After the failure of the attempt to cross the Suez Canal at Toussoun, in Tuesday night and Wednesday's fighting, the Turks made no further attack, aud began to leave ...
Article : 194 wordsAn air raid of considerable magnitude has been made by 34 aeroplanes, which attacked Bruges, Zeebrugge, and Ostend, with a view to detroying Germany's ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Russian positions at Koziomaka, between Stryl and Munka[?]s, are screened southwards by a dense forest, and the enemy are unable to cross an extensive ...
Article : 279 wordsThe United States Government has despatched a vigorous Note to Germany and a milder protest to Great Britain stating that the risk of the destruction of United States ...
Article : 67 wordsThe German Emperor and Marshal von Hindenburg, Commander-in-Chief of the German forces in the east, are conferring at Insterburg. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe German Emperor has ordered that another effort be made to take Warsaw this week. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is understood that the United States Note which has been forwarded to Germany is couched in a friendly tone, but makes it clear that to attack a vessel flying ...
Article : 80 wordsThe "Matin" states that the French captured a hill at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, and strongly entrenched themselves. This hill, which dominates the whole ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral Eichhorn is in command of the German operations in East Prussia. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Russians at Czernowitz have been strongly reinforced. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe "Neue Hamburger Zeitung," in an inspired article, states that the German Admiralty ordered that ships of neutral nations should not be interfered with if ...
Article : 53 wordsThe following telegram, dated February 8, was reecived early this morning by the Navy Office from H.M.S. Philomel, the vessel which was recently lent to the New ...
Article : 209 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that the Turks have decided to abandon the invasion of Egypt, and to transfer their army to Bagdad and [?]rzerum. ...
Article : 40 wordsTwenty-two of the aeroplanes which took part in the raid left the south-east coast and presented a fascinating spectacle when they were leaving seawards singly, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe British success at Violainos between La Bassee and Festubert was important. The Germans were strongly entrenched; but being surprised and unnerved by the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Ismailia correspondent of the "Times" states that when the night fighting at Ismailia began to torpedo-boat dashed up and landed five men on the eastern ...
Article : 239 wordsLord Charles Beresford, speaking in the House of Commons, stated that captured German raiders by sea and land should be treated as pirates, and publicly hanged for ...
Article : 63 wordsFive airmen dropped bombs and damaged an aerodrome at Habsteim, near Mulhausen, in southern Alsace. The keeper of the aerodrome was killed. ...
Article : 28 wordsA German communique states that the hostile air raids on the coast have resulted in deplorable damage to civilians and their property, but that the military loss is ...
Article : 37 wordsCount von Bernstorff (German Ambassador in the United States) has made an offer to the United States to relax the warfare against merchant shipping if Germany ...
Article : 62 wordsThere was a violent bombardment against Nieuport and the banks of the Yser. Our artillery replied with good effect. A violent engagement between bomb-throwers on both ...
Article : 64 wordsAn Austrian communique is pessimistic over the situation in the Carpahtians, where they are encountering bitter difficulties. ...
Article : 31 wordsBombs dropped by the airmen completely destroyed the Ostend railway goods yard. ...
Article : 18 wordsIt is officially announced that Russian destroyers bombarded three of the enemy's batteries at Trebizond on Monday, destroyed three bridges, and sunk 50 sailing ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Times" military correspondent, in reviewing the heavy fighting which has taken place in the eastern theatre of the war, considers that the whole of the German ...
Article : 131 wordsIt is officially reported that the repulse of the German attacks in Poland seems complete. The Russians inflicted losses exceeding ...
Article : 141 wordsThe German Legation states that Britain declares that all British ports being war ports justified merchantment in the use of neutral flags. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe captain of a steamer reports that he saw what he believed to be a German submarine blown up six miles north-west, of Dunkrik. It is supposed that the ...
Article : 44 wordsA very great German concentration in East Prussia is developing the offensive in the direction of Wilkowiszk (on the highway to ...
Article : 121 wordsAn Army Vote, providing for 3,000,000 men, has been passed by the House of Commons. The Naval Estimates, which have been ...
Article : 50 wordsA detective insulted a Greek naval attache openly in a street of Pera, a suburb of Constantinople. M. Panas, the Greek Minister, protested ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Deutsche Montags Zeitung" states that the threatened blockade by Germany can only be effective if it costs the lives of many English ladies and gentlemen. ...
