A chaplain who was with the Third Russian Army in the retreat from West Galicia narrates that German regiments took no prisoners, and ...
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Advertising : 27 wordsThe cablegrams in to-day's "Mercury" contain accounts of desperate fighting at the Dardanolles, on the Italian front, along a great front in Galicia and Southern Poland, on the western front. General Ian Dardan[?]les. This advance apparently was made possible by the Australian victory on the heights Friday at the Dardanelles. This advance apparently was made possible by the Australian victory on the heights ...
Article : 475 wordsThe Berlin "Lokal Anzeiger" publishes the following telegram, sent on Wednesday, from its special correspondent who is with the Austro-German ...
Article : 194 wordsThe German account of the bombing by French aviators last week of the headquarters of the Crown Prince states that several soldiers were killed, ...
Article : 44 wordsThe employees of Messrs. Brunner, Mond, and Co., of Liverpool, in response to Air. Lloyd George's appeal, are speeding up their work in ...
Article : 70 wordsLast nights communique says:- A long-range Germna gun dropped a number of shells on Verdun to-day, but failed to hit the mark. ...
Article : 104 wordsThere were 10 persons on board the trawler Victoria, which was attacked and sunk yesterday by a German submarine off the Welsh coast. These ...
Article : 144 wordsThe scheme for the control by the Government of the exports of wheat from India is working smoothly, and the results, so far, have been attended ...
Article : 211 wordsAn important now bill has been prepared for submission to the Netherlands Parliament. It extends the liability to service in the Landsturm (second line ...
Article : 59 wordsEarlier in the war the Germans used vitriol, which they squirted into the Russian trenches. Later they used bombs containing concentrated ...
Article : 175 wordsThe following communique regarding the Italian operations was issued this afternoon:— Our offensive against the line of ...
Article : 118 wordsA German submarine shelled and then burnt the Danish schooner Salvador yesterday in the Northe Sea. The schooner was bound to Bristol. The crew, to ...
Article : 191 wordsThe nows that Bulgaria has concentrated her army on the frontier is causing grave anxiety in Constantinople. Turkish reinforcements have been sent ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Winston Churchill addressing his constituents at Dundee yesterday, said he did not intend to embark on explanations reproaches and ...
Article : 733 wordsThere are rejoicings in Berlin and Vienna over the taking of Przemysl. It is noteworthy that the fall of the fortress has been promptly followed by ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Australian and New Zealanders have particularly distinguished themselves in the fighting for the heights round Krithia. The Turkish casualties ...
Article : 281 wordsSenne Russian warships to-day exchanged shots with large German naval forces in the Gulf of Riga. ...
Article : 32 wordsAmericans in Germany have been warned officially that relations between the United States and Germany may be broken off in 48 hours, and they ...
Article : 82 wordsOn the eastern frontier of the Trentino, the Austrains are retiring westward towards the Fleimser Valley (north-cast of Trent). They have ...
Article : 80 wordsAn explosion occured on the Swedish steamer Lapland, 2,338 tons, when 25 miles off Peterhead, Abeldeonshire, and the iron ore with which she was laden ...
Article : 204 wordsSir, John French reports as follows on the operations of the British forces:- The fighting during the last few days has been mainly artillery ...
Article : 158 wordsA platoon of Alpine Chasseurs the other day attacked a trench held by a superior number of Austria at Val Inferno. The Italian ...
Article : 88 wordsThe communique issued late last night gives the following account of the development of the great Galician battle: We have gained further successed ...
Article : 444 wordsMr. J. W. Gerard, the American Ambassador at Berlin, has cabled to his Government, stating that Germany is willing to pay an indemnity for the ...
Article : 98 wordsAn Italian cruiser lound a German water-plane lying in the sea off Brindisi to-day. The aviators had apparently been drowned. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Lloyd George. the Minister for Munitions, addressing a body of employers at the Town-hall, Liverpool, to-day, said he intended ...
Article : 464 wordsThe Wilson liner lona. and the fishing vessel Chrysopasus, have been torpedoed and sunk off the Orkney Islands. The crews landed. Four of the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following communique regarding the Russian operations against the Turks was issued to-day:— To the north of Lake Van we ...
Article : 102 wordsThe communique regarding the western front issued in Berlin to-day says: We have stormed the village and the Chateau of Hooge. The British ...
Article : 79 wordsDining the attatk on the Austrian position at Monte Ecorade the Italians, by means of a few bombs, stampeded a herd of wild buffaloes against the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe following cable message was referred to-day by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) from Sir Ian Hamilton: "The Turks having heavily bombarded ...
Article : 720 wordsThe Admiralty reports that for the week ending June 2 there were 1,382 arrivals and departures of vessels at ports in the United Kingdom, and of ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. R. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Cuncliffe, the Governor of the Bank of England, have visited Nice, where they met Signor ...
Article : 60 wordsThe communique issued at midnight last night gives the following account of the fighting between Arras and Lens: ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Peterhead drifter Enamay has been torpedoed off the Shetland Islands. The crew have landed. A Belgian trawler has been ...
Article : 133 wordsThe news of the fall of Przemysl has been received with wonderful stoicism by all dusses in Russia. It is regarded as a mere episode in the great and ...
Article : 120 wordsIt is officially stated that hostile airships last night visited the east and. south-east coasts of England, and dropped bombs at various places. Little ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Press Bureau states that Brigadier-General Dobell, the commander of the British troops operating against the Germans in the Cameroons, reports ...
Article : 62 wordsThe communique issued in Berlin last night says:- After heavy fighting we have reached the villages to the eastward ...
Article : 97 wordsThe German military authorities estimate that the war will last another year. Not on your life—but on I.X.L. James, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 7 Jun 1915, Page 5
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