The Serbians are maintaining their great struggle against the Austro-Germans and Bulgarians. A fierce battle is proceeding north-west of Uskub, where the Serbians are making a desperate stand against a large force of the enemy. The Bulgarians have rotakon Tatovo, which had been previously captured by the Serbians. French troops have routed the Bulgarians on the Strumnitza sector, and the British continue to receive reinforcements. In the ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Fiench Government is now manufacturing at its arsenals explosives from coke, the quantity equalling about 55 tons a day. ...
Article : 32 wordsYesterday's Vienna communique says:—The Italians kept up a heavy fire against our positions round Gorizia. Their offensive against the northern ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following sirk and wounded Tasmanian members of the Australian Imperial Force will shortly return to this State. The names are as cabled, and ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Shah is remaining here, and the prospects are more favourable. The beginning of diplomatic negotiations, with Russia has somewhat reassured ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is understood that the proprietors of the "Globe" newspaper, which was suppressed by the Government, have unreservedly accepted the official ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Italian Government has forwarded to neutral Governments a strong protest against the sinking of the liner Ancona, which, it is declared, is against ...
Article : 242 wordsThe King, acceding to the request of the natives, has proclaimed the annexation of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in the Pacific, which have hitherto been ...
Article : 42 wordsConsequent on the disbandment of the 4th Light Horse Brigade, the following redistribution of units has been approved:— ...
Article : 198 wordsManufacturers connected with the wool trade do not,expect any fresh orders for 'military clothing in England during the next six months, and ...
Article : 68 wordsA hospital ship, with a large number of wounded on board, arrived to-day from England. She brought out a number of men from England and ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Russian Budget shows a deficit of 327,000,000 roubles (about £32,000, 000), which will be covered by credit operations and increased taxation, the ...
Article : 63 wordsTransports laden with troops destined for operations in the Balkans left Odessa on Saturday. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe following officiai Serbian statement has been issued:- A fierce battle is proceeding at Kachanik (20 miles north-west of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe "Sunday Observer's" New York correspondent recently directed attention to the pro-German crusado in America of Mr. Israel Znngwill (the ...
Article : 166 wordsLast night's communique says:- We repulsed German attacks on our positions at Boormunde Farm, in the Illtuxt district. ...
Article : 93 wordsYesterday the Czar inspected the British submarihes at Revel, in the Baltic, and decorated the officers. His Majesty also inspected the defences of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe recruiting office at the Townhall was kept open yesterday, though, as the weather was so unfavourable, the usual addresses were not delivered. ...
Article : 174 wordsAdvices from Mitrovitza state that the situation has greatly improved. The attempts made by the enemy to separate the Montenegrin forces from the ...
Article : 60 wordsThree Austrian aircraft flew over Verona to-day and dropped 15 bombs on the Piazza d'Erbe, which was crowded with civilians at the time. They ...
Article : 48 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:- "General Von Koovess and General Von Gallwitz have repulsed the Serbians along the entire front after obstinate ...
Article : 35 wordsHer Excellency Lady Helen Munro Ferguson has been advised by Sir George Reid (High Commissioner [?] London) that the statement that ...
Article : 60 wordsAn official communique issued to-day stales:- The Serbians have captured Tatovo, putting to flight two Bulgarian ...
Article : 126 wordsRecruiting figures for the Commonwealth for the week ended November 6 are us follow:- New South Wales...... 856 ...
Article : 204 wordsPassengers from Constantinople state that the Palace Hotel is being prepared for the reception of the Kaiser, who has boasted that he will soon arrive in ...
Article : 59 wordsLast night's communique says:- Desperate fighting continues near the village of Medvejie, north-west of Tchartorysk. Our fire stopped an ...
Article : 44 wordsStriking tributes are made in the "Observer" and other Sunday newspapars to-day to Mr. Churchill's administration at the Admiralty, and ...
Article : 48 wordsThe following special message from a correspondent has been supplied to the Australian Cable Association in reference to the work which has been performed ...
Article : 1,862 wordsAt a meeting of the Girl Guides in the Frce Library lecture-hall on Saturday afternoon, the President (Mrs. Henry Dobson) presented to Gunner J. ...
Article : 171 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," in a message from Paris, states that the Entente will soon be taking an important decision in ...
Article : 188 wordsMr. Fred. Palmer, the well-known American journalist, who visited the British Grund Fleet last month, has returned to New York, and declares ...
Article : 88 wordsThe newspaper "Russkoo Slovo" says:- "We are new guaranteed against any surprises. The Germans, worn out by ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" has received a message from its special correspondent at Salonika, which, after a reforence to the arrival of the Italian cruiser ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. Ben Tillett, the well-known Labour louder, when lecturing on the war yesterday, paid a tribute to the bravery of the Printie of Wales, and said, ...
Article : 90 wordsLast night's communique says:- In the labyrinth a sharp German attack penetrated one of our first line trenches. We made a counter-attack, ...
Article : 52 wordsOur Ross correspondent writes: — "Recruits are coming in steadily every day to the camp on the Williamwood Estate, on the old camp site, which is ...
Article : 300 wordsPrivate Oswald Vaughan, of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, writing from King George's Hospital, London, to his father (the Rev. Mr. Vaughan, of ...
Article : 3,418 wordsA Departmental Committee which was appointed by the British Government to advise on the employment of women, states in an interim report that ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Italian light cruiser Piemonte (2,597 tons and a main armament of ten 4.7-inch guns) arrived to-day at Salonika. ...
Article : 36 wordsOwing to the British bombardment the Germans are unable to dredge the entrance to the harbour at Zeebrugge, which is therefore choked with sand. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. G. W. Blakemore, of Sydney, who has visited America and Great Britain, inquiring into the possibilities of the development of the Australian ...
Article : 379 wordsA despatch received by the "Corriere della Sera" from its special correspondent now at Prilep, gives the first detailed account of the recent Bulgarian ...
Article : 204 wordsThe correspondent of the "Petit Journal" at Geneva states that the Austrian and German Ministers at Athens have demanded that the landing of the ...
Article : 94 wordsLast night's communique thus refers to the Russian opeintions in Turkish Armenia:- We repulsed a force of Kurds on ...
Article : 43 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" pays a tribute to Lord Kitchener, whom it compares to Wellington, as the embodiment of the military spirit of the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 16 Nov 1915, Page 5
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