The Bulgarians on Monday again assaulted the Serbian left wing at Ostrovo. The battle lasted till nightfall, and the Bulgarians suffered a crushing ...
Article : 96 wordsWe may well be living through Armageddon. To the fifteen nations already engaged in the war, it seems certain that Greece is to be added. His own War Minister has made King Constantine a prisoner. A previous message from Salonika stated that he had fled from Athens, and joined a German guard of 300 Uhlans at Larissa. The one story may explain the other. If he had arranged for flight to the Germans, it would mean that he had intended to take the Greek ...
Article : 478 wordsThe official French communique issued to-day states:— We made progress to the eastward of Fleury yesterday. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the "Messagero" (Rome) states that the naval bombardment of the fort of Varna (on the Bulgarian coast of the ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Ward Price, the "Daily Mail" correspondent at Salonika, sent the following cable last evening:—A sensation has been caused here by a report ...
Article : 99 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports this morning as follows:— Owing to bad weather, our operations last night were restricted to ...
Article : 116 wordsGeneral Von Hindenburg has given the notorious General Bernhardi, the military writer, the command of an Austrian army corps on the Kovel ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-night's French communique says: Our curtain of fire frustrated two attempts by the enemy to approach our lines in Lorraine to-day. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the Bulgarian attempt to roll up the left of the Allied forces and reach the sea is ...
Article : 147 wordsTo-day's Italian communique states: We yesterday gained ground to the north-eastward of Monte Caurio. We brilliantly stormed and carried ...
Article : 79 wordsA wireless message received in Berne states that the Czar had summoned M. Itchas, the chairman of the Lithuanian Nationalists in the Russian Duma, and ...
Article : 193 wordsKing Constantine of Greece has recalled his brother, Prince Andrew, from England, where he was the guest of the King at Windsor Castle. ...
Article : 32 wordsDelayed messages received in London indicate that developments are imminent in Greece. The "Daily Chronicle's" ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, sends a vivid description of the storm which interfered with the British operations on the Somme last ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says the Serbians have dislodged the Bulgarians from the Nalbankeuy heights, and the ...
Article : 58 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states: We yesterday repulsed enemy attacks on the Upper Screth and the Bystritza (a tributary of the ...
Article : 93 wordsA report issued by the War Office to-day on the operations in Egypt states: There has been slight fighting to the east of the Suez Canal. On ...
Article : 71 wordsThe French communique runs as follows:— We have bombarded the enemy on the Struma front. At Lake ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Roumanians have occupied Kronstadt, in Transylvania. KRONSTADT. Kronstadt (Hungarian Brasso) is the ...
Article : 106 wordsTurkey has declared war on Roumania, and Turkish troops are assisting in the fighting on the Roumanian front. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe official British report issued this afternoon in reference to the Salonika front runs as follows:— Yesterday the enemy shelled the ...
Article : 92 wordsRoumania is sending an ultimatum to Bulgaria demanding the immediate evacuation of Serbian territory and the re-establishment of the boundaries, in ...
Article : 69 wordsThe intervention of Roumania in the war has profoundly changed the situation. German agents, in anticipation of intervention, have renewed their ...
Article : 202 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: South of Lake Nimrud Zhel the Turks have retired from the entrance to Bitlis Pass in the direction of ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is believed that General Von Falkenhayn's fall was due to the clashing of his plans with those of General Von Hindenhurg. The latter wanted ...
Article : 274 wordsA German communique says:—The enemy during Tuesday night attacked Ovillers and Pozieres, and also our positions between Guillemont and ...
Article : 72 wordsA Roumanian communique issued to-night states:— The Roumanian troops crossed the Hungarian frontier on Sunday night. ...
Article : 72 wordsA War Council of the Central Powers has been summoned in Vienna to consider Roumania's entry into the war. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria will attend ...
Article : 43 wordsA Salonika message stated that Essad Pasha, Governor of Albania, has arrived to take charge of the Albanian troops, who are co-operating with the ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is officially announced that the Imperial Government, with a view to relieving distress, among old age pensioners, is making a grant to meet ...
Article : 63 wordsIn his report this morning General Haig states:— Last night we raided the German trenches at Neuville St. Vaast (south ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Cyril Brown, the Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times," says that Roumania's entry into the war is a most severe test for German ...
Article : 231 wordsTo-day's Bulgarian communique is as follows:—Our right wing has consolidated new positions gained on the Florina, Plains, and west and north of ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the "Messaggero" says the Roumanians have defeated the Austrians along the whole line, and the Austrians are ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Robert Machray, formerly war editor of the "Daily Mail," who specialises in Far Eastern subjects, comments, in the "Nineteenth Century and ...
Article : 212 wordsA message from Berlin states that fighting on the Roumanian frontier has begun with Roumanian attacks in the direction of Verchiorova Pass, and the ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is reported that the Roumanians and Russians have captured the principal passes of the Carpathians, and have been now marching for 12 hours in ...
Article : 61 wordsTo-day's Austrian communique says: —On the heights north-eastward of Orsova we have repulsed repeated Roumanian attacks. Otherwise our ...
Article : 176 wordsOnly meagre accounts have been received in London of the early Roumanian successes—not even the Roumanian account of the capture of Kronstadt ...
Article : 513 wordsA message received in New York from Berlin states, that Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Chancellor, has hurried to the German headquarters of ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Press Bureau in London is circulating the New Zealand Government's contribution to the statement published in London that the voluntary ...
Article : 235 wordsThe "New York Times," in a leader to-day, under the heading "Greece and Bulgaria Next," says the eyes of the world will now be focussed on Greece ...
Article : 112 wordsWireless messages received in New York from Berlin strongly indicate that Austria and Germany believed that Roumania would remain their ...
Article : 77 wordsNow that the Roumanians have got to business, they are pushing ahead more rapidly than might have been expected, considering the difficult nature of the region in which they are fighting—the Transylvanian Alps, which, with the Carpathians, forms a natural frontier between Roumania and Hungary. Latest reports show that [?] Roumanians have thus early negotiated Tosmos Pass and occupied the town of Kronstadt and the Austrians, in their communique endeavour to pave the way for the shock of this and other Roumanian successes by stating that the Austrian withdrawal is in accordance with previously ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 1 Sep 1916, Page 5
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