There is some surprising information in the cablegrams from Petrograd as to the situation in Roumanian. Recent messages have stated definitely that the Russo-Roumanians had fallen back to the line of the Trotus, Sereth, and Danube rivers, but to-day there are reports of fighting south-west of Predeal, and of the Russian retreat from a town between Predeal and Bucharest. There has not yet, therefore, been a retreat to the line of the Trotus River, the ...
Article : 448 wordsWhen the German commanders on the Eastern front informed their troops of the Central Empires offer of peace there was great jubilation, the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe following (the 257th and 258th) casualty lists have been released for publication. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Danish and German Governments had agreed to exchange German iron for Danish horses and chemicals, but it is now announced that the iron cannot be ...
Article : 59 wordsAn Italian communique says:— On the Carso front, to the southward of Mount Fa[?]ti (five males south of Gorz) we have strengthened our ...
Article : 54 wordsSir Nevill Chamberlain, the newly-appointed Director-General of National Service, stated in an interview yesterday:—"My duty is to find the labour ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsGermany's reply to President Wilson's Peace Note states that his "high-minded suggestions for the creation of a basis for the establishment of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 wordsAn Italian naval communique issued last night says:— Several enemy ships on the night of December 23 attacked small ...
Article : 148 wordsIt is understood that Sir Joseph Macbay, the Shipping Controller in Mr. Lloyd George's Government, proposes that shipowners shall close the tonnage ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. Walter Knights of 19 Devonshire square, formerly of "The Mercury" Office, has received a letter from his son, Lance Corporal W. N. (Jack) Knights, in ...
Article : 145 wordsA Russian ultimatum threatening flogging as a disciplinary measure for German prisoners unless Germany abolished the torture called "suspension," ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsThe Spanish steamer Marques de Urquijo, 2,530 tons, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the Pope, replying to Christmas greetings from the Cardinals, did not refer to ...
Article : 71 wordsAn official message from Egypt says: In the engagement at Magdhaba we captured 1,350 Turks, of whom 45 were officers, together with seven ...
Article : 90 wordsA British official message from Mesopotamia, states:— Detachments of our army have advanced to the right bank of the ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the December meeting of the Evandale Municipal Council the Warden (Mr. B. Gibson) made feeling reference to the death of Driver Douglas Viney, ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. A. Henderson (Labour), a member of Mr. Lloyd George's War Cabinet, and Mr. G. H. Roberts, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Entente is demanding information with reference to the transfer of Greek troops from the Peloponnesus to the mainland, and is requiring the ...
Article : 77 wordsA new Order-in-Council empowers the naval and military authorities or the Minister of Munitions to close or further restrict the hours of licensed ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Russian newspapers, in their comments on President Wilson's Peace Note, state that a premature peace would only entail another outbreak of ...
Article : 51 wordsPrivate H. Bellette, writing to his friends at Gladstone, Tasmania, says:— Since writing last I've been shifted over to England, the place I've been wanting ...
Article : 631 wordsYesterday afternoon and evening Lady Birdwood, Lady Cooper, and Mrs. B. R. Wise entertained 600 Australian soldiers at the Central-hall, ...
Article : 29 wordsLast night's Russian communique states:— The Roumanians, by a brilliant attack, have captured a height in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsIn connection with the decision of the Federal Reserve Board empowering the New York Federal Reserve Bank to appoint the Bank of England its agent, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Cairo correspondent of the 'Daily Chronicle" says:—The evacuation of El Arish ends the Turko-German pretension of an attack on the Suez Canal. ...
Article : 534 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the Paris newspaper "P[?]tit Parision" states that the Venizelos Government has arrested at Syra several Germanophile ...
Article : 57 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states that on Christmas morning two men were passing the arsenal at Toulon, and one of them dropped a parcel. A loud ...
Article : 88 wordsGeneral Haig reported last night as follows:— We to-day took prisoner 18 of an enemy party of 50 approaching our ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsDespite the reverses suffered by the Roumanian army the people are still calm. Stubborn rearguard actions have ...
Article : 110 wordsLast night's report from General Haig says:— We have raided the enemy's positions north-east of Armentieres and ...
Article : 42 wordsMoulden, E. L., Westbury, Tas., previously reported ill, third occasion; Pearce, E. J., Burnie, Tas., previously reported ill, second occasion; Dingle, D. ...
Article : 404 wordsThere is a considerable increase in the enemy's forces in Dobrudja, which suggests that the German commanders intend to push along the lower Danube ...
Article : 48 wordsA decree has been issued promoting General Joffre to the rank of Field-Marshal. ...
Article : 22 wordsMrs. Cranston, late of Hobart writes:—Leaving Penzance, where had spent a fortnight's holiday, on October 16, I decided to return to London ...
Article : 1,602 wordsA German semi-official message states that the Battle of the Somme is finished. An extensive trench system has again been constructed by the Germans ...
Article : 41 wordsAn official despatch from Salonika says:— The recent British operations south of Lake Doiran and west of Doldj[?]li ...
Article : 95 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— Ten French aeroplanes have bombed the railway station and German hutments at Nesle (seven miles ...
Article : 70 wordsThe cablegrams to-day throw some new light upon the Roumanian campaign. Instead of the Roumanians having fallen back to the line of the Trobus, Sereth, and Danube rivers, they are still in the Predeal district, and the Russians report that they have new evacuated Filipesci, a place a little west of south of Predeal, and almost midway to Bucharest. This is near the oil region of the Prahova Valley. The Austro-German main advance has ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 28 Dec 1916, Page 5
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