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Advertising : 13 wordsThe Montenegrins have again invaded Basnia and have recaptured Visegrad (43 miles east by south of Sarajevo). ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Allies, as was to be expected, are pressing firmly upon the Germans along the whole line in Belgium and France in order to prevent their sending further troops to reinforce their armies in Poland. The British have been advancing northward (having got nearly to Roulers), and eastward (having reached Menin), in Belgium, while French and British have been moving eastward from points to the north and the south of La Bassee. To counter these ...
Article : 371 wordsThe Aga Khan, the spiritual head of the Khojahs, and leader of the Indian Mohammedan community, has issued a manifesto, which has been eu circulated ...
Article : 56 wordsField-Marshal Sir John Fiench, in congratulating the Black Watch (42nd Highlanders) on winning fresh laurels at the battle of the Marne, states: ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Warsaw correspondent of the Rome newspaper "Messagero" states that German militarism has been responsible for destruction, sacking, and ...
Article : 191 wordsA few days ago Turkish soldiers endenvoured to arrest the British Consul at Hodeidah, the Arabian seaport, but the Consul escaped to the Italian ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is officially stated that the British submarine B11 (displacement 314 tons, with a speed of from 9 to 13 knots), has sunk the Turkish warship Mcssudieh ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following official communique was issued in Vienna yesterday:- We have defeated the left wing of the Russian forces in Galicia at ...
Article : 48 wordsArmenian refugees describe the position of the 20,000 Christians at Erzeroum us terrible. The Turks threaten to massacre them ...
Article : 118 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" has published a message based on private advices from Berlin, stating that the Kaiser's chest trouble has seriously effected the throat, ...
Article : 75 wordsYesterday a German submarine which was located 30 miles off the Dutch coast challenged the British steamer Colchester. 1,209 tons, belonging to the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe most important development on the eastern front has been to the north of Warsaw, where the Germans' attempt to push southward from the ...
Article : 409 wordsThe Sorvians' extreme left wing has forced the Austrian troops opposed to it back across the Drina into Bosnia. Along the rest of the line the Servians ...
Article : 56 wordsWhile the official reports confine themselves to a bare recital, given in a stereotyped form, of events at the front, the more detailed accounts given ...
Article : 480 wordsIt is officially stated in Petrograd that the battle-cruiser Gooben and another Turkish warship fired a few shots yesterday at the forts at Batoum, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe latest atrocity reported as being committed by the Germans is the shooting of a farmer and his son in the north of France because they protested ...
Article : 90 wordsThe German vessel Delia, from Antwerp, has been seized in Dutch territorial waters, and detained at Rotterdam, on the ground that she was ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is reported in Amsterdam that the British troops are continually gaining ground to the northward of Passchendaele, and are thus imperilling the ...
Article : 74 wordsWhile the abandonment of Belgrade by the Servians was mainly a result of their change of front, and the need for shortening the line they had to held, ...
Article : 53 wordsAdvices received in New York from Buenos Ayres state that 30,000 tons of German shipping is held up there, fearing capture by the British fleet. ...
Article : 36 wordsCardinal Lucot, in response to a request from Cardinal Bourne, the Archbishop of Westminster, has appointed Sunday, January 3, as a day of prayer ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day received (he following cable message:- We who have been Naval ...
Article : 71 wordsIt is officially stated at Berlin that the Germans have repulsed a frental attack by the French in the Woevre district, midway between St. Mihiel ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Allies are now described as holding a zig-zag line in Flanders. The British warships dominate the coast from Ostend to Nieuport. From Nicuport the line ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 287 wordsIt is officially stated in Ottawa that in addition to the 33,000 men, including a regiment from Bermuda, despatched from Canada for active ...
Article : 106 wordsThe following message has been sent to the "Daily Telegraph" from Calais by its special correspondent:- "The Allies are pushing their ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that several cases of mutiny have recently occurred on Turkish warships, and that the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Italian Government is issuing in Janunry a loan of £40,000,000 at four per cent. ...
Article : 25 wordsRefugees from Syria report that the Germans are testing at Lake Tiberias, [?] Palestine, a bridge which it is intended to use for crossing the Suez ...
Article : 94 wordsThree women spies during the past month betrayed the French gunners at the centre battle line. They also robbed the dead on the battlefield, and ...
Article : 55 wordsBefore quitting Comines, on the border of France and Belgium, where they destroyed a bridge with dynamite, the Germans took prisoner 600 males ...
Article : 61 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" has sent the following message from Calais:- "During the past three days the ...
Article : 679 wordsThe annual report of Mr. Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the American Navy, recommends the building of two Dreadnoughts, six torpedo-boat ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Germans made a determined attack yesterday on Dickeburgh and the French defences it Saint Eloi (to the east of Ypres). ...
Article : 203 wordsReports are coming to hand of fierce fighting in southern Alsace, to the south of Thann. Yesterday eight hours of desperate hand-to-hand fighting took ...
Article : 593 wordsIt is reported here that the Turks have informed the Senussi and other North African peoples that the Holy War recently proclaimed by the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe following is an interesting e[?] tract from a letter received by Mr. and Mrs. Smart, of Harrington-street, Hobart, from their son, Ernest, who ...
Article : 519 wordsIt is reported here that a conspiracy against Marshal von der Goltz. the German officer who has been appointed to take charge of the organisation of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 15 Dec 1914, Page 5
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