The best traditions of the British Navy have been maintained in a fight in the North Sea, which resulted in the destruction of at least two cruisers and two destroyers belonging to the German Fleet. Two converted ...
Article : 208 wordsWhen British destroyers went to tho rescue of the stricken German ships they found tho decks of the latter strewn with bodies. In many cases the wounded ...
Article : 82 wordsSeven hundred British, with two guns, took up a position behind Cambrai on Wednesday morning. The guns at first had a splendid range. ...
Article : 222 wordsDaring the fighting on Sunday a British aviator, who was feeling his way through a cloud, suddenly emerged into bright sunshine, and found a German aeroplane just ...
Article : 95 wordsEarl Roberts, addressing the new battalion of Fusiliers 1,300 strong drawn from City men and raised in one week, said:—"I am proud of this fine corns. You are ...
Article : 128 wordsThirty German sailors, besides British bluejackets, who were wounded in the attack by a British squadron on German warships at Heligoland, have arrived at ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in an interview with the London correspondent of an American newspaper, stated that the war was ...
Article : 199 wordsThe British Jack Tats tell thrilling stories of the encounter in the North Sea. They state that the fighting was sharp and terrible. A non-commissioned officer of the ...
Article : 229 wordsThe German Ambassador at New York (Count von Bernstorff) has issued another Statement to tie American press, in which do describes as "an absolutely shameful ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the British losses in the naval fight off Heligoland were slight. They amounted to two officers and 27 men killed, 19 men severely ...
Article : 41 wordsExperts are of opinion that large numbers, of German reserves have joined the seven German army corps operating in the Cambrai district, which, with cavalry, are ...
Article : 207 wordsA semi-official narrative of the naval fight of Heligoland published in Berlin, states that several small British cruisers and nearly 40 torpedo boats appeared in ...
Article : 181 wordsA Renter massage states that Turkish officials in London do not believe the statements that German sailors are going to, Constantinople from Greece [?] ...
Article : 234 wordsAn official message just received states that several of the forts at Liege are still resisting the attacks of the German forces. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Dominion cruiser New Zealand participated in the that. The Canadian newspapers are full of warm praise for the part she played. While observing a true in all ...
Article : 79 wordsThe German commanders are compelling the Belgian peasants to work at the digging of trenches across the Mona road to prevent the Approach of tie Allied cavalry. I ...
Article : 31 wordsIn the Bright of Heligoland, near the mouth of the River Elbe, on Friday a strong force of British destroyers, supported by cruisers, and co-opera-ting with submarines, attacked the warships which had been deputed to guard the German coast A number of the Kaiser's cruisers and destroyers were, according to the blunt report of the Admiralty, "disposed of" The position of Boulogne (just across the Strait from Dover) is indicated. That port has been evacuated by the Allies as being of less strategic value than the posit ion to the eastward that they now occupy. Reports state that ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 277 wordsA party of 50 German Uhlans entered the post office and railway station ut Monay, between Dinant end Namur. They, took all the cash they could lay their hands ...
Article : 76 wordsIt is officially announced that the Military Governor of Paris (Gen. Gallieni, who preceded Gen. Joffre as Commander-in-Cheif of the French Army) has ordered all ...
Article : 127 wordsPress and other reports about the Heligoland surprise show that the victory was even more splendid than the formal official report indicates. A consensus of the ...
Article : 439 wordsThe Currency, Bank Notes, Patents, and War Loan Bills have received the royal assent. The Press Bureau repudiates the ...
Article : 445 wordsThe allies have abandoned the port of Boulogne, which is opposite the English coast at Folkestone, and about 23 miles distant. The ground advanced is that the ...
Article : 206 wordsWhen the destroyers flotilas arrived at Harwiclr after the news of the engagements in tie North Sea had spread around, there wa an immense crowd to give the victors ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Mon 31 Aug 1914, Page 9
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