The unexpected has happened. Austria, the country supposed to have had her strength more seriously sapped than any of the other combatants, has undertaken a great offensive, movement, a la the Germans at Verdun. Arter prolonged bombardment with guns of all, calibres, masses of infantry were sent on Sunday and Monday to the attac of the Italian advanced positions along a front of fifteen miles in the Adigp Valley. The Italians, like the French ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 851 wordsThe men of the 40th Battalion are to entrain for the Launceston trip at Claremont this evening, and will reach the Northern city at about 7 or 8 ...
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Article : 84 wordsThe German semi-official clerical paper "Germania" declares that at the outset of the war Australia was wholeheartedly on the side of England, ...
Article : 110 wordsIt is officially announced that Turkish artillery set on fire and destroyed a small British monitor on the 13th inst. Two of the crew were killed and ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is officially announced that on Tuesday afternoon a squadron of British torpedo-boat destroyers and monitors engaged a squadron of German ...
Article : 58 wordsEdward Grubb, A. Brockway, and W. Chamberlain, honorary treasurer, secretary, and organiser respectively of the No-Conscription Fellowship ...
Article : 109 wordsThree Americans lost their lives on board the British steamer Etreria, 3,486 tons, which was torpedoed and sunk last week by a German submarine. ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the Bow-street Police Court today, the hearing of the charge of high treason was resumed against Sir Roger Casement and Daniel Julian Bailey, ...
Article : 347 wordsThe cancellation by the British Government of the metal contracts between the British Broken Hill Co., the Australian Zinc Corporation, and the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Dutch steamer Batavier V., 1,560 tons, which was laden with a general cargo, and bound from London to Rotterdam, was blown up in the North ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the Senate to-day,— The Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce), in reply to Senator Needham (W.A.), said that commissioned and ...
Article : 154 wordsAs already announced, the German Government, in its latest Note presented to Mr. Lansing, the Secretary of State, warns neutral Governments that ...
Article : 89 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. W. Joynson-Hicks, the Unionist member for Brentford, moved a motion urging the Government to ...
Article : 772 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows:— Two raiding parties of Seaforth Highlanders ontered the German ...
Article : 73 wordsVery heavy fighting along the front in the Southern Trentino, from the River Adige north-eastward to the Val Sugana, at the head of the River ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Bethnal Green (North-East London) Recruiting Tribunal has strongly protested against the presence of 200,000 Allied aliens of military age in ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Austrian Government has sent a Note both to the Allies and neutral, countries alleging that Allied submarines, without warning, attack ...
Article : 58 wordsA German mine-layer was blown up yesterday off Falsterbo, in the extreme south of Sweden. One of the crew was killed, but the rest were rescued. ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the Senate to-day,— The Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce), in reply to Senator Grant (N.S.W.), said that on 2nd March, ...
Article : 161 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— The Germans this morning attempted to make progress on the edge of Morthomme (Dead Man) Hill by ...
Article : 45 wordsThe official text is published to-day of an interview given to an American journalist named Marshall by Mr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the ...
Article : 374 wordsThe "Bulletin des Armes" publishes a notice which is placarded in prisoner of war camps in Germany, notifying that all work allotted to prisoners will ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Exchange Telegraph Company states that Mr. Asquith was sworn in yesterday at the Irish Privy Council meetin, and thus joins the Irish ...
Article : 147 wordsIt is reported that the British and other Allied soldiers who were prisoners at the Sch[?]demuhl camp (in the province of P[?]s[?]n), are being compelled ...
Article : 85 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:— We have captured further positions from the Italians, and the number of prisoners made has increased to 141 ...
Article : 44 wordsOn March 17, Morgan Kenny, trading as John Morgan, Bourke-street, was fined £2, with £1 1s. costs, at the City Police Court, on the charge of having ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner of Australia, speaking at the meeting of the British Science Guild to-day described the establishment of ...
Article : 171 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Milan states that Austrian forces totalling 300,000 men have begun an offensive in the Trentino. The ...
Article : 44 wordsAn official statement issued in Dublin states that a grant will be made, e[?] gratia, in respect to the damage done in the recent rebellion, the ...
Article : 92 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows:— Owing to the fine weather, there were 27 combats in the air on ...
Article : 168 wordsThe fighting in the Trentino is confined to a front of 15 miles, but Italian military crities agree that the principal objective of the Austrians is the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the cause of the rebellion in Ireland will hold its first sitting at Westminster to-morrow (Friday). ...
Article : 36 wordsThe thrilling story has been issued of a British submarine's escape from total destruction owing to a mine explosion when on a reconnoitring expedition ...
Article : 299 wordsCaptain James White, a son of the late Field-Marshal Sir George White, the here of Ladysmith, was charged yesterday at Aberdare with being ...
Article : 96 wordsOn Tuesday Austrian aeroplanes dropped bombs on Venice. Then, assisted by signals given by spies, they made a raid on Mestre (six miles ...
Article : 96 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— Lieutenant Immelmann has brought down near Douai his 15th aeroplane. We brought down an English aeroplane ...
Article : 56 wordsThe shipments of Australian apples continue to sell steadily at prices ranging from late rates to 1s. per case decline. ...
Article : 47 wordsAll Turks up to the age of 62 years have been called up for military service. ...
Article : 39 wordsLieut. Charles Darrell Merrett, of the Australian Flying Corps, was killed on Tuesday. Lord Lucas, a companion, giving evidence to-day, said he was ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Austrians have started a big offensive movement on the section of the front just east of the River Adige. Their main objective is, it is stated, toforce a way through the Italian lines and down on to the plain by smashing the Italian defences in the district of the Sette Communi, at the southern end of the Lessine Alps, where they are not much more than 20 miles from Verona, though the Italian positions are stillwithin the Austrian frontier. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 19 May 1916, Page 5
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