The Kaiser is commanding 12 army corps (about 600,000 men) in Eastern Prussia. A fierce battle between General ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe Australian War Contingent Association fund amounts to £7,125. A special committee has been appointed to canvass for further funds, and to ...
Article : 152 wordsAdvices received in Geneva state that about 1,500,000 men and 500,000 women are unemployed in Germany, and the numbers are increasing daily, owing ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is officially admitted in Euda-Pest that the Russians have crossed the frontier of Hungry at several points, in spite of the reinforcements sent to ...
Article : 46 wordsIn accordance with instructions recently issued by the State Commandant (Colonel W. J. Clark), the members of the second Expeditionary Force, together ...
Article : 524 wordsThe "Evening News" states that it is estimated that the debts of German firms to English films amount to £60,000,000, and it is suggested that ...
Article : 76 wordsColonel Sam Hughes, the Canadian Minister of Militia, who was reported to have resigned his portfolio for the purpose of going to the front with the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Co., telegraphing from Paris at midnight last night, started that the German right wing had been ...
Article : 120 wordsTelegrams from Vienna state that it is semi-officially admitted that the Austrian forces engaged against the Russians had lost, to Thursday last, 1,50,000 ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Germans are vigorously preparing for a winter campaign. All high-class furriers are making sheepskin, clothing, and the glove industry operatives are ...
Article : 70 wordsA telegram from Nancy states that the French have retaken Saint Mihiel, on the Meuse, south ot Verdun. It is also reported that the Prince ...
Article : 95 wordsThe managers of the Commonwealth and Dominion lines, in a letter to the newspapers, state that on the outbreak of the war their agreement with the ...
Article : 205 wordsA new German army corps (about 50,000 men) has, junctioned with the remnant of the Austrians in Galici[?] and the combined army is now in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Germans have occupied Malines, and bombarded the Antwerp forts of Wachelen, Waevre, and Saint Catherine, but without result. The forts ...
Article : 73 wordsThe heavies gale in living memory is now sweeping Denmark and the German coast, and a number of bodies of German bluejackets have been washed ashore at ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Prees Bureau states that during the last few days the German cruiser Emden sank in the Indian Ocean the steamers Tumeric, Kinglad, Rihera, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe following cable message has been received by the Minister of External Affairs, from the High Commissioner's Office, London, under date September ...
Article : 253 wordsA later messags from the Exchange Co.'s correspondent states that armoured motor-cars equipped with mitrailleuses are also being used to pursue the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe woman of Canada have collected £37,9[?], and given it to the British Admiralty to establish a hospital at Portsmouth, and another £30,000 collected has ...
Article : 49 wordsThe following message has been received from the High Commissioner:- The allied forces (British and Japanese), began an attack on the advanced ...
Article : 195 wordsAfter shelling Alost the enemy occupied the town, but they were driven out again on Saturday. Before they were expelled the Germans arrested ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of London and Winchester, Lord Balfour of Burleigh (who is President of the World ...
Article : 326 wordsThe secretary of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce (Mr. E. Hawson) yesterday received the following communication from the Melbourne Chamber of ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Chilian Government has prohibited two German steamers leaving Valparaise with coal intended for German cruisers on the Pacific coast. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe German Socialist organ, "Vorwnerts," published in Berlin, informs its subscribers that it has been suppressed, under martial law by ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Germans are recommencing their endeavour to encircle An[?]werp. They sent a thousand Uh [?] into Termonde, but B[?]lgian mitrai uses cleverly ...
Article : 159 wordsThe British Admiralty has prohibited neutral trawlers from using the East Coast of England ports as fishing bases. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe following official communique detailing the positions held by the allies was issued last night:- 'The allies' right wing now lies on a, ...
Article : 308 wordsThough Termonde has been four times bombarded and twice deliberately set ablaze by the Germans, the Burgomaster and his two dauthters, aged 16 ...
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Advertising : 16 wordsThe British have brought down several German aeroplanes during the last few days, including two on the same day. ...
Article : 35 wordsUp to the present one of the most thrilling incident of the war, so far as the Pacific is concerned, is the dash of the British steamer Southport. 3,588 ...
Article : 1,018 wordsFood is so scarce at Brussels that the German administration is finding it difficult to supply the 180,000 civilians who have applied for rations. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Baroness Debaye states that the Crown Prince of Germany stayed at her chateau at Chamapaubert for two days, and took away ancient arms, ...
Article : 78 words"The Times" publishes an article by a well-known publicist belonging to a neutral country, who was in Germany when the war broke out, and has since ...
Article : 797 wordsDuring the retirement from Mons, the First Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders was marching along a narrow road, and believed that it was ...
Article : 167 wordsA sensation has been created in New York, owing to Mr. Howard Copland, who was officially employed by the American Embassy in London to assist ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 1 Oct 1914, Page 5
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