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Advertising : 50 wordsLord Kitchener proposes that the foreign service units shall receive continuous training and not be employed abroad until they reach a standard of efficiency ...
Article : 434 wordsIt is announced that the Prince of Wales Relief Fund has now reached a million po[?]nds. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe English Consul at Trieste has arrived at Ancona. He stated that severe measures were adopted against British subjects in Austria. Many were arrested ...
Article : 34 wordsEighty members of the Royal Naval Reserve passed through Toowoomba yesterday for Sydney. They were as j[?]lly as sandboys. ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Japanese steamer Shikoku Maru attempted to enter Hongkong, disregarding the harbor regulations. Two shots were [?]ired across her bows ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Government of Montenegro officially denies any intention to occupy Mount Tabos, or to assume the offensive against Albania. ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is reported that General Von Emmich has committed suiicde. He wrote to his wife stating that he knew Liege would be his tomb, and he preferred to ...
Article : 148 wordsA Zeppelin airship commenced a recounaisance above Nancy on August 8. An aviator attached to the garrison at once went out and outmanoeuvring the ...
Article : 70 wordsLord Kitchener has addressed a communication to the territorial associations, in which he says he is aware that due to their plucky spirit, many ...
Article : 125 wordsThe steamer Marama arrived with her lights out and ports shrouded after making a long dotour to avoid hostile vessels. The Niagara and Marama will ...
Article : 55 wordsThe King gave an auidence to Generals Grierson and Brabazon. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Servians have occupied nine villages in Bosnia. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe German forces at Liege are devoting their energies to forts on the left bank of the river Meuse, particularly De Pontisse, which prevents the free use of ...
Article : 211 wordsAll Englishmen between 15 and 44 years of age, including tourists, who are detained in Germany, are being employed in getting in the harvest. ...
Article : 7 wordsThe King of the Belgians is constantly among his troops and has passed several nigths in bivouac. He travels in a motor car attended by a single officer, ...
Article : 42 wordsGeneral, Hertzoz, the leader of the National Party in South Africa, has appealed to the Nationalists to sink their party differences and to stand ...
Article : 36 wordsA number of German liners with 5000 passengers on board have taken refuse at Pernambuc[?]. LONDON, Friday. ...
Article : 54 wordsEarl Kitchener has notified that any newspaper in Britain which publishes naval and military movements, except those issued by the Press Bureau, will ...
Article : 94 wordsDuring the night attack on Fort de Pontinesse, Germans armed with hand grenades and huge wire cutters, reached the outworks. The Belgian’s detected ...
Article : 81 wordsRothschild Brothers have subscribed a million francs (£40,000) to the French national fund. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe "Wireless Press," Marconi' new organisation, is circulating messages gathered by wireless from Germany showing how Germany is being filled ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Government has submitted a Bill restricting the export of wheat and flour. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe German newspaper the "Egyptische Nachriehter" has been suppressed for publishing sensational news of alleged German victories and a statement ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is stated officially that 143 were drowned and 157 saved from the Austrian steamer Baron Gautsch, which struck a mine in the Adriatic and sank. ...
Article : 42 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Repington, the "Times" military expert, says; "We are on the verge of a great struggle on the Meuse. Surrounded by powerful ...
Article : 129 wordsTwo German officers, with a motor car laden with sufficent melinite to destroy the biggest bridge in France, were arrested at Tours. The occupants of the ...
Article : 111 wordsA special committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce ha recommended a scheme whereby 20 millions in gold will he placed in the Canadian ...
Article : 93 wordsGermans anxious to be naturalised make a constant stream into the City Court offices (says a Melbourne wire to the Sydney "Sun.") Some look sad as ...
Article : 165 words"Fairplay" states that the cargo of the Tyslas was insured at Hamburg, including war risk. The British steamer Duncliffe has ...
Article : 45 wordsFrance having threatened Holland with war unless she keeps fleeing Germans from her territory, the Government has sent 60,000 Dutch troops to ...
Article : 84 wordsIn connection with Admiral Craddock’s announcement that the Western. Atlantic is safe for inerchantmen, it now transpires that all hostile crusiers have been ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is persistently rumored at Liege that the Crown Prince was wounded while leading the Deathshead Hussars." ...
Article : 24 wordsA British doctor who visited the hospitals found very many of the Belgians wounded in the legs, while many collapsed from sheer exhaustion. The ...
Article : 194 wordsOne hundred large calibre shells, each weighing 100 kilogrammes (nearly 2 cwt.), and containing a heavy charge of pierite, fell at Pont-a-Musson. The sh[?]s ...
Article : 80 wordsA party of French reservists, including 35 well known wool buyers, will leave Sydney during next week to join the colors. In some instances, the wives ...
Article : 42 wordsThe greatest importance is placed on the assistance of the British expeditionary forces. The rival armies are so nearly balanced that two or three army ...
