The success of the operations of the British submarines in the Baltic is overshadowing even the situation in the Balkans. ...
Article : 202 wordsSir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, made his promised speech in the House of Commons to-day on the situation in the Balkans. He was loudly ...
Article : 664 wordsThe development in the Balkans has startled the politician critics, and they are clamouring for withdrawal from Gallipoli Peninsula. The military leaders, on the other hand, foresaw and provided for the present situation. General Serrail, who is commanding the Allied troops, is the officer that has made such an able defence of the French fortress of Verdun since the outset of the war. He was selected nearly two months ago to proceed to the East, and it was ...
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Advertising : 33 wordsSir John French reports as follows:- After bombardment we attacked the enemy's trenches on Wednesday afternoon, under cover of a cloud ot smoke ...
Article : 294 wordsEric Terry, of Queen-street, North Hobart, who left with the l[?]th Battalion, under Major Eccles Snowden, and has since April been at Gallipoli, ...
Article : 406 wordsThe following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending to--day:- Coin, £59,798,000. ...
Article : 279 wordsThe War Office issued a fuller statement to-day of the Zeppelin raid made on England on Wednesday night. The statement runs as follows: ...
Article : 215 wordsThe official French communique issued this afternoon states:- There was a particularly violent artillery duel yesterday to the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Kaiser recently sent to King Ferdinand of Bulgaria a magnificent armoured motor-car for his personal use to protect him against any ...
Article : 81 wordsBulgaria officially declared war against Serbia this morning. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe official comnmnique issued by the serbian Government to-day states:- "One of our battalions captured and dismantled an enemy battery during the ...
Article : 180 wordsAs already announced, Mr. Lindley M. Garrison, the Secretary for War, proposes the enlargement of the American standing army to 120,000 men, with ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Zeppeli[?] raid on London is the outstanding topic in the newspapers and in public discussion. At the Cannon-street Hotel yesterday, Lord ...
Article : 202 wordsGermany has suspended her postal service with Roumania, and is holding up all foodstuffs consigned to that country over German railways until ...
Article : 51 wordsYesterday British monitors and the land artillery effectively bombarded various points of the Turkish defences at the Dardanelles, and destroyed a ...
Article : 96 wordsThe news reached Launceston yesterday of the death, killed in action at Gallipoli on October 8, of Major J. B. (Jack) Scott, son of Mrs. Scott, of ...
Article : 242 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:- "In Champagne the Germans bombarded our rear lines with suffocating shells. We repulsed a German attack on a wood ...
Article : 97 wordsIn the House of Lords, Lord Crewe, the leader of the Government in that Chamber, made a similar statement to that of Sir Edward Grey's. He ...
Article : 393 wordsAccording to what is stated to be trustworthy information, the troops engaged against the Serbians consist of eight German and four Austrian ...
Article : 82 wordsLast week members of the London Chamber of Commerce convened a conference with producers, manufaturers and consumers of spelter, and resoloved ...
Article : 104 wordsLast night's communique says:- A squadron of 20 aeroplanes have dropped bombs on the railway station at Bazancourt. ...
Article : 65 wordsAccording to the latest news from the Balkans the Germans continue to advance south of Belgrade, and have captured the defensive works around ...
Article : 132 wordsSir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, in a letter to the Anglo-Armenian Association, urges the need of doctors and nurses and relief supplies. He ...
Article : 61 wordsThe following communique was issued last night regarding the Russian campaign in Turkish Armenia:- "We have annihilated some Turkish ...
Article : 41 wordsThe first detachment of the Allied troops arrived at Nish yesterday, and were welcomed by the populace with indescribable enthusiasm. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe case was resumed at the Old Eailey to-day, in which Mrs. Marjorie Augusta Raphael, stated to [?]e wellknown in Australia, is charged with ...
Article : 306 wordsTwo Dutch priests, the Rev. Joseph John Wemmers and the Rev Hubert Linckens were charged to-day at the Water Police Court with breaches of the ...
Article : 193 wordsA[?] official wireless message sent out from Berlin suggests that the British have resolved on a big push against the German headquarters in Belgium. ...
Article : 64 wordsCommenting on the suggestion that Japanese troops should assist the Allies in Europe, the Tokio newspapers [?]rge Japan's inability to spare the troops, in ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" has received the following message from its special correspondent at Petrograd:- "When General Von Mackensen was ...
Article : 165 wordsHeavy fighting is still going on close to Belgrade, where the heights just outside the town are still in the hands of the Serbians. The Austro-Germans have occupied Semendria and Pozharevatz, and are trying to advance southwords up the valley of the Morava, but are meeting with a Stubborn resistance from the Serbians. There has been heavy fighting at Shabatz, where the enemy has had heavy losses, and some of their divisions have been forced to recross the Save. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 156 wordsIt is reported that the Germans are losing 3,000 men per day to the south of Belgrade. The Serbians have annihilated a German brigade near Shabataz, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Bulgarian Legation states that the serbians attacked the Bulgarians yesterday near Kostendil (43 miles south-west of So[?]) and T[?] (20 miles ...
Article : 136 wordsThe story is now told officially of the death of Lieut. G. P. Merry and Lieut. Burn of New Zealand, who lost their lives in a desert when attacked ...
Article : 282 wordsMr. Munnik, the State Engineer of Cape Colony, has been arrested on a charge of libelling General Botha by alleging that he had not accounted for ...
Article : 105 wordsM. Viviani. the French Premier, announces that Italy Will probably participate in the Balkans espedition. ...
Article : 27 wordsLast night's communique states that there has been obstinate fighting, at various points. ...
Article : 26 wordsSeveral Paris newspapers declare that the resignation of M. D[?]leasse, the late Foreign Minister, was due to his opposition to the Salonika Expedition. ...
Article : 39 wordsA traveller who was at Brest-Litovski at the beginning of September reports that a German ammunition depot exploded, and that 2,000 Austor-Germans ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 16 Oct 1915, Page 5
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