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Article : 56 wordsIf Turkey participates in the war it is regarded as certain that Greece and Bulgaria will fight Turkey. ...
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Article : 33 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr Cook) this evening issued a statement to people of Australia. Mr Cook states that he feels ...
Article : 407 wordsA German airman, carrying a French flag, flew over Vesoul, in the Department of Haute-Saone, and Lure (18 miles from the frontier ...
Article : 57 wordsTwo hundred cyclist carbineers on Thursday surrounded and surprised 300 Germans, killed 70, captured 40, and dispersed the rest. The arrival ...
Article : 61 wordsTo-night a patriotic meeting will be held in the Maryborough Town Hall, the Mayor to preside. The Citizens' Band will be present, and ...
Article : 46 wordsA Belgian company surprised two companies of German cyclists at Vessenacken, near Louvain. The Germans retreated with 50 killed. ...
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Article : 20 words"Le Temps" correspondent at Brussels says that in transmitting the latest bribe to Belgium, Germany attempted to persuade the ...
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Article : 61 wordsDeserters from German forces state that General Deimling was wounded in the tongue by a bullet. Deserters are almost dying of ...
Article : 55 wordsGermans court-martialled and shot Madame Faure Schwarz, a Swiss girl, wife of one of the richest Alsatians living at Larrach. She was ...
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Article : 18 wordsSeveral German prisoners taken by the Belgians declare that the present conflict is not a peoples', but an officers' war. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt," a leading daily, discussing the attitude of Great Britain, considered that it was doubtful whether Great Britain ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Army Council announces that any enlisting in response to Lord Kitchener's appeal will be discharged, if desired, when the war is over. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe French Government, replying to President Woodrow Wilson's mediation proposition, says :— " France recognises the new evidence ...
Article : 30 wordsGreece and Turkey are much disturbed over the sale of the Goeben and the Breslau. It is expected that Italy will demand an ...
Article : 97 wordsKaiser sent following message to German commander at Mulhansen : —" I return thanks to the God who was with us. I thank you and your ...
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Article : 39 wordsM. Perrin, aviating from Nancy, on crossing the frontier sighted a Zeppelin airship and completely destroyed her with two bombs. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner, to-day sent (among others) the following cables to the Commonwealth Government:— ...
Article : 143 wordsA British doctor who visited the hospitals found very many Belgians wounded in the legs. Many collapsed from sheer exhaustion, but soon ...
Article : 89 words"Wireless Press," Signor Marconi's new organisation, is circulating messages gathered from Germany by means of wireless. ...
Article : 43 wordsHis Majesty the King on Friday gave an audience to Lieut.-General Sir James Grierson, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern ...
Article : 42 wordsNotices inviting applications for volunteer service with the Australian expeditionary force to Europe have been conspicuous about the ...
Article : 493 wordsThe fund organised by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, has now reached £1,000,000. ...
Article : 17 wordsTwo German soldiers, with a motor car laden with sufficient melenite to destroy the biggest bridge in France, were arrested on Thursday ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is understood that the British fleet is gradually circumscribing the action of the German fleet in the Far East. Germans are gathering ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is reported in Paris that the Russian Consul-General at Frankfort (M. Damier) was made to suffer ignominious treatment by the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Daily Citizen" states to-day that a German refugee, who escaped to England via Denmark, states that Dr. Liebknecht. the well-known ...
Article : 122 wordsThe official junction of the French and Belgian armies has been completed. A great struggle is expected at Upper Alsace, where the French ...
Article : 102 wordsThe executive of the Federal council of the Australian Freedom League has informed Mr Cook, the Prime Minister, that during the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Rothschild brothers have donated 1,000,000 francs (£4000) to the French National War Fund. ...
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Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser (Vic. : 1857 - 1867 ; 1914 - 1918), Mon 17 Aug 1914, Page 3
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