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Advertising : 42 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr Cook) announced to-day that he had received a cable from the Secretary of State for the Colonies stating that “The Home ...
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Article : 225 wordsLatest news from England is that a tremendous cannonading has been heard off the coast of Margate, in Kent and thousands of people rushed to the ...
Article : 236 wordsA big engagement in the North Sea is officially reported. The battle resulted in a victory for the British Fleet. Eighty German ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Belgian Chamber of Deputies has passed a war vote of £8,000,000. It is understood that Belgium has given a special undertaking to allow ...
Article : 66 wordsNews from Europe states that the Germans have suffered a heavy reverse at the hands of the Belgians near Liege having been repulsed with shormous losses.” Germany has declared war on Belgium. A British destroyer caught a large German vessel laying mines at the ...
Article : 353 wordsIt is reported that a German torpedo boat in the Baltic met, with an unfortunate mishap. One of her torpedoes exploded, the damage resulting in the ...
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Article : 40 wordsThe newspapers join in declaring Admiral Jellicoe the chief in command of the British fleet, to be a silent, alert man vigorous, decisive cool and ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Ballarat Woollen Mills were the only buyers of skins in the State at S[?] sales. They took the whole offering, a very large one, at ...
Article : 39 wordsReuter’s correspondent at Nish received official intimation that the bombardment of Belgrade by the Austrians continues. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Ballarat branch of the Faderated Mining Employes Association at last night’s committee neeting carried the following resoution:— ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Russian armies are concentrated along the greater part of the German frontier and extensive reconnaissances have been carried out at ...
Article : 89 wordsThe 70th Regiment from the O.C. to the veriest recruit were early astir this morning and their movements were accelerated with a desire to ...
Article : 681 wordsThe Germans have shot 17 Aleatians who were endeavouring to cross Mulhausen, 68 miles from Strasburg, the capital of the lost French ...
Article : 29 wordsA precautionary mobilisation of the 8th Infantry Brigade, under Colonel G. H. Campbell, was success fully carried out to-day. ...
Article : 58 wordsGerman warships are reported to he in the Straits of Tushima (between Japan and China). where the Russia fleet is also gathering. ...
Article : 25 wordsFrom the Hague it is reported that the German Minister there has given a positive assurance that Germany will respect the neutrally of the ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is reported that the Japanese [?]olunteers also include several [?] have not had any training. [?] are being utilised for ...
Article : 214 wordsThe snayors of Geelong, Geolong West, Newtown ,and Chilwell conferred on Wednesday, and apread that their respective municipalities should ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Canadian Governement has granted the Union Steamship Company’s Niagara her clearances, and she is expected to sail from ...
Article : 66 wordsThe well-known mail steamer which left Fremantle on July 24 for London was reported to have arrived at Colombo, and is how ...
Article : 43 wordsLe Witte, the protean artist, new appearing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, relates a pec[?]r experience that occurred to him while playing in ...
Article : 699 wordsLater messages from Brussels state that the opposing forces near Liege, where the Germans suffered a decisive defeat, comprised 40,000 Belgians and ...
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Article : 121 wordsThe Canadian Order of the Daughters of Empire has decided to offer hospital ship to the British Empire The retail prices of foodstufis are ...
Article : 70 wordsAll nominations; for the Federal Parliament were required to be lodged by noon to-day. The only nominations received for ...
Article : 204 wordsTho Canadian Government has offered the protected cruises Niobe (11,000 tons) and Rainbow (3,600 tons) to the British Government for ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Goeben, a German battle cruiser, passed Gibraltar on Monday, steaming at full speed to the westward. It is expected that she will make a detour to ...
Article : 47 wordsThe management of the State mine took measures this afternoon to guard the mine during the war from damage by any person or persons ...
Article : 79 wordsThe report that the French floot operating west of Gibraltar had captured the German Dreadnought Goeben (22,000 tons), the Breslau (6000 ...
