Italy has asked the United States to watch over her interests at Vienna, and Austria has requested the United States to do the same for ...
Article : 47 wordsThe report that German resistance in Belgium is weakening is confirmed by the statement that the enemy has withdrawn across the Yser. There are no indications, however, that any thing in the form of a hurried retreat is to follow. Every available German is being brought from Bruges to the fighting line, and many additional guns are being sent to the front. The pressure being applied by the Alies is now becoming continuous, and ...
Article : 339 wordsThe British vessel Dumcree was torpedoed by a German submarine yesterday in the North Sea, but did not sink. She was taken in tow by a Norwegian ...
Article : 114 wordsOwing to a quarrel with the Archduke Frederick of Austria, General Auffenberg, formerly Minister of War. has been arrested. General Auffenberg ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued a coinmunique to-day, which reports steady progress daily in the Dardanelles up to May 17, and states that the Turks are ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Austrian Government has made a new offer to Italy. ...
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Article : 266 wordsRefugees who have reached the Russian capital from Liban, the Russian port in the Baltic, recently occupied by the Germans, state that the Germans ...
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Article : 161 wordsThe King, after his visit to the Clyde, is now inspecting the shipyard at Newcastle-on-Ty[?]. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe British Foreign Office announces that Cardinal Gasparri. the Secretary of State to the Pope, has informed Sir Henry Howard, the British Envoy at ...
Article : 84 wordsThe German spy Kucnferle, who was undergoing his trial at the Old Bailey, committed suicide this morning by hanging himself in Brixton Prison. ...
Article : 36 wordsReports reaching Holland from the front state that the Germans are retiring from their whole line little by little. The observations of the Allies' airmen ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Gormans have noe completely retired from the southern bank of the River Yser between Dixmudo and Nierport. They carried out their retreat ...
Article : 182 wordsThe communique issued lost night gives the following information about the struggle developing along a 200mile front from Opatow to Kolonien: ...
Article : 239 wordsMr. Asquith, the Piime Minister, referring to the formation of a National Ministry, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that any ...
Article : 166 wordsOn the motion inr the adjournment of the House of Commons last night, Mr. Ellis J. Griffith, the Liberal member for Anglesey, and Mr. E. Wason, ...
Article : 102 wordsA fund has been started at Magdeburg, the capital of Prussian Saxony, to present testimonials to the officers and men of the German submarine that ...
Article : 43 wordsThe newspapers in Athens state that the Allied troops have occupied Kilid Bahr, which is the nearest northern point of The Narrows, opposite ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Victoria, Longue has established a club for overseas soldiers arriving in London, and is making an appeal for funds. ...
Article : 39 wordsSir Ernest Cassel, the well-known financier, who was born at Cologne, in Germany, but has resided in England for many years, during which time he ...
Article : 70 wordsThe meeting arranged by the National Patriotic Organisation was held at the Guildhall, in the City of London, to-day, and was largely attended. ...
Article : 532 wordsThe Allies' warships are active along the coast of Asia Minor, and have bombarded Adalia (an important seaport on the south coast of Asia Minor, at the ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to a question in the House of Commons this afternoon, said the action taken since March ...
Article : 48 wordsA commnique issued in Berlin yesterday claims that the fighting to the north of Ypres lins gone in favour of the Germans. ...
Article : 78 wordsIn connection with the enlistment of Lord Kitchcner's new force of 300,000 men to fill in the gaps of the armies at the front, it has been decided that for ...
Article : 66 wordsThe military correspondent of "The Times" states that no German offensive in France on a large scale is prac[?]ble before the end of July, and not ...
Article : 71 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" stales to-day that in the reconstruction of the Cabfnet. which will be thorough, the Unionists will secure nearly half the ...
Article : 185 wordsQuestioned in the House of Commons this afternoon respecting the censoring in Australia of press news which has been published in London, Mr. W. R. ...
Article : 70 wordsFrom the indications given us it would appear that both in the number of mne engaged and in the length o f the battle line struggle which is now raging in South Poland and a Galicia is the greatest the was has yet seen. The battle front extends over a distance of 200 miles, from Opatow, which lies a little to the wast of Zawnehost and south of Kielce, to Kolome,on the River Pruth. Along this line Austor-Germans havebrought into the field 33 Army Corps, or over one and a quarter million men, and they are making a mighty effort to recover Galicia from the Russians. Should they succeed in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 471 wordsMr. and Mrs. Denning, of Orpington House, Mount Stuart, Hobart, have received the following letter from their son Edward, who fought at the battle ...
Article : 625 wordsThe communique issued at midnight last night' says:- A dense fog prevailed during the day, and things were quiet along the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe 700 Germans who, as already reported, tried to surronder near La Bassee, but were nearly annihilated by the German artillery, had taken refage ...
Article : 124 wordsIt is stated that thirty-three Army Corps (over 1,250,000 men), of which ten are German, occupy a two hundred miles front from ...
Article : 120 wordsTeh Germans are making great efforts to beat back the Allies along the Yser and the Yser-Ypres Canal, and are pushing all available forces into the ...
Article : 135 wordsAn Austrian communique issued in Vienna to-day makes, the following claimes:- We have forced the passage of the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Sir George Reid) said: "The enthusiasm with which the resolutions have been received will delight the Australian ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 21 May 1915, Page 5
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