The first intimation of the British Expeditionary Force being in action was given to-day by the official Press Bureau. ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Treasurer of the Mayor's Fund (Major R. Vicars Foote) reports that the following additional sums were paid into the Bank of ...
Article : 71 wordsMember, of the Victorian Scottish Regiment Association have offered their services to the Commandant for the defence of Australia [?] ...
Article : 102 wordsTo-night the Star Co. will screen an exceptional programme of photo plays in aid of the St. John's Tennis Club. The main features will be a ...
Article : 174 wordsIt is reported that the condition of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is worse and that his death is only a question of hours. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Germans have established German time in Brussels instead of Greenwich time. PAPERS CEASE PUBLICATION ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "piou-piou" or infantryman the backbone of the French army seems shabby and untidy to visitors [?] have been struck with the ...
Article : 839 wordsThe fund that is being raised by the Mayoress of Warrnambool now totals £73/13/6. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Executive Council of the Sons of Temperance National Division of Victoria and South Australian carried a motion that the contributions ...
Article : 53 wordsA novel entertainment in aid off the Red Cross Society of Victoria is being arranged locally by Mrs. Albert Candy and Mr. George Abbey. ...
Article : 76 wordsPlaying members of the Warrnambool Rovers' Football Club are asked to attend at the Albert Park this afternoon for practice. A ball will ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Servians captured 4,500 prisoners 53 guns 114 ammunition waggons and large quantities of stores and rifles in the fighting on the ...
Article : 125 wordsBy the R.M.S. Malwa, which left Port Melbourne this afternoon for London 25 French subjects who have been in Australia for some time left ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. A. N. McKissock, who is one of the selected Labor candidates for Senate will address a public meeting on current politics, at the ...
Article : 38 wordsOn Tuesday 8th September the Warrnambool Dramatic Club will produce the three act drama, "Father O'Flynn." The proceeds of the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund to-day totalled over £70,000 ...
Article : 16 wordsHospital Egg and Flower Day. Weekly stock sales Corporation Yards. Fortnightly pig sales at Terang by Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Norris, Toyne ...
Article : 59 wordsThe German steamer Elsass which left Port Jackson hurriedly prior [?] the war is now at Pago' Pago harbour, in American [?] ...
Article : 91 wordsProduce importers are anxious to know when the Commonwealth Government is going to assume control of the food exports from Australia. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe concert organised by Miss Myrtle Boyle, A.L.C.M. and held last night in aid of the Mayoress Patriotic Fund proved about the ...
Article : 769 wordsThe Evening Standard" states this evening that refugees who have arrived from Germany, state that persistent reports are current to the ...
Article : 45 wordsHigh water at Warrnambool that day 5 a.m.; 5.20 p.m. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe following weather forecast war issued at nine o'clock last night for to-day for Victoria by Mr. Hunt the Commonwealth Meteorologist:— ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Press Bureau has announced that the Earl of Leven and Melville; who is a Lieutenant in the Scots' Greys, has been dangerously wounded. ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Cook, the Prime Minister, received the following cable messages to-day through Mr. Glynn, Minister for External Affairs, from Sir George ...
Article : 110 wordsSir, Joseph Symon arrived at Fremantle to-day aboard the Maloja On being interviewed he said: "The one ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Eumeralla leaves Warrnambool for Portland. Beachport and Kingston to-day at noon. The Casino leaves Melbourne for ...
Article : 36 wordsSince the declaration of war the British Red Cross Society has received £50,000 in donations, including £200 from the exiled Empress Eugenie ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Namur, which was invested the Germans has fallen. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. E. Batterbee, Lava and Liebig Streets, intimates that he has a prime sample of chicken food; also parrot and cansry seeds. ...
Article : 113 wordsSir Harry Barren the Governor addressing the troops in training for the expeditionary force said that he was greatly struck by the class of ...
Article : 317 wordsForty food steamers are running between Denmark and England. Traffic has been resumed from Rotterdam and Amsterdam to England. The South ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is reported in London that the French forces have been successful at Charleroi, and that the Germans have been thrown back on Hal, on the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe United States Government has allowed the steamer Mazatlan to clear the port of Guaymas the Mexican seaport in the Gulf of California. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Minister for Defence received the following cable from—Sir George Reid:—"The British forces successfully ...
Article : 117 wordsParis official intelligence declares that the forts at Liege are still holding out against the German assaults. ...
Article : 17 wordsto be held in the grin of bronchitis Use Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery and thus remove the trouble promptly and effectively. Price 1/6 and 3 ...
Article : 117 wordsThirty thousand Germans are attacking Malines Skirmishing is general north-west of Flanders. ...
Article : 18 wordsOf the Zeppelin airships used by the Germans five have already been destroyed. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe German army his occupied Luneville, the French frontier town. The French are withdrawing from the Saale and Sonon Passes in the ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is announced in Washington that Austria has agreed to dismantle4 the cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth (4,000 tons eight 6-inch guns), which is now in Far ...
Article : 51 wordsMost of Victoria's mounted troops for the Expeditionary Force are already at the Broad meadows camp, Numbers of the new force are ...
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Advertising : 418 words"What is your name? came the sudden wireless challenge through the night to a British merchant ship which reached Fremantle this ...
Article : 42 wordsCount Bernstaff the German Ambassador stated in the course of an interview that the Germans were bound to win because their cause was ...
Article : 71 wordsIn addition to Luneville, the Germans have occupied Amanse and [?] inthe Department of Meur the-et-Moselle. Apart from the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe newspaper "Le Martin describes the French retreat in Lorraine to the fact that a division composed of Marseilles and Toulon ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the meeting of the Presbytery of Melbourne South one Monday the resignation of the Rev. W. S. Rolland was received with regret. For the ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. J. Murray the chief Score [?] who had an interview to-day with Colonel J. W. M'Cay Brigade of the Australian Imperial ...
Article : 79 wordsWar news from Berlin being received through a high power wireless station at Sayville. News of German victories is now ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Edward Manifold has given horses and £500 to the local patriotic fund; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Manifold have given £300; Mrs and Mrs. John ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is reported from Nish that the Servian troops captured Loznitza and Lechnitza, on the 20th. ...
Article : 21 wordsTo-day the Malwa took 19 tons of butter for London representing the first shipments of the new season, which has commenced earlier than ...
Article : 30 wordsFrom Camperdown over fifty men have gone to join the Expeditionary Force. At first it was not thought that many men would be taken from ...
Article : 73 wordsSir Cecil Spring Rice, British Ambassador conferred yesterday, with Mr. Bryan American Secretary of State on the Subject of American ...
Article : 56 wordsThe will of the late Joseph Kron[?] was lodged to-day for probate. The total value of the estate was £333,053. He left £13,300 in ...
Article : 95 wordsButter exporters were informed to-day that the P. and O. Company had suspended butter contracts and increased freights by 25 per cent. The ...
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The Warrnambool Standard (Vic. : 1872 - 1900 ; 1914 - 1918), Wed 26 Aug 1914, Page 3
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