Four hundred and twenty-three cases of spotted typhus fever occurred in the first Week of February, principally in the Austrian province of Styria. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe British flying men have just carried out the most remarkable military raid the world has known. Thirtyfour aeroplanes and seaplanes under Flight Commander Sampson look part and they must have presented an extradinary spectacle as they must man[?]uvred in the skies like men of war. It is said that the attack continued for twenty-four hours, so that they must have returned occasionally to depots for rest and refreshment and supplies of ...
Article : 374 wordsWhile the British have earned aerial warfare into the enemy's camp in Belgium with great vigour, there is a great dearth of news regarding any ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Ismailia correspondent of "The Times" referring to the recent Turkish attempt to cross the Suez canal, states that when the night fighting at ...
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Advertising : 15 wordsNewspapers in Rome complain that German agents in Lybia, the Italian North African possession, are professedly raising recruits, and that some native ...
Article : 62 wordsThe German legatton in Holland states that Great Britain declares that all British ports are war ports, and has attempted to justify the use of ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Supreme Court has reseived decision in the application made for a writ of habeas corpus in connection with the case of F.E.N Gaudin, a ...
Article : 68 wordsSir Thomas Watt, the Minister of Public Works in General Botha's Government interviewed at Pietermaritzburg yesterday, said the South African ...
Article : 116 wordsThe German Naval Stall has invited a number of American, Italian, and Austrian journalists to go with the German submarines in order to witness ...
Article : 60 wordsRecruiting at the Claremont camp has been going on very satisfactorily during the past week, an average of fifteen men per day having been maintained. The ...
Article : 84 wordsA detachment of British troops recently landed near Tor, on the east coast of the Gulf of Suez, crossed the hills, and surprised and annihilated a ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that German East Africa is completely free of the enemy while parties of German troops are stationed on British territory ...
Article : 53 wordsThe German Ambassador (Count Von Bernstoff) has opened negotiations with the United States Government about the German proclamalion of a blockade ...
Article : 83 wordsAt the Crescent Hotel on Friday evening several members and supporters of the North Hobart Football Club assembled for the purpose of saying ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, February 13. The official "Eye-witness" at the British headquarters gives the following more detailed account of the ...
Article : 213 wordsA very important statement with regard to the future of Turkey in Europe has been made by Professor Millinkoff, the leader of the Russian Liberal party. ...
Article : 72 wordsIt is officially stated in Petrograd that the Germans have sent four fresh army corps to East Prussia, where they are making a, great effort to drive the ...
Article : 586 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that 34 aeroplanes yesterday attacked Bru[?]s, Zeebrugge, and Ostend, with a new to destroying the enemy's ...
Article : 259 wordsEnglish newspapers compare the moderate tone of President Wilson's advice to Great Britain in regard to using the neutral flag with his stern ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Bank of England is issuing £10,000,000 worth of one year Russian 5 per cent. Treasury bills at 95. The first dealings in German Imperial ...
Article : 109 wordsSome uneasiness has been caused by telegrams from Peking, which represent Japan as making far-reaching demands on China. It is officially ...
Article : 132 wordsThe following official statement regarding the position in East Prussia was issued this afternoon:— Four fresh German army corps ...
Article : 87 wordsThe "Deutsche Montags Leitung," a weekly journal published in Berlin, states that the German block ide in British waters can only be effective if it costs ...
Article : 90 wordsAdvices received in Paris from Rome state that the Italian forces mobilised by the 1st of next month will exceed 1,000,000 men, and two new ...
Article : 104 wordsReports from Belgium state that the German military authorities are taking strong measures to prevent Belgians liable to military service from leaving ...
Article : 84 wordsM. P. Bark, the Russian Minister of Finance, interviewed in Paris yesterday, stated that after the war had terminated the bulk of the Russians' trade ...
Article : 59 wordsA German communique issued to-day claims that within a period which is not specified the Germans have taken 2,600 Russian prisoners, and captured ...
Article : 78 wordsFurther details have been received at San Francisco from Honolulu of the widespread devastation caused at the Manuua Islands, the American ...
Article : 93 wordsAMSTERDAM, February 12. The Kaiser to-day returned to Berlin from the Eastern front. ...
Article : 23 wordsGeneral Von Eychorn is in command of the German forces operating in East Prussia. It ris stated that the Kaiser and General Von Hindenburg (who is ...
Article : 66 wordsAdmiral Sir John Jellicoe, the commander-in-chief of the British fleet, has been promoted to the Grand Crobs of the Bath for war services. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe bombs of the British aviators completely destroyed the railway goods yard at Ostend. ...
Article : 23 wordsYesterday the French Chamber of Deputies, by 481 votes to 52, adopted a bill suppressing perpetually the sale of absinthe. ...
Article : 30 wordsA communique issued in Berlin today states that hostile an raids along the Belgian coast have done deplorable damage to civilians and their property, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe most important system of fortresses on the western borders of Russia is the Polish quadrilateral," consisting of Warsaw, Ivangorod, and Novo-Georgievsk ...
Article : 235 wordsThe German Socialist newspaper "Vorwaerts" protests against certain schoolmasters compelling children to learn the Hymn of Hate. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe British and Foreign Sailors' Society essay competition prizes have been awarded to William Ward, of Wanganui, John Brady, of Southbridge, ...
Article : 88 wordsYesterday five French airmen bombarded and damaged the aerodrome at Halsheim, near Mulhausen, in alsace, and killed the keeper of the place. ...
Article : 32 wordsA Swiss who was recently for 25 days, in Germany says that complete confidence reigns in Prussia as to the result of the war. There is, howevel, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe comnunique issued at midnight last nightstates that the German aeroplanes dopped bombs yesterday on the French positions in the region ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is officially reported from [?] grad that the recent repulse of the German attacks in Poland seems to have been complete, and that the losses ...
Article : 216 wordsM. Gabriel Hanotoux, a former Foreign Minister in France, writes that he has received information from Berlin that the members of the German ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is stated that the phrase-book [?]ound [?] the knapsacks of wounded [?]erman who have been made prisoners shows that if England is invaded ...
Article : 65 wordsA disastrous avalanche occurred yesterday near Mesce, in the maritime Alps of Italy, and buried a hut which was full of workmen. Fiftean bodies ...
Article : 42 wordsThe London "Sportsman" states today that owing to the war there will be no horseracing in France this season. ...
Article : 34 wordsMost of the aeroplanes taking part in the attack on the German positions on the Belgian coast new from England. Their operations extended all along that part of the Belgian coast now in the hands of the Germans. Bombs were dropped on the gun positions, and power station at Middlekerke, while the railwaystation at Ostend was destroyed, and that at Blankenberghe was damaged. Zeebrugge, which the Germans have been trying to make into a base for submarines, was also ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 15 Feb 1915, Page 5
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