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Advertising : 16 wordsThe "Giornale d'Italia" publishes an interveiw with Hussein Rushdi Pasha Prime Minister of Egy[?]t, who said that the Egyptian and British ...
Article : 65 wordsSir George Reid cables under date November 4:- Reports from South Africa announce that Colonel Britz sent a patrol of [?] ...
Article : 119 wordsThe cablegrams contain the sensational statement that the German warships in the Pacific, five in number, have come together, and formed a squadron off Chili, and defeated a British squadron of three cruisers and an auxiliary cruiser (the Otranto), under Rear-Admiral Cradock. The report is based on German statements, which, singularly enough, show only one side of the medal. We are told that the cruiser Monmouth has been sunk ...
Article : 280 wordsOur Scottsdale correspondent writes:— "The supervisor of rifle ranges (Lieutenant Saunders) visited Scottsdale last week, and advantage was taken of his presence ...
Article : 269 wordsThe "Morning Post" says that Roumania has detained 114 trucks of munitions of war sent from Germany to Turkey. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe steam drifter Will and Maggie, of Lowestoft, was blown up yesterday in the North Sea after striking a mine. Six of the crew were drowned, but the ...
Article : 48 wordsA correspondent in the "Weekly Despatch" (England), of August 30, says:- "Indications are not wanting that whilst in England we are naturally devoting our ...
Article : 897 wordsA communique issued in Petrograd states that the Russians have repulsed the Turkish outposts in Asia Minor, crossed the frontier, and captured ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. W. R. Ames reached London, about September 15 from the scenes of the Russo-German fighting in East Prussia. He has been managing the family estate[?] ...
Article : 910 wordsThere are in the Murrayville district of Victoria a number of German [?]ettlers, some of whom have brothers and relatives in the fighting line opposed to the Allies. ...
Article : 162 wordsCaptain Selwyn Lucas Lucas-Tooth, son of Sir Robert L. Lucas-Tooth, formerly of Sydney, New South Wales, was killed in action on October 20. ...
Article : 519 wordsA telegram received in Constantinople from Amsterdam states that the following members of the Turkish Cabinet have resigned:—Djani Bey, ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is unofficially reported that a bomb drop[?]ed on the headquarters staff of the German Army the other day killed General Von Kluck, the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe position at the front is summed u[?] us follows in the official communique issued this afternoon.- "On our left wing the enemy has ...
Article : 252 wordsSir George Reid cables under date November 5, 3.20 a.m.:- The Admiralty announces that rumours have been received at the ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Egyptian correspondent of the "Pioneer Mail" (India), under date September 25, says:- Egypt being the cosmopolitan ...
Article : 680 wordsSir George Reid, the High Commissioner, cables from London, under date November 4, 2.45 p.m.:- Official—The progress of recent ...
Article : 425 wordsThe treatment of German prisoners now interned in New Zealand was the subject of two questions in the New Zealand House of Representatives a ...
Article : 313 wordsOne thousand four hundred and seventeen men of the crews of the vessels captured by the German cruiser Karlsruhe have been landed at ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Government has received an intimation from the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) that a proclamation has been issued prohibiting the exportation of hides ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the British repulsed all attacks along the whole line on Sunday. The British howitzers demolished two of the ...
Article : 125 wordsEight members of German princely famines have died on the battlefields, the youngest victim being under 17 years of age. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Germans now hold only one point to the south of the River Yser, a bridge-head between Nieuport and Dixmuiden. Between the Yser and the Lys heavy fighting is still going on. The Germans appear to consider Ypres the key to the position in this region, and are still trying to take it; it is reported that they are concentrating 420 guns for the attack. After alternate gains and losses of ground, the Allies are now pushing slowly forward in this part of the battle front. They have also made some advances to the south of the Lys. particularly between that river mid Lille. There has been fresh activity along the line ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 170 wordsIt is officially announced that the German cruiser Yorck (9,350 tons, and a main armament of four 8.2-inch guns) has struck a mine and sunk off ...
Article : 63 wordsThe High Commissioner (Sir Geo. Reid) cables from London, under date November 4, as follows:- Official—The War Office announces ...
Article : 163 wordsThe German protected cruiser Leipzig has sunk the British merchantman Vine Branch, off the west coast of South America. The Vine Branch was ...
Article : 45 wordsFurther details of the fight, already reported in which the London Scottish took a prominent part in the defeat of a strong German forces advanving to ...
Article : 152 wordsIn view of the position that has arise[?] through a number of enemy steamers refusing to leave the Suez Canal, it is of interest to recall the provisions of the ...
Article : 289 wordsA communique issued in the Russian capital yesterday states that the Germans on the East Prussian front are on the defensive. The Russians have ...
Article : 131 wordsThree German aeroplanes were shot down yesterday at So[?]ain. Aviators of the Al[?]ies have partially wrecked the Bruges railway station. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is officially stated at Tokio that it is understood that the Germans at Tsing-tao have blown up their floating dock there, and al[?]o the Austrian light ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 6 Nov 1914, Page 5
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