The police-have forbidden the drinking of absinthe, and are searching even private cellars for it. Several cafes have already been closed. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe military news censor is very effective, in his work. The transport of the British expeditionary force began apparently on Friday, and was completed. on Tuesday morning. The force is organised in divisions—six divisions of infantry, with artillery, and one division of cavalry, and "army troops" of various services. All told, if the full expeditionary force was sent, there would be 167,000 men, and with them would have to go immense ...
Article : 436 wordsAn English officer, who was recently in Brussels, interviewed some of the defenders of Liege. A Belgian officer told him: "As line after line of the ...
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Advertising : 37 wordsIt is officially stated that the French continued their advance into Upper Alsace throughout the day on Monday, and that the Germans retreated in ...
Article : 513 wordsAn excellent Red Cross system has been established in connection with the French operations. "First line" hospitals are temporarily established about ...
Article : 185 wordsGeneral Joffre, in the course of n report on the French advance into Alsace, stales that the enemy had established a fortified position to the south of ...
Article : 344 wordsThe Duke of Teck and Prince Alexander of Teck, of the Life Guards, brothers of Queen Mary, visited Buckingham Palaco yesterday, and took ...
Article : 59 wordsLater reporte regarding the battle of Dinant show that it was more important than has hitherto been realised. The loss on both sides was heavy, ...
Article : 147 wordsSwitzerland is seriously feeling the war pinch, owing to the tourist and other trades being paralysed. Nearly everybody is on guard on the frontiers ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Press Bureau states that yesterday desultory fighting took place betiveen a British patrolling squadron and flotilla, of destroyers and some German ...
Article : 62 wordsThe French Embassy states that troops from the French Congo have dislodged the Germans from Yaunde, one of the chief places in the German ...
Article : 39 wordsSir Francis Bertie, the British Ambassador to France, and M. Malay, the Minister of the Interior in the French Government, received Field-Marsnal ...
Article : 185 wordsThe hemaintenance of a large overseas army-the largest in the world-requires for its proper working the maintenance of an army of an approximately equal ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 980 wordsThe despatch of the British expeditionary force to France was carried out with remarkable secrecy and success, and was highly characteristic of Lord ...
Article : 617 wordsIt is officially stated here thal the Russian vangiard has occupied five, points within the territory of the enemy. The forward movements made ...
Article : 81 wordsThe British Red Cross Society has registered over 2,000 trained nurses for the war. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Germans made another attempt to cross the budge over the Mouse near Dinant on Monday but the French, artillery repulsed them with considereble ...
Article : 52 wordsA contingent of native trrops from the Gold Coast of Africa has entered Togoland. and taken a number of Gormans prisoner, and also captured two ...
Article : 46 wordsA number of German prisoners are to be sent to England immediately. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Gormans are continuing to shell Pont-a-Mousson, a French town on the Moselle. 16 miles to the south of Metz. Over 200 six, seven, and eight inch ...
Article : 75 wordsSome German cavalry patrols have boen sighted to the north of Antwerp, the chief port-of the country, to which the sent of Government was removed a ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Germans have suffered considerable losses in all the actions tought along the Alsatian frontier during the last few days. The overwhelming ...
Article : 81 wordsThe King, in his message to the expedition before it started, said:— You will be fighting for the safety and honour of the ...
Article : 129 wordsYesterday the Russians destroyed German aeroplane at Sammo, on the const of Finland. Three aviators who were in the machine were killed. ...
Article : 39 wordsDuring the pursuit of the Germans, after the battle of Dinant, the French and Belgian cavalry passed a series of burned vilages which the Germans had ...
Article : 85 wordsThe details of the recent encounter between the Cossacks and the Germans, in which a Cossack named Kriutchk off, who was afterwards decorated by the ...
Article : 98 wordsA German monoplane carrying the French colours flow over carrying yesterday, and dropped three bombs. The damage done was insignificant. ...
Article : 35 wordsWounded soldiers from Mulhausen state that the Germans, not recognising the uniforms of the Algerian sharpshooters (the Tureos) allowed the latter ...
Article : 76 wordsThe French troops have now advanced across the frontier all along the line for a distance pi about 100 miles, from Marsal, a point opposite Nancy, in the north, to Dannemaric, just opposite Beltort, in the south. The French hold the whole, line of the Vosges, and have forced the Gormans to evacuate Saarburg, 13 miles Iroin Strassburg, though it was held by a stroug garrison. Further to the south the French have occupied Colmar, and there has been fighting at Mulhausen, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 389 wordsThe statement which recently reached Paris to the effect that King Albert of Belgium had rejected Germany's fresh request, which was made through ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Press Bureau warns the public against the enemy attempting to spread false reports of disasters. The warning adds that the consor. has already ...
Article : 78 wordsEleven members of the Russian Royal Family are at the front. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe press here circulates a statement to the effect that the German Crown Prince has been wounded in Belgium, and is now lying at Aix la Chapelle, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Czar took part to-day in a great procession to the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kremlin, the citadel of Moscow, where a solemn act of worship ...
Article : 64 wordsLord Kitchener's message, which has been ordered to be kept in every soldier's pay-book, warns the troops in outspoken language of the importance ...
Article : 101 wordsThe French Embassy states that the forts at Lipge are still holding out, and that not one has been captured. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Montenegrin are invading the Ausburn coast province of Dalmatia theough Herzegovina, and are now within two houis' match of Ragusa, a ...
Article : 56 wordsM. Paul Doumer, once a candidate for the Presidency of the French Republic, who has just returned from the lighting line in Belgium, states that the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Press Bureau says that the embarkation, the transportation, and the debarkation of the men and stores were carried out with the greatest precision, ...
Article : 71 wordsLetters received from British soldiers sate that the French people were frantic with joy on their landing. The women bugged and kissed the soldiers, and ...
Article : 76 wordsIt was recently reported that a regiment of Czech (Bohemian Slay) soldiers stationed in Bosnia had mutinied, and had been annihilated as a punishment. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 20 Aug 1914, Page 5
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