British passengers who were on board the Appam say they heard that the vessel was captured by one of several special vessels built at Kiel, and that ...
Article : 71 wordsThe German reply to America respecting the sinking of the Lusitania states that the killing of Americans was without intent on Germany's part, ...
Article : 80 wordsThings are beginning to move on most of the fronts. There are reports of fighting in Bukowina, in Macedonia, in Albania, and on the Western Front. The Russians are reported to be advancing steadily upon Czernowitz, near the Roumanian northern frontier, and it is stated that the enemy is sending reinforcements to that quarter, including two army corns from the ...
Article : 362 wordsThe Paris newspapers insist that if Dr. Wilson, the President of America, abandons his basis of principle in the negotiations with Germany all claim ...
Article : 93 wordsCorrespondents at the British front state that the recent German attacks on the British lines round Ypres, Loos, and Armentieres were of a purely local ...
Article : 62 wordsLieutenant Berg, who was in charge of the German prize crew which brought the Appam into Norfolk. Virginia, has asked permission to take on ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Minister of External Affairs (Mr. Mahon) to-day received the following cable from the High Commissioner (Right Hon. Andrew Fisher):— ...
Article : 106 wordsIt is officially announced in London that 4,000,000 Polish-speaking residents of the United States have cabled to Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, ...
Article : 190 wordsIn August last the French Government ordered the French aviator Gilbert, whose machine alighted in Switzerland, and who escaped from that ...
Article : 155 wordsThere was a terrifie explosion yesterday in the great Austrian arsenal at Skoda. Three of the workshops employed in manufacturing 12-inch ...
Article : 49 wordsOn January 12 a special gazette was issued by the Commonwealth containing a long list of enemy trade marks which had been suspended by the ...
Article : 548 wordsWith a view to providing that the services of officers whose appointments in the Australian Imperial Force have been terminated for other than ...
Article : 146 wordsA French official wireless message states that owners of several important factories at N[?]uchatel, in Switzerland, employing hundreds of workers, have ...
Article : 130 wordsImportant developments are reported from Roumania, where there has been a sudden, and, from the Allies' point of view gratifying change in the ...
Article : 595 wordsAdmiral Sir Percy Scott is relinquishing, at the end of the week, the command of the gunnery defences of London against aireraft, and the duties will ...
Article : 51 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Chcago Daily News," who is now on the Roumanian frontier, says, after deseribing the position in Roumania:— ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Dutch newspapers are angry at German torpedo-boat destroyers torpedoing the Dutch oil steamer Artemis (3,803 tons), which was bound from ...
Article : 102 wordsNumerous applications are being received by the Minister of External Affairs (Mr. Mahon) from persons of enemy origin for exemption from the ...
Article : 210 wordsMr. W. Runeiman, the President of the Board of Trade, has established a committee of officials from the Admiralty, the Ministry of Munitions, and ...
Article : 79 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Chicago Daily News," after describing the position in Roumania and on the Bukowina front, concludes is follows: ...
Article : 299 wordsOfficial notices have been published in Lincolnshire towns stating that persons seen flashing lights, letting off rockets or other fireworks when hostile ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Copenhagen newspaper "Kobenhavn" states that a German torpedobeat attempted to search the American steamer Moreni (4,045 tons) in Danish ...
Article : 78 wordsLast month a British column from Jaunde, in the Cameroons, advanced to Ebolwo[?] (120 miles from the coast, and not far to the north of the border ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Press Bureau states that, commencing from March 3 next, the classes from 1 to 13—corresponding to the groups of unmarried men already ...
Article : 50 wordsPrisoners report that the Germans have established at Shavli (in Courland) a branch of Krupps' gun works, and are compelling a large proportion ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is reported that a large German warship has been mined and sunk in the Cattegat, the arm of the sea between the east coast of Jutland and ...
Article : 62 wordsA committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture has investigated the question of land settlement, especially for disabled soldiers, after the war, ...
Article : 428 wordsWith reference to the case in which a returned wounded soldier named Crosby was tried by a field general courtmartial held on board a transport, and ...
Article : 232 wordsThis afternoon's communique says: —Yesterday we bombarded, with destructive effects the German trenches in the region of ...
Article : 124 wordsImportant Bulgarian forces have been withdrawn from the Salonika front, and sent towards Rust[?]huk to watch the Roumanian frontier, and ...
Article : 64 wordsFive returned soldiers who reached Melbourne on Saturday will arrive in Launceston this morning. Twenty others who are now in Melbourne will ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Italians have come into conflict with the enemy in Albania. After sharn fighting in the vicmity of Alessio (21 miles south-south-east of S[?]tari) ...
Article : 71 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows: There were 28 air combats on Saturday. We brought down six German aeroplanes, while one of ours ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Turkish Minister at Athens has officially announced that Prince Yussuf [?]zzedin, the Turkish heir-apparent, was found dead in his room in the harem of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe first encounter with the enemy since the retirement of the Allies from the Varda[?], Valley occurred on the Front near Doiran on Sunday, when the ...
Article : 103 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— One of our battle-planes has attacked and brought down a German "Dragon" machine near Peronne. ...
Article : 196 wordsA great battle is now raging round Czernowitz, which is now the pivot of the operations on the Eastern front. The Russians are pushing steadily forward in spite of the heavy reinforcements which the Austro-Germans have thrown into the fighting line. As the map shows, Roumania consists of two "wings," one between the River Pruth and the Carpatians, a nd the other between the Danube and the extension of the Carpathians called the Transylvanian Al[?]s. The Pruth separates Roumania from Russia, the Danube, a broad stream navigable for sea-going ships, from Bulgaria, and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 8 Feb 1916, Page 5
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