Winter has set in early in Europe The troo[?]s on the Western front are manning trenches Knee-deep in ice-cold water and slush, while in the Balkans heavy snow has fallen, and cold winds are blowing in blizzards. The main Austro-German army has not yet reached Mitrovitza,but must be near there, for the Serbians that have boen conducting a successful campaign on the Kossovo Plain between there and Uskub against the Bulgarians ...
Article : 261 wordsThe War Office recently announced that an enemy submarine in the Mediterran[?]an attacked the transport Mercian, 6,305 tons, with shell fire, and ...
Article : 163 wordsThe following communique has been issued regarding the Russian operations in Turkish Armenia and the adjacent parts of Persia: ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Canadian Government has commandeered all the high-grade wheat elovators from Fort William to the Atlantic. The action has been taken ...
Article : 60 wordsAlthough intoxicants are saleable only between noon and half-past 2 and 6.30 and 0.30 on week days in London, except at Woolwich, Greenwich, ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Ford, who has secured the first and second-class cabins on the Dutch liner Oscar II., 9,996 tons, is spending plenty of money dashing about the ...
Article : 160 wordsThe 'Observer" recommends the appointment of a nationally representative advisory board of financial and business experts, from which the Cabinet's War ...
Article : 52 wordsThe casualty list of the hospital ship Anglia, which sank in the English Channel after striking a mine, gives the names of four officers, one nurse, ...
Article : 42 wordsThere are persistent reports from Constantinople of daily increasing discord between the Turks and the Germans. There is a German regiment ...
Article : 45 wordsAddressing a recuiting meeting at Capetown yesterday, General Smuts, the Minister of Defence, said there was a tremendous cloud overhanging ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Entente Powers—Great Britain, France, Russia, and Italy—are beginning to realise the ...
Article : 141 wordsA Turkish submarine recently stopped the British passenger ship Burulos when on a voyage to New York. After 25 people had been drowned the crew ...
Article : 131 wordsM. Raymond Poincare, the President of France, attended an impressive demonstration which was held yesterday at the Trocadero, in Paris, in honour of ...
Article : 108 wordsThe main feature of this afternoon's communique is the description of the fighting in the Labyrinth, near Neuville St. Vaast. It says: ...
Article : 83 wordsThe battle of the Kossovo Plain continues. The Bulgarian losses have been colossal. Fugitives affirm [?] [?],00 Bulgarian wounded have [?] [?]in. ...
Article : 168 wordsA message from Berlin states that the German authoritics have placed a ban on a book by the Danish writer Jorgenson, which deals in a caustic ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. P. A. R. Ameallen, the representative of the British press at the French headquarters, says:- "It is estimated that the total ...
Article : 159 wordsA body of Gorman cavalry has appeared before Veles. Advices received from Monastir on Thursda[?] state that the situation there ...
Article : 61 wordsLord Kitchener and Sir Rennell Rodd, the British Ambassador to Italy, had a conference yesterday with Signor Salandra, the Premier of Italy, Baron ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Government has transferred from the Army Council to the Ministry of Munitions the responsibility for testing arms and examining munitions and ...
Article : 216 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— "The French artillery is showing great activity in the Champagne district." ...
Article : 27 wordsMessrs. Perey and Archibald Hurd, the well-known writers on Imperial affairs, in a book entitled "The New Empire Partnership," point out that ...
Article : 197 wordsThe "Corriere della Sera" states that a partion of the Austro-German forces in Serbia have been withdrawn and sent down the Danube to Rustchuk ...
Article : 126 wordsA terrific blizzard is raging in the district of the Balkans where the Allied headquarters are Correspondents state that snow is lying deep, and that ...
Article : 131 wordsIn a message to the "Daily Telegraph" Mr. Philip Gibbs gives a remarkable picture of the winter conditions on the western front. He says: ...
Article : 289 wordsAt a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to-day a regulation under the War Precautions Act was passed prohibiting persons of military age ...
Article : 140 wordsIt is officially stated that the Sherifel-Senussi, the head of the powerful Senussi organisation in Northern Africa, continues to maintain a friendly ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Serbian Minister states that all the tunnels, of which there are a considerable number, along the section of the Belgrade-Sofin-Constantinople ...
Article : 56 wordsThe advance of the Austro-Germans southward from Prishtina and Mitrovitza to support the Bulgarians has compelled the Serbians to relinquish ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Three demands made in the Allies' Note are:- (1) Adequate railway facilities. (2) The withdrawal of Greek troops ...
Article : 196 wordsSir John Simon, the Home Secretary, has assured members of the Miners Federation that men returning to civil employment after being attested under ...
Article : 138 wordsIn a recent issue of "Le Journal," Paris, Senator Humbert gives his impressions of a recent visit to England, during which he interviewed Mr. Lloyd George. ...
Article : 853 wordsIt is understood that an aviation corps will be sent away with the new army, which is to be sent from Australia by June next. It is considered ...
Article : 151 wordsThe newspaper "Il S[?]" states that the Serbian Premier, in [?]municating the overtures for peace [?]ade by General Von Mackensen to the Serbian ...
Article : 113 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:- Our aeroplanes are doing splendid work. They have dropped 90 bombs on the railway station at Noyon, and ...
Article : 155 wordsKing Nicholas has issued a proclamation in which he exhorts his people to remain calm in face of the danger which is threatening Montenegro. He says: ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Ward Price has sent the following message from Salonika:- The British troops are now in the first line, face to fa[?] with the enemy. ...
Article : 417 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) was the guest of the Institute of Journalists to-night. In the course of his speech, which dealt manily with the ...
Article : 422 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— "We have occupied Rudnik, to the south-west of Mitrovitza, where we made 2,700 prisoners. Our main ...
Article : 87 wordsLast night's communique says:- There has been marked artillery activity at the Dardanelles. The Turkish forces attacking the British ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Temps" states that the British have taken over from the French the section of the front between Doiran (38 miles north-north-west of Salonika) and ...
Article : 92 wordsThe British troops in Macedonia have received further reinforcements, and have taken over from [?] French a section of the front near Doiran. The Bulgarians are said to have suspended their advance on Monastir, and to be concentrating for an attack in force on the French positions along the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 246 wordsInformation has been received by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) that the commanding officer of the 2nd Australian Division, Major-General J. ...
Article : 107 wordsYesterday three German aeroplanes near the Noorvinder lightship, on the coast of Holland, attacked the steamer Bargownie, bound from London to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 30 Nov 1915, Page 5
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