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Advertising : 1,499 wordsThe Necessary Commodities Control Commission to-day discussed the position which had arisen in connection with the country price of bran and pollard. The ...
Article : 182 wordsHis Majesty las given approval for the establishment of a distinguished service medal for naval non-commissioned officers and men to meet cases of conspicuous ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is reported that the Germans have bombarded a Belgian lightship with guns placed on the pier at Zeebrugge, a seaport near to the Holland border. The crew of ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Holland-America liner Noordam (12,531 tons) arrived at Rotterdam today. When approaching the port a submerged mine exploded under the stern of the ...
Article : 66 wordsGen. Hertzog, the leader of the Dutch political opposition to the Government, has telegraphed to the Dutch Church Presbytery placing the responsibility of Gen. ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Paris correspondent of The London Daily Express says that 15 spies at Sillery, a village in the Rheims district, have been shot in the last 12 days. The ...
Article : 175 wordsProfessor Arthur Schuster (Secretary, of the Royal Society), at whose Berkshire residence a powerful wireless plant was seized by the police, professes indignation ...
Article : 78 wordsThe High Commissioner in London (Sir George, Reid) dispatched. the following war news, timed 9.20 p.m. October 17:— Official.—The First Lord of the ...
Article : 344 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Organizing Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen of Nottingham, said that in the whole history of the war there would be ...
Article : 91 wordsAnti-German riots broke out on Sunday at Deptford, in the County of London, where the royal victualling yards are situated. The disorders readied such a serious ...
Article : 79 wordsLouis Prat, described as an Austrian, appeared before the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having, used, insisting words in regard to His Majesty the ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs has telegraphed to The London Daily Chronicle that the allies, have made striking progress since the fall of Antwerp. In the coastal region of south ...
Article : 92 wordsWhen Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., the well-known Labour leader, stood up to address a meeting of his constituents at Leicester on Saturday he was given a ...
Article : 54 wordsAt a meeting of commandants at Kroonstad, representing the districts of the Orange River Colony north of Bloemfontein, a resolution was adopted supporting ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Sr. Pearce) on Monday issued the following extract from a radio-telegram from the Administrator at Rabaul:—"I commissioned the ...
Article : 131 wordsWriting from Boulogne, France; to a friend in Melbourne, a well-known wool buyer, M. Lucien Napenaire, who, with his brother, represents in Victoria the firm ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Berlin newspaper Vorwarts states that the Prussian Cabinet will submit to the Diet an Emergency Relief Bill, demanding a credit of £75,000,000, of which sum ...
Article : 65 wordsThe enemy made a triumphal march through the streets of Ostend on Saturday. Forty thousand infantry and 400 guns were in the lines. ...
Article : 80 wordsHUGE MOBILE SIEGE MORTAR, DESIGNED FOR THE SUBJUGATION OF PARIS, WHICH AFTER THE FAILURE TO REACH THE FRENCH CAPITAL WAS USED AGAINST ANTWERP. WITH ITS "CATERPILLAR" WHEELS IT CAN TRAVERSE SWAMPY GROUND OR CLIMB HILLS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 130 wordsMore than 100 men were enrolled on Monday for the 9th Light Horse Regiment which is being formed throughout the Commonwealth in connection with the Imperial ...
Article : 330 wordsUnemployed and half-timers held a mass meeting outside the Trades Hall this morning. About 1,000 were present. Many expressions of opinion were given against the ...
Article : 356 wordsThe following extract from a letter from Bombay, dated September 26, is of interest:—"So many boats have been taken for troops that it has, in consequence rather ...
Article : 165 wordsTo-day's official communique covering the military straggles in France and Belgium intimates that the Belgians vigorously repulsed several German attacks ...
Article : 149 wordsAlmost incredible acts of violence have been reported as having been committed by the Germans in all the French villages near the town of Lille (which they ...
Article : 170 wordsFor several days a party of French soldiers made unsuccessful attempts to dislodge 800 Germans who sought, refuge in a cave near the City of Soissons, in the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Press Bureau has just issued an official notification conveying the gratify ing news that the allies have driven back the German forces a distance of more than 30 ...
Article : 147 wordsThe German Truth Association has circulated in South America an announcement that a fleet of Zeppelins has flown over London, and that King George has ...
Article : 58 words"The prolongation of the defence was due to the arrival of a division, which enabled the ships in the harbour to be rendered useless, and many steps of ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Berlin police have arrested the members of a British relief committee which was working at the premises formerly the home of the British Consulate, under the ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Athens correspondent of The Times states that. Germany recently sent to Turkey £1,000,000 in gold, and that consignments of heavy guns continue to be ...
Article : 59 wordsDuring the recent fighting in the "Black Country" of France, the French "Territorials in one locality .held the trenches .with evident difficulty. Seeing that the men ...
Article : 109 wordsReady-made concrete platforms, suitable for gun emplacements, have been found in houses in the French coastal town of Dunkirk, fronting the English Channel. The ...
Article : 41 wordsThe official communique published in Paris at midnight on Sunday stated that the Germans had attempted two violent attacks north and east of St. Die (in the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Washington Senate has passed a War Tax Bill which aims at raising £20,000,000 annually for defence purposes. It is expected that the amount will be ...
Article : 57 wordsDetails of the engagement at St. Mihiel on October 3 include the following incident:—A battery of mountain guns mounted of mules, also a battalion of French ...
Article : 105 wordsSgt. Giles, of the British naval forces which were stationed at Antwern recently, mates that the Germans ignited barges containing oil, which drifted ...
Article : 151 wordsThe general outlook is hopeful. The Germans in Russian Poland. have been compelled to retire at several important points. On Tuesday and Wednesday last ...
Article : 110 wordsLondon, October 18. 10.5 p.m.—Official—British made good progress during last few days in northern area. Allies have driven enemy back more than 30 miles. ...
Article : 31 wordsOfficial announcements made at Berlin confirm the sinking of the four German destroyers, S116, S117, SI18, and S119, in the naval battle opposite the mouth of the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe German forces which recently threatened the northern coastal districts of Prance, besides having goffered heavy losses in their conflicts with the allies, are ...
Article : 167 wordsIt is officially reported that the combined Servian and Montenegrin forces operating against Austria in Bosnia on Wednesday defeated a division of the enemy. ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is rumoured that the Germans have retreated from the Belgian' province of West Flanders, and that they commandeered £5,000 worth of hay and oats from ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 20 Oct 1914, Page 5
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