The war news to-day from most of the fronts is meagre. Operations on the Western front are retarded by continuous rain, and only isolated attacks are reported. Items of interest from the British line are the repulse of a half-hearted attack north-east of the Pozieres-Bapaume road, and a trench raid south of Neuve Chapelle. The French also have had minor successes. News of the next push of the ...
Article : 349 wordsCounsel for the Cunard Steamship Company, who were the owners of the Lusitania, has filed a petition, asking that the suits by representatives of the ...
Article : 91 wordsTo-day's French communique refers to the Salonika campaign as follows:— The Italians were yesterday engaged against the Bulgarians, and ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. and Mrs. Cantwell, of Oatlands, have had news that their son Darrell has been wounded in Fiance. Mr. and Mrs. Cantwell have another son also ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsThe Commission appointed to inquire into the Dardanelles campaign opened proceedings to-day. There was a full attendance of members. The inquiry ...
Article : 95 wordsKelloher, O. W., Pelham, convalescent (previously reported severely wounded). ...
Article : 13 wordsQueen Wilhelmina of Holland, in opening the Dutch Parliament yesterday, expressed thankfulness that Holland had not been involved in the war. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsThe Serbian Parliament has joyously received the announcement that the Serbian troops have re-entered their own territory, and has sent a message ...
Article : 41 wordsTwenty-seven of the Americans who were on board a British steamer which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, arrived at New York to-day, ...
Article : 114 wordsThe following, the 216th and 217th, casualty lists were released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The addresses ...
Article : 43 wordsSerious rioting broke out among the tramway strikers of New York last night. About 500 of them attacked the cars, stoned the subway express, ...
Article : 71 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —IOn Transylvania we have repulsed a Roumanian attack to the south-east of Hatszeg (north of the Vulcan Pass). In ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 words"There they fight and die. Here we eat, drink, and are merry, for to-morrow we do not die. That, for some of us, is the difference between themen over ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsA national company has been projected in France for the manufacture of dye and other chemical products. The French Government guarantees the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Italian offensive on the Isonzo is proceeding steadily. During the first phase of the fight, from Wednesday to Saturday last, the Austrians lost quite ...
Article : 188 wordsIn his report to-night General Haig says:— Rain is falling continuously in the Somme region. ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day's French communique states: Bad weather is hindering operations. We have made progress to the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe poverty of the information given in the recent Russian communiques indicates the importance of the desperate battle proceeding in the Halicz region, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsThe Kaiser has conferred the order of the oakleaves. "Pour le merite," upon the German Crown Prince. The latter, in announcing the honour to the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe announcement that the extension of the term of office of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner of New Zealand, has expired has created ...
Article : 193 wordsFew of the German defensive organisations captured on the Somme were so formidably fortified as the village and ruined chateau of Deniecourt. The ...
Article : 100 wordsM. Briand, the Prime Minister of France, delivered an eloquent speech in the Chamber of Deputies to-day as the outcome of romarks made by M. Brizon, ...
Article : 180 wordsThe military expert of the "Westminster Gazette" says:—The 29 German divisions which General Haig reports as withdrawn exhausted from the ...
Article : 352 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says:— Our machine-gun fire repulsed an enemy attack in the region of Dubaova, from the direction of Vladimir ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 452 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states: Our advance guards yesterday engaged the Turks occupying a wood in the vicinity of Karidjan, to the ...
Article : 40 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig's communique this morning states:— Continuous rain is falling along our front. ...
Article : 112 wordsThere are persistent rumours in circulation that it is probable that the age limit of recruits in Great Britain will be raised to 45 years. In ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Now York Globe'' statis' that Bulgaria has made overtures for a separate peace. Great Britain was willing to listen, but Russia declined, saying ...
Article : 50 wordsA most barbarous and revolting story is published of Turkish atrocities against the Armenians, and printed in to-day's "New York Times," which is ...
Article : 482 wordsThe "New York Globe" gives great prominence to a message received from Paris, which states that Denmark may enter the war with the Allies for the ...
Article : 189 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:— Our rifle fire dispersed a German detachment attacking to the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Pope has written to the Patriarch of Venice deploring the Austrian aerial raids on the city of Venice. ...
Article : 31 wordsA letter has been received in Melbourne from an officer in France, stating that Tom Dawson, the comedian, who was reported missing, had died ...
Article : 49 wordsThe French have captured the hills, around Florina, and repulsed two Bulgarian counter-attacks. The French captured many prisonors and quantities ...
Article : 58 words"In view of the pressing need for economy in the use of paper," the Victorian district military authorities have issued rules governing the use of ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Germans, in their communique to-day, admit that they yielded some trenches east of Ginchy and before Combles to the enemy yesterday. ...
Article : 33 wordsHarry Rabinov, pawnbroker, was today proceeded against under the provisions of the War Precautions Act on three charges of having accepted ...
Article : 168 wordsThis afternoon's French communique refers to operations at Verdun as follows:— We repulsed a German coup-de-main ...
Article : 93 wordsIn reference to the statement that large American importing houses who have contracts to take German manufactured goods have been served with ...
Article : 155 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" states that England's boastod armoured auto-cars have been invented because of the enemy's terror of the German ...
Article : 82 wordsThe War Office issued the following report to-day:— Our pickets have repulsed a night attack to the eastward of Orljak ...
Article : 62 wordsLargest Contents. Uniform Strength. Superior to all others. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 21 Sep 1916, Page 5
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