The situation in Roumania has not changed.The Roumanians on the Arges River front are still retreating, while in the south the forces, after a victory, have suffered a reverse, and are falling back eastward and toward Bukharest. The German report of the defeat of the Roumanian First Army refers to the Arges Valley battle, already reported. A single victory isnto the conquest of Roumania. Last year, merely as a precautionary ...
Article : 446 wordsThe Compulsory Civilian Service Bill, passed by the German Reichstag, provides for the employment of women. A demonstration was held yesterday in ...
Article : 63 wordsTo-day's French communique states: Surprise attacks by the enemy at Barleux (south-west of Peronne) have failed. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Lord Robert Cecil, the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said the position in Greece had become ...
Article : 111 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— A vigorous artillery duel is proceeding at Vaux and Douaumont. ...
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Article : 933 wordsThe South Wales miners have rejected the recommendations of their Federation minimising the effects of absentee workers, and have ...
Article : 62 wordsAmericans who have arrived from Rotterdam state that the Dutch steamer Koningen Rogentes was proceeding from Flushing to Tilbury on November ...
Article : 80 wordsA French communique says:— A surprise attack by the enemy to the south-east of Metzeral (in Western Alsace, north-west of Mulhausen) ...
Article : 33 wordsA committee, under the presidency of Lord Selborne, formerly High Commissioner of South Africa, has undertaken to look after the welfare of South ...
Article : 105 wordsTo-day's Italian communique says:— We have repulsed an attempted attack on villages held by us in the Asiago and Sugana Vallesy (in the ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is believed that a hot-headed Reservist fired the first shot which started Friday's battle. Admiral Du Fournet was standing on the steps of the ...
Article : 225 wordsCount Von Roventlow, the German militant writer, commenting in the "Deutsche Tages Zeitung" on the speech delivered in the House of ...
Article : 199 wordsIn connection with the statement made by General Tropoff, the Russian Premier, that a treaty had been signed months ago by the Allies giving Russia ...
Article : 85 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, announced that the King had approved of the reconstruction of the ...
Article : 563 wordsMr. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the British Government had arranged a 6 per cent. ...
Article : 55 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says:— The Roumanians are retiring in the regions of Pitesci (65 miles north-west of Bucharest), and Tergoviscea (28 ...
Article : 101 wordsThe following, the 246th, casualty list was released for publication yesterday:— The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates, the localities ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at the Piracus, reporting on Sunday says:— The scenes witnessed in Athens ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. G. Ward Price, the war correspondent, telegraphing from Salonika, says that as a result of the Allies withdrawing their handing parties at ...
Article : 159 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Mr. P. D. Acland, the Parliamentary Secretary to tho Board of Agriculture, announced that in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 338 wordsAn official message published in Berlin to-day announces that the Austro-German and Turco-Bulgar armies in Roumania have completely joined up. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Piræus correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states:—King Constantine is quietly mobilising his army, and there are indications that Greece ...
Article : 157 wordsA supplementary credit vote of £400,000,000 will be issued by the British Government to-night. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe "Morning Post's" Petrograd correspondent, writing on Sunday, says:— The fighting continues along the Arges River, on a 30-mile front from Pitesci, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe details of Friday's events in Athens are now becoming known. The correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that when the Allied troops were ...
Article : 598 wordsAt the opening of Congress to-day many measures dealing with the cost of living were read, these including Senator Fitzgerald's proposed embargo on ...
Article : 47 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday says:—The Roumanian units previously cut off in Little Wallachia are being systematically destroyed in ...
Article : 61 wordsSir Kenneth Anderson, the managing director of the Orient Steamship Co., has been appointed a member of the Shipping Control Committee. ...
Article : 35 wordsM. J. Gonnadins, the Greek Minister in London, has resigned, as a protest against the policy of his Government towards the Allies. ...
Article : 33 wordsReports received from Berlin state that the Germans have begun to bombard the forts around Bucharest. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe "Providence Journal" asserts that it has information that the Roumanians were forced into war prematurely by the receipt of Germany's ultimatum. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Milan newspaper "Ideal Nazionale" states that the Grand Duke Nicholas is in supreme command of the Russo-Roumanian armies in the new ...
Article : 68 wordsThe excitement in South Wales regarding the meeting of "pacifists" to be held at Marthyr Tydvil on Saturday next continues. The meeting, which ...
Article : 204 wordsThe British Government has issued an order prohibiting Greek vessels from sailing from British ports to Greece. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsAbout 100 Liberal members of the House of Commons met at Westminster last evening and passed a resolution of confidence in Mr. Asquith, declaring ...
Article : 60 wordsGeneral Von Scheppe has been appointed Governor of the invaded portions of Roumania, and has been instructed to use the land in Roumania ...
Article : 81 wordsGeneral Haig reports to-day:— The enemy are shelling Gueudocourt (south of the Anere) and Foncquevillers (north of the Anere). ...
Article : 76 wordsThe [?]rew of the Japanese steamer Nagata Maru, which was torpedoed by the Germans on Saturday, have been landed safely. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe situation before Bucharest is black indeed if the German claims are accepted. A decisive battle was fought in the Arges Valley on Sunday, and the ...
Article : 286 wordsThe "Evening Standard" says that the acute stage of the political crisis is passed. Mr. Lloyd George has got substantially what he wants, including ...
Article : 203 wordsTo-day's Serbian communique says:— In the course of our success at Grunishta (north-east of Monastir) we took five field-guns, a large amount ...
Article : 79 wordsLast night's French communique says:— There is a heavy artillery bombardment proceeding north of the Somme. ...
Article : 26 wordsCaptain Von Mueller, the commander of the Gorman raider Emden, which was destroyed by the Sydney, has been transferred with other permanently ...
Article : 50 wordsAdmiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, formerly Commander-in-Chief on the Australian station, states that the arming of merchant vessels, which would ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 6 Dec 1916, Page 5
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