Many recent medical graduates from Sydney, who are now in London, have volunteered their services to the army. The New Zealand Association will ...
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Advertising : 37 wordsThe French Government has been informed that part of the Austrian mobilisation is directed against the French frontier, and has requested ...
Article : 46 wordsThe fact that two of Austria's finest army corps, the Fourteenth, from Innsbruick, and the Third, from Graz, are being brought to the Rhine is regarded ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Ministry for War desires that the importance of the Mulhausen engagement should not be exaggerated. It was merely a fight of advance guards. ...
Article : 55 wordsChief interest in the war news still centres around Liege, for there a great battlel may already have taken place. Three German Army Corps are around Liege, and have bombarded the forts without effect, and the Germans are now threatening the civilians in the city with bombardment if the fort[?] do not cease firing. The Belgian field army and the french are in touch to the south of Liege, where two German Army Corps are operating in the ...
Article : 270 wordsIt is officially stated that the Germans at Altkirch and Mulhausen showed the same want of dash as at Liege. When the officers were killed ...
Article : 51 wordsThe statement is confirmed that British troops from the Gold Coast have seized the town of Lome, in German Togoland, and that the Germans ...
Article : 153 wordsDr. Martin Donohue, the special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," telegraphing from Brussels, states that the fort of Boncelles, on the extreme ...
Article : 160 wordsAfter the French troops had occupied Mulhausen, the French commander (General Joffre) issued the following proclamation: ...
Article : 99 wordsThe steamer Oceanic, with 15,000,000 dollars in gold on board, has reached Southampton. In order to outwit German cruisers the Oceanic steamed at ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the [?]e of people at the Bank of England had ...
Article : 152 wordsThere is a very confident feeling amongst the Belgians at Antwerp. The forts which protect the city are considered impreguable. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Bishop of London (Dr. Ingram), as chaplain of the London Rifle Brigade, has arranged to serve for six weeks with the brigade whenever it is ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is officially announced that a French force from Belfort attacked the frontier guard in Upper Alsace, but the incursion was stopped near Altkirch, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe barque Sardhana has been captured, and towed to Southend. At Colombo to-day a British man-ofwar captured a German merchant ...
Article : 160 wordsIt is announced here that the Eighth Russian Cavalry Brigade has attacked the German troops near Soldau, a town in East Prussia, between Thora and the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe following is the official statement from Berlin regarding the position at Liege:- We held Liege fast in our hands. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe German version of the conflict at Liego says that the German advance guards penetrated the entire Belgian front, and that then a small ...
Article : 186 wordsThe armistice or 24 hours, in order that they mi[?] bury their dead, asked [?]tor by the Germans after the defeat of their attacks on Liege on Wednesday ...
Article : 468 wordsThere is an improved position as regards the lockout in the building trade, and there are symptoms of an early settlement, owing to the different state ...
Article : 78 wordsMany members of the Chamber of Deputies and ex-Ministers have joined the army as private soldiers, and as officers, mostly subalterns, including ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 297 wordsThe French troops crossed the frontier into Alsace in force in Friday, and after come heavy fighting, occupied the town of Mulhausen, one of the ...
Article : 313 wordsFrench troops have crossed the frontier into Belgium, and are being welcomed with extraordinary enthusiasm. Belgium soldiers and ...
Article : 310 wordsSeveral speakers in the House of Commons to-day urged that special endeavours should be made to secure the return of British subjects from the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe six forts attacked on Thursday were Barchen, Davengee. Fleron, Chaudefontaine, Imbaurz, Himbourg, and Boucelle[?], all of which are to the ...
Article : 183 wordsThe French staff at Dede Agach report a great concentration of Turkish troops there and at Fercjik, on the coast of the [?]gean Sea. ...
Article : 34 wordsNumerous race meetings have been abandoned in England as the railways are unable to carry the horses to the various courses, being otherwise ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, said the Government had established a press bureau under ...
Article : 121 wordsA patrol challenged a foreigner yesterday on the swing bridge at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the man rushed down some steps to the river and ...
Article : 262 wordsLively cavalry engagements are taking place along the southe of the France-German frontier. The French are showing their superiority, as the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe men who were arrested in the paid on a Euston-road hotel by the police and Territorials have been released. They are Irishmen, and both ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is officially stated that a French Brigade, reached Altkirch at nightfall on Friday. The place was defended by strong earthworks. ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is reported here that the Germans hold the Governor of the Provience of Liege, and the Bishop of Liege, as hestages, and threnten to put them to ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Beligian Legation states that the Belgian cavalry division is rapidly advancing from the west, and that the Germans who have crossed the Mcuse ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is believed that the Korigin Laise, which was sunk by a British cruiser, had been engaged laying mines several days before war was declared. ...
Article : 37 wordsDr. E. J. Dillon, the Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent, slates that on Wednesday night the entire German Seventh Army Corps delivered ...
Article : 229 wordsThe British Admiralty states that German submarines yesterday attacked one, of the cruiser squadrons of the Main Fleet. ...
Article : 93 wordsEmployers and workers at Newcastleon-Tyne are warmly co-operating in expediting the British Admiralty's shipbuilding contracts. ...
Article : 26 wordsDr. Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has offered Lambeth Palace, and the Duke of Sutherland and many other notable people have offered their ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Germans have deta[?]d the Third Army Corps, known as to "Iron Corps," from their advance towards the River Ourthe, presumably in order ...
Article : 175 wordsThe French losses at Altkirch were not excessive, in view of the importance of the result of the conflict. The town of Mulhausen is not fortified, and ...
Article : 147 wordsThere was a great demonstration today at Buckingham Palace, chers being given for the King and Queen. The cheers were renewed when the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe President of the French Republic (M. Poincare) has sent the following telegram to the king of the Belgians:—"The Government has decided ...
Article : 120 wordsMany vessels are unable to use the Suez Canal, owing to the demand now being made that the dues should be paid in cash. The British Foreign ...
Article : 53 wordsThe steamer Craigforth has struck a mine, and been beached at BuyukDere, Antwerp. A mine has destroyed the oil tank ...
Article : 99 wordsThe militant suffragist and antisuffragist societies have not abandoned their political prepaganda, although they are utilising their organisations for ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is officiallyu stated the Liege is invested by the German troops, but that the Belgians are holding the forts. The bombardment of Liege is very ...
Article : 51 wordsThe German battleship Goehen and the German cruiser Breslau, that had taken refuge at Messina, have left that port. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 11 Aug 1914, Page 5
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