In the House of Commons this afternoon. Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, in moving for a vote of £250,000,000 for the prosecution of the war, urged ...
Article : 543 wordsThe fall of Garua ends a most arduous task for the Anglo-French forces, in the Northern Cameroons. The Germans were strongly entrenched. The ...
Article : 68 wordsA memorial service was held in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday for the fallen Australian and New Zealand troops, and was a deeply impressive ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,137 wordsThe impression given by to-day's cablegrams is that both Germans and Austrians are prosecuting the war with undiminished vigour and with undiminished supplies of munitions. They are conducting a tremendous offensive movement in Galicia, and are attacking in Middle Poland and holding the Russians right up to the Baltic Provinces. Then, Austria is now offering a slout resistance to Italy near the Isonzo River, the German Western ...
Article : 455 wordsThis afternoon's communique refers as follows to the fighting on the Isonzo line:- The losses suffered by the ...
Article : 97 wordsAdvices received in Amsterdam from Berlin state that the German Admiralty admits the loss of the submarine U14. In the House of Commons last week ...
Article : 73 wordsAn official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:- As a reprisal against the bombardment by German airmen of French ...
Article : 159 wordsThe trawler Argyll has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine without warning on the east coast of England. She sank in two minutes. ...
Article : 47 wordsAccording to reports' which have reached here, a fierce battle is now in progress along a ten-mile front to the northwards of Gorizia, extending from ...
Article : 79 wordsA German submarine has burned the Danish schooner Salvador in the North Sea. The crew were picked up after being several days in the boats. ...
Article : 99 wordsA telegram received in Amsterdam from Berlin states that live enemy airmen have bombarded Karlsruhe. The bombardment lasted for three-quarters ...
Article : 137 wordsWhen they captured Montfalcone the Italians secured two light cruisers which were nearing completion in the shipbuilding yards of Porto Resaga, ...
Article : 39 wordsAustrian forces of considerable strength have been withdrawn from Serbia and transferred to the Italian front. German guns have been ...
Article : 71 wordsReports reaching here state that in the fight with a Russian fleet in the Black Sea last week the Breslau was seriously damaged, and some Turkish ...
Article : 48 wordsThe communique issued in Vienna yesterday says:— Heavy fighting is going on along the whole front in Galicia. To the ...
Article : 146 wordsReports of heavy fighting along the Yser front are coming to hand from Belgium. French forces, supported by ...
Article : 110 wordsThe wreckage of the German airship which was bombed and destroyed by a British aviator at Everc, near Brussels, has been conveyed to Germany. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon Sir A. B. Markham, the Liberal member for Mansfield, said if the statement made recently at Newcastle ...
Article : 177 wordsThe New South Wales loan of £5,000,000, which was issued at 99½, with interest at 4½ per cent., is quoted at 5-8 per cent. discount. ...
Article : 143 wordsLast night's communique says:- Our batteries directed a heavy cannonade to-day against the German trenches on the Notre Dame de ...
Article : 41 wordsAnother Austrian hydroplane has been captured by the Italians, making the fourth since the war with Italy started. The hydroplane dropped into ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is reported that in the fighting in the mountains along the Tyrolese frontier the Austrians are using dynamite to precipitate avalanches of snow and ...
Article : 43 wordsYesterday the Germans, from their positions between the Oise and the Aisne, shelled Compiegne with longrange guns from a distance of 15 miles. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe [?]rogress of the operations on the frontiers of the Tyrol and of Carniola is thus described in this afternoon's communique:— ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Lusitania, which was torpedocd and sunk by a German submarine last month, with the loss of ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the situation on the Gallipoli Peninsula has now developed into trench warfare. After the success of the Allies on the ...
Article : 183 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin yesterday makes the following claim with regard to the fighting in Galicia: We have gained further successes ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. George Meyer, who was Secretary of the Navy in President Taft's Government, in an address in New York yesterday on the question of national ...
Article : 102 wordsThe importance attached by the Germans to the attempt to recover the ground lost between the Oise and the Aisne is indicated by the following ...
Article : 70 wordsAt Glasgow yesterday a man named James Marshall was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for assaulting a fellow-workman because he was ...
Article : 52 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that General Von Mackensen has sent the following telegram to the Kaiser:- "I hope to capture Lemberg before ...
Article : 39 wordsMuch importance is attached to the fresh French offensive on the Lorraine frontier in the region round Embermenil. It is supposed that the ...
Article : 116 wordsA German waiter was fined £25 in London yesterday for having in his possession 598 military maps of the English coast, docks, and military stations. ...
Article : 37 wordsIn Middle Poland the Germans, in the hand-to-hand encounters going on along the line of the Bzura, are making use of squirts which throw out a stream ...
Article : 46 wordsReplying in the House of Commons this afternoon to Sir Henry Dalziel, the Liberal member for Kirkaldy Burghs, Mr. Asquith, the Prime ...
Article : 101 wordsIn many districts along the frontier of the Tyrol and of Carniola the Itali[?] forces are operating among the mountains at heights up to 7,000 feet. The ...
Article : 46 wordsThe committee of the Belgian National Relief Fund has received a further sum of £2,700 from South Australia. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon, after denying the German reports of successes in the Souchez region, says:— ...
Article : 136 wordsTelegrams received from Basel (Switzerland) state that the Germans have sent seven divisions of troops (about 140,000 men) to the Austrian Tyrol. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe trial was continued in Glasgow yesterday of Messrs. Robert Irvingdale and Henry Wilson, partners in the well-known firm of William Jacks and ...
Article : 91 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin last night admits that the Germans have not yet captured the ground lost to the north-west of Soissons (in the region of ...
Article : 50 wordsAs anticipated, the general election in Greece has resulted in a complete triumph for the followers of M. Venizelos, the late Premier, who was in ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is officially stated that the Austrians left in districts occupied by the Italians comprise a number of members of the Landsturm, gendarmes, and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 17 Jun 1915, Page 5
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