Gen. Sir Douglas Haig will, command the First Army Corps of the British fighting forces. He has been General Officer Commanding at Aldershot since 1912, and is ...
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Article : 47 wordsFollowing is the copy of a telegram received by the Premier this morning from the Prime Minister:—Cablegram, from High Commissioner, dated London, August ...
Article : 147 wordsThe President of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce (Mr. Arnold E. Davey) has received a lettergram from the Acting Collector of Customs in refence to enemies' ...
Article : 484 wordsThe Daily News publishes exclusively this morning an announcement that during the night 800 of the heroic defenders of the forts of Liege retired in good order. ...
Article : 40 wordsReferring in the Assembly on Wednesday to the position of men volunteering for service in the European War, Mr. Vaughan said the men who would on with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 101 wordsIn the Swiss capital the people are already seriously feeling the pinch of war. Those who ordinarily make a living by ...
Article : 84 wordsEven the skippers of the transports nothing of their destination until they lad opened sealed orders three miles out from shore. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe British Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force which has to the front (Field-Marshal Sir John French) crossed the Channel at the head of his army ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 79 wordsThe expeditionary force soon to leave South Australia will need reading matter during the voyage. Members, of the Victoria League and others are requested to ...
Article : 72 wordsST. PETERSBURG, August 18, 1.35 p.m. Farther details have been retched with regard to gallantry displayed by a cossack named Krutcbkoff. Accompanied by four ...
Article : 109 wordsCiviliane are not always familiar with the terms used in warfare. The following definition of terms—most of which have been lately mentioned in connection with ...
Article : 480 wordsThe chaplaincy committee of the Methodist Church met on Wednesday afternoon and recommended that the Rev. R. L. H. Tilbrook, of Penola, should act as ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Military Governor and the Mayor greeted Sir John French at the jetty. Said Sir John to the Governor:—"We are very triad to be here; but have you left ...
Article : 124 wordsPORT AUGUSTA, August 17.—One of the largest patriotic demonstrations ever held here took place this evening. The proceedings commenced with a procession ...
Article : 1,423 wordsST. PETERSBURG, August 18, 3 p.m. Altogether, 11 members of the Russian Royal Family are now at the front at various sections of the mammoth army which ...
Article : 40 wordsJust aa the troops were departing from British toil they received telegrams from the King. His Majesty's message, was read to each regiment before embarkation. ...
Article : 150 wordsThroughout Friday and Saturday the British soldiery marched through, the streets to their camps upon the hills surrounding. The forces were quickly distributed along ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Grand Duke Nicholas has appealed to the Russian inhabitants of Galicia (Austria) to help their country to throw off the foreign yoke, and raise the banner of a ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following official message from, the High Commissioner's Office in London, regarding Japan's ultimatum to Germany concerning the position of the labor nation ...
Article : 142 wordsST. PETERSBURG, August 18, 7.30 p.m. Russian troops have destroyed, a German aeroplane at Sammo, a village on the Finnish coast. ...
Article : 34 wordsCablegrams from Accra, the capital of the Gold Coast possessions, state chat a contingent of British troops from the West African colony entered Togoland, took a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 138 wordsEvery nan also carried little slip of paper signed "Kitchener." It contained 200 words of sound, soldierly advice—telling them.— ...
Article : 158 wordsThe big broad-shouldered Britishers obviously made a irreal impression on the people, though they were in no mood for noisy demonstration, remembering that ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Minister for Customs [Mr. Groom) to-day announced that the arrangements had been completed for the unloading in Melbourne to-day of local cargo from the ...
Article : 353 wordsIt is interesting to recall the extraordinary rapidity of the march of events in the Franco-German war of 1876-1. German mobilization began on July 16, and ...
Article : 319 wordsLetters received tram soldiers in the British Expeditionary Force Mate that when the army arrived in France the people there appeared frantic with joy. Women ...
Article : 95 wordsTwo German earner pigeon dealers have been arrested. There are many arrest daily of Austrians and Germans who have failed to register, and a German subject ...
Article : 73 wordsToe troops silently collected at the railway depots. The drivers of the troop trains received their instructions regarding destinations only as the trains pulled nut from ...
Article : 133 wordsOn Monday, owing to the enormoue number of bills which were tendered for discount at the Bank of England under the special arrangements just announced, the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe British Ambassador in Paris (Sir Francis Bertie) and the French Minister for the Interior, together with other officials, warmly received Sir John French at ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Thu 20 Aug 1914, Page 8
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