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Advertising : 49 wordsCAIRO, Friday 3.15 p.m.)—The camp of the Australian contingent occupys a beautiful site behind the Great. Pyramid of Cheops. ...
Article : 123 wordsA message from Constantinople states a Turkish gunboat was sunk by a mine at the entrance to the Dardanelles. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe German General, Von der Goltz, who is staying for a few days in Bulgaria, states that he will occupy apartments at the Sultan’s Palace, and will ...
Article : 45 wordsA passenger steamer sighted a mine in the English Channel. Soldiers aboard exploded it with rifles. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is reported that the Scharnhorst kept up firing until her guns were submerged. Heavy firing hus been heard off the ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is stated that the German mission studying “railways and agriculture" in South Angello, were realty spies. One was captured; the others fled. ...
Article : 31 wordsA Berlin wireless message states that much remains to be done before the Russian resistance is broken at Lodz, therefore, there is added significance at ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Austrians and Germans employed in mixed tribunals have been deported to Cyprus. The Khedive of Egypt is at ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is reported that the German cruiser Dresden (3600 tons, armed with 12 4in. guns, and having a speed of 24 knots) has been interned at the port of Santa ...
Article : 90 wordsAn offical Berlin report claims that a French attack eastward of Langerwarek was repulsed. 340 were taken prisonerd and 200 killed. ...
Article : 60 wordsAmount previously acknowledged, £1363 19.: Mr. Jno. Warren (November instalment), £1: Jondaryan half-crown fund through Mr. Thos. Taylor), £1; ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, speaking at Bristol, said that the war was due to a crime against civilisation. The Kaiser was not merely resolved to be great, ...
Article : 135 wordsA Berlin semi-official message suggests that Admiral Von Spee steamed southwards, to seek the British warships Canopus and Glasgow. Meanwhile ...
Article : 149 wordsThe British steel-crew steamer Scottish Prince (2987 tons) has arrived here. The captain reports that the German cruiser Karlsrulie (4900 tons, armed ...
Article : 125 wordsIt is said that for the first time since the new rifle range has been opened in Toowoomba, the military on Saturday went through a course of musketry. ...
Article : 42 wordsMessdages from Berlin state that the British cruisers on Thursday violently bombarded the coast of Belgium, for the purpose of stopping the advance in ...
Article : 36 wordsA Dutchman named Van Horsen, who volunteered for the Belgian army, escaped from Wessel camp and reports that his battalion was surrounded at the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" states that the German Crown Prince was hurriedly summoned to the bedside of the Kaiser. COPENHAGEN, Friday. ...
Article : 75 wordsSir Edward Grey, in thanking Servia for that country's congratulations on the Falkland Islands victory, paid a warm tribute to the Servians' brilliant ...
Article : 90 wordsThe “Daily Chronicle's" Madrid correspondent states that the British Admiralty frustrated a mature German plan to sow mines in the Straits of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Customs officials at Gravesend seized a huge box on a liner bound for Rotterdam. When the box was opened a German ...
Article : 253 wordsReplying to Japan’s cordial congratulations, Mr. Churchill cabled that though the British squadron struck the final blow destroying the squadron base ...
Article : 120 wordsThe "Handelsblad" states that General von Moltke smno time back wished to make an attack concentrated on Verdun, combined with an advance ...
Article : 132 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Amsterdam, states that violent riots have occurred between the Prussians and the Bavarians and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe German offensive has hitherto failed in every direction. They simultaneously made an attack at several points on the Russian centre ...
Article : 114 wordsThere are rumors of a British victory in which was recovered a considerable stretch of country, the Germans losing heavily. ...
Article : 226 wordsA very interesting point arising out of the war crisis has come before the Local Authorities’' Association of Queensland. The Toowoomba City Council entered ...
Article : 234 wordsThe "Telegraff" states the authorities seized at Hamsweerin 15 boats containing grain and various goods, apparently booty which the Germans were trying to ...
Article : 47 wordsOn Wednesday night a steamer was stopped by a shot opposite to Dover. It is supposed that it was working in conjunction with the enemy's ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is officially reported from Vienna that the Austrians are continuously and victoriously advancing on the Carpathians. ...
