The British Admirallty states that during the past week 1,326 steamers from oversea ports have arrived at or sailed from ports in the United ...
Article : 68 wordsThe news from the Russian front in to-day cablegrams is reassuring. The armies of our Allies both north and south of Warsaw are more than holding their own. It is ture that the Germans and Austrians claim a Victory near the Vistula at Ivangorod, but that is probably only a technical success, as the Russians were falling back there to their old defensive lines on the river. The forces of the enemy have been repulsed on the Bug, and one report says ...
Article : 569 wordsDetails of the exploits of British submarines in the Sea of Marmora show that four large lighters with ammunition have been blown to pieces, and the ...
Article : 111 wordsWith a view to proventing a recurrence of the shortage of ships experienced by the United States at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, Mr. ...
Article : 95 wordsA War Special Edition Will be published to-day (Saturday) at noon if sufficient news arrives in time. As usual, a Special Edition will ...
Article : 34 wordsThis is the 50th day of the battle of Gorizia. The Italians are now carring out a turning movement which is slowly but surely sweeping all before it. ...
Article : 379 wordsThe Turkish forces which threatened Basre[?] the principal Tuikish port of the Persian Gulf, have been entrenching at Sukhesseyukh and ...
Article : 148 wordsThe corespondent at Bucharest, the Roumanniant capital, of the "Petit Parisien," states that the German Minister there recently insisted on the ...
Article : 109 wordsThere was a warm debate in the House of Commons yesterday on the Limitation of Coal Prices Bill, owing to Mr. W. Runciman, the President of the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Press Bureau states that General Sir lan Hamilton reports that in the northern section of the Gallipoli Peninsula a raiding party rushed a ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Press Bureau states that owing to rumours of tribesmen being hostile in the vicinity of Bushire, Persis, Major Oliphant, and Captain Ranking, an ...
Article : 74 wordsGcneral Botha officially landed at Capetown to-day from his campaign against the Germuns m South-West Africa, and had a magnificent ...
Article : 302 wordsThe work of the Russian submarines in the Black Sea is having a marked effect on the situation at the Dardanelles. The Turkish coal supply is ...
Article : 92 wordsFull work was resumed to-day by the South Wales miners, of whom there were only a few absentees. ...
Article : 26 wordsYesterday the King visited the munition works at Birmingham, and also the hospital, and spent a considerable time in the ward where wounded Australians ...
Article : 329 wordsA week ago a meeting of financiers and business men, held in the City of London, recommended increased thrift and new taxation upon all classes of ...
Article : 353 wordsThe public are absorbed in the desperate struggle for Warsaw. The communiques show that the Russians are holding all the vital points on their ...
Article : 409 wordsThe struggle in North Poland is thus described in last night's communique:- There have been desperate engagements on the River Jessia, to the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe communique issued m Vi[?]nna today says:—"Our troops defending the Deberdo Platean (near Gerizia) have brilliantly repulsed all the Italian ...
Article : 168 wordsYesterday's Vienna communique says:—"The battle to the east of the Vistula, on the Vistula-Bug line, continues with undiminished stubbornness. ...
Article : 63 wordsThis morning British battleships could be seen bombarding the country on the southern horizon. The news spread that the Allies were attacking ...
Article : 365 wordsIn connection with the flotation on the American market of the Canadian loan of 40,000,000 dollars, the Dominion Government is financing heavily in New ...
Article : 74 wordsThe newspaper, the "Tribune," states that the Russians have defeated the Germans to the north of Krasnostaw, with a loss of 13,000 men. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:- There was violent, fighting on Tuesday night and Wednesday on the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin today says:—"Our troops advancing to the north-east of Shavli have made 4,150 prisoners, and captured five ...
Article : 138 wordsThe situation in Middle and South Poland is thus summed up in last night's communique:- To the west of the Vistula our ...
Article : 75 wordsThe first batch of the Australian and New Zealand troops who have quite recovered from their casualties departed yesterday from Weymouth on their ...
Article : 149 wordsSir R. L. Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, has returned to London after a two days' tour at the front, where he was the guest of ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is reported that five noble Polish ladies in Vienna were recently convicted of espionage, and hanged the next day. The julge who presided at the ...
Article : 59 wordsLast night's communique Says:- There has been calm on our ftont at the Dardanelles since July 13. ...
Article : 28 words"We brought down," says the Berlin communique, "a French biplane in Parroy Wood (near Nancy). Three German airmen, after an aerial fight over ...
Article : 49 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique refers as follows to the fighting in Middle and South Poland, west of the Vistula:- To the nest of Warsaw the Russians ...
Article : 169 wordsThe following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending today:- Coin, £58,460,000. ...
Article : 219 wordsGland Duke Nicholas, Commander-inChief of the Russian forces, in connection with the intercessory services which began on Tuesday ...
Article : 91 wordsTurkish atrocities against the Armenians baffle all description. The whole male population of the Bitlis region, to the west of Van, has been massacred. ...
Article : 172 wordsThe special correspondent of "The Times" in a message from Mitylene, says:— The Turco-german snipers are using ...
Article : 159 wordsOwing to the shortage of copper in Austria, the Government has given orders for all the church roofs to be shipped of this metal. ...
Article : 36 wordsTelegrams from Berlin show that the nattle for Warsaw is being followed with feverish anxiety in Gormnny, where the fear of a winter campaign ...
Article : 65 wordsThe British casualty lisle published to-day contain the names of 59 officers and 787 non-commissioned officers and men killed,and wounded at the front. ...
Article : 34 wordsSunday nest has been appointed a day of national prayer. Four thousand Territorials will assemble in Trafalgarsquare, and march in procession, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Paris "Matin" states that an anny order has been found on a German lieutenant in which the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria says: — ...
Article : 130 wordsM. Nadaud, the correspondent of the "Petit Journal." states that in numerous Polish villages the Germans have compelled farmers to watch their ...
Article : 97 wordsLast night's communique says:- The battle between the Vistula and the Bug has again become of a very desperate character, and villages ...
Article : 91 wordsThe communique issued in Vienna yesterday says: —"On Wednesday the Germans broke the main Russian position to the west and south of Ivangorod ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Turkish legation here denies the reports that the Greeks have been perseeuted in Turkey. Some of the villagers on the shares of the Sea of ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Paris "Matin" publishes the striking statement that since the war started in Europe the total number of men killed has reached 5,000,000, and ...
Article : 37 wordsProfessor Patrick Geddes, of University College, Dundee, in an address [?] King's College, London, yesterday, on "Progress Through the War," stated ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 24 Jul 1915, Page 5
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