Reuter's special correspondent at the Dardanelles gives the following account of the recent fighting at the Dardanelles:— ...
Article : 547 wordsThe Germans are still pressing eastward upon the heels of the Russians, who are falling back deliberately. The Grand-Duke Nicholas is determined notto give battle until an equality in guns and munitions gives him a chance of victory. He appears to be retiring everywhere from the Bug River, and right down his line to the Dniester River. The critics are now wondering how far the Germans will follow. Will they, like Napoleon, go to Moscow, or will they ...
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Article : 44 wordsThe severity shown by the Germans to the inhabitants of the Government of Warsaw has roused the peasants to revolt, and there have been several ...
Article : 55 wordsThere is a slope just over the reverse side of the cliffs at Helles on which you may sit with a telescope, and watch almost any fight that has occurred at ...
Article : 2,213 wordsThe Italians have captured several trenches on Monte Rombon (28 miles north-east of Udine). This is the prelude to an advance on the Austrian ...
Article : 49 wordsA reconnaissance made by aviators over the Orsova region shows that the concentration of Austro-German forces is not yet adequate for carrying out ...
Article : 59 wordsThis afternoon's communique gives the following details of aerial operations:- Our aeroplanes bombarded two ...
Article : 120 wordsSignor Pisani, the newspaper "Stampa's" correspondent with the Russian armies, gives the following graphic narrative of the Russians' ...
Article : 705 wordsMr. J. L. Garvin, writing in the "Observer," comments as follows on the situation on the eastern front:- "Vilna, with the railways and roads ...
Article : 306 wordsThe King has sent a message of sympathy to the mother of Captain G. Mapplebeck, a British aviator, who was killed at Dartford, in Kent, on Tuesday, ...
Article : 231 wordsThe taking of Ossowice, the fortress on the Bobra River, which the Germans have been attacking, off and on for months past, was a costly business for ...
Article : 117 wordsThe German trenches in the districts of Nieuport, Hetsas (six miles north of Ypres), and to the northward of Arras, east of the road from Lille to Arras, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe following communique was issued in Constantinople today:—"The enemy are keeping up a strong artillery fire at Anafarta, Ari Burnu, and Sedd-el-Bahr, ...
Article : 136 wordsLast night's communique says:- On the left bank of the Dwina the Germans are making a vigorous offensive movement in the region of ...
Article : 128 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:- "Our advance continues in the district of th Middle Niemen, where we have forced the passage of the Niemen at ...
Article : 251 wordsThe newspaper "Le Petit Parisien" states that in the recent attack on the French positions near Souchez one German brigade lost three-quarters of ...
Article : 35 wordsFour German aeroplanes made an attempt to attack Paris this (Saturday) morning. When they were near Compiegne (45 miles from Paris) French ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Gaulois" states that a Greek Legion, which included many Cretans, besides Greek volunteers from France, co-operated in the Suvla ...
Article : 71 wordsA British army order of the day mentions Renee Robin, a French Territorial's 16-year-old daughter, for giving the British a plan of the positions at ...
Article : 55 wordsLast night's communique says:- Our artillery has made some effective hits in its practice against the Austrian encampments in the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe people of Constantinople are becoming irritated at the sight of thousands of wounded in arriving from the Dardanelles day and night. Many ...
Article : 91 wordsIt is candidly admitted by the authorities that the Russians are not attempting to defen Brest-Litovski and Grodno. They are retiring, without the ...
Article : 149 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:- "General Von Hindenburg continues the fighting near Banske (on the River Aa, 40 miles south of Riga). He has ...
Article : 131 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:- "To the eastward of Brest-Litovski the Russians aie in full retreat on both sides of the railway to Minsk ...
Article : 195 wordsThe following extract from a letter written from the front by Corporal McLarty, of the 85th Battery, and late of the A.M.P. Society, indicates ...
Article : 432 wordsReuter's correspondent at Paris states that the Government has ordered the French aviator Gilbert, whose machine alighted in Switzerland, and who ...
Article : 40 wordsA proclamation has been issued calling up the untrained reservists of the first militia category between the ages of 19 and 37. These, with the men of ...
Article : 55 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," in a message from Petrograd, says:- "It is not likely that the Russians will ...
Article : 101 wordsM. Sazanoff, the Russian Foreign Minister, in confirming the great assistance given to Russia by the British fleet, states categorically that never at ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Opposition groups in the Bulgarian Parliament have issued a collective note condemning the Cabinet for not convoking Parliament in order to assure ...
Article : 217 wordsLast night's communique says:- On the western border of the Trentino new operations are going on inthe rugged Adamello Range ...
Article : 183 wordsLast night's communique says:- Our forces continue to retreat along the line between the sources of the Bobra (a few miles to the ...
Article : 276 wordsThe general staff states that the Berlin report that Brest-Litovski fell after assault is not correct. It had previously been decided that it was ...
Article : 97 wordsThe failure of the German [?] in the battle of the Gulf of Riga has necessitated a readjustment of the enemy's plans. All General von Bulow's infantry has been ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 30 Aug 1915, Page 5
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