The crew of the British cruiser Warrior have arrived at Chatham, and received an enthusiastic welcome. The Warrior's exploits as the decoy cruiser ...
Article : 290 wordsWe publish, to-day an official account of the man[?]vres in the naval battle off Jutland. It shows that Admiral Beatty attacked the German fleet in order to hold it until the Commandor-in-Chief could come up with the battle fleet. This official description shows that we must add another impression if we wish to realise how the battle was foutht—that of speed. The ships man[?]vred and fought at top speed. The British ships raced into ...
Article : 301 wordsThe British Navy League, after considering all the information available, states in unqualified terms that the final result was an undoubted British ...
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Article : 94 wordsCorrecting a misapprehension that appears to exist in West Australia as to the recent statement made by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) ...
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Article : 53 wordsAt last night's meeting of the New Town Council, a letter was read from Mr. Robert W. Catley, of Roope-street, New Town, stating that he had ...
Article : 110 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— A surprise attack to the westward of Carpach, in the Vosges, put the Germans in possession of three bits ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is reported officially that no men were saved from the Indefatigable, the Defence, the Black Prince Tipperary, Turbulent, Nomand, and the ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Hughes and Mr. Fisher have paid a visit to the Anzacs on the Western front. Yesterday (Sunday) they lunched with ...
Article : 174 wordsIt has been brought under notice that in some cases intending recruits have accepted the Defence Department warrants for train, coach, or boat ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Council of Empire has passed a resolution expressing, sympathy with King George and the British people in their painful losses and admiration of ...
Article : 117 wordsA member of the crow of the battleship Marlborough narrates that at one time six Zoppelins, were over the fleet, and their reconnoitring greatly helped ...
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Article : 40 wordsA naval officer who took part in [?] great fight, and has reached Edinburgh, gives a thrilling narrative, which discloses the New Zealand's great share ...
Article : 752 wordsThe British line of battle was:—The Lion first, then the Princess Royal, the Queen Mary. the Tiger, the New Zealand, and the Indefatigable. These ...
Article : 1,010 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that wounded tailors who have arrived at Shields report that the Germans on Wednesday night used searchlights to ...
Article : 107 wordsThe apple market is firm, and buyers are keen. Further sales of Victorians have been made, best 9s. to 12s.; soft sorts, 7s. to 8s. 6d. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe German Conservatives and National Liberals are unitedly and determinedly striving to secure the recall of Admiral Von Tirpitz. The executive ...
Article : 138 wordsIt is officially stated that the Russians have obtained great successes all along the front from the Pripet Marshes to the Roumanian frontier, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe burquentine Thrasher (671 tons), which recently left San Francisco for Sydney with a cargo of explosives, and was later reported to be in a sinking ...
Article : 49 wordsThe newspaper "Ribestifte Tidende" states that British warships were seen off Faroo (an island off the south-west coast of Jutland) on Thursday morning ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Government hopes in a few days to find a suitable ship to succour the men on Elephant Island. Sir Douglas Freshfield, the president ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Minister tor the Navy (Hon. J. A Jensen) to-day received a cable from the. Admiralty stating that H.M.A.S. Australia was not present at the battle ...
Article : 40 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:— In Volhynia and Galicia the Russians have taken the offensive along their whole front, and a great battle is ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following cable message was today despatched to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Governor-General (Sir R. Munro Ferguson:— ...
Article : 122 wordsChina's financial affairs are in a muddle of the worst kind. The holders of Government bank notes are selling them at a ruinous discount. ...
Article : 33 wordsLast night's communique says:— Several Austrian attacks in the Val Lagurina and elsewhere have been repulsed. ...
Article : 77 wordsOther accounts state that our destroyers showed amazing dash. They were bound to suffer, considering the risks they took, for when they were ...
Article : 139 wordsIt is reported that British light cruisers have destroyed a squadron of German torpedo-boats near Heligoland. ...
Article : 32 wordsJudgment was given in the High Court to-day on an application for in injunction to restrain the Queensland Government and John McEvan ...
Article : 360 wordsSir Douglas Haig last night reported as follows:— The Germans to-day made a number of unsuccessful raids on our lines ...
Article : 74 wordsThe inclusion of many of the crew of the Seydlitz (25,000 tons, 26[?] knots, ten 11-inch guns[?] twelve 6-inch guns, twelve 24-pounders, four 14-pounders, and four ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Greek Government has protested against General Sarrail's proclamation of martial law at Salonika, on the ground that it is a grave infringement ...
Article : 39 wordsNothing could be finer than the way the late Captain Arbuthnot went into the battle with the Defence, the Warrior, and the Black Prince. He ...
Article : 52 wordsA Reuter's message from London states that British officers who took part in the Jutland battle confirm the report that both the Hindenburg and ...
Article : 107 wordsMen who have returned from the battle say that some of the enemy's light ships were blown right out of the water by our shells. One could see ...
Article : 119 wordsIn regard to the behaviour of the First and Second Divisions of the Australian Imperial Force on their arrival in France to take part in the actions ...
Article : 121 wordsJoseph Tribitch Lincoln, the ex-member of the House of Commons (a Hungarian by birth), who recently fled to the United States (after, according to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 7 Jun 1916, Page 5
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