Details published in Paris show that there wore three French armies between Charleroi and Longwy. In addition to the British the African Zouaves and Tirailleurs occupied the ...
Article : 579 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that Germans in force attacked the French on the southern frontier on the 25th, but were repulsed, and retreated all along the line. ...
Article : 50 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of the Red Cross Society on Tuesday afternoon a cheque for £29/9/- was handed in; this, with goods to the value of £33, was the proceeds of the Gift Tea ...
Article : 167 wordsIt is to be expected that both sides will seek to make, some capital out of the preparations for Australian defence; but in some cases the limit is passed. ...
Article : 529 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 614 wordsIt is believed that a large Russian centre army is marching on Posen. (Posen is the capital of the Prussian province of Posen, and is a fortress of the first rank. It is situated on ...
Article : 89 wordsThe High Commissioner has received a message, marked "official," from Ostend, in which Field-Marshal French reports that no further engagements have taken place, and that the ...
Article : 37 wordsGeneral Sir John French reports that he is unable so far to send details of the casualties owing to the extended nature of the operations. The condition of the troops is in every way ...
Article : 40 wordsIn response to Major Bennett's appeal volunteers are coming forward in large numbers to complete the country battalions. One hundred more men are expected to arrive in Goulburn ...
Article : 114 wordsThe following cable from the High Commissioner is dated August 25, 1.55 a.m., and is endorsed "official":—"The destroyer Kennet, while chasing the German destroyer S90 on Saturday ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is officially announced that fighting has been renewed in Lorraine, and still continues. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe War Office, requiring all available forces on the Meuse, have ordered the abandonment of all occupied territory, and Mulhausen has been evacuated. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Asquith, replying to questions in the House, said that compulsory service was undesirable. He added that Lord Kitchener needed all the recruits he could get. It was a mistake ...
Article : 48 wordsAt Victoria Barracks on Wednesday about 500 volunteers came before the enrolling officer anxious for service in the expeditionary force. A number of likely men were rejected on ...
Article : 284 wordsThe Kenmore volunteers who went to Sydney a few days ago have returned to Goulburn. When they arrived in Sydney they found that no one apparently knew anything about them, ...
Article : 160 wordsWhen Fort Chandfontaine, on the south-eastern boundary of Liege, which commanded the railroad from Aix-la-Chapelle, was practically reduced to ruins, the commander, Major ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary for the Colonies, has received a message from the British Commander in German Togoland stating that the wireless station has been destroyed. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe bomb-throwing at Antwerp by a German Zeppelin airship lasted 20 minutes, and the population was terribly alarmed. Hundreds ran into the streets in their night clothes. The ...
Article : 206 wordsA Zeppelin airship attempted another raid last night, but abandoned it owing to the city's precautions. ...
Article : 22 wordsFrom Messrs. W. H. Paling and Co., Ltd., we have received a copy of Mr. Percy F. Hollis's Australian patriotic song, "A Message to Motherland." The song is not unknown in ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Seydlitz has arrived at Valparaiso. ...
Article : 11 wordsAs a deed-box to be deposited in a big London bank was being placed in a safe a ticking was heard. The box was opened, disclosing an infernal machine heavily charged. ...
Article : 35 wordsSurprise was expressed in Sydney shipping circles on Wednesday when the steamer Zambesi, which was generally supposed to be loading phosphates at Nauru, near Ocean ...
Article : 208 wordsThe British cruiser Gloucester, 4800 tons, chased the German cruiser Breslau, 4500 tone. among the Ionian Isles, to the south and went of Greece for two days and a night. The British ...
Article : 126 wordsThe central feature of the fighting at Gumbinnen, the capital of the province of that name, was a "Balaclava charge" by the Russians. The Germans held a village whence they were ...
Article : 334 wordsMr. Asquith will to-morrow move an address to the King of the Belgians, conveying the House of Commons' sympathy with the Belgians and admiration for their heroic resistance ...
Article : 53 wordsThe first consignment, consisting of eight tons of green and purple slate, was despatched to Sydney on Wednesday. Mr. Woods, a slate merchant in Sydney, has made arrangements to ...
Article : 94 wordsBishop Barlow is suffering from nervous breakdown. His doctors have ordered him complete rest, but his Lordship expected to be about again in the near future. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Berlin Official News Agency states that Prince Frederick of Saxe-Meiningen was killed by a shell at Namur on the 23rd. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt is denied that the Germans have captured Namur. While the fighting was taking place in and about Charleroi, Namur had been subjected to ...
Article : 126 wordsIt is reported that the Egyptian Government has ordered six Hansa, two Nord Deutscher, and several other German boats to leave Port Said. They will probably be seized by the British. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe commercial division of the above college sat for examination in typewriting on Monday, 17th August. There were two sets of candidates, elementary and intermediate, ...
