A War Special E[?]ition will be published to-day (Saturday) at noon if sufficient news arrives in time. As usual, a Special Edition will ...
Article : 35 wordsCaptain Glasser, the master of the British steamer Inverkip, 4,353 tons, which arrived to-day at Newport News, Virginia, reports the accidental sinking ...
Article : 62 wordsThere is now no question as to Greece's attitude. The Italian Foreign Minister has made the announcement. It appears that Greece's hesitation lasted only until Italy had agreed with her that there was to be no dismemberment of Albania, which is to remain independent. Italy is to send troops at once to help Serbia. We have little news as to operations in Serbia beyond the fact that the Bulgarians have not yet entered ...
Article : 387 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, in reply to Mr. P. L. Molteno, the Liberal member for Dumfriesshire, ...
Article : 148 wordsThere is an outery in the newspapers against an admission made in the House of Commons by Mr. H. J. Tennant, the Under-Secretary for War, ...
Article : 122 wordsColonel Snell, Senior Chaplain of Tasmania returned to Hobart yesterday On being interviewed, he said that he left Australia last July on duty ...
Article : 533 wordsA party of 70 Irishmen who arrived to-day at San Francisco from New Zealand admitted that they had left New Zealand because they were afraid of ...
Article : 91 wordsTo-day 77 recruits were enrolled for the Expeditionary Forces at the three Sydney recruiting depots. ...
Article : 21 wordsLast night's communique says:- Our artillery yesterday surprised somo Gei mails in a bivouac near the left bank of the Dwina, between ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. R. Lansing, the American Secretary of State, has refused to give passports to the peace party organised in America by Mr. Henry Ford, unless ...
Article : 42 wordsA deputation from the Victorian State Recruiting Committee waited upon the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day, and discussed with him ...
Article : 525 wordsLord Kitchener attended meetings to-day of the War Council and of the Cabinet. [?] ...
Article : 25 wordsLast night's communique says:- We have driven the Austro-Germans back on the left bank of the Styr, to the south-west of ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Under-Secretary for War (Mr. H. J. Tennant) stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the casualties at Loos and in the vicinity for the past ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Press Bureau states that a prisoner court-martialled and found guilty of espionage was shot in the Tower of London this morning. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. A. Lynch, the Nationalist member for West Clure, asked Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, if an ...
Article : 87 wordsLast night's communique states that the Serbians were still occupying Mona[?]tir on Wednesday (December 1). THE BULGARIAN ADVANCE. ...
Article : 211 wordsLast nights communique says:— At the Dardanelles the artillery is active on both sides. We have done important damage to the Turkish ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Emperor of Japan personally opened the Japanese Diet yesterday, and in his speech from the Throno emphasised that the alliance with Great ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Vossische Zeitung" states that everybody in Germany desires peace, and that the Imperial Chanceller will surely not miss the opportunity of ...
Article : 195 wordsYesterday's Vienna commuuique says:—"The Italian artillery fire has destroyed several villages behind our front in the Tolmein basin. ...
Article : 47 wordslu the Italian Chamber of Deputies this afternoon Baron Sonnino, the Foreign Minister, stated that Greece had given the Allies the assurances required ...
Article : 631 wordsIn a discussion in the South African Union Parliament yesterday, on a motion introduced by Mr. J. B. M. Hertzog, the leader of the Nationalist Party, ...
Article : 91 wordsPrivate Warren P. Henry writes from Gallipoli under date October 2:—Evening a beautiful one, after a glorious day. At present we are supposed to be resting, ...
Article : 2,941 wordsWounded Germans who have been sent back to Ghent from the Flanders feont state that the Allies' guns do not give them a moment's rest. The roads ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Ward Price, in a message from Salonika, states that a Greek, who has arrived from Constantinople states that food is very dear there. ...
Article : 167 wordsAustralian women in England are sending souvenirs to all invalided Australian soldiers in England and at Malta and Egypt, the souvenirs conveying ...
Article : 142 wordsThe following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending to day:- Coin, £51,100,000. ...
Article : 201 wordsA German communique claims that the Germans have captured 4,000 Serbians south-west of Mitrovitza. ...
Article : 24 wordsAt the Contral Police Court to-day Paul Peter Schwartz and Herman Gustav Otto Landahl, directors of the Foreign Agency Co., and Alexander ...
Article : 115 wordsDr. Schott, the director of the Hamburg Observatory, describes the Dardanelles and the Bosporus as a joint, or bridgehead, in the great international ...
Article : 115 wordsThe following despatch has been received from the British headquarters in France:- During the past four days our ...
Article : 113 wordsYesterday's Montenegrin communique says:— After a sharp fight near Fotcha (30 miles south-east of Serajevo, and a ...
Article : 67 wordsSir Edward Carson states that the report of the formation of a National Party under his leardership is entirely without foundation. He says he ...
Article : 61 wordsOur North-Eastern correspondent writes:—"The North-Eastern roll of honour now contains the names of 471 who have responded to the Empire's ...
Article : 383 wordsThe shipping newspaper "Fairplay" states that the seizure by Italy of German vessels in her norts brings the total number of vessels seized belonging ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following Russian communique refers to the fighting in Turkish Armenia:- After a two days' battle to the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the "Corriere Della Sera" states that Russian warboats are cruising up and down the lower Danube and along the coast ...
Article : 105 wordsLloyds report the sinking of the steamer Colenso, 3,861 tons, and Orange Prince, 3,583 tons, by German submarines. The crew of the Colenso ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Government having acquired Colonel W. Hall Walker's training stables at Russley-park, Wiltshire, the colonel has presented to the ...
Article : 45 wordsTho "Berliner Tageblatt," in an interesting survey of the operations of limited companies in Germany since the war started, says the fact is revealed ...
Article : 88 wordsThe following are extracts from a letter forwarded to relatives in Hobart by Lieutenant Charles T. Butler, of the Queen's Own Dorsetshine ...
Article : 407 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Mr. F. W. Jowett, the Labour member for West Bradford, referred to the episode at the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe French Government has introduced a bill for the purchase of 50 [?] [?] ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 4 Dec 1915, Page 5
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