"A Constantinople official report states:—"Our artillery on Tuesday destroyed a bomb-thrower's position near Ari Burnu. An enemy cruiser ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Russians have evacuated Warsaw, and there is great rejoicing in Germany. The reports issued in Berlin and Vienna indicated that there were desperate rearguard actions in the city, but the reports from Petrograd state definitely that the retirement was made without molestation from the enemy. Warsaw is a big city on the western side of the Vistula, and of no great military value, in view of the fact that Russian Poland is a wedge ...
Article : 440 wordsThe Italians have bombarded the railway running along the Val Sugana from Borgo (20 miles east of Trent) to Levico (10 miles by south of Trent). ...
Article : 116 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:- The enemy continuously and violently bombarded our treuches at ...
Article : 148 wordsThe situation in the Narew front is thus described in last nights communique:- The Germans have assumed the ...
Article : 216 wordsThere are some protests against the delay in the publication of General Sir Ian Hamilton's despatch, which is dated June 12. It is pointed out that ...
Article : 67 wordsYesterday's Vienna communiqye says: —"The Italians made an attack on our positions on Monte Croce (at the western end of the Carnic Alps, 75 miles ...
Article : 120 wordsIt is officially announced in Paris that a French battleship and two cruisers, accompanied by two torpedo-boat destroyers, mine-sweepers, and an ...
Article : 236 wordsIn the Vosges, at bandesapt, the French last month captured very powerful defensive works extending between the Fontenello height and the ...
Article : 351 wordsThe following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending to-day:- Coin, £61,208,000. ...
Article : 213 wordsThe bombardment of Gorizia, continues, and the Austrians have virtually abandoned the town, which they are ready to blow up the moment the ...
Article : 65 wordsFighting continues along the River Missa, 10 miles to the south of Riga. The ArchBishop of Riga and the clergy have left the town. ...
Article : 141 wordsLast night's communique says:- We repulsed the German attac[?]s to the south of the road from Bl[?]n'[?] (15 miles-west of Warsaw) to ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following official statement was issued at midnight last night:- Our forces have evacuated Warsaw, crossed to the east bank of the ...
Article : 108 wordsLast night's communique says:- We have captured an extensive system of the Austrian trenches on the Carso Plateau, which dominated ...
Article : 45 wordsWith General Von Mackenson advancing from the south, and heavy German forces making great efforts to smash down from the north along the ...
Article : 391 wordsAn officiai report at Constantinople says:—"We have heavily attacked the Russian rearguard in the Caucasus, in the neighbourhood of Hamnr, compelling ...
Article : 55 wordsThere was a curious illustration of the possibilities of modren warfare during the recent fighting at Pinseczn[?] 10 miles south of Warsaw. An ...
Article : 105 wordsWith a view to strengthening the gold reserve the British Treasury has instructed the post-offices and public departments making cash payments to ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is semi-officially announced in Nish, the provisional capital of Servia, that a Servian battery of artillery at Belgrade, directed by an aviator, ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is expected that the Germans will now make an attempt to carry out great cavalry raids upon the Warsaw-Petrograd railway in the region between ...
Article : 43 wordsThe prevailing bad weather has in creased the difficulties of the Allies in the North of France and Belgium. The frequent efforts which the Germans have ...
Article : 147 wordsThe "New York World" in June last published the "Revelations of I. T. T. Lincoln, former member of the British Parliament, who became a German ...
Article : 458 wordsDr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rocketeller Institute, and Mr. Henery Dakin, a chemist, have discovered an ideal antiseptic, consisting of hydrochloride of ...
Article : 127 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that the opinion is held in diplomatic circles that Germany will proclaim a new kingdom of Poland, under ...
Article : 175 wordsAccording to a despatch, received at New York from Berlin, the Bavarians, led hy Prince Leopold, took Warsaw, after a stubborn fight with the Russian ...
Article : 137 wordsThe city of Warsaw is the capital of Rucian Poland, and the third place, in point of size, in the Russian Empire. At the census of 1910 it had a population ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 790 wordsThe British steamer Costello was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine yesterday, and one of her crew drowned. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Minister of Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George) addressed 10,000 Welshmen at the Eisteddfod, at Bangor, yesterday. He said he had no anxiety regarding ...
Article : 179 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Lokal Anzeiger" has sont the following telegram from the Eastern front:- The Russians left Nadarschin (to the ...
Article : 102 wordsLast night's communique says:- We have withdrawn our troops back across the Vistula at Ivangorod without being molested. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe fall of Warsaw has caused great demonstrations and extraordinary [?]enes of enthusiasm throughout Germany. However, the official bulletins ...
Article : 222 wordsEyewitness of the recent fighting say it is a marvel that any human being can live in the hell which the German artillery is creating in Poland ...
Article : 163 wordsThe "Berliner Tagebaltt" has had an interview with Professor Israel, who recently successfully operated on the Sultan of Turkey. The professor says he ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Press Bureau issued to-day the resolutions passed by the Commonwealth Parliament to prosecute the war to a victorious issue, and also the ...
Article : 78 wordsAt Ivangorod the Russian forces have evacuated the left (western) bank of the Vistula, and have blown up the bridges. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 7 Aug 1915, Page 5
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