The Gardo Republicaine Band from Paris is at present on a visit to London. To-day it gave a concert on the Horse Guards Parade. Thousands of ...
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Article : 216 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says it understands that a portion of the forthcoming French war loan will be placed in London. ...
Article : 30 wordsSince March 3 last 33 interned Austrian and German vessels in Dutch ports have escaped. They usually put to sea in the darkness, remaining as far as ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. W. Wadsley, of Cygnet, received word that his youngest son, Lieutenant L. L. Wadsley, has been missing since September 3, and that he is believed to ...
Article : 209 wordsAt a meeting of the German Reichstag Budget Committee yesterday, Herr Bassernann urged Dr. Von. Bethmann-Hollweg, the Chancellor, to supply ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Journal de Geneve" states that, apart from her troops at the front, Russia has eight million men trained or in training at depots. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Berlin newspaper Tages Zeitung," referring to the visit to Washington of Mr. J. W. Gerard, the American Ambassador to Germany, declares ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day's Italian communique says: — Our Alpine troops yesterday attacked in the Tranvenanzes valley, and drove the enemy out of the ...
Article : 71 wordsTo-day's report by the War Office states: — On the Struma front, below Orljak bridge, we captured yesterday a ...
Article : 126 wordsIn this afternoon's report, General Sir Douglas Haig says:£ We made progress last night between Flers and Le Sars. ...
Article : 354 wordsIn a letter received by Miss E. Peacock, of Sandy Bay, from Trooper Horace Grubb, after the battle of Romani, in Egypt, he says: — ...
Article : 708 wordsThe following, the 226th and 227th, casualty lists were released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The addresses ...
Article : 45 wordsAnxiety is felt as to the safety of the Belgian and British couriers seized on board the Dutch steamer Prinz Hendric. It is reported that they have been ...
Article : 83 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —Yesterday we repulsed, after hand-tohand fighting, strong English attacks at Thiepval. From Rancourt westwards ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is officially announced that a number of hostile airships crossed the East Coast of England between 9 o'clock and midnight last night. A few bombs were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 819 wordsA despatch received in New York from Berlin states that Herr Albert Ballin, the chairman of directors of the Hamburg-American Steamship Co., in a ...
Article : 145 wordsGeneral Haig, in his report this afternoon, says: We carried out sixteen successful raids of the enemy trenches between ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Bulgarian attempt to recapture the heights of Kajmakalan resulted in awful carnage. The Bulgarians, without any preliminary bombardment, ...
Article : 159 wordsIt is a month this morning since the Australians plunged into the heart of the most modern of battles. They had been in mamy sorts of battles before; ...
Article : 1,590 wordsA White Paper which will be published to-morrow (Tuesday) contains correspondence respecting relief of people in Allied territories non on enemy ...
Article : 195 wordsThe annual liability of the Commonwealth for war pensions has now risen to £604,883, which about 5,000 additional claims are at present under ...
Article : 39 wordsTo-day's French communique states: In Champagne our barrage of fire to-day stopped two attempted coups-de-main by the Germans south of ...
Article : 40 wordsLast week two French aviators made a raid on Essen, the German arsenal, where they dropped a donen bombs and returned safely to their base, after a ...
Article : 176 wordsDeclaring that there was no intention to "squeal" against the war taxation proposals of the Federal Government, as it was recognised that an enormous ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs, the war correspondent describes to-day the capture by the British of Thiepval. He says that some of the new army men describe the ...
Article : 258 wordsBig crowds have participated in demonstrations outside King Constantine's Palace at Athens, demanding the entry of Greece into the war. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Greek armoured cruiser G'Averoff (10,118 tons), which left Athens recently to join the Allied Fleet, has arrived at Salonika, and been placed at the ...
Article : 41 wordsNewspapers in China report that there is a conspiracy among the military for the purpose of establishing a military dictatorship and supplanting ...
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Article : 77 wordsAt the conclusion of the auction sales at the railway goods yard yesterday Mr. A. Scott, auctioneer for Messrs. A. G. Webster and Sons, Ltd., ...
Article : 340 wordsIn to-day's communique the Germans make the following claims:—In Transylvania, as a result of the Hermannsberg battle, we have captured over 3,000 ...
Article : 90 wordsThe,liner Philadelphia, 10,786 tons, belonging to the International Marine Co., of New York, returned to port at 7 o'clock last evening with a fire in her ...
Article : 93 wordsThe German newspaper "Kolnische Zeitung," commenting on the statement made by Mr. Lloyd George, that Great Britain was resolved to fight Germany ...
Article : 73 wordsLord Beauchamp, formerly Governor of New South Wales, in a speech at Manchester yesterday, said hatred of Germany was being used to create an ...
Article : 70 wordsThis afternoon's French communiue says:£ The artillery is active along the Somme front. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 3 Oct 1916, Page 5
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