To-day's cables do not indicate, any material change in the desperate struggle which is proceeding on the north-western frontier of France and the ...
Article : 662 wordsPrince Oscar, a son of the Kaiser, is suffering from partial paralysis of the vagus nerve, as a result of seeing the Turcos kill all the officers of his staff. His recovery is ...
Article : 74 wordsReports from Ostend state that shells from the British warships which engaged the German troops between Ostend and Nieuport, damaged several buildings in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, a few weeks ago expressed the desire that an entire army should be raised in the Principality of Wales. In ...
Article : 54 wordsA French officer engaged on the eastern front of the long line of fight in France writing to "La Liberte," describes a fearful slaughter on the Argonne ridge. A French ...
Article : 143 wordsA telegram from Wollongong on Monday states that at a meeting of delegates of the Illawarra Colliery Association the matter of Germans being employed in the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe British War Office has ordered 1,500,000 army shirts in Canada. This is enough to keep every shirt factory in the Dominion busy for several months. Another ...
Article : 159 words"The Messagero's" Petrograd correspondent states that the Austrian right was completely turned. The Germans in Poland continue to retreat towards Kalisz, and the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe official communique issued to-day reports that there is no change in the continuous fighting, between Arras, in the north-west of France, and the Belgian coast south ...
Article : 101 wordsSince the announcement was first made that the military authorities intended to enrol a second expeditionary force very little publicity has been given to the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe German Crown Prince's army in the Verdun district, was attempting to join forces with the other German army in Champaigne, by way of the Argonne ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 633 wordsThe Botha Government has made public the text of the treaty which the Boer traitor, Colonel Maritz, had made with the Governor of German South-West Africa ...
Article : 108 wordsA communique issued at midnight states: A very violent battle is proceeding between Nieuport and the Lys. The Germans have crossed the Yser between Nieuport and ...
Article : 143 wordsThe trial of Princip and others concerned in the assassination of the Archduke Franz Fendinand has been concluded at Serajevo. The accused were found guilty, and will be ...
Article : 54 wordsWith respect to the death of food in Antwerp, it is explained that when the Belgian troops were obliged to evacuate the city, it was impossible to clear the cold ...
Article : 91 wordsThe British destroyer Badger ran down and sank a German submarine off the Dutch coast. She was cruising off the coast, when she saw the submarine ahead. She rammed ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Constantinople correspondent of the "Tribuna" reports that the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, which though alleged to be purchased by Turkey, are still ...
Article : 148 wordsThe war correspondent of the "Times" in France, explains the escape of the main Belgian army from Antwerp. He attributes it largely to the heroism of a few thousand ...
Article : 73 wordsThe great fight in Belgium between Dixmude and the sea on Wednesday, was witnessed by two English war correspondents, Mr. Ashmead Bartlett and Mr. Phillip ...
Article : 846 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent remarks:—"For a fortnight the Germans were showing the greatest bravery, making desperate efforts at La Bassee to ...
Article : 344 wordsA naval officer, in a letter to a friend in London, states that the latest German dodge is to place a submarine's peris cope on a mine, in the hope that British ...
Article : 48 wordsGerman airmen had a distastrous time last week. At Montdidier the French brought down with rifle and machine gun fire two German aeroplanes. Another was ...
Article : 46 wordsA communique issued at 12 o'clock last night, states that Nieuport is being violently bombarded. The German effort has been continued along the Nieuport-Dixmude front ...
Article : 57 wordsJapan has protested to America against the German cruiser Geier being allowed to remain any longer at Honolulu, where she recently put in for repairs, as the repairs ...
Article : 38 wordsLloyd's Agency reports that the Teneriffe telegram stating that the German cruiser Karlsruhe had sunk 12 steamers in the Atlantic is not quite correct. She captured ...
Article : 58 wordsSir George Reid has cabled from London as follows:— Official: A further account from General Headquarters dated Oct. 17, deals with the ...
Article : 1,552 wordsThe following official communique states the position of the campaign in Poland and Galicia. In Poland, Lowice, Skiernevice, and Rawa have been taken with the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Belgians lost 10,000, dead and wounded, in nine days' fighting on the Yser, and 2,500 German bodies were floating in the Yser canal after a single night ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is officially announced that Marits, the Boer rebel, has been completely defeated at Katamas. He was wounded, and fled into German territory for protection. ...
Article : 71 wordsAn alliance of Liverpool and New York shipowners has been formed and has subscribed the capital necessary to acquire a fleet of 20 cargo steamers. These are to ...
