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Advertising : 33 wordsThe political situation in the Balkans is still obscure, but we may know more when the new Greek Ministry has met Parliament. It is clear, however, that the landing of the troops of the Allies at Salonika had been arranged with the Greek Government, and that the protest was a more formality. Probably the difference between the King and M. Venizelos lay in this—that the former was prepared to support Servia against Bulgaria only, ...
Article : 351 wordsFurther details are published to-day of the disaster which occurred last week at Brindisi, the chief seaport of Southern Italy, to the Italian battleship ...
Article : 185 wordsIt was recetly brought under the notice of the military authorities [?] Egypt by the Commonwealth Defence authorities, that reports ...
Article : 229 wordsGeneral Sir Ian Hamilton reports as follows:- During the past month the fighting at Suvla Bay has not been on a scale ...
Article : 83 wordsDuring the last three days the number of men entering the Claremont Camp has been as follows:—Tuesday, 38; Wednesday, 28; Thursday, 24. These figures ...
Article : 702 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Perry, a Free Church chaplain at the front, writes that every man was a hero in the battle of Loos on September 25. One officer had a ...
Article : 88 wordsThe German shipping trade in the Baltic has been practically suspended owing to the fear of attack by British and Russian submarines. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:- The Germans made four counter-attacks yesterday against the ...
Article : 54 wordsM. Thomson, the French Minister of Commerce and Industry, as a result of conferences with Mr. Lloyd George, the British Minister of Munitions, has ...
Article : 94 wordsWhen members of the Small Amrs Factory Employees' Association recently advocated the introduction of a third shift at the factory, the Minister of ...
Article : 80 wordsThe following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending to-day:- Coin, £61,067,000. ...
Article : 206 wordsAn official communique issued by the Bulgarian Government to-day states:- Bulgaria, replying to the Russian ultimatum and the Notes by the other ...
Article : 145 wordsThe obscurity of the general situation in the Balkans continues. There is no indication of King Constantine's intentions, though it is believed he will still ...
Article : 418 wordsThe Wesleyan Conference has granted to the Commonwealth the free use of the Westminster Training College for the military medical departments of the ...
Article : 48 wordsFierce fighting round Dvinsk and in the lake region south of Dvinsk and east of Vilna is recorded in last night's communique, which says: ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Federal Parliamentary War Committee have recommended that returned soldiers should not, until after they have received their discharge, be ...
Article : 45 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" has sent the following message from Paris about the recent fighting in Champagne: ...
Article : 833 wordsThe Trade Union Congress, the General Federation of Trade Unions, and the Labour Party, are elaborating an extensive plan of campaign to secure ...
Article : 114 wordsAt the meeting of the Campbell Town Municipal Council on Monday last, the Warden (Councillor David Taylor) stated that whenever practicable it was his ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Serbian Minister at Sofia has asked for his passports, and the Bulgarian Minister at Rome has been handed his passports. ...
Article : 32 wordsItalian military experts estimate the German losses for September at 400,000 men: 300,000 in Russia and 100,000 on the Western front. The Austrian losses ...
Article : 54 wordsSeveral Bulgarian officers, disguised as peasants, have been arrested in Roumania when making plans of the frontier fortifications. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe butter market is very firm, and the choicest sorts are scarce. Danish is advancing owing to the demand of the Gormans, who are paying 234s. per ...
Article : 112 wordsTo-day's, Berlin communique says:- "We have penetrated the Russian positions in front of Dvinsk along a front of five kilometres (over three miles). ...
Article : 90 wordsA cablegram received on Thursday by Mr. J. Bowen, H.M. Customs, Launceston, stated that his eldest son, Gunner Percy Bowen, 9th Battery, 1st ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Allied troops are still landing at Salonika, and are departing rapidly towards Serbia. The whole operation is merely an orderly transit through ...
Article : 273 wordsThe British steamer Arabia and the Dutch steamer Tekelstroom have been sunk by German submarines. Twenty people from each vessel are known to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe inquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Gunner Perry at the base hospital was continued by Mr. Cohen (Police Magistrate) in the City Police ...
Article : 378 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for September show that, as compared with the corresponding month of the previous year, imports increased by £25,286,312, ...
Article : 39 wordsPrivate K. Morton, of the 1st Infantry Brigade (N.S.W), under dato August 20, to his sister in Hobart, says: ...
Article : 319 wordsAnother batch of returned wounded and medically unfit soldiers reached Sydney to-day. Amongst them were 37 Queenslanders, who left during the ...
Article : 153 wordsNews has been received of an important Italian advance towards Rovereto (on the Adige, 13 miles south of Trent). The Italiana have been ...
Article : 138 wordsEnormous dealings in stocks and shares, exceeding 11,500,000 dollars daily, are taking place on Wallstreet. The New York banks and ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Paris "Journal" states that the Allies landed at Salonika just in time to prevent the Greek and Serbian railways being held up, for orders had been ...
Article : 123 wordsThe following is the constitution of the new Greek Ministry:- Premier and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.—M. Alexander Zaimis. ...
Article : 116 wordsAdvices received in Athens from Durazzo, the capital of Albania, state that Essad Pasha, who is the nominal ruler, has shot 30 of the inhabitants who were ...
Article : 65 wordsKing Emmanuel, who was visiting the Isonzo front, left his motor-car to witness a fight at close quarters on horse-back, though he had been warned of ...
Article : 131 wordsThe recent heavy gales have seriously damaged the breakwater at Macquarie Heads, and it is estimated that it will cost between £700 and £800 to again ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Germans claim that they have crossed the Drina, the Save, and the Danube at many points, but a Serbian communique says that the enemy ...
Article : 122 wordsThe immediate objective of the French offensive in Champagne is the cross-line of railway which runs from Bethenville, on the Suippe, through Somme-Py to Monthois, and on to Vouziers and forms the line of supply for the German forces on this part of the front. On the Suippe the Germans still hold Auberive, but the French have driven them out of Souain, Perthes, and Massiges, and have, by their latest advance, captured the little village of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 231 wordsA Berlin report states that two Russian cruisers are bombarding Varna, the Bulgarian portion on the Black Sea. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 9 Oct 1915, Page 5
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