M. Mcllot, the Belgian Deputy for Namur dealing with the bombardment of that city, states that it commenced on 14th August. Until then the inhabitants had hoped ...
Article : 231 wordsThe cruiser Liverpool is returning with nine German officers and 81 men, many of whom are wounded. There is reason to hope that these are not all the German ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Asquith said that [?]neral Sir John French in his report on the fighting which took place on Wednesday said that the British ...
Article : 116 wordsEye-witnesses liken the stand of the British infantry to Rorke's Drift. Seven hundred Britishers took up a high position to the rear of Tournai, with 22 field pieces ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Russians approaching Konigsberg dislodged the garrison outposts and also occupied Allensten. The Alsatian army, under the Grand ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. J. Cook, the Prime Minister, to-day receivcd the following message from Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner, dated yesterday, 6.45 p.m.:— ...
Article : 373 wordsThe Admiralty states that all the German cruisers engaged in the light were disposed of. The German submarines attacked the ...
Article : 60 wordsSpeaking in the House of Lords to-day, the Marquis of Crewe stated that the Government was deeply impressed by the enthusiasm in India, which was largely due to ...
Article : 105 wordsIt is officially announced that Konigs berg is invested. ...
Article : 16 wordsPrince Eristoff, colonel in the Horse Artillery, has been decorated for ordering his men to hitch off their own guns and to gallop after the Herman guns, several of which ...
Article : 55 wordsOfficial messages declare that the British troops are occupying a strong position supported by the French army on both flanks. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe news of the British naval victory aroused great, enthusiasm at Antwerp. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe naval victory produced a great impression and enthusiasm. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Russians shot at and brought down a German Zeppelin, which bombarded the railway station at Mlawa, on the Polish frontier. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Maharajab of Mysore has given 50 lakhs of rupees (3,000,000 rupees) to the Indian forces which will assist the Allies. [A rupee is worth 1/4.] ...
Article : 36 wordsA trawler has landed at Hull five members of the crew of a Scottish boat, which was sunk by a floating mine, when 30 miles off Blyth. ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is reported that Boulogne has been evacuated by the Allies. ...
Article : 19 wordsIt is officially announced that several Liege forts still resist. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe first important naval engagement in the North Sea has taken place, and the British fleet has come out victoriois. The Press Bureau states that on Friday ...
Article : 207 wordsThousands of East Prussian refugees are flocking to Berlin, causing dismay in the German capital. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Allies abandoned Boulogne on the ground that it is strategically unimportant. The U[?]lans are advancing in that direction. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe destruction of Louvain is fully confirmed. Refugees state that the Germans were chagrined owing to their defeat on ...
Article : 93 wordsPassengers on a steamer which has arrived at Brindisi state that they saw a British destroyer sink an Austrian destroyer. ...
Article : 30 wordsOne hundred and sixty trains travelling N. E. on Friday might withdraw from the Meuse, one army corps with full equipment, to meet ...
Article : 67 wordsAccording to official despatches received by the French Embassy, the French troops found 8000 German dead between Nancy and Vitrimout ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is reported that Russian shells destroyed the funnels of the German light eruiser Magdeburg (4478 tons). Further firing caused an explosion ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Amiens says the Germans have hitherto carried all before them by sheer weight of numbers and the deadly hail of the maxims. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe attitude of Turkey is causing perplexity. It is reported that military preparations are being carried on with all speed. ...
Article : 59 wordsA local passenger steamer was destroyed by a mine at Otchakoff, near Odessa, in the Black Sea. The bulk of those on board was rescued, ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the destruction of Louvain is an unpardonable act of barbarity and vandalism. Louvain was miles from the real fighting. International ...
Article : 102 wordsMessage from Earl Roberts. The High Commissioner has cabled the following message from Lord Roberrs:—"Congratulate Australia on the contingent about to sail. I feet ...
Article : 56 wordsReports from the White Sea state that all German vessels found there on the outbreak of war were set on fire and sunk The crows were taken prisoners. ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is officially announced that the French fortified town of Longwy close to the Belgian frontier, with the garrison, has surrendered to the Germans, after 24 days' ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that 800 German naval officers and sailors and a quantity of ammunition traversed Bulgaria in special trains on Friday for Constantinople. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Germans are advancing in four columns, the first on the gap of Stenay 32 miles west of Longwy where they hope to strike the Meuse and accomplish a ...
Article : 124 wordsLieut Dean one of the prisoners from the Galician interviewed at Los Palmas, stated that the Kaiser Willhelm der Grosse sighted the cruiser Hightlyer at 7.30 on ...
Article : 336 wordsThe newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" says that Louvain was destroyed because the male population fired on the Germans, while the women from roofs poured boiling ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Churchill, first Lord of teh Admiralty, informed an American interviewer that the war was started, and was being maintained by the Prussian military ...
Article : 505 wordsThe British naval victory at Heligoland was even more splendid than oficial reports indicate. Survivors in their narrative generally agree that the battle was ...
Article : 78 wordsWith a view to meeting the enemy's attempt to drive a wedge between the British and the coast a new French army is being formed to take the offensive against ...
Article : 44 wordsReuter's agency in London states that Turkish officers do not believe the statements that German sailors are going to Constantinople. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Belgian Minister conferred with Mr. Bryan protesting against the Germans burning Louvain. The Minister called the United States's ...
