Details have just been published of the gallant charge of the 9th Lancers on September 1, upon a battery of 11 German siege, guns, posted within a wood in the ...
Article : 332 wordsThe Dutch paper Nieuwe Rotterdam Courant publishes a piece of war history from its Berlin correspondent. He states that the German military party reckoned ...
Article : 273 wordsCol. Hobbs, V.D., who will be in charge of the Divisional Artillery of the expeditionary force, was a passenger to Adelaide by the express on Friday, and he was ...
Article : 1,250 wordsAn official statement has been issued in Berlin to the effect that the victories now being secured by the German Army can be of no special importance unless they are ...
Article : 105 wordsBritish flotillas have made a complete sweep of the North Sea, right into Heligoland Bay, and It is reported that no German ship of any kind was seen. Interesting naval developments are expected to follow the movement referred to. ...
Article : 433 wordsA telegram from Copenhagen states that the Muscovite authorities in Finland have shot the German Consul at Abo (Herr Wilhelm Galdecke), he having been ...
Article : 31 wordsThe French Government has issued from Bordeaux a decree commanding all who for various reasons have been exempted from the obligation for military service ...
Article : 45 wordsSome fighting has occurred between the British and the Germans in the Cameroons, the German African colony. Three British officers have been killed and four ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Vorwaerts says that prisoners of war are now being treated badly in Germany. It cites the case of a male nurse who was flogged for having made a ...
Article : 103 wordsAdmiral Lord Fisher has sent to Commodore Wilfred Henderson, Commander of the Royal Navy Infantry Division, a message in reply to the announcement that ...
Article : 141 wordsThroughout the whole of the British retreat mentioned in Sir John Frerich's report, the cavalry foiled every effort by the Germans to capture the retreating ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Daily Chronicle's, correspondent at Petrograd states that great battle at Lublin, between the Russians and Austrians, ended in a complete victory for ...
Article : 164 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) moved for a vole to provide 500,000 additional men for the army. The House, he said, had already ...
Article : 324 wordsA communique from Paris states that on the left wing, British and French Forces have crossed the river Marne, and are actively pursuing the retreating Germans. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe War Office has issued farther casualty returns up to september 7. Correcting totals given in previous summaries the net additions to the figures previously ...
Article : 84 wordsA splendid send-off was on Thursday tendered by the Adelaide members of the firm and staff of Mussrs. George Wilcox & Co., Currie street, to two employes—Lieut. Hosking and Sgt. J. R. ...
Article : 204 wordsAt Tsing Tau in Kiao Chau the floods which have occurred there are becoming more severe. The waters surround Tsing Tan, and are spreading inland. The state ...
Article : 73 wordsA message from Rome states that desertions from the Austrian Army are on the increase daily. This is specially noted on the Roumanian frontier. Many of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 212 wordsA number of Torrensville residents assembled at the residence of Mr. V. Boyce on Wednesday evening to bid farewell to Mr. W. Blackburn prior to his departure with the South Australian ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is reported that many bodies of Germans slain in the recent battles, or who have died from their wounds, still remain in the wooded country thin the triangle ...
Article : 230 wordsReplying to a question put in the House of Lords to-day by the Earl of Camperdown, Lord Wimborne announced that any one caught laying mines in the open seas ...
Article : 284 wordsThe officers of the Bank of Australasia made a presentation to Capt. H. W. H. Seager on the eve of his departure with the expeditionary force. In returning thanks, Capt. Seager expressed his ...
Article : 41 wordsA Renter message from Capetown says that the news that two German forces had crossed the Orange River into South Africa spread like wildfire through the ...
Article : 493 wordsOn Thursday afternoon the members of the institute, which comprise the managers and staffs of the fire, marine, and accident insurance profession, assembled at Jackman's Rooms to say ...
Article : 296 wordsIt was the Aberdeen trawler Glenogil which rescued the crew of the converted White Star liner Oceanic, after the ran ashore on the north coast of Scotland. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 wordsAt a meeting of citizens in Glasgow the Lord Provost (Mr. Stevenson) raised a storm of protest and indignation by expressing the hope that nothing would be ...
Article : 193 wordsIn the House of Commons the Government have introduced a Bill prohibiting trade with the enemy. The measure proposes penalties for breaches of its ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Belgian soldiers have repulsed the Germans who were moving from Brussels north-easterly toward Antwerp, and have driven them back to the environs of ...
Article : 134 wordsA special quarter-hourly train service has been arranged by the Railways Commissioner on the Adelaide and Glenelg lines on Sunday next to give the public an opportunity ...
Article : 41 wordsThere was a large gathering of friends of Ptes. Hurtle, Shaw, and Sydney Mclaren at the Lady Daly Hotel, Hindmarsh, on Thursday evening, when farewell was said to the departing soldiers. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 363 wordsThe Press Bureau has announced that on Tuesday a body of 400 Germans, from German East Africa, crossed the border at the head of Lake Nyasa into the ...
Article : 213 wordsAll the available forces in British Guiana, consisting of police, militia, and volunteers, both active and reserve, have been mobilized. A British oil tank ...
Article : 69 wordsAt Morphettville Camp there will be a celebration of holy communion at 7 a.m., in the Y.M.C.A. tent; and general church parade in the infantry lines at 9.30. At ...
Article : 166 wordsThere was a fervent patriotic demonstration it the Glanville Government Workshop on Friday, when presentations were made to Clr. Sgt. Coward, Cpl. Reubenicht, and Pte. Addison, three ...
Article : 252 wordsAmple confirmation is forthcoming of the disaster which has befallen the Austrian main armies. Their centre is in full retreat, and its attempts to assume ...
Article : 133 wordsThe War Tax Bill imposes a duty of 2/1 a barrel on beer, and l0d, a gallon on wine. A Bill will shortly be introduced to impose a 3 per cent, ad valorem levy on ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Botha) delivered a stirring speech in the Capetown Howe of Assembly, in moving an address of loyalty to His Majesty. He said the ...
Article : 108 wordsJhansen, a Dutchman, was on board the Grimsby trawler Seta, which the German cruiser Albatross sank in the North Sea. The crew were conveyed as prisoners to ...
Article : 69 wordsIt has been officially announced in Berlin that Prince Joachim, the Kaiser's youngest son, who was wiring as an aide-de-camp in the firing line, has been ...
Article : 49 wordsA report has been received from Italian sources, in which the new German siege guns are described. The shells fired from these gang, it is alleged, contain, poisonous ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. F. Isaacs, of Henley Beach road, Mile-End, has hit upon a happy idea for augmenting the funds of the Red Cross Society. He has constructed and decorated ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 332 wordsDriver W. E. C. Hill, son of the manager of John Darling & Son, who will leave with the expeditionary force, has been presented with a case of pipes from his comrades, and a scart from the ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Sat 12 Sep 1914, Page 9
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