An official message declares that British troops are occupying a strong line supported by French armies on both Hanks. ...
Article : 30 words[?]ng expected news of a naval engagement came to hand on Sat[?]d though the battle was not on a big scale, considering the [?]val forces of the two powers, the fighting was characterised by [?]ing on the part of the British warships taking part, and ...
Article : 946 wordsElsewhere 3000 British bivouacked early in the morning after a forced march of 17 miles. Through lock of air scouts they mis-judged the position of a superior force of ...
Article : 95 wordsWith be view of meeting the enemy's attempts to drive a wedge between the British forces and Paris, a new French army is being formed to take the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Belgian War Minister in London states that the Germans, after an attack, fell back upon Louvain. The German Guards mistook their ...
Article : 137 wordsThe "Daily Mail" correspondent at Amsterdam says the Germans have hitherto carried all before them by sheet weight of number and deadly hail of ...
Article : 45 wordsEye-witnesses like the last stand of the British gunners at Cambria to Rorke's Drift. Seven hundred British took up a ...
Article : 234 wordsA cable message form Paris states that it is officially announced that the Military Governor has ordered all residents in the zone of the city's defending forts ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the destruction of Louvain is an unpardonable act of barbarity and vandalism. Louvain was miles from the area of ...
Article : 83 wordsAfter setting fire to Louvain the Germans handcuffed 72 residents and marched them to Campenhout, where they were compelled to witness the shooting of seven ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the House of Commons on Friday Mr. Asquith said that General Sire John French, in his report on the fighting which took place on Wednesday, said that ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Belgian Minister at Washington has conferred with Mr Bryan, Secretary for State, protesting against the Germans burning Louvain. ...
Article : 48 wordsGeneral Croix, summarising the situation, says that the Allies must keep the Germans busy to prevent the transfer of troops eastward. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Arras says that the defence of the frontier from Lille to Valeu[?]ennes re[?]ulty was entrusted to Te[?]torials, but ...
Article : 166 wordsA Marconi station intercepted a German official statement as follows:— "Owing to arms and ammunition having been distributed among the civil ...
Article : 67 wordsRefugees at Paris state that a battle is raging at Hirson. The Germans have been drawn back to Chimay. It is reported that Boulogne has been ...
Article : 41 wordsTales of atrocities continue to reach Paris. Refugees declare that the Uhlans sometimes drive hundreds of villagers before them. In one instance, it is ...
Article : 107 wordsAccording to an official despatch received by the French Embassy, the French troops found 8000 German dead around Nancy. ...
Article : 33 wordsA soldier, who has returned to Amiens, in the north-west of France, from the front has related that during the recent fighting a regiment of British ...
Article : 68 wordsSergeant A. Loftus, in a letter from the front, says that "when the British artillery opened fire the Germans replied, but they did not know the shelters, a ...
Article : 115 wordsPrince Ernest of Saxe-Meningen was seriously wounded during the recent fighting, and he is now in hospital at Maubeuge. He is an elder brother of Prince ...
Article : 43 wordsAn amusing incident, which occurred in the French lines, has been related by a wounded French soldier, He states that an Algerian Turce ...
Article : 87 wordsIt the House of Lords to-day Earl Kitchener, Minister of War, announced that in addition to reinforcements, which would be shorts proceeding to France, ...
Article : 438 wordsThe following messages were received to-day from the High Commissioner:— "Reliable.—Paris reports that the situation of the Allies along the Somme and ...
Article : 98 wordsthe Germans bombarded Malines at midnight on Saturday. Most of the public monuments were hit. The wounded included an English and an American ...
Article : 73 wordsAmong the German prisoners who have arrived here was an officer who, pointing to about 30 men, said: "That is all that remains of a whole division." ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent says that the Belgian army is gradually forcing back the Germans of Brussels. The Belgians have recaptured Malines, ...
Article : 106 wordsMr J. Cook. the Prime Minister, to-day received the following message from Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner, dated yesterday, 6.45 p.m.:— ...
Article : 191 wordsOstend has been transformed into a military camp. British warships and transports are lading marines in the town. Some are housed in the barracks; ...
Article : 50 wordsBerlin wireless messages state that the main German army in the Cambrai district advanced for nine days and gained continued victories, General Von Kluick ...
Article : 138 words[?]ally announced that the [?]ed town of Longwy, close [?]n frontier, with a garrison, [?]ed to the Germans after 24 ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is officially announced that several of tie Liege torts are still resisting. ...
Article : 21 wordsM. Mellot, the Belgian Deputy for Namur, dealing with the bombardment of that city, states that it commenced on 14th August. ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Allies abandoned Boulogne on the grounds that it was strategically unimportant. The Uhlans are advancing in that ...
Article : 35 wordsSeven hundred British took up a position near Cambrai on Wednesday morning. The guns at first had a splendid range, and wrought wholesale execution, ...
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The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1900; 1914 - 1918), Mon 31 Aug 1914, Page 3
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