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Advertising : 23 wordsSeventy-one German ships are in Portuguese ports, including the following, which were voyaging from or to Australia at the outbreak of the war: ...
Article : 77 wordsThe news from the front in the western war area is rather meagre, but satisfactory. we are told that the fleet under Admiral Hood for the last few days has been bombarding the German right wing between Nieuport and Ostend. A further statement is to hand that the British have advanced, anti captured two villages with the bayonet. The troops opposed to them apparently-nero the Bavarians, whose prowess has been proclaimed by the ...
Article : 319 wordsThe following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending to-day:- Coin, £61,362,000. ...
Article : 56 wordsTwenty-four more, of the rebels under Colonel Marita have surrendered to the Union forces, under Colonel Vandeventer, at Brandvlei, to the north-east ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "Algenippn Handelsblad." a daily newspaper published, in Amsterdam, states that the parts of several German submarines have been sent overland to ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is stated at Petrograd that a Turkish warship, which is supposed to be the recently-purchased German battlecruiser Goeben, has bombarded ...
Article : 67 wordsThe market rate for short loans is 1[?] per cent, and for bills at three months 3 per cent. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Canadian province of Ontario is presenting 100,0001b of evaporated apples to the British Navy, and a similar quantity to the Belgian Reliof ...
Article : 39 wordsDetails of the naval engagement which, took place in the Adriatic a fortnight ago, when the French armoured cruiser Waldeck Rousseau, 13,780 ...
Article : 100 wordsIt is reported that Greece has landed 1,200 soldiers at Santi Quarante, in Albania, opposite the northern end of the island of Corfu, and has thus secured ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Prince of Wales's patriotic fun") has now reached £3,531,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. J. X. Merriman, formerly Premier of Cape Colony, in a speech at Capetown yesterday, denounced the rebellion. He ridiculed Colonel Maritz's ...
Article : 145 wordsThe "Morning Post" publishes to-day the Kaiser's letter to the late Lord Tweedmouth, who was First Lord of the Admiralty in Sir Henry Campbell ...
Article : 255 wordsNewspapers in Amsterdam state that the British Government offered the Dutch Government financial assistance for the relief of the Belgian refugees ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is understood that Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone is to be appointed First Sea Lord. in succession to Prince Louis of Battenburg. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 175 wordsTwo German aeroplanes dropped bombs, on Bethune yesterday. One fell on a group of women in the Market-place, and killed 19 and wounded 40. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe situation is summed up as follows in the communique, issued, this afternoon:- "We made further progress ...
Article : 99 wordsThe, following official statement was, issued to-day:- "We have broken, the resistance of the last units of the enemy's forces, ...
Article : 143 wordsCorporal Jolley, of the King's Royal Rifles, narrates that during the retreat from Mons the Germans attempted to blow up the Marne Bridge, His ...
Article : 86 wordsThe attitude of the leading citizens throughout the South African Union is quietly confident. General De Wet is stated to be ...
Article : 91 wordsThose who have faith in British engineering skill trust that some demonstration may be given of the excellence of the British anti-aircraft gun. It has ...
Article : 322 wordsMany Belgian wounded reached the base hospital on Monday and Tuesday. The Belgians still say, gleefully, "In a few weeks we shall again have an ...
Article : 50 wordsAdditional particulars of the fight between the British auxiliary cruiser Carmania and the N.D.L. auxiliary cruiser Cap Trafalgar last month were brought ...
Article : 150 wordsAn Englishman now in Copenhagen writes that American cargoes are being systematically discharged in Norway, reloaded in other neutral ships, ...
Article : 351 wordsGeneral Botha reports that the rebel commando led by General Beyers has been scattered, and is not likely to reunite. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe following German official statement was issued yesterday:- "To the westward of Lille our forces have made progress, and have captured ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is stated that, recently, at the army proving grounds at Sandy Hook, ail records with 12-inch guns were broken when a range of 20,000 yards, or ...
Article : 108 wordsThe captain and crow of the British steamer Exford, one of the vessels sunk by the German cruiser Emden, have arrived at Colombo. They report that ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Russian authorities have given notice to German and Austrian residents that they must quit Russia within, a fortnight. ...
Article : 271 wordsGerman newspapers received in Amsterdam urge reprisals for the rounding-up of alien enemies in Great Britain. ...
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Advertising : 12 wordsThe Germans admit that they have never lost so many men since the war began as on the River Yser. Of one group of 150 only two returned. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe latest official statement issued in the Russian capital states that the great Austro-German offensive movement in Poland has been broken. Hie resistance of the units of the enemy's forces still to the north of the Pilica River has been crushed, while to the south of that river the enemy is in full retreat to the south-west. The Russians have occupied Radom, and are threatening to drive a wedge through the enemy's forces. It will be seen that at one stage the Germans and Austrians had occupied nearly half Poland, but it would appear to be now only a question of time till it is again cleared of the enemy. More or ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 219 wordsFrequent references have been made in the cable news of tho French "seventy-fives"— in other words, the 75-millimetreguns. These weapons, which have again ...
Article : 231 wordsReports from Flushing state that the Allies have advanced towards Ostend. The British troops are now occupying the villages of Foeffinghen and ...
Article : 211 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent at Paris states that Germany has offered, through influential French commercial and financial intermediaries, to ...
Article : 83 wordsMany stories have been current for several weeks past discrediting the loyalty of Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, the First Sea Lord of the ...
Article : 665 wordsAn official statement issued in Borlin states that the German attacks in the north-eastern theatre of war are making progress, and that 13,500 ...
Article : 67 wordsGeneral Leman, commander of Liege on being made prisoner, sent a letter to the King of the Belgians, in which he said: ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Russians reoccupied Czernowitz. the capital of the Austrian Province of Bukowina, on Monday, after defcating the Austrian forces at Bojen (nine ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following cablegram, dated London. October 29. has been received from the High Commissioner:- "The Secretary to the Admiralty ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 31 Oct 1914, Page 5
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