Article : 101 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsThe Australian Association of British Manufactures and their representatives recently despatched the following cable message to the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Lloyd George has introduced a War Loan Bill. Tie method of raising the money was not indicated. He asked the House to give the Treasury power to decide when the opportunity ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is officially announced that German cavalry patrols have been seen in the, region of Douai, 18 miles south of Lille, but are unable to advance owing to the fear of falling in with ...
Article : 131 wordsThe monthly meeting of St. Saviour's Cathedral Branch of the Church of England Men's Society was held in the Guild Hall on Wednesday evening. Mr. A. M. Betts, ...
Article : 214 wordsA private cable received in Sydney on Wednesday stated that the German-Australian Company's steamer Hamm, which left Hamburg on July 11 for Fremantle, Adelaide, and Sydney, ...
Article : 39 wordsBut for the great war, started to gorge the insensate ambitions of a ruler who has periodically exhibited every sign of monomania over since he succeeded to the German ...
Article : 822 wordsEight hundred tourists from Switzerland arrived here yesterday after many discomforts. ...
Article : 17 wordsA telegram from San Giovanni states that 30,000 Montenegrins have met with a series of successes on the Herzegovinian frontier. In a fierce bayonet fight at Graheve, the Austrians ...
Article : 60 wordsAs a result of an application by the Furniture Trade Society before the Wages Board, a clause has been inserted in the existing award which will permit members of the society to ...
Article : 288 wordsCount Zeppelin commands an arship. ...
Article : 9 wordsThe features for to-night's change of programme at the Empire are "The Night Riders of Petersham," a production by the famous Vitagraph firm, and "The Live Wire," a sensational ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Daily Telegraph's Warsaw correspondent states that the Germans fined the town of Kalisch £5000 and shot six of the foremost inhabitants who had been detained as hostages ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Belgians lost 40 killed and wounded during a raid by Uhlans near Ostend. The Germans suffered more severely. It is stated that a German with a red cross badge was found ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Official Press Bureau publishes Belgium's protest against German barbarism, which is based on the report of a committee of inquiry which included among its members ...
Article : 153 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsThis evening the War Office announced that the Germans seemed to have resumed the offensive at the points where it was suspended yesterday, but they are being held by the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Political Labour League gave another very successful social and euchre party in the Mechanics' Hall on Wednesday night. There was a very good attendance, and so complete ...
Article : 435 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsIt is officially announced that the allies' movement to their now position is now completed. The French command the outlets from the forest of Ardennes. It it also announced ...
Article : 93 wordsA man concealed in church grounds shot at a sentry at Penarth. The sentry fired twice, but the assailant escaped. SYDNEY, Thursday. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Government has ordered all boys between the ages of 10 and 19 to commence a course of musketry training. Retired officers are being employed in their instruction. ...
Article : 36 wordsAt a meeting of wool buyers and selling brokers on Wednesday morning it was unanimously resolved that no sales of wool be held for the present. Another meeting will take ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Conroy addressed a gathering at Kenmore on Wednesday night in the open air. He explained the political situation, and pointed out that the elections were unavoidable. He ...
Article : 103 wordsAustria has declared war on Japan. London, August 26. Reuter's Agency announces that it is officially stated in Vienna that the Japanese Consul ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Maxwell, war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, who reached Mons on Friday, states that Allanby's cavalry division marched north, covering Mons and Fouraine-l'eveque, west of ...
Article : 210 words"The Mystery of the Black Domino," or " The Creed of the Fatalist," a three-reel feature, will be screened in to-night's change of programme at the Majestic pictures. This presentation is a ...
Article : 306 wordsIt is not enough that the food should be rammed into the stomach in lumps; the food, to do you good, must be digested and assimilated into the system. The first process in digestion ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Commission appointed by Parliament to regulate if necessary the prices of commodities in New South Wales during the war, consisting of Judge Edmunds (president) and Messrs. A ...
Article : 249 wordsOwing to the enormous number of recruits offering themselves the Militia Department is considering the offer of an additional army corps of 20,000 men for service abroad. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe A.L.H. Band hold another social in the Mechanics' Hall on Tuesday night, the function being an even greater success than the previous dance that the band gave this season. ...
Article : 135 wordsReuter's Agency reports that Austria is mobilising on the Italian frontier, especially at Trent" and Innsbruck. It is stated that 70,000 men have already been concentrated. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Government has decided to permit the wives and families of German and Austrian reservists who have gone to the war to return to their respective countries. ...
Article : 231 wordsOn taking up their position in the vicinity of Mons., the British blew up the churches and railway station at Jemappes, three miles away, which were in the line of fire; and also the ...
Article : 233 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Thu 27 Aug 1914, Page 2
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: