The semi-official Servian newspaper "Samouprava." in a leading article, states that the collective action of the Quadruple Entente—Great Britain, France, ...
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Article : 60 wordsThe Austro-German forces advancing from the south upon the Russian positions north and south of BrestLitovski are striving desperately to force a crossing of the Bug in order to get behind the Russians that have for a full month withstood General Hindenberg's advance from the Narew River. One report says there are from 40 to 45 Austro-German army corps between Ossowiee and Wlodawa (south of Brest-Litovski), or from 1,600,000 ...
Article : 341 wordsOnly a few Turks were present at Suvla when the British landed there. The latter suffered but few casualties and the force advanced rapidly, and ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is officially stated in Ottawa that British orders for munitions of war have been placed in Canada to the amount of £40,000,000. Many of the orders ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the request of the Australian Hospital Committee, Sir John McCall, the Agent-General for Tasmania, and Mr. B. R. Wise, the Agent-General for New ...
Article : 131 wordsIt is reported that the bombardments by the Allied Fleet have caused considerable damage to the coast towns in the Smyrna region of Asia Minor. The ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Greek Chamber of Deputies was opened to-day. M. Zavitzanos, a follower of M. Venizelos, who is likely to be the new Premier, and is in favour of ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Board of Trade reports that there is little unemployment in Great Britain, except for luxury trades, but the demand, for labour in the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe London newspapers give prominence to-day to Vice-Admiral De Rebeck's references in his despatch on the landing at Gaba Tepe to the service of ...
Article : 172 wordsIn order to deal with the abnormal conditions caused by the war, the Port of London Authority has decided to immediately increase the storage ...
Article : 46 wordsPrince Alexander of Oldenburg has offered hospitality on one of his estates in Southern Russia to 250 British wounded and invalided officers, when ...
Article : 38 wordsThe enumerators in Great Britain have not yet completed the collection of the national registration forms. There have been delays, especially in ...
Article : 121 wordsThe sterling exchange in New York has fallen to 4 dollars 67 cents, which is the lowest in the history of Wallstreet. ...
Article : 36 wordsGovernment circles announce that the Turko-Bulgarian negotiations have been provisionally adjourned owing to differences on points which in ...
Article : 67 wordsYesterday a German submarine shelled Parton, Harrington, and Whitehaven, on the coast of Cumberland. Fires broke out at Whitehaven and ...
Article : 112 wordsThe English jockey Field, who was employed by Enver Pasha, the Turkish Minister of War, and had been, detained in Constantinople since the ...
Article : 212 wordsThe prices of food in Great Britain since the war broke out have increased by 36 per cent. in the large towns and by 33 per cent. in the small towns. ...
Article : 44 wordsMilitary crities point out that the main crisis of the Grand-Duke Nicholas's grandiose and decisive withdrawal to his main defensive line of Brest ...
Article : 157 wordsLast night's communique says:- There was furious fighting on Saturday and Sunday between the Narow and the Bug. The Germans made a ...
Article : 106 wordsLast evening Socialist members of the French Chamber of Deputies gave a banquet in Paris to British trade union delegates, who have visited the British ...
Article : 85 wordsThe King and Queen visited the convalescent home at Harefield yesterday, and conversed with the Australian wounded soldiers there. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Turkish Ambassador to Italy has returned to Rome from a visit to Constantinople, and in his conversation with diplomats and journalists ...
Article : 153 wordsPrince Ranjitsinhji has been appointed one of Field-Marshal Sir John French's aides-de-camp. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Albis, 1,381 tons, was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sen yesterday by a German submarine. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. W. Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade, is endeavouring to avert trouble in South Wales, where the miners thrcaton to strike. They ...
Article : 49 wordsThE StatE Department at Washington has been notified unofficially, but authoritatively, of the intention of the Allies to declare cotton contraband. A ...
Article : 62 wordsIt has transpired that 3,000 Germans, preceded by an asphyxiating cloud advanced at dawn on Sunday. August 8, hoping to storm one of the forts of ...
Article : 111 wordsInformation has been received by the Defence Department that changes have been made in the high commands of the Australian Forces at the front. In ...
Article : 509 wordsThe American reply to Germany in connection with the sinking of the American barque William B. Frye, states that, while accepting the ...
Article : 60 wordsM. D. Tontcheff, the Bulgarian Minister of Finance, says that Bulgaria has never been in a situation of greater delicacy, but her decision on the ...
Article : 47 wordsMessrs. Cammell, Laird, and Co., who already have vast armament works in Sheffield, are erecting an engineering factory there for the Government. ...
Article : 77 wordsJ.C. Parke, the famous Irish tennis player, who was one of the British Isles team which won back the Davis Cup from Australasia in Melbourne in ...
Article : 59 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:- In the Vosges the explosion of a mine under a German trench between ...
Article : 102 wordsThe man masses of the Austro-German armies are now disposed along the frent of the Russian line from Ossowiec (the fortress on the Bobra River) to ...
Article : 95 wordsGerman agents are endeavouring, through neutral newspapers, to stir up a feeling in France that England is not doing enough in the war. Many lending ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Paris "Temps" states that the Turks are establishing new breastworks before Adrianople and also extending the outer line of the city's defences to ...
Article : 67 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— "During Sunday night the armies of Prince Leopold of Bavaria fought their way across tho Bug to the eastward of ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Russian Commission which is inquiring into German atrocities has received evidence that between lvangorod and Nova Alexandria recently a German ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Germans are making great effords to capture Kovno, but without succes. The Russians have begun an advancing movement to the north-east or Kovno, and if this succeeds they will save Kovno. South of Kovno the Russian line runs to the west of the Niemen, passing through Suwalki, till it reaches the head of the Bobra River (the tribulary of the Narew rising east of Lyek). It follows this stream to its junction with the Narew, and then the Narew to Lomsha. At that point it tyrns southwards across the Warsaw-Vilan [?]ilway and the Bug, and thhen runs south-eastwards, keeping to the east of Si[?]dlee and Lukow, [?]o ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 216 wordsRenewed fighting in the corner between the Oise and the Aisne is thus referred to in last night's communique: Our batteries have caused ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" states that great arcas to the westward of the Vistula are covered with waggons, which are ceaselessly bringing up supplies for ...
Article : 74 wordsA French doctor, who has returned, from internment in Germany, states that English-speaking German priests endeavoured, on behalf of the German ...
Article : 128 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:- Our artillery fire has seriously damaged the German works to the northward of Godat, near Berry-au-Bac ...
Article : 38 wordsLast night's communique says:- The Germans continue to bombard Kovno without cessation, and the bombardment of the fortifications on ...
Article : 83 wordsLast nignt's communique says:- The reports as to the heavy Austrian losses in the Papera Valley have been confirmed. We found 200 ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Government has suspended the issue of the Socialist newspapers "La Guerre Sociale." "L' Homme Enchaine," and "Le Rappel" for ...
Article : 39 wordsWhile the Germans have been making great efforts to force their way southward in the western part of the Argonne, and cut the communications ...
Article : 391 wordsWilhelm Bahrs, a native of Germany, appeared before the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having, in contravention of the regulations under ...
Article : 195 wordsThe evacuation of Riga continues. All the businesses, including the banks, have been removed to Moscow, and most of the inhabitants have gone away ...
Article : 65 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:- "An Austrian seaplane has dropped bombs on the four coast forts of Venice. All the bombs, except one, exploded ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 18 Aug 1915, Page 5
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