The news from the eastern front is of a conflicting character. Desperate fighting has been taking place at points along the extended front, and a sanguinary battle has been fought on the River San. The Germans are close on Przemysl, and Berlin reports state that the Russians are being severely defeated, and many prisoners taken and guns captured. The Petrograd report of the struggle claims that enormous losses have been inflicted ...
Article : 379 wordsA neutral correspondent of "The Times" describes the industrial position of Germany. He says the output of pigiron, which was l,600,000 tons a ...
Article : 310 wordsAn official announcement was made to-day regarding the composition of the new Cabinet. Mr. Asquith is to retain the position ...
Article : 422 wordsThe following official statement regarding the operati[?]ns on the Austro-Italian frontier was issued to-day:- The Italian troops advanced into ...
Article : 188 wordsA wireless message received from Berlin states that 90,000 British and French troops have been landed at the [?]rdanell[?]s, the defence of which has ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Greek newspaper "Preporitz" reports that a mutiny has broken out among the Young Turks against their German officers, and that at Chanak ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Allies have repulsed the latest Turkish attacks at the Dardanelles, and resumed the offensive. Fresh troops have been landed. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Italians are advancing along a 100-kilometre front. The first contingents have penetrated Austrian territory for from two to four miles, thus ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is officially stated in Constantinople that a Turkish submarine has sunk a Russian armoured ship in the Black Sea. ...
Article : 34 wordsTurkey's first army corps, which is the flower of her army, has been sent to the Gallipoli Peninsula. ...
Article : 30 wordsLieutenant Armstrong, F. L.; Lieutenant Armstrong, H. P.; Lieutenant Newham, J. D.; C.S.M. Davis, W. E.; Corporal Eluglein, C. H.; Sergeant ...
Article : 64 wordsA tremendous popular demonstration took place in the Russian capital to-day when the news was known of Italy's participation in the war. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Press Bureau has published today the following statement about the operations at the Dardanelles:- "The First French Division acting at ...
Article : 196 wordsYesterday a German Taube aeroplane, owing to engine trouble, fell into the North Sea. A British torpedoboat destroyer [?]ank the machine, and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin yesterday refers as follows to the fighting in the Baltic Provinces:- Strong Russian forces attacked us ...
Article : 130 wordsThe communique issued last night gives the following account of the development of the great battle in South Poland and Gali[?]ia, along the front ...
Article : 170 wordsThe King has conferred upon Lord Haldane, the retiring Lord Chancellor, the Order of Merit. ...
Article : 23 wordsOn the reopening of the London Stock Exchange to-day the National Anthem was sung by the members with great enthusiasm. The flags of the ...
Article : 47 wordsA meeting of the Irish Party, held at Dublin, passed a resolution approving of Mr. Redmond's action in declining to enter the reconstructed Cabinet. ...
Article : 36 wordsPrivate F. W. Moore. NEW SOUTH WALES. Major Ellis, W. J.; Private Williamson, D.; Private Black[?]all. ...
Article : 105 wordsReuter's correspondent at the front telegraphs at follows:- "In spite of the fact that the Germans have been bombarding Ypres and ...
Article : 70 wordsYesterday the a[?]ed airmen dropped bombs from their aeroplanes on the St. Pierre railway station at Ghent, and practically destroyed it. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe King of Italy is going to the headquarters of General Cadorna, who commands the Italian armies in the field, and has expressed his intention ...
Article : 48 wordsLord Kitcheuer is receiving numerous resolutions of confidence from public bodies in all parts of the country, and has replied that he much appreciates ...
Article : 41 wordsThe British super-Dreadnought Queen Elizabeth continues to do great work in the attack on the Dardanelles. In one case a long line of camels was seen ...
Article : 59 wordsGerman diplomacy is straining every nerve to keep Roumania neutral. There are, indeed, unconfirmed rumours afloat about a new German ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Austrian torpedo-boat destroyer which bombarded Barletta, the fortified seaport of Italy, to the south-east of Foggia, but was driven off, flew the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" this sums up the position on the San front and round Przemysl in a message from ...
Article : 201 wordsThe newspapers generally welcome the constitution of the new Cabinet. The "Morning Post" (Unionist) says a coalition Government is a great ...
Article : 281 wordsSir John French reports as follows on the fighting round Ypres:- Some portions of our line to the east of Ypres, which we lost on May ...
Article : 170 wordsReuter's correspondent at Cairo states that the Australian and Turkish trenches at Sedd-[?]l-Bahr are sometimes only [?]0 yards apart. In many cases ...
Article : 295 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin yesterday makes the following claims with regard to the fighting in Galicia:- Our forces, under General Von ...
Article : 185 wordsTwenty Italian residents of Meran, one of the most frequented health resorts of the Tyrol, have been shot by the Austrians without trial, because ...
Article : 42 wordsSir Cecil Spring Rice, the British Ambassador to the United States, in order to clear up any misunderstanding, has formally notified the State ...
Article : 56 wordsMajor Young, D. P. FIFTEENTH BATTALION. Lieutenant Hi[?]man, A. G. Lieutenant Sampson, B. (2nd Reinforc[?] ...
Article : 1,097 wordsThe Italian Green Book, which was published on Monday, reveals that the immunity of Serbia and Montenegro from the attack of Austria during the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following communique has been made public to-day by the French Embassy:- Last night was a rather disturbed ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Imperial German Reichstag has been summoned to meet on Friday next. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe latest German gas attack to the north of Ypres extended along the front from St. Julien to Steenstraate (a distance of about five miles in a straight ...
Article : 147 wordsIt is unofficially stated here that the Germans, under General Von Mac[?]nsen, are endeavouring to encircle Przemysl. The Germans claim that ...
Article : 289 wordsMr. Raymond Poineare, the President of France, has sent the following message to the King of Italy:- This new fraternity in arms, and ...
Article : 77 wordsDr. M. B. Furse, the Bishop of Pretoria, in a letter to "The Times," after a month's visit to the British army in Northern France and Flanders, ...
Article : 240 wordsStatistics published in America show that exports from the United States to Scandinavia and Holland in March last were in some cases ten times as ...
Article : 60 wordsThe newspapers in Berlin opine that Italy will send 40,000 troops to the Dardanelles, and that a force will be sent to Montenegro to assist in the ...
Article : 45 wordsSir T. B. Robinson, the Agent-General for Queensland, handed over £8,500 yesterday, which he has received from his State for the Belgian National ...
Article : 37 wordsWhen Italy, in the d[?]s of Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi, recovered Venice and the surrounding territory from Austria, she did not get back all the lands ...
Article : 562 wordsPrivate Morrow, of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, who had been awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing under a heavy fire several men buried in the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe communique issued at midnight last night says:- We have made important progress to the north of Arras, where we ...
Article : 100 wordsThe following message has been received, from Reuter's correspondent at the British headquarters in France:- "The British guns are doing splendid ...
Article : 133 wordsKing Constantine of Greece, who has been suffering from pleurisy, has developed unfavourable symptoms, and another operation will probably he ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 27 May 1915, Page 5
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