The battle of Verdun may now be said to have ended. There has been no infantry attack since Friday when the slaughter was so great that it caused even the German generals to relent and call off the survivors. The Germans have been defeated because, their artillery, tremendous as it was, could not quell that of the French. Only artillery bombardment is taking place at present, and if there is to be a second great battle of ...
Article : 519 wordsThe German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" says it is expected that Roumania, will shortly decide to intervene in the war in favour of the Allies. ...
Article : 151 wordsAt the final sittings of the Victorian and Tasmanian Mothodist Conference to-day, resolutions were carried expressive of loyalty to the King and of ...
Article : 51 wordsLast night's communique thus refers to combats in the air:— We brought down to-day a German aeroplane, which burst into flames, ...
Article : 116 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that sur[?] prise is felt at the resignation of Major-General Long, Director of Supplies and of Transports, whose work had been ...
Article : 44 wordsLast night's communique says:— Yesterday we attacked the village of Letatchryn, on the Dniester, and in spite of the violent fire directed ...
Article : 65 wordsWhen asked to-day if he would give any information regarding the payment to Edward Edwards, late manager of the Continental C. and G. Rubber Co. ...
Article : 171 wordsA German seaplane was sighted yesterday off the North Foreland, on the east coast of Kent, but aeroplanes from Dover drove the intruder off. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Italians have taken the offensive again on the Isonzo. Last night's communique says:— Yesterday we kept up a heavy ...
Article : 114 wordsThe British army in France is now engrossed with the things that matter. All the old false friends of the first year of the war have been cast aside. Very ...
Article : 1,834 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Odessa states that the Bulgamans have attacked a Roumanian vessel to the north-east of Rustchuk (on the Danube), ...
Article : 62 wordsApplication was made to Mr. Justice Isaacs at a special sitting of the Hig[?] Court to-day to vary the remuneration of the controller of the Continental C. ...
Article : 295 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" sends the following message from Salonika:— The Allied forces continue to extend ...
Article : 210 wordsAs far as the artillery is concerned, the battle of Verdun continued without intermission yesterday on both sides of the Mouse, but the infantry fighting ...
Article : 314 wordsThe German losses at Fort de Douaumont carlier in the Verdun battle pale into insignificance before those they suffered last week in the attack on ...
Article : 180 wordsOperations on the Italian front have been impeded by persistant bad weather and heavy falls of snow. In spite of these difficulties the Italians ...
Article : 129 wordsMilitary experts emphasise the fact that General Petain, who is in command of the French forces at Verdun, is not prepared to sacrifice thousands of lives ...
Article : 135 wordsReferring to-day to complaints made in Sydney by Archbishop Kelly regarding the interned priests, the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) said that ...
Article : 42 wordsAdvices received in Paris from Switzerland state that the Russians have resumed the bombardment of Varna, the chief Bulgarian port on the Black ...
Article : 92 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Rotterdam states that the German fleet is preparing to move. The Germans are acting on the theory that if Germany is ...
Article : 116 wordsLady Galway, as president of the South Australian division of the Red Cross Society, has been requested by many circles and individuals to help ...
Article : 124 wordsThe majority of the Portuguese newspapers are enthusiastic over the seizure of the German ships, and all agree on the attidude of the Government in ...
Article : 61 wordsLord Northeliffe, continuing his message to the "Weekly Despatch," says that it is difficult to guess Germany's reasons for flashing astounding ...
Article : 193 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the King borough Council, the resignation was received of Inspector, Rollins, who for some years past has been in the ...
Article : 307 wordsThe declaration of war by Germany against Portugal has excited the people of Brazil. There have been enthusiastic demonstrations in the streets of Rio de ...
Article : 91 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows:— To-day (Sunday) the Germans sprang four mines near the ...
Article : 152 wordsLast night's communique says:— We have occupied the Persian town of Kirind (or Kerind), 130 miles east-north-east of Bagdad. ...
Article : 78 wordsA semi-official review of the fighting at Verdun during the last 21 days says that the prospects of a German victory there are now hopeless, and that this ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British Admiralty states that the auxiliary cruiser Fauvette, 2,610 tons, belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company, of London, struck a ...
Article : 50 wordsA German artillery officer who was taken prisoner in the fighting at Verdun states that the Germans brought into battle hundreds of heavy ...
Article : 134 wordsA conference of representatives of the United States, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Swoden, and Switzerland, arising out of the Ford peace expedition, has ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) has received a notification from the Imperial authorities to the effect that Private C. M. Bowden, of the ...
Article : 101 wordsColonol Repington, the military export of The Times,[?] writes:—The Germans have bluffed us well. Their much-talked-of Egyptian campaign has sizzled ...
Article : 235 wordsThe South Africans had then first fight in Egypt on February 26 at Agagia (near the frontier between Egypt and Tripoli). After a four ...
Article : 115 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— We exploded mines to the east of Neuville St. Vaast yesterday, and occupied the resulting craters. ...
Article : 40 wordsA French officer says it was impossible not to admire German bravery in the attacks on Fort Vaux, which they tried to capture regardless of the ...
Article : 188 wordsThe long lists of men receiving the Distinguished Conduct Modal is an eloquent proof of the splendid spirit in the ranks of the British armies. Many ...
Article : 131 wordsThe chairman of the Hobart Fire Brigade (Mr. Clyde Hamilton) has asked us to state that the cruel rumour which has been recently current in the ...
Article : 102 wordsSome British soldiers were loading a munition train near Rouen yesterday, when they dropped a case. It exploded, and caused a fire. The explosion ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Dutch police have seized at the Mans railway station 10,000 kilogrammes (about 22,000lb.) of cocoa, which was originally purchased at 1s. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 14 Mar 1916, Page 5
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