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Advertising : 53 wordsThe assistant lighthouse-keeper at Cap[?] Sorell (Mr. E. W. Russell) states that when on duty on Wednesday night at 10.30, he distinctly heard four ...
Article : 111 wordsA telegram received in Rome from Vienna states that the Russian left at Przemysl has completely surrounded two columns of Austrians, and is ...
Article : 127 wordsThe authorities in Paris and London are still somewhat reticent regarding the position in France, but they report, however, that the situation of the allies is satisfactory. From the cablegrams that are to hand from various reliable sources, a fair idea of the state of affairs can be obtained. The Germans having drawn all the available fresh troops they could muster, set them the task of turning ...
Article : 431 wordsThe bombardment of the forts of W[?]hem and Wavre still continues. The Germans attacked Forts Liezel[?] and Br[?]donck, but the garrison made ...
Article : 192 wordsDespite the depredations of the German cruiser Emd[?]n, the insurance rate in the open market is still 40/ per cent., as compared with [?] per cent. ...
Article : 89 wordsGeneral Botha, the Prime Minister of South Africa, who is to take command of the Union forces operating against German South-West Africa, i[?] ...
Article : 487 wordsAs the result of a request from Great Britain, the United States Government has made investigations, and finds that German firms in New York have been ...
Article : 111 wordsTwo German divisions were ann[?] ed in the battle of Druskenik, in the provin[?] of Suwalki, in which the Germans were defeated. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Russian Ambassador states that the fleeing Austrian army has been surrounded near Dukla, south-west of Przemysl, which commands one of the ...
Article : 504 wordsThe German [?]barities in Russian Poland have provoked reprisals. Three German officers and 19 soldiers were hanged on trees at one place recently, ...
Article : 45 wordsSir George Reid, the High Commissioner, cables:- "Official—A British warship has captured off the mouth of the Cameroon ...
Article : 67 wordsHerr Von Sachs, the Mayor of Insterburg, in East Prussia, in the course of an article in the Berlin paper "D[?] Tag," says:—"Wher. the German ...
Article : 187 wordsDespatches from Brussels state that the Germans arrested the Burgomaster (M. Max), on the ground that he had forbidden the banks to [?]ay the ...
Article : 112 wordsLend Kitchener, addressing a body of Territorials yesterday about to depart on foreign service, said it was quite true that the Germans were getting short of ...
Article : 170 wordsA German wireless message which has been intercepted admits that the Germans are unable to arrest the advance of the Allies' left, and that the Allies ...
Article : 122 wordsThe following cable message was received to-day from the High Commissioner's office, dated London, September 30:- ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the conclusion of his article in "The Times," a publicist belonging to a neutral nation, who was in Germany when war broke out, and has since been ...
Article : 108 wordsA Japanese fleet, with a British warship, bombarded two of the Tsing-t[?] forts on Monday. Buildings were demolished, and it is believed barracks ...
Article : 156 wordsMr. William Maxwell, the special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," in a message sent from Amiens on Sunday, says:- ...
Article : 393 wordsThe fight now proceeding in one region on the allies' left resembles that at Paardeberg in the Boer war. Some 3,500 Germans are in the sam[?] ...
Article : 92 wordsWith the help of the Government, a factory in Yorkshire for the extraction of tungsten is being rebuilt, thus giving an outl[?]t for wolfram, for which ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Servians have recaptured Semlin, on the left bank of the River Danube, and secured positions to enable them to use the town as a base for ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is officially stated in Paris that German officers and non-commissioned officers looted silverware and jewels at Compiegne, and loaded them into ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following official communique was issued last night:- "The action is developing mo[?]e to the northward on our left wing. North ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Russian Ambassador states that the Russians have defeated the Germans in the Government of Suwalki, immediately to the east of East Prussia, ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Germans have set fire to a part of Tournai, in the south of Belgium. They demanded the payment of a fine of 2,000,000 fran[?] [?] and have ...
Article : 49 wordsA proclamation issued yesterday states that it is desirable, in the best intrests of the realm, at the present juncture that all persons who can ...
Article : 88 wordsDuring the battle of the Aisne the general who commanded the African troops ordered two regiments of Zo[?] aves to assault a strong position held ...
Article : 113 wordsThe 35th German casualty list shows [?] officers killed, 190 wounded, and seven missing; and 991 men killed, 5,44[?] wounded, and 1,485 missing. ...
Article : 125 wordsAn unconfirmed report which has reached the Russian capital states that [?] German battleships and seven transports appeared on Thursday last ...
Article : 79 wordsM. Georges Clem[?]n[?] paper "L'Homme Libre" has been temporarily suspended by the French Government for refusing to recognise the censor. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent says:- "For a fortnight the Germans have been struggling to avoid having their ...
Article : 288 wordsThe only notable changes in the position in France from the map point of view have been made at the extreme [?] of the fighting line. The more important is at the western end, where the allies have been pushing steadily forward. Desperate struggles took place especially round Peronne, and last Sunday the Germans attacked the French left at Albert, near Amiens. Elsewhere in the Compiegne district a force of 3,500 Germans has been trapped in the quarries by the French, and it is stated that in most cases the Germans have been driven out of their quarry strongholds. At the other end of the line, across northern ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 147 wordsA wounded French soldier tells the following story of the battle of the Aisne:- "It became necessary to warn French ...
Article : 168 wordsAccording to a telegram received in Rome from Berlin, it is officially stated in the German capital that Prince Oscar the fifth son of the Kaiser, has ...
Article : 72 wordsIn a message sent from Amiens on Sunday, Mr. Maxwel[?] the s[?]ecial correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," says:- ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Italian authorities have arrested several hundred volunteers who were seeking to enter France and join the "Red Shirt"' force raised by Guis[?]ppe ...
Article : 37 wordsOn one occasion in the recent fighting no less than 30 of the gunners of a British field battery were either killed or wounded. Nevertheless the battery ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. William B[?]dell, the Ameri[?] Consul at Rheims, states that [?] damage done to the town by the Germans is estimated at £6,000,000, and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 2 Oct 1914, Page 5
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