A German wireless message states the "our troops north-east of Soissons attacked the heights of Vregny, and cleared an elevated plain. Trench after trench ...
Article : 91 wordsSoud Jaed Goules, formerly Governor of Azerbaijan, a prevince in the extreme north-west of Persia, has arrived at Tiflis. With four hundred men he fought ...
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Advertising : 735 wordsNews from the western front is of more importance to-day than of late. There has evidently been serious fighting in the vicinity of Soissons, and we ...
Article : 1,279 wordsReuter's Rome correspondent say, it is estimated that 12,000 were killed and 20,000 injured by the Italian earthquake. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe tobacco fund is coming on well. About 9 was received yesterday. Its must appeal to all. All of us would gladly do something to ...
Article : 409 wordsCelano and Pescina have been partially destroyed, and there are many dead under the ruins. Fifty-seven buildings have been ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is reported from Petrograd that Cossacks ambushed two companies of Turks and 120 gunners on the frontier of the Caucasus, and killed or captured ...
Article : 37 wordsA number of buildings at Potenza were seriously damaged, but there were few victims. The greatest havoc was done in the villages surrounding the extinct ...
Article : 32 wordsA Petrograd correspondent says that 80,000 destitute Armenians have entered the Caucasus. ...
Article : 15 wordsThere was a tidal wave near Naples. ...
Article : 10 wordsThe Russians in the Caucasus have been reinforced by Armenian volunteers and Siberian Cossacks. The Turkish rearguards have been driven beyond Olty, ...
Article : 38 wordsA second shock affected Rome at 3 o" clock on Thursday morning, and the inhabitants spent the rest of the night in the the open. ...
Article : 25 wordsAccording to "The Times," the Russians have recently been heavily rein. forced. An additional million men have been sent to the front. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is believed at Rome that there are only a hundred survivors at Avezzano. They are camped around fires in the principal square, and seem to have lost their ...
Article : 81 wordsWeddel and Co.'s annual review of the meat trade states that the experiences of the war have already shown that for case of transport, capacity to stand ...
Article : 125 wordsA Petrograd communique states:—We made considerable progress in the last 24 hours along the right bank of the Vistula, and occupied Serpieg. Nothing ...
Article : 30 wordsA French communique issued yesterday afternoon was as follows:—Mist hampered the artillery in Belgium. There was a violent cannonade around ...
Article : 111 wordsA Vienna communique claims that the enemy's attacks along the front on the Nida failed. Things are quiet elsewhere. ...
Article : 24 wordsUnder the ruins of a college a young girl's voice was heard, saying, "There are 140 still alive. Bring help quickly." Groans and cries are heard everywhere ...
Article : 34 wordsSoissons, where the Germans claim to have achieved a brilliant success, but which, according to the French, was a mere incident, is at the extremity of the German line in France. Soisson's is only about 60 miles in a direct line from Paris. It is a town on the Aisne. The German front runs past Lille to Soissons, and then bends back to the southern section of the Franco-German frontier. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 wordsNinety-five out of one hundred carabiniers composing the garrison were killed. ...
Article : 15 wordsTwenty other towns have been destroyed, including Magliano di Marsi, six miles north-west of Avezzano. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsDetails received at Rome show that the stricken area is greater than at first believed. Eighteen small towns in the neighbourhood of Lake Fucino, which ...
Article : 88 wordsSoldiers are feverishly working at the rescue of 140 schoolgirls. Their cries have ceased, but it is hoped that many are alive. The King is supervising the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Pope visited the injured, who are in Santa Maria Hospital, near the Vatican. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Minister for Works (Mr. Griffith) stated to-day that he had refused, and would continue to refuse, to receive deputations from the unemployed, as it ...
Article : 112 wordsThe shock was more violent than at Messina. A great marble cross in the basilica of St. Paul's was thrown into the roadway. The glass roof fell on ...
Article : 132 wordsAccording to a correspondent at Petrograd, the Germans have begun a bombardment of the whole Russian front with 11in. guns, other guns, Maxims, ...
Article : 84 wordsWithout any explanation, the Dutch authorities suddenly removed 30 British officers from the Groningin camp to a fortrees at Bodegraven. ...
Article : 23 wordsA later communique states that the enemy's attacks northward of Soissons damaged a bridge and compelled us to disable and abandon some guns. The ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Havre correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says the Pope's reply to King Albert was most cordial. It stated that, while he regarded the ...
Article : 58 wordsCommander Colonel Holmes and 250 men of the Commonwealth naval and military expeditionary force to New Guinea will return home to Sydney to-morrow ...
Article : 85 wordsA section of a mountain near Saterno, 3000ft. long and 500ft. wide, was split off, and mashed into a valley, destroying everything in its path, and causing many ...
Article : 64 wordsAnother German aeroplane was brought down at Amiens, and the occupants killed. An enemy's aeroplane was brought ...
Article : 43 wordsTwo hundred German survivors of the Falkland Islands fight have arrived in England. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is stated at Paris that General von Kluck is commanding the German forces hit are vigorously operating in the neighbourhood of Soissons. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is reported from Geneva that severe earthquake shocks were experienced in the Mont Blane range, and there were many avalanches, several villages being ...
Article : 36 wordsAccording to news from Paris, the attack north-east of Soissons was of considerable magnitude. Apparently recent French attacks menaced the railway ...
Article : 47 wordsA member of the crew of the Believue, captured by the Kronprinz Wilhelm, relates that at the outbreak of war the Kronprinz Wilhelm received from the ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is satisfactory to be able to announce that the di culties in the way of sending another force to the front have been surmounted to a considerable ...
Article : 125 wordsDespite rainstorms, the airmen on both sides are making daily raids. The Germans have issued official warning an to air raids on Aix-la-Chapelle, Cologne, ...
Article : 46 wordsAn examination of the seismograph at the Melbourne Observatory to-day showed that a faint trace of an earth tremor had been recorded between 6.30 ...
Article : 36 wordsA Rotterdam message states that the battle of Flanders is now confined to artillery and aircraft. The fields have been converted into lakes, and the ...
Article : 46 wordsAccording to a Copenhagen correspondent, the German press makes some noteworthy comments on the fact that Count Leopold Berchtold, Minister of ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Germans have removed the famous copper group, "The Way of the Gross," from the Church of the Sacred Heart at Turnhout. They are also ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is reported from Washington that a high-power wireless station has been discovered concealed at Panama. Through the investigations of British agents other ...
Article : 55 wordsA Paris official statement says French troops by a sudden coup destroyed the recently constructed German trenches north-west of Fouquescourt and ...
Article : 28 wordsAdditional amounts received for the travelling kitchen fund are:—L.S., 5s; per N. ,. and C. C. Adams, Triabunna, £2 8s; Mrs. E. W. Gibson, £1 1s. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe coroner (Mr. Adye Douglas) held an enquiry on the body of Percival Prescott Hindmarsh, who was found on the Richmond Hill estate with his throat cut. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe "Gaulois" (Paris) states that the Germans are prepared to defend Lille street by street. Cement trenches have been constructed, and four naval guns ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsIt is announced at Rotterdam that the Germans' attempt to move new guns to the coast has been abandoned, the guns having sunk to their breech-blocks ...
Article : 96 wordsThe German Minister at Copenhager told a correspondent of the Petrograd "Courier" that had weather prevented the bombardment of London in the first ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 15 wordsFather Bernard Vaughan, speaking in the East End of London, and replying to German Jesuits, said the British Empire was fighting in a great cause, and ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Sat 16 Jan 1915, Page 7
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