Official news of the fighting in Belgium is confined to the statement, issued at Paris at midnight on Monday, that the situation is unchanged. The few scraps of ...
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Article : 146 wordsThe British Ambassador in the United States (Sir Cecil Spring-Rice) is here conferring with the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr. R. L. Borden), but the object of his ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Prince of Wales has joined Field-Marshal Sir John French's staff, and has gone to France. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Turkish losses in the bombardment of the forts at the Dardanelles totalled 250 men and two guns. The Goeben and Broslau have re-entered the Bosphorus. ...
Article : 34 wordsBrigadier-General Charles Fitzclarence, V.C., of the Irish Guards, was killed while fighting at Ypres. ...
Article : 20 wordsIn order to obviate the use of American passports for espionage purposes in foreign countries, President Wilson has signed an order making effective some new ...
Article : 68 wordsAdvice has been received by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) that the following members of the Australian Imperial force have died at sea:—Private H. V. ...
Article : 97 wordsIn support of the Dutch protest to the belligerent Powers against mines in the North Sea, it is announced that more than eighty mines have drifted ashore in the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Home Secretary (Mr. R. McKenna) states that there are 14,500 aliens interned in the British concentration camps, and that 28,000 are still at large. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. J. J. Garvan, of Sydney, has presented to Lovat's Scouts, Scottish Territorial Yeomanry regiment, an armoured motor car for service at the front. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn official list of the respective losses of the British and German navies during the war gives the following figures. Armoured Cruisers.—Britain has lost 5; ...
Article : 640 wordsEdward Edwards, managing director of the Continental Caoutchouc and Gutta Percha Co., Melbourne was interned to-day by the military authorities under a ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Russians are fighting tenaciously in the Soldau and Neidenberg districts (East Prussia), hoping to obliterate the memory of General Samsonoff's reverse. The ...
Article : 50 wordsA telegram from Suva (Fiji) states that the Legislature has resolved to ask the Secretary of State for permission to raise a contingent of 100 men for service in ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Governor-General has received the following cable message from Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P.:—"Last Sunday the largest and most enthusiastic meeting of Irishmen ...
Article : 79 wordsAn official statement issued in Berlin states:—"The Russian advance near Soldau has been checked. Strong Russian forces were thrown back on Plock (Poland), on ...
Article : 78 wordsPrivate cable messages have been received in Melbourne to the effect that the British Government has prohibited the exportation of tea from the United Kingdom ...
Article : 38 wordsThe following cable message was received from the High Commissioner to-day:— "London, Nov. 16.—Official: The weather interferes with the campaign on the ...
Article : 84 wordsAn important Anglo-Indian contingent has arrived at Marscilles. ...
Article : 11 wordsAdvices from Venice state that the Russians have invested part of Cracow, and that the city is now abla[?]. The inhabitants are fleeing. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe steamer Mataram arrived at Pinkenba to-day from the East after an uneventful voyage. Twice during the voyage she picked up code messages which could ...
Article : 165 wordsA wanton sacrilegious outrage by German troops is semi-officially reported from Gebwiller, a town on the French frontier of Alsace. The Duke of Wurtemberg's ...
Article : 105 wordsA "Daily Mail" correspondent in Belgium declares that the Germans lost nearly 100,000 men in four days' fighting at Ypres. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn official communique states:—"The retreating Germans destroyed railways and bridges wholesale, greatly delaying the Russian pursuit, as they neared their own ...
Article : 108 wordsThe following particulars of the departure of the first expeditionary force having now been "released" by the censor are available for publication:—The following ...
Article : 1,131 wordsFrench newspapers describe the recent British attack upon the Prussian Guards at Zonnabeke as one of the noblest episodes in British armies. An aeroplane ...
Article : 211 wordsInformation was received yesterday by the military authorities of the death at sea of two members of the Western Australian quota of the first contingent, both ...
Article : 117 wordsDuring the past three weeks 10,000 tons of foodstuffs have been delivered in Belgium for the foodless, and 6,400 tons are being delivered, while 42,000 tons are being ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. R. Barr Smith, a well-known citizen, has given £1,000 to the Belgian Relief Fund. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Kaiser's recent order to the peasants of East Prussia to wage guerilla warfare against the Russians is contrasted here with the German excuse for the devastation of ...
Article : 145 wordsA deputation representing the Dunedin Municipal Association interviewed the Minister for Defence (Mr. Allen) to-day regarding pro-Germans in the community. ...
Article : 80 words£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 2,859 2 0 Mrs. Alfred Hillman 1 0 0 Wages staff, Perth Goods, W. A. ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Agent-General for New South Wales, Sir Timothy Coghlan, has handed to the Belgian Ambassador in London, Count de Lalaing, £20,000 of the Belgian relief fund. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) said to-day that at a meeting of the Transport Committee held yesterday the question was asked as to whether some of ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Allies' counter-attack in the Dixmude district is progressing. Fresh French troops have been strengthening the weak points and some Belgian troops, all of whom ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that since the occupation of Fao, an Arabian town at the head of the Persian Gulf, there have been two sharp actions in the vicinity of ...
Article : 70 wordsSir Douglas Haig has been promoted to the rank of general for distinguished service on the field. ...
Article : 23 wordsDuring the fighting southward of Ypres on November 11, 80 British infantrymen became isolated and were unable to rejoin the main body. They took refuge for the ...
Article : 83 wordsFive officers and four non-commissioned officers, including two sergeants in L. Battery, were awarded the Victoria Cross. Two of the officers have since died from ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announced to-day that the prohibition of the exportation of newspapers had been removed as from to-day. ...
Article : 31 wordsSeveral thousand Arabs in the villayet of Di[?]rbekr, in the north-east of Asia Minor, have taken the field against Turkey. It is reported that various frontier tribes ...
Article : 48 wordsThe House of Commons yesterday passed the war vote of £225,000,000, as asked for by the Government, and it also agreed to the raising of an additional 1,000,000 ...
Article : 462 wordsHeavy rains and snowstorms have destroyed a railway bridge at Denderleeuw, connecting Ghent with Bruges. It is rumoured that a big force of Germans ...
Article : 47 words£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 23,851 12 4 Children of Brunswick School, per P. Sutherland, head ...
Article : 259 wordsThe following message was received late to-night by the Navy Office from H.M.A.S. Sydney:—"The enemy hove in sight at a quarter-past 9. The first shot was fired at ...
Article : 119 wordsIn the early hours of Monday morning, November 2, two ocean liners—the s.s. Ascanius and the s.s. Medic—slipped their moorings in Gage Roads and silently stole ...
Article : 2,734 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Agency states that the Italian Ambassadors in France, Great Britain, Austria and other leading countries have been summoned to Rome ...
Article : 45 wordsGerman deserters report that the Germans are experiencing great difficulty in moving their guns, and are unable to carry out a swift and sudden concentration at ...
Article : 97 wordsA semi-official statement issued yesterday evening declared.—"The fighting in the Argonne regions has not appreciably varied during the past two months. Some of the ...
Article : 190 wordsA member of the Australian naval forces, in a letter to his parents resident in this city, writes as follows with regard to the loss of the submarine A.E.1 off New ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Pope's Encyclical appeals for the termination of "the fraticidal struggle," and emphasises the need for extirpating the root of all evils, namely, the idea that ...
Article : 54 wordsAn eye-witness attached to the British headquarters staff estimates that during the attack on Ypres on November 8 the enemys' losses in front of one square in ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 18 Nov 1914, Page 7
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