Mr. Philip Gibbs, writing to the "Dally Chronicle," says:— It is now possible to give a clear story of the fighting. The brigades disappeared ...
Article : 1,314 wordsA French communique states:— Our positions were violently bombarded eastward of Souchez. We, however, appreciably progressed from trench to trench. The heights ...
Article : 277 wordsThe "Freman's Journal" publishes details of German plans for promoting strikes in America. It appears that Matthew Cununings, of ...
Article : 176 wordsNineteen-year-old Germans in Holland and Scandinavia have been called to the colours, indicating the anxiety and uneasiness felt in Germany. ...
Article : 28 wordsGerman newspapers admit that a severe blow was struck on the Western front. A general, commenting on the struggle, in the Champagne, said that the battle ...
Article : 173 wordsA communique says:— The enemy's counter-attack in the Artois district, is restricted to a most violent bombardment of our new positions east of Souchez. ...
Article : 663 wordsMr. Winston Churchill (ex-First Lord of the Admiralty, and now Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) has appeared in a new role. Ho has stepped from politics to art. ...
Article : 153 wordsa semi-offcial narrative of the fighting in the Champagne from September 20 to 29 describes the capture northward of the Souain-Perthes road of 40 square kilometres ...
Article : 209 wordsIt is officially stated that a footing has been gained in the second defensive line at Champagne. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn armed aeroplane in the Champagne hit a German captive baloon, which burst into flames. Sixty-five aeroplanes threw over 300 ...
Article : 164 wordsM. Pichon (Minister, for Foreign Affairs) said that a million British troops were doing service on the French frontier, and these, he believed, would increase to a ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. Harold Cawley (Liberal M.P. for the Heywood division of Lancashire) has been killed at the Dardanelles. Sir Thomas Capper has been killed in ...
Article : 33 wordsReuter's correspondent states that the Boches boited like hares into the wood. French soldiers describing the charge at Souchez simultaneously with the other ...
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Advertising : 55 wordsA French official report states that in the last battles in the Champagne district the French established themselves in close proximity to the German's second line along a ...
Article : 40 wordsSir John French reports:—Several German attacks were made on Wednesday north-west of Hulluch (southward of La Bassee). Severe fighting continued all day. ...
Article : 938 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that Earl Kitchener, when addressing the Lab our Conference, said he preferred the voluntary system; but the present rate of ...
Article : 110 wordsSix thousand khaki-clad men engaged in a recruiting march to-day, proceeding from the centre of London to the north, south, east and west, with a view of impressing ...
Article : 174 words"Flicking his walking-stick and calmly puffing his pipe, like a company commander, General Marchand placed himself at the head of the column in the advance between ...
Article : 193 wordsThe War Office telegraphed to the Bristol recruiting committee stating that the failing off in recruiting has caused Lord Kitchener and the War Office the greatest ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Anglo-French war loan has already been over-subscribed. An earlier message seated that Mr. J. P. Morgan was confident the Anglo-French loan ...
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Advertising : 386 wordsThe order given by General Joffire, Commander-in-Chief of France's Army, read as follows:— "The offensive will be carried on without truce or respite. Remember the ...
Article : 39 wordsMiss Mary Davies, a bacteriologist, nearly lost her life in a heroic experiment to test poison as an antidote. Although previous tests on animals were fatal, she ...
Article : 103 wordsA wounded French soldier states that when, the infantry were held up at the entanglements, in the Champagne the cavalry came, to the rescue. ...
Article : 116 wordsThere is jubilation in Amsterdam over the victory of the Allies, indicating that however correct the Government's neutrality is, the Dutch people are heart and soul with the ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Stock Exchange, and London financial circles are 'relieved that the United States loan has been arranged, but are not enthusiastic as to the ternis. They point out it is ...
Article : 221 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. McKenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer), defendant the import duties on the ground that they would have a favourable effect on exchange which ...
Article : 253 wordsA Copenhagen message says that a Ger-man munition factory at Reindorf (inSaxony three, and a half miles south-east of Zwickau) was blown up on August 23. ...
Article : 44 wordsReferring to tho recent German defeats, the "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that it was impossible to resist the bombardment , for three days and nights, followed up by the ...
Article : 35 wordsPrivate telegrams from England and France to all neutral countries have been suspended for 4s hours. Lord Kitchener sent tho following message ...
Article : 55 wordsA writer in the "Berilngski Tindende" states that a definite result on the west front might decide the whole war. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Amsterdam journal "Der Telegraaf" slates that apparently inexhaustible trainloads of Germans are arriving in Belgium, and the greatest activity prevails. All ve ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is reported from Copenhagen that the German Admiralty has not received news of 47 submarines, which are supposed to be lost. The real number is believed to ...
Article : 37 wordsA communique states:—We progressed eastward and southward of Neuville. Northward of Massiges the Germans counter attacked in the Givenchy Wood ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 9 Oct 1915, Page 12
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