There has been a renewal of fierce fighting at Verdun, and the Germans subjected the French to a two days' bombardment. A strong German force next made an attack on the French positions between Hill 304 and Morthorume, and after desperate assaults penetrated the communication [?]rench cast of Hill 304. The enemy also gained a footing in a fort near Fort Douanmont. It is stated that 80,000 Turks and 40,000 Bulgarians near ...
Article : 276 wordsAbout 2,000 Irish rebels have been deported to England. Two hundred loft Galway yesterday, and another batch was captured to-day. ...
Article : 154 wordsOwing to a breakdown near Brighton yesterday morning, the express train from Hobart [?]iled to connect with the steamer Rotomahana for Melbourne. ...
Article : 451 wordsThe ceremonies atendant on the official opening of the State hydro-electric enterprise wound up last night with a public meeting at the City-hall, during the ...
Article : 2,639 wordsLord Derby, the Director of Recruiting, replying to his critics in a speech at Manchester yesterday, said had he resigned last March, when the military ...
Article : 63 words"I have a slight acquaintance with the titled rebel non deservedly in the hands of the British Government, remarked Miss Sara Allgood to a "Sydney Morning ...
Article : 843 wordsAll the towns in the Italian war zone are beflagged in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales, who is now at the Italian front. King Victor Emmanuel ...
Article : 69 wordsAdvices received in Amsterdam from Gothenburg state that a German company has purchased the King Carl XV. copper mine at Jonkoping, one of the ...
Article : 42 wordsSerious food riots took place in Berlin yesterday. The butchers of late have been concealing meat, and refusing to sell it, and a search by the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe official communique issued this afternoon states:— There was a violent bombardment in the Verdun region throughout ...
Article : 197 wordsThe captains of trawlers which have returned to England report that nine Zeppelins participated in the raid on England on Tuesday last. The airship ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is semi-officially stated:—The German attacks on Hill 304, which were of incredible violence, quite failed to overwhelm the French. The battle has ...
Article : 141 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that the Imperial Government has decided to organise an expedition for the relief of Sir Ernest Shackleton and the members ...
Article : 38 wordsYesterday a band of 70 Mexican bandits, the followers of General Villa, raided the American town of Glen Springs, in Texas, and killed three ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Imperial Government has requested the miners to confer with Ministers on the question of how to increase the coal output, in view of the ...
Article : 75 wordsOfficials at Washington are reticent as to the intentions of the United States Government respecting Germany's reply to the demand for a cessation of the ...
Article : 147 wordsGeneral Petain, who commanded the French forces at Verdun with so much success, has been promoted to be Commander of the French central armies ...
Article : 58 wordsIf Parliament to-morrow (Monday) approves, the Daylight Saving Bill will operate from next Sunday to the second Sunday in October. The railways will, ...
Article : 71 wordsA German Wagnerian Opera Company, which was touring Holland, was detected conveying contraband secreted in the theatrical properties, and the ...
Article : 36 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— After an intense bombardment, the Germans on Saturday overing launched an attack southward of [?]ons, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for April, which were published on Saturday, show that the appeals tor economy on the part of the people of Great Britain ...
Article : 82 wordsThe official communique issued in Petrograd to-day states:— We are gradually advancing towards Bagdad, capturing Turkish ...
Article : 60 wordsA tragic episode has occurred at Chalons-sur-Marne. A French mother, learning that her son had been killed in the Champagne district in ...
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Article : 52 wordsMr. A. G. Gardiner, the editor of the "Daily News," has another open letter addressed to Mr. Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions, in to-day's issue ...
Article : 128 wordsThe members of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution on Saturday stating that the rebellions outbreak would have been impossible ...
Article : 69 wordsGerman newspapers received in Amsterdam state that the Kaiser wrote the whole of the German reply to the American Note. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Germans are concentrating near Constantinople 80,000 Turkish and 40,000 Bulgarian infantry, and these will shortly be sent to the Western ...
Article : 42 wordsThe German communique sent from Berlin to-day states:—"We brought down an enemy aeroplane during the air-flight on the coast of Flanders. One ...
Article : 148 wordsAn inquest concerning the death of Paul Armbruster, a German prisoner of war, who was shot by a sentry when endeavouring to escape from the ...
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Article : 101 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the Central News Agency states that Mr. J. W. Gerrard, the American Ambassador in Berlin, has informed the State ...
Article : 66 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his report to the British War Office last night, states:— There was artillery activity on both ...
Article : 70 wordsThe passengers by the R.M.S. Morea, which reached Fremantle to-day, included M. Default, a French Government officer in Noumea, who has been ...
Article : 97 wordsAt a dinner given last night by the Society of Foremen Engineers, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the Nationalist member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool, ...
Article : 254 wordsMr. Hughes derived peculiar satisfaction from revisiting the scenes of his youth. He visited a cousin at Denbigh and then motored to ...
Article : 75 wordsThe chief engineer and manager of the Hydro-Electric Department (Mr. J. H. Butters), when asked by a "Mercury" reporter last night if he could say ...
Article : 709 wordsThe military correspondent of the "Temps" says the movement of troops in Belgium, together with the enemy's aerial activity along the British lines, ...
Article : 41 wordsOn the recommendation of the Necessary Commodities Commission, the following now prices have been fixed for millers' products:—Flour, £11 per ton; ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 9 May 1916, Page 5
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