Yesterday two Turkish aeroplanes were brought down at Tenedos, 10 miles off the entrance to the Dardanelles, and several French aeroplanes threw ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) announced to-day that H.M.A.S. Encounter had captured the island trading steamer Elfriede in the ...
Article : 48 wordsA communique issued last night says: The desperate battle in the direction of Stryi, in Galicia, continues. LONDON, April 27. ...
Article : 194 wordsFurther details of the battle of Boosingle show that it was a very desperate affair after the fume attack had passed away. The exact positions held by the French, the Canadians, and the Belgians, however, are not clearly stated. The fighting front, however, was from St. Julien, north-east of Ypres, about live miles, through Langemarck to Bixschoote. The first account showed that the Canadians were at Bixshoote, and that the were forced across ...
Article : 440 wordsThe National Committee for the Relief of the Belgians is appealing for £500,000 a month to keep body and soul together among the utterly ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Press Bureau issues the following statement:- A British aviator has destroyed the railway junction at Courtrai. ...
Article : 36 wordsSince March 3 the Government has purchased over £1,000,000 worth of ment on behalf of the Home Government for the use of the Imperial troops. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe old scholars of the Hobart High School tendered a farewell social on Saturday evening to one of their number, Lionel Collings, who has been ...
Article : 135 wordsA telegram received in Amsterdam from Berlin states that the British auxiliary-cruiser Orama, of the Orient line, did not sink the German ...
Article : 105 wordsKing George has mangurated a national fund in Great Britian for the relief of the Belgians. His Majesty has contributed £500 to the fund. ...
Article : 33 wordsA communique issued to-day says:- We have captured a height southcast of Kosiova. in the Carpathians, and made prisoner of a thousand of ...
Article : 94 wordsLord Kitchener, the War Secretary, has forwarded a message to the employees of Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim, the armament manufacturers. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe training camp at Claremont is approached by a roadway, which has been heatly bordered with white stones by the men, and, after passing the guard tents, ...
Article : 433 wordsBy the courtesy of the Under-Secretary (Mr. D'Arey Addison), a member of "The Mercury" staff has had an opportunity of reading a copy of the ...
Article : 1,205 wordsThe skipper of a Danish vessel wihch has arrived at Esjberg (on the west coast of Denmark) reports having seen during the last two days thirty ...
Article : 46 wordsThe bombardment of the Dardanelles by the Anglo-French Fleet was vigorously resumed yesterday. Several large battleships are participating in ...
Article : 39 wordsA Canadian soldier, interviewed after the line was broken on the left in the fighting in Flanders, stated:- "We were sent to the northward of ...
Article : 851 wordsIt is officially announced at Capetown that the South African Union troops opeating against the enemy in German South-West Africa have occupied ...
Article : 58 wordsAccording to the "North German Gazette," the American and Spanish Ambassadors to Germany have visited the prisoners' camps there, and found ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following communique was issued last night:- The Allies have made marked progress north of Ypres, on the left of ...
Article : 102 wordsTho Admiralty and the War Office have issued the following joint communique regarding the operations against the Dardanelles:— ...
Article : 106 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" publishes what [?] apparently an officially inspired Note indicating that an agreement between Italy and the Triple Entente, by which ...
Article : 180 wordsAstounding revelations have been made in France as the result of an investigation into the working of certain war charities. It has been found that ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Debats," in referring to-day to the German use of poisonous gases, calls upon the Allied military authorities to discard all false ...
Article : 49 wordsThe buttle for Calais continues to rage fiercely. The Germans have brought up large reinforcements, and there are at least ...
Article : 148 wordsThe timber merchants of this city have shown in a very practical way their interest in the welfare of the soldiers at Claremont. Sharing the ...
Article : 174 wordsA Berlin communique says:- We still hold Lizerne, and we have captured 44 guns. We continue the attack north-west of Zonnebeke, and ...
Article : 45 words"The Times" says it welcomes the landing of General Sir Ian Hamilton's army at the Dardanelles. There should be conjoint action between the two ...
Article : 111 wordsThe whole of the press denounces Germany's resort to asphyxiating gases. Retaliation by the Allies is freely anticipated, though the necessity is ...
Article : 82 wordsA communique issued last night says: Our fleet has bombarded the forts of the Bosphorus, and great explosions were caused by our shells, which ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Dedeagatch correspondent of the Paris "Temps" states that King Ferdinand of Bulgeria has granted an amnesty to all officers sentenced after ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following are extracts from a letter sent to his parents in Hobart from Clifford Planche-Plummer, of No. 3 Company Field Engineers. Australian ...
Article : 784 wordsField-Marshal Sir John French reports as follows to the War Office:- The general situation to the northcast of Ypres is unchanged. Our left ...
Article : 192 wordsThere is an increasing, agitation against German professors in the Italian Universities. Professor Buonanici, in an address to ...
Article : 126 wordsA communique issued to-night is as follows:- The Cermans, after an extremely fierce bombardment, have succeeded ...
Article : 112 wordsA few days ago 10 German aeroplanes huried bombs on Bielostock, in North poland, and killed and wounded several civilians. Otherwise the damage done ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, in a speech at Bechstein-hall last night, said it was clear that the enemy's position now was far less strong, both morally and ...
Article : 142 wordsFollowing on the decision of the coal miners against a national strike, it was announced last week that the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) had conferred ...
Article : 143 wordsThe French Embassy states that the British have stopped two German attacks in the direction of Ypres debouching from Passchendaele and Brodsunder. ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the raid made yesterday by the allied airmen on Ghent and its neighbourhood, already referred to by Sir John French in his report to the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Prince of Wales's Patriotic Fund has now reached a total of £3,000,000. Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, and found [?] Jams, of course. ...
Article : 37 wordsThousands of messages have been despeatched to France from the Dominion congratulating the Canadians on their gall[?] stand. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 28 Apr 1915, Page 5
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