The Germans may yet begin a second bittle of Verdun. On Sunday they attacked heavily the Frech trenches in the Bethincourt district, six miles west of the Meuse, and about twelve miles north-west of Verdun. Their intention doubtless is to drive in the French advanced posts to the west of the river in the same way that the French posts on the east of the river were forced back three weeks ago. If they could achieve this, verdun ...
Article : 324 wordsFor services rendered in connection with the withdrawal from Gallipoli, General E. A. Altham, General C. C. G. Byng, and General Sir A. J. ...
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Article : 222 wordsBefore the full Bench of seven judges of the High Court to-day the case of the Federated Enginedrivers' and Foremen's Association of Australasia against ...
Article : 345 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon. Mr. Tennant the Under-Secretary for War, announced that arrangements were being made to exchange all ...
Article : 39 wordsThe 70 recruits who entered the Claremont Camp on Tuesday and Wednesday brought the number of men who have enlisted in Tasmania this year up to ...
Article : 1,063 wordsThere are persistent reports that Ismail Haki, tho President of the Commercial Administration Board has been appointed Turkish Minister of War, in ...
Article : 78 wordsEighty-four wounded New Zealand soldiers arrived at Capetown yesterday by the liner Turakina, and were welcomed and presented with fruit and ...
Article : 45 wordsLast night's communique says:— We have renewed our sueeessful infantry attacks on the Austrian postions on the slopes of Monte Sahotio, ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Mr. Higgs) will issue shortly a comprehensive draft of directions concerning the polity of the Commonwealth Ministry in ...
Article : 164 wordsMr.W. M. Hughes inspected Australian soldiers yesterday at the depot in the Horseferry-road, Westminister. Metoring from his hotel, he pointed ...
Article : 820 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:— There was a violent cannonade yesterday to the west of the Meuse, near ...
Article : 165 wordsA renewal of the struggle on the Dwina line is thus referred to in last night's communique:— There was intense fighting ...
Article : 102 wordsThere has been a sensational decline in, the German rate of exchange to 71[?] per cent on the mark. The "Herald" says the decline ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Minister of External Affairs (Mr. Mahon) has received the following table message from the High Commissioner (Rt. Hon. Andrew Fisher):— ...
Article : 153 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt states that a declaration of war by Italy against Germany is imminent. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following official statement has been issued regarding the fighting on the Western frontier of Egypt:— Our forces under General Peyton ...
Article : 144 wordsLast night's communique says:— Eleven French aeroplanes all told, have been brought down within the German lines in the Verdun region. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Imperial Government has decided against issuing lottery bonds. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Frederick Villiers, the veteran war correspondent, is a passenger by the P. and O. liner Khiva, which arrived at Fremantle this evening. He ...
Article : 173 wordsGreat Britain is detaining securities sent by Gormany to neutral countries for sale on German account. The object is to counteract the German policy ...
Article : 94 wordsMembers of the Federal Ministry declined to-day to comment on the speech made by the High Commissioner (Right Hon. Andrew Fisher) at the Mansion ...
Article : 94 wordsThe House of Commons was crowded to-day in view of the introduction of the army estimates, and the expectation that Sir Edward Grey would make ...
Article : 877 wordsTo-day is the fourth day after the date which should have marked the fall of Verdun, according to the German calculations. To-day's German ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," a reliable military correspondent, sends an uncensored letter describing the situation in ...
Article : 210 wordsEnemy aeroplanes have dropped packages of sweets at Ravenna and Codigero, in Italy. The sweets were analysed, and found to contain the bacilli of ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Mayor yesterday received the following letter from the New Zealand Minister of Defence (Mr. J. Allen):— "On behalf of the Government I have to convey ...
Article : 115 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows:— The Germans exploded a mine yesterday, which did some damage to a ...
Article : 54 wordsThe German Foreign Affairs Committee will assemble to-morrow (Wednesday), and will endeavour to interview Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the ...
Article : 213 wordsDepressing rumours have reached Munich, the capital of Bavaria, of the enormous Bavarian losses in the fighting at Verdun. ...
Article : 117 wordsQuartermaster-Sergeant A. E. Crisp, of Huonville, who has been invalided home, was accorded a public Welcome in the Cengregational School, ...
Article : 370 wordsLast night's communique says:— We captured much material yesterday by surprise attacks on the German trenches at Stasswehr and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 16 Mar 1916, Page 5
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