There has been renewed fighting on the Western front. The Germans severely bombarded the French to the westward of the Mouse, and the latter were compelled to evacuate a portion of their trenches on the northern slopes of Hill 304. The French batteries, however, checked the enemy's advance, and a fresh German division that attacked the hill sustained a crushing loss. The British made a successful raid on the German trenches ...
Article : 262 wordsGermany, in her reply to the American Note demanding the cessation of the sinking of merchant vessels without warning, repudiates the suggestion that ...
Article : 365 wordsThe Minister of Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George), speaking at Conway, in Wales, yesterday said the task on hand was not for one or two parties, but for ...
Article : 1,082 wordsIt is officially announced in Dublin that Joseph Plunkett, Edward Daly, Michael Shanahan, and William Pearse, four prominent rebels, were ...
Article : 74 wordsYesterday five Austrian aeroplanes dropped bombs on Brindisi, not even sparing the hospitals, where they killed four patients. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe situation in Dublin is slowly clearing up, though desultory sniping recommenced on Tuesday night, but was quickly suppressed. ...
Article : 133 wordsTwo Italian aeroplanes counter-attacked the Brindisi raiders, one of which was destroyed. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. R. Lansing, the American Secretary of State, says that the alleged mistakes of German submarine warfare are inadmissable, and he might ask ...
Article : 59 wordsAs the Zeppelin L20, which was wrecked in a storm off Stavangar, on the west coast of Norway, was rolling dangerously, Norwegian soldiers fired ...
Article : 57 wordsA message from the Pope was delivered to President Wilson yesterday. It is understood that the message reflects the apprehension of His Holiness as to ...
Article : 48 wordsIreland has relieved the Government from dealing sternly with the leaders of the outbreak, but the public insists that steps be taken to end the menace, ...
Article : 227 wordsFour of our hydroplanes effectively bombarded Durazzo on Friday morning. They returned unharmed, in spite of the fact that one was simultaneously ...
Article : 36 wordsRepatriated Italians give lamentable reports as to the starvation of French and Russian prisoners working in the Westphalian quarries, none of whom ...
Article : 38 wordsA Nigerian intelligence officer in the Cameroons reports that in January the Germans promptly murdered natives for sympathising with the Allies, ...
Article : 73 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— After a violent bombardment along the line to the westward of the Meuso the Germans yesterday made a strong ...
Article : 227 wordsFour Italian torpedo-boat destroyers in the Upper Adriatic on Wednesday sighted 10 enemy torpedo-boats, which fled to Pola. The destroyers chased ...
Article : 86 wordsThe German Note pioads that allowances must be made for the errors of men of the German navy, in view of Great Britain's illegal ruses. In any ...
Article : 403 wordsLast night's communique thus refers to the Russian operations in Armenia and the neighbouring regions:— A Turkish offensive movement from ...
Article : 68 wordsMiss Constance Faithful, a daughter of the late Mr. William Pitt Faithful, of Sydney, New South Wales, has offered the India Office her family house, ...
Article : 85 wordsPlunkett, one of the rebels who was shot, was a brilliant University graduate. He was a son of Count George Plunkett, the Director of the National ...
Article : 360 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" gives a vivid narrative of the destruction of a Zeppelin at Salonika on Thursday night. He says ...
Article : 313 wordsThe captain of the steamer Clan Macfadyen, 2,816 tons, which reached London to-day, reports that he encountered two submarines in the Bay ...
Article : 82 wordsLord Curzon, the Lord Privy Seal in Mr. Asquith's Government, addressing the Primrose League to-day, said he wished to dispel the illusion that the ...
Article : 335 wordsLast night's communique says:— We captured by surprise some German trenches to the south-east of Lake Narotch. ...
Article : 105 wordsIt is 12 months to-day since the Lusitania was sunk by the Germans off Kinsale, and the occasion was commemorated yesterday by a procession, which ...
Article : 135 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports as follows:— We made a successful raid to-day (Saturday) on the German trenches ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is understood unofficially that President Wilson is likely to accept the German promises contained in her last Note, but whether he will make ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Bucnarest correspondent of the "New York World" sends the following message:— The hasty preparations now being ...
Article : 138 wordsCaptains of vessels arriving at Malmo, in Sweden, report that they sighted a large German squadron, comprising some of the biggest ships of the ...
Article : 42 wordsSenator Bogorodvay is conducting the prosecution of General Sukhomhnoff, till recently Minister of War, who is accused of high treason, abuse of power, ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. William Redmond, M.P. for East Clare, a son of Mr. John Redmond, who is now on active service at the front, writes to his brother as follows:— ...
Article : 209 wordsGeneral Lake, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces operating in Mesopotamia, reports that on the 3rd inst. the situation was ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Admiralty states that the following report has been received from Admiral de Robeek, who is in command of the British warships in the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for April show that, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, imports increased by £2,046,780, and exports by ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, the Secretary for India, in a statement in the American newspapers, says that the Germans made every endeavour to ...
Article : 110 wordsAs the result of conferences between the employers and employees, the strike of the storemen and packers at the wholesale grocery warehouses in Sydney ...
Article : 118 wordsA sensational case under the Defence of the Realm Act was concluded in Sheffield yesterday, when Albert Bright, an iron merchant, was charged with ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily News" says that Dutch fishermen report that the Zeppelin L9 was sighted in the North Sea flying very ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is reported that intense animosity exists between the Bulgarian and the Austrian troops. They fought each other for eight hours recently to the ...
Article : 57 wordsCommenting on the German Note, the "New York Herald" points out that on the anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania lynch law is still in force ...
Article : 289 wordsMarshal Liman Von Sanders has arrived at Smyrna with German forces, and is in command of the fifth Turkish army, which is encamped in the vicinity. ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is officially announced by the Admiralty that yesterday the British light cruisers Galatea and Phæton (both of 3,520 tons, 30 knots, and ...
Article : 125 wordsA correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," who has toured the West of Ireland, says he has left with the impression that the action of the rebels was ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Prince of Wales is visiting the Italian front, where he will be the guest of King Victor Emmanuel. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 8 May 1916, Page 5
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