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DANGER OF INVASION

... DANGER OF INVASION. Malty of them perhaps thought the danger of invasion was unlikely and an impossibility, but if the Germans obtained the seaboard of France to Calais there would be imminent danger, and to thwart tnat they required every man Oc)ssible ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1209 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RUSSIAN OFFICER'S PREDICTION

... to London, addressed a recruiting meeting at the Law Courts yesterday. He said no doubt his hearers were perturbed at the invasion of Russia by the Germane, but he could tell them that very few of the enemy that set foot on Russian would live to see the ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 67 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

COUNTY COMMITTEE SUGGESTED

... number of counticA in which the Lord Lieutenant had received no instructions whatever on the subject of defence in case of invasion. That was a fact which he did not think was generally known. The military authorities could not make much of the Volunteer ...

Published: Monday 12 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OPEN-AIR MEETING AT LANCASTER. •

... their freedom depended upon the successful prosecution of the war, and he was sure they did not want to be subjected to an invasion of this country, which could only be avoided by haying a sufficient number of men in the trenches in France and Bdgium. ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

OF RUSSIA

... l idea of holding on to a particular city. Russian fortitude would have sustained the abandonment of Warsaw at the first invasion last year had it been determined on—and certain Russian military opinion is known to have actually favoured that course for ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 864 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIERCE FIGHTING. ATTEMPTED AUSTRIAN IN- VASION OF ITALY. POSITIONS FIRMLY HELD BY OUR ALLY. –

... Lugano telegram to the Daily Chronicle) fighting the Northern Tyrol has been very fierce. The Austrians are attempting the invasion of Italian territory from Kreuzerz, and have suffered heavy losses in trying to force the frontier. The Italians are well ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE USE OF VOLUNTEERS CORPS

... considerable number counties which the Lord Lieutenant had received no instructions whatever the subject of defence case invasion. That was fact which he did not think was generally known. The military authorities could not make much use of the Volunteer ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1915
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SOLDIERS & PATRIOTS THE NORTH LANCASHIO FIGHTING SPIRIT. HOW PRESTON IN THE P.ks4 PREPARED FOR INVASIO

... 11 when these islands were more consolidated t y all internecine conflict a t an en d, b u t country was threatened with invasion T ort cy French—and fears of a landing on the shire coast were en t er t a i ne d—P re st on an d co' It began to adopt vigorous ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1035 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Herat6* SATURDAY, JULY 24. WISE RETICENCE. i* highly satisfactory that the Prime Minister has curtly refused to ..

... strike the blows he had prepared against his neighbours, blows that were meant to be fatal. The German people approved the invasion of Belgium, applauded the bestial savagery used against the Belgians fighting fsr their liberty, and gloated over the sinking ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1915
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 330 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PORFIRIO DIAZ. DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. (Through Reuter' 3 'Agency.) PARIS. Friday. Senor Porfirio Diaz ..

... own master followed for a time the law as a profession. About 1855 he became it soldier. In the resistanoe to the French invasion in 1853 he won such distinction that four years later he was appointed commander of the army of the east, to which the capital ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE VOLUNTEER CORPS

... category is primarily a question for the decision of the military authorities. One can understand that in the event of an invasion such a welltrained body of men would be extremely useful, but without waiting for the landing of the Germans on British soil ...

Published: Tuesday 13 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GERMAN NAVAL GUNS

... a man was killed on Saturday in what was reckoned to be the safest place in the Peninsular. GERMAN ADVANCE. OBJECTIVES IN INVASION OF ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1915
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 345 | Page: 4 | Tags: none