Reuter's Ostend correspondent states that 40,000 Germans have been encamped at Waterloo since September 19. The staff is quartered at Ruysbroeck, a village on the south-western ...
Article : 263 wordsIt is stated that in their retreat from Jaroslav, the Austrian troops were almost a rabble. There were hardly any officers left in many of the regiments. ...
Article : 124 wordsIn the course of their southerly advance on September 4 the Germans bombarded the city of Reims, but made no attempt to destroy the historic cathedral. Up to that time the enemy, ...
Article : 348 wordsThe destruction of the Cathedral caused a thrill of horror throughout Italy. The "Giornael d'Italia" described it as a useless act of barbarism, the lunatic outburst of vanity and ...
Article : 68 wordsIn a cable to the Minister for External Affairs, Sir George Reid states that the Russian cruiser Bazan sank a German cruiser, which was engaged, with two torpedo boats, in laying ...
Article : 41 wordsThe New York newspapers published long editorials denouncing the bombardment of Reims. The "Tribune" . said:—"The act again puts Germany on the defensive as an exponent of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 161 wordsThe Servian abandonment of semlin was due to a determination to devote the whole of their strength to occupying the [?] railways. They captured the fortress town of ...
Article : 116 wordsGerman troops were landed at Memel, at the extreme north of East Prussia, but they only penetrated as far as Juburg. Another force advanced southward from the Masurian Lakes. ...
Article : 182 wordsThere were many wounded Germans in the cathedral, and they would certainly have been burned to death but that the French doctors carried them out. As the Germans were carried ...
Article : 214 wordsAfter their crushing defeat at Lemberg, the Austrians retreated from Galicia so rapidly that the Russians had to cover twenty-five miles a day in order to keep in touch with ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Allied fleets resumed the bombardment of Cattaro and dismantled the powerful fortress on Pelagosa Island, a desert island in the Adriatic. ...
Article : 75 wordsThere are many women among the prisoners captured by the Russians in the fighting on the East Prussian frontier. The Cossacks seized over a hundred women at Willenberg. ...
Article : 81 wordsA telegram from Amsterdam states that the military authorities protest indignantly against the accusation that German troops, out of a lust for vandalism, destroyed historical ...
Article : 70 wordsWhile the British cruisers Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy were cruising in the North Sea they were torpedoed by German submarines. The three vessels went down and many men were ...
Article : 458 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent reports that it is officially believed that a great decisive battle in East Prussia is imminent, and that there is complete ...
Article : 129 wordsA cable received by the French Consul in Sydney from his Government stated:—"Without being able to plead even the semblance of military necessity, and simply out of pleasure in ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Russians have occupied the greater part of the town of Przemysl, and are forcing the Austrians to shelter in the eastern forts, where the entire garrison is now concentrated, and ...
Article : 80 wordsAfter the withdrawal of the Russians from East Prussia, the Germans approached the frontier town of Wirballen. The Russians, who were occupying trenches, replied weakly. ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Wed 30 Sep 1914, Page 12
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