Soon chief interest will be centred on the Western front, where big things are browing. Both British and French are worrying the enemy here, there and everywhere, to put him into doubt as to where the great blow is to be struck. Allied airmen have dropped leaflets at Ostend warning the inhabitants of a great battle about to take place in that locality, but that may be only a ruse de[?]guerre. There has been an engagement at Festubert, in ...
Article : 436 wordsMr. Ben Tillett, the well-known Labour leader, who has been on a visit to the front, reached Paris yesterday, and in the course of an interview stated:— ...
Article : 175 wordsIt is officially announced in the Russian capital that a Russian squadron operating in the Black Sea has attacked and severely damaged the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe official communique issued in Rome this afternoon runs as follows:- The enemy made repeated attempts yesterday to break through the Sesis ...
Article : 237 wordsA Dutch fishing smack was blown up by a mine yesterday off Knocke on the coast of Belgium. Four of the crew were killed. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe subject of a neutral country who has reached Amsterdam from Karlsruhe says that 50 bombs were dropped on the town by the French airmen. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Russian Commission of Inquiry investigating German atrocities has examined Sergeant-Major Atho, who had a large slice of flesh cut from his back ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette," in an ar[?] ticle discussing the issue of the New South Wales loan of £5,000,000 at 4½ per cent., stated last night that it ...
Article : 128 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin to-day thus refers to the lighting on the Dniester front:- The Russians have gained some ...
Article : 54 wordsYesterday three English airmen dropped three bombs on the Zeppelin shed at Grontrode, to the south of Ghent. The damage done is not known. ...
Article : 36 wordsNot only have the Germans recently been making great efforts in the Baltic Provinces and attacking desperately in the part of North Poland, north of ...
Article : 171 wordsIt was reported in Paris yesterday that a German airship had been forced to alight within the French lines at Noroy-sur-Gurcq, to the east of ...
Article : 49 wordsA few days ago the Roumanian authorities found at Bucharest l8 new transport waggons forwarded from Germany for the Turkhh railways. The ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Austrian forces defending Gorizia (Gorz) are mainly concentrated in strong positions on the heights of Podgora, west of the town. There ...
Article : 85 wordsAt a meeting at the Mansion House yesterday the Lord Mayor of London (Sir Charles Johnston) made a special appeal on behalf of the Red Cross fund, ...
Article : 93 wordsLast night's communique say's:- On Tuesday German aircraft dropped some bombs on St. Die and on Belfort. Some civilians were ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following report regarding the British operatins has been received from Sir John French:- Yesterday evening we captured the ...
Article : 177 wordsThe great battle alon[?] the front east of the River San is growing in magnitude and in fiercepuoss, and the Austro-German armies are making tremendous ...
Article : 129 wordsFierce fighting is going on in the passes which lead from the Val[?]d[?]nferno to Malborghetto at a height of about 7,000 feet. So far, all the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Paris "Matin"' says that since the war started the Austrians and Germans have suffered the following losses: — ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon Lord Robert Cecil, the Under-Sceretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said the Government had taken ...
Article : 70 wordsLast night's communique says:- The Germans have again bombarded Rheims. They threw several hundred shells into the town, and some ...
Article : 40 wordsOwing to the war the funds of Cambridge. University show a serious deficiency, and the Senate is appealing for £13,000 to meet it. ...
Article : 34 wordsA battle has been raging tor several days at the foot of the glaciers and snowfields in the Dolomite Alps, on the eastern borders of the Trentino. It ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following account of the fighting in the Baltic Provinces, and of the failure of the German attempt to outflank the Russian force at Shavli by an ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. F. S. Montagu, one of the Lords of the Treasury, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government was devising means to tax war ...
Article : 37 wordsThe communique issued at midnight last night gives the following account of the French operations in Alsace:- We have made important progress ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is understood that the Government, with the assent of the trade unions, has resolved to ask for greater powers than those conferred by the ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Montenegrin troops have occupied Clementi, in Albania, after defeating the Malissori tribesmen. The advance of the Greco-Servien force on ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Board og Trade inquiry into the loss of the Lusitania, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine last month, with the loss of ...
Article : 234 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 : 198 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin to-day gives the following account of the fighting east of the San:- On Wednesday we defeated the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin today gives the following account of the recent fighting between the Germans and the British:- ...
Article : 204 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that a Zeppelin airship raided the East Coast of England last evening, and as the result of bomb-dropping, 15 people were ...
Article : 58 wordsThe French are equipping their infantry with light steel helmets, resembling the head-pieces used by the oldtime man-at-arms, as some protection ...
Article : 42 wordsThe communique issued at midnight last night sums up the developments along the front as follows:- To-day's combats have been ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Austro-German forces in the region east of the San are now of enormous strength. With their new reinforcements the Germans alone (not ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Board of Trade statistics on war bonuses show that so far 1,987,444 workers between January and May secured a weekly increase of nearly 3s. ...
Article : 42 wordsThere is a persistent drought in Germany, and this is likely to seriously affect the coming harvest, especially in Mecklenburg and East Prussia. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe following communique was issued by the Belgian authorities regarding the fighting along the Yser:- We gained a footing to-day in the ...
Article : 97 wordsIt is officially stated that in the North-East Coast raid by the German Zeppelin 16 persons, including a policeman, were killed, and 40 injured. ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is officially announced in Berlin that Captain Hersing, the commander of the German submarine U21, has been decorated by teh Kaiser "in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe State Department at Washington has ordered an investigation into charges against a supposed Dr. Amton Meyer Gerhard, of the German Red ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that a spirited British advance near La Bassee is been checked by the German mach[?] ...
Article : 40 wordsThe British steamer Arndale, 3,557 tons, belonging to Messrs. Smailes and Sons, of Whithy, which was laden with a cargo of coal for Archangel, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe communique issued at Vienna yesterday says:- During the last 15 days we have made prisoner 108 Russian officers ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. H. J. Tennant, the Under-Secretary of State for War, said it was impossible to speak in detail of the ...
Article : 106 wordsFurther French successes in the Lens region are mentined in the communique issued at midnight last night, which says:- ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Swedish mail steamer Horsten, bound from Gothenburg to England was seized yesterday by a German submarine and conveyed to Swinemunde, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe plan on which the Austrians are acting is now becoming clearer. They have prepared for a desperate defence along the Middle Isonzo from ...
Article : 181 wordsAdvices from Belgiuin state that, after heavy artillery actions there have been severe infantry engagements at Dixmude, and on the front from ...
Article : 119 wordsThe execution of eight citizens of Liege for alleged espionage has produced intense anger in Belgium, and as twenty others are still imprisoned, ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Russian have met with cosiderable successes in the fighting on the line of the Dniester front. Yesterday afternoon's communique says:— ...
Article : 258 wordsAn official communique issued in Berlin states that in the Allies' raid on Karlsruhe, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Baden, which was undertaken ...
Article : 119 wordsLast night's communique thus describes the development of the fighting in the corner between the Oise and the Aisne:- ...
Article : 66 wordsThe trawlers Petrol, Explorer, and Jorpiniea, belonging to Aberdeen, were submarined and sunk yesterday in the North Sea by German submarines. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 18 Jun 1915, Page 5
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