The Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce received on September 25, the following wireless message from Vice-Admiral Sir George Patey:-- ...
Article : 208 wordsA German patrol raided Walfisch Bay, and captured a police, sergeant. An attempt to blow up the jetty failed. The Germans cleared all the border police ...
Article : 149 wordsA sergeant of the Royal Berkshires, who was wounded, writes:—"After two and a half hours fighting at Soissons, the order was given to retire, but before going many yards, General ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Belgian Court-martial, sitting at Antwerp, convicted Hoffmann, a German infantryman, of killing a peasant woman with a bayonet. After the battle at Hofslade, it was further ...
Article : 98 wordsThe German cruiser Emden, which was supposed to have sunk after a fight with the Russian cruiser Askold in Chinese waters, turned up in the Bay of Bengal, and captured ...
Article : 119 wordsFurther details have been received of the capture of two Germans by a British patrol at Vel, on the Nairobi-Mombassa railway line, in British East Africa. The Germans had a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsA British naval officer in a letter states that British submarines entered the Elbe, but were unable to attack the large warships there, because they were protected by scores of ...
Article : 45 wordsDetails of the harrying of the German Crown Prince's army state that Chateau Mondement sheltered his headquarters staff. The position was taken and retaken four times. It was ...
Article : 276 wordsIt is officially announed that the Emden arrived at Madras at 9.30 p.m. on September 23. She fired nine shots. The first hit the Buma Oil Company's tanks, igniting two of ...
Article : 125 wordsIt is officially announced that a German post at Schuckmannsburg, near the Zambesi, surrendered without opposition to the Rhodesian police. German residents and a ...
Article : 90 wordsThe London "Daily News" correspondent says that some Germans on September 19 left the trenches and ocupied a village in order to shelter from a severe storm. The French next ...
Article : 163 wordsA wounded non-commissioned officer relates that early in the battle of the Marne the Irish Guards were selected to dislodge the enemy commanding the position. The Guards get ...
Article : 248 wordsGeneral Botha will take supreme command in the operations against German South-west Africa. It is reported that a German force, which ...
Article : 235 wordsMr. Donohoe, the "Daily Chronicle" correspondent, after a visit to the battlefields, says that he saw among the German wounded some who were very young--not more than 16. All ...
Article : 103 wordsCount von Moltke, son of the Commander-in-Chief of the German forces, was killed, a shell blowing off the top of his head. He wore a coat of mall. Von Moltke had stayed at a priest's ...
Article : 58 wordsSapper Gilhooly, of the Royal Engineers, relates a curious story of an unexpected colision with the enemy. "During the last week we were on the ...
Article : 114 wordsA wounded artilleryman in the Leicester Hospital tells how he saw a German regiment swept away in a mad attempt to cross a stream under a fiendish artillery and rifle fire. The ...
Article : 112 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph," in a naval report, quotes a letter from Dr. William Lloyd to the effect that many trawlers captured in the North Sea were fitted with Marconi ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Wed 30 Sep 1914, Page 14
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