The steamer Glenravel, 1,092 tons, belonging to the Antrim Iron Oro Co., of Belfast, the Swedish steamer Mainland, and the trawler Ocean Queen, ...
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Article : 165 wordsThe position in Poland has become clearer now that Warsaw has ceased to be the focus of the Russian operations. The enemy is being made to fight for the ground between the Narew and the Bug, and makes progress but at great expense in men. If the Berlin report be correct, the Germans are right down into the angle formed by the Narew and the Bug, about twenty miles north-east of War saw, but are still checked south-east of ...
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Article : 72 wordsRiga, the capitnl of the province of Livonia, is the seventh city in point of population in the Russian Empire with 370,000 people (according to the census ...
Article : 279 wordsThe failure of the Mendelssohn and Bartholdy Bank in Berlin is announced. The deficit amounts to some 3,000,[?] marks (£150,000). ...
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Article : 63 wordsThe operations on the Tyrelese frontier are thus described in last night's communique:- In the Tonale Pass zone (to the ...
Article : 164 wordsIn reference to the statement made that the exportation of coal from Great Britain, which has hitherto been permitted to British possessions and allied ...
Article : 119 wordsA New Zealand officer, describing the Maori contingent at the Dardanelles welcoming the Pakeha (white) general by dancing the Haka, says they ...
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Article : 71 wordsThe following message regaiding the situation on the Eastern front has been received by the "Daily Telegraph" from its special correspondent at Petrograd: ...
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Article : 48 wordsA Belgian Groy Book recently issued contained a despatch from Baron Boyens, who was then Belgian Minister in Berlin, proving that four months ...
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Article : 86 wordsLast night's communique says: — On the Isonzo front we have reached a line stretching from Monte Nero (7 milos north-north-west of ...
Article : 82 wordsThe struggle on the eastern slopes of the Vesges continues To-day's commumque says:- We have repulsed an exceedingly ...
Article : 104 wordsAn official communique issued in Paris states:- Yesterday the Germans tried to destroy two of the Allies' hydroplanes on ...
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Article : 141 wordsDr. F. J. Dillon, the special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," has received communications from prominent Russians who declare that, despite ...
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Article : 86 wordsLance-Corporal R. W. Crawford, of Glebe-street Hobart, writes from Lunapark Hospital, Heliopolis, under date July 1, as follows: ...
Article : 973 wordsThe Austrians are preparing for the fall of Gorizia. The citizens of the town are already suffering from a scarcity of food. ...
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Article : 39 wordsHorseflesh at Vienna is now dearer than meat in peace time. Horses for slaughter are selling at £20 each. ...
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Article : 150 wordsA French aviator named Nongresser brought down a German Taube machine at Nancy yesterday. Nongresser has participated in 53 air raids. ...
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Article : 138 wordsProfessol Bernard Pares, of Liverpool University, professor of Russian History, who has returned to London from a visit to Poland, has stated in an ...
Article : 99 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent in Northern France says it is estimated that the Gormans have 40,000 machine-guns from the sea to the Swiss ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" gives the following description of the plight of Warsaw after its evacuation by the Russian troops: ...
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Article : 184 wordsSpeaking at the Lord Mayor's dinner to-night, the Minister of Defence (Senator pearce) said that from what could be seen, he felt confident that something of ...
Article : 84 wordsA telegram received in Petrograd from Riga states there was much excitement in the latter place yesterday owing to the arrival of an officer from ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 10 Aug 1915, Page 5
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