The Russian victory at Erzeroum has come with great suddenness at the last. For months the Russians, have been fighting their way towards this great Armenian centre. The Turks early in the war had advanced over the frontier of Caucasia at several points, and have been defeated in a long series battles, of which we know little, some fought in deep snow. Recently they were taken by surprise in their camp, and routed and pursued right to ...
Article : 440 wordsThe Austrian forces stationed to the south of Alessio (21 miles south-southeast of Scutari are advancing towards Durazzo. The Austrian forces further ...
Article : 67 wordsThe State Department at Washington has withdrawn, its proposal to refuse to allow armed merchant vessels to enter American ports, realising that in ...
Article : 67 wordsThe British Board of Trade reports that since the war broke out prices of food in Great Britain have increased 47 per cent., in Germany 87 per cent., ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the Republican State Convention which was opened in New York to-day, Senator Elihu Root, who was Secretary of State in Mr. Roosevelt's ...
Article : 99 wordsThirteen French aeroplanes yesterday made a raid on the town of Strumnitza and the Bulgarian camps round the town. They dropped 158 bombs, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe imports of paper-making material into Great Britain are to be cut down by one-third. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Roumanian Government has refused the offer made by Germany to pay a higher price than the British syndicate gave for Roumanian wheat. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, discussed with Sir George Alexander to-day the question of taxing amusements. Representatives of the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe steamer Bolton Castle, 5,826 tons, of Liverpool, and the steamer Pacific, 4,210 tons, of Hull, were destroyed to-dny in New York Harbour, ...
Article : 74 wordsM. Marcel Lutin, writing in the "Echo de Paris" to-day, states that there is every reason to believe that French warships operating in the ...
Article : 59 wordsYesterday a storm in Holland caused a Zeppelin airship to get adrift, and it was carried to Venloo, in Holland, where it descended in a wrecked ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon. Mr. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the national debt of Great Britain had risen from ...
Article : 68 wordsLast week Germany handed an important memorandum to neutral countries regarding the treatment of armed merchantmen. It stated that ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Grand Duke Nicholas has sent the following telegram to the Czar:— The Almighty, has lent such great aid to our more than valiant troops ...
Article : 226 wordsThe American Club building at Toronto was blown up by an explosion to-day, and a fire followed. The club was largely used to recruit Americans ...
Article : 54 wordsThe debate on the address in reply to the Throne was resumed in the House of Commons this afternoon. The House was crowded, for considerable interest ...
Article : 1,389 wordsSir Wilfred Lawson, the Liberal member for the Cockermouth Division of Cumberland has resigned his seat on the ground that he has no sympathy ...
Article : 48 wordsThe news of the fall of Erzeroum was received when the final editions of the papers were going to press, and the newspapers were largely bought up. ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Punjaub Aeroplane Fund has now reached £77,000 and the United Province has just held a public meeting with the Lieutenant-Governor ...
Article : 216 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows:— During the past 24 hours there has been violent artillery bombardment ...
Article : 136 wordsA crowd of Anglo-New Zealanders assembled at Paddington railway station to-day for the purpose of saying farewell to 80 unfit New Zealanders, under ...
Article : 670 wordsThe military correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" comments is follows on the fall of Erzeroum:— "Erzeroum was the key of Armenia, ...
Article : 385 wordsA French official wireless message states:— The German effort to advance in Artois and in Champagne ...
Article : 130 wordsA wireless messnge from Constantinople states that there is consternation amongst the population owing to the announcement of the disaster at ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Grand Duke Nicholas's master stroke against Erzeroum wns carried out in spite of the fact that the mountains were covered with the deepest ...
Article : 303 wordsThe bulk of French military opinion is inclined to the belief that the German activity on the Western front foreshadows a general offensive. In nearly ...
Article : 80 wordsErzeroum, the capital and largest town of Turkish Armenia, is situated at a height of 6,250ft., on the lowest slopes of the mountain range bounding the ...
Article : 334 wordsOn Monday the French, British, and Russian Ministers to the Belgian Court called upon the Belgian Foreign Minis-, try at Havre, in France, which city is ...
Article : 131 wordsThe capture of Erzeroum by Russian forces advancing over the frontier from Artvin and other points further to the east gives our Allies possession of the chief bulwark of the Turkish power in the region between the Black Sea and the Persian border. Erzeroum occupies a strong natural position, and is the most important centre of communications in all this region. Through it runs the chief highway from Trebizond and the Black Sea coast to Persia, which is here crossed by the road runing south from the Transeaucasian frontier to the valley of the Euphrates. Its capture opens the way for a Russian advance either ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 18 Feb 1916, Page 5
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