Fighting has been constant between Lens and a point south of the Somme River, in France, for the past three weeks. The Germans appeal to have taken the offensive there for the purpose of taking kinks out of their line, and claim to have effected their purpose. It would not be safe to accept the German story as reliable, but, if it be true, then General Joffre will need to look to his defences. ...
Article : 480 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" states that the latest information from Roumania states that the situation is developing towards intervention. M. Bratiano ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says it is taken for granted that Germany's proposals for a settlement of the Lusitania ...
Article : 261 wordsIn the "Commonwealth Gazette" today it is directed that the Green Vale Hotel. Broadmeadows, shall be closed for the sale of intoxicating liquors at ...
Article : 125 wordsIn the "Commonwealth Gazette" today the Foreign Agency Ltd. and Reisee and Co. Ltd. were declared enemy firms. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is affirmed in some circles that the Austro-Germans have temporarily abandoned their campaign against Salonika, and are directing all their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 339 wordsThe Anglo-Italian freight question has been settled, and the rates have been lowered to enable Italy to obtain coal at a reasonable price. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe many friends of Captain E. Lucas Salier, Adjutant Northumberland Fusiliers, will be pleased to learn that he has been awarded "The Legion ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 493 wordsA conference is being held at the German headquarters, which is attended by King Ferdinand of Bulgarie, his Premier (Dr. Radoslavoff), ind General ...
Article : 58 wordsInformation from Vienna confirms the report of the partial destruction of the Skoda munition works. In addition to the destruction of the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe export of cotton from Egypt to Wwitzerland has been permitted, if it is consigned to the Swiss Society of Supervision and Control, which is ...
Article : 46 wordsHelp were rumours current in Washington last week that the German armoured cruiser Roon (9,050 tons, and a main armament of four 8.2-inch guns) ...
Article : 102 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris to-day states:— The Germans this morning exploded two heavily-charged mines to the ...
Article : 390 wordsA correspondent of the "Paris Matin" says he visit an exhibition of war trophies in Berlin and noticed the absencae of French 75's, and was ...
Article : 59 wordsA French wireless message sayss that Sweden has decided to permit the export of five thousand tons of wood pulp to the Allies. ...
Article : 35 wordsHighly thousand Serbian civilians have landed in France, and 30,000 in Italy. LONDON, February 9. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Miners' Conference passed a resolution to-day, stating that it is opposed to the spirit of conscription, and is determined to exercise a vigilant ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is reported that the Spaniards threaten to stop shipments of copper pyrites to Great Britain if their orange trade is stopped. ...
Article : 32 wordsReliable information has reached diplomatic circles that the number of German wounded transported through Belgium after the recent attack on ...
Article : 113 wordsThe work of medically inspecting the volunteers for the new army in the various country municipalities is being pushed on. Itineraries are being ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Sugar Commission's announcement of the restriction of the use of sugar owing to the shortage ot shipping tonnage, and recommending the public ...
Article : 75 wordsA sensational incicent occured yesterday afternoon at Flushing in Holland. A submarine, anchored in the harbour, accidentally discharged a ...
Article : 83 wordsLast night two German aeroplanes dropped three bombs on the outskirts of Ramsgate, in Kent, and near a school at Broadstairs, two miles form ...
Article : 205 wordsPrivate advices received from Bermuda appearing in the "New York Globe," give a circumstantial account of how the captain of the British ...
Article : 165 wordsIn view of the pressure which the Austro-Germans are said to be putting on Roumania the newspapers are giving prominence to the capture by the ...
Article : 232 wordsBeer in Great Britain, which was formerly 2d. per glass, is now 2½d. The newspapers give promenence to the possibility, owing to the possible ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Stanton, the Labour member for Merthyr Tydvil, appealing to the South Wales miners yesterday to supply more coal, said:— Keep working till we ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Unionist Business Committee privately discussed yesterday with Mr. W. Runciman, the Piesident of the Board of Trade, the problems arising ...
Article : 141 wordsA Berlin wireless message states that Lieutenant Berg, the German officer in command of the boarding party which took the liner Appam into Norfolk, ...
Article : 115 wordsJoseph Erich Kyzer was charged today with having attempted to trade with the enemy by addressing to A. Kyzer, Hanover, on September 30, ...
Article : 214 wordsAccording to a Belgian newspaper, rumours are current that a Zeppelin airship was wrecked by French airmen on the night of January 29 in the ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is semi-officially stated in Rome that an Italian torpedoboat destroyer on the 6th inst drove an Austrian torpedo-boat destroyer to Cattaro, where ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Lloyd George has paid an unexpected visit to the Welsh battalion in France. Standing on the roadside with the general of the division, ther ...
Article : 119 wordsThe committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture to investigate the question of land settlement, especially for disabled soldiers after the war, ...
Article : 712 wordsMr. Parker Moloney, M.H.R., submitted himself for medical examination at the Victoria Barracks to-day, with a view to enlisting, but he was rejected ...
Article : 70 wordsTo-days Berlin communique says: — "We repulsed yesterday a small attack made by the Russians in the region of Illuxt (12 miles north-west of Dvinsk). ...
Article : 36 wordsMany public protests as to insufficient protection against air attacks are being made in the Midlands. The Mayors of various towns and other prominent ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Allied Fleets operating among the Greek Islands have suppressed numerous provisioning stations for enemy submarines. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt the meeting of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday night the following resolution was carried:— ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Rome newspaper "Giornale d' Italia" states that Germany recently proposed a separate peace to Belgium, based on the restoration of all ...
Article : 140 wordsSir H. Smith-Dorrien has resigned the command of the British forces for the East African campaign on the ground of ill-health. General Smuts ...
Article : 88 wordsTo meet the convenience of West Australian Ministers, the conference of representatives of the Commonwealth and State Governments and Federal ...
Article : 60 wordsThe agitation in favour of Lord Fisher's recall to the Admiralty continues. The "Morning Post" hotly attacks the ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the "Commonwealth Gazette" today is published the appointment of Colonel E. H. Reynolds to the command of the flying squadron to be sent ...
Article : 65 wordsThe War Office has sanctioned the enrolment of two oversons battalions for the London Regiment from men of the Dominions now in Great Britain. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe State War Council met yesterday, when there were present the Premier, the President of the Legislative Council (Hon. Tetley Gant), the ...
Article : 324 wordsIt is notified by proclamation in the "Commonwealth Gazette" to-day that the personal appeal cards issued in connection with the recruiting movement ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 11 Feb 1916, Page 5
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