The communique issued at midnight last night gives the following additional particulars of the Italian operations:- To the west of Lake Garda our ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Dedeagatch correspondent of the Paris "Temps" states that after Ialy's declaration of war the Young Turks held a council, at which the attitude of ...
Article : 167 words[?]re of operations and desperate fighting is still being carried on. The Germans have made determined efforts to encircle Przemysl, which city the Russians captured from the Austrians some time ago. General Mackensen, whose army cut into the Russian lines during a previous battle, but which extricated itself with difficulty, has again hurled his forces on the Russians, but fortune has again been unkind to him. The Russians ...
Article : 423 wordsSir John French reports that a British aeroplane has brought down a German aeroplane in the neighbourbhood of Moorslede (eight miles north-east of ...
Article : 41 wordsVice-Admiral Yashiro, the Japanese Minister of Marine, has cabled to Mr. Winston Churchill, the late First Lord of the Admiralty, thanking him for his ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Blue Funnel line steamer Ping Suez (6,548 tons, belonging to the China Mutual Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., A. Holt and Co., managers), bound from ...
Article : 227 wordsYesterday bombs were dropped from Zeppelin airships on Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, and destroyed a passenger steamer and some cotton sheds. ...
Article : 37 wordsLord Denman, formerly Governor-General of Australia, in a letter in to-day's "Times," advocates national service. He says that as a first step he ...
Article : 109 wordsAdvices received from Friedericks-hafen state that one of the Zeppelin airships which took part in the raid on Southend was struck by a shell, ...
Article : 60 wordsYesterday the Allies attacked the Turks near Gaba Tepe, and occupied a front of two kilometres wide. The Turks endeavoured to recover their lost ...
Article : 46 wordsPrince De Wedel, who is Germany's special Envoy, has arrived at the Roumanian capital, where he is making a last effort to prevent Roumania joining ...
Article : 45 wordsLasr night's communique says:- Our fleet in the Black Sea has bombarded and destroyed electric light works and establishments for the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe operations on the eastern frontier of the Trentino, from the Lake of Garda northeastwards to the western end of the Carnic Alps, are chiefly confined to ...
Article : 230 wordsKing Emmanuel of Italy has given 84 of his hunters and carriage horses for the cavalry, and members of the Italian aristocracy are following his ...
Article : 40 wordsThe White Star liner Megantic (14,500 tons) bound to Montreal and crowded with passengers, met a German submarine 60 miles south of Queenstown, in ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Daily Mail" state's that the Germans are using a new combination shell. A simple manipulation enables it to be used as shrapnel, scattering small ...
Article : 85 wordsA number of the London tramway strikers broke into open riot yesterday, and wrecked several cars at Holloway. Work has only partially been resumed, ...
Article : 91 wordsA fortnight ago the United States Government despatched a Note to Germany concerning the sinking of the Lusitania, and the consequent loss of ...
Article : 588 wordsThe missing boat of the Elder, Dempster liner Ethiope, which was torpedoed and sunk off Land's End by a German submarine, has been picked up. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe following official statement regarding the lighting in Galicia was issued to-day:- The Austro-Germans have been ...
Article : 326 wordsLast night's communique refers as follows to the fighting in the Baltic provinces:- Out troops are still pursuing the ...
Article : 59 wordsBecause of the employment of about 40 Germans at the Sydney glass bottle works at Waterloo about 600 employees ceased work this morning. Some of ...
Article : 339 wordsThe steamer Glenlee, 4,140 tons, belonging to the Western Steamship Co. of Glasgow, which was bound from Cardiff to Aden, was torpedoed and ...
Article : 141 wordsAnti-German riots took place yesterday in Milan, and lasted for twelve hours. About £40,000 worth of damage was done. The offices of Siemens and ...
Article : 60 wordsLast night's communique refers as follows to the lighting to the cast of the Mouse:- We have followed up our recent ...
Article : 87 wordsIn connection with the formation of the National Ministry in Great Britain the following members of the House of Commons have been appointed to the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe following report has been received from Sir John French:- We have made further gains at Festubert since May 2[?]. Apart from ...
Article : 51 wordsKing Victor Emmanuel ot italy has sent the following telegram, to King George:- "The ancient and traditional ...
Article : 121 wordsAs a protection against the enemy's air raids the colonnade of the Palace of the Doges, in Vonice, which is said to have been founded in 814 for the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe communique issued to-day gives the following account of the progress of the Italian opeiations:- We have continued our advance ...
Article : 132 wordsThe communique issued at midnight last night gives the following account of the development of the struggle between Arras and Lens:— ...
Article : 83 wordsA party of allied airmen yesterday attacked the enemy's aerodrome at Gontrode, and wrecked the building. Fortyfour Germans were killed, and thirty ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Turks, who have been strongly reinforced, attempted yesterday to regain positions they were driven out of at Gaba Tepe, but every attack was ...
Article : 46 wordsThere has been addressed to the Sydney City Council a letter signed as on behalf of twelve workmen who are said to have left the employ of the ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Observer" States that the Russian Commander-in-Chief (the Grand Duke Nicholas) has again proved the ...
Article : 97 wordsThis map shows the Austro-Italian frontier from the corner of Switzerland, north-west of Lake Garda, to the sea at the head of the Adriatic. On the outbreak of war, the Italian troops available were concentrated mainly at Verona, on the Adige, and secondarily at Udine, in the extreme north-east corner of Italy. So far, the fighting has been for positions along the frontier, more particularly for those commanding the routes into the Trentino (the basin of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 419 wordsWith the capture of Ablain by the French the Germans have lost what is considered their most strongly defended positin in the region between Arras ...
Article : 162 wordsPress correspondents at the front state that the Italians have captured the Austria positions on Mount Pasubio (a peak in the Lessine Alps, 20 miles ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is announced by the Admiralty that the casualties on the battleships. Triumph and Majestic, which were blown up by submarines at the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe communique issued late last night sums up the latest developments of the great struggle in Galicia as follows:— ...
Article : 273 wordsIt is estimated that since the war broke out between Austria and Italy 1,600 Germans and Austrians have been killed on the frontier, 3,000 wounded, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Japanese training squadron, which has paid two previous visits to Australia, arrived this evening from Tokio via Hongkong and Singapore. ...
Article : 158 wordsA few days ago a ponnace belonging to the French battleship Jeanne d' Are (11.092 tons, two 7. 6in. fourteen 5.5in. and twenty-six smaller guns), when ...
Article : 104 wordsThe communique issued at midnight last night gives the following account of the fighting north of Ypres:- On the right (eastern) bank of the ...
Article : 140 wordsSo great is the rush to join the c[?] ours in Italy that the military authoruties have temporarily suspended voluntary enlistment. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 1 Jun 1915, Page 5
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