Additional details of the fights at Mons and at Cambray, which took place from the 35to the 28th, came through yesterday, and ...
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Advertising : 923 wordsThe Admirlity announces that the British losses at Heligoland Blight with the German fleet were two officers and 27 men killed, 19 men severely wounded, and one officer and 18 men slightly wounded. The British casualties were confined to the cruisers Arethusa, Liberty, and ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Russian advance in Prussia continues. Fighting has occurred between the Russians and the garrisons at Thorn I and Graudenz. ...
Article : 34 wordsA message from Paris states that a severe action is progressing south-west. ward of Mcezieres, on the line from Launois to Signy I' Abbaye. There are indications that Field Marshal Sir John French is on or south of a line extending from Guise to Signy l'Abbaye. The Germans are thus facing a salient, of which the ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Russians captured three thousand "Austrians cast of Lemburg, and also a thousand north of Tomaszow. The Fifteenth Hungraian Division are ...
Article : 38 wordsIt has been officially announced at St. Petersburg that fresh troops have appeared on the Russian frontier, and are taking the offensive in some places. The ...
Article : 62 wordsIs is stated by the Press Bureau that the Arethusa, and not the Amethyst, played a leading role in the lighting. The vessel had only been commissioned a few days before the war as an emergency ship, and the officers and crew did Snot know each other. ...
Article : 282 wordsOfficial reports received via Vienna and Rome declare that the Russians in immense force are devastating whole regions from the Vistula to the ...
Article : 70 wordsVice-Admiral Kato announces a block- ade of Kiau-Chau, and the Japanese fleet is searching the bay for mines. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe main strength of Germany in the Pacific is concentrated in Chinese waters. A memorandum issued by the Navy Department, which is, of course, ...
Article : 488 wordsThe British destroyers exposed themselves to considerable risk in endeavouring to save as many drowning Germans as possible. Some British officers present vouch for the fact that German officers were observed firing at their own men in the water with pistols. Several were thus, shot. ...
Article : 118 wordsGeneral Pau's army from Alsace had heavy fighting at Bapaume, near Arras, throughout Friday. He is the popular hero of Paris, and is expected to stem the tide of the German advance. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Amiens correspondent of 'The Times" states that the British were in action at Mons on August 23, and had a terrible struggle. A whole division ...
Article : 548 wordsAll the British ships will be lit for service within a week or ten days. ...
Article : 18 wordsOther accounts state that he British shells raked the German decks fore and aft, and although the fight lasted eight hours, there were considerable periods in which there was no fighting. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe feet is delighted with Admiral Sir John Jellicoe's strategy, whereby big ships appeared just, at the right moment to finish a job off. ...
Article : 28 wordsAccording to the Press Bureau, Admiral Boud-In-Peyrere commands the Anglo-French fleet in the Mediterranean, and Admiral Sir A. B. Milne has ...
Article : 63 wordsAfter the battle at Dinant, on August 18, the Second and Seventh French Amny Corps, heavily outnumbered, "retreated slowly, ...
Article : 296 wordsThe trawler Goerda, of Hamburg, was blown up by a, mine on Langeland Sea. The crew were saved. Many mines are drifting near ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is reported from Vancouver that the German cruiser Leipzig has been captured, but the naval authorities refuse a confirmation of the rumours. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the 'Nieune Courant" witnessed the outrage at Louvain, having accompanied a German officer through. the town. He ...
Article : 323 wordsCivilian, eye witnesses at Amiens testify that the British retired intact, and kept the lines together. No divisions were cut off. ...
Article : 25 wordsA German officer, now at Rotterdam, states that a Zeppelin bomb destroyed the cupola on one of the forts at Liege. General ...
Article : 235 wordsThe British and French wounded agree that it is not the German artillery or rifle fire but the machine guns which are doing the damage. The Germans have ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is officially announced that the British troops were engaged in a desperate battle against tremendous odds on August 20, from which they ...
Article : 44 wordsH.R.H. Princess Patricia's Regiment. Was recalled while en route to England, and landed at Levis. It is believed that German warships are again in the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Press Bureau states that its account of the fortunes of the expeditionary force fully describes the present position. Though the messages of ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Government Press Bureau states that the War Office gives a general outline of the British share in the recent operations. In effect there had been a ...
Article : 552 wordsGreat satisfaction has been expressed in Milan (Italy), at being permitted to continue the importation of Cardiff coal. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Government Press Bureau publishes as reliable an account of a Belgian lieutenant who has arrived in London. He says that when he left Namur ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Tue 1 Sep 1914, Page 5
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