Article : 69 wordsA Berlin wireless message states that Germany immediately assented to the pope's suggestion of a Christmas truce. The decision of the other bolligerents, ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Ramsay Macdonald the wellknown Labor leader) is serving with the field ambulance in Belgium. WASHINGTON, Saturday. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe, British destroyers which left Dover in search of the German submarines which attacked the harbor before daylight on Thursday, have ...
Article : 43 wordsA non-commissioned officer who escaped from the Germans at Lodz states that he, with two officers and 30 men were prisoners in an unlocked stable for ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Grand Duke Nicholas (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army), on behalf of the Russian army and navy, has sent a message to the Admiralty, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that the recapture by the British troops of the village of Passchendable, seven miles north-west of Ypres, was the result of ...
Article : 248 wordsA communique states that the Germans were in energetic offensive at Mlawa on Thursday. The Russians drove back some of the columns in ...
Article : 93 wordsReports state that the British have made further important advances in coastal Belgium, and that German forces have retreated accordingly. Their ...
Article : 46 wordsThe patriotic fund now totals £481,754. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Stock Exchange reopened to-day, after four and a half months cessation of business. One hundred and ninetytwo approved stocks were traded and ...
Article : 61 wordsChief Justice Sir William Cullen, who is Chancellor of the Sydney University has declared that those who were urging suppression of heart feelings against the ...
Article : 50 wordsWhen the House of Representatives met to-day the Speaker. Hon Chas, M‘Donald, who had been absent owing to ill-health, was able to take the chair ...
Article : 109 wordsSome excitement was caused here by Colonel Goethols’s (the Panama Governor) request for destroyers to be (despatched imitiediately to the Panama ...
Article : 83 wordsA message from Athens states that a several weeks' revolt amongst the Turkish officers and men in Constantinople against the German officers’ ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Army Messenger" states that the Russians have routed the AustroGermans to the south of Cracow (KraKo), capturing five batteries and a ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the House of Representatives today—The Postmaster-General, Mr. Spence, informed the House that his department ...
Article : 91 wordsGeneral Carranza has notified the United States that if force be employed to stop Mexicans from firing across the frontier, Mexico will consider the act ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that the German losses in Lodz and Lawicz districts, and between Pabianice and the Vistula are much below those of the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe "Kveluischo Zeitung," referring to President Wilson's desire for America to play an important role in the conclusion of peace, declares that ...
Article : 189 wordsA communique states that a very violent German attack in the region of Ypres (Eelpr) was repulsed. It adds: “We retook a trench in the same region, ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is stated officially that the total British casualties in the naval engagement off the Falkland Islands were:— Seven killed. ...
Article : 50 wordsA shocking fatality occurred at M' Coy's Bridge, about 9 miles from here, last night. John Joseph Thompson, aged 59 years, who had been doing ...
Article : 162 wordsLieutenant-Generalal Sir James Wolfe Murray, K.C.B., has been appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff. ...
Article : 37 wordsA number of townsman met at the Hotel Central this afternoon on the invitation of the Mayor (Alderman Baker) to drink the health of Mr. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Servian troops have capturod 20 more guns. ...
Article : 24 wordsTurkish soldiers endeavored to arrest the British Consul at Hodeida, a seaport of Arabia, on the Red Sea. However, the Consul escaped to an Italian ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Minister for Marine has been informed that the German armored cruiser Prinz Frederick Karl (9050 tons) struck a mine in the Baltic Sea, at the end of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe “Frankfurter Zeitung” says that five regiments from Archangel arrived at Antivari on November 29, and reinforced the Servians. ...
Article : 59 wordsBathgate's mid-season estimate of the world's wheat crop reveals a total of 439,250,000 quarters. ...
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Advertising : 59 wordsAn evening communique states the enemy have completely evacuated the west bank of the Yser Canal, north of the Ferryman's house. ...
Article : 118 wordsItaly is purchasing horses and wheat supplies on a huge scale. Signor Guialio Botrgueso, Italian Consul at Chicago, explains that Italy ...
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Advertising : 15 wordsThere are 1250 soliciters and articled clerks serving in the British Army, while over a million above the age of 38 years, who have been otherwise ...
Article : 95 wordsAmount previously acknowledged acknowledged; £1358 19s.; Mr. Jno. Warren (November instalment), £1: Jondaryan half-crown fund (through ...
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The Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld. : 1902 - 1922), Mon 14 Dec 1914, Page 5
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