General Aylmer has made an effort to break through the Turkish defences at Essin, seven miles from Kut-el-Amara, and failed. The Turkish defences here stretch for twelve miles on either side of the Tigris, the centre being on the river at El Gussa. The battle lasted all day on Friday, and there were heavy losses on both sides. Then heavy rain came down, and the country on Saturday was becoming flooded. General Aylmer's lines are only 1,300 yards ...
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Article : 259 wordsFollowing the statement made in the House of Commons by Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, that the Government was convinced that the "dilution" ...
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Article : 310 wordsSir George Pragnell, chairman of the Wholesale Textile Association, who is the leading promoter in the Empire trade movement, emphasises in an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 wordsThe Austrian Press Bureau has issued the following communique:—"After a respite of three days, the Russian offensive on the Bessarabian frontier has ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is officially stated that Genenral Aylmer, in his advance on kut-el-Amara, attacked the Turks at Essin on Friday. There was fierce fighting and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsThe Government will shortly issue orders for the closing of all museums and art galleries in London. ...
Article : 29 wordsA deputation representing the Associated Banks of Victoria waited on the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Higgs) to-day, and asked permission to export gold to ...
Article : 1,036 wordsGeneral Janko Vukotitch, the Montenegrin Prime Minister and Minister of War, in a communique issued to-day, explains the reason for entering into peace ...
Article : 159 wordsThe War Office reports that a hostile aeroplane this morning, taking advantage of the bright moonlight, dropped nine bombs in rapid succession on the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Czar has told the French representative in Petrograd that, even if events should compel the withdrawal to the Volga or Kamsehatka, Russia would ...
Article : 50 wordsA cablegram received from Cairo for publication, signed Donken, is as follows:— Cairo Y.M.C.A. have established ...
Article : 67 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Hobart City Council, Alderman Williams asked that a return be compiled of all single men between the ages of 18 and 45 in ...
Article : 127 wordsLast week's communique says:— The Germans made an attack on our positions near Neuville St. Vaast (between Arras and Lens) yesterday, ...
Article : 201 wordsFifty thousand German troops have arrived at Constantinople. They are primarily intended to rivet the yoke under which Turkey is now groaning. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Athens correspondent of "La Tribuna" says:— The Germans are concentrating 3,000 motor-cars at Constantinople. It ...
Article : 79 wordsThe British steamer Trematon, 4,198 tons, belonging to Messrs. Hain and Co., of St. Ives, has been torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine. All the ...
Article : 40 wordsAbout 250 soldiers arrived from England this afternoon. Private Hurlex, 15th (Queensland) Battalion, died at sea on December 29, exactly twelve months ...
Article : 34 wordsReuter's Agency gives the following vivid description by an eyewitness of the last hours of the evacuation of Helles. He says:— ...
Article : 526 wordsThe honorary secretary of the State War Council (Mr. F. L. Gunn) has drafted instructions to the recruiting sergeants, and these, together with the ...
Article : 912 wordsReferring to the decision of the Federal Ministry that share interests in Australian companies must be transferred from persons of enemy nationality ...
Article : 285 wordsContinued Russian successes in the Erzeroum region of Turkish Armenia are thus described in last night's communique:— ...
Article : 214 wordsThe torpedoing of the Italian steamers Brindisi (863 tons) and Citta di Palermo (3,410 tons) in the Adriatic early in January was the crowning ...
Article : 214 wordsAdvices received in Copenhagen from Berlin and Vienna state that Turkey is issuing a declaration notifying that a Turkish submarine sank the P. and O. ...
Article : 38 wordsColonel House, who is President Wilson's friend, is at present on a visit to Europe as his unofficial envoy, He states that his mission is concerned with ...
Article : 68 wordsThe position in the Cameroons is thus described in a communique issued to-day:— The operations in the Cameroons ...
Article : 68 wordsThe German Imperial Budget for 1916, which will be issued next March, will not contain the items dealing with naval and military expenditure of the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" correspondent at Petrograd, after stating that it is expected that the Turks in Armenia, now that they have been beaten by the ...
Article : 233 wordsTwo more pairs of field glasses for the use of officers at the front have been received by the military authorities. One pair has been loaned by Mrs. ...
Article : 126 wordsIn February last a conference was held between representatives of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark respecting the convoying of merchant ships by war ...
Article : 210 wordsThe German newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung" admits that some difficulties have arisen in the negotiations for peace between Austria and Montenegro, and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe economic situation in Sweden is described as good. The deposits in the savings banks for 1915 showed an increase of 29,000,000 kroner (about ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 25 Jan 1916, Page 5
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