We have to-day little news of fresh events on the Eastern front, beyond indications of severe fighting to the west, north-west, and south-west of Lutzk. Both sides claim successes. Probably the Russians are reorganising for a fresh offensive movement by all the armies south of the Pripet River acting in unison. It may be necessary also to await the arrival of stores and munitions, the transport of which through the marshes must be ...
Article : 344 wordsThe German steamer Ems (699 tons, belonging to Stottin) was torpedoed yesterday to the northward of Falkenberg (on the south-west coast of Sweden) by ...
Article : 92 wordsA deputation consisting of nearly 100 persons, representative of a number of Northern Tasmanian centres, and organised by the Northern Tasmanian League, ...
Article : 2,402 wordsYesterday two French aviators at Panten, just outside Paris, collided when at a height of 6,000ft. The machines crashed to the ground, but the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris to-day states:— Yesterday the Germans attacked our position to the northward of Hill ...
Article : 100 wordsAt a meeting of the Hobart Marine Board yesterday Warden W. H. Burgess moved a resolution relating to the death of the late Lord Kitchener, and it was ...
Article : 174 wordsThe scarcity of food in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, led to serious rioting and stone-throwing during last week end, many soldiers joining the ...
Article : 174 wordsTwo German seaplanes to-day ineffectually tried to drop bombs on a British submarine in the Cattegat. The submarine shot down one of the ...
Article : 44 wordsA semi-official estimate, based on the statements of German prisoners and documentary evidence, shows that the German losses at Verdun to the end ...
Article : 41 wordsAdmiral Von Koester, at a meeting of the Flottonverein (German Navy Beague) to-day, said that Germany was entitled to use her submarine weapon ...
Article : 100 wordsAnother party of returned wounded and sick soldiers returned to Hobart by the express from Launceston yesterday. Altogether 17 troops arrived ...
Article : 254 wordsHundreds of dogs from Alaska and Labrador which during last winter rendered yeomen service in the Schlucht Pass by drawing heavy loads ...
Article : 102 wordsThe King, accompanied by Admiral Sir David Beatty, paid a visit to-day to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and conversed with all the men there ...
Article : 57 wordsAn incendiary fire has destroyed Heine's meat-curing factory at Halberstadt, one of the largest in Germany. The works were engaged in important ...
Article : 52 wordsLast night's communique says:— After a sharp bombardment a German detachment attempted yesterday to approach our lines on the River ...
Article : 46 wordsGeneral Brussiloff, in an interview to day, said the sweeping successes of the Russians are not the products of chance, or caused purely by the Austrian ...
Article : 345 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— The Austro-Germans are attempting, by means of counter-attacks, to stop General Brussiloff's force from ...
Article : 186 wordsA regiment of Tartar cavalry from the Bortchalin district has especially distinguished itself on an unnamed front by charging the Austrian trenches ...
Article : 37 wordsThe French patrol boat St. Jacques was sunk yesterday. Seven of her crew, all seriously wounded, were rescued, but nine others are missing. ...
Article : 33 wordsTo-day's communique says:— The battle on the Sette Communi Plateau continues to rage fiercely. To the south-west of Asiago the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe winter rye crop in Germany has been almost entirely ruined by the heavy rains of the past four or five weeks. Unless the weather improves the ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-day's communique thus describes the situation in Bukowina:— Our troops have crossed the River Pruth at many places, and are ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. Rudyard Kipling is publishing three articles from official reports on the work of the British Navy during the war. The first article, which deals ...
Article : 846 wordsThe meat ration in Berlin will be reduced this week to 300 grammes (about 8oz.) per head. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Mexican Government in the State of Yucatan has declared war on the United States, and ordered all Americans to leave Mexico. There has ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Dutch Socialist newspaper "Het Volk" points out that the meat export prohibition in Holland is futile, inasmuch as the export of sausages has not ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Russians yesterday (Sunday) took 3,000 prisoners at Czernowitz. A portion of the Austrians from Czernowitz retired towards Kolomea and Kuty, and ...
Article : 193 wordsWireless messages received in Rome state that serious strike troubles have broken out at Magdeburg, the capital of Prussian Saxony, and an ...
Article : 48 wordsAbout 50,000 people paraded the streets of Bucharest yesterday, and sang war hymns before the palace, and demonstrated in favour of intervention in ...
Article : 49 wordsThe German communique issued toflay states:—The battle to the northwest of Lutzk is proceeding in our favour, and the number of prisoners and ...
Article : 117 wordsGeneral Von Moitke, who died suddenly in the German Reichstag on Saturday whilst representing the German General Staff at a memorial service to ...
Article : 122 wordsThe apple market in London is easier. Strawberries are scarce, but are likely to be plentiful soon. Apple importers are clearing the fruit as ...
Article : 75 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows: There were 21 aerial combats on Sunday along the British line. Four German machines were driven to ...
Article : 63 wordsA despatch from General Smuts, dated April 30, has been made available for publication. It gives in detail the history of the earlier operations ...
Article : 122 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:— The Russians suffered heavy losses in their attacks to the south-east of Lopuzno. We gained ground on the ...
Article : 35 wordsFour men and three women who participated in yesterday's demonstration in Dublin, after attending a requiem mass for a dead rebel, were fined to-day ...
Article : 175 wordsMilitary critics point out that the Russian possession of Czernowits is a necessary preliminary to their using the Kiri-Baba Pass, which is one of the ...
Article : 59 wordsA contingent of wounded Maori soldiers left Plymouth to-day on their way home to New Zealand. ...
Article : 26 wordsTo-day's communique says:— A German air squadron dropped bombs on a village to the south of Verdun yesterday, and killed or ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral Brussiloff's push forward from Rovno upon Lutzk opened with a gas attack over a 30 miles section of the front. The new Russian gas was ...
Article : 94 wordsTribich (Lincoln), the ex-Liberal member for Darlington, who was extradited from the United States on a charge of obtaining money by false ...
Article : 112 wordsLast night's Berlin communique says. —Two English biplanes were brought down to-day, one at Lens and one at Arras, and the aviators were killed. ...
Article : 52 wordsA complete British unit has arrived at Archangel, and marched through the streets. The city was baflagged for the occasion, and the British received the ...
Article : 85 wordsA number of Swedish banks are making a loan of 70,000,000 kroner (about £4,000,000) to French, banks. The money will remain in Sweden, and be ...
Article : 49 wordsThe English newspapers are giving prominence to the probable fall of Lemberg, which may be the next Russian sensation. Some notes of warning ...
Article : 48 wordsFrench air squadrons yesterday dropped 61 heavy projectiles on the barracks and railway station at Vonziers, to the south-west of Sedan, where ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 21 Jun 1916, Page 5
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