The Liege forts are still holding Out. It is stated that one German General was shot in both legs, but continues his duty in an invalid's ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Tasmanian quota, for the expeditionary force has been increased from 1100 to 1500. This evening applications were received from over ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Turks are acting in the most arbitrary manner at the Dardanelles, and are detaining without any explanation vessels belonging ...
Article : 59 wordsOn Thursday last the Russian cavalry dispersed the Austrians, and forced them to evacuate Kielce in Russian Poland. ...
Article : 54 wordsContributions to the Lord Mayor's Fund now amount to over £10,500. The War Food Fund started by the Chamber of Commerce stands at ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the Germans are greatly inconvenienced through the scarcity of horses. Thousands of horses have been rilled ...
Article : 43 wordsAn explanation has been given of how the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau escaped the British cruisers in the Mediterranean. It ...
Article : 116 wordsThe sum of £40,763 has been subscribed to the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe correspondent at Borne of the New York "World" reports that two hundred thousand Italian troops are concentrating in the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Mayor of Hobart's Patriotic Fund to-day reached £1687. The Commercial Bank of Tasmania has given £500, and the managing ...
Article : 55 wordsHer Majesty the Queen is inaugurating a scheme of work for women thrown out of employment owing to the war. The details will ...
Article : 36 wordsWhile the battle of Blamont was in progress, another French force, four miles further south, occupied the Dodon, a mountain about 3300 ...
Article : 88 wordsNearly 40,000 men recruited for Lord Kitchener's second army during last week. Men are recruiting at the rate of 7000 daily. ...
Article : 32 wordsThere will be no meeting of the Melbourne Stock Exchange this week, but the committee will meet again on Friday next to consider ...
Article : 33 wordsWith reference to the Czar's proclamation to the Poles of Europe, Austria and Germany informing them that after the war all ...
Article : 180 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" abates that Britain has demanded, before discussing with Turkey the latter's purchase of the German cruisers ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Government is insuring vessels against war risks for a period of 91 days at 2½ per cent., and, if they are at sea at the expiration of ...
Article : 44 wordsTwo French military aviators, Lieutenant Gesari and Corporal Prudhokkeau, left Verdun on Friday evening on separate aeroplanes ...
Article : 145 wordsThe camp of the State quota of the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force was formed at Bellevue to-day, when between 800 and ...
Article : 308 wordsA Roughriders' Corps is recruiting here for service with the French army. It includes several American cowboys, a number of jockeys ...
Article : 54 wordsThe liner Lorraine has arrived at Havre with 450 reservists on board. She had rather exciting experiences. She was chased off the ...
Article : 64 wordsA Frenchman named Cruault has been court-martialled and sentenced to death for offering to sell to the "Cologne Gazette" information ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is semi-officially stated here that on Sunday French warships in the Adriatic sank two Austrian warships off Budua, in Dalmatia ...
Article : 49 wordsThe French Embassy states that the British, Russian, and French, consuls at Danzig were treated with great indignity. They were ...
Article : 132 wordsOn Sunday the French operations developed against Upper Alsace, on the line from Rschicourt to Ste-Marie-aux-Mines, or Markirch, and ...
Article : 87 wordsWhile the Germans were entering Verviers on the Belgian frontier a shot was fired, killing a, soldier. The Germans thereupon razed the entire ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Dowager-Empress of Russia who was in Germany when the war broke out, has reached. St. Petersburg. She travelled by a circuitous ...
Article : 60 wordsGerman columns can be seen winding along the valley of the Meuse towards Dinant, where there are signs that important operations ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is officially announced that Japan has sent an ultimatum to Germany, which is to the following effect ...
Article : 133 wordsA detachment of Germany cavalry occupied Dinant, about 15 miles south of Namur, on Saturday morning, but later in the day the French ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Embourg forts yesterday shelled three motor cars carrying German officers on the road alongside the river Ourthe. One fell ...
Article : 85 wordsMany women, principally Cossacks, are applying for service in the ranks. ...
Article : 17 wordsAn official statement issued in Vienna says that on Friday the Austrians crossed the Drina, and after severe fighting drove the Servians ...
Article : 92 wordsA traveller who has just arrived here states that Scandinavian mails received received in Berlin giving detailed reports of the German defeats ...
Article : 91 wordsIt is rumoured that there are Auetrian troops fighting, in Belgiam under Count von Buelow, who is commanding the second army corps. ...
Article : 32 wordsOn August 35 the N.D.L. trader Thuringen is due to arrive ab Fremantle from Bremen}, having left that port on July 8. It is fully ...
Article : 72 wordsTwo thousand Belgian reservists have sailed for London. Before they left they received a farewell message from the Minister for Militia ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the action at Blamont, on the Lorraine frontier, on Friday, the French took 500 German prisoners. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe French allowed the Germans to enter Dinant while they prepared a crushing blow. The engagement began in the afternoon. The ...
Article : 68 wordsA sensation has been created amongst official circles in Washington by the Japanese ultimatum to Germany. It is occasioning much ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Premier announced this evening that Cabinet had agreed to adopt all of the suggestions contained in the following telegram ...
Article : 179 wordsThe French Government is twice daily sending out, by wireless, authentic war news in German, French, and English, from the Eiffel Tower. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that a state of siege has been proclaimed in Bulgaria. Nish, Aug. 17. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Finance Minister has received a war contribution of £500,000 from Mr. Ross, the Montreal seel magnate. ...
Article : 26 wordsReports here state that the Kaiser and the German Headquarters Staff have left Berlin and gone to Mainz on the Rhine to be near the ...
Article : 44 wordsA sentry named Robertson when on duty at the Brooklands aerodome thrice challenged ta supposed spy. When he fired the suspect ...
Article : 47 wordsEye witnesses of the action at Dinant state that the Germans occupied the part of the town that lies on the left bank of the Meuse. ...
Article : 270 wordsBefore leaving for Sydney to-night the Minister for Defence (Senator Milieu) approved of the system of allowances for those ...
Article : 155 wordsLetters received here reveal terrible conditions in Dalmatia, Bosnia, and Croatia. Trade has ceased and food is scarce. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Japanese Ambassador has delivered to the Secretary for State, Mr. Bryan, a written announcement of Japan's ultimatum to Germany ...
Article : 214 wordsAa official statement, said a cablegram yesterday, says that the French began on Friday night an offensive movement from Luneville ...
Article : 241 wordsRochmann, a German ex-employee in the shipyards of Vickers and Maxim and Harland and Wolff, has been arrested at the Belfast docks. ...
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