The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), in moving in the House of Commons for a vote to provide for half a million additional men in the army, said the House ...
Article : 293 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says there are now 12 or 13 German army corps in East Prussia. Russia will soon benefit by ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Press Bureau states that yesterday the enemy was driven back all along the line. Sir John French reports that the British first army buried 200 Germans, and has taken 12 Maxims and some prisoners. The second army. has captured ...
Article : 87 wordsYesterday's cables are tantallsingly meagre. After the four days' fighting which is said to have taken place, and the. reported successes of the ...
Article : 1,371 wordsThe control, disbursement, and ad- ministration have been vested in the following committee, who have "full discretion to apply the same on an Imperial, ...
Article : 171 wordsIt is reported from Petrograd that the Austrians have evacuated Cracow, the inhabitants displaying Russian sympathies. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent reports that a great battle at Lublin ended in a complete victory for the Russians, who thoroughly routed the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 wordsIt is officially admitted at Vienna that the Archduke Frederick lost 120,000, or about one-fourth of his command, in the recent battle in Galicia. ...
Article : 56 wordsRouter's representative at Paris states that the Germans have completely, evacuated North-West France, except small parties of Uhlans, who are gradually being driven eastward. The traffic on the northern railways s s partially resumed. Trains went yesterday in to districts where recently there had been ...
Article : 61 wordsSome of the large towns in Great Britain have responded well in the matter of recruiting. In London 60,000 have enrolled. Glasgow has supplied ...
Article : 84 wordsA Russian wounded officer describes a desperate light at Orlau, in Silesia. Trenches were taken and re-taken three times. When Russian reinforcements ...
Article : 59 wordsAn official telegram received at Amsterdam from Berlin says that General von Stein announces that the army which had crossed the Marne east of Paris was heavily attacked by the enemy between Paris, Meaux, and Montmirail. The fighting lasted two days. The army had checked the enemy, and even ...
Article : 82 wordsAt a citizens' meeting at Glasgow, Lord Provost Stevenson raised a storm of indignation by expressing the hope that nothing would be said or done by ...
Article : 151 wordsIt is stated at Rome that the deserters from the Austrian army are increasing daily, especially on the Roumanian frontier, while many have gone to ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is reported at Paris that many bodies of Germans still remain in the wooded country within the triangle of Senlis, Gonesse, and Dammartin, to the northwest of Paris. It is believed that they amount in all to an army corps, and that they were cut off from the main body by the allies between Compiegne ...
Article : 69 wordsRefugees who have reached Milan state that a reign 'of terror exists in the Serb provinces of Austria.. .There is a gibbet in every village, and every day there ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 463 wordsA communique issued at Paris says that the left wing of the Anglo-French forces has crossed the Marne, and is pursuing the retreating enemy. The British have captured many prisoners and machine guns during the four days' battle. The allies in this area advanced upwards of 60 kilometres (nearly 30 miles). ...
Article : 81 wordsRussian wounded state that two Russian machine guns on a hill did great execution at Krintz, but the fight was decided with the bayonet. When the ...
Article : 50 wordsA message from Petrograd states that large German forces detrained at Tchenstochow. A communique says that the success ...
Article : 46 wordsA message from Amsterdam reports that the Belgians continue a vigorous offensive at Antwerp and in East Flanders and have driven the Germans from the neighbourhood of Aerschot and Dicat, taking 300 prisoners. It is reported from Ostend that the Belgians have driven the Germans back ...
Article : 55 wordsDetails of the charge of the 9th Lancers in the lighting around Paris show that the Lancers went into action singing and shouting like schoolboys. ...
Article : 201 wordsThe following cable message has been received from the High Commissioner's office:— "London, 10th September, 9 p.m.— The ...
Article : 314 wordsNews comes from Stockholm that strong German squadrons were seen on Monday near the islands of Gotaka and Sando, steaming north-westward. Fine battleships were seen approaching the Gulf of Finland the same day. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) says ample confirmation is forth-coming of the disaster which has befallen the Austrian main armies. The centre is in full retreat. Attempts to assume the offensive against the Russians proved calamitous. Poland is reported to be clear of Austrians and Germans. ...
Article : 81 wordsSome military critics point out that no part of the German army is definitely broken, and it has made no desperate effort to break through the eastern lines. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe "Rotterdam Courant" publishes an interesting piece of war history from its Berlin correspondent. The military party, he writes. reckoned that it was ...
Article : 275 wordsAccording to an Amsterdam correspondent, it has been officially announced at Berlin that. Prince Joachim, one of the Kaiser's sons, while serving as an ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is announced from Bordeaux that a decree has been issued commanding all who for various reasons are exempt from military service to submit to a further ...
Article : 31 wordsThroughout the whole retreat on to the Ike in front of Paris the British cavalry foiled every German effort to capture the retreating transport, ...
Article : 100 wordsA telegram from Berlin states that the army commanders have been given to understand that the army is Germany's most effective arm, and German victories ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsThe Admiralty announced a few days age that a large number of marines and naval reserves were left over, after providing. for all the present needs of the ...
Article : 139 wordsA French reserve officer relates that when charging the Bavarians he shot their colonel, who was striking his men with his sword to prevent their fleeing, ...
Article : 36 wordsThe press Bureau states that the latest list of casualties comprises nine officers killed and ninety, wounded, with nine missing. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 wordsAn engine breakdown compelled an aeroplane, which dropped bombs on Paris last week, to descend at Orry-la-Ville. Two officers were captured, and an ...
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Advertising : 787 wordsAn Ostend correspondent relates that. spy was betrayed by muttering in German while sleeping in a cafe. He states that the British shot 75 Germans ...
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