British guns brought down yesterday a German aeroplane which was flying over the British lines. Both the airmen were killed. ...
Article : 30 wordsWe are now getting only glimpses of the operations on the various fronts. Stupendous movements doubtless are afoot of which we know little or nothing. For instance, we receive a report from the Western Front that the Birtish have bombarded Lille. This city has been within reach of their big guns for more than a year, and yet this is the first statement t[?] our shells have fallen there. ...
Article : 275 wordsThe recruiting sub-committee of the State War Council has issued the following interim report:— We have examined the lists of nine ...
Article : 948 wordsTile members of the Serbian Government, with the Allied diplomats accreditpel to King Peter, have arrived at Brindisi. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe captain and five men of the British steamer Clan Macfarlane, which was torpedoed by a German submarine in the Mediterranean, have been picked up ...
Article : 41 wordsThe installation of the Serbian forces from Albania, in Corfu, is proceeding satisfactorily. The-Achilloion Palace (the Kaiser's residence) has not been ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Minister of Defence recently made the following statement about the steel to be used for munition making. ...
Article : 354 wordsReports received in Rome state.that an,operation was performed upon the Kaiser on Thursday last. LONDON, January 16. ...
Article : 96 wordsKing George, in a message to King Peter of Serbia, states:—"I am fully convinced that the Allies, together with the heroic Serbian army, are in ...
Article : 51 wordsLast night's communique says:— Our artillery, in co-operation with the British artillery, has seriously damaged the German trenches round ...
Article : 87 wordsThe members of the German and Austrian Episcopacy have refused the request of the Belgian bishops for the appointment of a mixed commission to ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is officially stated in Delhi that on Thursday last the British troops under General Aylmer attacked the Turks at Orah. 23 miles from Kut-el-Amara, in ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Austrian communique issued to-day states:—The most stubborn battle yet fought on the Bessarabian frontier is now in progress ...
Article : 93 wordsAn Army order which was issued yesterday gives details of facilities to enable time-expired men of the Army to re-engage on certain conditions to ...
Article : 54 words'Advices from Constantinople state that as the Entente is refusing to liberate the Consuls arrested at Salonika the Porto intends to intern in Asia Minor ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Minister of External Affairs (Mr. Mahoni, not having assumed the duties of Attorney-Generl, particulars were not available to-day, in Mr. Hughes's ...
Article : 217 wordsAt the investiture at Buckingham Palace on Friday, the King showed particular interest in Major G. Smith, of the New Zealand forces, who had been ...
Article : 95 wordsReports from the Western front state that the British steel helmet, which is now being widely used by the toops, is provimg a protection from shrapncl and ...
Article : 53 wordsList night's communique thus relers to the fighting on the Trans-Caucasian frontier:— On Friday we made prisoner 20 ...
Article : 41 wordsPassengers by the R.M.S. Khjber, which arrived to-day, include M. Denissoff, who holds the position of President of the Export Chnmber of Russia. [?] ...
Article : 232 wordsThe German newspapers, commenting on the destraction of a German submarine by the Btitish.auxiliary cruiser Baralong, surpass themselves in ...
Article : 199 wordsMr Candler the press representatirn with the british forces in Mesopotamia, reports that the Turkish pris[?]ers made at Sheikh Hassad report ...
Article : 71 wordsPrivate Wells, of the Suffolk Regiment who has i returned to England after being a prisoner of war in Germany, describes the horrors of the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" has received the following message from its special correspondent at Petrograd:— The Russians opened a stupendous ...
Article : 354 wordsGreat Britain has accepted Australia's offer to send to the front by June of this year 50,000 additional men, as well as reinforcements. following are the ...
Article : 321 wordsThe Mayor (Alderman Macleod) has received the following letter from Lieut. Myers, dated s.s. Ruahine, January [?]: —We are duo in Auckland to-morrow, ...
Article : 195 wordsThe "Daily Mail" has received the following message from its speacial correspondent at Athens:— "The Turco-German military action is ...
Article : 70 wordsThe British Board of Trade's "Labour Gazette" states that there is a growing; shortage of male labour which can only be met by a much larger influx, of ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. stevens, the "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent, says, in a message from Salonika:— I do not believe that an attack is ...
Article : 304 wordsReuter's correspondent nt Amsterdam states that the German commander of Belgium recently called for Gorman volunteers for service against Egypt, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsThe Mayor (Alderman Macleod) has received the following letter, date[?] Cupe Jaffa, South Australia, January 13:—"Enclosed you will find a slip of ...
Article : 136 wordsLord Sydenham stated in an interview yesterday that he favours allowing neutral countries to receive their normal quantity of imports, plus a ...
Article : 66 wordsThe newspapers are making a tenture of the narrative which Mr. Malcolm Ross, the official press correspondent with the New Zealand forces, gives of ...
Article : 38 wordsIn an article in the "Daily Chronicle" Mr. H. G. wells, the novelist, pays a striking tribute to German thoroughness and adaptability. He says: "The ...
Article : 427 wordsA great fire broke out last night at Bergen, the second city of Norway, and raged from evening till morninig, A hurricane was blowing all the time, ...
Article : 87 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" publishes to-day an account of the exploits on Gallipoli of an Australian trooper named W. E. Sing, and says that ho sniped ...
Article : 125 wordsA schema for the military training of the Australian Expeditionary Force has been prepared by Major-Genaral McCay. This provides for a complete routine of ...
Article : 97 wordsThe. following nine men joined the Claremont camp on Saturday:—W. G. Clifford. A. E. C. Header, H. J. Carter, S C. King, H. J. King, J. W. Cossam, ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. James O'Grndy, the Labour member for East Leeds, says he is convinced that when the safeguards are embodied in the Military Service ...
Article : 147 wordsA singular feature of the recent fighting at Czernowitz was that the German regiments became panic-stricken, and began to run. When the Austrian artillery ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Prime Minister recently issued the following appeal to men to join the new army:— "The Defence of Australia and the ...
Article : 682 wordsThe disastrous floods which have occurred in the north of Holland are the Worst recorded since 1825. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following official statement has been issued about the fighting ou the western frontior of Egypt. On Thursday a British column ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 18 Jan 1916, Page 5
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