German Atrocities. Soldiers' Confessions
A chronicle of four deeds, a red record of murder and ravishings and burnings and plunderings—that is the little yellow French brochure which lie before me as…
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A chronicle of four deeds, a red record of murder and ravishings and burnings and plunderings—that is the little yellow French brochure which lie before me as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The wealth of the world after this cataclysm will be put back something like 100, years. Considering the appalling expenditure for purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →When war broke du er, shortly afterwards, our Arbitration. Court suspended operations and on effort is now being made by the workers to get the Court to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The use of artillary to demoralise infantry in entrenched positions, as a preliminary to attack, is one of the features of the present war (writes the Glasgow…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Comradeship will be the greatest boon bestowed by the world's greatest war…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The greatest war the world has ever known continues, of course, to be the leading subject of discussion in the press and elsewhere, writes the New York…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →"The nerves of the army." That is what the Royal Engineers have been termed, and the description fits; for they are man who enable Paris and London, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Perhaps the most vivid writer on the war is E. Alexander Powell, the correspondent of the "New York World," He makes what he describes jump vividly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bismarch's Letters to his Wife from the Seat of War, 1870-1871, newly translated into English, show that while Bismarck was a greater…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"I tell everyone what everyone tolls me—the war will last three years; but in my own mind I, can hardly believe It. I wonder how, long the Boche (German) will,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The French official review of the situation on the continent at the present time says that the French army has been re[?]vented on a large scale by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The official "Eye Witness" attached to the headquarters of the British army records the following instances of the remarkable effect of explosives:—"Previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was stated at the annual meeting of the British Immigration League hold in Sydney this week that 2000 Imperial reservists who had come to this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Defence Department announces the following deaths:— Private Eric Ray, of B Company, late C Company, 8th Battalion, at Mena, Egypt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The drawing up of a scale of war pensions was a necessary consequence of the part which Australia is taking in the great struggle which the Empire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reuter's Vienna correspondent states that trains full of Bavarian troops are continually traversing Hungary, bound for the Carpathians…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While it may be true that the war in Europe will not be brought to a close for many months to come, there are now many indications that the position…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Evans of the steamship Lizzie, states that he witnessed the torpedoing of the steamer Delmira by the German submarine U37…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The official review of the war pays a [?] to the ascendancy of the Allies [?]lery. The French 75s guns exceeded all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The latest official communique states:—After several days' energetic engagement, we captured the summit of Hartman's W[?]erkopf, in Alsace, and…
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