Article : 93 wordsOver 250,000 Germans were massed at Ypres, but a British force held them in check for five days, despite the operations of siege guns from Antwerp. The Germans ...
Article : 117 wordsThe R.M.S. Ophir which had sailed for Australia has returned to port, leaking in her after hold, but not seriously. The leak was at first reported to have been ...
Article : 79 wordsSilly stories have been current for several weeks discrediting the loyalty of Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg (Second Sea Lord of the British Admiralty, and a cousin ...
Article : 83 wordsReuter's Agency at Petrograd reports that the German troops which recently occupied Lodz, a considerable town in Poland, south-west of Warsaw, have now ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Emperor Nicholas of Russia, who recently put a peremptory stop to the sale of vodka, which is a Government monopoly in Russia, has extended his teetotal order ...
Article : 81 wordsBerlin official advices state: "The enemy are obstinately defending Nieuport and Dixmude. German artillery fired on the British fleet eight miles off the shore, and three ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsThe following instructions with regard to coded cable messages have been cabled to the Federal authorities by the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— ...
Article : 264 wordsCorporal Cole (of the Field Artillery), who arrived at Aberdeen yesterday after having been wounded in France, described a thrilling charge made by the Bengal ...
Article : 149 wordsThe London correspondent of the New York "Evening Post" recently accused the British censors of seeking to conceal German successes, and to blacken Germany's ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs has received the following cablegram from Sir George Reid:— London, Oct. 25. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe steamer Amiral Genteaume, carrying Belgian refugees, struck a mine off Boulogne yesterday and sank. A panic took place amongst the passengers, and 30 of ...
Article : 48 wordsCount von Bernstorff (the German Ambassador) claims that Germany has the right to land troops in Canada, if possible, because of Canada's action in sending ...
Article : 50 wordsAfter the mine exploded the Amiral Ganteaume commenced to settle down on an almost even keel. The steamer Queen and two French torpedoers sped to her ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Central News Agency correspondent in Paris, in describing the fighting at La Bassee, states that the Sikhs and the Gurkhas took part in the charge. ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Montague Brearley, the young Perth violinist, who for the past 15 months has been pursuing his studies in Hemburg, returned to this State yesterday by the ...
Article : 1,831 wordsIt is reported that Japanese artillery yesterday sank an Austrian cruiser in Kiau-Chau Bay. ...
Article : 25 wordsFollowing on the grant of £100,000 by the Federal Parliament to Belgium, a cable message was to-day sent by the Federal authorities to the High Commissioner in ...
Article : 68 words"The Telegraf" states that the Germans have reoccupied Roulers, but the allies have gained ground near Nieuport. Two 42-centimetre and ten 28-centimetre guns ...
Article : 84 wordsA number of Germans in the Straits Settlements and adjacent British territories have been interned. ...
Article : 22 wordsEnglish military experts utterly discredit the alarmist reports of a premeditated aerial invasion of England. These reports have arisen in consequence of Continental ...
Article : 76 wordsGreece has announced her intention to reoccupy northern Epirus, in the Balkan Peninsular, in view of the breakdown of the Albanian Government. She emphasises the ...
Article : 45 wordsReferring to the report of the Royal Commission on Food Supplies, in which it was recommended that the export of wheat and flour should be totally prohibited, the ...
Article : 113 wordsM. Pichon, the well-known French statesman, has written to "Le Petite Journal" expressing regret that the allies have not appealed to Japan for co-operation in ...
Article : 52 wordsA communique states:—"We maintained our front between Nieuport and Dixmude on Sunday. The Germans who crossed the Yser have made no further progress, and ...
Article : 46 wordsDetails of the fight at Ville-chapelle show the British artillery bombarded the German position from dawn till 3 p.m. Then the bayonet was ordered, and the British ...
Article : 133 wordsIt is stated officially that the Italians have occupied Valona (in Albania), with a naval expedition, for the purpose of safeguarding Albania's neutrality. ...
Article : 30 wordsField Marshal Earl Roberts yesterday visited the encampment of the First Canadian Contingent on Salisbury Plain and gave the following address:—"We are ...
Article : 93 wordsThe "Telegraf" publishes a message, received from German sources, stating that the French are greatly strengthening the forts in the vicinity of Belfort, near the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" commends the action of the Sydney auctioneers in refusing to take bids for wool on German accounts. In view of the Emden's exploits, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Journal" states: "With the object of drawing the Germans towards Dixmude the allies on Saturday pretended that they had abandoned the town. A German ...
Article : 116 wordsDeputations representing the butter exporters and the meat exporters recently waited on the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) with reference to the difficultics of ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 28 Oct 1914, Page 7
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