[?] now point to the fact [?] Germans are making another and [?] deperate effort to steam the tide of [?] advance in western Belgium. ...
Article : 131 wordsIt is officially announced that German retreat from the Vistula continues without rest. The Russians have captured a large quantity of ma[?]aitions at [?]vangorod. The ...
Article : 116 wordsColonel Maritz on 22nd attacked Kesmoes[?] near Upington, on the southern bank of the Orange River. The garrison of 150 men repulsed the enemy and captured ...
Article : 51 wordsThe steamer Shiraz, flying a Persian flag, bound for Constantinople with a cargo of petroleum, has been destroyed by a mine at Outinograd. ...
Article : 32 wordsFrench cavalry and infantry, advancing near Lille, were almost bogged in marshy ground, under fire of the German artillery. The French 7[?]5 guns sent to cover the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Admiralty reports that a German submarine was run into and sunk by the destroyer Badger off the Dutch coast. The Badger's bow was slightly damaged. ...
Article : 39 wordsAmong the Australians mentioned in despatches from Field-Marshal Sir John French are Captain Lu[?]as Tooth (New South Wales), Captain W. S. Rich ...
Article : 82 wordsPrivate letters have been received in Bendigo in reference to the state of affairs in England during September and October. The railways have all been taken ...
Article : 275 wordsWhile the German cruiser Emden has been busy in the Indian Ocean, another enemy warship, the Karlsruhe, has been active in the Atlantic, and this vessel's ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Allies on Wednesday shelled the German trenches. Bayonet charges followed, the Germans being driven hack six miles. The fight was one of the best in ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is officially stated that all sea routes are now reasonably safe. ...
Article : 25 wordsDuring the attack on Antwerp the Germans despatched two locomotives, carrying dynamite, and having no drivers, against, the south station. Two Belgian sappers ...
Article : 42 wordsThe British torpedo gunboat Dryad (1070 tons) went ashore on the north coast of Scotland, but has been refloated undamaged. For some time her position was ...
Article : 36 wordsA wounded soldier relates that desperate, fighting has taken place in the regions of Ivangorod. The Germans held a strongly entrenched position on a hill top. The ...
Article : 78 wordsA communique issued at midnight states[?] —"The Allies repulsed violent attacks from the sea to the south of A[?]as. We have taken the village of Melz[?]court, west of ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Trieste correspondent of the Rome "Tribuna" has reported that a mine has destroyed an Austrian submarine at Pola, the Austrian naval base at the head of the ...
Article : 55 wordsReuter's Agency states that German officers who lodged at the Chateau Montmort ransacked jewel cases, removed the silver and linen, and emptied the cellars. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that Bri tish soldiers at Y[?]res captured a German bandmaster sitting on a tree stump gloomily tying a wounded hand. His [?] ...
Article : 91 wordsAll official communique states that the Russians beyond the Vistula are closely following the retreating German. The German only offered feeble resistance ...
Article : 143 wordsSporting newspapers state that Anthony Wilding, the well known Australian tennis player who is now at the front, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant for ...
Article : 41 wordsThe number of British vessels sunk by the German cruiser Emden in her most recent series of raids, was seven, not five, as at first reported. The names of the other ...
Article : 135 wordsA detachment of British cavalry was playing water polo at the Oise, when a force of Uhlans appeared. The British charged naked and repulsed the Uhlans. ...
Article : 42 wordsAnother large case of Belgian sausages has been donated for the Bendio soldiers in camp at Broadmeadows by Mr. James Nankervis[?] ham and [?] curer of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following cablegrams have been received from the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid):—Official.—Further descriptive accounts ...
Article : 153 wordsMr. R. H. Spooner, the well-known English cricketer, has been wounded in fighting in France. ...
Article : 23 wordsLord John Cavendish has been killed in France. ...
Article : 18 wordsSir,—I notice, according to letters in your columns, several persons on the continent experienced diff[?]lty in returning to England. At the outbreak of the war ...
Article : 135 wordsThe police are making str[?]ous efforts to stop demonstrations at Milan[?] Venice and Besbro in favor of war against Austria. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Duke of Roxburgh has been wounded, and is in a London hospital. ...
Article : 21 wordsOfficial.—The Admiralty announces eight or nine German cruisers at large in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Working in concert under various ...
Article : 401 wordsFour thousand British prisoners are located at Dobritz, near Dresden. ...
Article : 18 wordsOn 19th October German airmen dropped 14 bombs on Warsaw, killing nine and wounding 56. ...
Article : 27 wordsA German, who was in charge of the telephone switchboard at Rosyth nava[?] dockyard, in Scotland, has been arrested on a charge of espionage. ...
Article : 39 wordsReports from Breda state that only a few hundred Landsturmers are now left in Antwerp. The remainder of the troops marched towards Thorout. 10 miles south ...
Article : 48 wordsThe French Customs authorities at Ger[?] have seized a quantity of blankets, which were addressed to Switzerland, but were really destined for Germany. ...
Article : 33 wordsReuter's correspondent in Rome states that private advices from Austria say that the calling up of landsturm created p[?]found depression. The landsturmers, who ...
Article : 75 wordsDuring the past few days the British troops have been operating along the French—Belgian frontier[?] also at the Aisn[?]. In former parts the Allies extend ...
Article : 108 wordsThe British Red Cross Society's fund to-day totalled £49,214/7/[?]. ...
Article : 20 wordsReports received in Paris show that the Germans lost heavily in a recent night attack on the French near Verdun. The French anticipated such an attack, ...
Article : 90 wordsColonel Morath[?] military writer to the "Berliner Tageblatt," says the greatest battle of the war is raging between Lille and Dunkirk. It is for the German[?] a ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Spanish Government has prohibited the export of [?] and [?]les, which had just started on a large scale. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund to-day reached a total of £[?]. Included in the receipts was a cheque for £100 from the employes of the Metropolitan Gas ...
