The Australian branch of the Red Cross Society, of which Lady Helen Munro Ferguson is president, has sent two sums amounting in the aggregate ...
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Article : 48 wordsAs a result of the cancert held in [?] Town-hall, Oatlands, on Saturday evening, as a wind-up to the Hunt Club's season, the substantial sum of £10 Os. 6d. ...
Article : 79 wordsAn official report issued here states that the Belgians are entirely concentrated at Antwerp, and that the Allies' plan is the carrying out ...
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Article : 112 wordsSir Cecil Spring Rice, the British Ambassador to the United States, conferred yesterday with Mr. W. Jennings Bryan the Secretary of State, ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is announced in Washington that Austria has agreed to dismantle the cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, now in Far Eastern waters, with the object of ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Melbourne Lord Mayor's patriotic fund now amounts to £69,037. THE DEVONPORT FUND. DEVONPORT, August 25. ...
Article : 73 wordsOf the twelve Zeppelin airships which the Germans have been using on the French' frontier five have already been destroyed. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Tasmanian quota is steadily increasing, and before long the required number of men will be in camp. At the present limp the numbers are as under:- ...
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Article : 35 wordsIt is interesting, at the prescn[?]ncture, to recall the last great struggle for supremacy between the- military forces of Germany and France. The course of ...
Article : 1,072 wordsThe French are withdrawing from the Saales Pass, which leads over the Vosges Mountains from near St. Die into the head cf tim Breusch Valley. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Namur has been taken by the Germans. "The Times" admits that Namur has fallen. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 26 Aug 1914, Page 5
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