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ACROSS THE FRONTIER

... to the isthmus of Tehuantepec at present owing to disturbed conditions there. Several newspapers announce that a punitive invasion of Mexico began under Brigadier- General Pershing early this morning. If this is true, the War Department is keeping it quiet ...

Published: Monday 13 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SUPREMACY IN THE AIR

... of which people are thinking, and although may have little confidence in Mr Pemberton-Billing's ability to stop the aerial invasion by methods his own, the fact that the electorate has been ready to listen to anyone who offers them security ought impress ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 922 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PLOTS FOR BRITAIN'S DOWNFALL

... enemy. There was blood plot in the first place to destroy Gospel witnesses God gave; wdien that failed there was the plot of invasion (the Armada); then the plot gunpowder, and that failed; next the plot of monarchial despotism, and, coming to modern times ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE CALLING UP OF MARRIED MEN

... 1863 to Volunteer Training Corps. Under the provisions of that Act, men can only be called for service in oase of actual invasion. They cannot be called on for guard work and other duties unless they volunteer for them. The Central Association is in a ...

Published: Friday 03 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

DOOMED TO FAILURE

... Hitherto nothing has been seen of the enemy's aeroplanes. TURKISH PREPARATIONS. The Turks began their preparations for the invasion of Egypt on a very large and costly scale, but fall of Erzerum must have . gravely affected their plans. They are, or w«/e ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS CRITICS

... Pan-Germanic school could not get out of our minds the fact that for a generation Lord Roberts had been fearing a Russian invasion of India, and had described the Japanese victory over Russia as affording us merely a respite. And so it happened that it ...

Published: Monday 13 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1303 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GENERAL SMUTS' LIGHTNING BLOWS

... SMUTS' LIGHTNING BLOWS. The interest centring the lightning blows struck at the enemy by General Smuts and his Army of invasion is quite intelligible. Considerable British forces are under General Smuts' command, the bulk of which are, however, composed ...

Published: Friday 17 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1443 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRISTOL & THE WAR

... that he should not resist, but would try fo persuaue his aggressor. He should adopt the same course in the event of a German invasion. Conditional exemption was granted. A theological student stated a letter to the Tribunal that he objected to the war and ...

Published: Tuesday 14 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1527 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE COMING PARIS CONFERENCE

... thankful that the number of German firms here had not been increased by a tariff. We all know the part played in the German invasions of Belgium and France by properties having been secured in advance often in most advantageous strategic positions by the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2324 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRISTOL & THE WAR

... y, convoy musical instruments arrived under the command of Mr W. E. Fowler. The Vicar the parish, far from resenting the invasion, opened the proceedings by stating from the platform that he and all the workers at All Hallows welcomed the opportunity ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2716 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

BRISTOL & THE WAR

... services have been requisitioned: Signalling work in the Bristol Channel, coast watching, training for defence work in case of invasion, cooks and messengers on Salisbury Plain, clerks and messengers for Navy League, Red Cross Hospitals, National Reserve, and ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2845 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BENEFICENT RED CROSS WORK IN BRISTOL

... outright to the County Territorial Association a fully equipped Infirmary which had cost £137,000, as base hospital in case of invasion. In the interim, however, the War Office scheme, as affecting the Red Cross Society, had removed the responsibility for the ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4329 | Page: 7 | Tags: none