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  2. MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN

    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 ...

    Article : 382 words
  3. KING NICHOLAS.

    The Montenegrin Consul-General in Rome confirms the statement that King Nicholas has arrived with Prince Peter, his youngest son, at Brindis for the ...

    Article : 69 words
  4. EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE.

    The British Government is preparing plans to strike diretly at the importation of luxuries, and thus relieve the dearth in shipping, the adverse balance ...

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  5. SOLDIERS' LETTERS.

    We are advised by the Deputy Postmaster-General that intimation has been received from the base intermediate post office at Cairo that ...

    Article : 259 words
  6. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    Following the statement made in the House of Commons by Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, that the Government was convinced that the "dilution" ...

    Article : 93 words
  7. SPIRIT OF SERBIA.

    The "Daily Chronicle" has received the following message from its special correspondent, Mr. Martin Donohoe:— In the course of an interview at ...

    Article : 139 words
  8. WAR IN THE AIR.

    A correspondent of Reuter states that owing to the scare created by the alleged superiority of the German Fokker aerial machine he visited the ...

    Article : 310 words
  9. THE WORLD'S TRADE.

    Sir George Pragnell, chairman of the Wholesale Textile Association, who is the leading promoter in the Empire trade movement, emphasises in an ...

    Article : 204 words
  10. THE HUNGRY BULGARIANS.

    Whether from equanimity or from lack of energy, the Bulgarian troops in Macedonia would prefer less rejoicing over "victories" and more food. ...

    Article : 45 words
  11. MISSING SOLDIERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 words
  12. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    The Austrian Press Bureau has issued the following communique:—"After a respite of three days, the Russian offensive on the Bessarabian frontier has ...

    Article : 107 words
  13. THE TURKISH WAR.

    It 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 ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. AUSTRALIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 words
  15. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.

    The Government will shortly issue orders for the closing of all museums and art galleries in London. ...

    Article : 29 words
  16. THE EXPORT OF GOLD

    A 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 words
  17. THE BALKANS

    General 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 words
  18. GERMAN RAID ON KENT.

    The 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 words
  19. RUSSIAN RESOLUTION.

    The 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 words
  20. SOLDIERS' RECREATION HUTS.

    A cablegram received from Cairo for publication, signed Donken, is as follows:— Cairo Y.M.C.A. have established ...

    Article : 67 words
  21. CITY COUNCIL EMPLOYEES.

    At 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 words
  22. THE WESTERN FRONT

    Last week's communique says:— The Germans made an attack on our positions near Neuville St. Vaast (between Arras and Lens) yesterday, ...

    Article : 201 words
  23. A REIGN OF TERROR.

    Fifty thousand German troops have arrived at Constantinople. They are primarily intended to rivet the yoke under which Turkey is now groaning. ...

    Article : 86 words
  24. GERMAN ACTIVITY.

    The Athens correspondent of "La Tribuna" says:— The Germans are concentrating 3,000 motor-cars at Constantinople. It ...

    Article : 79 words
  25. SUBMARINE WARFARE

    The 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 words
  26. RETURNING SOLDIERS.

    About 250 soldiers arrived from England this afternoon. Private Hurlex, 15th (Queensland) Battalion, died at sea on December 29, exactly twelve months ...

    Article : 34 words
  27. THE EVACUATION.

    Reuter's Agency gives the following vivid description by an eyewitness of the last hours of the evacuation of Helles. He says:— ...

    Article : 526 words
  28. THE NEW ARMY

    The 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 words
  29. ENEMY SHAREHOLDERS.

    Referring to the decision of the Federal Ministry that share interests in Australian companies must be transferred from persons of enemy nationality ...

    Article : 285 words
  30. RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

    Continued Russian successes in the Erzeroum region of Turkish Armenia are thus described in last night's communique:— ...

    Article : 214 words
  31. THE CROWNING DISASTER.

    The 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 words
  32. THE SINKING OF THE PERSIA

    Advices 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 words
  33. AMERICAIN ENVOY.

    Colonel 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 words
  34. WAR IN AFRICA.

    The position in the Cameroons is thus described in a communique issued to-day:— The operations in the Cameroons ...

    Article : 68 words
  35. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    The 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 words
  36. POSITION IN PERSIA.

    The "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 words
  37. TASMANIA.

    Two 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 words
  38. NAVAL OPERATIONS.

    In February last a conference was held between representatives of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark respecting the convoying of merchant ships by war ...

    Article : 210 words
  39. COLLAPSE OF NEGOTIATIONS

    The German newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung" admits that some difficulties have arisen in the negotiations for peace between Austria and Montenegro, and ...

    Article : 105 words
  40. SWEDEN'S ECONOMIC SITUATION.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 47 words
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