The Russians have stormed and captured the town of Kormanshah, which has a population of about 60,000 people, and commands all the roads to ...
Article : 43 wordsAfter fighting night and day all last week, the Germans have only now reached the main defensive lines of Verdun. The French from the outset of the war have held lines extending four or five miles beyond their outer ring of forts. There have been many attacks in the past eighteen months, but never in such force as now. That these outer positions were strong is shown by the fact that it has taken the enemy a week, with an enormous army and ...
Article : 617 wordsThe hero of the hour in Germany is a naval airman named Christiansen, who has received the Iron Cross "because of his deathless deed in bombing ...
Article : 44 wordsThe first line of the Roumanian army, consisting of a quarter of a million fully-trained men, is now on a war footing. ...
Article : 75 wordsMrs. N[?]lli[?] Best, the secretary of the Women's Anti-Conscription League, was sentenced at Westminster Police Court yesterday to six months' ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the pursuit of the Turkish garrison from Erzeroum and of the field troops of the ...
Article : 143 wordsTo-day's communique states:— We have attacked and captured the enemy's salient south of Saint Marie-a-Py (in the Champagne district), and ...
Article : 37 wordsPresident Wilson has written to Mr. C. W. Stone, the Chairman of the Senate Committee in the United States House of Representatives, stating that ...
Article : 442 wordsA team of convalescent Australian soldiers to-day visited Hull, and played Hull Kingston Rovers on the Cravenstreet ground under Northern Union ...
Article : 211 words"La Roumanie," which is a paper belonging to M. Take Jonescu, the leader of the Opposition in the Roumanian Parliament, states that Germany ...
Article : 93 wordsA highly interesting diary of an officer of the 17th Australian Divisional Supply Column describes the incidents of the past few days, from February ...
Article : 889 wordsTrains are running day and night, carrying Turkish troops and supplies to Angora in Asia Minor, where the Turks are to make a desperate effort to ...
Article : 45 wordsAdvices received in Rome from Petrograd state that the Russians have opened it violent offensive in Ga[?]cia and Poland under the Czar's ...
Article : 37 wordsThe official communique issued in Petrograd yesterday runs as follows:— Our losses at Erzeroum were comparatively insignificant. We ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Retrenchment Committee appointed by the Imperial Government recommends an eight hour day for Civil servants, as there is too much overtime ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Italian communiques state that there is increased activity on the part of the Italians, particularly towards Levico, Trent, and Roveredo, all in the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the Rome newspaper "Tribuna" states that prior to the fall of Erzeroum the commander of the town sent a ...
Article : 140 wordsTo-day's communique states:— Northward of Verdun the bombardment continues without relaxation. Eastward and westward of the River ...
Article : 134 wordsThe latest news shows that the battle raging at Verdun is the most terrific of modern times, though 24 hours of snowstorm abated the ...
Article : 360 wordsAn Italian communique reports that henceforth the Allies will be ready for a great general action. Military experts point out the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Amsterdam "Telegraaf" states that during the last three months the exportation of copra, linseed oil, and margarine to Germany has been ...
Article : 95 wordsCheery reports have been received from the British troops in Mesopotamia. Artillery fire by day and sniping by night have been continued for ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Stone has heard indirectly from a German official source that Germany has postponed the inauguration of her new submarine policy in regard to the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe South African contingent has arrived in Egypt. They are not quite equal to the extraordinary average height of the Australians, but are ...
Article : 165 wordsA German wireless report says:— [?]On the M[?]use we have exploited previous successes. We have captured the fortified villages and farms of ...
Article : 216 wordsIn England the centre of interest has shifted from Erzeroum to Verdun, where the greatest fight of the war has been raging since Sunday. Verdun ...
Article : 146 wordsA Danish newspaper states that heavy gunfire was heard along the extreme northern coast of Denmark on Thursday. ...
Article : 59 wordsSubscriptions to the new Russian war loan of £200,000,000 will probably be opened on the 20th of next month. A syndicate of banks will take one-half ...
Article : 40 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday states:— "We have defeated the Italians to the cast of Durazzo, and pursued them towards the sea. We ...
Article : 110 wordsA torpedo-boat has reached Marseilles towing a boat belonging to the French sailing vessel Roubine, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Royal Commission has decided to permit the importation of wood pulp to the extent of two-thirds of the quantity imported in 1914. The ...
Article : 52 wordsThe German newspapers admit appalling losses to the northward of Verdun. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" describes, ...
Article : 41 wordsIn connection with what was published, on Saturday regarding the scheme for co-ordination between the Federal and State Governments in the making of munitions, ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the price of sugar will be advanced by 2s. per cwt. on Monday. ...
Article : 27 wordsTo-day's communique gives particulars of important operations in the air as follow:— In the region of Verdun Adjutant ...
Article : 90 wordsOf the Austrian force of 120,000 men which invaded Montenegro, 15,000 have died of fatigue, disease, and drowning in the swamps, while 20,000 have been ...
Article : 91 wordsA neutral who has just arrived from Germany declares that he has learned from the best source that the Germans are ready to sacrifice 200,000 men in ...
Article : 448 wordsA communique issued to-day states:— There is still great activity on the Verdun front, and the artillery fire on both sides is extremely intense ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Germans have sunk the British steamers Dido (4,760 tons), D[?]laby (874 tons), Tummel (531 tons), and Fastnet (2,227 tons). Part of the crews of the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe "Daily News and Leader" states that the British Budget, which will be delivered early in April, will show a big surplus, but there will be a ...
Article : 45 wordsThe official communique issued in Petrograd this afternoon states:— After a series of battles in Persia with the remains of the enemy's ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) is in receipt of a cable message from the Intermediate Base, Cairo, to the effect that there are sufficient sandbags ...
Article : 77 wordsTravellers who have reached Amsterdam from Germany state that on Tuesday there were serious revolts in Berlin. The cavalry charged the mob, and over ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsHerr Schenk, the organiser of the German propaganda in Greece, has left Athens for Bulgaria. His departure is attributed to the growing hostility of ...
Article : 86 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports as follows under to-day's date:— We sprang three mines on Friday night in the neighbourhood of Loos ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the report supplied of the presentation to departing soldiers from the railway goods shed staff on Saturday, an error was made, inasmuch as it ...
Article : 385 wordsThe crew, except the captain, two marines, and the native sailors, of the British steamer Clan Mactavish, which was sunk by the German raider Moewe, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Petrograd newspaper "Russkoye Invalid" states that a War Council in Berlin was recently summoned to discuss the best method of dissipating the ...
Article : 129 wordsIt is reported that preparations have been made for an advance along all the Balkan fronts, and that the advance is imminent. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 28 Feb 1916, Page 5
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