It is announced in London that the Turks operating in Egypt made an attempt to bridge the Suez Canal at Tousoun. The enemy was repulsed, and all his ...
Article : 245 wordsAn officer of the battleship Australia state in a letter t that they sighted an enemy steamer off the Brazilian coast on 6th January, at a distance of 12 miles. ...
Article : 68 wordsA sensation has been caused in Canada by the wilful destruction of a railway bridge on the line connecting Montreal with Halifax and other Atlantic points. The ...
Article : 124 wordsGeneral Sir John Maxwell has cabled to Sir George Reid, commending the service rendered by the Australian Engineers when under fire in Egypt. ...
Article : 31 wordsLater reports form he Suez Canal state that the Turks attempted to cross the waterway at Toussoun at daybreak on Wednesday on rafts, but they were ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Second Australian Contingent has landed in Egypt. The voyage was perfect, and the condition of the horse is good. The transports passed through the Suez ...
Article : 197 wordsIt is estimated that there are now in the British home and colonial force 3,000,000 men, exclusive of the troops serving in India. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe official announcement sums up the fighting thus:— "The invasion of Egypt has taken form. Turkish prisoners have been brought to ...
Article : 42 wordsLisbon reports that the Germans who recently invaded Portuguese Angola, in West Africa, forcing the local troops to retire, have now evacuated the colony. ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is officially reported. that Turkish deserters are coming in. One, a Jerusalem cabdriver, stated his portion of the force marched from Jerusalem along a coastal ...
Article : 114 wordsOther accounts state the Turkish infantry attacked Tusun at 3 o'clock in the morning during a sandstorm. A resolute attempt to cross the Caual was covered by ...
Article : 188 wordsNew has been received that the Turks at Hodeidah complied with the Italian demands, and handed over the British Consul to the Italian Consulate. The ...
Article : 42 wordsAdmiral Sturdee has reached Plymouth aboard the India. (Admiral Sturdee commanded the squadron which sank the German vessels ...
Article : 58 wordswireless operator of the Australian cruiser SYDNEY, taken just after the SYDNEY had defeated the EMDEN. MR. Clifford, who is a son of Mr. W. Clifford, of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Cairo states the Turkish advance guard of 6000 has reached Nahie. The Turks are badly equipped, and unable to attack the ...
Article : 90 wordsTelegrams from Vienna state profound discontent has been caused in Australia owing to the action of the Hungarian Government in forbidding the export of grain to ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Cairo correspondent of the London Evening News" states of the Turks resumed their attack on the Suez Canal on Wednesday. They are now bringing up ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Turkish casualties in the fighting in the region of the Suez Canal are estimated to have reached a total of 2400. The, enemy left 400 dead on the field when ...
Article : 140 wordsThere are several indications that the Germans and the Austrians are at least in danger of tile supply of grain for their civilian population falling, short of ...
Article : 136 wordsBendigo is interested in the fact that the Australian divisional engineers were under fire in guarding the Suez Canal in that two former Bendigonians are amongst ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is stated that since the outbreak of war in August 1165 men in the British ranks have been appointed to commissioned rank. ...
Article : 34 wordsAmong the Bendigonians who have joined the Third Expeditionary Force is Mr. Arthur T. Johnson, late of the 8th A.I.R., in which he hold the rank of sergeant. ...
Article : 60 wordsThere was no fighting at the canal yesterday. he force which attempted to bridge the, canal formed, part of the. 75th Turkish division, and had marched from ...
Article : 174 wordsA fisherman has discovered in the Thames estuary the body of the German airman who on Christmas Day crossed the Strait of Dover from Belgium and dropped a ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following cable message has been received by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) from General Sir John Maxwell: —"Australian Engineers now ...
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Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Tue 9 Feb 1915, Page 19
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