Gang-gang 100 years ago, the phoney war

By David Ellery
Updated August 22 2014 - 12:08am, first published August 21 2014 - 11:45pm

World War I, like World War II 25 years later, began more with a whimper than a bang if you take the contemporary news reports at face value. One hundred years ago, The Sydney Morning Herald was reporting on something that seemed fairly close to a phoney war, particularly at sea.

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