The wave of patriotic enthusiasm sweeping, over Canada has not been approached at any time in the country[?] history. ...
Article : 306 wordsThe British Admiralty has taken over two battleships of the Dreadnought type ordered in Great Britain by Turkey, and the two torpedo-boat ...
Article : 62 wordsWhen the German Ambassador visited M. Sazenoff (Russian Foreign Minister) on Saturday he carried two replies, one to be presented if Russia ...
Article : 472 wordsThe Prime Minister of the Commonwealth was notified yesterday that "a state of war existed" between Great Britain and Germany. This was acted upon in Australia in the seizure of German vessels, one of them being the Oberhansen, in the Huon River. Naval and military preparations for the defence of the Commonwealth are being "Ushed forward. Strict censorship prevails as to European news, and we have only a few references to unimportant happenings at sea. ...
Article : 237 wordsPart of the German Baltic fleet has passed throught the Kiel Canal into the North Sea, and is now massed in the North Sea, off the coast of Denmark, ...
Article : 122 wordsM. Raymond Poincare, the French President, has issued a proclamation in which he refers to the strong efforts made by Franee to secure peace, and ...
Article : 89 wordsThis afternoon the House of Commons passed a bill establishing a [?]uasimoratorium, which applies to bills of exchange and extends the time for their ...
Article : 94 wordsSir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, created a profound impression. He ...
Article : 1,228 wordsParis is calm, following the outbreak of war. Hundreads of men, women, and children, mosly Germans are at the Gare du Nord, waiting to leave the ...
Article : 98 wordsBcfore the declaration of war by Great Britain, the German Embassy in London announced that Germany was prepared to abstain from attacking the north-east ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, the Prime Miuister (Mr. Asquith) read a telegram from the German Secretary for Foreign Affairs ...
Article : 459 wordsPrince Albert, the third son of King George, is a midshipman on board one of the vessels of the flect waiting for the Germans. ...
Article : 32 wordsThree German dirigibles appeared over Burssels to-day. The district military authorities announce that aviators from Liege explored ...
Article : 49 wordsThe leader of the Nationalist Party (Mr. J. Redmond) was greeted with tremendous cheering when he said that the Government might withdraw the ...
Article : 427 wordsA White Book issued to-day refers to the last stages of the negotiations. In it the German Government states:- "We worked shoulder to shoulder with ...
Article : 252 wordsGeneral Joffere, the Cammander-in-Chief of the French forces, has left for the frontier. It is reported that a Geimam force ...
Article : 268 wordsIt is stated on diplomatic authority that the German High Sea Fleet has passed through the Kiel Canal, and is steaming westward. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is stated that by calling up all the naval reserves, the [?]miratly can obtain sufficient officers find men where-with to place the Third Battle Fleet ...
Article : 49 wordsAuthentic reports state that the Russians have crossed the borders at various points. The Russinn Ambassador has received his passports. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe German protected-cruiser Leipzig, 3,200 tons, and a main armament of ten 4-inch guns, has captured the British steamer Queen Maud off the ...
Article : 370 wordsEighty-five per cent has been paid at Llyod's to insure against the war between Great Britain and Germany lasting more than three months. ...
Article : 35 wordsReuter's Stockholm correspondent says that a reliable source reports that a naval battle occurred on Sunday between the German and Russian fleets ...
Article : 298 wordsA man, who was supposed to be a German spy, was arrested to-day at Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, but subsequently released. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is generally believed that there is less danger from a dearth of food supplies in Great Britain than from the artificial inflation of prices through ...
Article : 159 wordsThere is excitement in London owing to a rumour that German cruisors have been seen in the Atlantic. If the rumour is true the vessels will be the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe French Embassy in London states that the German cruiser Breslau bombarded Bonn, the fortified seaport in Algeria, at 4 o'clock this morning, ...
Article : 42 wordsAdmiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, who until recently was the Second Sea Lord at the Admiralty, has assumed command of the Home Flects. ...
Article : 304 wordsIt is officially stated that Geimany has invaded Belgium. A message from Berlin states that Germany has made an official declaration of her intention ...
Article : 108 wordsSpeaking in the House ot Commons to-day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd George) announced that the Government had adopted the ...
Article : 138 wordsGerman army chaplains held an open air service in Berlin to-day, the soldiers, in marching kit, assembling around Prince Bismar[?]k's moaument. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Czar, addressing a great crowd which had assembled in front of the palace to-day, said that Russin, would never make peace till the last soldier ...
Article : 89 wordsSeveral owners of steam yachts have offered them to the Government for use as hospital ships. TORONTO, August 5. ...
Article : 47 wordsM. Van der Velde, the Socialist leader in the Belgian Chamber of Depuries, has been appointed a Cabinet Minister, in order that all paities shall he ...
Article : 151 wordsA mensure was introduced in the Reichstag to-day which provides for the raising, by means of an extraordinary loan, of the sum of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Canadian Parliament has been summoned for an extraordinary session to vote war supplies. It is practically certain that ...
Article : 116 wordsBaron Von Sehoen, the German Ambassador to France, has quitted Paris. Germany has declared that a state of war exists between her and France. ...
Article : 229 wordsIt is believed here that Austria has abandoned her aggressive campaign against Servia, in order to prepare to resist the attack of Russia. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is officially notified that a state of was exists between Great Britain and Germany. ...
Article : 27 wordsA truck laden with £800,000. in gold, and a similar amount of silver, belonging to a German concern, has been seized outside of Paris, en route ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Giornale d'Italin" states that Germany has called the attention of Italy to what she describes as hosti[?] acts committed by France, and has ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Labour party's organ, the "Daily Citizen." characterises this as a "diplomatists' war," and adds:— If Europe is to get drunk with blond, this is a ...
Article : 78 wordsThe proclamation ordering the mobilisation of the British Army was read from the stops of the Royal Exchange to-day, and created grant enthusiasm. ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is reported that Garros, a French aviator, has destroyed one of the German Zeppelin airships, but that in so doing he sacrificed his own life. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 6 Aug 1914, Page 5
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