Chief interest still centres in the Balkans. The Roumanians on the left wing and centre, and the Roumanians and Russians together on the right wing, are moving westward from the Alps, and havo occupied several towns. The most important of these advances is along the northern bank of the Danube upon[?]Orsova, the point near which the Austro-Germans crossed the river for the invasion of Serbia early in the war. They have also ...
Article : 539 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his report issued this morning, states:— The Gormans, after an intense bombardment, made five attacks ...
Article : 315 wordsA sudden and startling solution appeared to manifest itself in the political situation, which during the last few days has been lowering like a ...
Article : 815 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Bulgarians are falling back rapidly towards Monastir from the Florina Plains, but ...
Article : 146 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —South-west of Lutzk the Russians yesterday gained ground, but they were forced to withdraw before ...
Article : 155 wordsThe people in several Greek cities have revolted, and three regiments have mutinied and besieged the Greek garrison at Salonika. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Press Bureau to-day issued the following report on the situation at Salonika:— Hostile artillery yesterday shelled ...
Article : 58 wordsThe French communique to-day on the Salonika operations states:— There is intermittent cannonade on the Struma front and in the Lake ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" has interviewed General Ishuvaeff, the Russian War Minister, who said:—The enemy are ...
Article : 51 wordsThis morning's French "communique says:— There was considerable artillery activity on the Somme front to-day, ...
Article : 57 wordsA communique issued at Bucharest to-day states:— We are successfully advancing in all directions. ...
Article : 81 wordsTwenty-three Allied warships, accompanied by transports from Salonika, arrived at noon yesterday in the Pir[?]us, the harbour of Athens. ...
Article : 188 wordsAllied aeroplanes have bombed the Bulgarian encampment at Serevitch, and killed 153 of the enemy. Bulgarian aeroplanes have bombed ...
Article : 51 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says:— The Turks yesterday resumed the offensive westward of Gumushkhanah north-west of Baiburt), at Erzingan, ...
Article : 174 wordsReferring to the surrender of 126 Bavarians in a body on Wednesday, Mr. Philip Gibbs, war correspondent, says:—It was a ditch called "the ...
Article : 140 wordsGeneral Jostoff, the chief of the Bulgarian General Staff, is dead. It is reported that he committed suicide, not wishing to lead his army into what he ...
Article : 51 wordsA wireless message received in Rome states that Hungary is arming all her citizens, irrespective of age. About 100,000 fugitives from Transylvania are ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says, that Russian troops continue to pour into Roumania and a section of the Russian Fleet has ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Messagero" says there has been a violent quarrel between the King of Bulgaria and the Crown Prince Boris on account of the latter's Russophile ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Albanian insurgents have annihilated or captured several Austrian garrisons. ...
Article : 20 wordsIt is believed that Germany and Austria are preparing to bring their full weight into an effort against the Southern Roumanian frontier, whither ...
Article : 96 wordsA wireless message from Bucharest states that the Roumanian army on the evening of the declaration of war was ready to take up its positions, and ...
Article : 412 wordsTo-day's Gorman communique says: —We yesterday regained ground we last at Longueval and Delville Wood. The Saxons made the counter-attacks. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe French newspapers urge united action on the part of the Allies against Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, and so rapidly disposing of the Bulgarian ...
Article : 38 wordsThe German newspapers show great uneasiness regarding Bulgaria. They admit that her frontiers would be difficult to defend. Should Greece join the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe newspapers publish the startling statements to-day that King Constantine of Greece has abdicated, and handed over the regency to his brother, ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" states that Dr. Nizov, the Bulgarian Minister at Berlin, recently staled:—"We know ...
Article : 54 wordsYesterday Allied airmen dropped bombs on the German workshop at Ghent[?] in Belgium, and killed 22 and injured 40. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe War Office to-day makes the following announcement on the Mesopotamia campaign:— Out aeroplanes have made two ...
Article : 41 wordsTo-day's Austrian communique says: —We again repulsed the enemy on Thursday near Orsova and in the vicinity of Herkulesvurdo and Bahna (Iron ...
Article : 146 wordsThis morning's report by General Haig states:— In the Ypres salient yesterday we liberated gas against the enemy's ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral Dimitrieff (the Bulgarian general who distinguished himself in the first Balkans war, but since the outbreak of the present war has hold a ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Ward Price, the war correspondent, in a message despatched from Salonika on Thursday, and delayed, states:—"Wednesday's revolution had ...
Article : 577 wordsMr. Carl Von Wiegand, the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," in a wireless message to that journal, states that in an interview ...
Article : 225 wordsA report issued by the Press Bureau to-day on the campaign in Egypt states:— Hostile aeroplanes bombed Port ...
Article : 63 wordsM. Venizelos, in message which is published in to-day's "Sunday Times," states:—Although deeply grie[?]d that Greece has much delayed in paying her ...
Article : 94 wordsTo-day's Italian communique states:— We have occupied Tepeleni, on the Viosa, and the Albanian and Greek garrison withdraw. ...
Article : 46 wordsTo-day's French communique states: In a cou[?] de main between the Oise and the Aisne we took some prisoners from the trenches at Nouvron. ...
Article : 190 wordsBulgaria has declared war upon Roumania. The war manifesto has been posted up in the streets of Sofia. Later. ...
Article : 176 wordsTo-day's Italian communique states: In the Trentino we yesterday repelled an attack in the Caoria valley, on the right bunk of the river ...
Article : 68 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states:— A bullet in the head yesterday killed Major-General Kikiti while ...
Article : 261 wordsEssad Pasha, the Governor of Albania, who was in Paris prior to his deEarture for Salonika, declared that Alania was in a state of open revolution ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that a year ago M. Brtiano, the Roumanian Premior, said:—"When you hear that ...
Article : 93 wordsThe "New York World" to-day prints a despatch from its Berlin-correspondentent, Mr. Carl Von Wiegand, who says: —The Austrians and Hungarians are ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is estimated that Italy now holds 1,380 square miles of Austrian territory in the Isonzo region. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 4 Sep 1916, Page 5
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