Refugees relate shocking details of the situation in Syria, where the Christian population is starving. Wholesale executions and atrocities commenced ...
Article : 107 wordsThe British and French in their advance on Sunday from Delville Wood to the Somme do not appear to have got far. Guillement seems to have checked the British, and Maurepas the French. The reports, however, indicate that the action was more a reconnaissance in force than a battle, and some ground was gained at several points. General Haig's plan is to keep in close touch with the enemy, and Sunday's operation was necessary, owing to the final ...
Article : 437 wordsThe House of Commons was crowded this afternoon, in anticipation of a discussion on the motion given notice of by Mr. J. Dillon, the Nationalist ...
Article : 1,284 wordsThe indignation of the Dutch people against the Germans owing to the murder of Captain Fryatt is increasing in intensity. To-day the crowd visited the ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Taylor, of the American Embassy in Berlin, after investigation, denies the German stories that there is a shortage of milk for babies. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Russian communique issued this afternoon states:— There is a fierce artillery duel north-east and south-east of ...
Article : 329 wordsThe "Kreuze Zeitung" (Berlin) warns Germans against the optimism of Major Moraht, the military critic, in belittling England, and-declares that ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Westminster Gazette", says it is worth noting that both officially and unofficially Australia declines to be a party to the constitution of the ...
Article : 99 wordsIt is generally believed that the United States, in its protest against the British black list, conveys to Great Britain the disapproval of the United ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Commonwealth Ministry has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Bonar Law) a letter of thanks for its expression of ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Austrians, in their communique issued to-day, state:—Several attacks by the Alpini troops in the Tofana region (Dolomite [?]Alps) were repulsed, ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is officially stated that a number of Zeppelins made another raid on England early this morning. It appears that a considerable number of airships ...
Article : 168 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon. Mr. McKenna, the President of the Board of Trade, said that an Anglo-Italian Corporation had been ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day adopted the Empire patriotic resolution expressing the inflexible determination of Victoria to assist in carrying on the war to ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his report issued this afternoon, states:— We spent last night (Sunday) in improving the position we gained on ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. P. Facy, of Hobart, has received a cablegram stating that his son, Private E. R. Facy, has been wounded in the fighting at Pozieres. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe operations at Verdun are thus described in this afternoon's communique: We have progressed south-west of Fleury. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe members of the oversea Parliaments now visiting England attended a private conference at the House of Commons to-day, and discussed Indian ...
Article : 523 wordsThe Germans, in their communique to-day, state:—The English operations at Poziores and Longueval heralded a great Anglo-French attack on the whole ...
Article : 113 wordsLieutenant John Ritchie, of the Seaforth Highlanders, who belonged to Dunedin, New Zealand; Lieutenant Edward Nott, of the Yorkshire Light ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Dutch mail steamer Koaingen Wilhelmina. 1,984 tons, struck n mine to-day off the North Hinder lightship, and sank. Three of the crew were ...
Article : 53 wordsAlthough the Germans are stubbornly resisting about 5½ miles west of the Stokhod River, on the road to Kovel, the Russian balloon observers ...
Article : 52 wordsTo-day's communique records the following operations in the air:— Our aviators have bombed enemy military factories at Thionville (in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 wordsCorrespondents at the from state that the Germans have dug many new trenches behind Guillemont, and that among the new guns brought up is ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Agency states that the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, who is now nearly 86 years of ago, is seriously ill, and that the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe battle around Pozieres still continues to be tremendously fierce. Even the German communique admits that. For four days the Germans shelled the ...
Article : 552 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at the front, writes:—On Sunday the sun was scorching, but artillery observation was ...
Article : 470 wordsThe Germans are employing new methods in the Baltic, merchant vessels being convoyed by aeroplanes, and sailing in a long column, the last ship of ...
Article : 104 wordsDutch reports show that there is a cessation in the big movement of German reinforcements to the Westorn front, proving that the maximum man ...
Article : 284 wordsThe correspondent in Egypt of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the Turkish advance towards the Suez Canal is along the caravan route from ...
Article : 128 wordsFurther details are published to-day of the terrible explosion of munitions which took place at the wharf of the Munitions National Storage Co. ...
Article : 204 wordsWhen the House of Commons met this afternoon a most angry feeling was apparent in the lobbies, owing to the murder by the Germans of Captain ...
Article : 288 wordsTo-day s Russian communique states: We have further advanced in the region of Erzinghan. We have also repulsed a Turkish ...
Article : 51 wordsGeneral Corsi, of the Italian army, in an article in the "Tribuna," estimates that since June 4 the Austrian losses on the Russian front have been 300,000 ...
Article : 57 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— The Germans have made violent counter-attacks against Hem Wood ...
Article : 103 wordsThe troops of the Grand Shereef of Arabia. who are fighting against the Turks, have captured Jeddah, the Arabian seaport to the west of Mecca, with ...
Article : 49 wordsJudge Hughes, in accepting the Republican nomination for the Presidential election in the United States, advocated protection sufficient to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 2 Aug 1916, Page 5
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