Later accounts of the Russian success in the vicinity of Lodz and Lowicz water down considerably the previous reports. Official advices from Petrograd, which do ...
Article : 1,194 wordsThe dead bodies of 30 of the men who perished in the disastrous explosion on the battleship Bulwark off Sheerness have been recovered. Most of them are ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the flooded country west of Dixmude, near Furnes, the Germans constructed rafts behind their lines and launched them on the canal last Monday night. The rafts, ...
Article : 88 wordsPreviously acknowledged £3,602 0 1 Train Electric Light Staff, 7th instalment 0 16 0 "K." 10 0 0 ...
Article : 96 wordsAdvices from Berlin report that Captain von Muller, commander of the German cruiser Emden, and now a prisoner, has cabled to Germany his official account of ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Secretary for the Colonies cables under date London November 27. 7.20 p.m.—"The Press Bureau announces that the Russian General Staff reports advantage ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Nestor, a Norwegian steam trawler, has been brought to Fleetwood under naval escort. She is alleged to have engaged with other vessels, flying neutral flags, in ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Germans at Zeebrugge, on the Belgian coast, near the Dutch frontier, are apprehensive that the British fleet which recently destroyed the German submarine ...
Article : 58 wordsWe have received the following contributions towards the Belgian Relief Fund:— Previously acknowledged £1,693 7 2 Greenmount State School Chil ...
Article : 337 wordsThe Norwegian ship Helicon, which has arrived at Talcahuano (in Chili), reports that she was seized by German cruisers on October 23 and towed to Juan Fernandez, ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech on the Moratorium Act, explained the British ...
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Article : 109 wordsThe German bombardments of cities and dropping aerial shells on towns, which are not within the sphere of active belligerent operations, has elicited from President ...
Article : 122 wordsThe British collier Khartoum was yesterday sunk by a mine in the North Sea off the Lincolnshire coast. The crew were all saved and have been landed at Grimsby. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Peruvian Minister yesterday laid before Mr. W. J. Bryan (Secretary of State) a scheme for establishing in South American waters neutral zones in which merchant ...
Article : 79 wordsDjemal Pasha has telegraphed from Smyrna to the United States Ambassador here a threatening message to France and England. He declares that if the British ...
Article : 57 wordsThe crews of some steamers that reached here yesterday asserted that German cruisers had been sighted off the Alention Islands and the Alaskan coast. The story-is, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Germans are endeavouring to cash French bank notes, obtained by pillage or by indenities levied on the inhabitants of towns their troops occupied, through the ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is reported at Panama that a British cruiser has fired on the American steamer St. Helena. The State department at Washington has received no information on ...
Article : 56 wordsFugitives who have arrived here from Jerusalem state that the Turks have seized all the monasteries and convents in Palestine which belong to the French or ...
Article : 34 wordsAt Kestel, near Naauwpoort, yesterday General Botha attacked a body of rebels operating under Hendrik Bruwer. Six rebels were killed and 30 more were captured. ...
Article : 42 wordsNatives of the kingdom of Bohemia residing in the United States have initiated a movement for freeing Bohemia from the domination of Austria. They propose to ...
Article : 61 wordsAn interesting aerial encounter took place yesterday at Clairmaais, near St. Omer, midway between Boulogne and Armentieres, on the Franco-Belgian frontier. A German ...
Article : 51 wordsAdvices from Constantinople report that the Porte assumes the control of the Ottoman Bank and other banks in Turkey. The income of these institutions will ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the latest District, Orders issued by the Commandant (Colonel J. H. Bruche) notification is made of approval of the following appointments or promotions in ...
Article : 1,986 wordsA telegram from Thorn, in East Prussia, states that General von Hindenberg, in an army order issued yesterday, announced that he had brought the Russian offensive ...
Article : 77 wordsThere has been fighting in the Mushroom Valley. A burly man, in a uniform, rode up to Commander Brand the other day, ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Senussi Arabs of Tripoli have informed the Egyptian Government that Turkey's action in declaring war on the Allies is no concern of theirs, and that they will ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Svet" publishes a statement which throws a new light on German capacities for treachery. Just before the fall of Tsing-tao the Kaiser offered the Mikado "peace at ...
Article : 102 wordsThe "Telegrapp's" special correspondent in Belgium reports that the Germans are making extensive preparations for attack on the Allies in Flanders. They have reduced ...
Article : 55 wordsThe War Loan of £300,000,000, at 3¼ per cent., which the Chancellor of the Exchequer recently placed on the London market, at £95 to finance the war operations for ...
Article : 58 wordsThe general nervousness in Berlin is increasing. The official reports only deal with news several days old, and it is now rumoured that the German armies in ...
Article : 96 wordsReports from the front in Poland state that the battle at Kolusski is in its last stage. The Germans are desperately struggling to fight their way through to ...
Article : 165 wordsThe President of the French Republic has paid a visit to the headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the allied armies in France, and has decorated General Joffre ...
Article : 177 wordsCommandants Roes, Greling, and Fraufort report having captured, after a severe encounter, in the Vechte district, General Get Botha, several officers and 31 other ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) has in the southern districts acknowledged that the Dominion is faced with a shortage of wheat and flour, and will have to depend ...
