The war cablegrams do not refer to any operations of an outstanding character. On all the fronts there is an Apparent pause, but it is only a brief interval, the hush before the eruption. The reports, from the Somme speak of activity of the artillery on both sides and of infantry actions north-east of Bazentin le Petit, and between Delvillo Wood and Ginchy. It is stated by a war correspondent, however, that the ...
Article : 362 wordsThe "English Review" is promoting a memorial urging the return to England of Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, and suggesting that he should ...
Article : 136 wordsItaly's war expenditure for the year ending June was £312,000,000, of which amount £216,000,000 was raised by internal loans, and the balance on ...
Article : 59 wordsItaly, through the Swiss Government, declared war on Germany on Friday last. There was immense enthusiasm shown ...
Article : 167 wordsDemonstrations against the Bulgairian invasion of Greece have been held on the island of Mitylene, and at Karaferia, to the south-west of ...
Article : 147 wordsReplying to the deputation from representatives of Labour which waited yesterday upon Mr. Lloyd George, the Secretary or State for War, respecting ...
Article : 279 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) desires again to invite the attention of persons who are packing Christmas boxes for the soldiers at the ...
Article : 105 wordsGeneral Moschopoulis, who is a sympathiser with the Allies, has been appointed Chief of the Greek General Staff. ...
Article : 127 wordsAmong the passengers for New Zealand on board the s.s. Arawa, which is now in port, are 100 invalided soldiers who, having just recovered from wounds ...
Article : 317 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states: Stubborn fighting continues in the direction of Diarbekr. We have reached the River Masla ...
Article : 44 wordsThe official opening of the State Aviation School, which is located at Richmond, took place to-day. The State Governor (Sir Gerald Strickland) ...
Article : 172 wordsA regiment of Bulgarian cavalry has mutinied at Uskub, in Serbia, and two German officers were afterwards found in the barracks assassinated. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his report this morning on the operations in the Somme region, states:— We captured yesterday an ...
Article : 172 wordsThis morning's French communique is as follows:— Bad weather continues to hamper operations along our front. ...
Article : 132 wordsAdvices received here show that an Anglo-French flotilla bombarded the Asia Minor coast from Makars to Jaffa all day on August 10, destroying the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe English newspapore, discussing the likelihood of a prolongation of the war, point out that all official indications, including that of the late Lord ...
Article : 385 wordsThe Bulgarian advance in Macedonia is taken as an indication that the Bulgarian General Staff is assured, at least for some weeks, against a Roumanian ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says:—The Prussian Guards at Thiepval advanced with great bravery. They charged six times, ...
Article : 103 wordsA welcome home social was tendered in the Colcbrook-hall on Friday evening to Sergeant A. C. Owen and Privates W. Denny and M. McPhee, The ...
Article : 443 wordsDuring the Zeppelin raid on the east and south-east coasts of England on Friday last, a British airman ascended in the darkness, and ...
Article : 109 wordsThe following, the 200th and 201st, casualty lists, were released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The addresses ...
Article : 49 wordsThis morning's Russian communique states:— Our gallant Lettish battalions yesterday penetrated the enemy's first ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Serbians continue to progress south of Vrbeni, at Kukuyoff, and on the slopes, between Moglina and Ostrovo. They have achieved an important ...
Article : 87 wordsAccording to news from Amsterdam the Germans are said to be abandoning further important offensive actions on the Western front, continuing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,207 wordsM. Julliot, the builder of the Le Bandy dirigible balloons, expresses himself sceptical as to the value of the super-Zeppelins. He says that the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Germans, in their communique, issued to-day, state:—After artillery preparation, the English yesterday made repeated attacks southward of ...
Article : 115 wordsIn his report this morning, General Haig states:— The Germans last night heavily shelled our positions in the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe British have repelled all the Bulgarian counter-attaeks against the positions which they recently captured at Doiran. ...
Article : 28 wordsTwo Zeppelin airships were observed yesterday passing Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. Bergen is about in the same latitude as the Shetland ...
Article : 65 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —Repeated Russian attempts on the Dwina front to cross the River in beats eastward of Friedrichstadt and ...
Article : 76 wordsDr. Woodrow Wilson, the President of America, in magazine articles headed "America's Opportunity," says that when the war closes America will be ...
Article : 97 wordsReports from Athens state that a French aeroplane reported, to the Allied fleets that German aeroplanes were bombing Kavalla, whereupon the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe "Echo de Belge" says it learns that there are constant night movements of German trains, conveying troops from the Antwerp garrison ...
Article : 69 words"The doom of Thiepval is near at hand," declares Mr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, in a despatch describing the recent advances of the ...
Article : 323 wordsMr. Alfred Noyes, the well-known author, writing in the "Daily Chronicle" to-day, states that Great Britain's trawling fleet for mine-sweeping and ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Italian communique to-day says: There is considerable Austrian artillery, mortar, and rifle activity in the Trentino front. Our ...
Article : 47 wordsThe French communique issued this morning says:— Last night the Germans thrice attacked the wood between Vaux and ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Figaro," by quotations from German writers, shows that Germany before the war contemplated the conquest of South America, ...
Article : 81 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: Our seaplanes raided Varna (the fortified Bulgarian town on the Black Sea) on Saturday. They ...
Article : 84 wordsWe regret to learn that Lieut. Leo Butler, son of Mr. E. H. Butler, of Hobart, was killed in action in the recent fighting on the Somme. The ...
Article : 511 wordsTo-day's Italian communique states: On the Isonzo front we have extended our occupation of Cima Vallone. The enemy continue to shell ...
Article : 41 wordsTwo instructors from the American college, at Beirut, in Syria," who have just traversed Turkey, and have returned to New York, assert that British, ...
Article : 71 wordsSignor Giolitti, former Pirme Minister of Italy, in the course of a remarkable speech, said:—We must avoid differences of opinion. It is ...
Article : 81 wordsThere have been food riots at Mulhausen, in Alsace. The troops quelled them, killing twenty people and wounding scores. The inhabitants have ...
Article : 44 wordsTo- day's Bulgarian communique states:—We have captured a village southward of Ochrida. We have also made prisoner an English detachment, ...
Article : 85 wordsIn to-day's communique the Germans claim that they brought down seven enemy aeroplanes yesterday. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 29 Aug 1916, Page 5
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