correspondent on the Frarco-Belgian frontier relates an explanation given to him by a Belgian officer, as to how the 2,000 British Royal Marines ...
Article : 126 wordsA communique, issued at midnight, states that the action on the left wing is everywhere continuous and continues with vigour. The allies have gained ground on some ...
Article : 68 wordsThe police arrested the waiters employed at the Vienna Cafe, New Oxford-street, all of whom are Austrians. The cafe has been a favourite haunt of Austrians and ...
Article : 71 wordsA cablegram from Pekin reports that Great Britain has replied to the protest made by China against the occupation by Japan for military purposes of the ...
Article : 86 wordsA Bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives by the Attorney-Geners (Mr. Hughes) relating to offences against the Commonwealth, including a provision ...
Article : 343 wordsThe United States Navy Department has ordered the Marooni station at Honolulu in the Sandwich Islands, to close down, because it sent a wireless message, announcing ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the British cruiser Undaunted, with the destroyers Lance, Lennox, Legion, and Loyal, sank four German destroyers off the Dutch ...
Article : 135 wordsThe German headquarters' staff have telegraphed to Berlin a report that in occupying Antwerp the German troops took 5,000 Belgian prisoners and that their booty ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Canadian contingent disembarkation was continued at Plymouth on Friday in strict secrecy. Their equipment is excellent. Each man has an ample supply of ...
Article : 128 wordsThe "Observer" states:—"The military recently raided at Edinburgh a large German factory covering an extensive area and built 10 years ago. The proprietor spent £30,000 ...
Article : 102 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"The Germans in Western Belgium have not advanced beyond the line from Ostend through Thourout and ...
Article : 107 wordsOn the Belgian side of the border heavy fighting is proceeding at Ypres, Courtrai and Nieuport. A cavalry battle occurred north of Lille. It was a stupendous fight. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Belgian Red Cross service transported a large number of wounded from Ostend to Great Britain between Monday and Thursday. A German Taube ...
Article : 74 wordsThe "American" publishes an affidavit made by engineers aboard the steamer Red Cross, formerly the Hamburg-American liner Hamburg, which was chartered to ...
Article : 80 wordsAn instance of brilliant cavalry work was afforded in the valley of the Lys river. A force of Uhlans blew up the bridges and placed machine guns at the fords, relying ...
Article : 122 wordsLord Sydenham, formerly Governor of Victoria, and a leading military authority, stated in an interview yesterday that owing to the great strides made in recent years ...
Article : 110 wordsThe recent discoveries in France that German firms and subjects years ago bought properties in France and elaborately prepared fortification bases for invaders in ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Germans, on occupying Bruges, 10 miles east of Ostend, imposed a war-tax of £400,000 on the inhabitants. A Berlin message states that the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Allen) has made arrangements for the Australian troops to be paid in gold and English silver. There is a large stock of English silver in ...
Article : 72 wordsDuring the recent fighting southward of Arras the British were posted on the declivity of a hill, which was faced across a valley by a steeper hill, and they were ...
Article : 185 wordsWhen the war broke out the cruiser Hawke, which was sunk on Thursday by a German submarine, was a sea training vessel for boys, and most of ...
Article : 173 wordsTelegrams received in Rome from Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, give reports of the trial of Princip, the Slav student who last July shot the Archduke Franz ...
Article : 152 wordsThe police seized a powerful wireless plant at the residence, at Twyford, of Professor Arthur Schuster, the well-known scientist, and brother of Sir Felix Schuster. Schuster ...
Article : 52 wordsA German biplane dropped a bomb into Dunkirk yesterday, but no damage resulted. The marksmen on the forts damaged the biplane, which came to earth on the French ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Giornale d'Italia" telegraphs that a gigantic battle, in which over 4,000,000 troops are engaged, has comemnced on the western and ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) is still reticent concerning the demands that have been made on the Commonwealth by the States for financial assistance, but he will, ...
Article : 126 wordsSir Louis Mallet, the British Ambassador, has circularised the various consuls in Turkey denying fantastic reports from German sources, that the Russians have invaded ...
Article : 98 wordsDetailed accounts of the fighting last week on the Meuse, show that on October 7 the French twice failed to rush an entrenched hill on the Meuse near ...