Article : 34 wordsReuter's Agency has received an official telegram from Athens[?] stating that the situation in regard to Turkey's exp[?]lsion of Greeks is becoming unbearable. ...
Article : 37 wordsUp to the present £1235 has been raised as a result of the appeal by the Victorian State Schools' Patriotic League. Teachers and scholars' contributions represent [?] ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Kaiser visited the western headquarters of his armies, probably at Mezieres, on Tuesday last. PETROGRAD, 2[?]t October. ...
Article : 47 wordsThere was less artillery action than usual, misty weather rendering it impossible, and this also militated against the employment of guns. Our patrols have ...
Article : 90 wordsThe fields in the neighborhood of Furnes and Dixmude are covered with German dead. A German shell struck a house at ...
Article : 38 wordsThe German Socialist newspaper, "Vorwa[?]rts[?]" which on more than one occasion during the war[?] has delivered itself of out-spoken remarks not always directed against ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Marconi Company has presented the Government with two complete wireless equipments. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Royal Commission on Food Supplies and Trade has issued a report to the Governor-General regarding the probable shortage of [?] for meat export, and ...
Article : 70 wordsThe newspaper "Telegraaf" states that 4000 wounded have reached Bruges. The Allies, from a strongly-entrenched position at Armentieres, beat back all ...
Article : 40 wordsA message from B[?]sle states that the Kaiser on the 18th October inspected the Germans in Alsace, and incited them to make a last, victorious in the Vosges. ...
Article : 48 wordsIn order to prevent the indirect importation of German and Austrian sugar[?] or sugar from neutral countries freed by the importation of German sugar[?] the British ...
Article : 46 wordsThe country where the Britis Troops are operating is mainly in industrial regions[?] including a combination of mining and agriculture, similar to the British ...
Article : 187 wordsA communique states[?]"The action on [?] continues with great vio[?] [?] prticularly at Arras, La Bass[?] and Armentieres. The Allies lost ground ...
Article : 228 wordsThe "Daily News" reports that the Kaiser is staying at the Club House at Cz[?]stochow, in Poland, 150 miles from Warsaw. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe President of the Prussian Diet (Herr de Wedel) in his speech on Thursday said there was scar[?]ely a family in Germany that was not now in mourning. Still they ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Flushing correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" believes that many Belgian girl refugees who are used to farm work are willing to go to Australia if she ...
Article : 42 wordsIn another report the commission states that with the shortage of the coming wheat crop in consequence of the continued dry weather, the crop will not be ...
Article : 68 wordsRefugees state that the Germans murdered 40 inhabitants of Roulers. A battle is now raging 15 miles south of the Bruges-Ghent line. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is officially announced that during the last few days a s[?]rior Austrian force attacked the combined Servian and Monteregrin armies in the direction of Serajivo[?] ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association has appealed to members to [?]armark one a[?] of next year's crop fot the patriotic fund. It is expected this will ...
Article : 45 wordsOfficial.—Commodore Keyes, in reporting the services performed by submarines, states that they have been incessantly employed on the enemy's coast, and obtained ...
Article : 232 wordsFighting between Ostend and Nieuport was of the most sanguinary character. A captured German states that after one fight 1300 comrades were buried in a single ...
Article : 67 wordsGermans in China are carrying on a widespread campaign of scurrilous lies in that country, said Miss Hepburn[?] a Geelong resident, who arrived in Sydney by ...
Article : 169 wordsMention was previously made of a letter found on a German officer[?] who participated in the fighting in the region of Roye and Noyon. All through the le[?]er ...
Article : 227 wordsOver 500 motor ambulances have been presented to the Red Cross Society, of which 30 are attached to the Australians' voluntary hospital. The authorities ...
Article : 50 wordsNorth of the River Lys our cavalry forces have driven the enemy steadily, and hard fighting has taken place. A brilliant exploit on the 13th was performed by the ...
Article : 147 wordsEx-President Steyn in a speech at Bloomfontein said Colonel Maritz and his rebels had besmirched Dutch name. They must be [?]aught a lesson. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Newfoundland contingent has arrived in England. ...
Article : 13 wordsA British officer relates how Belgians on Wednesday in the darkness approached to within 300 yards of the German trenches along [?]. The Belgi[?]ns open[?]d a ...
Article : 54 wordsReuter's correspondent in Tokio states that Britain's appreciation of Japan's assistance has created a profound impression. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe war funds total £[?] meluding the Lord Mayor's fund. £[?] Cham ber of Commerce, £[?]; Belgian relief (money) £[?] (clothing) £3500; Red ...
Article : 91 wordsThe country presents a melancholy appearance. The progressive little homesteads are literally torn to pieces under the fire of shrapnel and ball. Many villages ...
Article : 86 wordsShortly after she cleared New York Harbor the oil tank steamer Brendilla was captured by a British warship, and brought into Halifax. Nova Scotia. The ...
Article : 126 words[?] was of extra[?] A German column ad[?] towards Dunkirk, close to the sea[?] and using the sand dunes for [?] ...
Article : 96 wordsColonel Maritz at outset of the war dis armed a garrison of 38 at Kakadamas, on the pretext that he needed the rifles and another force was departing against the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Admiralty states that all day yes terday monitors and other vessels of the bombarding flotilla fired on the German right successfully, working in co-operation ...
Article : 140 wordsThe decision of the French Council of Ministers to confiseate the iron mines in the Dielette district, near Cherbourg, which were the property of Herr August ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Allied warships, according to a message received from Peking, have captured a German torpedo-boat destroyer which escaped from Kiao-Cha[?]. ...
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