A French torpedo-boat destoyer cruising; off Marseilles yesterday captured the Dutch cargo steamer Konigen Emma, which was bound from Batavia to ...
Article : 36 wordsThe so-called "German Truth Association" has circulated in South America the announcement that [?] of [?] lin airships has bombarded London,and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe general situation is hopeful, and the Germans have been compelled to retire at several important points. On October 13th ond 14th the ...
Article : 115 wordsChief interest in the war is now centred upon the struggle between the extreme German right and the extreme left of the Allies in the south-west corner of Belgium. The victor there will put the vanquished in danger of being outflanked. The post of honour on the Allies extreme left appears to be held by the Belgians, who apparently aro entrenched on tho Y.sur River, On Sunday the Germans attempted to force the passage of the ...
Article : 318 wordsA War Special Edition of "The Mercury" is published Every Day AT 3 P.M., ...
Article : 54 wordsDetails of an engagement which tool place at St. Mihiel on October 3 show that a battery of mountain guns on mules and a battalion of French ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Dutch liner Noordam. bound from New York for Rotterdam, which struck a mine in the North Sea, but was able to proceed under her own ...
Article : 76 wordsSome time ago a German bought a property adjoining the C'harcnton-lePont ciuarries, three and a half miles from Notic Dame, in Paris, and ii ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas, the Labour member for Derby, addressing a meeting of railway men at Nottingnam yesterday, said the history of the war. would ...
Article : 89 wordsAn official report published in Berlin confirms the report of the sinking ot the destroyers S116, S 117, S118, and S. 119 on the Dutch coast, hythe ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is officially announced at Nish, the provisional capital of Servia, that the Servians and Montenegrins on Wednesday defeated a division of Austrians, ...
Article : 44 wordsThe King has ordered that a Distinguished Service Medal shall be established for the naval non-commissioned officers and men. It is to be given for ...
Article : 55 wordsThe "Voerwarts," the lending German Socialist organ, states that the Prussian Cabinet is submitting to the Diet an emergency relief bill demanding a ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is reported that 30 Belgian refugees wore killer, and ICO injured, in a railway collision at Boulogne yesterday. ...
Article : 33 wordsHugo Flake, formerly a captain in the German Army, has been arrested in London and charged with spying. He possessed a camera, revolver, a ...
Article : 63 wordsThe position is summed up as follows in the communique issued this afternoon:- "The Belgians have vigorously ...
Article : 85 wordsSergeant Giles of the Royal Marines, relates that some barges ignited with burning oil drifted down the River Scheldt, and threatened the pontoon ...
Article : 130 words"What is a riband worth to a soldier? Worth? Everything! Glory is priceless! —Claude Melnotte in The Ludy of Lyons." ...
Article : 1,349 wordsThe Labour leader. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. M.P., addressing a meeting at Leicester yesterday, had a hostile reception. with shouts of "traitor." ...
Article : 62 wordsThe communique issued at midnight last night runs us follows:- "The Germans have attempted two violent attacks to the north and east of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Hon. G. F. Pearce) this morning issued the following extract from a Radio telegram received from the Administrator at ...
Article : 141 wordsYesterday the military were summoned to suppress anti-German riots at Deptford, on the Surrey side of the Thames. Twenty-one people, including ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Senate has passed the War Tax Bill to raisse one hundred million dollars annually to be expended in connection with the war. The revenue is to be ...
Article : 62 wordsThe French for several days had made an unsuccessful attempt to dislodge 800 Gormans, who were hidden in a cave in the Soissons region. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Germans who occupied Warneton, a small place in Belgium near Ypres, burnt half a dozen houses on the pretext that civilians had fired on the ...
Article : 97 wordsLarge reinforcements have been rushed to the German right flank d[?]ing the week. The force recently in the depots at Dresden is now in ...
Article : 169 wordsProfessor Arthur Schuster, whose powerful wireless tolegraph plant has been seized by tho polico at his residence at Yeldall, Turylord. Berkshire, is ...
Article : 78 wordsSir George Reid, the High Commissioner, visited tho King's Colonials at Watford to-day. Their two months in camp has worked wonders. Sir George ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Express" says that fifteen spies found at Sillery. a wine-making village in the Rheims district, have been shot ...
Article : 114 wordsThe "Vossische Zeitung," one of the daily newspapers published at Berlin, admits that the German plans were upset by the retreat of the Allies from ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Hobart Chamber of Commerce has received from the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce a letter advising that the following cable has been received from ...
Article : 120 wordsThe "New YorK Herald" states that Germany is shipping from America large quantities of grain and provisions through Swedish, Danish, and ...
Article : 36 wordsAt a meeting of Boer commandants which was held at Kinonstadt yesterday, those attending representing the Orango Tree State [?]oith of ...
Article : 108 wordsReady-made concrete platforms have been discovered forming part of houses in the neighbourhood of Dunkirk. They have been destroyed. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Athens correspondent of "The Times" states that Germany recently sent to Turkey £1.000.000 in gold, and consignments of heavy guns to ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Berlin police have arrested the members of the British relief committee who were working from the British Consulate, under the surveillance of the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following cable message has been received from the High Commissioner, under date Loudon, October 17:- "Official.—The First Lord of the ...
Article : 511 wordsTwo German officers, who were disguised as civilians, have heen tried by court-martial at Ypres, and ordered to be shot. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. P. Gibbs, the war correspondent, telegraphs that the Allies have made striking progress since the fall of Antwerp. The Germans have abandoned ...
Article : 255 wordsThe "SYdneY Morning Heralds" Rabaul correspondent, writing on September 27, says:— "The tragedy of AEI is the first ...
Article : 349 wordsThe Allies are repoited to have made good progress at Arres, in France, and also to have driven the Germans out of Estuires and Armentieres, on the frontier to tho weat of Lills. In Belgium the Germans on Sunday began a great movement from Bruges and ostend to the [?]er River, in the south-west corner of the country. This part ot the Allies,line is held by the Belgian Array, who defended all the crossings. Along the Allies Iront in Prance from.[?] south by way [?] Lens, Arras, Albert, and then east by the Aisne River to Verdun, and then touth to St. Mihiel, nome progress has been made here and there. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 120 wordsGeneral Hertzog has telegraphed to the Dutch Church Presbytery at Capotown, placing the responsibility for the treachery of Colonel Marita upon the ...
Article : 88 wordsGeneral Hertzog, in offering his services, said he hoped that the Government would terminate the Marita rebellion without bloodshed. General ...
Article : 86 wordsThe German forces which were recently threatening the northern part of the French coast, besides suffering heavily, are now short of ammunition- and ...
Article : 109 wordsDealing with the latest casualty lists, the German newspapers confirm the Anglo-French claims that German battalions have been wiped out: Such ...
Article : 53 wordsAn eye-witness of the bombardment of Papeete states that the operation left the island a mass of ruins. At 6 o'clock on the morning of September 22, two ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 20 Oct 1914, Page 5
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