The Daily Telegraph correspondent at Washington has telegraphed that Sir Edward Grey informed the United States Secretary for State that Great Britain ...
Article : 65 wordsAt a reception held here to-night the announcement that Britain was raising another million men for the war led the Militia Department to state that it hoped ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher), has received the following massage, from the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid):— London, November 12—The Admiralty ...
Article : 448 wordsThe military encampment, which was on Mr. R. M. Hawker's property at Morphettville for several months, was moved to the Oaklands Estate which is situated ...
Article : 200 wordsPte. Walter Morton, of the Black Watch, has given to The Scoteman a description of a magnificent charge by his regiment at St. Quentin (states a telegram from ...
Article : 1,682 wordsApproval has been given for the formation of a further military force, of persons Who voluntarily agree to serve beyond the limits of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 67 wordsCollected by the Rev. Pastor Leidig from his churches at Point Pass and Robertstown, £9 5/; collected by children of Wygapala State School, per Miss L[?]inton, £2 10/- collections of mem ...
Article : 293 wordsOfficial.—Two officers and eight men were killed and one officer and 56 men injured at Tsing-Tao while heroically engaged in removing land mines. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe steamer Jason, laden with Christmas grits for the children of all the belligerent countries, has been dispatched to Europe. American children subscribed the entire ...
Article : 123 wordsAmount previously acknowledged. £20,102 10 0 Currept Relief Fund. Amount previously received, £11,452 7/5. Proceeds [?]uchre tournament. Kingscote (per M. ...
Article : 134 wordsLieut.-Col. J. H. Bruche, A.A.G. in Queensland, has been appointed commandant in Western Australia vice Lieut.-Col. Kyngden, who resumed duty as officer ...
Article : 40 wordsYesterday afternoon a band of the unselfish and untiring members of the "Cheer Up" Society visited the camp's new head quarters at Oaklands. There was a large ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 472 wordsKarl Ernst, a hairdresser, of Dover, who was arrested and committed for trial on a charge of espionage, has been found guilty and sentenced to seven years' ...
Article : 50 wordsSydney patriotic and war relief funds now, represent a total of £385,950. This includes the following amounts:—Lord Mayor's Fund, £161,989; Belgium Relief ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the latest meeting of the Air. Souls' Branch of the Church of England Men's Society, held at St. Peters, a presentation was made to Mjr. E. K. Baker, who has been appointed to command ...
Article : 505 wordsBUTE, November 12.—About 460 hones were offered to the military authorities for inspection to-day and 13 were purchased. Farmers seemed eager to dispose of them owing to the scarcity of ...
Article : 40 wordsHorst Von Der Goltz, alias Bridgmann Taylor, who claims to be an officer of the Mexican Army, has been arrested in London for having failed to register himself. ...
Article : 59 wordsOfficial.—Gen. Louis Botha, by a forced night march from Marquard to East Winburg; surprised the rebel De Wet and captured two leagers. ...
Article : 161 wordsIt is understood that a recommendation has been made to the Ministry raising the price of wheat from 4/9 a bushel ex railway siding Melbourne or Geelong to ...
Article : 61 wordsThe London Daily Telegraph states that most traders approve of the export on the export of Australian, New Zealand, and South African wool except to Great ...
Article : 157 wordsThe death of Lieut.-Col. Gorlon Wilson, second son of the late Sir Samuel Wilson, M.P., was announced, on Saturday. Messrs. Blake & Riggall received the following ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Asquith delivered at Cardiff last Friday night the fourth and last of a series of recruiting speeches, of which the first three had been made in London ...
Article : 685 wordsAt the end of October two Franco-British columns, after serious fighting, occupied a position on the River Edea, in the German Cameroons, West Africa. A ...
Article : 89 wordsAn Anglo-French Note has been presented to the United States Government, protesting against wireless installations in Ecuador and Columbia assisting the ...
Article : 124 wordsIt is officially stated that Col. Badenhorst, on November 12, near Frankfort, captured van Coller's rebel laager with 47 prisoners and 56 horses. Two rebels were ...
Article : 41 wordsPROJECTOR OF A MISSILE WHICH MAKES A HOLE IN THE GROUP BIG ENOUGH TO BURY FIVE HORSES, BUT IS UNABLE TO DEPRESS THE BRITISH SOLDIER. ONE OF THE GERMAN SIEGE GUNS—NICKNAMED "JACK JOHNSON," "BLACK MARIA," OR "COALBOX." In an official account of the fighting on the Aisne issued by the Press Bureau it was stated recently:—"The British soldier is a difficult person to impress or depress, even by immense shells filled with high explosives which detonate with terrific violence, and form craters large enough to act as graves for five horses. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 447 wordsThe Government proposes to make an additional credit vote of £225,000,000 to cover the naval, military, and other expenditure rendered necessary through the ...
Article : 101 wordsOwing to the deficiency of dyes due to the cessation of German supplies, the British Board of Trade is considering the formation of an English company for the ...
Article : 418 wordsPreviously acknowledged, £10,233 13/10; Farina—Proceeds of Concert, per L. Bott, £3.17/; Port Victoria—Patriotic Fund, per N. P. Louden, £20; Port Germein. St. Clement's Church per M. A. ...
Article : 339 wordsAmerican bankers assured Sir George Paish (Financial Editor of The Statist), who is now here in connection with the crisis affecting the United States. ...
Article : 164 wordsOfficial information has been received to the effect that the following officers and men of H.M.A.S. Sydney were wounded in the engagement with the German cruiser ...
Article : 198 wordsThe members of the North Adelaide Cycling Club met in force on Saturday night to do honour to four of their members who are about to go to the front with the Second Expeditionary Force ...
Article : 367 wordsMr. A. Walker, a London railway manager, explaining the amazing speed in which the English railways handled the military traffic at the outbreak of the war. ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. H. J. Tennant, Parliamentary Under Secretary to the War Office, states that the military authorities consider that it is more desirable that professional ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Duke of Cumberland has been found wandering in a condition of dementia, the war having affected his reason. He has been placed under restraint in a mental ...
Article : 155 wordsMessrs. J. McDonald, B. Yeo, and D. Byard, of Semaphore, who will leave for the front with the 2nd Expeditionary Force, were accorded a hearty send-off by their numerous friends at the ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Mon 16 Nov 1914, Page 8
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