100 Years ago....24th August 1914 Permanent command of the 11th Battalion is handed to Lieutenant-Colonel James Lyon Johnston, originally commanding officer of the 84th Infantry Goldfields Battalion, and was taken up upon his arrival from Kalgoorlie on the 24th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Count Berchtold to Freiherr von Miiller at Tokio. (Telegraphic.) Vienna, August 2 4, 1914- The Commander of S.M.S. Elisabeth has been instructed to take part in the fighting at Tsingtau. I ask your Excellency, in view of the action taken by Japan against our Ally, the German Empire, to ask for your passports. You should inform the Consulates, and you should travel to America with the colony and the staff of the Embassy and of the Consulates. Your Excellency should entrust the protection of our countrymen and their interests to the American Ambassador. The Japanese Ambassador here is being furnished with his passports. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- British Army retreats from Mons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Battle of Charleroi ends in French defeat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Battle of the Ardennes ends in French defeat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Austria-Hungary severs diplomatic relations with Japan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First units of Indian Expeditionary Force A leave India for France via Egypt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Retreat from the Line of the Sambre and the Meuse; British fall back from Mons; Germans massacre civilians at Dinant and occupy Tournai, but driven from Malines; French offensive north of Nancy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russians advancing in East Prussia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Austrians advance in Poland beyond Kyeltsi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cattaro, Austrian Adriatic port, bombarded by Franco-British fleet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Daily News, 24th August 1914 trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/7810601?zoomLevel=1 The West Australian, 24th August 1914 trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/2797642?zoomLevel=1
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