Article : 181 wordsThe following cablegram was received by the Premier on Saturday from the High Commissioner for the Commonwealth:— "Paris reports that the left wing action ...
Article : 706 wordsIn consequence of the supposedly incendiary fire in the Montfalcone naval dockyard at Trieste, which seriously damaged an Austrian Dreadnought, which was ...
Article : 63 wordsThe following additional extracts have been taken from the pocket book found upon a Saxon officer on the 8th inst.:— "At Dommery the French opened a ...
Article : 149 wordsSurvivors from the Hawke state that the torpedo must have struck the vessel's magazine. The explosion sent the fittings flying and crumpled up two of the decks. The ...
Article : 379 wordsThe Helton colliery, at Newcastle, has been idle since Friday on account of the miners' refusal to work with a naturalised German who is employed on the mine as an ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Noel Buxton, M.P. for North Norfolk, who was A.D.C. to his father, Sir T. F. Buxton, when Governor of South Australia, was shot yesterday at Bucharest. Mr. ...
Article : 201 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent telegraphs that it is unofficially stated that a great battle began on Monday. Fighting on the first day seemed in ...
Article : 119 wordsAntonio Paterne Castello, Marquis of San Guiliano, who had been Italy's Minister for Foreign Affairs since 1910, and who had been some weeks seriously ill, died ...
Article : 544 wordsThe Germans, who are still bombarding Fheims from long range, on Tuesday again duected their heavy artillery at the city's ancient cathedral and wrecked its gallery. ...
Article : 41 wordsReports from German sources state that an English aeroplane was shot down near Peronne (in France), and that two aviators were taken prisoners. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Cann), who administers the Police Department, stated on Saturday that he had not given instructions for the German band to be stopped ...
Article : 160 wordsReports which have reached here from the Franco-Belgian frontier state that the town of Lille, which a German army corps entered last week, was very badly ...
Article : 116 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" Ostend correspondent states that the Germans entered Ostend on Thursday morning, causing great commotion amongst the inhabitants. Crowds ...
Article : 78 wordsA Russian official announcement is now made that owing to German submarines having obtained entrance to the Gulf of Finland and to Russian shores, Russian has ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the trial of the men arrested in connection with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, Jovanovitch, one of the accused persons, admitted ...
Article : 77 wordsReports from the Austrian frontier state that Asiatic cholera is rapidly spreading in Galacia among the Austrian troops. Ten thousand cases of the dread disease are ...
Article : 40 wordsThe French authorities have secured a copy of the list of hostages which the German commanders drew up in expectation of capturing Paris. It includes the leading ...
Article : 69 wordsA French Red Cross concert at the Sydney Town Hall on Saturday night was very largely attended, and was marked by enthusiasm and success. A striking feature ...
Article : 107 wordsGerman spics are taking advantage of the rush of Belgian refugees to enter England. At Dover yesterday a German spy, wearing a Belgian uniform, and a Red Cross badge, ...
Article : 201 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that the Germans claim to have seized at Bruges and Ostend many rifles, large quantities of ammunition, and 200 undamaged ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Hawke sank five minutes after she was torpedoed. The survivors escaped in one beat. which there was time to launch, and were picked up by a Norwegian steamer ...
Article : 174 wordsThe German cruiser Geler, which reached here a few days ago, will remain indefinitely, as the repairs to her engines will require several weeks. Her coaling is being ...
Article : 54 wordsThe German Legation to Switzerland lately invited the public to inspect a number of dum-dum bullets, alleged to have been taken from the bandoliers of French ...
Article : 159 wordsThe casualties sustained by the British Naval Brigade in the siege of Antwerp were—12 killed and 89 wounded. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Membrey, Honorary Minister, introduced a Bill in the Legislative Assembly to-day to authorise the expenditure of money for patriotic purposes and to indemnify ...
Article : 138 wordsSir Valentine Chirol's exposure, in the "Quarterly Review," of Germany's effort, in 1901, to entrap Great Britain into an alliance that would commit the British ...
Article : 78 wordsThe war correspondent of "De Tijd," who travelled in a train conveying 2,000 wounded men from Brussels to Landen on the 9th inst., states that he saw three severely ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 19 Oct 1914, Page 7
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