The Austrians have undoubtedly gained a substantial success in the centre of the front on which they made their offensive, inasmuch as the Italians have ...
Article : 262 wordsFor the moment, the eyes of the world are turned from Verdun, and are focussed upon the Balkans. A sensational event has taken place there. Acting upon a secret agreement with Bulgaria and Germany, the Greek Government has permitted Bulgarian trops to cross the frontier and occupy forts which have been recently constructed ostensibly to provent such an invasion. There can be no doubt now that those forts have been prepared for the ...
Article : 364 wordsMajor J. Norton-Griffiths, the Unionist member for Wednesbury, who has returned to London after 14 months' service at the front, makes a striking ...
Article : 487 wordsThe following, the 172nd, casualty list was released at 9 p.m. yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The addiresses ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Paris "Matin" states that at the end of 22 months of war, Professor Schwalde, the director of the German weekly "Medical Review," writes as ...
Article : 162 wordsLloyds' reports that yesterday an Austrian submarine outered the Italian port of Civita Vecehia, 37 miles to the north-west of Rome, and shelled the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsThe bodies of an officer and man, members of the crew of a Zeppelin, have been washed ashore at Esbjerg, the Danish port on the south coast of ...
Article : 63 wordsA force of 25,000 Bulgarians invaded Greek territory yesterday, and occupied Demir-Hissar. The Greeks retired. The Bulgarians crossed the frontier ...
Article : 157 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— We occupied this morning the southern lips of three eraters caused by the explosion of German mines ...
Article : 81 wordsGunner W. Jack, of the A.F.A., who was formerly vice-captain of the North Hobart Football Club, was the recipient yesterday of A safety razor on ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Greek Premier and the War Office had an important conference to-day to decide on their action. They have informed the Allies that they ...
Article : 70 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" publishes to-day an account by a neutral traveller describing conditions he noticed throughout what he terms "the ...
Article : 369 wordsOn Saturday Captain Grime-Jones and Lieutenant Henry Tennant, son of Mr. H. J. Tennant, Under-Secretary of State for War, were flying in a biplane ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Greek population in Macedonia are indignant at the action of the Government, and alarmed at the Bulgarian invasion. Adherents of the ...
Article : 87 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig's first despatch since he has had the command of the British Armies on the Western front covers the five months' ...
Article : 539 wordsNo supply of the badges which it has been decided to issue to volunteers for active service who are medically unfit or who cannot be spared from their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 457 wordsThe Italian steamer Moravia, 3,506 tons, and the Italian barquentine Rita, 2OO tons, have been torpedoed anel sunk by enemy submarines in the ...
Article : 39 wordsA semi-official statement issued in Athens to-day says that the Greek Government, in consideration of the concessions made to the Entente Allies, ...
Article : 145 wordsThis morning 25,000 Bulgarians crossed the frontier, and occupied the Rupel Pass (on the River Struma, above Demir-Hissar). They demanded the ...
Article : 160 wordsOwing to the leakage of secret instructions issued by the Admiralty to the commanders of vessels of the British mercantile marine, all aliens, ...
Article : 53 wordsSince the outbreak of the war 600 German mines have been washed up on the coast of Sweden, while Swedish marines have destroyed 500 more. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe German gains in the direction of Verdun during the past eight days amount to a total of 300 yards. The Gormans did not long retain ...
Article : 230 wordsAs already announced, Mr. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, intends to impose an addition to the income tax of 2s. in the £1, without ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Rupel Pass, in which the River Struma is confined in a narrow gorge between rugged mountain ranges, is practically the key to the plain of ...
Article : 157 wordsProfessor H. Roxwell, in a lecture at the London University, said he hoped that the tokens issued by the Government would bo replaced after the war ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Bulgars have occupied four more forts near Demir-Hissar, including Fort Uragotine. They have also reached Spatovo. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsThe main invading Bulgarian force crossed the frontier where the Struma River cuts across it, just north of the railway joining Salonika to Demir-hissar and Seres, and occupied the Greek positions in the Rupel Pass, which lies along the Struma, between the Belashitza Range on the west and the Bozo Range on the east. They then pushed on and occupied Demirbissar. They have thus cut the railway leading to Seres and Drama, and obtained a dominating ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 30 May 1916, Page 5
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