Article : 41 wordsA soldier who has returned to Amiens, in the north-west of France from the front has rela[?] that during the recent fighting a re[?] of British Hussars galloped ...
Article : 71 wordsCanadian papers are full of warm praise at the battleship cruiser New Zealand's participation in the North Sea battle. ...
Article : 33 wordsAfter setting fire to Louvain, the Germans handeuffed 72 residents and marched them to Campenhout, where they were compelled to witness the shooting of seven ...
Article : 41 wordsA cable message from Paris says it is officially announced that the military governor has ordered all residents in the zone of the city defending the forts to ...
Article : 49 wordsIntelligence has been received in Copenhagen that the arrival of refugees in Berlin from East Prussia, which the Russians are invading in strong force, is causing ...
Article : 102 wordsSeven German Army Corps in the Camd[?] district with cavalry, now total 430,000 Part of teh 6th Army Corps is between Dinant and Thlonville. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe destroyer flotilla arrived at Harwich There was an immense crowd on the pier, who cheered the Jack Tars. Of 13 destroyers, only one presents signs ...
Article : 278 wordsA Marconi station intercepted a German official statement as follows:—"Owing to arms and ammunition having been distributed among the civil ...
Article : 70 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Arras says that the defence of the fronti[?] from Lille to Vale[?] a distance [?] 25 miles, was recently ontrusted to ...
Article : 164 wordsIt is asserted at Boulogne that German [?]alry managed to break through the French [?] at Arras a fort[?]ed town 120 miles north of Paris, and 23 miles ...
Article : 52 wordsFurther particulars of the fighting at Mons show that the Middleson Regiment suffered badly, but many of the British infantry were never within range of the ...
Article : 79 wordsOstend has been transforned into a military camp. The British warships transports are pouring marines into the town. ...
Article : 29 wordsKalisz the undefended Polish fronther town, which was bombarded by the Germans, is to-day a heap of ruins Its streets are strewn with the dead ...
Article : 39 wordsRefuges state that a battle is raging at Hir[?] a town seven miles inside of French [?]ry. The Germans have been thrown b[?]k on Chimay, in Belgium. ...
Article : 9 wordsOnly 1,000,000 francs of the Brussels war indemnity has been paid. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says the Kaiser Williclm der Crosse sank the New Zealand Company's Kaipara the Tubalcain, and the Nyanga. The crews have been landed at ...
Article : 44 wordsDuring the [?]ghing on Sunday an [?]nglish avia[?] the clouds, found a German av[?] just [?]low swo[?]ing [?] [?]lver shot [?]tied the chambers. ...
Article : 47 wordsTilsit, which as previously announced, has been occupied by the Russians is in East Prussia, 390 miles from Berlin. It was here that the treaty between Russia ...
Article : 134 wordsThe first batch of the British troops wounded at Mons have arrived at Folkstone, and have been convoyed to Shorncliffe Hospital. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Ostend correspondent states that the Belgian army is gradually forcing back the Germans on Brussels, and has recaptured Malines. ...
Article : 69 wordsA Berlin wireless message states that the main German army in the Cambrai district advanced nine days gaining coutinuous victories. General Von Kluck repulsed ...
Article : 114 wordsAdvices from Rome state that Austria has declared war on Belgium, owing to the assistance received by the latter from France and Great Britain. ...
Article : 37 wordsGeneral [?] ummarising the situation says the allis must keep the Germans busy pre[?]ting the transfer of troops to East Prussia ther[?] the allies must not ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day, Earl Kitchener, Minister of War, announced that in addition to reinforcements which would be shortly proceeding to France, the ...
Article : 255 wordsThe "Exchange's" correspondent, telegraphing from Ghent, states that two Belgian divisions have destroyed fortifications erected to hinder the Belgian advance on ...
Article : 48 wordsInsurrectionary movements are reported in provinces of Austria. Six German Hungarian regiments surrounded and annihilated a Bohemian ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is stated that towards the end of the battle some pinnaces picking up Germans who were struggling in the water, were followed by the German squadron, and had to ...
Article : 48 wordsSergeant A. Le[?] in a letter from the front states that when the British artillery opened fr[?] the Germans replied but did not know of shelter a trick we learned from ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is reported that the Russians are within a few mines of Lemberg. ...
Article : 21 wordsSeven hundred British, with two guns, took up a position behind Cambrai on Wednesday morning. The guns at first had a spiendid range, and did wholesale execution, ...
Article : 171 wordsA battle is proceeding between Lemberg and the Vistula, over a front of 300 kilometres (about 186 miles). ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Germans have bombarded Malines Most of the public monuments were hit. When they ceased they ordered the civilians to evacuate the town. Many refugees are ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is stated that 200 prisoners from Heligoland have arrived at Sheerness. Nineteen prisoners from the German cruiser Manzi have been landed at Leith. ...
Article : 48 wordsEarl Roberts, addressing a new battalion of Fusileers, 1300 strong, said. "You are the pick of the nation, highly educated, business and professional men doing what ...
Article : 82 wordsDuring the Servian advance on Shabatz the Austrians attempted a sortie, but were dispersed after sanguinary bayonet encounters. ...
Article : 101 wordsA general battle is in progress in the southern districts of Lublin and Kholm, in Russian Poland. A magnificent Russian bayonet charge practically aunillilated the ...
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