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We Are Glad To Be Able To Report The Capture

of the 'Emden's' collier. -On Thursday the Secretary of the Admiralty reported that H.M.S. ' Yarmouth ' (Captain Cochrane) had sunk the German Hamburg-Amerika Line steamer......

To All British People Here And Overseas By Far The

most delightful news of the week is that of the landing of the Canadian contingent at Plymouth on Wednesday afternoon. As may be imagined, the reception given to the Canadian......

In The Course Of Last Saturday News Reached England Of

the German occupation of Antwerp, but it was not until Monday that the full story was published, together with the news that in the last few days of the town's defence British......

It Was Reported On Thursday That At The Naval Yard

near Trieste an Austrian cruiser had been destroyed by fire, which broke out on the scaffoldings. Though the flames were finally got under, the ship is said to have been most......

The Action Of The Government In Sending The Naval Division

to Antwerp has been severely criticized in some quarters, but we do not attach much weight to these criticisms. Apart from the unlucky loss of the First Brigade, the casualties......

The Defenders Then Fell Back Upon The Inner Line Of

defence, and from that moment the evacuation of the city seems to have been inevitable. The Government was withdrawn to Ostend, and great numbers of the inhabitants fled along......

Though The Canadians Have Been At Sea Nineteen Days (so

difficult and so anxious, and therefore necessarily slow, is the work of guarding and convoying a great fleet of transports), and though also the weather was very rough, the......

Last Sunday Another Aeroplane Attack Was Made Upon Paris. It

appears that no fewer than five aeroplanes were concerned in the raid, and that twenty bombs were dropped, killing four persons and injuring twenty-two. One of the bombs fell......

We Wish We Could Have Welcomed The Canadians With Better

weather—something more like their own glorious Indian summer. The men, we are told, have only one regret, and that is that they were not taken at once to the seat of war. They......

As Regards The Naval Position In Home Waters, There Is

little to report except that the vigilance of our patrols is as great as ever. The dread of the submarines, which has become some- what acute of late on shore, is largely a......