Article : 112 wordsGermans are gathering at Yokohama and Tokio, preparatory to leaving Japan, as they are expecting a declaration of war. ...
Article : 28 wordsWhen the Austrian steamer Ida, from Tricste, arrived, the Canadian Government captured her as a war prize. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe wheat market is quiet, and 4270 is asked for South Australian parcels afloat. Flour is firmly held, and there is little doing. Australian flour, ex ...
Article : 63 wordsAddressing a conference of business men, President Wilson asserted that the period of apprehension was past and the country was now able to look ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is reported that the Russian Consul-General at Frankfort, Germany, was beaten and kicked, and forced to uncover his head and bow bofore the statue of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Governmment has undertaken to raise no objection to the J. P. Morgan Company underwriting a loan for several hundred million dollars which France ...
Article : 77 wordsNo attack has been reported on "Friday. Reconnaisances show that the U[?]lans have fallen back from the main body, except at the extreme north, ...
Article : 54 wordsOwing to to release of suffragette prisoners, and in view of the political crisis, the Women’s Social Political Association has definitely suspended ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Prime Minster (Mr. Asquith) and Sir Edward Grey (Minister for Foreign Affairs) have sent letters to the Belgian War Minister expressing admiration of ...
Article : 63 wordsLatest estimates place the German casualties at Mulhausen, in Alsace, at 10,000. The hospital facilities are totally ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Germans court-martialled and shot Madame [?]avre Schwarz, a Swiss girl, the wife of one of the richest Al[?]atans, living at Lorrach. She was ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Chinese Minister of Tokio reports that an arrangement has been come to between the Japanese, British and Russian Ambassadors at Tokio to the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Minister for Justice announced in the House last night that the sentences of six of the ten men imprisoned for offences arising out of the recent ...
Article : 50 wordsPekin reports that the British navy has cornered the German Far Eastern Squadron. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe German staff at Liege has occupied the Convent, Sacre Coeur, and has barricaded itself against attack. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir,—Patriotic Fund: Cambooya and surrounding district (fat sheep):—In connection with Mr. R. C. Rams[?]y’s very practical proposal to send a ...
Article : 80 wordsNumur is heavily garrisoned, and its hilly situation makes it stronger than Liege. Many French forces are holding the left bank of the Mouse, supported by ...
Article : 41 wordsThere were 300 aboard the Baron Goulscho. It is believed the Austrians laid the mine. The mail steamers Niagara and Marama are held in Honolulu ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Government Press Bureau states that the French still hold Bonhomme and Sainte Marie passes, and occupied Sale Pass, commanding the Bruche ...
Article : 119 wordsIt is understood that the transportation of the French troops to Namur is completed, so all the inhabitants have disarmed, in order that the Germans can ...
Article : 40 wordsEnglish correspondents report that the country around Tirlemont and Saint Trond at the beginning of the week comprised rich cornfields, and ...
Article : 44 wordsPrayers are being offered up in the Roman Catholic churches every day while the war laste. The text of the prayers, three in number, which are ...
Article : 178 wordsBelgium is overrun with spies. All who are captured are tried late at night, and a certain number shot at dawn. Fifty Germans were captured in ...
Article : 116 wordsThe efforts of the great German banking houses in America, supported by the German Embassy at Washington, to bring pressure to bear upon the ...
Article : 50 wordsThis morning a further sum of £1000 was received from Mr. and Mrs. J. H. S. Barnes for the Foodstuffs Fund raised by the "Courier." The fund now ...
Article : 47 wordsThe manager of the Cambooya cheese factory advises "The Chronicle" that at a meeting of shareholders on Saturday afternoon, it was decided to donate ...
Article : 85 wordsIf war occurs between Italy and the Entente, it is regarded as certain that Greece and Bulgaria will fight Turkey. ...
Article : 25 wordsFifty men have been taken from Wistes to be held as hostages without any explanation. The action is believed to be by way ...
Article : 40 wordsOn Thursday night a man was noticed crawling towards the small arms factory. He was challenged by the s[?]ntry, but instead of answering, jumped up ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is officially announced that numerous German patrols have taken refuge in Switzerland. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe moratorium expiring to-day has been prolonged until September 30. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe residence of a German near Liverpool was raided after the occupants left. A quantity of bombs, loaded firearms. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 119 wordsThe Minister for Labor Mr. Crothers, is preparing a measure along the lines of the British Act to deal drastically with the question of food supply. The ...
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Advertising : 75 wordsTwo hundred cyclist carbineers on Thursday surrounded and surprised 300 Germans. They killed 70 and captured 40, and the rest disappeared. The ...
Article : 55 wordsMore than 100 German prisoners have been taken from trawlers in the North Sea, and landed at Port George by a cruiser. ...
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Advertising : 50 wordsThe Ministry has arranged with M. Viviani, the French Premier, to personally issue a daily bulletin of news for circulation among the troops to enable ...
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The Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld. : 1902 - 1922), Mon 17 Aug 1914, Page 5
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