Article : 79 wordsMuch discussion took place in the British Cabinet on the question whether a British expeditionary force of 150,000 should be sent to assist France. ...
Article : 125 wordsIt was officially announced in London on Wednesday that the British scout Amphion had sunk the Hamburg-Amerika liner Konigin Luise, which ...
Article : 92 wordsThree days over her due time, the Griefswald arrived at Fremantle shorthly after one o’clock this morning. She came from Bremen via ...
Article : 270 wordsA formal order has been given for the mobilisation of a Canadian army division of 21,000 men immediately at Quebec. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Tientsin correspondent of the “Daily Mail” telegraphs the report of a naval engagement between the German cruiser Enden and the Russian ...
Article : 66 wordsThe war correspondent of the London “Daily Telegraph,” Mr W. Maxwell, wires from Arlon, in Belgium that the French army, under General Masoart ...
Article : 135 wordsNumerous captures of merchant vessels by the British, French, and Belgians are reported. Many German vessels were seized at ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Kaiser, in his speech from the throne, recalls the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and states that Russia, yielding to the ...
Article : 108 wordsDr Von Bethmann-Holwegg, the German Imperial Chancellor, speaking in the Reichstag yesterday afternoon, admitted that Germany had entered ...
Article : 117 wordsA report has been received that British cruisers have captured the North German Lloyd twin-screw steamer Willehad (4,761 tons), when ...
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Advertising : 271 wordsThe German liner Kronprinsesson Cecile, with specie to the value of £2,500,000 on board, has put back to the Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S.A. and is ...
Article : 60 wordsAn order mobilising the land and sea forces of the United States has been signed by President Woodrow Wilson. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe “Times” states that important diplomatic disclosures will be made shortly which will show that an unexpected move by Germany precipitated ...
Article : 58 wordsThrice to-day the captains of coasting vessels have been warned by the firing of shots across their bows from guns at the South Head that ...
Article : 79 wordsThe German Chancellor (Dr. Von Bethmann-HollWeg), speaking in the Reichstag yesterday, admitted that German troops had entered ...
Article : 114 wordsIt is reported at Ottawa that German warships are shelling the wireless station at Glace Bay, an outpost on the north-east coast of Cape ...
Article : 136 wordsM. Poincaire, the French Premier, sent a message to the two chambers of the French Parliament, in which he declared that France had been subjected ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Germans have, owing to the destruction of bridges, viaducts, and railways, been compelled to make for the They have invaded Dutch ...
Article : 70 wordsLieut. Dalton, of the 70th Regiment, has been left behind in Ballarat with orders to secure every one of the old infantry soldiers available. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe proportion of regular members of the 70th Regiment, which went to the front this morning was not considerable. There were in the ranks ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsA bill, introduced by the Home Secretary (Mr McKenna), to securo control of dangerous aliens during the war, has been passed by the House of ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. Arthur Coxall, of Buninyoung has thoughtfully offered a truck of cauliflowers for the use of the troops in camp at Queensclifth ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Germans have sot fire to the villages of Vise and Argenten, both of which are now in flames. Civilians were attacked, and the ...
Article : 62 wordsMessages were exchanged between the King and the Czar on Saturday. The King said that he could not help thinking that some ...
Article : 111 wordsAll eyes are now turned on the North Sea, awaiting news turned of a great naval battle between the British fleet and the British high sea fleet. ...
Article : 135 wordsNow that there is a possibility of the war being extended to Australia, the Federal Executive Council has filled the long-standing vacancy in ...
Article : 70 wordsAccording to a message from the Copenhagen correspondent of the “Daily Express,” part of the German Baltic Fleet passed through the ...
Article : 64 wordsA wounded German officer who was captured by the Belgians, expressed profound astonishment at the Belgian resistance, and stated that it was fully ...
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The Evening Echo (Ballarat, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Fri 7 Aug 1914, Page 4
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