Perhaps the most interesting item of war news this morning is the announcement that the tribes of Arabia have rebelled against Turkish rule, and have seized Mecen, and also Jeddah. The people of the province of Yemen, on tlio Red Sea, have never acknowledged the religious overlordship of the Sultan of Turkey, and have rebelled erpeatedly during the last hundred years. They have proclaimed their independence of Turkoy, and are taking ...
Article : 473 wordsThe second article by Mr. Rudyard Kipling, from official reports on the work of the British Navy during the war, contains a breezy narrative of the ...
Article : 890 wordsAt a trade conference which was held at the Mansion House to-day speeches delivered by Mr, Hughes, Sir G. E. Foster (Canadian Minister of ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Acting-Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) to-day made available a cable message received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies containing the ...
Article : 1,577 wordsBritish aeroplanes from Salonika have dropped bombs on points.around Gumultzini, and seriously damaged the enemy's provision and munition depots. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is reported that the Premier (M. Skoloudis) has sent in his resignation, and that M. Zaimis, an ex-Premier, has been summoned by the King and ...
Article : 73 wordsTo-day's communique says:— The village of Gruziatyn (nern Kolki) has changed hands soveral times We raided the village ...
Article : 188 wordsTo-day's communique says:— Yesterday the Germans violently bomb[?]ded the bridgehead on the River Dwina at Illuxt, and also the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent at Athens states that M. Znimis accepted with reluctance the invitation to form a Ministry. ...
Article : 126 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that while Lieutenant Immelmann. the famous German aviator nicknamed the "Eagle of Lilla," was reconnoiting on the ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the House of Commons this after-noon, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, moved for the erection of a monument to Lord Kitchener at the public ...
Article : 429 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Kaiser is now at Brussels "awaiting the result of a big military event." ...
Article : 39 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— During a heavy storm yesterday our Alpine troops captured a strong position to the south-west of Monte ...
Article : 128 wordsGreece has presented a Note to the United States Government, protesting against the Allies interfering with the maritime trade of Greece. A similar ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is reported here that General Von Hindenburg's attempt to continue his offensive to the south ot Smorgon has been repulsed with sanguinary losses. ...
Article : 35 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— Our attacks on the Russian lines to the north-west and south of Dvinsk, and also at Dubatovka, near Smorgon, have ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following official statement about the East Africa campaign was issued to-day:— Colonel Hoskins's force occupied ...
Article : 112 wordsAmongst the British. troops who recently arrived in Russia via Archangel is an armoured motor-car unit of 100 officers and men, commanded by ...
Article : 107 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique, says:— General Von Linsingen has driven the Russians back across the River.Styr near Gruziatyn, west of Kolki, where ...
Article : 70 wordsGeneral Kaledin is pressing westward to the south of Vladimir Volhynski, and is attempting to cut the enemy's communications in that quarter with ...
Article : 123 wordsAccording to reports from Mitylene, all the German officers and non-commissioned officers entrusted with the defence of the coast of Asia Minor have ...
Article : 41 wordsLast night's communique says:— We checked to-day a German attack upon the new trenches on the southern slopes of Mort Homme, ...
Article : 88 wordsTo-day was Alexandra Day in Lon-don, and the day set,apart by Queen Alexandra for the sale of roses, the proceeds of which go to assist the war and ...
Article : 73 wordsGermany's real sentiments towards Mahommedanism, for which she now professes so great a regard, are shown by an important discovery made in one ...
Article : 278 wordsM. Henri Barby, writing from Erzeroum to the Paris "Journal," states that of 2,500,000 Armenians in Turkey at the beginning of 1015, 2,000,000 have ...
Article : 47 wordsOn June 15 the number of men who have enlisted in Canada reached 340,OOO, and since the date mentioned recruits have come forward at the rate ...
Article : 45 wordsBulgaria has refused to accede to an appeal made by Austria. thah she should send troops to Bukowina. Drake's Carragheen gives great relief ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Westminster Gazette," referring to the Economic Conference, in Paris, considers that trade conditions after the war will be determined by the ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Germans are trying to counteract the effect of the Russian offensive to the south of the Prinet by attacks on the front further north. They have henvily bombarded the Russian positions near Jacobstadt, and the bridgehead on the Dwina at Illuxt, a few miles from Dvinsk. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 172 wordsThe population of Turkish Arabin has risen in revolt against Turkish rule, and proclaimed its independence. The Grand Shcreef of Yemen has ...
Article : 278 wordsLast night's communique says:— Things were quiet to-day on the whole front. Our artillery hit five German ammunition lorries near La ...
Article : 41 wordsAn explosion, followed by a fire, destroyed the plant of the C[?]adian ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 23 Jun 1916, Page 5
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