The War the Formidable Disaster. Russians Pouring Into Hungary. Sultan Leaving Constantinople. Attack on Egypt Abandoned. Prisoners Held by Germany. Sydney, Monday 7.20 a.m
Western Champion · Thursday 7 January 1915 · page 19
Two hundred and one were rescued from the Formidable. Many of the survivors died from exhaustion. The explosion occurred at 2 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Motor-cycle in War
The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 4
Also in Forbes Times
For the first time in the history of the world the motor-cycle may be called upon to take no unimportant part in what may prove to be the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Off to the War
Forbes Times · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 4
Mr. "Snow" Nelson, who is now in camp at Liverpool as a volunteer for the war, wrote his father, Mr. A. D. H. Nelson, yesterday as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News. Sydney
Forbes Times · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 4
The Vatican is without information concerning the arrest of Cardinal Mercier by the Germans. In Vatican circles the opinion is that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. Battleship Sunk. London
Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 11
The battleship Formidable was sunk in the Channel yesterday morning, but whether by mine or submarine is not yet certain…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 2
The fighting at Carnay near Mulhausen has been formidable. The roar of the guns has been unceasing for three days. The valleys are filled with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War the Formidable. Story of the Disaster. Sydney
The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 3
When the explosion occurred on H.M.S. Formidable, a missile missed the magazine by ten feet. It entered the dynamo room, and rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Battle of the Unseen. a soldier at the front writes:—
Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 11
"The trenches are awful places. [?]our feet deep in water. Imagine an incessant drizzle of fine rain and acres of ploughed fields averaging a foot…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Code Telecrams
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 7
With the outbreak of war all kinds of messages are naturally sent in code or cypher, and present very puzzling cryptograms. The ordinary solver of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Italy's War Loan
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 1
Rome, Tuesday.—The war loan has been over-subscribed…
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Cowra Free Press · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 3
Earl Crewe in the House of Lords stated it was the Admiralty's definite opinion that the Formidable was struck by two torpedoes from a submarine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Laws of War
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 7
Even in war there is a method of "playing the game," and there are certain things formulated by military law, written or unwritten, among civilised…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →General War Notes. In Africa. British Bombardment
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 1
Two British warships bombarded Dar-es-Salam, in German East Africa, and disabled all the enemy's shipping. Fourteen Europeans and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →America and the War. The Contraband Question
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 1
The Government has decided to certify as to the exact contents of American cargoes before leaving port. This is expected to simplify…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War Cardinal Mercier Arrested. The Pastoral Letter. Wednesday Morning
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 4
The Ge mans have arrested Cardinal Mercier at Malines. The Germans were angry at the Cardinal's recent pronouncement, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After Steinbach. Germans Shoot Irresolute Soldiers
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 1
The Germans shot 30 of the Landsturm in the public square at Steinbach because they were irresolute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest War News Sydney
Forbes Times · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2
A report has been received at Buenos Ayres that the German cruiser, Von der Tann. was sunk by a British warship. The Von…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. [Cables since last issue]
The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4
The Turks suffered appalling losses during the fighting around Sarykamish-Ardahan. An army corps, fleeing from the frontier, is still losing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Next Ally China and the War
The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 1
In the Herald recently it was stated, according to Berliner Tageblatt that China would be Germany's next ally. It was also said that, doubtless, German secret…
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