The airship raid took place at 1 o'clock in the morning. The approach of three Zeppelins was signalled, and the inhnbltants were warned by bugles. The city ...
Article : 91 wordsIt Is officially stated in Berlin that weale Russian divisions have entered Memel (a Baltic seaport in the north-eastern extremity of East Prussia), and that counter ...
Article : 67 wordsWhen the Irresistible, Ocean, and Bouvet were sunk the Allied Fleets were operating against the forts of Chanak and Killel Bahr, which guard the encrance to "The Narrows." The straits from the entrance, right up to Cbannk, had previously been swept clear of anchored mines, so that the ships were lost by coming in contact with drifting mines, which the Turks, taking advatitnge of the current down the strait, would cast loose somewhere in "The Narrows." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 85 wordsH.M.S. Irresistible, H.M.S. Ocean, and the French battleship Bouvet were sunk by mines in the Dardanelles on Thursday. The Inflexible and Gaulois were damaged and put out of action, and other vessels were hit several times ...
Article : 125 wordsA communique states: Memel was captured after street fishting, in which the inhabitants participated. The Germans, after a stiff fight at ...
Article : 43 wordsA sailor on the destroyer which rammed the German submarine U12 says prisoners declared that when another submarine previously put into Kiel for repairing the crew ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is officially announced that the Russians have captured Veysee, on the left bank of the Niemen, and repulsed a coutiter-attack in the Vayh region. ...
Article : 74 wordsA communique issued on Sunday states: As the Russians advanced two regiments of the Landsturm, defending Memel, were driven back, and rainglad with the ...
Article : 96 wordsThe battleship Ocean waa launched at Devenport in 1898, and completad in 1900. She was smaller than the Irresistible having a displacement of 12,950 tong, but carried ...
Article : 346 wordsIt is reported from East Prussia that the Russians destroyed 80,000 houses. Agriculture is in an absolutely desperate condition. Scarcely 6000 out of 100,000 ...
Article : 35 wordsA communique on Friday stated: We captured and destroyed the enemy's communications and trenches near Notre Dame de Lorette, towards the village of Ablain, ...
Article : 163 wordsA small crowd watched the operations on March 18 from the summit of Mount Elias. The warships steamed from an ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Admiralty announce that the British battleships Irresistible (15,000 tons), and Ocean (12,950 tons), and the French battle[?] Bouvet (12,000 tons), have been sunk ...
Article : 363 wordsWhen the Zeppelin made the night attack upon Calais tlare balloons were suspended far below the car, thereby rendering the Zeppelin unseen. Forty large bombs ...
Article : 37 wordsThe aeroplane which dropped bombs-over Deal Harbour was one of four. The other three, noticing the lively reception their comrade received, turned back. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe official reply to the German thrent of reprisals points out that Memel was defended by armed forces, while the inhabitants participated in the lighting. ...
Article : 62 wordsA communique states: The Germans, attacking in close order at Mysgynlec, northeastward of Prasnysz (Northern Poland), were routed, with enormous losses. ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. Runciman, representing the Government, upheld the agreement between the Master Stevedores' Association and the men and the strike is now settled. ...
Article : 33 wordsWild scenes took place in the Reichstag during the second reading of the Budget. Herr Ledcbour, a Socialist member, protested against the military trying to ...
Article : 391 wordsThe passage of the Dardanelles, Wilch the Allied warships are at present engaged in an attempt to force, presents, under normal conditions, the aspect of n great river, ...
Article : 785 wordsThe French battleship Bouvel was a vessor of 12,007 tons displacement. She was launched in 1896, and completed In 1898, and was therefore the oldest of the three lost ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Canadians are very proud to be the first troops from self-governing Dominions to tight for England in Europe. I was permitted to visit that part of the ...
Article : 325 wordsSir John French in his bi-weekly report says that the general situation is unchanged. Isolated attacks were made on Saint ...
