The Press Bureau states that Squadron-Commander Davies and FlightLieutenant Pierse on Friday dropped 27 bombs on Zeebrugge. It is ...
Article : 79 wordsTelegrams received in Odessa from Constantinople state that a movement in favour of a speedy peace is gaining ground in Turkey. The movement is ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Press Bureau states that some mounted troops belonging to the South African Union forces temporanly retired from Van Roosevlei, on the border ...
Article : 79 wordsApart from a bombardment of Nieuport, operations in Belgium seem to be at a standstill, but heavy fighting is taking place at several points in France. The British are now within four miles of La Bassee, and their heavy guns should soon be able to reduce the enemy's defences there. Further south, on the same line, the French have been heavily attacked near Albert, but repulsed the enemy. In the Argonecg, between the Aisne and the Aire ...
Article : 287 wordsThe War Special Edition of "The Mercury" will be Published as usual TO-DAY. ...
Article : 17 wordsTerrible distress prevails among the Austrians and Hungarians in the Carpathians. Thousands of the inhabitants have fled, and are hiding in pits ...
Article : 56 wordsThe ex-Khedive of Egypt has arrived at Geneva, in Switzerland, where there are several Egyptian Nationalists. It is reported that the Young Turks ...
Article : 63 wordsIt was officially announced a few days ago that the French submarine Saphir.(443 tons, 12 knots, six torpedo tubes), which was operating in the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Reichs Anzeiger" states that prizes ranging from £25 to £125 have been offered to stimulate activity in German aerial and other warfare ...
Article : 77 wordsA correspondent in Venice states that the Vienna newspapers now for the first time frankly acknowledge that the present war was planned between the ...
Article : 49 wordsMENA CAMP (near Cairo), Dec. 20. Cairo expected to bw half ruined by the war. Cairo competes with onw or two places for being the most ...
Article : 3,215 wordsThere is trustworthy evidence to show that in the recent raid by the Germans on the Norfolk coast a motorcar at King's Lynn and Snettisha'n ...
Article : 59 wordsA communique issued last night says:- Stubborn fighting is now going on to the west of the River Choruk (a river ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "New York World." in referring to the decision of Mr. W. G. McAdoo, the Secretary of the American Treasury, to despatch the former ...
Article : 83 wordsThe crew of a Dutch fishing boat which reached Noordwijk, a coast village not far from Leiden, in Holland, yesterday reported that they saw a ...
Article : 64 wordsReuter's correspondent at Paris supplies the details of an alleged attempt by the Germans to detach France from the Allies. He states that a French ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Berlin newspaper, the "Vossische Zeitung," states that the vice-consul for Italy at Liege has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for ...
Article : 43 wordsOfficial information has been received by the Navy Office from Vice-Admiral Sir George Patey, by cable, stating that on January 6 the battle-cruiser ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Italian newspaper "Secolo" states that Germany's action in dropping bombs on the peaceful villages of Norfolk is not war, but murder, and ...
Article : 48 wordsThere has been received activity during the last day or two practically all along the line, from the North Sea almost to the Swiss border. The ...
Article : 1,032 wordsThe news from the Eastern front is practically confined to an account of the progress of the Russian campaign in Bukowina, the Austrian province on ...
Article : 296 wordsAn army order has just been issued which provides that the equipment of infantry officers on active service is to be similar to that of the privnte ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is reported that at half-past 10 last night Zeppelins passed over Cromer, in Norfolk, and were travelling south-easterly. No bombs were ...
Article : 96 wordsThe newspaper "Tyd" states that, although the Germans have denied that any civilians were buried near the Van De Weyer monument, at Louvain, the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Assistant Minister of Defence (Mr. Jensen), in the course of a statement to-day, announced that messages received by the Navy authorities ...
Article : 131 wordsA message received in Amsterdam from Berlin states that the Zeppelins which raided the Norfolk coast are of the latest tvpe. They have a high ...
Article : 52 wordsIn an interview published in the Berlin newspapers, Count Von Moltke, the late Chief of the German Army Staff. stated that he had never for a moment ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Russian transports Vaigatch and Taimyr, which were attempting to make their way from Vladivostock, in eastern Siberia, to Archangel, have been ...
Article : 58 wordsThe newspaper "Le Matin" states that on Wednesday the Allies made an appreciable advance in then lines between Festubert (four miles ...
Article : 81 wordsGerman aeroplanes to-day dropped 80 bombs on Dunkirk, killing seven people and wounding a dozen. French aircraft pursued the Germans, but they escaped. ...
Article : 77 wordsYesterday a German submarine torpedoed the British steamer Durwood off the Hook of Holland. The crew were saved. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Pope has written a prayer for deliverance from the horrors of war. The Consistory Court (College of Cardinals) at Rome has definitely fixed ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Swedish steamer Drott, 1,760 tons, struck a mine yesterday in the Gulf of Bothnia, and was blown up. Five of her crew perished. ...
Article : 37 wordsA telegram received in Copenhagen from Berlin states that a new "supersubmarine" has concluded its trials at Heligoland., and that the new craft is ...
Article : 53 wordsOn January 19 the Germans attempted to take advantage of a snowstorm to rush the French lines near Albert under cover of thickly falling snow. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Russians are now within four miles of Dorna-Watra (in the extreme south-west of Bukowina, and 70 miles south-south-west of Czernowitz). They ...
Article : 105 wordsDuring the last day or two there has been fighting at many points in France and Belgium. The Germans are again active between Ypres and Menin, while it is reported that the British have gained an important success at La Bassee, halfway between Lille and Bethune. There has been fierce fighting lately about Albert, which lies just to the north of the River Somme, very close to where Clery is shown on the map. Tho Germane havo been trying haio to drivo the French from a commanding position here, but without success. For 60me time past there- has been almost continuous fighting in tho Forest of Argonne, which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 388 wordsThe German losses in the recent fighting along the Bzura River have been very heavy. It is estimated that they amount in all to an entire army corps ...
Article : 79 wordsThe French have made an important move forward on the western side of the Argonnes. After leaving the western slopes of the Forest of Argonne ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. T. MacKonzie, the High Commissioner of New Zealand, who has been with Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner of Australia, on a visit ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 25 Jan 1915, Page 5
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