When the troops at Anzac and Suvla were withdrawn it was obvious that those at the southern and of the Peninsula would also have to leave. There was no advantage in their remaining, as they could not scale Achi Baba, and they were merely targets for the Turks. It is a remarkable achievement that three armies, consisting all told of something over 120,000 men, should have been withdrawn in face of the enemy with a loss of only half a dozen wounded. ...
Article : 533 wordsThe "Kolnische Volkszeitung," a daily newspaper published at Cologne, contained an angry article yesterday on the British compulsion law. It says that ...
Article : 208 wordsThe following, the 131st, list of casualties amongst the Commonwealth troops at the Dardanelles was released yesterday. ...
Article : 52 wordsMany heavy sentences have been passed by the Germans on Belgian journalists, business men, and labourers on charges of alleged treason and ...
Article : 86 wordsTwelfth Battalion. Sergeant Stott, T. S., Wesley Vale (previously reported wounded and missing). QUEENSLAND. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is officially announced by the Admiralty that the British battleship King Edward VII (four 12-inch, four 9.2-inch, ten 6-inch, and minor guns) has been ...
Article : 152 wordsLord, A. C. (2nd L.H.). Ipswich; Aitken, A. (25th), Geelong (V.). NEW SOUTH WALES. Sergeant Young, W. M. O. G. (7th ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas the Labour member for Derby addressed a meeting at Swansen yesterday, and had a mixed reception. In a speech he said that white ...
Article : 371 wordsTwelfth Battalion. McMichael, L. W. (7th Reinforcements), Sandy Bay, 28/[?]. QUEENSLAND. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe British steamer Gitano (1,179 tons, belonging to T. Wilson and Co., of Hull), which has been in refuge at the Swedish port of Nonnkopping since ...
Article : 151 wordsGeneral M[?] reports as follows:— The complete evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula has been successfully carried out. All the guns and ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Gulf of Bothnia is frozen over, and several steamers there are [?]locked. The Gulf of Bothnia is that part of ...
Article : 127 wordsLast night's communique says:— The Austro-Germans made an attack yesterday, and drove us out of T[?], but we made a ...
Article : 170 wordsJordan, A. G., 11th Reinforcements). Burnie, seriously, in 1st A.G.H., Heliopolis. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,560 wordsAt the Admiralty's invitation a representative of the Australian Press Association has visited an important base at which a mosquito squadron is in ...
Article : 264 wordsThe principal banks in Zurich, Switzerland, refuse to advance more than 10 per cent. on German railway securities, and at The Hague the German ...
Article : 56 wordsLast night's communique says:— Enemy aeroplanes dropped bombs yesterday on our cantonments round Salonika, but the damage done was ...
Article : 95 wordsTwo returned soldiers called in at "The Mercury" office last evening, and stated that the blue and white shoulder badge is the badge of the 12th ...
Article : 122 wordsA telegram from Consiantinople says:—"As the result of a violent battle, the British completely evacuated Sedd-ul-Bahr last night, after suffering ...
Article : 65 wordsThe great Russian offensive against the Austro-German armies is making rapid progress, There are 800,000 Russian troops, with 3,500 guns, in ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Press Bureau has been remodelled, and is now censoring only information useful to the enemy. It will not, it is stated, in future be used for the ...
Article : 61 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Hobart City Council the Town Clerk (Mr. W. A. Brain) reported that the death at Murdos of Private F. Farrell, 12th ...
Article : 125 wordsLord Sydenham, in a letter to "The Times," disagrees with the view that, although Sir Ian Hamilton was on the spot at Suvla Bay on August 8, he ...
Article : 326 wordsThe British Press Bureau last week issued a memorandum from the German Government relating alleged ineidents in connection with the destruction of a ...
Article : 322 wordsThe American Government has sent a Note to Great Britain conveying complaints against the British censorship of neutral-bound American mails. ...
Article : 36 wordsGermany has asked Greece to reduce the number of Greek troops on the frontier, or to remove them for a distance. ...
Article : 38 wordsLyall, J. C. (3rd Reinforcements), O[?]tlands, not wounded (previously reported wounded, apparently second occasion). NEW SOUTH WALES. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "Times" special correspondent at the Russian headquarters says:—Last New Year the whole Russian army was reduced to one shot per gun daily. The ...
Article : 209 wordsIt is reported that as a measure of reprisal for the arrest of the Consuls at Salonika Turkey has ordered the arrest of the British and the French officials ...
Article : 89 wordsMaximilian Harden's newspaper "Die Zukunft," the leading So[?] list journal of Germany, has been finally suppressed for the duration of the war. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 wordsStretton, R. W. (4th Reinforcements), Yolla (previously reported wounded). NEW SOUTH WALES. Norman, J. H. L. (1st Battalion, ...
Article : 167 wordsIt is understood that the Minister of Defense (Senator Pearce) is by no means decided about going on with No. 2 site for the arsenal to be built in the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris to-day states:— Yesterday we bombarded the German communication trenches to the ...
Article : 121 wordsAccording to news received in Paris from Constantinople the bombing of the m[?]itions factory near Haskol (16 miles south-east of Adrianople) by Allied ...
Article : 72 wordsThere are well-authenticated stories of women serving in the Russian army. The most extraordinary one is that 12 Moscow school girls, at the beginning ...
Article : 174 wordsThe official communique issued in Petrograd to-day states:— Our torpedo-boats on Friday engaged the battle-cruiser Go[?]ben in ...
Article : 66 wordsThe German Note, referring to the [?]pedoing of the American ship William P. Fry[?], promises that Germany will not order persons on board prizes ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Friends of R. F. Colbourn, son of Mr. H. J. Colbourn, of the Department of Agriculture, will be glad to hear he has been promoted to the rank ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 wordsThe Italian steamer which struck a mine in the Adriatic on Friday, and was blown up carried 425 Mont[?]negrin recruits from America. Two hundred ...
Article : 40 wordsYesterday's Berlin communique says: —"We recaptured at Hartmanssweilerkopf to-day the last of the trneches which the French took from us on ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 11 Jan 1916, Page 5
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