In both Western and Eastern campaigns operations are being con[?]d under difficulties, for the winter season has set In. Floods and [?]terms are reported in Flanders, and under the circumatances it is surprising to learn that the fighting in Belglum is less violent. The ...
Article : 927 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday, the Prime Minister (Mr Asquith), replying to criticisms made during a debate, said that Earl Kitchener had drawn up ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Russians are fighting te[?]aciously in the Soldau and Woidenberg districts. They hope to obliterate the memory of Samsoneff's reverse. ...
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Advertising : 1,050 wordsSemi-official reports are current in Paris of wanton acts of vandalism on the part of the Wurtemberg regiment which occupied Guebwiller, in Alsace. ...
Article : 87 wordsAn official statements issued at Berlin declared that the Russian advance near Soldau was repulsed, and a strong Russian force thrown back on Plock on ...
Article : 54 wordsAn official despatch from Sir Geo. Reid states:— "The siege of Przemysl is proceeding. The Russians are destroying the ...
Article : 30 wordsA war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" mentions that a village in the north of France was between two fires, and in consequence the French, who were ...
Article : 88 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General has received the following cablegram from Mr T. P. C'connor, Nationalist M.P.:— "Last Sunday saw the largest and most ...
Article : 77 wordsAmsterdam report state that, despite the severe punishment meted out to armed civilians in Belgium, a German proclamation issued to the inhabitants of East ...
Article : 79 wordsMr Asquith, the Prime Minister, speaking in the House of Commons, announced that the war was costing from £900,000 to £1,000,000 daily, and that the cost ...
Article : 160 wordsAn important Indian contingent has arrived at Marseilles. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsThe Prince of Wales has joined Sir John French's staff. The prince went in France yesterday. The Prince of Wales, looking very ...
Article : 310 wordsMr James Dickson Woern, Consul for Sweden, notifies that he has received the following cable from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden:—"Shipping still ...
Article : 60 wordsSir Timothy Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, has handed to Count of Lalaing, the Belgian Ambassador, a further £20,000 for the Belgian ...
Article : 122 wordsThe captain of the Sydney has sent the following message describing the encounter with the Emden to the Navy Office:— "Enemy have in sight at 9.15, and she ...
Article : 110 wordsThe German garrison from Tsing-Tat has been interned at Tokio. It is announced that General Kamio will administer Tsing-Tau. ...
Article : 156 wordsMr Page, the American Ambassador in London, has cabled a denial of the report that the Germans are stopping food supplies intended for needy Belgians. ...
Article : 32 wordsSir Douglass Haig has been promoted to the rank of General for his distinguished services in the field. [Lientonant-General Sir Douglas Haig, ...
Article : 255 wordsAt a meeting of the State cabinet this afternoon it was resolved that the success over the Emden by H.M.A.S. Sydney should be fittingly marked under ...
Article : 43 wordsIn order to obviate the use of American passports for purposes of espionage in foreign countries, President Woodrow Wilson has signed an order making ...
Article : 162 wordsJudge Backhouse, in opening the festival of the Australian drama, at the Sydney Repertory Theatre last night, touched on the Sydney-Emden duel. ...
Article : 101 wordsMr P. J. Garvin, of Sydney, has presented an armored motor-car to Lovat's Scouts. ...
Article : 24 wordsM. Caillaux, the French statesman, accompanied by his wife, has gone to Brazil. The mission on which the former French statesman is visiting South ...
Article : 39 wordsA message from Pekin states that the Emden was enabled to sink the Ocean Steamship, Company's Troilus (7562 tons) through a wireless message sent by a ...
Article : 43 wordsWith a view to enabling the Liverpool cotton market to reopen, the British Government, Liverpool Cotton Association, and the Liverpool banks will jointly ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that no fewer than 80 mines have been washed un on the coast of the Dutch Province of Zeeland. ...
Article : 32 wordsContradictory reports of the number of German warships, which participated in the battle off the Chilian coast, continue to be circulated. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Board of Trade has issued regulations governing applications for the expert of wool and woollen goods. Licences authorising the expert of raw material ...
Article : 69 wordsFive officers and four non-commissioned officers, including two sergeants of L. Battery, have been awarded the Victoria Cross. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that the fighting in the Argonne region has not appreciably varied during the past two months. Some of the trenches are only 50 yards ...
Article : 79 wordsFour naval officers and three sailors were killed while examining a mine that had been washed up at West Capelle, in Holland. ...
Article : 30 wordsunique issued in Paris states [?] cannonading is proceeding [?] from Nie[?]port to Dixmude, [?]cts in Belgium now ...
Article : 138 wordsAt a special meeting of the State Executive Council held to-day the recommendations of the Price of Goods Board as to the increased price of wheat, Hour, bran, ...
Article : 314 wordsA Paris message states that 130 Germans who were captured on Saturday were the residue of a battalion which assaulted the Allied trenches that morning. ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Mr Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) said that there was every reason to believe that the battleship Canopus ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Pope's encyclical appeals for the termination of the fratricidal struggle, and emphasises the need for extirpating the secret root of all evils, namely, that ...
Article : 57 wordsAt a town near the Dutch frontier there are 700 German wounded, with only one doctor and student to look after them. An appeal has been made to the Dutch doctors for help. ...
Article : 40 wordsFrench papers describe the British attack on the Prussian Guards at Zonnebeke as one of the noblest episodes in British annals. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe search for Sir Christopher Crudock and the survivors has proved fruitless and has now been abandoued. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn Exchange telegraph reports that the Italian Ambassadors to France. Britain, and Austria, and other loading Powers, have been summoned to Rome for a ...
Article : 56 wordsA communique issued in Petrograd shown that the Turks are making an attempt to check the Russian march into America. ...
Article : 143 wordsA partially-wrecked Zeppelin warship has been seen near Maastricht, drifting erratically and tilted almost on end. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn eye-witness from the British Headquarters Staff estimates that during the attack on Ypres on the 8th November the enemy's losses in front of one square of ...
Article : 107 wordsAdvices from Venice state that a part of Cracow has been invested by Russians and is ablaze. The inhabitants are fleeing. ...
Article : 36 wordsSir Cecil Spring Rice, British Ambassador at Washington, has arrived at Ottawa, and is conferring with the Canadian Prime Minister (Sir Robert Borden). ...
Article : 43 wordsThe latest communique states:— "The retreating Germans destroyed railways and bridges in a wholesale manner thereby greatly delaying pursuit, as they ...
Article : 65 words[?] counter attack in the Dix[?]ed to progressing. [?]d have been strengthened at [?] ...
Article : 24 wordsBelgian engineers have blown up a German-owned villa occupying a commanding position at Coxyde, between Nienport and Dunkirk. The house had ...
Article : 50 wordsSir George Raid cables:— "London, 17th, 1.50 a.m.—Official.—The weather is interfering with the campaign on the Contin[?] The country is flood. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Turkish losses in the bombardment of the Dardanelles numbered 250 men and two guns. The warshipe Geeben and Breslau have ...
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The Ballarat Courier (Vic. : 1869 - 1896; 1914 - 1918), Wed 18 Nov 1914, Page 3
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