A severe censorship is being exercised in connection with the operations between Mons and Charleroi. ...
Article : 24 wordsBelgian gendarmes had a sharp skirmish with 150 German cavalry a few miles from Ostend. Five gendarmes were killed and several wounded. The ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Minister of Defence stated to- night that gifts of kit bags will be warmly welcomed. The bag required is of the style of a pillow slip, but smaller, ...
Article : 78 wordsA German with a Red Cross badge, found shooting the Belgian wounded, while ostensibly treating them, was captured and shot. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe central feature of the Gumbinnen incident was the Russian Balaclava charge. The Germans held a village whence it was pouring a murderous fire, ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Bank of England received a further £474,000 in gold to-day. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Germans have imposed a lovy of £18,000,000 sterling on the province of Brabant. ...
Article : 18 wordsAccording to advices from Paris, Belgium has sent all its railway rolling stock, including a thousand engines, into France. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. William Maxwell, of the London "Daily Telegraph," who reached Mons on Friday, states that Allanby's cavalry division marched north, covering Mons ...
Article : 50 wordsAn official message from Paris states that the German cavalry patrols have been seen in the Douai region, but are unable to advance further, owing to the ...
Article : 67 wordsBills have been introduced into the Imperial Parliament restricting the sale and consumption of alcohol during the war, and also permitting Britishers to ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Germans blew up the tramway station at Brussels, because the directors refused to carry out certain requirements. Twenty million francs (about ...
Article : 36 wordsThe sum of £71,186 has been subscribed to the Lord Mayor's patriotic fund. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe House of Commons, when it resumed its sittings to-day, was crowded. The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) said the Government did not propose to ...
Article : 43 wordsThe British army advanced to Mons on Saturday night, but did not attempt to make defensive works. ...
Article : 20 wordsA Zeppelin flew over the town of Antwerp during Monday night, and dropped bombs. Two houses were destroyed, and several people killed or injured. ...
Article : 232 wordsField Marshal Von Der Glotz has been appointed Military Governor, and occupied portion of Belgium. A civil administrator has also been appointed. ...
Article : 27 wordsThere are few allies beyond Valenciennes, but the Prussian patrol swarm the country ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Cook) has received the following message from the High Commissioner:—"The British Government has received a communication ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. F. D. Acland, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, said the United states Ambassador in London had sent ...
Article : 51 wordsRequiring ail the available forces on the Meuse, the French War Office has ordered the abandonment of the occupied territory, and that Mulhausen be ...
Article : 34 wordsThe French Embassy, describing the battle, says the British army was admirable under fire, aid resisted the enemy with its usual coolness. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe French Embassy states that two French army corps attacked and drew a murderous fire, but held their ground until the Prussian Guards made a ...
Article : 125 wordsA conference of National Labour Committees has decided to make an immediate effort to terminute all existing trade disputes. It is asking the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Press Bureau publishes the following message from Paris: —The Germans, with Strasburg as a strenghold, have established themselves temporarily in ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Federal Attorney-General stated to-day that he had received from Sir George Turner a communication bringing under his notice certain questions ...
Article : 610 wordsAn influential committee is being formed to extend hospitality to destitute Belgian women and children. ...
Article : 20 wordsIt is reported from Rome that the allied fleets and the Montenegrins at Mount Louvtchen have destroyed the fortifications at Cattaro. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Press Bureau adds that, owing to the considerable forces which the Germans massed, the French Commander-in-Chief decided to withdraw to the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe R.M.S. Orama's Australian mail has been delivered in London. ...
Article : 12 wordsAn official bulletin issued sit Paris abates that the general situation determined the withdrawal from Donon and Saales, which were no longer of the same ...
