A War Study. "Beautiful Theories and Wicked Facts."
Prominent amongst the many amiable fallacies that vegetate and thrive in a period of long peace are feminism, pactficism, sentimentalism, and amateurism…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1914
860 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 43
Germany and Austria. Considerable Opposition. on the Question of the War. Paris
M. Gabriel Hanotaux, writing in "Le Figaro," quotes the Austrian Ambassador's remarks to him on the 31st July. "It was Germany, not Russia or Austria,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Progress of the War. the Allies Stand Firm. The Battle Continues. Russia Advances in Galicia. Attack on East Prussia. London
The laconic statement is made from Paris that the situation is satisfactory. There has been no appreciable change in the position in France, and heavy fighting continues…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kaiser's War Train
A man who has just got out of Germany by the skin of his teeth (says Mr. Edgar Wallace, in the Birmingham "Daily Post") tells me that when operations…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Contraband of War. Capture by the French. Paris
The Norwegian ship Benestvet, bound from New Caledonia to Hamburg, with a cargo of nickel, has been caught by the French and towed into Brest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Second Edition. the War. the French Fighting. a French Ruse. German Cavalry Decimated. Paris
In a fight at Nancy witnessed by the Kaiser, the French troops placed a number of almost obsolete cannon as a blind on a slope facing the Germans, while…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Sydney Letter. Labour Day.—that Kitchener Cable Message.—insulting a Soldier.—a Notable Man Dies.—the Newest, a State Farm.—the Drought in the South.—again the Busy Burglar. Sydney
Labour Day has come and gone. The war did not interfere with the procession or sports. The Australian, like his British forefathers, can manage to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Second Edition. the War. German Advance. on Northern France. Swarms of Uhlans. Burning Belgian Houses. London
The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Ostend says that two army corps are reinforcing the German right. The country between Poperinghe and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Prince of Bavaria Wounded. Paris
It is reported in Vienna that the King of Bavaria's son Francis has been wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Just War
In times gone by not a few soldiers had been harassed in their minds as to whether the war in which they wore engaged was a just one or not No question…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Effects of the War
It cannot be sold that the effects of the war are, up to the present, very apparent, as far as Melbourne is concerned, but nevertheless I'm inclined to think there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Labour and the War
Meanwhile the political influence of organised labour at home must not be wasted in idle and exasperating platitudes about the wickedness of war, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Shelling a Convent. Full of Wounded Men. Building Set on Fire. Ostend
Severe fighting is proceeding outside Antwerp. Borgerhout is burning. It is reported that the Germans have been compelled to retreat a short…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The King Wounded. Garrison's Last Fight Amsterdam
Some Belgian refugees state that they saw the King of the Belgians with his arm in a sling. A Belgian officer states that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disorderly Soldiers. Melbourne
Soldiers were involved in discreditable scenes in the city last night. The trouble started by the action of a constable in seeking to move on a member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Second Edition. the War. German Bombs in Paris. Four Killed, Twenty Wounded. Paris
German aviators dropped several bombs into Paris on Sunday, killing four and wounding twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in a Fog
By H. Hamilton Fyfe, in the "Daily Mall." The phrase is not mine. It is an English Cabinet Minister's. "This," he said, "is going to be a war in a fog." So far…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Canada and the War. Great Enthusiasm
Never before have Canadians been so much a unit as they are in the presence of this world-conflict, wrote the Toronte correspondent of the "Argus" on August…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Allies' Work. German Soldiers. Cry When Captured. Melbourne
The following messages were received to-day from the High Commissioner:— The following statement, issued from the military headquarters, continues and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Belgian Soldiers. Refuge in Holland. Amsterdam
Three thousand Belgian soldiers have crossed the Dutch frontier, and have been interned. Besides the food shortage in Brussels,…
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