To-day we get no news from the Western Front, except of air raids. There are daily thrilling combats in the heavens to the death. The Germans appear to have concentrated most of their machines now on this front, which is an indication that they meditate big things. Last year the Angle-French air gladiators had gained the mastery, but now they have been again challenged, and it is essential that they should fight it out to the finish. Scouting is ...
Article : 237 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, introduced a record war credit of £430,000,000 for meeting the ...
Article : 1,321 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons this afternoon asked by Mr. Ronald McNeill, the Unionist member for St. Augustine's, Mr. Herbert ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is stated that it is likely that Lord Derby will be chairman of the committee to be appointed to co-ordinate the national defences against air ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Mr. Herbert Samuel, the Home Secretary, stated, in reply to a question, that the Government had ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. F. Bennett Goldney, the Conservative member for Canterbury, related in the House of Commons last night that during the air raid on Kent ...
Article : 102 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of Dr. Arthur Noel Houghton, a New Zealander, who was recently serving with the Royal Army Medical ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 298 wordsThe following official statement was issued to-day:—General Smuts, the Commander-in-Chief of the South African Union forces operating against ...
Article : 85 wordsReplying in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon to Mr. W. A. S. Hewins, the Unionist member for Hereford, Lord Robert C[?]il, the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe latest messages show that Armenia is practically all in the hands of the Russians. In the north the Grand-Duke Nicholas's forces have cut off the ...
Article : 191 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent at Salonika states that at the invitation of General Sarrail a party of Greek generals yesterday inspected the ...
Article : 85 wordsColonel Repington, the military correspondent of "The Times," has an interesting article entitled "Stocktaking." He estimates that the German, field ...
Article : 184 wordsIt is understood that the Imperial Cabinet contemplates making a single Minster responsible for the German blockade. The Minister will exercise ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. J. A. Jensen) has received a cable message from the Naval representative in London, stating that in future parcels and ...
Article : 92 wordsA great avalanche has occurred on the Hochspigsberg, at Salzburg, in Austria, and there was great loss of life. The bodies of 55 people who were ...
Article : 54 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" at Salonika states that Baron Von S[?]enk, the notorious German propagandist, has made a ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the annual-meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce last week a motion in favour of adherence to free trade was rejected. ...
Article : 140 wordsThe following official statement has been issued in Berlin:—"On Sunday our naval aeroplanes dropped bombs on the factories at Deal. They also attacked ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Minister of Lands and Works yesterday received the following memorandum from the Engineer-in-Chief (Mr. T. W. Fowler), about the Public ...
Article : 319 wordsA further contingent of sick and wounded soldiers returned to Tasmania to-day by the steamer Loongana, from Melbourne. The party numbered 14, ...
Article : 335 wordsM. Poincair[?] and Briand have extended the heartiest welcome to Lord Bryce and a deputation of twenty-four British Parliamentarians, who have ...
Article : 43 wordsKing Peter of Serbia, who is taking the sulphur baths at Edepsoz, is rapidly recovering his health, and looks many years younger. He is delighted with ...
Article : 53 wordsThe following official statement was issued to-day about the situation in Mesopotamia:— On Thursday and Saturday hostile ...
Article : 63 wordsThe communiques from the various fronts show that yesterday broke all records for aeroplane attacks. Apart from the destruction of a Zeppelin ...
Article : 172 wordsA British industries fair was opened to-day at the South Kensington Museum. Among those present were the Queen, Princess Mary, and Mr. W. ...
Article : 41 wordsAccording to reports in the Swiss newspapers a hurricane has partly demolished the German Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichsha[?], on Lake ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Secretary of State for India (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) referred to the Turkish claim, made in a communique issued ...
Article : 120 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, reporting on the inquiry into the financing of German ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is officially stated that on Sunday a British aviator made a reconnaissance of the enemy's advanced posts to the cast of the Suez Canal. He descended ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph," in an authoritative review of the German air service, points out that until the summer of 1915 the British and the French ...
Article : 329 wordsSteps are being taken by Mr. Meagher, M.L.A., Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Lord Mayor of Sydney, to induce the executive of the New South ...
Article : 188 wordsAt the invitation of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner of New Zealand, Mr. Andrew Fisher visited the New Zealand hospital at ...
Article : 231 wordsThis afternoon's communique records numerous successful flights in the air. It says:— To the east of Altkir[?]h (in ...
Article : 341 wordsIt is reported that a submarine belonging to the Allies reached the Bosporus on February 15, and torpedoed a lug and six transports laden with ...
Article : 56 wordsThe surrender within the last few days of the last German force which was holding out in the Kameroon leaves only one of the German colonies in Africa still holding out. Togoland was lost to Germany soon after war borke out; then, after a considerable delay, due mainly to the rebellion in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. German South-West Africa was conquered by a force from South Africa, and now the Kameroon has been occupied by British and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 23 Feb 1916, Page 5
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