Article : 103 wordsAdvices from the Caucasus slate that the Russians are marching westward on a wide front along the Black Sea coastline. New Turkish formations, intended to replace the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe inflexible is one of ten battle cruisers, of which H.M.A.S. Australia and H.M.S. Now zealand are similar types, but more modern vessels. The Inflxible was launched at ...
Article : 105 wordsDr. Dillon, writing from Rome, states that the Italian Minister for Education is ascertaining the milltary status of all prefessors, teachers and educational employees ...
Article : 182 wordsRenter's correspondent at Tenedos says that the allied fleet on the 18th bombarded the forts in the Narrows for six hours. A British officer at Athens states that ...
Article : 224 wordsWe know now what the Queen Elizabeth is capable of with her big 15in guns—It is the talk of all the British sailors, the cables tell us—but the story of the bombardment ...
Article : 695 wordsDuring the week 519 officers have met with casualties at the front. Eighty-three officers have been killed and 110 wounded during recent operations at ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Mayor of Southport has received a letter from an officer in the Worcestershire Regiment giving a circumstantial statement as to how the Germans shot a ...
Article : 86 wordsIn eye-witness at Tenedos states that [?] clouds of smoke blotted out the [?] Then, as they thinned, her groy [?] pointing skywards was seen, the stern ...
Article : 45 wordsGerman agents disguised. as workmen wore arrested in Italy while endeavouring to blow up a railway tunnel near Genoa, in order to hinder mobilisation of the ...
Article : 33 wordsis officially stated that the battleship [?] has been temporarily put out of [?] The battleship Henry IV. will re[?] the Bouvet in the operations in the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe "Telegraf" correspondent at Berlin states that when the hombardment of Smyrna began 2000 Fronen and British subjects were arrested. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Morning Post's" Tientsin correspondent states that China stoutly declines to fault the mining concessions throughout Manchuria. Peking reports that the ...
Article : 66 wordsA communique, Issued in Berlin, states:—We captured a group of houses at Saint Elol. We cleared the French from the cover of Notre Dame de Lorette. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe British steamer Hyndford (4286 tons) from Bahia blanca to London, was torpedoed in the Channel anil reached Gravesend leaking. ...
Article : 52 wordsGerman warships seized the Dutch steamer Zaanstroom, laden with eggs, and bound for London. The vessel was taken to Zeebrugge. ...
Article : 28 wordsIf is officially announced that when the Russian squadron approached the Bospborus a panic took place in Constantinople. ...
Article : 27 words[?] correspondent states that the [?] of the Queen Elizabeth is the talk [?] the whole fleet. [?] while at anchor she frequently shelled ...
Article : 37 wordsA Zeppelin dropped three bombs on Paris to-day. One caused a lire at Neullly. ...
Article : 22 wordsPrivate letters received from many German prison camps increasingly implore their English friends to send articles of food. ...
Article : 27 wordsPassengers arriving by the steamer Lapland report that while steaming in the Irish Sea a German submarine attempted to torpedo the liner. A British destroyer ...
Article : 45 wordsThe irresistible was a comparatively old battleship having been laid down at Chatham on April 17, 1898, and completed in 1902. She was similar in all respects to H.M.S. ...
Article : 432 wordsThe British Embassy denies that RussoBritish representations have been made to Japan regarding China. ...
Article : 20 wordsA Taube aeroplane flew over Deal and attempted to drop bombs on the shipping. All the bombs fell into the sen. The aeroplane flew 3000 feet above Deal, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe object of the recent dash of the [?] as far as Nagara was to cut the [?] between Killd Babr and Chanak. She [?], but was detected when she ...
Article : 44 wordsWhen the Reichstag oponed a crowd of poor women' forced their way in front of the windows, wringing their hands towards members, and crying for bread. ...
Article : 35 wordsLieutenant W. A. Burgess, a native of Western Anstralia, has been killed in section. Major E. O. M. Anderson, a Victorian, ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Admiralty states that since the beginning of the war 54 British merchant vessels have been sunk or captured by enemy cruisers. Twelve others have ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 22 Mar 1915, Page 9
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