General Joffre recently visited the Italian front, and now we have a statement that the Italian Cabinet has considered, among other war questions, whether Italy shall take a larger share in the war. Hitherto Italy has contented herself with making her frontiers secure by seizing all the valuable military positions not already in her hands. She has gone about that work methodically. Now, apparently, Italy is to take part in the great ...
Article : 350 wordsAn adjutant of a line battalion who is now a prisoner in a town in Asia Minor, writes:- "We are living in one of the best ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Press Bureau publishes the following communique, issued in Paris to-day:- There was an uninterrupted ...
Article : 91 wordsM. Lanessen, an ex-Minister of Marine, in the course of an article in the newspaper "Le Petit Parisien," says: ...
Article : 87 wordsLast night's communique says:- By means of a spirited bayonet attack one of our detachments seized a portion of the trenches on the Santa ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Department of State is investigating the cases against Von Papen, the German military attache, and Von Nuber, the Austrian Consul-General. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe steamer Mora (3,047 tons), belonging to the English and American Shipping Company, of London, has been torpedoed by a submarine in the Bay of ...
Article : 127 wordsThe newspaper "Corriere Della Sera" states that seven German officers have arrived at Constantinople, who had been wounded by Turkish soldiers who had ...
Article : 66 wordsLast night's communique says:- In Champagne, along the canal joining the Aisne and the Marne, the Germans last night made two ...
Article : 50 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:- "A hostile torpedo-boat has torpedoed in the Adriatic one of our torpedo-boats. Our vessel reached port, but with ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Providence Journal" states that Mr. James F. J. Archibald, the American citizen inferred to in the American Note as the secret bearer of official ...
Article : 156 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:- We crushed an attempted German attack in the Argonne, near Saint Hubert, to-day. ...
Article : 89 wordsTewfik Bey and another Moslem deputy have been arrested on suspicion of their being concerned in the murder of Mehoud Pasha, a prominent ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Cabinet has considered several questions connected with the war, including that of the control and administration of 103 townships taken ...
Article : 212 wordsTen Distinguished Service Orders have been awarded as follows:- Commander Cecil P. Talbot, for submarining a destroyer on the German ...
Article : 471 wordsColonel (Rev.) Joseph Snell, an Australian chaplain, has spent several days in Manchester, visiting hospitals where the Australian wounded are being ...
Article : 133 wordsThis afternoon's communique thus describes the lighting in Alsace:- The Germans attacked our positions at Lingekopf and Barrenkopf, ...
Article : 108 wordsReuter's correspondent sends the following message from Petrograd:- "There are now, it is estimated, 2,500,000 Austrians and Germans on ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Vienna newspapers are indignant with President Wilson for demanding Dr. Dumba's recall, and comment angrily on America's policy towards the ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the French papers, in commenting on the battles of Trembowla and Tarnopol, point out with enthusiasm the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe following official statement has been issued in Berlin to-day:—"Our naval airships have successfully dropped bombs on the Russian forts ...
Article : 45 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:- Our aeroplanes have dropped bombs on the mines and batteries in the wood of Nonnenbruck, and on ...
Article : 99 wordsIn regard to the question of compensating owners of property damaged by "hostile bombardments, which conflict with the principles of humanity," the ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the reopening of the Chamber of Deputies next week, Deputy Masse is to introduce a bill enabling France to place in the field in the spring a ...
Article : 87 wordsA conference has been opened between the Ministers and representatives of the Progressive "block" in the Duma. The "block" has put forward ...
Article : 105 wordsLast nights communique says:- Large German forces, supported by strong artillery, have developed a series of attacks cast and south ...
Article : 403 wordsGermany has refused to apologise to America for the sinking of the Arabic, contending that the commander of the submarine which torpedoed her acted ...
Article : 217 wordsMr. T. G. Grahame, the British Consul-General at Ispahan, in Persia, who was wounded in the recent outrage attributed to German bribery of ...
Article : 63 wordsBritish torpedo-boat destroyers and allied aeroplanes bombarded the Turkish camps at Aivali (at the head of the Gulf of Adramyti behind the island of ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is officially stated that the Russians had continued successes on the lower Sereth on Thursday,, in the Tremhowla and Czortkow sectors of the ...
Article : 300 wordsA message from Amsterdam states that the German Chancellor (Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg) is being asked to publish a decree authorising the use of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe semi-official Bulgarian journal "Dnevnik" confirms the statement that the Turco-Bulgarian treaty was signed on Monday, and says it is to take effect ...
Article : 100 wordsReports from Brussels state that the destruction of the Zeppelin, which as already reported, fell and exploded near the city, killing all the crew, was ...
Article : 110 wordsReports from Serbia state that the Austrians do not dare to attack Belgrade. Rear-Admiral Troubridge and a party of British bluejackets from the ...
Article : 103 wordsA Turkish official communique says: —"The artillery at Anafarta on Wednesday caused explosions in enemy positions southward of Azmak-Dcre. The ...
Article : 53 wordsThe New York correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says it is believed that Dr. Wilson will convence a special meeting of Congress, with a view to ...
Article : 299 wordsA Note with regard to the conduct of the Austrian Ambassador to the United States (Dr. Dumba) was forwarded to the Amercian Ambassador at ...
Article : 308 wordsSix German aeroplane's dropped 30 bombs indiscriminately on Nancy today. Material damage was done, and two persons were killed and ten ...
Article : 56 wordsTo-day's communique refers as follows to the operations in Turkish Armenia:- Favoured by mist, considerable ...
Article : 50 wordsReports filtering through from Constantinople indicate that there is a great shortage of munitions in Turkey. It is said that the Germans ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is officially stated in connection with the Zeppelin raid on Tuesday that the bodies of three people who were missing have been found. Four of those who ...
Article : 63 wordsThe special correspondent of "Le Temps," in a message from Dedeagatch, states that the majority of the heavy Turkish cannon at Adrianople ...
Article : 43 wordsAustria has closed the Swiss and Roumanian frontiers, and troops now guard the crossings. The action is attributed to the secret movements of troops. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Bulgarian Prime Minister (Dr. Radoslavoff), after listening to a deputation from the Armenian colony in Bulgaria, which called his attention to ...
Article : 90 wordsLast night's communique says:- Our troops are advancing along the left bank of the Dwina, fighting as they go. ...
Article : 125 wordsThis afternoon's commuhiquo says:- German aeroplanes to-day dropped bombs on Corapiegne. They aimed particularly at the hospitals, but there ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Morning Post" publishes an extract, dated August 9, from the diary of an Army Service officer at the Dardanelles. He says: ...
Article : 117 wordsIt is stated that the Germans who were guarding prisoners of war in a camp near the Rhine used to take their clothes away at night in order to ...
Article : 91 wordsA German aeroplane which was adorned with 16 iron crosses was forced to descend yesterday at Calais, owing to its petrol tank being pierced with ...
Article : 50 wordsA fire at the railway station at Hamburg has destroyed thousands of tons of corn. Keep smiling, in other words, use ...
Article : 37 wordsThis morning's newspapers are unanimous in the opinion that Germany's excuse for the torpedoing of the Arabic is too flimsy to be ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Russians are pushing their offensive to the west of the Upper Sereth, and have reached the railway from Lemberg, to Dubuo, along which the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 13 Sep 1915, Page 5
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