There is still a shortage of doctors for service with the Australian Expeditionary Forces, and this becomes more marked as additional reinforceme[?]s ...
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Article : 129 wordsBulgaria's real intentions, so far as we know, are enveloped in mystery. She is mobilising liol army, and has despatched 100,000 men to a quarter not disclosed. Then the mystifying information is given that she has signed a convention with Turkey dealing with the conditions of her armed neutrality. Recently the Bulgarian Premier gave the assurance that he would never take up arms against Russia. Bulgaria's difficulty probably arises from the ...
Article : 285 wordsR[?]uter's correspondent at New York states that the conference of American bankers and members of the AngloFrench Commission decided yesterday ...
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Article : 135 wordsThe excellent hospital arrangements which Australia has already made are to be supplemented shortly by the commissioning of two hospital ships. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe French Budget Commission reports that the cost of the war to France up to the present has been £1,200,000,000, and that the expenditure now is ...
Article : 46 wordsA German communique says that in a battle in the air a German airman yesterday shot down an English aeroplane east of Neuville. The pilot was killed, ...
Article : 48 wordsTelegrams from Berlin state that the third German war lion closed with unsatisfactory results. It was only just covered, and German financiers are ...
Article : 45 wordsColonel Ahear[?]e, the Queensland doctor who recently visited the hospitals in Serbia, and wrote a graphic account of the condition of the sick and ...
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Article : 428 wordsThe Swedish steamer Aera, with 12,000 tons of corn and 250 tons of oil on board, which was bound from Gothenburg ostensibly for Stockholm, has ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Sir A. B. Markham, the Liberal me[?]ber for Mansfield, criticised the censoring of news of German origin, which ...
Article : 415 wordsAlong the northern part of the front, between the Dwina and the Niemen, the Russians are now taking the offensive at some points Last night's ...
Article : 139 wordsA Serbian communique issued in Nish to-day states:—"The enemy on Sunday violently bombarded our front. Eight hundred shells were dropped on our ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is related that when the German cruisers, Scharnhorst and Gn[?]isena[?], which were afterwards destroyed by the British in the Falkland ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Bulgarian in Lega[?]on at Berlin announces that a general mobilisation of the army was ordered yesterday. All Bulgarians of military age in Germany have ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. G. N. Ba[?]nes, the Labour member for the Blackfriars division of Glasgow, in an interview to-day, stated that if under voluntary enlistment Great ...
Article : 148 wordsOn Monday, 39 men entered the Claremont camp. This number was an increase of one over the figures for the previous Monday. The figure[?] for ...
Article : 309 wordsGerman newspapers are boasting that Serbia will feel the forc[?] of the mailed fist, as the G[?]rmans will accomplish what the Austrian army has been ...
Article : 42 wordsCopenhagen and Vienna messages slate that Dr. Radoslavoff, the premier, addressing the Bulgarian Cabinet, declared that Bulgaria cannot ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Marks, the well-known Sydney yachtsman, who is now engaged in patrol duty in the North Sea, expresses the opinion that an opening exists for a ...
Article : 70 wordsThe newspaper the "Russkoe Slovo" has just published the [?]rs detailed account of the capture of Novo-Georgievsk. It says:—"The Germans ...
Article : 449 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:- [?]The Russians have attacked General Von Hindenburg's forces on the Dwina to the south-east of Lennewarden, and ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon[?] Sir J. B. Lonsdale, the Unionist member for Mid-Armagh, asked whether the Government intended taking the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe news of the mobilisation of the Bulgarian army has caused considerable excitement in Greece. King Constantine has conferred with M. Venizelos, ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Danish steamer Thorvaldsen, 105 tons, was torpedoed and sunk yesterday by a German submarine, and the Dutch steamer Koningen Emma, 17[?] ...
Article : 52 wordsOur Mathinna correspondent writes: —"Private F. H. Williams, son of Mr. A. J. Williams, returned from the war on Friday last on sick leave, and was ...
Article : 1,027 wordsThe Premier (Hon. John Earle) crosse[?] from Burni[?] to Melbourne to-morrow night by the [?].s. Oonah, in order to attend the adjourned meeting of the ...
Article : 419 wordsAn article in the "Berliner post" declares that the English are vainly trying to persuade their colonies to make "greater sacrifices." ...
Article : 112 wordsThe retreat from Vilna was one of the most brilliant exploits of the war. The Germans had almost surrounded the city, and then they threw off huge ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Turks claim that they destroyed two of the Allies' guns at An Burnu on Sunday last. The Germans are marching the same ...
Article : 64 wordsThe case was resumed to-day before the Prize Court, in which the Crown claims the condemnation of 6,710 tons of spelter on board the steamer Bilbster, ...
Article : 302 wordsThe British Budget has produced an enormous effect in political and business circles in France. The public are struck with its simplicity, and the absence of ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Liquor Traffic Control Board has decided to schedule Greater London, which comprises the City and Metropolitan Police Districts, and embraces ...
Article : 81 wordsHundreds of Germans are employed in the manufacture of munitions at Constantinople. ...
Article : 30 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:- "Prince Leopold of Bavaria has stormed the positions on the western bank of the Mystchanka River, on both sides of the ...
Article : 64 wordsA Treasury statement issued to-day in connection with the new duties estimates that a year's duty on hats will produce £80,000. on watches £180,000[?] ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Greek newspaper "Messager d'Athenes gives details of the destruction caused by the Allies' submarines in the Sea of Marmora last month. It ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. H. W. Forster, the Financial Secretary to the War Office, replying in the House of Commons yesterday to criticisms, admitted that waste existed ...
Article : 75 wordsIt is officially stated in London that a general mobilisation of the Bulgarian army [?]as been ordered for to-day. The Bulgarian Minister in London ...
Article : 154 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day Achalen Woolicroft Palfreyman, managing director of the Australian Jam Company, was presented on a charge of having ...
Article : 163 wordsReplying to questions in the House of Commons this afternoon as to the increase in the price of foodstuffs, Mr. W. Runciman, the President of the ...
Article : 179 wordsFurther Russian successes on the line between the Pripet and the Dniester are thus described in to-day's communique: We drove the Austro-Germans out ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. Lan Malcolm, the Unionist member for Croydon in the House of Commons, and formerly attache at the British Embassy in Berlin, has ...
Article : 229 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. Lewis Harcourt, the First Commissioner of Works, stated that the Government was effecting economies at ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Press Bureau states that a French offici[?]l communication confirms the reports that the Turks are taking advantage of their opportunity to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 24 Sep 1915, Page 5
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