The Russians when they began the offensive bombarded along the line from the Pripet River to the Roumanian frontier, but their main attack was delivered from Royne. Here they delaged the Austrian positions with shell, smashing them and clearing away arbed wire entanglements. The infantry attacked, and the Austrians retreated to Lutzk Plain, only to be followed up and beaten again. Lutzk is now in the hands of the Russians, which mouns ...
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Advertising : 33 wordsTravellers from Germany state that Hamburg harbour is filled with severely damaged war vessels. Among other ships they saw the cruiser Seydlitz, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending today:— Coin, £60,128,000. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe newspapers are giving promisence to the [?]counts of the New Zealand's exploits in the Jutland battle. A fine painting of the New Zealand is ...
Article : 55 wordsA gunlayer on the Tiger, who has been interviewed, said:— We followed the Lion into battle, and opened fire it 18,000 yards. The ...
Article : 504 wordsDescribing the return to port of the British Fleet the "Scotsman" says:— The return of the ships from the greatest naval battle in history was a ...
Article : 405 wordsIt is officially announced by the British Admiralty that a raft, carrying twelve survivors of the cruiser Hampshire (10,850 tons, and main armament ...
Article : 99 wordsA Government committee appointed to inquire regarding the West African oil-producing nuts recommends a duty of £2 per ton for five years on all ...
Article : 42 wordsThe total results of the wool sales which closed to-day were:—Sold to Homo buyers, 51,000 bales; to Continent, 5,000; held, 8,000. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Sun" has sent a remarkable despatch descriptive of Lord Kitchener's work. He says Lord Kitchener ...
Article : 293 wordsThe British newspapers attach the utmost significance to the admission made by the Germans that the Lutzow has been lost, and to the famous ...
Article : 123 wordsTo-day's communique says:— We have taken positions on many points on the line of the Ikwn and Styr Rivers, which we have crossed ...
Article : 137 wordsSir Douglas Haig reported as follows last night:— The situation at Hooge is unchanged. There were no infantry actions ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Paris "Journal" estimates that the Germans in the battle of Jutland lost 10 per cent. of their total tonnage, and the British 4 per cent. As regards ...
Article : 55 wordsMerchantmen report that large British squadrons are in the North Sea. These include several of the ships that took part in last week's battle. ...
Article : 51 wordsYesterday a number of Allied airmen dropped bombs on Hoboken, a few miles to the south-west of Antwerp, where the Germans have been building ...
Article : 33 wordsLieutenant Renshaw, formerly chief officer of R.M.S. Otway, perished on board the Defence. Commander Willoughby, formerly ...
Article : 57 wordsSeveral memorial services for the late Lord Kitchener have been arranged to take place in Hobart within the next few days. ...
Article : 259 wordsMr. Hughes was present at a Cabinet meeting yesterday. He also had a conference with his fellow-delegates to the Paris Economic ...
Article : 52 wordsThe French President (M. Raymond Poincare) has telegraphed to King George as follows:—"Now that full and authentic information is available as ...
Article : 198 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— A battle is raging along the whole front on the State Communi Plateau (around Asiago, between the Astico ...
Article : 86 wordsOne of the crew of the Warriar says. —"Suddenly out of the mist, three miles away, five German battleships opened fire on the Defence, which was ...
Article : 191 wordsEngineer Sub-Lieutenant Davidson, of the Naval Reserve, a New Zealander, has died of disease contracted in the Cameroons. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Russian troops have carried by storm the important town of Lutzk, on the branch of the main line of railway to Brost-Litovsk, and 25 miles from the ...
Article : 220 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:— After a week's desperate fighting the garrison of the ruined Vaux Fort ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Count and Countess Plunkett, who were arrested in connection with the Sinn Fein outbreak, have been released, but have been ordered to leave ...
Article : 37 wordsYesterday's Austrian communique states:—We made progress yesterday on the Asiage Plateau, and took by storm Monte Meletta (which rises to a ...
Article : 53 wordsThe council of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution moved by Mr. Jenkins, formerly Agent-General for South Australia, urging an ...
Article : 170 wordsAt a luncheon givori to-day by the Imperial Council of Commerce, Mr. Hughes responded to the toast of "Our Guests." He said:—The first meeting ...
Article : 404 wordsA German official statement explains that the battle-cruiser Lutzow and the cruiser Rostock were sunk on their way back to harbour, but the less was not ...
Article : 519 wordsThe Foreign Office announces that the Allies have taken precautionary measures in consequence of the Greek Government's attitude in connection ...
Article : 228 wordsIt is estimated that the Austrians lost 100,000 killed and wounded in the recent fighting betwen the Pripet and Roumania. The Austrian positions ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Russians are now attacking practically all along the line from the Pripet River to the Roumanian frontier, near Czernowitz, a distance of over 200 miles, but their heaviest onset is being made in the region of Rovno. Here they have crossed the River Styr, a tributary of the Pripet running ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 145 wordsIt was officially announced to-day that the embargo imposed by the Federal Ministry on the export of wool to any port outside the Britian Empire ...
Article : 145 wordsThe details [?] of the great Russian [?] nia. Early on Dunday the Russians left ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 10 Jun 1916, Page 7
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