General Smuts the commander of the British sorces operating against British East Africa, reports a decisivo victory after severo fighting, near the borders of British East Africa and German East Africa. A very few years ago this would have been considered an important war, but to-day it is merely a side-show. A remarkable feature the campaign is that the British forces drawn from India, Great Britain, and africa are commanded by a Boer ...
Article : 383 wordsGeneral Smuts, the Commander-iu-Chief of the British troops operating against the Germans in East Africa, cables that an action which ...
Article : 226 wordsMr. Hughes's principal engagements to-day included an interview with Mr. Lewis Harcourt, a visit to the Board of Trade and a discussion with London ...
Article : 621 wordsAction has been taken by Mr. Stephen Mills (Comptroller-General of Customs), who is the public trustee under the War Precautions Regulations ...
Article : 144 words"If we find that any obstructive tactics are being indulged in by any person, I think we will find that the Commonwealth powers are sufficient to deal with ...
Article : 373 wordsAn agreement has been signed between British and Italian financial groups, the former having a capital of £1,000,000, and the latter of £100,000, ...
Article : 94 wordsGerman schools and German teachers were discussed by the Council of Public Education to-day, and the following motion was agreed to:— ...
Article : 106 wordsThe fighting in the Verdun region is still practically contined to artillery duels. Yesterday afternoon's communique says: ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Council of the Empire has accepted by 90 votes to 53 the Progressive Income Tax Bill passed by the Duma. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe steamer Leongana, which reached Launceston about 8 o'clock this morning, brought a party of 28 returned soldiers, the biggest continuent so far. ...
Article : 748 wordsLast night's rommunique says:After a lively artillery preparation the Germans yesterday attacked the brenches to the castward of Seppois ...
Article : 84 wordsMany letters of thanks have been received from Tasmanian nurse at the front, gratefully acknowledging the Christmas presemts sent them by the ...
Article : 797 wordsAdvices from Roumania state that the Russians are making great preparations in Bessarabia for an offensive against the Austro-German forces in ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner of Australia, was the principal speaker at a big meeting at the Mansion House this afternoon, on ...
Article : 92 wordsTo-day's communique says:— We have captured eight guns near Kermanshah, and have driven the Turks back in the region of the ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the High Court to-day, further argument was heard by Mr. Justice Isaacs on the application to vary the remuneration of the controller of the ...
Article : 298 wordsThe Milan newspaper "Corriere Della Sein" states that all nuws regarding military operations is forbidden for a few days. It continues:— The ...
Article : 146 wordsThe French daily review estimates that the German losses at Verdun now amount to 200,000 officers and men. WHOLE BRIGADES WIPED OUT. ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Roumanian Parliament yesterday agreed to a War Office vote of £16,000,000. Germany recently asked Bulgaria to ...
Article : 53 wordsThe remarkable Slingsby case, involving the question of the right of succession to large estates in Yorkshire, was decided by the Court of Appeal ...
Article : 254 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that Colonel House, who was the American peace delegate to Europe, has submitted to President Wilson the ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that" the Serbian army, amounting to 150,000 men, has been completely recognised at ...
Article : 53 wordsPassenger steamers between Flushing, in Holland, and Tilbury, on the Thames have resumed running, and are carrying between them about 2,500 ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Austrians and Italians have developed a deadly avalancho warfare Gigantic avalanches of snow, earth, rock and trees are precipitated by shelling ...
Article : 97 wordsIn connection with the official Russian communique notifying that enemy submarines had attacked two Russian torpedo-boat destroyers, which were ...
Article : 53 wordsThe United Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, at a meeting at the House of Commons to-day, decided to invite 32 members ...
Article : 226 wordsA fire, followed by several explosious, destroyed the Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Matatua. 6,488 tons (well-known in the New Zealand trade) at St. ...
Article : 57 wordsA German wireless message says that their airmen successfully attacked positions on the lino from Clermont-enArgonne to Verdun, and also destroyed ...
Article : 48 wordsTravellers arriving at Geneva from Germany report that all the German warships at Kiel are under steam. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Athens, newspaper "Neulogos" states that about 75,000 Turks in the Asia Minor districts of Aidin, Broussa, and Konich, have sent a petition to the ...
Article : 278 wordsSix men presented themselves for enlistment at Launceston to-day. One was rejected, and the others accepted as follows:—For active service: Fredk. ...
Article : 62 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows: We qarried out yesterday (Sunday) successful bombardments near ...
Article : 79 wordsThe British forces under General Smuts landed at Mombasa, and their first important action with the German forces has just been fought a little to the west of Taveta. This finally ended in the retreat of the Gorman native troops. Just within the bend of the frontier, to the north-west of Taveta, lies Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain, in German East Africa, and a British mounted brigade was engaged, while the fight was going on near ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 284 wordsFive German submarines with a displacement of 1,000 tons have, it is reported, entered, or are about to enter, the Dardanelles on their way to the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 15 Mar 1916, Page 5
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