The Venice correspondent of the "Dally Mail" states that the Anglo-French naval raid in the Adriatic produced an indescribable panic at Trieste. ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is stated that Austria promised, in return for her assistance, to cede to Roumania all Servian territory occupied by the Roumanians; to Bulgaria she offered ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsAs a tactical necessity the Belgian forces have fallen back, and Brussels has been abandoned. ...
Article : 212 wordsThe French fleet and the Montenegrius bombarded the forts at Cattaro on Tuesday and Wednesday. One fort was destroyed and the others ...
Article : 57 wordsAnother point that has yet to be made clear is as to the position in which Antwerp will now find itself. There are signs that the Germans are already between Brussels and ...
Article : 176 wordsOne thousand Italian volunteers, fully armed, have arrived from America under Commander Ricciotti and Giuseppe Garibaldi, and have offered their services to ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is officially announced that a bread famine is feared. Wheat stocks in hand are sufficient for only two or three weeks. The Government has seized all the wheat ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Government Press Bureau states that the Belgian army has been forced to fall back. Communication with Brussels is ...
Article : 170 wordsCritics point out that the Belgians at Antwerp are admirably placed to fall upon the German columns now pushing westward if they suffer a check at the ...
Article : 158 wordsIf the Belgians were saved from something more than a "retreat in good orden" it was probably owing to the magnificent feat of the French cavalry in managing to get to their ...
Article : 304 wordsA British military aeroplane fell, and the pilot, Geard, was killed, but the observer, Lieutenant Robert Smith-Barry, escaped with injuries. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is understood that the Ottoman force which entered Bulgaria has returned to Turkey. ...
Article : 20 wordsLord Tredegar has turned his private yacht into a hospital ship at Portsmouth. It will provide many beds. The Bank of England has received ...
Article : 380 wordsLater details regarding the German advance on Brussels show that when the order for the retreat was issued the Belgians blew up many houses in Louvain ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Germans have occupied Brussels. Aug. 21, 10.50 a.m. The Germans threatened to lay Brussals in ruins if a single shot was fired from the ...
Article : 372 wordsAnother heavy German attack may now probably be expected at some quite different point. Modern strategy has never consisted in delivering an outflanking attack and ...
Article : 161 wordsThe recent attack on Vladimir Volhynskly, an important town in Volhynia, 17 miles north-east of the Junction of the Polish, Russian, and Galician frontiers, ...
Article : 89 wordsA court-martial at Belfort condemned to death the wife of a German forest guard, who cut off the head of a French soldier, and her husband was sentenced to 20 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 wordsThat General Joffre is in the south in order to lead a really sorious invasion into Germany. In that quarter may reasonably be doubted. A French force has advanced some distance ...
Article : 87 wordsExtensive preparations are being made to defend Antwerp. The woods have been cut down and villages destroyed outside the town to ...
Article : 70 wordsTelegrams from G[?]ent state that King Albert, with the general staff, is now at Malines, 13 miles south-east of Antwerp, and the army is occupying a line ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Galician troops made a night attack and surprised 1000 Cossacks at Miechow, 48 miles south-west of Kielce, in Russian Poland. ...
Article : 46 wordsFive steamers are reported to have arrived at Barry (Wales), with wheat aggregating 30,000 tons. The wheat was originally consigned to Hamburg, ...
Article : 55 wordsNews comes daily of further "victories" from Russia. As nobody out of Russia (unless it be the Germans) can possibly know what is the actual state of affairs upon the ...
Article : 233 wordsA Dutch official, who recently arrived from Berlin, states that wages there have fallen 30 per cent. He adds that the slaughter of cattle is being restricted, the ...
Article : 80 wordsAfter three days' fighting the Russians have captured Lyck, an important town in East Prussia, about 20 miles from the Russian border. ...
Article : 51 wordsTelegrams from Maastricht state that the Liege forts are still holding out. London doctors express the opinion that all the defenders must now be stone deaf ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 221 wordsThe State Department has received Without comment a statement from Germany to the effect that the German Emperor intended to cede immediately back ...
Article : 196 wordsThe various scraps of news which have got through from the battleground in front of Brussels all sum up to this—that the first considerable battle of the war has been fought ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Agency states that the Montenegrins have defeated the Austrians in an engagement in Bosnia, and that the Austrians lost 200 killed. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Germans at Mulhauser, in Upper Alsace, knowing that the French were sparing the Alsatians as much as possible, concealed themselves in houses protected ...
Article : 68 wordsThe slow advance of the Germans is reported in the region of Longwy and Br[?]cy, in the French province of Mourthe et Mozelle. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe cables now come from Ghent. They state that Brussels was abandoned, after a conference between the allies and the town authorities, in order that the great ...
Article : 195 wordsAll the able-bodied men in Austria-Hungary between the ages of 20 and 42 are now being called to the colours. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Donohoe states that the occupation of Brussels was due to the Germans throwing two army corps against Louvain, which was the weak point in the Allies' ...
Article : 417 wordsThat is to say, the Germans have succeeded in the first object of their strategy— they have brought their army along quickly enough to defeat the Belgian army before ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsAn army of 400,000 Swiss is guarding the frontiers. ...
Article : 16 wordsA French airman, at a place unnamed, encountered a division of German cavalry, and dropped several bombs, which did great damage. ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is officially announced that the French have occupied Guebwiller, town in Alsance, at the entrance of a valley of the Vosges, 14 miles south-south-west of ...
Article : 67 wordsIn order to meet the war expenses, the Minister for Finance proposes to increase the duties on coffee, sugar, spirits, cigars, and tobacco. The revenue that will be ...
Article : 50 wordsBut the most imposing building in Brussels is the great modern Pala[?]s-de-Justice (Law Courts), which was begun in 1866 and took 17 years to build. It is the largest building ...
Article : 179 wordsThe German Emperor, in bidding farewell to the First Foot Guards at Potsdam, drew his sword and flourished it, crying, "I draw the sword that, with God's help, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe next step in the campaign is almost certain to bring the Germans into conflict with the British. There is every sign of the British and French, with such part of the ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Mayor of Linsmeau, near Tirle mont, officially reports that some German Hussars, whose officer had been shot by a Belgian-patrol, accused civilians of ...
Article : 162 wordsM. Pegoud, the famous airman who was the first to successfully loop the loop in an aeroplane, has returned to Paris. He flew for a distance of 300 kilometres ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the first place it is uncertain how much of the Belgian army will be there to help it. The official message says that the Belgian retireme was a tactical movement, and was ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 22 Aug 1914, Page 13
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