A soldier's letter is quoted as having contained the following typical Tommy's eulogy of the British Field Marshal:-"There is no 'side', about John French. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Imperial Press Bureau has issued a summary of the four days' operations of the allies in the driving back of the Germans from French soil. It states that on ...
Article : 469 wordsStockholm advices state that a German destroyer in the Baltic has sunk the Finnish mail packet Uleaborg (500 tons) There were no casualties, as the destroyer ...
Article : 65 wordsAustralia's fleet has fought its first engagement, and has come off victorious. Admiral Patey landed a force from his battle cruiser at Herbertshohe, the sent of government of German New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago. The men were marched four miles inland to ...
Article : 534 wordsAn official message from Berlin states that the Russian 22nd Army Corps has been repulsed while endeavouring to cross the River Lyck, in East Pruasia. ...
Article : 34 wordsReuter's correspondent states that the British forces played the leading role in driving back Gen[?]yon der Gluck's army. They advanced to meet the Germans by ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Admiralty announces that to the list of those of the complement of the crusier Pathfinder who have been posted as missing, five names have to be added. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Belgian Legation in London states that the Belgian Army on Thursday made a sally from Antwerp and forced the Germans to retire along an extended line. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Russians have captured Tomascheff after a sanguinary conflict; also the fortified positions of Ooole and Turobin, to the west of Lublin. They repulsed the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Antwerp correspondent of The Observer says that the German lines of communication at Cortenberg were cut in three directions. Many of the big Creusot guns ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Paris correspondent of The Daily Express says that during the fighting with the Prussian Guard on Wednesday the British completely wiped out the Jaeger ...
Article : 34 wordsGermany and Austria-Hungary are again endeavouring to induce Italy to abandon her neutral position. They point out that action by her will probably be decisive for ...
Article : 47 wordsAdvices from Belgium state that the Germans, before they evacuated Termonde, were routed by the allies with heavy losses. Their last act in the town was to destroy ...
Article : 81 wordsA laundress wearing a Zouave uniform took part in the marching and fighting in the neighbourhood of Meaux. When her sex was discovered she was ordered to be ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Servian Army has taken victorious occupation of the City of Semlin, in Hungary, on the Danube, six miles from Belgrade. This notable advance on the part ...
Article : 131 wordsA strong force of French artillery is being landed at Antivari, Montenegro, with a view to bombarding the Austrian port of Cattaro, under protection of the ...
Article : 117 wordsIt is officially announced from Paris that the Germans have completely evacuated the town of St. Die, on the Alsace border. ...
Article : 24 wordsAdvices have been received at Copenhagen from Berlin which show that the direct war expenses of Germany amount to £1,500,000 daily while the economic loss ...
Article : 83 words"Reports from Ostend state that Belgium armies cut up a German army corps at Cortenburg, about 10 miles east of Brussels and took many prisoners. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Prince of Wales's Fund amounts today to two and a half millions sterling. The Glasgow police have received orders to arrest all Germans under the age of 45 ...
Article : 395 wordsThe Subline Porte has notified the Great Powers that it has abrogated the Capitutations. At the same time, Turkey has stated that her action has been solely ...
Article : 253 wordsAn official communique from Paris rends.—"On our left wing the German general retreat continues. The British and French forces, in pursuing the enemy, have reached ...
Article : 270 wordsTHE ABOVE MAP SHOWS THE EXTENT OF THE LOST GERMAN POSSESSIONS IN THE PACIFIC.THE BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO IS THE THIRD AREA OF TEUTONIC TERRITORY WHICH HAS PASSED INTO BRITISH HANDS SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR, THE OTHER TWO HAVING BEEN TOGOLAND AND SAMOA. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 128 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Glynn) in moving a vote of thanks to Father Le Maitre for his address on the "Cause and effects of the present ...
