The Russians are pushing their campaign in Asia with great vigour. In the advance from Erzeroum they have captured the small town of Mamakhutun, a place only 50 miles from the Turkish headquarters at Erzindjan. It is stated that about 50,000 German, Austrian, and Bulgarian troops have passed through Constantinople on their way to Asia Minor. These may not be in time to Save the situation if the Russians continue to press ...
Article : 222 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon. Sir A. B. Markham, the Liberal member for Mansfield, asked whether telegraph und telephone wires viere cut ...
Article : 82 wordsThe hearing was resumed to-day, at the Bow-street Police Court, of the charges of high treason preferred against Sir Roger Casement and ...
Article : 835 wordsGeorge Shickerty, pastrycook, of Brunswick-street, was charged at the Fitzroy Police Court to-day with that, being a naturalised subject of enemy ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher Mrs. Fisher, and Senator MacDougall visited Wandsworth Hospital to-day, and chatted with 240 Australian wounded men from ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Finance Bill, which will be introduced in the House of Commons tomorrow (Thursday), provides that a person paying income tax in the Colonies ...
Article : 128 wordsThe "New York World," which contains to-day a remarkable two-column article on Germany's food plight, states that no longer is the war a chivalrous ...
Article : 110 wordsThe following is a copy of a letter received by Messrs. J. walch and Sons from Miss A. Roberts, Military Hospital No. 22, Toul, France, dated ...
Article : 540 wordsA report was received in Paris to-day that General Marchand, of Fashoda fame, had been killed in action, but the report was afterwards officially denied. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe House of Commons this atternoon, by 250 votes to 35, passed the third reading of the Compulsory Military Service Bill. ...
Article : 73 wordsA communique has been issued reporting a success of the Austrians. It is as follows:— The enemy on Sunday heavily ...
Article : 113 wordsThe members of the Patriotic League of Berlin have discussed the food problems of Germany. At the meeting Herr Dernburg, formerly Secretary of State ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is officially stated that the advance of the Russians in the direction of Mosul still continues. PETROGRAD, May 17. ...
Article : 92 wordsIf the danger of a Turkish attack on Egypt is not entirely removed, a serious attempt at invasion is becoming very remote. The warm season is ...
Article : 1,149 words"The Times." states to-day that, after 21 months' agitation, the British Government has cancelled the contracts the British Broken Hill Co. and the ...
Article : 520 wordsThe German newspapers angrily comment on the interview published in the "Chicago Daily News" with Sir Edward Grey, the Btitish Foreign Secretary ...
Article : 158 wordsAn Austrian communique says:—We have raptured a position in the Southern Tyrol, and made prisoner 65 Italian officers and 2,500 men, and taken 11 ...
Article : 50 wordsGerman forces made two attacks yesterday on Nhika, a place on the borders of German and Portuguese East Africa, but were repulsed, suffering ...
Article : 45 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows: — On the Vimy Ridge (south of Lens) the Lancashire Fusiliers made an ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Russians have occupied Mamakhatun, 50 miles east of Erzindjan. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe "Bloemfontein Friend" publishes a semi-official German report, which was found when the British occupied Moschi, stating that the Boer element ...
Article : 105 wordsAs mentioned in yesterday's "Mercury, it has been decided, in response to the request of the Mayor of Launceston, to allow all the members of the ...
Article : 133 wordsAdvices received in Rome from Bacharest, the capital of Roumania, state that the Central Powers—Germany and Austria—view as serious the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe German Government, in its latest Note presented to Mr. Lansing, the Secretary of State, warns neutral Governments that merchant ships flying ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the special correspondent or the "Daily Chronicle, says: — In spite of the Germans' attack on ...
Article : 154 wordsA Royal Commission which has inquired into the destruction by fire of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, German crime agents being suspected, ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Hughes continues his Wheat and metal negotiations. Mr. Lightfoot apologised for Mr. Hughes's absence from the meeting of the Institute of ...
Article : 85 wordsAccording to advices from Constantinople serious differences have arisen in the Turkish Cabinet. The Sheikh-ul Islam and the Minister of Justice have ...
Article : 70 wordsYesterday a German fiotilla of torpedoboats blockaded the important Swedish port of Gothenburg, awaiting the departure of the steamer Brierly Hill, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe "Daily Mail" has initiated a campaign to force the Government to issue medals to the survivors of the original Expeditionary Forces sent to France ...
Article : 99 wordsGeneral Townshend has arrived at Constantinople. A BORN SOLDIER. General Townshend has quite a ...
Article : 372 wordsAt an inquest which was held to-day on a man named Patrick Bealon, whose body was dug up in a Dublin cellar after the rebel rising, the jury found ...
Article : 67 wordsEarly this month, it will be remembered, Mr. William Redmond, M.P. for East Clare, a son of Mr. John Redmond, who is now on active service at ...
Article : 235 wordsMr. B. R. Wise, the Agent-General for New South Wales, has secured as offices for his State the two lower floors of No. 27 Cockspur-street, Charing ...
Article : 148 wordsAt a conference at Berlin of all the Finance Ministers of the German States the establishment of the new taxes necessary to meet the war expenditure ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Justice Bailhache, of the High Court, who was appointed last week chairman of the committee formed to inquire into the administration of the ...
Article : 217 wordsA number of the ringleaders who were captured at Enniscorthy have been tried, and one was sentenced to death, but the sentence has been ...
Article : 40 wordsOwing to the scarcity of shipping tonnage, the imports of tobacco into the United Kingdom are to be further restricted. The new regulation will not ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Asquith continues informal conferences with officials in Dublin. When Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, visited the Richmond Barracks ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the House of Representatives today, The Minister of the Navy (Mr. Jensen), in reply to Mr. Finlayson (Q.), ...
Article : 133 wordsYesterday Mr. J. X. Merriman, formerly Prime Minister of Cape Colony, unveiled a monument which has been erected in Capetown to the memory of ...
Article : 53 wordsThe value at credit of the profit and loss account of the White Star Shipping Company for the financial year just ended is £1,068,285. After paying the ...
Article : 59 wordsLord Bertie, the British Ambassador to France, has handed £200 to Madame Jacquet, the widow of a citizen of Lille, who has been shot for sheltering ...
Article : 132 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that political circles in England are discussing the appointment of a statutory commission to work out details for the ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. W. Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade, introduced a bill in the House of Commons yesterday providing for the cutting down of the ...
Article : 113 wordsFurther sales of Tasmanian apples took place in Liverpool to-day, but prices were unchanged. Another 9,000 cases remain to be discharged. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 18 May 1916, Page 5
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