The British and French forces have settled in their now positions just within the Greek frontier. The Bulgarians estimate that the Anglo-French forces on the Vardar line numbered between 160,000 and 170,000, and if these figures be correct the forces of they enemy must have been very considerable. It is stated that some Bu[?]garian troops oast of Lake Doiran have appeared Greek Territory, but at that point the frontiers form a sharp ...
Article : 305 wordsA recruiting conference was held today at the official residence of the Prime Minister 10 Dow ning-street, and general satisfaction was expressed at the ...
Article : 83 wordsA White Papel issued yesterday states that another 1,000,000 men will be required by Great Britain to carry on operations after March 31 next. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following, the 123rd, list of casualties amongst the Commonwealth troops at the Dardauelles was released yesterday. ...
Article : 369 wordsIn order to give the Navy an idea of trench life, Admiral Jelticoe thought it would be a good plan to send a party of seamen to take their bearings there, ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. H. J. Tennant, the UnderSecretary for War, stated that 32,274 civilian and 13,476 naval and military ...
Article : 40 wordsMynheer Schroeder, the editor of "Do Telegraaf," a strongly pro-Ally journal, who had boen arrested on a charge of endangering the neutrality of Holland, ...
Article : 137 wordsOur Campbell Town correspondent writes:—"A public reception was tendered on Monday evening to Private Saunders, who has returned from the ...
Article : 471 wordsThe French Budget Committee in its report to the-Chamber of Deputies, estimates that the expenditure by France for the first 17 months of the war ...
Article : 81 wordsM. Raymond Poincare, the President of France, has received a further contribution of 220,220 franes from the inhabitants "of the French colony in New ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Gormans have decided to winter near Dvinsk with a certain amount of comfort, inasmuch ns they have sacrificed, without fighting, their advanced ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons tins afternoon, Mr. W. H. Cowan, the Liberal member for East Abcrdeenshirc, moved the rejection of the bill ...
Article : 543 wordsAt a meeting of the New Zealand War Contingent Association to-day, Mr. T. Mackenzie, the High Commissioner, who was in the chair, stated that ...
Article : 323 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:- All our troops in Macedonia are now collected on Greek soil. The Bulgarians have not yet crossed the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Under-Secretary for War (Mr. H. J. Tennant) intimated, in reply to a question in the House of Commons today about the Turkish forces, that ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Greek newspapers state that an agreement between the Entente and Greece which involves a partial demobilisation of the Greek forces, is ...
Article : 121 wordsThe steamer Oteric (6,335 tons, belonging to the Bank Line, Ltd., of Glasgow), has been sunk. All the crew wore saved except two. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe newspaper I "Lu Tribune has received a message from its correspondent at Constantinople to the effect that he lins received ...
Article : 67 wordsTwo German divisions from Sofia are starting for Constantinople, where there is serious unrest, owing to the rigorous restrictions imposed by the Germans ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Admiralty states that L[?] Graham and Ince engaged a large Gorman sea-plane yesterday in a fight off the Belgian const. The German machine ...
Article : 81 wordsBidgood, H. G., New Town, died of illness, 9/11/15. QUEENSLAND. Fraser, W. A. (5th L.H.), Gympie, of ...
Article : 400 wordsAn English missionary who has returned from Syria reports that important preparations aro being made it Jerusalem and at Jaffa for an ...
Article : 195 words"The Times," in a lending article today, says it used to be bind that the Australians were not as ready as others to suffer in the Empire's cause because ...
Article : 116 wordsLord Parker, in the House or Lords yesterday, culled attention to the problem of the employment of soldiers after the war, and to the reorganisation of ...
Article : 176 wordsSix men offered themselves for enlistment at the Barracks yestarday, and four pushed and two were deferred. Those accepted are F. Bloomfield, F. Roberts, J. P. ...
Article : 232 wordsT[?] thousand Bulgarians perished on the, sector of the front between Kastruni (near Strumnitza) and Doiran, where 15,000. British troops hold out ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is reported that a new Zeppelin stationed at Fuhlenbuttel, near Haniburg, was destroyed by an explosion on November 17, and that another ...
Article : 44 wordsViscount Bryce, in a letter in to-day's "Daily Telegraph," states that a competent authority estimates, that 1,000,000 'Armenians have perished in ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Athens, correspondent of 'La Tribuna" states that in the recent buttle at Domir-Kapu (on the Vardar River) the Bulgarian forces, occupying an aroa ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. H. J. Tennant, the Undersecretary for War, announced that General Smith-Dorrien. who commands ...
Article : 72 wordsAdvices received in Amsterdam from Vienna state that the American Note to Austria demanding reparation for the loss of American lives on the Italian ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the House of Commons ibis afternoon, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, replying to Mr. W. H. Cowan, the Liberal member for Hast Aberdeenshire, ...
Article : 92 wordsYesterday's [?]garian communique; issued in Sofia, says:—"The enemy has been beaten everywhere, and there is not a single enemy soldier now on ...
Article : 98 wordsThe leuder of the State Opposition (Mr. Eliuslic) said in Patliament to-day that he thought the wrong method had been adopted for raising the new army ...
Article : 477 wordsThe Dutch steamship companies running regular liners to the Dutch East Indies announce that they intend to use the Cape of Good Hope route ...
Article : 157 wordsMr. H. Hawkins, Hobart has received the following letter from the official press representative with the Australia troops regarding the fater of his ...
Article : 476 wordsMr. B. R. Wise, the Agent-General for New South Wales, addiessod a meeting at the Royal Colonial Institute today on New South Wales under war ...
Article : 224 wordsSubsecription in the Punjaub to provide seven acroplanes, named after the big riveis in the province, is muking excellent progicss. All districts in ...
Article : 230 wordsGermany has now thrown off the mask as regards Monastir. She allayed the fears of Greece about the extension of Bulgarian power and territory in ...
Article : 76 wordsSorgt. Fergus, F. (1st), Marrickville, N.S.W., accidentally killed, Melbourne. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Boulogne correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the British float bombarded the German defences in the vicinity of Ostend and ...
Article : 145 wordsDiner Dale, K. (1st Reinforcements), Hobart, in hospital, London, proviouely reported ill. 12th Ballahon. ...
Article : 1,257 wordsIt is reported that Italy will shortly be able to land 80,000 troops in Altania. ...
Article : 25 wordsYesterday's Constantinople communicrue says:[?] "At the Dardanelles to-day enemy craisors, assisted by a balloon, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe German newspapers attach much importance to the fact, or alleged fact, that King Constantine gave the Dulgarian Minister two audrences, cach of ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Lcslie Clark, formerly of Ballarat and Sydney, who was recently interned in Germany, speaks well of Dr. Weiler's sanatorium. He says the food ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 16 Dec 1915, Page 5
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