Article : 58 wordsA communique states that the Germans are violently bombarding our forces from the sea to the Lys. There is great activity on both sides of ...
Article : 85 wordsColonel Moraph, German military authority, writing in the "Berliner Tageblatt" confesses that he is not certain that German hopes will be realised, or that she will ...
Article : 55 wordsThe "Daily Express" correspondent at Nish states that under German orders, Austria is preparing to invade Roumania in order to prevent the latter choosing a ...
Article : 97 wordsM. Gabriel Hanotaux, formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs in France, writes that he has received information from Berlin stating that the German General Staff is ...
Article : 52 wordsThe German Naval Staff invited a number of United States, Italian, and Austrian journalists to accompany their submarines in order to witness attacks on ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is officially announced in Berlin that German East Africa is completely free of the enemy, and that parties of German troops are stationed in portions of British East ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that the money which is being received from Germany is merely an instalment of a loan negotiated last year. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Sportsman" states that there will be no racing in France until the end of the war. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe newspapers compare the moderate tone of President Wilson's advice to Britain regarding the use of a neutral country's flag with his stern warning to Germany ...
Article : 57 wordsAdvices from Rome state that the Italian forces, which will be mobilised by March 1, will exceed 1,000,000 men. In addition to this, two new Dreadnoughts, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Telegraaf" states that it is reported that the German military administration has quitted Ostend for Bruges. The Belgian army is now estimated at ...
Article : 77 words"Eyewitness" with the British forces gives details of the capture of the brick-field near Guinchy referred to in the cables of the 7th inst. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Allies' airmen dropped bombs and set fire to a large quantity of ammunition, motor engines, tyres, and petrol, which were secreted in specially-constructed wooden ...
Article : 45 wordsA communique has been issued, stating that the enemy's attacks have been repulsed, with severe losses, in the Lyck district. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" says that the note of President Wilson of the United States to England does not deserve to be called a protest. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe newspapers complain of German agents in Libya, who are professedly raising recruits. Some of the native Italian troops have ...
Article : 54 wordsAn "Eye-witness" with the British forces in Egypt states that the British fire was deadly and accurate. Turkish dead are lying everywhere, and ...
Article : 106 wordsIn a debate in the House of Commons on food prices, Mr. Asquith, Prime Minister, stated that retail prices had risen in the six months in London 24 per cent., in the ...
Article : 106 wordsDuring the first week of February there were 423 cases of spotted typhus, principally in the province of Styria. Smallpox is also spreading. ...
Article : 50 wordsItaly has made representations to Germany regarding the blockade. The Note reminds Germany that the right of belligerents is confined to ...
Article : 61 wordsSir, Roger Casement in a communication to the newspapers accuses Mr. Findlay, Minister to Norway, with attempting to kidnap him. He shows what purports to ...
Article : 232 wordsA German communique claims the capture of 2000 Russians, twenty cannon, and thirty machine-guns in the region of the Mazurian Lakes. The period is not ...
Article : 57 wordsThe German Emperor has returned to the east front. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe "Evening News" correspondent at The Hague states that the United States Ambassador and his wife and staff were attending a Berlin theatre on Tuesday, and were ...
Article : 131 wordsThe German submarine [?]2 shelled the steamer Laertes off the Mans lightship. The captain rasied the Dutch flag to protect his many neural passengers, and putting on full ...
Article : 44 wordsA British airman dropped several bombs on Walcheren (between the mouths of the east and west Scheldt). One fell on the canal but did not cause any damage. ...
Article : 62 wordsAn unconfirmed report has been received that the Germans have executed the South African rebel leader Maritz, alleging that he was guilty of treachery. ...
Article : 209 wordsThe following communique has been issued:—"We repulsed the enemy at Svidnek, near Wyrzkow, and at Porogui, near the Bukovina frontier. ...
Article : 65 wordsTelegrams from Peking represent Japan as making far reaching demands upon China. It is officially explained that Japan is only asking for a readjustment of its outstanding ...
Article : 82 wordsOne hundred and thirty Belgian young men have been arrested for trying to escape to Holland. Twenty-five were shot between Turnhout and Maestrich for ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the London "Observer" states that the Russians are steadily retiring in good order towards ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 20 Feb 1915, Page 12
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