The most surprising item in to-day's war news is the announcement that Russian troops have landed at Marseilles, and will fight side by side with French soldiers. The fact that General Joffre has issued an order of the day relative to the Russians there leaves no room to doubt that a number of them have reached France, although no information is given as to their number, or the part of Russia from which they came. Russia has not many ...
Article : 429 wordsAs already announced, Wolfe Von Igel, who was formerly secretary to Captain Von Papen, the German attache who was dismissed by the United ...
Article : 204 wordsMr. Candler, the British press representative on the Mesopotamia front, telegraphs as follows:— We are fighting the Tigris floods as ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that the threatened political crisis over the question of general compulsion ...
Article : 213 wordsThe by-election for the Wimbledon division of Surrey rendered necessary by the elevation of Mr. H. Chaplin to the peerage, took place to-day, with the ...
Article : 50 wordsReplying to a deputation of members of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Bonar Law, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated this afternoon that ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Terje Viken, 3,579 tons, which was bound from Galveston, in the United States, to Lisbon, with a cargo of coal, was ...
Article : 55 wordsThe trial was concluded to-day at Delaware, in the American State of the same name, of Ernest Schiller, the German stowaway, who, after attempting ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Cabinet sat for three hours, and there were numerous-consultations and meetings of groups throughout the day. The compromise with the committee's ...
Article : 161 wordsThe newspapers generally approve of the method of avoiding the crisis. Though they admit that the secret session is a step in the darkness, they point ...
Article : 225 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, said the Lord Curzon Committee had examined ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Anzac Day pageant is to include a naval contingent from the Australian ships, including some of the members of the crew of the Sydney who were ...
Article : 43 wordsThe effect of any dissensions upon our enemies was the vital factor in influencing the compromise. The terms of settlement include the recommendations of the ...
Article : 319 wordsA Russian force has arrived at Marseilles. General Joffre has issued the following order of the day regarding them:— ...
Article : 234 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows: On Wednesday night the Germans, after a heavy bombardment, attacked our line in the Ypres region at four ...
Article : 141 wordsThis afternoon's communique thus describes a Russian success in the Erzeroum region:— At Ashkatine, to the west of ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Union Budget was discussed in the House of Assembly to-day. Owing to protests, the newspaper tax was dropped. ...
Article : 53 wordsInvestigations undertaken in San Francisco have so far not disclosed any connection of the Gcrmnn Consul here (Herr Bopp) with a plot to incite ...
Article : 159 wordsDr. Wilson, the President of the United States, laid before Congress today the whole question of the submarine issue between America and ...
Article : 464 wordsMr. Middleton, a "Daily Mail" correspondent, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of attempting to bribe officers of the Navy. He was ...
Article : 166 wordsAt a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to-day further amendment was made to the enemy shareholders regulations. The definition of enemy ...
Article : 168 wordsSir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, announces that the German liner Friedrich der Grosse, 10,771 tons, which has been interned in New York ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Turkish garrison of Trebizond and the field army of about 50,000 men which was supporting it, have two possible lines of retreat open to them. ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is reported that the Turks and Bulgarians have massacred 400 Greeks at Adrianople and Denotza, and that in Asia Minor the Turks have slaughtered ...
Article : 54 wordsThis afternoon's communique says: We delivered a strong attack on the German positions to the north-west of the Pont de Vaux to-day. This ...
Article : 102 wordsThere was a three hours' Cabinet meeting before the House met to-day. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Bonar Law had a lengthy consultation. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 wordsAt a special meeting of the Queenstown branch of the Y.M.C.A. Field Service last night, it was agreed to vote £220 for providing a new hut at Tel-el-Kebir, to be ...
Article : 197 wordsThe French newspapers point out that the Belgian Army is stronger than ever. It has been completely reorganised, and furnished with machine-guns, ...
Article : 59 wordsAs a result of the scarcity of British refrigerated tonnage, the Societa di Navigazione Generale d'ltala is fitting refrigerating machinery in six of its ...
Article : 43 wordsTo-day's Constantinople communique says:—"The fighting on the Asia Minor front is very violent, especially in the Choruk Valley sector, where the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "London Gazette" states to-day that the Victoria Cross has been awarded to the Rev. Edward Mellish, an army chaplain, who repeatedly crossed ...
Article : 82 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" states that General Polivanorf has been appointed commander of the chief Russian forces on the south-western part of the front, ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— We captured a quarry to the south of Haudromont Farm to-day. The greater part of the defenders fell in the severe ...
Article : 95 wordsAn order in Council will be issued making it penal to publish the facts to be disclosed at Tuesday's sitting. The Press Bureau states that the ...
Article : 127 wordsAn official statement has been made public, giving the details of the fighting on the right (western) bank of the Tigris on Sunday and Monday previous ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Pratten, of Sydney, has forwarded to Mr. Holman, the Premier of New South Wales, an exhaustive report on the operations of the neutral ...
Article : 150 words"A few days ago there appeared in the press," remarked the secretary of the State War Council (Mr. F. L. Gunn), on Thursday, a pretty and ...
Article : 244 wordsThree German cavalry patrols have entered Greek territory and compelled a company of Greek troops to remain quiescent while they blew up three ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Crown Prince's forces to-day delivered three fierce, but fruitless, assaults against the French positions at Les Eparges (south-east of Verdun,). ...
Article : 23 wordsAt a war meeting held in Johannesburg last week, Sir Joseph Robinson, the well-known South African millionaire, offered a very large sum of money ...
Article : 140 wordsThe proposal made by Mr. A. Henderson (Labour) to the Cabinet was that they should reopen the voluntary recruiting system for six weeks, and allow the ...
Article : 390 wordsPresident Poincare has visited every French army corps at Verdun, and personally congratulated the troops on their courage and tenacity. ...
Article : 33 wordsDr. Wilson's Note to Germany has caused agitation on the New York Stock market, and altogether intense excitement has been aroused. ...
Article : 96 wordsTo-day's Constantinople communique says:—The position of the enemy at Kut-el-Amara is becoming very critical. In older to avoid food difficulties the ...
Article : 56 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique admits that the Italians have occupied the summit of the Col li Lana. ...
Article : 27 wordsOwing to the Easter Holidays NO War Special will be issued tomorrow, but any news of importance will be posted outside of ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Steele Maitland, in reply to Mr. Kinloch Cooke, said the Government had informed Canada that no action would ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 22 Apr 1916, Page 7
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