The week's unsatisfactory news has increased the demand for national service. Lord Sydenham, Mr. Frederic Harrison, several headmasters of Public schools, ...
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Article : 96 wordsA communique slates: we assumed the offensive to the north-west and eastward of Sieniawa (30 miles north-north-east of Przemysl, on the eastern bank of the ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Italian destroyer Turbine was sunk dilling an action with Austrian warships in the Adriatic. ...
Article : 122 wordsA communique states: We carried the whole village of Ablain, after very hot fighting, in which we annihilated or put to flight three German companies. Fighting ...
Article : 212 wordsA French official report of the Dardanelles operations states that the Allies' plan, was to land a large force on a co[?] without natural cover, having as possible ...
Article : 251 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" reports that Mr. Lloyd George conferred with a large gathering of engineering firms, who explained that the differences' with their ...
Article : 210 wordsTwo Italian torpedo boats engaged an Austrian torpedo boat and two submarines. One submarine was repeatedly struck. She emitted a dense volume of smoke and ...
Article : 31 wordsThe American Ambassador in London reports that evidence is pointing to the torpedoing of the United States vessel Nebraskan. ...
Article : 23 wordsOur batteries on the Porto Corsini canal, near Ravenna, seriously damaged the torpedo boat S.80, the destroyer, Scharfschutze, and the scout Navara. There were ...
Article : 51 wordsThe German Foreign Office has informed Mr. Gerard that in view of the fact that in the past few weeks neutral ships have been repeatedly sunk, one case being ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Martin Donohoe, telegraphing from Rome, states that the Turbine was pursuing the enemy's fleeing ships. She soon outdistanced her consorts, and ran right ...
Article : 133 wordsAn unofficial message says the success at Seiniawa is interpreted to mean that a number of Austro-Germans in Western Galicia are being sent to the Trentino to ...
Article : 83 wordsThe submarine U24 torpedoed and sank Messrs. Elder, Dempster, and Co.'s steamer Ethiope (3592 tons) near Land's End. The crew took to the boats. ...
Article : 194 wordsA communique states: We captured 150 prisoners in the Le Pretre Forest (near Pont-a-Mousson). We also advanced several hundred ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Labour Progressive Association at Barnard Castle adopted Mr. Henderson, M.P., for re-election, and congratulated him on his entry into the Cabinet. ...
Article : 106 wordsA communique states that the Italians have occupied Ala (Southern Trentino), their casualties being slight. Previous unofficial messages stated that ...
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Article : 95 wordsA Berlin communique states: A French attack at Augres was repulsed with terrible losses, but during the night, unobserved by the enemy, we withdrew our ...
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Article : 55 wordsMr. Ashmead Bartlett, the war correspondent, was on board the battleship Majestic when she was torpedoed. He was saved, but lost everything in the ...
Article : 40 wordsItaly's new 75-centimetre guns are remarkable for their precision. At Feitsch (29 miles north by west of Eory) they silenced a battery of twelve-inch guns ...
Article : 39 wordsEnglish airmen blew up an ammunition depot at Poelcapelle (Flanders). A hundred Germans were killed and seventy-five wounded. ...
Article : 89 wordsA communique states: We captured a stronghold at Buble, near Shavil, in the Baltic province of Kovno, and took upwards of 1000 prisoners. ...
Article : 57 wordsAn Italian lieutenant and 85 men were ordered to hold a passage in the Agno Valley against an entire company of Bavarians. Sixty Italians fell. The ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Danish steamer Ely, while bound from England to Sundwall, struck a mine and sank off Stockholm. The crew were saved. ...
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Article : 89 wordsIt was reported that the steamer Argyllshire, from Sydney, sent a wireless message that she was being attacked by a German submarine. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe military authorities are attaching greater importance to the invasion of the Baltic provinces, where the Germans steadily are reinforcing. ...
Article : 95 wordsA communique states: Our airships successfiilly bombed Austrian territory over the Frluli border. An Austrian aeroplane was brought ...
Article : 51 wordsThe German version of the French air raid at Ludwigshafen states that six civilians were killed and nine wounded. A great number of bombs fell on the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe inquiry into the sinking of the British steamer Falaba has been concluded. The President of the Board, Lord Mersey, has announced that he will not give his ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Porte has notified neutral countries that, owing to British and French actions in Egypt, it has been decided to extend hostilities to the Suez Canal, and that ...
Article : 63 wordsThe child who was injured at Southend through the explosion of a bomb dropped during the raid by several Zeppelins on the 26th inst. has died. ...
Article : 54 wordsTwo Taube aeroplanes dropped bombs over St. Mark's-square, Venice. The mis[?]es fell into the water. Artillery drove the aeroplanes off. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is estimated that the death roll of the Princess Irene numbers 270. It is supposed that the cause of the disaster is similar to that in the case of ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Government has directed the judicial authorities to institute proceedings for any infraction of the defence of the realm regulations by newspaper publication of ...
Article : 36 wordsUpwards of a thousand Austrian and German women and children have been repatriated. ...
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Article : 38 wordsIt is officially stated that the Russians at Van captured 20 guns and other arms, great stores of provisions, also the Government Treasury. ...
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Article : 44 wordsArchduke Eugen commands the Austrian troops operating against Italy. ...
Article : 16 wordsCaptain K. Grenfell, of the 9th Lancers, the first officer to receive the Victoria Cross during the war, has been killed in action in France. ...
Article : 141 wordsExceptional interest was taken in the parade of the naval bridging train through the city yesterday afternoon. The train comprised nine officers and 311 men, with about ...
Article : 103 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" says that Austria, having refused passports for Italian consuls, the Italian authorities have arrested the Austrian consuls in various towns. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Gazette de Noticias" reports the discovery of a widespread plot in Southern Brazil, where there is a large German colony. Supplies of arms were collected ...
Article : 74 wordsThe newly formed Anti-German Union held a demonstration in the East End to-day, and demanded, besides the internment or German hairdressers and waiters, that ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Provisional Administration of Brabant has issued statistics, which show that during the German occupation of the Brabant district 5842 houses were burned, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe authorities at Trieste fled, leaving the city to the mercy of the mob. Italian buildings were sacked and set fire to, a commencement being made at the offices ...
Article : 100 wordsAt the last meeting of the Sutherland Shire Council the president remarked that the "slacking" of the council's labourers in their work was becoming marked, and was ...
Article : 59 wordsDr. Gillies, a well-known New Zealand golfer, has been appointed chief surgeon of the Belgian field hospital. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 31 May 1915, Page 9
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