There has been further fighting on the Western front at Verdun and the Vosges. The Germans made several surprise attacks in the latter neighbourhood, but were repulsed, and at Morthomine the French captured one of the enemy's trenches and took a number of prisoners. In the recent lighting at Loos, where the British hurled the attacking Germans back, the Irish troops fought with magnificent bravery, and in the recapture of the trenches in ...
Article : 215 words'Last night's communique says:—We brought down two Fokkers in the region of Roye to-day, and two others to the east of the Mouse, one at ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is reported that all the leaders of the insurrection in Dublin have surrendered unconditionally. The Dublin rebels at the outset ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Federal Cabinet has decided to institute prosecutions against a number of bakers who have been charged with infringing the regulations fixing the ...
Article : 223 wordsGeneral Sir John Maxwell, the Commander-in-Chief of the troops in Ireland, reports that he believes the back of the rebellion is broken. He says ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Paris "Journal" states that Germany is equipping wireless stations on the Spanish coast, adjacent to Barcelona, on the north-east coast of that ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is officially announced that the situation in Dublin is much more satisfactory, though throughout the country there is still much to be done. This will ...
Article : 186 wordsThe real bloodshed began on Tuesday last, when soldiers arrived from the Curragh Camp and from England. Four officers of the Sherwood Foresters were ...
Article : 74 wordsMany women were among the rebels, some wearing groen uniforms and smart green slouch hats. One women was seen to kill an officer by striking him ...
Article : 123 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle," which is wellinformed on Ministerial matters, states to-day that it is probable that Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, will ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Dublin correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that on Friday night-the sky was reddened from the glare of burning buildings in ...
Article : 140 wordsThe formal opening of the recent extension of the city traway ay system from the railway station along Park, Campbell, and Lotitia streets to Ryde-street ...
Article : 950 wordsA proclamation issued by the rebels stated:—In the name of God and the dead generations from whom Ireland received her traditions of nationhood, ...
Article : 123 wordsThe most spectacular fighting took place outside Dublin Castle. After killing the policeman on duty, the rebels seized the offices of the newspaper ...
Article : 235 wordsThe French have occupied the town of Makri, at the head of the gulf of the same name, on the south-west const of Asia Minor, and 50 miles cast by ...
Article : 66 wordsAustria and Germany have pointed out that they consider it is the duty of Greece to prohibit the transport of Serbian troops across Greece, and that ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," gives the following account of the incident referred to in Sir Douglas Haig's ...
Article : 268 wordsThe rebels erected barricades in the middle of Abbey-street, across the end of Sackville-street, at the Parnell statue, across Bacliclors-walk, near ...
Article : 172 wordsOur Oatlands correspondent writes: —"During the holidays there were two occasions when presentations were made by the Warden on behalf of the public ...
Article : 652 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states to-day that drastic changes in the Irish military and Civil Executive are certain in the immediate future, as the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe French newspapers express the greatest sympathy with the British in the loss at Kut-el-Amara. The "Matin" says:—"The Turks are still compelled ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. A. Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, in an interview yesterday with a party of English journalists, stated: —There is it difficulty in dealing with ...
Article : 365 wordsThe Government inspired press organs are full of violent articles calculated to lead the in masses to believe that the Entente's demand for the transport ...
Article : 64 wordsThe rebels are using hand grenades, inflicting frightful injuries to officers. One of the latter had his hand blown off. ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Hughes is much impressed with his Scottish visit, and the cordiality he has roceived. He motored to Loch Lomond on Friday, and visited the naval ...
Article : 194 wordsThe German newspapers attribute the Turkish success at Kut-el-Amara to Field-Marshal Von der Goltz's preparations. The "Vossische Zeitung" says:— ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Greeks recently arrested an English dragoman (interpreter) named William Hiddle, who was accused of having insulted King Constantine. A British ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Pope, fearful lest the Catholic clergy in Ireland should become implicated in the rebellion in Ireland, and thereby imperil the newly-comented ...
Article : 84 wordsThe attack on April 21, which resulted in the recapture by the King's Shropshire Light Infantry of the last of the trenches on the ...
Article : 174 wordsM. Venizelos supports the passage of Serbian troops over the Greek railways. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe German newspapers express the hope that the Irish rising will succeed. The "Leipziger Tagesblatt" says:— "Our hearts are with the rebels, but it ...
Article : 45 wordsRear-Admiral Dudley Do Chair, who was in command of a British blockading squadron until March, lifts the veil in an interview with a representative of ...
Article : 251 wordsIt is officially stated that General Smuts's mounted forces have captured in the vicinity of Koonda Irangi 200 slaughter oxen, 80 rifles, anti a large ...
Article : 54 wordsMention has been made in "The Mercury" of the depression in the hopgrowing industry, owing to the extremely low prices now ruling and the ...
Article : 336 wordsEvidence is accumulating that the revolt was carefully planned. The whole city had been surveyed by the rebels, and the strategic positions seized. ...
Article : 180 wordsSome of the saddest incidents in Dublin included the arrival of soldiers on leave From the front, but who were unable to reach their houses, and were ...
Article : 120 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— We captured to-day a trench to the northward of Mort Homme, and made some prisoners. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe true fighting spirit was shown by a French airman in a fight near Mulhanson yesterday. His petrol tunk was pierced by a shot, and he found that ...
Article : 74 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— In the Vosges we to-day repelled three surprise attacks which the Germans attempted against our positions ...
Article : 50 wordsMany rebel snipers have taken up positions on the church towers. If the rebels are not strongly fortified the soldiere attack with rifle fire, and when ...
Article : 142 wordsThe accounts of the London Missionary Society show an unexpected balance of £7,000, obviating the curtailment of tho society's work. Until three months ...
Article : 76 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Our chaser aeroplanes brought down a German Aviatik in the Biesne Valley, in the Argonne. The machine ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Kaiser has decorated Krupp von Bohlen, the husband of Bertha Krupp, and the head of the Krupp works, with the Iron Cross of the first class. He ...
Article : 50 wordsOther rebels raided the Post Office and seized the railway stations. The people of Dublin were slow to realise the situation, and the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 2 May 1916, Page 5
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