The news regarding Roumania's part in the war indicates that the operations in the Transylvanian Alps are being carried out by her own troops, and in the Carpathians south of Bukowina by the Russians and Roumanians in co-operation. The Russians must have been standing upon the Roumanian doorstep ready for the door to open, for it is announced that the Austrians have evacuated Bistritz (a town 25 miles from the Borgo Pass (near ...
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Advertising : 22 wordsThe German Government, in reply to the representations made by the United States regarding the submarine attack on the American steamer Oswego ...
Article : 224 wordsThe residents of the Orkney Islands, in the north of Scotland, are erecting a monument to Lord Kitchener on Warwick Head, a lofty spot near ...
Article : 61 wordsTo-day's Bulgarian communique states:—There is no essential change in Macedonia. Our troops have reached the positions assigned to them, and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Military Medal for conspicuous bravery has been awarded to the following members of the Commonwealth military forces:—Australian Infantry: ...
Article : 51 wordsA war correspondent aboard a hospital ship has interviewed a wounded colonel, who paid a notable tribute to the achievements of the Australians at ...
Article : 484 wordsThe official Russian communique issued in Petrograd to-day states:— Yesterday we repelled attacks on the west bank of the Stokhod, 34 ...
Article : 115 wordsThe International Red Cross Committee has addressed the belligerents and neutral countries, imploring the belligerents to abandon reprisals on ...
Article : 326 wordsMrs. Edward Tolman, Battery Point, has received further advice from the Military Headquarters, Melbourne, that her youngest son, Mostyn Edward ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Carl Von Wicgand. the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," in a despatch under yesterday's date, shows that Germany ...
Article : 142 wordsThe threatened railway strike in America is creating the most intense interest. Individual members of Congress are anxious to avoid ...
Article : 197 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: We have repulsed Turkish attacks to the westward of Gumushkhana (about 45 miles north-west of ...
Article : 67 wordsIn response to the protest forwarded by the United States Government to Austria respecting the attack on the American tank steamer Petrolite, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe officials of the Roumanian Legation in Rome state that the resistance of the enemy has been everywhere shattered, and the Roumanian army has ...
Article : 121 wordsA wireless message received in Berne states that General Von Mackenson has been appointed to the command of the German, Turkish, and Bulgarian ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Danish newspaper "Dagens Nyheder" states that Austrian infernal machines which were placed among the cargoes of Allied steamers in Finnish ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Italian communique issued this afternoon states:— In the Trentino we repulsed attacks in the Upper Posina and Astico ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Messagero" (Rome) says the initial fighting between the Roumanians and Hungarians on the Southern ...
Article : 88 wordsThe inquiry into the shooting during the recent Irish rebellion of Skeffington, the editor of a Dublin journal, and Dickson and Melntyre, citizens, was ...
Article : 303 wordsThe masters of steamers arriving at Christiania, in Norway, report that scarcely any German warships are now encountered in the North Sea, but there ...
Article : 54 wordsIn a speech at a banquet given yesterday by the Nautical Club of Bilbao, King Alfonso of Spain said that in the olden days the Spanish flag floated ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Austrians, in to-day's communique, say:—We have repulsed the Roumanians on the heights eastward of Herkulesturdo (north of the Iron ...
Article : 46 wordsGeneral Haig, in his report this morning, states:— We discharged gas on the enemy's lines at Arras, and Armentieres ...
Article : 70 wordsDespatches received in New York from London and Athens say that Greece will abandon neutrality within 48 hours. ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt, in a vigorous, denunciation of "German-Americanism," says there has been a revival of anti-Americanism for which Dr. ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Austrians are preparing to evacuate Bistritz (an important Hungarian town about 25 miles from the point at which Roumania, Transylvania, and ...
Article : 46 wordsFrench military critics point out that the British continue to make progress towards Thiepval, which the Germans are not likely to hold long, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 220 wordsThough Bucharest telegrams are much delayed, Rome and Petrograd messages insist on the splendid results achieved by the Roumanians in their ...
Article : 524 wordsTwo hundred and ninety-four German deserters are now being tried by court-martial at Liege, in Belgium. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe newspapers in Vienna announce that the General Staff is considering the evacuation of all South-Eastern Transylvania for the purpose of shortening ...
Article : 68 wordsThe communique issued in Paris this morning is as follows:— A German coup-de-main in the forest of Parroy, to the north-east of ...
Article : 49 wordsNewspapers in Italy state that Austria has invited Bulgaria to declare war on Roumania, but that Bulgaria has not replied to the invitation, and ...
Article : 55 wordsDespatches received in New York state that the commander of the Russian troops in Roumania has reached Bucharest, and was warmly welcomed. ...
Article : 150 wordsIn his report issued this morning, General Sir Douglas Haig states:— In the Martinpuich operations reported last night the prisoners made ...
Article : 82 wordsThe troops of General Carranza, the President of Mexico, who were under the command of General Caslin, have defeated a large body of the followers ...
Article : 95 wordsThe appointment of General Von Hindenburg as Chief of Staff of the German armies represents a triumph for Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, ...
Article : 289 wordsThe War Office, in to-day's summary of the operations against the Germans in East Africa, states:— The Germans are retiring in several ...
Article : 108 wordsA wireless message received in Rome states that Bulgaria asks for the assistance of 200,0OO Turkish troops as a condition of her declaring war against ...
Article : 37 wordsTo-night's French communique says: The Germans made a grenade attack on our positions at Maurepas Wood to-day, and were easily ...
Article : 67 wordsAt a luncheon given in New York yesterday by American aviators six of the guests arrived at the hotel by aeroplane, two of them coming from ...
Article : 49 wordsAs a measure aimed against the British black list, the United States Senate has adopted an amendment giving Dr. Wilson, the President; power to ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that it is believed that General Von Hindenburg was lately preparing to take the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Vossische Zeitung" says:—The Roumanian Minister at Sofia demanded his passports on Thursday evening, and the Bulgarian Minister at Bucharest ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the recent South Wales coalfield dispute, the miners claimed a 12 1/2 per cent, rise in wages, and the owners a 15 per cent. reduction. Mr. Justice ...
Article : 47 wordsOf 500 munition workers who recently struck work at Chemnitz, in Saxony, 100 of military age have been sent to the front. ...
Article : 39 wordsThere was again heavy fighting at Mouquet Farm, and in the trench labyrinth around, last night. Thunderstorms had drenched the ground, so ...
Article : 155 wordsA wireless message received in New York from Berlin states that the German steamer Marie, which arrived at Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies, in ...
Article : 99 wordsThe report issued by the War Office to-day on the situation in Salonika is as follows:— Operations on the front from ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. H. Warner Allen, the war correspondent, states that Germany has despatched towards Roumania nine divisions of men from France, despite the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe rainfall for August was 11.5[?] inches on 24 wet days. The fall for the first eight month of the year was 60.51 inches, on 118 wet days. The average ...
Article : 47 wordsAs a result of the negotiations of the Spanish Ambassador in Berlin, French civilian prisoners who were working in Courland have been ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 2 Sep 1916, Page 7
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