The Russian victory at Erzeroum has been followed by a wild flight of the Turks to the westward, with the troops of the Grand Duke Nicholas in hot pursuit. Fortunately, the Russians have many mounted men who can push on, and harry the disordered ran of the Turks and prevent them from attaing anything like cohesion. It is stated that two Turkish Army Corps were on the march to Erzerount without artillery but it is not indicated how ...
Article : 505 wordsOur warships yesterday mande a raid along the Asia Miner coast to the west of Trebizond. They destroyed 15 sailing vessels, and also the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe well-informed newspaper, the "Messager d' Athenes" (published in French),states that the reason why the enemy's advance on Salonika is delayed ...
Article : 99 wordsLord Derby, the Minister of Munitions, addressing members of the Workmen's Conservative Association at Liverpool to-day, said there were two ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has granted an interview to a representative of the "New York Times." The correspondent ...
Article : 928 wordsIt is stated in some quarters that a[?] undue number of trades have been treated as reserved trades under the Military Service Act, and too great ...
Article : 426 wordsMr. R. Lansing the American Secretary of State, has cabled to Constantinople protesting against the Armenian atrocities and heping the ...
Article : 652 wordsTo-day's Vicnna communique says:— "The Austro-Albanian forces have occupied Kavaja, to the southward of Lurazzo." ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the instance of His Majesty King George, a Russian soldier named Sem[?]n[?]nko has been awarded the Victoria Cross. He saved a Russian trench on ...
Article : 58 wordsThere are now 130,OOO Serbian soldiers on Cori[?], drilled and equipped, and ready for service on the mainland. ...
Article : 32 wordsThere is general artillery, activity on both sides along the frot near Ypres. We bombardeed the German positions to the north of the La ...
Article : 132 wordsThe State Department at washington has notified all American diplomats that merchant vessels have the right to carry defensive armament. The United ...
Article : 244 wordsLast night's communique says:— We have made prisoner to the north-west of Eze[?]oum the rem[?]ing of the Turkish 3[?]th division and ...
Article : 101 wordsThe capture of Erzeroum has called forth the greatest [?]husiasm throughout the Russian Empire, and everywhere thousands of people have at ...
Article : 377 wordsMr. John Redmond, the leader of the Nationalists, in a manitesto to the Irish people, declares that the achievements of the huge Irish army have ...
Article : 132 wordsThe artillery cuptured by the Russians at Erz[?]r[?]m included 150 eightinch Krupp[?]ns ...
Article : 28 wordsThis afternoon's communique says: In Artois we exploded a mine to the north of Hill 149, and did serious damage to a German trench ...
Article : 147 wordsWriting from from Bucharest, Mr. Perceval Gibbon, the war correspondent, says:— The Russian advance in Bukowina is ...
Article : 210 wordsThough the tidings of the fall of Erzeroum have been received without fiag-waving in the Entente countries there is a strong undercurrent of ...
Article : 623 wordsIt is expected that the Turks will hold the Germans responsible for the full of Erzeroum, and attribute it to the action of the German officers, who, ...
Article : 226 wordsIt is stated in Liverpool that the Germans built the steamer Ponga Ponga[?] and her sister ship, the Bina, for the Cameroons trade, and that the Ponga. ...
Article : 80 wordsMessrs. J. P. Morgan and Co, the American agents for the British Government, announce that the British Treasury has sold to the United States ...
Article : 104 wordsThe feature of the week's war is the German attack to the south-cast of Ypres, in which they captured the "international trench." ...
Article : 220 wordsDr. W. P. Norris, of the Common[?] wealth Offices, London, is going to America on two months leave of absence. He snys he requires a rest, as ...
Article : 172 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that on Monday Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, will ask for a record war credit of £420,000,000 for meeting requirements ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is stated that the German policy in regard to Turkey has been designed with a view to controlling the centre of the Empire, and retaining a grip on ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the interests of German shipping and of the German public, the Norddeutscher Lloyd Shipping Co. has obtained permission not to hold a meeting ...
Article : 47 wordsThe British steamer Cedarwood (654 tons belonging to the Mctcor S. S. Co., of Middlesborough), which was is bound from Middlesborøugh to Havre with a ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is now becoming clear how completo the Turkish defeat at Erzeroum was. The fortress itself and the surrounding country are full of ...
Article : 262 wordsRaids by German aeroplanes are becoming more frequent on the D[?]i[?]sk and Rig[?] sectors of the front. The Germans yesterday sent clouds ...
Article : 54 wordsThere were infantry encounters to-day in the Val Sugana (on the eastern frontier of the Trentino), in which our troops were successful. ...
Article : 38 wordsAt Mr. Fisher's suggestion, the Australian Natives Association's reception to his wife took the form of an entertainment to Australian soldiers, sailor[?] ...
Article : 284 wordsLord Cromer, in a letter in this week's "Spectator," as a convinced freetrader, says that there is a general agreement in favour of i taruffmand he ...
Article : 66 wordsIn a message from Athens Mr. M. Donohoe, the special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," gives the following vivid story of the death of ...
Article : 259 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" attributes the fall of Erzeroum to the failure of Turkey to build railways or to create a fleet. It says: "It was impossible ...
Article : 54 wordsIn an article describing the position in the Near East, the "Daily Chronicle" says:—Germany's long line of communications through Belgrade to ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is officially stated that the German garrison of Mora has capitulated. This completes the conquest of the Cameroons for Mora was theo only ...
Article : 115 wordsThe "Journal's" correspondent at Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, states that a grave German plot has been unmasked in Madagascar. It ...
Article : 119 wordsThe King has sent the following telegram to the Czar:— "Heartiest congratulations on the splendid achievement of your gallant ...
Article : 58 wordsThe German commander at Erzeroum was an experienced engineer officer. He had organised the fortress, and used all the resources of modern ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 21 Feb 1916, Page 5
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