There is no authoritative confirmation of the report that a great struggle is proceeding between the Year and the Lys, but London has received a heavily-censored ...
Article : 939 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Sandjford, bound from New York to Copenhagen, has been convoyed to Halifax by a British Cruiser, as a prize, conveying contraband of war. ...
Article : 55 wordsAn outbreak of typhoid fever has taken place among the Belgian soldiers, and in consequence the British Red Cross Society has voted £10,000 to provide special ...
Article : 44 wordsThe German sailing vessel Apolda, which was recently captured, will resume her voyage to Melbourne, with a prize crew in charge. ...
Article : 27 wordsHis Majesty King George spent yesterday among the wounded British soldiers. He devoted 40 minutes to the Indian hospital, where he delighted the Sepoys with his ...
Article : 137 wordsDr. George McClellan, a former Mayor of New York and now Professor of Economic History in Princeton University, Predicts that no matter which side wins in the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Dutch Ambassador at Washington visited Mr. W. J. Bryan (Secretary of State) and pointed out Holland's desire for an early end of the European war. He ...
Article : 75 wordsAn announcement issued early this morning stated:— "The Czar has gone to the front. "The struggle on the East Prussian ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Premier of Manitoba (Mr. Roblin) has announced that the Government intends to seek special powers to cu[?]tail the number of liquor licences in the province, ...
Article : 78 wordsA Servian official report states:—"The Austrian troops attacked on the Lazarevatz front on Friday but were every where repulsed. We captured 1,500 men and 20 ...
Article : 32 wordsA German hydro-aeroplane landed at Esbjerg, on the Swedish coast, yesterday, and two officers on board it were interned. ...
Article : 26 wordsAn official communique issued later this morning announced:— "Our offensive to the northward of Lowicz has been crowned with success. The ...
Article : 82 wordsThree hundred thousand woollen body belts and a similar number of pairs of socks, for which the Queen appealed to the women of the Empire, have been sent to ...
Article : 48 wordsA communique issued last night states:—"German infantry unsuccessfully endeavoured to-day to come out of their trenches south of Dixmude. We carried, by ...
Article : 58 wordsThe bombardment of Rheims continues. All the factories have been destroyed, and the stocks of wool burned. The textile industry has been ruined, the damage being ...
Article : 38 wordsA cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated London, December 1, states that the Press Bureau announces that the French Government have ...
Article : 116 wordsCommenting on the German claim that they have 100 active reserve army corps in the field, a semi-official French note states:—"Germany really has 25½ active ...
Article : 91 wordsAn official Berlin report affirms:—"A portion of the German army east of Lodz was seriously threatened in the rear by the Russians but broke through, after fierce ...
Article : 65 wordsThe War Ministry communique issued early yesterday evening stated:—"There was lively cannonading in Belgium on Monday, but no German infantry attacks. The ...
Article : 62 wordsA communique issued early yesterday evening stated:—"Obstinate fighting continues in the direction of Lowicz. German efforts to force a way in the region of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe latest gurkha exploit is reported from Dixmude. For several days the British were unable to dislodge a body of Germans, apparently heavily reinforced. A ...
Article : 183 wordsAt the request of Colonel Logan, Administrator of Samoa, the New Zealand Defence authorities have decided to send F. E. N. Gaudin, who was arrested at ...
Article : 156 wordsA heavily censored Rotterdam message states that the Year battle has been renewed with intense violence. The artiliery fire on land is terrific, while British ships ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Egyptian Premier (Rushdi Pasha), in an interview granted to journalist here yesterday, paid a high tribute to Great Britain's magnificent and abiding work in ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "Times" disbelieves that a fresh attack has been made at Ypres or elsewhere in Belgium. "The battle of Flanders," it declares, "has ended because the opposing ...
Article : 68 wordsBy the courtesy of the Perth Chamber of Commerce and with the permission of Mr. Alfred Deakin, the chairman of the Federal Royal Commission on Food ...
Article : 178 wordsAs already stated, the Commission had, early in September, invited the Perth Chamber of Commerce to express an opinion on the subject of the difficulties which had ...
Article : 5,140 wordsLieutenant H. L. Aubrey Fletcher, of the Grenadier Guards, who has been sent back wounded to England from the Belgian frontier, relates how the division to ...
Article : 124 wordsMore German troops from the Yser and Ostend have been sent to Heyst and Zeebrugge, and additional artillery has been sent to the coast, Practice with the enemy's ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Turks at Jerusalem have seized the branches of the Credit Lyonnais Bank and the Anglo-Palestine Bank. There safes of the latter held coin to the value of £24,000. ...
Article : 39 wordsBritish warships are awaiting the roving German cruisers in South Atlantic waters. It is understood that the German ships have a number of secret rendezvous, where ...
Article : 52 wordsTwo British airmen on Monday dropped bombs on the military grounds at Ghent and wounded seven German soldiers. Continual requests have been received at ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Maxwell, the "Daily Telegraph" war correspondent, Quotes an officer who is acting as intermediary between the Allied armies. The officer remarked:— ...
Article : 251 wordsPresident Wilson has announced that the establishment of neutral zones in South American waters, as requested by the South American Republics, will be ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Amsterdam "Telegraaf" reports that the Germans at Courrai, on the Lys, east of Ypres, have transformed the town into a huge hospital, but still there is not ...
Article : 70 wordsIn a letter dated from Melbourne, September 28, the secretary (Mr. D. B. Edwards) of the Royal Commission—which had, earlier in the month, been in ...
Article : 1,293 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states: "Most of the German warships hitherto at Kiel have been transferred to the North Sea. Great activity ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is officially announced that French sailors, in addition to General Rawlinson's force, assisted in the withdrawal of the Belgian army from Antwerp. ...
Article : 29 wordsGeneral Joffre visited Thann (Alsace) and was warmly received. When interviewing a number of leading residents who, since the occupation of Aslace, have loyally ...
Article : 132 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" points out that Germany has considerably more submarines than was supposed, having exercised a preemption over an unknown number which ...
Article : 92 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" has published the following report from its Belgian correspondent (Mr. M. H. Donohue):—"The Germans in Belgium are suffering acutely ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) in reply to Senator O'Keefe (T.) in the Senate to-day said that he had seen certain reports of a discussion in which ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 3 Dec 1914, Page 7
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