An official communique issued here this afternoon says:—"The general situation is unchanged. The opposing cavalry are still operating ...
Article : 194 wordsAll the chief art treasures in Antwerp have been removed. The suburbs of Borgerhout, Zurinburg, and Berchem, are almost ...
Article : 50 wordsAntwerp is still bravely holding out. The Germans are in strong foce round Lokeren and Zele, which lie near Ghent and Termonde ...
Article : 40 wordsThe boats leaving Antwerp for Ostend were dangerously crowded with threefold the usual number of passengers. The fare was ten ...
Article : 176 wordsWhen the first shell boomed in the city the dark empty streets suddenly became alive with people, women and children crying and flocking in ...
Article : 168 wordsA communique issued last midnight says:—"On our left there has been heavy fighting round Arras, and on our right the enemy has made ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "Chronicle" publishes an unconfirmed statement that the Germans have entered Antwerp and that the inhabitants are calm. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Diederich, the American Consul at Antwerp, who remained in the city the first night of the bombardment, says he was aroused ...
Article : 143 wordsDuring the operations north of Soissons the Germans were strongly posted in fortified positions called "Mushroom Beds." Since the ...
Article : 98 wordsA Marconi wireless message from Berlin headquarters states that the town of Antwerp has been in the possession of the Germans since ...
Article : 59 wordsNumbers of women fainted in frantic efforts to reach the trains. The fugitives clung to every available part of the railway coaches ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Dutch are behaving with fine generosity. Rotterdam, Maastricht, Tilburg, Middleburg, Amsterdam and Dordrecht are all ...
Article : 142 wordsThe capture of Antwerp imposes additional duties on the British fleet to see that Dutch neutrality is not violated. ...
Article : 128 wordsDuring the battle of the Aisne the British cavalry, tired of inaction, petitioned General Allenby to allow them to serve in the trenches. As ...
Article : 64 wordsA correspondent describes the firing of the German 42-centimetre guns, each of which fired a shot every ten minutes. A flame, he ...
Article : 139 wordsAdvices from Ghent last midnight say that during Thursday shells constantly fell in Antwerp, including the Place Verte. Many ...
Article : 180 wordsRefugees state that the end came with unexpected suddeness. Antwerp surrendered at nine o'clock on Friday after a forty hours' ...
Article : 150 wordsSome refugees state that they saw the King of the Belgians with one of his arms in a sling. A Belgian officer states that ...
Article : 161 wordsA Belgian staff officer states that the forts of Woevre and St. Catherine, to the south of the city, offered the most stubborn resistance. A ...
Article : 118 wordsFifteen German spies masquerading as Frenchmen were found in a large factory near Lille. They took shelter on lofty chimneys. All were ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the bombardment of Antwerp the Germans are using two hundred guns of 28, 30, and 42 centimetres. The British, French and Russian ...
Article : 102 wordsAn official communique issued here late last night says:—"There has been further sharp fighting in the Roye district, between the Oise ...
Article : 62 wordsOn Wednesday, the 7th, the French artillery came within a few kilometres of Lens, about ten miles north by east of Arras. They fired ...
Article : 95 wordsA cablegram from the High Commissioner, dated yesterday, gives the following official statement issued by the Admiralty:— ...
Article : 373 wordsWhile the main German force were attacking the fortifications in the neighbourhood of Lierre on Thursday heavy bambardment was ...
Article : 148 wordsOn Sunday, the 4th inst., a few German shells fell in the centre of Lille, a strong fortress town close to the Belgian frontier, about 40 ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Germans in their advance to the inner forts literally filled the dykes with their dead. Owing to their close formation the Belgian ...
Article : 113 wordsFugitives state that the Germans held the inner forts near Lierre on Friday. Shells fell into the prison and the warders liberated the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Handelsblad" says that the possession of Antwerp may prove of satisfaction to Germany, but the German object has failed, for the ...
Article : 55 wordsTwo French divisions, with a tertitorial division, held their positions at Arras for several days against overwhelming odds until ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" correspondent, Mr. Martin Donohoe, says that crowds of wounded men are pouring into Ostend. The ...
Article : 169 wordsThe "New York Tribune" has a scathing articvle upon Germany concentrating her rage and revenge upon Belgium. ...
Article : 55 wordsIt transpires that the burgomaster of Antwerp issued a proclamation a week ago, in which, quoting the Kaiser's assurances of ...
Article : 94 wordsIt as officially stated that the British Naval Brigade with heavy guns participated in the defence of Antwerp. ...
Article : 115 wordsAm official communique issued here this afternoon says:—"This battle continues in our favour. Our whole front has been maintained despite ...
Article : 97 wordsOn Tuesday the Germans renewed their attack on Lille, and a gallant fight raged between the French and a big German army stretching along ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Belgian field army retired from Antwerp in good order. Their retreat, which began several days ago, was completed under the best ...
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Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1954), Mon 12 Oct 1914, Page 5
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