Last night's communique says:— The Turks have made repeated attacks on our positions in the region of Erzingan, but they have all been ...
Article : 92 wordsThe fighting at Verdun continues, despite previous announcements that the Germans had abandoned the attacks. Hill 304 has been the centre of a fierce Struggle, but the German assaults appear to have been fruitless. The enemy's artillery fire was the fiercest that has yet been experienced, but its force is now waning. In a roport the Germans claim to have captured several of the French trenches. ...
Article : 226 wordsThere is intense artillery activity along the entire front in Macedonia. ...
Article : 21 wordsNo further bulletins from Dublin about the Irish outbreak have been issued in London. It is believed that the disarming of the Sinn Feiners ...
Article : 54 wordsThe consideration of the Military Service Bill was continued in Committee of the House of Commons to-day. Sir J. B. Lonsdale, the Unionist ...
Article : 171 wordsTo-day the King received at Buckingham Palace delegates from the Russian Duma. In a speech His Majesty assured the visitors that Great Britain ...
Article : 245 wordsA submarine attacked the White Star liner Cymric (13,370 tons) at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. She fired a torpedo, the explosion of which killed ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Asquith stated, in the House of Commons to-day that the total military, casualties in Ireland have boen:— Officers.—Killed 17; wounded 46. ...
Article : 72 wordsWhen the Breslau shelled Eupatoria (on the west coast of the Crimea) on Saturday she approached the port flying the Russian flag. When she was ...
Article : 61 wordsThe House of Commons last night rejected various amendments to the Compulsory Military Service Bill, aiming to alter the age limit. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe four-masted ship Calgate has been torpedoed by a submarine. Twelve of the crew were picked up, but a, boatlond of fourteen are missing. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. P. Morrell, Liberal member for Burnley, asked if Skeffington, one of the rebel leaders, who was previously ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Chandler, the British press representative in Mesopotamia, says: — Before surrendering, General Townshend destroyed his wireless apparatus. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Department of State, having received Austria's explanation of the attack on the Russian barque Imperator by a submarine, will take no further ...
Article : 42 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states to-day that Colonel Winston Churchill's battalion has been absorbed by another unit, and that Colonel Churchill, not ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the House of Representatives today, Mr. Corser, who won the Wide Bay (Q.) seat vacated by Mr. Andrew Fisher, made his first speech, the ...
Article : 1,879 wordsIn consequence of the losses suffered at Verdun by the Germans, all boys who reached the age of 17 years in April have been summoned for immediate ...
Article : 70 wordsLast night's communique says: — The Germans kept up a violent bombardment of our trenches at Hill 304 all last night, and made an ...
Article : 102 wordsTwo aeroplanes yesterday dropped eight bombs on Port Said. Three civilians were wounded, but no material damage was done. The fire of the ...
Article : 45 wordsDay and night the police in Ireland are hunting for the rebels among the bogs and mountains of Galway. Hundreds of rebels have been arrested, but ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Clerks' Union last night repudiated the action of its delegates at a meeting of the Metropolitan Council of the Labour Federation in voting for a ...
Article : 124 wordsMessages from the press ccorrespondents at British Headquarters state that hitherto there has been a possibility that the Germans did not know that the ...
Article : 200 wordsAt a meeting of the Irish Nationalists which was held yesterday it wns decided to draw up a manifesto to the Irish people. The manifesto will be ...
Article : 41 wordsThe newspapers welcome the Anzacs' arrival on the Western front. The "Pall Mall Gazette" says:—"We know the Anzacs are in the very van of the ...
Article : 59 wordsAs the result of a fire in an aircraft material factory at Altona 63 aeroplanes have been destroyed. ...
Article : 30 wordsGeneral Sir John Nixon's despatch to the middle of January gives details of the earlier stages of the siege of Kutel-Amara. He says that-General ...
Article : 457 wordsArchbishop Duhig this evening sent the following telegram to Dr. D. M. O'Donnell, of Melbourne:—"Congratulate-you on the Celtic Club's cable to ...
Article : 126 wordsA contingent of troops from South Africa, recruited in the Union for service in Europe, arrived at Marseilles today, and received a warm welcome from ...
Article : 40 wordsThe State War Council has inquiries for returned soldiers capable of filling the following positions:—Apple-pickers, clerks, mechanics, blacksmiths, farm ...
Article : 248 wordsThe captains of steamers arriving at Copenhagen report that a large number of Zeppelins have been seen in the North Sea flying in all directions. The ...
Article : 67 wordsA semi-official statement issued to-day says:— On Monday the Germans, in spite of our decimating cross-fire, repeatedly ...
Article : 102 wordsIn acrordance with the promise given by Lord Kitchener to the Australian and New Zealand troops eighteen months ago, before their first arrival ...
Article : 347 wordsThe Republican newspapers in America continue to severely criticise the President (Dr. Wilson) for sending another Note to Germany, informing ...
Article : 105 wordsMr:—Hughes goes to France on the 31st of the month, and will be conducted along the British and French fronts. He is glad of the opportunity to review ...
Article : 202 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— We have stormed several trenches to the south of Haucourt. We repulsed the French attempts to regain the ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at the British Headquarters, says:— The arrival of the Australians was ...
Article : 267 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris last night states: — The enemy's artillery was less violent yesterday. Our curtain of fire ...
Article : 97 wordsAs already announced, in the arrest in New York of Robert Fay, a lieutenant in the German army, and Walter Scholz, his brother-in-law-, the Federal ...
Article : 329 wordsMembers of the Empire Parliamentary Association gave a dinner at the House of Commons last evening to Mr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier of ...
Article : 174 wordsAt a meeting of British workers which is to be held to-morrow. Mr. S. Walsh, the Labour member for Ince, will move, and Mr. Will Crooks, the Labour ...
Article : 108 wordsAccording to the "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent, the German artillery at Verdun is the most powerful yet employed by the enemy, but its strength ...
Article : 86 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. J. Balfour), in a letter on the subject of the lecent East Coast bombardments, points out that the maritime ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Danish newspaper the "Ribestifts Tidende" states that after careful inquiries it has come to the opinion that it is impossible for Germany to keep ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. H. F. Prevost Battersby, who was the "Morning Post's" special correspondent in South Africa, in an article in the "Post" says:— ...
Article : 213 wordsThe bulk of the carge of the steamer Rangatira, 10,118 tons, belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Co., which left London on February 26 for New ...
Article : 100 wordsOne hundred and sixty-three Russian non-commissioned officers and men, who were prisoners in Germany, and were employed on various works on the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe victorian Winter Nelis pears forwarded by the P. and O. liner Malwa sold to-day at 5s. to 15s. per case, and Almeria grapes from 8s. to 13s. per case. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 11 May 1916, Page 5
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