In addition to holding the long line from Riga to the Roumanian frontier, the Russians are conducting a great campaign against the Turks. They are advancing from east to west on a wide front, and must have very large forces engaged. One army has marched from the Caucasus through Armenia, and taken Erzeroum and Trebizond. Another army, moving by way of Lake Van, is reported to be nearing Mogul, which place is not far from the ...
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Article : 59 wordsMr. Edmund Candler, the war correspondent, who is with the British forces in Mesopotamia, gives to-day the first connected narrative of the siege of ...
Article : 829 wordsThe Turks, alarmed at the Russian advance into Asia Minor are making great efforts to stem the tide before the Russians reach Erzindjan. In front of ...
Article : 105 wordsTaking advantage of a fall of rain, the Germans on Tuesday attacked Kondoa Irangi (recently occupied by General Van der Venter's troops), using a ...
Article : 71 wordsSentries still guard the chief thoroughfares of Dublin. The search for rebels continues, and numerous arrests are being made daily. ...
Article : 49 wordsColonel V. O. Gentry, 20 other officers, and 230 non-commissioned officers and men, who were made prisoner by the Turks, have arrived at ...
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Article : 365 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— The only event on the Verdun front has been a violent bombardment in the region of Morthomme. ...
Article : 111 wordsReports from Norway state that last (Saturday) night three British destroyers were observed off the west coast of Norway pursuing a Zeppelin. ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. Asquith, who is now in Ireland, had an interview yesterday with a number of rebels who are confined in the Richmond barracks. ...
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Article : 106 wordsThe trial of Sir Roger Casement on a charge of high treason will commence at the Bow-street Police Court to-day. There is intense interest in the trial. ...
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Article : 39 wordsIt is notified by the military authorities that the 17th Divisional Supply Column (300 and 301st Motor Transport A.S.C. Units) is now designated the 1st ...
Article : 73 wordsThe defensive works of Diarbekr (on the Tigris, 120 miles south of Erzindjan, and about 40 miles north of the nearest point on the Bagdad railway) ...
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Article : 89 wordsIn an oration at Nancy last night the President (M. Poincare) said:— Neither directly nor indirectly has Germany offered peace. We do not ...
Article : 98 wordsLast night's communique thus mentions heavy fighting in Erzindjan:— Our forces have been engaged in a furious battle with very large Turkish ...
Article : 65 wordsUnprecedented riots took place yesterday at Mannheim, the chief trading town in the German province of Badon. Butchers' and bakers' shops and many ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsThe latest reports indicate that the Russian forces which have invaded Mesopotamia, probably by means of the road shown as leading over the mountains from Mianduab in North-Western Persia, have reached the neighbourhood of Mosul and have forced the Turks operating in that district to beat a hasty retreat. If the Russians take Mosul they will have cut across the Bagdad railway, and so be able to stop supplies reaching Bagdad by that route. Further south ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 16 May 1916, Page 5
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