Under the Defence of the Realm Act the police to-day raided the offices of the Socialist newspaper, "Labour Leader," the official organ of the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe following comuunique regarding the naval operations in the Adriatic was issued to-day:- Yesterday morning 20 Austrian ...
Article : 107 wordsThe joybells appear to have been again rung at Berlin rather promaturoly. It has been announced that Kovno has fallen, but the Russian reports show that the enemy has not yet sot foot in the city. At Kovno the Niemen River turns due west, while the tributaries Swarta and Vilia, flowing from the north, empty into the Niemen near the angle. The Germans have captured some forts west of the Niemen, opposite Kovno, but the Russians still hold the ...
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Article : 126 wordsThe revleations made in America concerning German intrigues have created a sensation in Berlin. The German Foreign Office organs do not deny the ...
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Article : 86 wordsMany American newspapers denounce the German propagandists as guilty of sedition. The "Philadelphia Inquirer" urges ...
Article : 245 wordsA soldier named Hall was committed for trial at Manchester to-day for impersonating Sergeant Dandy, who is fighting at the Dardanelles. The ...
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Article : 91 wordsThe Press Bureau states that General Sir Jan Hamilton reports that on the nights of Saturday and Sunday the Australian and New Zealand corps at ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe knowledge that the British Government is about to adjust the American exchange problem has caused the rate to rally to four dollars 70 cents. ...
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Article : 244 wordsA Turkish communique states:—"On the bank of the Anafarta (near Suvla Bay) on Tuesday, we repulsed an attack, and also took prisoners. Near ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. R. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has invited the Agents-General of the Commonwealth States to meet him to-morrow (Thursday) in ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following the sixty-sixth, list casualties amongst the Commonwealth troops at the Dardanelles, was released yesterday. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:- Our bombardment of the German position in the region of ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Norwegian steamers Mineral and Romulus, of 1,525 and 830 tons respectively, the British steamer Bonny, 2,702 tons, and the Spanish steamer ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Egyptian Post Office delivers mails with the atmost promptitude to the Australian base post office at Alexandria, where they are sorted for the ...
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Article : 71 wordsThe railways in German South-West Africa are undergoing reconstruction to bring the gauge into harmony with that of the Union. The change of ...
Article : 90 wordsThe crew of a German trawler which has arrived at Esjeberg, in Denmark, report having met a British squadron in the North Sea. The German skipper ...
Article : 89 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— "The Russians are offering a fresh and strong resistance to the army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria in the Ramionka ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Amsterdam newspaper "Handelsblad" states that the Mittel-Rhenische Bank, belonging to the Disconto Gesellschaft group of German banks, has gone ...
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Article : 91 wordsIt is officially stated that the coalowners and miners of South Wales have met in a joint conference on several occasions since July 20, when a ...
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Article : 237 wordsThe American people are showing considerable irritation at the revolutions of German duplicity made by the "New York World" and other American ...
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Article : 81 wordsTelegrams received from Innsburck, the capital of the Austrian Tyrol, state that in Courland the Russians continue to drive back the Germans, who have ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following communique regarding the Russian operations in Turkish Armenia was issued to-day:- Following on our reoccupation of ...
Article : 301 wordsHogarth A. F. (Toowoomba, Q.),.6/8/l5 NEW SOUTH WALES. Saddler Beplate, E. H. (Yass, N.S.W.) 4/8/15. ...
Article : 50 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a letter to the Army Commission, has announced that Germany has desisted from her reprisal ...
Article : 214 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that Kovno, where desperate fighting has been taking place for some days past, has been captured by the Germans ...
Article : 183 wordsThe new town of Kovno lies on the right (eastern) bank of the Niemen River, while the old town is on the left or southern bank of the Vilia River. a tributary of the Niemen. The forts captured by the Germans are to the south of the Niemen, where it turns west. They have reached the left bank ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 51 wordsThe following report has been received from Sir John French:- There have been no incidents of importance since my communique of ...
Article : 111 wordsThe fighting in the region of the Ampezzo Alps, on the eastern frontier of the Tyrol, is thus referred to in last night's communique:- ...
Article : 62 wordsNaylor, I. C. (Penguin, Tas.), disembarked at Malta. Lance-Corporal Klaffer, C. C. (1st Reinforcements. (Freeling, S.A.), in 2nd A.G. ...
Article : 512 wordsThe Governor of Vilna, a city at the junction of the Petrograd-Warsaw and Libau-Odessa railways, as a precaution against the occupation ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. C. F. G. McCann, the South Australian Trade Commissioner, is on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, inspecting all tinned meat ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 20 Aug 1915, Page 5
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