An official message from Paris reports that the French began the offensive in force on Friday night from the Saarburg-Luneville line. The movement ...
Article : 112 wordsIt has been officially stated that Japan has sent a note to Germany declaring it is important and necessary to remove causes of the disturbance of peace in the Far East, and to safeguard general interests, under the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Accordingly Japan advises Germany to withdraw her ...
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Advertising : 941 wordsIs wan stated in our cables yester- day that German troops are pouring through the gap at Treves, and that a great battle is imminent, and from the ...
Article : 1,309 wordsToday the Federal Government received the following cable from the High Commissioner:—"Official.—The French have been engaged at Blamont, Cirey-les-Forbes, and Avricourt, and were completely Successful. They captured the heights of Andela, and continue to advance from Vosges. A state of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 112 wordsThe Press Bureau declares that the Germans are greatly inconvenienced through scarcity of horses. Thousands were killed or captured by the Belgians, ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is rumoured in Amsterdam that Austrian troops are fighting in Belgium under Count von Bulow, commanding the Second Army Corps. ...
Article : 24 wordsA traveller who has reached Copenhagen," from Berlin, states that the Scandinavian mails, giving detailed reports of the German defeats in Belgium, ...
Article : 65 wordsOn Saturday morning the German cavalry occupied Dinant, but. later the French artillery expelled them, and the French cavalry went in pursuit. ...
Article : 64 wordsAn official message from Vienna, via Amsterdam, reports that on Friday the Austrians, after severe lighting, drove the Servians from a stronghold on the ...
Article : 81 wordsAt Liege the forts are still holding out against the attacks of the Germans. Details of the fighting at Liege show that in the early stages the citizens' ...
Article : 46 wordsA message from Berne reports that the Kaiser and headquarters staff left Berlin for Mainz. a town on the Rhine. ...
Article : 25 wordsWhile the Germans were entering Verviers, a shot was fired, killing a soldier. The Germans thereupon razed an entire street, including a large ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Turks are acting arbitrarily in the Dardanelles, detaining entente vessels, without explanation, and the newspapers publish bitter anti-British articles, while ...
Article : 38 wordsIt appears that the French allowed the German to enter Dinant, while they pre. pared a crushing blow. The engagement began in the afternoon, when the French ...
Article : 60 wordsOn Sunday the French operations were developing on the line from Rechicourt to Ste. Marieaux mines. The advance is specially rapid in the Schirmarck ...
Article : 158 wordsThis afternoon an official statement was made at Brussels. to the effect chat the situation was unchanged, and the Belgian army was not in direct contact ...
Article : 37 wordsLetters reveal terrible conditions in Dalmatia, Bosnia, and Croatia. Trade has ceased, and food is scarce, while all the notable Serbophiles have been ...
Article : 104 wordsGrand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in- Chief of the Russian army, addressing the Poles, said:—"The sacred dream of your fathers and grandfathers may be ...
Article : 120 wordsGermany has furnished Sir Edward Grey wit. the names. of scores of British subjects and tourists compulsorily detained, on the ground of being of an age ...
Article : 32 wordsEye-witnesses state that the Germans at daybreak occupied part of Dinant, on the left bank of the a Meuse, including a guards' division; another cavalry ...
Article : 96 wordsA Bavarian army corps held a strongly entrenched position before Blamont, when the French division opened the at tack on Friday night. After pushing ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Embourg fort shelled three motor care carrying German officers on the roan alongside the Carthe. One car fell into the river and the others were smashed, ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is stated by the St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" the czar's proclamation thrilled the Russians and Poles alike. It is regarded as the ...
Article : 103 wordsA Roman correspondent of the "New York World"' reports that 200,000 Italians are concentrating between Mantue, Verona, Peschicra, and Luguno, and ...
Article : 53 wordsAn infantry regiment from Honk Hung itself on the Germans, and chased them out of town to the hills south of Dinant. In the hurry to recross the ...
Article : 144 wordsThe police captured Wuelfing, one of the German spies resident in Brussels (At the moment of his arrest he was writing a report to the German ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsTwo thousand Belgian reservists have left Montreal for London,, with a message from the Minister of Militia, that they Were doing to defend the liberties of ...
Article : 40 wordsFather northward, in Brieg district, the retreating Bavarians pillaged the houses, maltreating the civilians. Retreating Germans in Alsace also burned ...
Article : 34 wordsThe British Press Bureau announces that a state of siege has been proclaimed in Bulgaria, but the report of a revolution in Sofia has been confirmed. ...
Article : 29 wordsOn Thursday the Russian cavalry dispersed the Austrians, forcing an evacuation of Kielce ...
Article : 20 wordsThe French captured many hundreds of Uhlan horses ...
Article : 13 wordsLieutenant Cesari and Corporal Prudhomeau, aviators, left Verdun on Friday evening on separate aeroplanes, and re-connoitred over Metz. Lieutenant Cesar ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Finance Minister has received a war contribution of £500,000 from Mr. Ross, a Montreal magnate. I'm Trooper Teece, of the mounted police, ...
Article : 81 wordsThe first German infantry division on Thursday and Friday atacked the Russian front at Eydtkuhnen, but were repulced after an artillery engagement. ...
Article : 42 wordsA rough riders' corps is recruiting in Paris. It includes several American cowboys, a number of jockeys, and many Englishmen. The squadrons will be ...
Article : 37 wordsMany women principally Cossacks, are applying for service in the ranks. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe French Government is twice daily Sending wireless wer in German French and English from Eiffel Tower and Gruault. A Frenchman has been ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Tue 18 Aug 1914, Page 5
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