Article : 530 wordsThe retreating Germans are experiencing great difficulty in the matter of revictualling themselves. A French territorial reservist narrates ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Chinese Government has ordered all Austrian and German merchant vessels now in Chinese ports to dismantle their wireless apparatus. Chinese jun[?]s, which ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Minister of Defence issued at noon the following telegram received from Rear. Admiral Patey from H.M.A.S. Australia, dated September 12, 3.30 a.m.:— ...
Article : 252 wordsOfficial messages have been issued in Petrograd stating that the Russians have gained a glorious victory over the Austro-German armies at Krasnik and Tomaszoff. ...
Article : 154 wordsDespite the damage to the roads and bridges in the vicinity of Germany's Chinest possession, the Japanese advance on land has almost reached the ...
Article : 43 wordsTen thousand ,German soldiers who were between Desselghem and Waereghem have started south-westward. They have cut the telegraph and telephone lines and ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Minister of Finance (Mr. Smuts), endorsing the address of loyalty to the King proposed by Mr. Botha in the South African Union Parliament, said the ...
Article : 139 wordsIn making the announcement the Minister said:—"I desire to add an expression of my deep regret that the operation has resulted in loss of life, and my sincere ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Millen) has received the following further advice regarding the operations at Herbertshohe and Rabaul:—"The Australian Naval ...
Article : 143 wordsA Berlin telegram published in The Messagers states thai Krupp's have underwritten 30,000,000 marks (about £1,500,000) of the German war loan. ...
Article : 31 wordsWhile the German right Wing, thus Iriven back, was thrown into disorder, the French armies further east had been strongly engaged with the German centre, ...
Article : 164 wordsThe following cablegram. was received from the High Commissioner in London, dated September 12:—"Field Marshal Sir John French reports ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Russian armies on the Bitritz River has forced the whole of the Austrian left wing into the angle formed by the junction of the River Vistula with the River Sau ...
Article : 190 wordsSr. Millen explained that Herbertshohe (the seat of government for German New Guinea and the German possessions in the Bismarck Archipelago) is at the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe British Government is inviting tenders for £15,000,000 worth of Treasury Bills. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is reported at Ostend that the German Crown Prince, Frederick William, and Prince Adalbert, the third son of the German Emperor, and also Duke Carl of ...
Article : 101 wordsIt is reported that the German Government has ordered that the big German merchantmen held up in American ports must put to sea and take their chances of ...
Article : 62 wordsWhen the news was communicated to the Prime Minister-designate (Mr. Fisher) yesterday, he said:—"I desire to express my appreciation of the work of the leader ...
Article : 135 wordsThe capture of the German turret steamer Walkure in the South Pacific, has been reported. ...
Article : 20 words"The British casualties were as fol[?]w:— Killed. Lieut.—Commander Charles B. Ellwell, R.N. ...
Article : 177 wordsCount Bernstorff Gildensten has written to his family in Germany a letter in which he stated that all his Mecklenburg cavalry regiment, with the exception of four men, ...
Article : 149 wordsA British warship has brought in the German steamer Bethania, with 400 prisoners on board. This craft was one of the cruiser Kaise ...
Article : 108 wordsThe services of Lieut.—Commander Charles Bingham Ellwell were lent to the Royal Australian Navy by the Imperial authorities, Coming to the Commonwealth ...
Article : 684 wordsThe announcement received from Berlin through Amsterdam that the Kaiser's youngest son, Prince Joachim, who was serving as an side-de-camp at the front, ...
Article : 46 wordsA proposal has been launched for the formation of a corps of Australian women Volunteers to assist in oil patriotis movements and to be drilled in the use of the ...
Article : 100 wordsAn official message received on Wednesday states that German regiments have arrived at Grodek, l0 miles south-west of Lemberg, to assist the Austrians against ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the Corrler[?] d'Italia states in a despatch that Roumanla, Bulgaria, and Greece have agreed upon common action should Turkey ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Kaiser's nephew, Prince Frederick of Hesse, has been shot in the chest in the course of a battle some distance from Ostend, where British marines are ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Mon 14 Sep 1914, Page 7
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