The Germany persist in their attacks in the vicinity of Verdun, but success as persistently eludes them. A night attack to the westward of Vaux has been repulsed by the French, and on Thursday the enemy violently bombarded tho French positions at the Bois de Caillette, but failed to advance. The fact that General Joffre on February 24 issued an order that there was to be no retirement from Verdun, under ...
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Advertising : 35 wordsMr. John Dillon, the Nationalist member tor East, Mayo, moved in the House of Commons this afternoon that the Government make a full ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 wordsLord Lansdowne (Minister without Portfolio) stated in the House of Lords this afternoon that the rebellion was one of the most discreditable and most ...
Article : 157 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, announced that in the recent rebellion the casualties among civilians totalled ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is estimated that British, colonial, and American life insurance companies have paid over £7,000,000 in respect to war death claims. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Asquith emphasised the desire of the Government to allay all bitterness. He appealed for a drawing together of the people, and a greater ...
Article : 507 wordsThe situation in the region south-west of Mount Kilimanjaro is confidently referred to in a report by General Smuts, received to-day, which also indicates ...
Article : 182 wordsThough the people of London are accustomed to the presence of the Anzacs, it is a novelty to see them in full kit and fresh from the trenches ...
Article : 422 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— The Germans made an infantry attack at 2 o'clock this morning to the westward of the pond at Vaux. They ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, is going to Ireland immediately to consult the civil and military authorities there. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Compulsory Military Service Bill passed the committee stage in the House of Commons yesterday. A card vote taken by the Miners ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that evidence exists that the Sinn Feiners plotted to kidnap Sir Edward Carson from ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Hughes had a busy day to-day. He attended the Metal Conference, and afterwards stated that there are prospects of an early satisfactory ...
Article : 338 wordsA great fire broke out yesterday at the docks in Hamburg, and resulted in the destruction of two large warehouses and three steamers moored to ...
Article : 41 wordsThomas Kent, one of the leaders of the rebels in Fermoy, was court-martialled and shot on Tuesday morning. Mrs. Skeffington states that the day ...
Article : 125 wordsA bill is to be introduced next week into the House of Representatives to amend the War Precautions Act in the direction of more liberal treatment for ...
Article : 240 wordsIt is officially stated that on February 24 General Joffre gave a warning that anyone who ordered a retirement from Verdun would be tried by court-martial. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe survivors of the White Star liner Cymric, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, state that the vessel was attacked without warning. ...
Article : 125 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— This morning our fire demolished a German trench with a length of 100 metres (110 yards) is the south-east of ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Senate to-day, Senator Mullan (Q.) asked the Minister of Defence(Senator Pearce) whether, in view of the fact that he, as ltd Acting ...
Article : 127 wordsJust when the tremendous use of artillery in the struggle around Fort Douaumont and on other parts of the front at Verdun led to the prediction that ...
Article : 218 wordsThe following was the summing up c[?] His Honor Mr. Justice Ewing in the case heard at Devonport, in which G. C. Walch a Don farmer sued the ...
Article : 520 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Mr. T. J. Macnamara, the Secretary to the Admiralty, stated that during the 12 months ending the 7th ...
Article : 59 wordsLast night's communique says:— Our Alpini yesterday captured, by means of vigorous assault, strongly-fortified trenches and redoubts on the ...
Article : 59 wordsTwo hundred corpses have been found in the search by the fire brigade and the military among the ruins, on roofs, in chimneys, and the yards of ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier of Queensland, had an interview this morning with Mr. W. Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade: Dr. F. D. ...
Article : 123 wordsThere was much excitement in the House of Commons yesterday, the Nationalists and Ulstermen assembling in full force, particularly as reports ...
Article : 364 wordsReferring to-day to the proposal of the New South Wales Ministry to supplement the Commonwealth pensions to soldiers by a State pension, the ...
Article : 98 wordsGeneral Sir John Maxwell reports that the court-martial of the active participants of the rebellion in Dublin has finished, but the trial of several ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is stated that Dr. Von BethmannHollweg, the German Imperal Chancellor, during a secret debate in the Reichstag last Monday on the reply to ...
Article : 229 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows: The Germans made an unsuccessful attempt to rai[?] our trenches near Villers (south of Albert) on ...
Article : 53 wordsDuring the fighting in Armenia, to the west of Ashkalin (states last night's communique), the Turks surrounded and made prisoner a detachment of ...
Article : 64 wordsTheo "Evening Standard" states that the Imperial Government has secured a ship to go to the rescue of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, and that the ...
Article : 47 wordsOf 220 Anzacs who arrived to-day 148 were Victorians, 41 South Austrahans, and 21 Tasmanians. The men comprised in the aggregate the most ...
Article : 129 wordsThe House of Lords concluded the debate this afternoon on the motion moved by Lord Loreburn, a former Lord Chancellor, censuring the ...
Article : 144 wordsA few more cases of apples and pears shipped from Australia were sold to-day at Liverpool, and realised from 7s. 6d. to 12s. 6d. per case. The strike ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that the Government has decided to crcate a War Ministry, and that Loard Curzone, the Lord Privy Seal, will be ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 13 May 1916, Page 7
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