The Board of Trade returns for May show that, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, imports increased by £12,545,676, but exports ...
Article : 46 wordsLarge consignments or barrels, supposed to contain beer, which were despatched from Germany to Turkey, have been detained at Bucharest, the capital ...
Article : 68 wordsThe frontier between the Dutch province of Zeeland and Flanders is to be closed to traffic to-morrow for a period of nine days. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Russians continue to offer a vigorous resistance to the advance of the Austro-Germans towards Lemberg, in the Austrian province of Galicia. The battle has now proceeded for several weeks, and it is expected to last another month. Time is on the side of the Russians, for it will enable them to bring up reinforcements. A ferocious battle has been fought in the Baltic province of Russia. The dead lay in the thousands in a river, ...
Article : 349 wordsZeppelin airships made another raid on the East Coast of England last night, and dropped incendiary and explosive bombs at various points. Two ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is stated in Geneva to-day that the Kaiser, who was last reported to have been visiting the Austro-Italian frontier, has arrived at Vienna. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is officially announced in Paris that the French minelayer Casabianea has been blown up by a mine at the entrance to a bay in the Egean Sea. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe official "Evewitness at the British headquarters tells the following story of herioc incidents which occured at the fighting near Y press on May 23; ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that one British and one French aeroplane attacked the Zeppelin at 3 o'clock in the morning ...
Article : 296 wordsThe Milan newspaper "11 Secolo" publishes an interview to-day which its representative has had with a well informed personage in European affairs, ...
Article : 155 wordsThe great German firm of Krupps has established a large factory for the making of shells and other explosives in Constantinople. Four thousand ...
Article : 46 wordsThe master in Lancashire are rapidly organising for the purpose of shell-making. Of 50,000 skilled engineers in the Mauchester district, about 18,000 ...
Article : 273 wordsThe members of the Card and Blowing Room Amalgamation in the Lancashire cotton trade have decided to proceed with then claim for a 10 per cent. war ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Germans are making desperate attempts to pierce the Allies' line near Pervyse (on the Yser between Nieuport and Dixmude), where they hold the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Imperial Government has revoked its decision not to accept contingents from the Barbados, British Guiana. Jamaica, and Trimdad for service in ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Press Bureau states that a British naval and military expedition on May 30 captured the town of Sphinxhaven, in German East Africa, destroyed the ...
Article : 48 wordsA telegram from Vicnna states that the Austrians are within 15 kilometres (about 10 miles) of Lemberg. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe great German ra[?] into the Baltic provinces yields to none of their operations in determination and ferocity. A sa[?]agely-contested battle, which finally ...
Article : 255 wordsA week ago the Swedish steamer Pas, with a cargo of rifles, ostensibly consigned for Bulgaria, was seized by a German torpedo-host off the coast of ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Italians captured Cortinia (?) after a diflicult ascent of a rocky mountain range, and the perilous occupation of a ridge. Here they were nearly ...
Article : 119 wordsA special correspondent of the "Novoe Vremya, who is with the Russian forces on the San, has sent the following message about the fighting on the Middle ...
Article : 140 wordsThe hamlet of Moulin-sous-Touven[?] lies near the centre of the angle between the Oise and the Aisne, about 3½ miles south-east of Tracy-le-Mount, ...
Article : 114 wordsSerbian troops have invaded Albania and occupied the region in the direction of Bibra unopposed. The "Echo de Paris" states that now ...
Article : 61 wordsSir, John Simon, the new Home Secretary, in moving the second reading of the Ministry of Munitions Bill yesterday, said the now Minister would ...
Article : 114 wordsPassenger by the Anchor liner Cameronia (10,693 tons), which arrived at New York to-day, report that three German submarines were recently ...
Article : 40 wordsHeavy fighting continuos in the region between Arras and Lens. This afternoon's communique says:- Artillery duels of extreme intensity ...
Article : 159 wordsIt is estimated that there are now 40 German and Austrian army corps in Galicia (nearly 1,750,000 men), and that the great battle which has already been ...
Article : 51 wordsFor the first time for months there was dust on the roads as we motored out from headquarters towards the frenches, and the troops filled their ...
Article : 2,216 wordsIn connection with the visit of Mr. R. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Cuncliffe, the Governor of the Bank of England, to Nice, ...
Article : 100 wordsManufactures in Russia are endeavouring to co-ordinate the resources of the Empire. All establishments hitherto manufacturing luxuries are ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Germans have concentrated considerable forces in the corner between the River Oise and Aisne, and made desperate assaults on the French lines ...
Article : 226 wordsA German submarino yesterday sank the trawler Star of the West, 187 tons, belonging to the Walker Steam Trawling Co., of Aberdeen. The crew were ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Austro-German forces are trying hard to force their way castward from Przemysl towards Lemberg, and also to get across the Dniester from the south, ...
Article : 188 wordsA British airman dropped bombs on a Zeppelin airship between Ghent and Brussels this morning. The bombs took effect, for the airship exploded, and was ...
Article : 214 wordsThe House of Commons resumed its sittings to-day, when most of the new Ministers took their places, and were warly welcomed. The House was full. ...
Article : 255 wordsThis afternoon's communique refers as follows to the fighting near Albert:- We attacked the German position ...
Article : 88 wordsA German submarine has sunk the trawler Arctic, 168 tons, belonging to the Newnham Trawlers Company Limited, of Granton. Five survivors ...
Article : 73 wordsLast night's communique says:- By way of retaliation for the spraying of our positions with burning oil by the Germans, we to-day sprayed ...
Article : 46 wordsThe German and Austrian communique claim that the troops under General Von Slingen have stormed the bridge-head at Zurawna, and gained a ...
Article : 85 wordsGermany has agreed to compensate the owners of the Greek steamer Hellispontas, which was torpedoed and suak in April last by a German submarine ...
Article : 53 wordsKrupps have erected a "cannon hospital" at St. Quentin, the headquarters of the German forces in the region between Arras and the Aisne, for ...
Article : 49 wordsThis morning British airmen dropped bombs on a German airship shed to the north of Brussels, and set it on fire. LONDON, June 7. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe latest communique gives the following account of the French success near Tracy-le-Mont, which led to the series of German counter-attacks:— ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 9 Jun 1915, Page 5
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