The outstanding event in the cable news is that the British Fleet in the North Sea has made a daring raid upon the German naval station at Cuxhaven and the mouth of the Kiel Canal. Aided by seven seaplanes the fleet waited for three hours outside Heligoland for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 590 wordsAdvices from Berlin indicate that the British naval and air raid on the German harbour of Cuxhaven has caused the greatest excitement and consternation ...
Article : 129 wordsWhen the German army occupied Lodz on December 6, an order was posted calling upon all Russians liable to military service in the first and second classes of the ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Powers comprised in the Triple Entente—Great Britain, France, and Russia—gave their consent to the occupation of Valona by Italy before the Rome ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Minster for Defence (Sr. Pearce) to-day received from Col. J. G. Legge (Chief of the General Staff) a statement setting forth some of the principles on ...
Article : 520 wordsThe Commonwealth High Commissioner (Sir George Reid), who has come to Egypt to welcome the 1st Expeditionary Force from Australia, when interviewed to-day ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Antwerp correspondent of The Handelsblad says that 200,000 Germans at Antwerp are preparing to resist a seige, and that 3,000 workmen are engaged day and ...
Article : 41 wordsGerman newspapers just received in Denmark state that the captain of the German cruiser Yorck and the commander of the vessel have been sentenced for ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Daily Chronicle, alluding to a Berlin statement that at Festubert the British left 3,000 dead on the field, says that the place named lies within the triangle ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Warwickshire Regiment, by a desperate rush, gained the advance trenches of the enemy at a point in Flanders, only to find that they had been vacated and mined ...
Article : 226 wordsHis Majesty the King, in a letter to the Primate (Most Rev. Dr. Davidson) rejoices in the unanimity of all the churches in observing the first Sunday of the New ...
Article : 82 wordsA British official report estimates that 1,000,000 Belgians have quitted their country in consequence of the war. One-half the number have gone to Holland, and ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is reported that the southern wool-growers are strenuously opposing the negotiations by the Government for the removal of England's embargo on the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe offensive movement by the Belgians has culminated near Lombaertzyde, between Nieuport and Westende, where their left wing outflanked the Germans ...
Article : 274 wordsThe cession of the Russian half of the island of Saghalin to Japan is semi-officially denied. The German troops which occupied ...
Article : 149 wordsOn Christmas Eve the following message was cabled to Gen. Bridges, in Egypt, by the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Commonwealth Government and the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Germans have reoccupied the town of Mlava, in North Poland, whence they were recently forced over the border into East Prussia. ...
Article : 586 wordsThe Sunday afternoon communique at Petrograd states:—The Australian in Galicia have been driven back to the right bank of the River Nida, which forms the ...
Article : 136 wordsA German, the bearer of compromising documents in the German language, has been arrested at Algeciras, in Spain. He was attempting to enter Gibraltar, and ...
Article : 114 wordsSECOND VALLEY, December 28.—A picnic was held on the beach at Second Valley in aid of the Belgian Fund. About 250 people were present, and about £30 was realized. ...
Article : 32 wordsLieut. Lonnen, O.C.D. Company Infantry Oaklands thanks Messrs. W. & T. Rhodes, J. Martin and Co., W. Cornell, Kronheimer, and Cook and Son for various gifts to the men of his company. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe British Fleet in the North Sea has apparently squared accounts with Germans for the raid upon Scarborough, Whitby, and West Hartlepool. An official ...
Article : 307 wordsSquadron Commander Richard B. Davies, of the staff of Royal Naval Air Service, visited Brussels on December 24, and dropped 12 bombs on an airship shed which ...
Article : 228 wordsMURRAY BRIDGE, December 26.—On Christmas Eve the members of the Town Band tendered a farewell social to Messrs. H. Gardner and F. Quigley, who have joined the third contingent ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Makura with the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth (Mr. Fisher) on board, arrived at Auckland to-day. The Prime Minister was met by the Premier of New ...
Article : 114 wordsA wireless message from Berlin states that British airmen dropped four bombs on Langemarck, in Flanders, on Christmas Day, but that no damage resulted. An ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 29 Dec 1914, Page 5
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