Article : 100 wordsSt. Petersburg advices state that the Russians have occupied several passages south of Tarnopol, in Galicia. They also defeated an Austrian cavalry ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Government is considering the appointment of a committee to develop the chemical industry, which hitherto has been largely in the hands of Germany. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe German Government has ordered boys of from 16 to 19 years old to commence a course of musketry and military training. Retired officers are to be ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Irishman has arrived at Dunkirk, and the Perthshire at Aden. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Premier of Bulgaria (M. Radoslavoff), speaking in the Sobranje, said Bulgaria and Roumania had settled all their misunderstandings. Bulgaria's ...
Article : 61 wordsAn official statement issued at Paris reports that after Monday's counter- attacks and the French right fell back the French repulsed several ...
Article : 31 wordsA Mahomedan festival is being held, and the mosques throughout India are thronged. Prayers are offered fro a British victory. ...
Article : 24 wordsOn Tuesday evening the French War Office announced that the Germans seemed to have resumed the offensive where it was suspended yesterday, and ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is officially announced at Paris that the Germans attacked the French north of Nancy, but were repulsed with heavy losses. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn eye-witness of the Charleroi fight, [?]dden in a wood in the neighbourhood of Erquelines, saw column after column of German infantry defile in endless ...
Article : 72 wordsA sentry challenged two foreigners at Yarrow shipyard, on Clydeside, at midnight. They made no answer to the challenge, and the sentry fired in the ...
Article : 95 wordsFew building an Belgrade remain undamaged and a Portion of the palace has been destroyed by fire. ...
Article : 21 wordsRouter's correspondent at Rome states that Austria is mobilising on the Italian frontier, especially at Trent and Innisbruck. Seventy thousand are already ...
Article : 57 wordsWounded French officers who have reached Bourges. describe the duplicity of the Germans in Lorraine. When the French entered the villages they were ...
Article : 112 wordsAn official communique shows that the mass of French troops never reached Sambre. The greater part of the French forces had originally been directed to ...
Article : 42 wordsIt has been officially announced that the Russians occupied Angerburg, and the Germans in East Prussia are retreating by forced marches. Part of the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Amsterdam "Aachenerpost" says General Lieman, the commander of Liege, was found half-suffocated under the wreckage of a fort, which the Germans ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London has undertaken the distribution of the mutton given by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce. ...
Article : 24 wordsA telegram received at Milan states that thirty thousand Montenegrins have had a series of successes on the Herzogovinian frontier. After a fierce ...
Article : 52 wordsDetails published in Paris show that three French armies between Charleroi and Longwy, in addition to the British, African Zouaves, and Tirailleurs, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Russians also fought successful but sanguinary engagements north of Heidenburg, with important forces of Germans in the same region. The 20th ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd George) has introduced a bill giving power to all in the new bank notes ant substitute others less easily forge. ...
Article : 51 wordsAntwerp advices state that 500 men of the first battalion of the 34th Regiment, which was at Liege, arrived at Namur on Saturday. Stationed ...
Article : 162 wordsFighting has been renewed in Lorraine, and several engagements are in progress. ...
Article : 16 wordsAn exchange message from Cettigne says the French authorities at Scutari sent their entire contingent to Cettigna to aid the Montenegrins, instead of a ...
Article : 49 wordsEarl Kitchener, in his address to the House of Lords, said if the war out lasted his term of three years, others would take their places and see the ...
Article : 425 wordsThe Automobile Club, London, has supplied several thousand motor cars for the use of the authorities. A fleet of cars is stationed at St. James' Square ...
Article : 33 wordsCount Bernstoff, the German Ambassador, announces that the German forces against the Russian consisted of about 800,000 men, or 12 German army corps ...
Article : 34 wordsA telegram from Nish states that an Austrian monitor struck a mine near Orsova, on the Danube, and was blown up. The crew perished. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Bonar Law bas been appointed chairman of the Board of Trade committee to advise upon the methods of dealing with the discharge and disposal ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Pres Bureau publishes Belgium's protest against German barbarism, based on the report of a committee of enquiry, including Chief Justice Vaniseghen, ...
Article : 133 wordsA message from Malta declares that H.M.S. Gloucester was near the lonian Islands when the German cruiser Breslau appeared, and the British cruiser ...
Article : 116 wordsOwing to the enormous number of recruits offering themselves, the Canadian Militia Department is considering the offer of an additional army corps of ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Harcourt) has appointed a committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Islington, to render advice and ...
Article : 62 wordsNo details or explanation have yet been received as to the fall of Namur. A Paris message states that on Saturday afternoon the Germans from ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) left for Adelaide to-day, en route for West Australia. When spoken to before leaving about the financial ...
Article : 298 wordsThe British Government, has decided to permit the wives and families of German and Austrian reservists, who have gone to the war, to return to their respective ...
Article : 36 wordsEight thousand German prisoners now in Belgium are being sent to England via Dunkirk. ...
Article : 16 wordsOwing to the stoppage of the importation of German beet sugar the Government has arranged to import 60,000 tons from British Guiana before the end of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Government is making an ex[?]austive investigation of the prices of foodstuffs, with the object of preventing advances. The Government secured ...
Article : 70 wordsOn taking up a position in the vicinity of Mons the British blew up the churches and railway station, which were in the line of fire, and also the canal bridges. ...
Article : 118 wordsAmerican advices from Tsingtan (kiau-Chau) shale that the Kaiser bas directed the garrison to defend it to the utmost. The message was read at a roll call on ...
Article : 86 wordsColonel Davies, a Now Zealander, has been gazetted a brigade commander. ...
Article : 13 wordsNext week the Prize Count deals with 112 captured ships, aggregating a tonnage of 116,376. The Holland-Amerika's steamer ...
Article : 39 wordsRegular steamship communication with France and Great Britain has been resarmed. The War Department does not find it ...
Article : 64 wordsAn exchange message from Antwerp states that after a fierce four hours' fighting at Malines, the Belgians were repulsed. The Germans are now ...
Article : 37 wordsRegulation No. 38 of the Post and Telegraph Regulations, 1913, is being amended with a view to self-measuring forms being treated as part of catalogue, ...
Article : 86 wordsAccording an an official announcement made in Paris the allies' movement into new positions has been completed. The French, who command the Adrennes ...
Article : 53 wordsFlying columns have driven the Germans out of the district round Antwerp, Ra far as Malines. ...
Article : 20 wordsA Peking message states that a circular calculated to inflame the Chinese against England has been issued broadcast. ...
Article : 20 wordsIt is reported from Ostend that Belgians captured twenty-five Uhlans, who were patrolling ten miles inland of Blankenberg, eight miles north-west of Bruges. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Police Magistrate (Mr. W. O. Wise) had to deal with a ease of alleged bigamy at Hobart to-day. Thomas Edward Alexander, a man about 35 years ...
Article : 126 wordsKemp, the Australian sculler, diving from the outrigger of his boat, saved a drowning c[?]d at Hammersmith. ...
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Advertising : 106 wordsAustria has declared war against Japan, and Reuter says it has been officially announced at Vienna that the Japanese Ambassador has been handed his ...
Article : 64 wordsThe fighting on the Mouscron frontier station caused a panie at Lille, thousands of people crowding the trains and roads to the souchward. ...
Article : 27 wordsAlready acknowlelged £12 11 2 "A Friend" 0 2 6 "M.E.I" (Latrobe), 0 10 0 Total £13 3 8 ...
Article : 60 wordsMembers of the State Ministry have agreed to devote 10 per cent. of their salaries to a fund to relieve the distress which may arise from unemployment. ...
Article : 103 wordsLottie Caroline Meakin was charged in the Criminal Court to-day with having committed perjury at the Supreme Court, Melbourne, on May 28, during ...
Article : 56 wordsGerman residents in Belgium are assisting the invaders greatly, and are acting as scouts, and assisting to create panics in the frontier towns. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Belgians lost 40 killed and wounued in the Uhlans' raid on Ostend, but hte latter suffered more severest ...
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