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  2. GALLIPOLI EVACUATED

    When the troops at Anzac and Suvla were withdrawn it was obvious that those at the southern and of the Peninsula would also have to leave.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 It is a remarkable achievement that three armies, consisting all told of something over 120,000 men, should have been withdrawn in face of the enemy with a loss of only half a dozen wounded.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 words
  3. CONSCRIPTION,

    The "Kolnische Volkszeitung," a daily newspaper published at Cologne, contained an angry article yesterday on the British compulsion law. It says that ...

    Article : 208 words
  4. ROLL OF HONOUR.

    The following, the 131st, list of casualties amongst the Commonwealth troops at the Dardanelles was released yesterday. ...

    Article : 52 words
  5. ALLEGED ESPIONAGE.

    Many heavy sentences have been passed by the Germans on Belgian journalists, business men, and labourers on charges of alleged treason and ...

    Article : 86 words
  6. KILLED IN ACTION.

    Twelfth Battalion. Sergeant Stott, T. S., Wesley Vale (previously reported wounded and missing). QUEENSLAND. ...

    Article : 23 words
  7. NAVAL DISASTER.

    It 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 words
  8. DIED OF WOUNDS.

    Lord, A. C. (2nd L.H.). Ipswich; Aitken, A. (25th), Geelong (V.). NEW SOUTH WALES. Sergeant Young, W. M. O. G. (7th ...

    Article : 81 words
  9. THE ATTITUDE OF LABOUR.

    Mr. 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 words
  10. DIED OF ILLNESS.

    Twelfth Battalion. McMichael, L. W. (7th Reinforcements), Sandy Bay, 28/[?]. QUEENSLAND. ...

    Article : 90 words
  11. RUNNING THE GAUNTLET.

    The 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 words
  12. THE TURKISH WAR

    General M[?] reports as follows:— The complete evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula has been successfully carried out. All the guns and ...

    Article : 140 words
  13. GULF OF BOTHNIA.

    The Gulf of Bothnia is frozen over, and several steamers there are [?]locked. The Gulf of Bothnia is that part of ...

    Article : 127 words
  14. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    Last night's communique says:— The Austro-Germans made an attack yesterday, and drove us out of T[?], but we made a ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. INJURED.

    Jordan, A. G., 11th Reinforcements). Burnie, seriously, in 1st A.G.H., Heliopolis. ...

    Article : 18 words
  16. ILL.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 245 words
  17. WOUNDED, ETC.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,560 words
  18. A "MOSQUITO FLEET."

    At 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 words
  19. MARKETS AND MONEY

    The 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 words
  20. THE BALKANS.

    Last night's communique says:— Enemy aeroplanes dropped bombs yesterday on our cantonments round Salonika, but the damage done was ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. BLUE AND WHITE BADGE

    Two 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 words
  22. THE TURKISH VERSION.

    A telegram from Consiantinople says:—"As the result of a violent battle, the British completely evacuated Sedd-ul-Bahr last night, after suffering ...

    Article : 65 words
  23. THE BUKOWINA FRONT.

    The 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 words
  24. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    The 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 words
  25. DEATH OF HOBART SOLDIERS

    At 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 words
  26. THE SUVLA BAY INCIDENT.

    Lord 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 words
  27. SINKING OF A GERMAN SUBMARINE.

    The British Press Bureau last week issued a memorandum from the German Government relating alleged ineidents in connection with the destruction of a ...

    Article : 322 words
  28. AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN.

    The American Government has sent a Note to Great Britain conveying complaints against the British censorship of neutral-bound American mails. ...

    Article : 36 words
  29. GERMAN ORDER TO GREECE.

    Germany has asked Greece to reduce the number of Greek troops on the frontier, or to remove them for a distance. ...

    Article : 38 words
  30. REJOINED UNIT.

    Lyall, J. C. (3rd Reinforcements), O[?]tlands, not wounded (previously reported wounded, apparently second occasion). NEW SOUTH WALES. ...

    Article : 39 words
  31. AUSTRO-GERMANS RETURNING.

    The "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 words
  32. THE ARRESTED CONSULS.

    It 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 words
  33. "DIE ZUKUNFT."

    Maximilian Harden's newspaper "Die Zukunft," the leading So[?] list journal of Germany, has been finally suppressed for the duration of the war. ...

    Article : 33 words
  34. THE TASMANIAN BATTALION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 words
  35. RETURNED TO DUTY.

    Stretton, R. W. (4th Reinforcements), Yolla (previously reported wounded). NEW SOUTH WALES. Norman, J. H. L. (1st Battalion, ...

    Article : 167 words
  36. AUSTRALIA.

    It 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 words
  37. THE WESTERN FRONT

    The official communique issued in Paris to-day states:— Yesterday we bombarded the German communication trenches to the ...

    Article : 121 words
  38. AN AIR RAID.

    According 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 words
  39. RUSSIAN AMAZONS.

    There 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 words
  40. FIGHT IN THE BLACK SEA.

    The official communique issued in Petrograd to-day states:— Our torpedo-boats on Friday engaged the battle-cruiser Go[?]ben in ...

    Article : 66 words
  41. SUBMARINE WARFARE

    The 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 words
  42. TASMANIA.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 754 words
  43. ANALYSIS OF TO-DAY'S LIST.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 words
  44. MINES IN THE ADRIATIC.

    The 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 words
  45. GERMAN STATEMENT.

    Yesterday's Berlin communique says: —"We recaptured at Hartmanssweilerkopf to-day the last of the trneches which the French took from us on ...

    Article : 57 words
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