The prayer for peace, of which the use was enjoined by the Pope, was offered up yesterday at the Catholic Cathedral in Westminster and in all ...
Article : 76 wordsYesterday four torpedo-boat destroyers of the Allies [?]ombarded the Turkish forts at Karatepe, at the approach of the Dardanelles. One hundred and ...
Article : 58 wordsIn respect of the communication from the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) to the War Office, offering a new contingent of 10,000 soldiers from ...
Article : 385 wordsThe most important news to-day comes from the Eastern front. The Russians are now said to be across the Bzura River, as well as its tributary the Rawka and have stormed and carried the base of the enemy in that district. There have been battles also in the passes of the Carpathians, in which the Germans and Austrians were thrown back in disorder. In one of these mountain battles the Austrians lost ten thousand men, made prisoner, and ...
Article : 351 wordsYesterday a British aeroplane flew over the German submarine base at Zeebrugge, and defying a concentrated fire from the Germans suddenly dived ...
Article : 52 wordsAddressing a meeting of railwaymen at leicester, Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Labour member for Derby, said that the negotiations for increased wages ...
Article : 68 wordsA German non-commissioned officer who was among the prisonoers taken near Arras states that he witnessed during August the massacre of 20 wounded ...
Article : 45 words"Engineering" says:—The reports as to the performance of the aircraft, and more particularly the aeroplanes, of the difierent belligerent armies are at present very ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 799 wordsIt was brought to-day under the notice of the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) that the manner in which the hearing of the applications to void ...
Article : 164 wordsIn the course of a speech delivered in London last night, Mr. G. N. Barnes, the Labour member for the Blackfriars division of Glasgow, stated that ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Turkish officers taken prisoner at Toussoun, on the Suez Canal, state that their division was subdivided at Katabel Kheil, ...
Article : 166 wordsFollowing on the report received on Saturday that there had been further heavy fighting near La Bassee, it is now officially stated that the British have ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Russian cavalry continues to ha[?]y the German forces operating in North Poland, and has been making night attacks on them with success at ...
Article : 308 wordsSir Ernest Shackleton, who is leading another expedition to the Antarctic, writing from South Georgia under date November 13, states that, owing to bad ...
Article : 242 wordsMr. G. N. Barnes, the Labour member for the Blackfriars division of Glasgow, addressing a meeting in London last night, said that what the ...
Article : 78 wordsIt was reported by the Defence Department to-day that Private W[?] Raymond Law, of H Company. 2nd battalion, had died at Mena Hospital on ...
Article : 50 wordsNew Zealand is already well represented at the front in many of the branches of the Empire's vast fighting machine, and in the course of a few ...
Article : 245 wordsMany Anatolians in the Turkish army are deserting to the British. Some of the deserters say they saw German and Turkish officers shooting runaways. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe British Foreign Office has issued a statement declaring that, with certain limitations, the use of a neutral flag as a stratagem of war is a ...
Article : 119 wordsThe South Wales Miners' Federation will give three months' notice from April 1 next to terminate the present wages agreement, the action being ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Franco-Belgian forces operating to the north of Lombartzyde have forced a passage between the western end of the great dune and the sea, and are ...
Article : 61 wordsInvestigations is to the price now charged for bread were commenced by the Price of Foods Board to-day when evidence was taken from members of ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Turks at Hodeidah in Arabia, have handed over the British Consul who took refuge in the Italian Consulate there, and was forcibly removed, ...
Article : 45 wordsAt an enthusiastic recruiting meeting at Port Chalmers on January 27, the Minister of Defence (Hon. Jas. Allen), i[?] referring to the fact that New ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the newspaper "Messaggero" states that it was a titanic conflict between the Vistula and the Rawka last week. The ...
Article : 72 wordsThe German newspapers are astounded at neutral countries condemning the threatened blockade of the British coasts. Telegrams received in ...
Article : 65 wordsA statement which has been received in New York says it is rumoured in Berlin that the Kaiser, after a visit to the western frontier, ordered his army ...
Article : 79 wordsAll German municipalities have been empowered to commandeer all private supplies of grain and flour exceeding 35 kilogrammes (about half a ...
Article : 32 wordsThe military camps of the Australian Imperial Force are pitched at Mena and Mahardi, within a short distance of Cairo, the capital. This article concerns ...
Article : 1,252 wordsThe "New York Sun" states to-day that, while it is of the greatest importance that America should hold aloof from the war, it will be her duty to ...
Article : 65 wordsAfter they had crossed the Bzura the Russians occupied a strong position close to the Germans' advanced base, and an attack on the latter was decided ...
Article : 94 wordsIn connection with the statement made that Great Britain, France, and Russia are arranging to take over in equal portions the advances made or ...
Article : 158 wordsThe German Government declares that it is quite ready to entrust the management of the importation of food to American organisations. ...
Article : 32 wordsAn order was issued by the State Executive Council to-day formally proroguing Parliament from Tuesday February 9, to March 9. It is understood ...
Article : 141 wordsThe New South Wales loan of £2,000,000 at 4½ per cent., which was issued, at 99½, and is repayable in March, 1920, has been over-subscribed. ...
Article : 217 wordsIn pursuance of a wireless message received from the British Admiralty, the Cunard liner Lusitania. 27,000 tons, on nearing the coast of Ireland, hoisted ...
Article : 44 wordsThe King of Bavaria, in an interview with a representative of "Wildman's Magazine," a New York journal, said the war has been forced upon Germany; ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) announced to-day that information had been received that a Sydney merchant named Josef Forhain, aged ...
Article : 44 wordsFresh disorders have broken out at Prague, the capital of Bohemia. The inhabitants are irritated over the arrest of a number of Czech students and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe German armoured cruiser Breslau (4.478 tous, twelve 4.1-inch guns) yesterday exchanged shots with the fortress of Batoum, the Russian port in ...
Article : 35 wordsWhy be beaten by Asthma when you can beat it? We know that you are always liable to an attack, and strongly urge you to an attack, and strongly ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 9 Feb 1915, Page 5
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