Article : 131 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday at Douglas, in Lanarkshire, on the German and Austrian prisoners shot during the riot raised for escape from the internment ...
Article : 112 wordsIt is officially announced that the Turks in the Caucasus suffered severe losses. Regiments belonging to two divisions lost half their strength, and two battalions were ...
Article : 60 wordsWhereas German reports aileged that great reinforcements had been sent to Flanders it has now been ascertained that all the Belgian railways have for many nights ...
Article : 75 wordsFollowing is a copy of a cable message, dated London, November 27. received by the Governor-General from the Secretary of State for ...
Article : 130 wordsThe German army under General Frenchis attacked Lowicz, between Lodz and Warsaw. The army under General Mackensen marched on Lodz. Mackensen duly broke ...
Article : 182 wordsA telegram from Berlin states that Isset Pasha, with 7,600 Turks, including 1,000 Bedouins, is marching on Suez. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is alleged that over 200 passports issued to United States citizens for travel on the Continent and sent to the Foreign Affairs Office at Berlin to be inspected and ...
Article : 98 wordsAn Admiralty inquiry was opened to-day into the total destruction of the battleship Bulwark while at anchor in Sheerness harbour. Naval officials have stated that the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Austrians have abandoned Cxernowitz (Poland), which the Russians occupied after a fierce bombardment. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe general celebration of the centenary of British-American peace, the treaty regarding which was ratified on February 17, 1815, has been postponed until after the war ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is stated that 700,000 Germans, in the vicinity of Arras, are preparing a determined effort to break through the Allies' lines. ...
Article : 37 wordsTo-day a meeting of fruit, merchants, convened by F. W. Moore and Co., Australian merchants, passed a resolution affirming that the ships of the enemy which are ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" explains the mysterious disaster to German destroyers at Kiel reported early in September. The German ...
Article : 91 wordsGeneral Von Bissing has succeeded General Von der Goltz as the German Governor-General of Belgium. Von der Goltz is now attached to the Sultan and the ...
Article : 45 wordsMany branches of the National Union of Railwaymen have decided to demand an increase in wages to the extent of 5s. a week all round, owing to the increased cost ...
Article : 64 wordsThe antipathy-displayed by the Port Phillip Stevedores' Association to German wharf labourers has extended to the Wharf Labourers' Union, and numbers of the union ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is officially announced that there have been many exaggerated statements of the dimensions of the Russian victory on the Vistula, based upon private letters, and ...
Article : 215 wordsBrigadier-General Joseph Marie Gordon, C.B., Chief of the Commonwealth section of the Imperial General Staff, formerly military commandant in Victoria and in ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Russian official communique states:—"Our troops advancing from Bzura have reached Goobin. We captured Breziny and other villages in the Morga Valley by ...
Article : 184 wordsFresh German troops have traversed Bruges, moving in the direction of the Yser. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe following message has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— "London, November 28.—The Press Bureau ...
Article : 130 wordsColonel Ryrie, M.H.R., commander of the Second Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force, was the guest of residents of North Sydney ...
Article : 120 wordsA German submarine has sunk two small British vessels in the English Channel. One of these, the steamer Malachite, 718 tons, was sunk near Hayre, at the mouth of the ...
Article : 76 wordsIt has been arranged that the Paris Bourse, which has been closed since the commencement of the war, shall reopen on December 7, for cash transactions only. ...
Article : 34 wordsDetails of the destruction of German aeroplanes and motor cars between Soissons and Compeigne on September 9 have just been officially published. It appears that ...
Article : 116 wordsA French captain in hospital at M[?] writing to "La Patrie," narrates that the Kaiser visited the French wounded and said: "I give Imperial homage to your ...
Article : 64 wordsThree German submarines appeared off Havre on Tuesday. They held up the steamer Malachite and gave her crew 10 minutes to take to their boats before she ...
Article : 40 wordsPrivate advices from Berlin report that the German military authorities are very uneasy on account of the heavy Russian reinforcements. They state that new forces ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsThe Earl of Cavan, in command of the 4th Guards Brigade, has issued an army order in which a high tribute of praise is paid to the Coldstream Guards for their ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Taft, ex-President of the United States, addressed a public meeting at Mount Clair, in the State of New Jersey, last night on the Monroe doctrine and his ...
Article : 376 wordsAn official report from the French Ministry of Marine states that French and British squadrons continue to blockade the Dardanelles and to patrol the Egyptian ...
Article : 35 wordsMany Dutch travellers in Germany have been arrested on suspicion of being British spies. The Germans declare that a British spy office has been established at ...
Article : 36 wordsAn official communique issued to-day states:—"We gained decisive successes on the Proszowics, Brzesko, Bochnia, and Wisnicz front. On Thursday we routed the ...
Article : 128 wordsFrom South American reports it appears that the Gneisenau-Scharnhorst German squadron has not, despite the warning of the Chilian Government, yet left Chilian ...
Article : 32 words"Le Matin" publishes an unconfirmed report to the effect that a German cruiser believed to be the Hertha, has been sunk near Libau, in the Baltic, and that the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe "Daily News" special correspondent thus describes the position of the three German army corps, under General Mackenson, which "broke the Russian centre" at ...
Article : 162 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Winston Churchill, stated yesterday that the economic pressure on Germany continued to develop in a ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 30 Nov 1914, Page 7
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