A communique has been issued summing up the situation as follows:— On the right flank, after partial checks, we have taken the offensive, ...
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Advertising : 97 wordsBritain faces the stein fact that the first great German effort has succeeded, and the expeditionary force requires immediate immense reinforcements. ...
Article : 101 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the Victorian Mill Owners' Association yesterday, the minimum quotation for flour was advanced 10s. per ton, making ...
Article : 66 wordsLieutenant Chas. Fortescue, jun., officer commanding the Machine Gun Section 11th Infantry, has secured a commission in the Expeditionary Forces. ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is announced officially that a German army corps has been wiped out by General Pau's troops. ...
Article : 19 wordsBirmingham has offered to raise and equip a city battalion for service. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Mayoress (Miss Eugenie Boland), has arrangements now complete for the patriotic concert to be held in the Empire Theatre to-morrow evening, in aid ...
Article : 270 wordsA distinguished neutral diplomat declares that there is a multitude of evidence that the Germans have been forced to abandon the campaign in ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Berlin "Tageblatt" says that during the fight on August 23, 700,000 Germans were opposed by 400,000 French and 40,000 British. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Wireless Military Service says that the British sailors at Heligoland, without considering their own danger, sent out lifeboats to save "our men" ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsA press correspondent at The Hague (Holland) states that four of the richest men in Belgium have guaranteed Germany the payment of the £8,000,000 ...
Article : 71 wordsSeveral committees are being organised in London for the relief of the Belgian refugees, who are arriving in large numbers. ...
Article : 469 wordsCount John Bernstorff (German Ambassador to the United States) issued a statement to the effect that Germany had beaten both the British and French ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Prime Minister (Hon. Joseph Cook) has arrived in Sydney. He intends visiting the camps of the expeditionary force, and getting first hand ...
Article : 36 wordsThe following cablegram from Sir G. H. Reid (Australian High Commissioner) dated August 31, was received yesterday:— ...
Article : 283 wordsAt a meeting of the West End Bowling Club last evening when the president (Mr. D. Cramond presided) it was resolved to promote a fancy dress ...
Article : 43 wordsThe fighting at St. Quentin and Guise, 15 miles south of Cambrai, indicates that the British have fallen back in that direction. ...
Article : 19 wordsSt. Petersburg notifies that Russian advances continue in all the theatres of war. Operations and engagements of tremendous importance against the ...
Article : 196 wordsA number of German reservists narrowly escaped rough handling by a crowd near a hotel in George-street. They were singing "Watch on the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe King has intimated that he desired that racing should continue, and he will fulfil his engagements. At the request of Lord Kitclioner, all ...
Article : 78 wordsA patriotic meeting was held in the hall at Haden on Saturday night. Mr. L. Dascombe was voted to the chair. He called on Mr. E. Dearling, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 504 wordsThe Patriotic Fund now totals £111,661. ...
Article : 10 wordsThe Antwerp correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" who has visited Malines, declares that the reports of the damage to the town are greatly ...
Article : 113 wordsLieutenant-colonel Bruclie, A.A.G., this morning handed to the Press the following list of officers, who have been selected for the various units of the ...
Article : 588 wordsAt a meeting of Parliamentary officers held to-day it was resolved that one per cent of their annual salaries be contributed to the war fund so long as ...
Article : 38 wordsThe High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) intimates:—The Bulgarian Government informs Servia that if Roumania abandons neutrality in favor of ...
Article : 49 wordsA correspondent writes:—Yesterday I noticed that Messrs. Rosenstengel and Kleimeyer's fine new two storey brick warehouse at the back of the ...
Article : 104 wordsCount Bernstorff (German Ambassador) asserts that the citizens at Louvain out the throats of German officers; hence the destruction of the city. ...
Article : 245 wordsAddressing a huge gathering at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto, Sir William Menlock urged all Canadians to refuse to buy ...
Article : 50 wordsCouncillor H. Strohfeldt states that Australians of German parents may be relied upon to prove their loyalty to this land of their birth. He says that ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Premier (Hon. D. F. Denham) yesterday afternoon received a telegram from the Prime Minister (Hon. J. Cook) stating that the High Commissioner at ...
Article : 545 wordsIt is reported from the concentration camp at Valcartier, Quebec, that a troop train on the Canadian northern railway narrowly escaped destruction. An ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says that Turkey may declare war at any moment. It is now only a matter of a few days and possibly hours. All efforts by the Triple ...
Article : 176 wordsEight hundred German and Austrian reservists in different parts of the Union have been taken prisoners, and detained in a special camp at Johannesburg. ...
Article : 30 wordsGreat satisfaction prevails at the denial by the British Ambassador of the official German statement that the British were defeated, and were in full ...
Article : 74 wordsThe War Office has forbidden the publication of further casualty lists. General von Moltke (Commander-in-Chief) denies that the German troops ...
Article : 55 wordsThe German papers confidently assert that the official prediction that the Kaiser's troops would be in Paris by September 2 will be fulfilled. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Antwerp correspondent to "The Times" says that he has been informed on reliable authority that heavy artillery for Namur forte was ordered from ...
Article : 44 wordsBritish cruisers caught a German trawler; flying the Norwegian flag, laying mines in the North Sea. She gave the crew three minutes to escape, then ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is reported that a British warship captured a number of German and Austrian reservists from American ships near Hong-kong. ...
Article : 64 wordsGovernment insurance on cargoes is now quoted at two per cent. The stock exchange committee had ordered all members to make a ...
Article : 68 wordsAn extraordinary sight was witnessed in New York yesterday, when thousands of women garbed in black, representing all nations of the world, marched in a ...
Article : 53 wordsIt now transpires that German Samoa surrendered to the New Zealand expeditionary force. It is semi-officially stated in Melbourne ...
Article : 104 wordsThe latest reports regarding the naval engagement in Heligoland Bight say that the Liberty was in the thick of the fighting. She was hit by a ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Asquith, the English Prime Minister, was pressed in the House of Commons to permit correspondents to post letters owing to the alarming ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Rockhampton patriotic fund has now reached £2293 10s. 4d., including donations from Messrs. Walter Reid and Co. of £500 and T. R. A. Creed ...
Article : 40 wordsAn armed German trawler, which was acting as a guardship for the purpose of warning neutral ships to keep away from parts of the Baltic Sea that are ...
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Advertising : 48 wordsYesterday was the anniversary of the beginning of the battle of Sedan, a conflict fraught with the most disastrous consequences to the French in the last ...
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Advertising : 30 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday. Hon. L. E. Groom (Minister for Trade and Customs) paid a surprise, visit to the expeditionary comp at Enogerra at ...
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The Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld. : 1902 - 1922), Wed 2 Sep 1914, Page 5
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