The Verdun front is comparatively quiet, as it may well be, for a while, in view of the estimate that the Germans had 170,000 casualties in the recent three days battle, which carried them only to the outskirts of Fleury, instead of through the French main line. Another reason given for the easing of the strain at Verdun is that the Germans begin to think the British ...
Article : 380 wordsGiving evidence to-day before the Commission appointed by the Imperial Government to inquire into the British air service, Mr. Pemberton-Billing ...
Article : 191 wordsAs previously promised, Lord Selborne, the President of the Board of Agriculture, made a personal explanation as to his reasons for resigning from ...
Article : 600 wordsFor the last 60 hours the Italians have been continuously regaining ground. Tho enemy's retreat at certain points has developed into a rout. ...
Article : 134 wordsThere was serious rioting last weekend at Leipzig, in Saxony. Eight hundred shops, chiefly those of bakers, butchers, and provision dealers, were ...
Article : 84 wordsReplying to criticisms in the House of Lords yesterday as to the policy of the Government in purchasing this season's wool clip, threatening to ...
Article : 113 wordsLast night's communique says:— The Don Cossacks crossed the Dniester yesterday. Parties of them stripped naked and swam over ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Minister of External Affairs (Mr. Mahon) hopes to be able to institute the scheme for sending a daily budget of Australian news to the military forces ...
Article : 127 wordsSir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, in a Parliamentary paper issued to-day, says he is unable to explain the failure of Germany to repatriate un[?]t ...
Article : 129 wordsAn Order-in-Council issued yesterday applies to the Commonwealth Section 20 of the Finance Act of 1894 in regard to death duties leviable on ...
Article : 37 wordsThe general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Tasmania (Mr. Alex. Jameson) has returned from a brief conference at Melbourne with the other national and ...
Article : 635 wordsSir Douglas Haig last night reported as follows:— We repulsed a German attack on the Ypres-Menin Canal to-day. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states.— Local operations last night enabled us to enlarge the ground we had ...
Article : 113 wordsThe French Government has ratified the resolutions passed by the Economic Conference at Paris. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie, the High Commissioner of New Zealand, spent the week end in visiting New Zealand wounded soldiers now in hospitals in ...
Article : 36 wordsLast night's communique states:— There was a heavy bombardment to-day on the Stokhod and Middle Strypa fronts. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Government of India has promulgated an ordnance dealing with the liquidation of hostile firms and the property of hostile persons, which ...
Article : 348 wordsGeneral Weber, the Austrian Governor of Cettigno, has issued a proclamation accusing General Vicovitch, the former War Minister of Montenegro, of ...
Article : 69 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" (Mr. Philip Gibbs) describes two successful Anzac raids on the German lines 5,000 yards apart, ...
Article : 548 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. H. J. Tennant, the Under-Secretary for War, stated that 125 prisoners were now undergoing penal ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is semi-officially stated in Paris that the violent effort the Germans made between the 21st and 24th inst. on the Thiaumont and Fleury sector cost the ...
Article : 100 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— Patrol fights have developed upon the English line and the north wing. We have brought down an English ...
Article : 41 wordsThe foundation-stone of a new German armament factory was laid at Munich yesterday. The capital is £1,250,000, and of the amount the firm ...
Article : 41 wordsThe trial of Sir Roger Casement on a charge of high treason was continued at the Old Bailey to-day before Lord Reading, the Chief Justice, and Mr. ...
Article : 726 wordsLast night's communique says:— The German infantry to-day made numerous attempts to take the offensive on the northern sectors of the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" calls attention to the descriptions in German newspapers of the British guns as thundering furiously from end to end of their ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Socialist Election Unions of Berlin have defeated the official majority, and a new committee has been chosen representing the minority, with Herr ...
Article : 76 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— On the French front numerous gas clouds and smoke clouds floated towards us yesterday, but did no damage. ...
Article : 62 wordsSevere hailstorms have seriously damaged the corn and hay crops in Hungary, and also the crops in Thuringia. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe report which M. Briand brought from the front of the splendid preparedness and morale of the British troops has filled France with confidence ...
Article : 114 wordsTo-day's Constantinople communique claims successes against the Russian forces in Northern Persia, and states that the Russians have evacuated the ...
Article : 39 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— We have crossed strong Austrian entrenchments at Matassone and Angrevi, and thus completed the ...
Article : 114 wordsA grave situation has arisen between Germany and Switzerland, owing to the former demanding the delivery of merchandise, chiefly cotton goods, which ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" states this evening that the Commonwealth Government, in its purchase of a fleet of steamers, has solved the shipping ...
Article : 389 wordsTo-day's Constantinople communique thus refers to the Asia Minor front: —After their defeat on the Upper Cho[?]ok the Russians are fleeing ...
Article : 34 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Three of our armed aeroplanes have fired 65 shells at German vessels near the Belgian coast. ...
Article : 32 wordsDr. Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Dr. Lang, the Archbishop of York, in a letter to the newspapers, suggest that special services, with the ...
Article : 68 wordsNorwegian physicians declare that many sailors who took part in the Jutland battle would have survived if they had been picked up 24 hours earlier, ...
Article : 85 wordsEarly this morning the Anzac troops, for the fourth time within three weeks, raided the German trenches opposite their line. ...
Article : 196 wordsMr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier of Queensland, who is now on a visit to Ireland, interviewed in Dublin yesterday, said that the view of ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. Jensen) was asked just prior to attending a meeting of the Cabinet to-day if there had been any developments following ...
Article : 454 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:— The shortening of our front between the Brenta and the Adige was completed on Monday. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 29 Jun 1916, Page 5
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