If the Bulgarians intended a general offensive north of Salonika, they have got a hotter reception than they anticipated. It was, at any rate, only a-half-hearted affair, meant probably to induce the Allies to come out from their defences. The intention, perhaps, was to strike at the Allies before Roumania has crossed the Rubicon, which she appears about to do. A Paris report estimates the enemy at between 600,000 and 700,000 men, but this is ...
Article : 313 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, replying to a question in the House of Commons this afternoon as to whether the German Government had often ...
Article : 116 wordsTo-day's Turkish communique states: —On August 15 enemy aviators unsuccessfully bombed our positions on the Tigris. We successfully bombed the ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is estimated that the Bulgarian, Austro-German, and Turkish troops in Macedonia number from 600,000 to 700,000. They have benefited by ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-day's Italian communique says:— The enemy's batteries are active along the Trentino front. We have shelled Piave Valley, and ...
Article : 60 wordsSeveral trawlers from Hull, in Yorkshire, had an exciting encounter yesterday with the Zeppelin L24. The airship emitted a vapour, thus making ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. J. D. Rockefeller, the American millionaire, has given the Swiss authorities at Freiburg 380,000 francs (about £18,000) for the maintenance of 500 ...
Article : 36 wordsIt now appears that the Bulgarians took the offensive at three points. One force occupied Rupel, and advanced on Demirhissar; another, advanced on ...
Article : 111 wordsThe officer commanding the 40th Battalion, Colonel Lord, has written as follows to the Commandant, Colonel Clark, under date July 20:— ...
Article : 480 wordsThe House of Lords this afternoon discussed the Government's electoral registration proposals. Lord Salisbury announced that a bill would be ...
Article : 101 wordsTo-day's Italian communique refers to the operations on the Isonzo front as follows:— We are consolidating our gains in ...
Article : 84 wordsThe War Office has appointed a central advisory committee for England and Wales on matters arising from the purchase and distribution of English ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Bulgarian and German Ministers have handed to the Greek Government a written declaration guaranteeing the rights and liberties of the ...
Article : 78 wordsA British and French military mission is proceeding to Portugal at the end of the week. General N. W. Barnardiston will represent Great Britain, ...
Article : 49 wordsWolff's Agency, the official centre in Berlin for the circulation of German reports, is forwarding sensational telegrams to Switzerland announcing that ...
Article : 42 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his report this morning, states:— The enemy heavily bombarded us last night, and made three bombing ...
Article : 150 wordsKing Emmanuel of Italy visited Gorz yesterday, and walked through the streets of the town. He met with an enthusiastic reception. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe military authorities of the United States are considering the adoption of the steel helmet now used by the British and French armies. ...
Article : 34 wordsAfter a couple of days' lull, fierce fighting broke out again on all sides of Pozieres Ridge last night. The New South Welshmen managed to seize ...
Article : 204 wordsGeneral Haig, in his report late to-night, states:— Our aeroplanes continue to bomb the enemy's billets successfully. One ...
Article : 79 wordsThe German newspaper "Kreuz Zeitung" states that the Roumanian War Minister and the Russian military attache participated in certain ...
Article : 79 wordsIt is officially announced that the British troops operating against the Germans in East Africa are now approaching Dar-es-Salaam, the chief ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher has declined to intervene on behalf of the Anzac Buffet, which the War Office has decided to remove. At a crowded meeting of ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Commonwealth Government charterers have raised the rate of freight for sailing ships from 75s. to 120s. per ton. It is expected that this will ...
Article : 64 wordsThis morning's official Russian communique is as under:— Fighting continues on the Stokhod in the region of Tobolz, and we have ...
Article : 137 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Times" states that the response British security holders are making to Mr. McKenna, the Chancellor of ...
Article : 100 wordsBrindejone des Moulinais, the famous French aviator, who made a series of remarkable flights to European capitals in 1913, covering in eight days 3,125 ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is understood that the United States Government is withholding the recognition of President Krabajal, of Santo Domingo, pending an attempt to ...
Article : 43 wordsThere has been a considerable increase in the number of German wounded passing through Belgium lately. In the last few days about 5,000 have been ...
Article : 39 wordsThis morning's French communique states:— We captured seven German guns, between Mauropas and Guillemont ...
Article : 75 wordsThe new Serbian artillery inflicted severe losses on the Bulgarians during the retirement from Florina (south of Monastir). A squadron of Bulgarian ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," referring to the appearance in the North Sea on Saturday last of the German High Seas ...
Article : 379 wordsEarly in the month M. Lomonnier, the acting Burgomaster of Brussels, refused to pay a fine of £50,000 inflicted on the town for celebrating the Belgian ...
Article : 78 wordsThe officials of the London branch of the Commonwealth Bank are presenting a gold key to-morrow to Mr. Andrew Fisher simultaneously with Mr. ...
Article : 41 wordsGerman vessels, with an aggregate of 188,7[?]8 tons, which were commandeered in Portuguese ports, have been ceded to (Great Britain by the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Morning Post" correspondent at the British headquarters writes:— The Anzacs describe a new device of German frightfulness called "The ...
Article : 180 wordsThe latest returns show that since the Anglo-French offensive started on the Somme the number of able-bodied Germans made prisoner by the British ...
Article : 39 wordsA public meeting, convened by the Municipal Council in response to a request from an influential deputation was held to-night at the Theatre Royal. ...
Article : 391 wordsIt is officially stated that an explosion occurred this afternoon at a munitions factory in Yorkshire, and caused a serious number of fatalities. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that a proposal to cinematograph the British Cabinet at its sitting to-morrow, ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" says the Germans, in the recent fighting at Krevo, used a liquid which produced a burning ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Temps" states that General Von Mackensen commands 1,500,000 of the enemy on the Somme front. ...
Article : 30 wordsCopies of the first "Anzac Bulletin," issued by the High Commissioner's office in London to the members of the Australian Imperial Forces in Great Britain ...
Article : 141 wordsThe situation on the French front in the Balkans is thus referred to in this morning's official communique:— Our operations are progressing ...
Article : 84 wordsTo-day's German communique is as follows:—Yesterday we repulsed desultory attacks west of High Wood, grenade attacks at Maurepas, and ...
Article : 37 wordsThis morning's report by General Haig refers to operations on the British front in the region of Lens as follows:— ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Germans, in their communique issued at Berlin to-day, state:—We yesterday repulsed strong attempts by the Russians to extend their positions ...
Article : 70 wordsAbout 30,000 people witnessed in Glasgow to-day the unvelling by the Countess Roberts of an equestrian Statue erected by the people to the ...
Article : 188 wordsThe "New York Times," in an editorial, offers a new reason for the German assault on Verdun. It says:— "Verdun opens the side door to Metz, ...
Article : 182 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: In the ditection of Diarbekr we have captured a fortified series of heights, and taken many Turks. ...
Article : 95 wordsThough various views are taken of the object of the Bulgarian offensive, the opinion is widely held that the Bulgarian leaders hope by its means to ...
Article : 187 wordsHis many friends will be glad that Lieutenant S. L. Hughes, who has been wounded in France, has cabled to his father, the Rev. S. H. Hughes, to the ...
Article : 262 wordsThis morning's French communique states:— Last evening (Sunday), the Germans made violent attacks at Fleury, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe casualties on the lignt cruiser Nottingham, which, with her sister ship, the Falmouth, was torpedoed and sunk by German submarines on ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 23 Aug 1916, Page 5
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