General Sir Douglas Haig reports: This afternoon the centre attacked and captured the whole of the objective on a front or 3000 yards, between East Eaucourt and ...
Article : 177 wordsIt is not difficult to imagine how Tommy appreciates this sort of thing after coming out of the trenches. The first tiling he looks for when off duty is a stream in w[?]h he can enjoy a refreshing dip. The tragedy of war seems far removed from the jolly crowd in the picture. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsDutch reports give indication of intense and uninterrupted gunfire proceeding from the Plunders front, beginning on Saturday . ...
Article : 25 wordsGerman war correspondents, though minimising the Somme victories, are appalled at the terrific force and persistance of the offensive. ...
Article : 83 wordsA communique says: There have been minor successful operations on the Somme front, resulting in the capture of trenches at Ranecourt and Morval. Enemy attacks in ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Garvin, editor of the "Sunday Observer," writes:—"Great things are likely even before the winter. A glance at the map shows that if the wedge is cut in 20 ...
Article : 200 wordsAs an instance of the extremities to which Germany has been brought for men it has been ascertained that the 121st Division, after a trying period of trench ...
Article : 196 wordsThe "Times" correspondent says General Foch reaches the age limit of 65 on Monday. It is officially decreed that he maintain ...
Article : 36 wordsReuter's correspondent at headquarters says: A New Zealand officer was leading the Otagoites at Flers on September 15 when he was wounded. A sergeant ...
Article : 122 wordsThe "Daily Mail" correspondent at Amsterdam says on the 70th birthday of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg Germany was beflagged. ...
Article : 89 wordsLord Bryce, addressing the autumnal meeting of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, said we might be compelled to impose severe terms on our ...
Article : 73 words"The Times" correspondent at British headquarters on the western front writes:— "The Canadian troops, fighting on the former Australian front, found in a shell hole ...
Article : 143 wordsLord Northcliffe in the "Times" pays generous tribute, to the war work of doctors and particularly those in the front trenches, who are working almost without shelter and ...
Article : 137 wordsGeneral Joffre, in an order to the northern armies, says he is well satisfied with the efforts on the Somme, which have struck a blow at the enemy from winch he can hardly ...
Article : 192 wordsReuter's correspondent states that a semi-official report states that there is a second line defence beyond Le Sars, and Le Transloy, the main points of which are Varlen ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at British headquarters on the western front wrote on Saturday:—"Despite, the rain, the firing of the Franco-British artillery has been ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Amsterdam journal "Der Telegraaf" states that typhus and cholera are general amongst the exhausted troops arriving at Audenaarde from the Somme in large ...
Article : 49 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in a communique. says:—In stubborn fighting north of Courcelette an enemy counter attack forced us to relinquish a portion of the Regina ...
Article : 115 wordsReuter's correspondent at the French headquarters writes:—Having no strategic reserve, the Germans are forced to hurl their unhappy soldiers from one battlefield ...
Article : 121 wordsThe "Daily Mail,", in a leader says:—Parliament's first duty is to estimate the man-power available for winter training, forcibly increasing the military age. ...
Article : 83 wordsM. Pinchon, formerly French Foreign Minister, asserts that over on e hundred German submarines have been bagged or sunk during the past twenty months. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Fisher, Commonwealth High Commissioner, returned from franco on Saturday. He visited the Australian divisions, and accompanied General William ...
Article : 335 wordsThe night was quiet south of the Anere Successful raids were made south of Loos. It is officially reported that naval aeroplanes carried out further attacks on air ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is officially reported that the Allies have urged neutral Governments to prevent the belligerents' submarines, however utilised, from using neutral waters and to ...
Article : 41 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig's midnight official report added:—To-day we captured one officer and 63 men. Our aeroplanes yesterday bombed several points of military ...
Article : 65 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at British headquarters in Franco states that one's interest is momentarily shifted from Thiepval to the attack on Le Sars and ...
Article : 73 words"The Times" correspondent at British headquarters on the western front writes: There was heavy lighting at points in the German third line, where the foe ...
Article : 251 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports that there is continuous heavy rain, and matters generally are quiet. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe "Daily Mail" publishes a letter from an Irishman on the Australian front in the west, expressing the surprise of the Dominion troops that Irish recruits are not ...
Article : 148 wordsA communique says:—There was a fairly violent artillery duel north of the Somme. The Germans attempted attacks north of Rancourt, but were repulsed. Two enemy ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Beach Thomas, the "Daily Mail" correspondent at British headquarters on the western front, writes:— It is been a continuous record of individual and corporate ...
Article : 194 wordsA Belgian official communique says:—There has been a great artillery duel in the Dixmude region during the past week. Belgian guns of all calibres violently engaged ...
Article : 65 wordsReuter's correspondent states that a German communique states that gigantic reciprocal artillery fighting continues north of tho Somme and is especially bitter between ...
Article : 63 wordsHero we have the other side of the picture. British troops are seen advancing through a wood on the Western front. The picture shows a transport column on its way to the front trenches. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsA New York message states that Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan has gone to London, presumably to arrange a new £250,000,000 loan to the Allies. ...
Article : 34 wordsTwo French aviators who bombed Essen on September 22 reached their goal, 219 miles in 105 minutes, Hying at a height of 1300 feet. The weather was most fine. They ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 7 Oct 1916, Page 2
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