According to a Paris communique, dated Friday afternoon, the situation east and west of the Meuse showed no material change during Thursday ...
Article : 317 wordsThe past week has seen the Verdun offensive maintained with unabated determination by the Germans, not withstanding the frightful losses they ...
Article : 557 words"Our aircraft," reports a French communique, "were engaged in numerous encounters, mostly over the enemy's lines, on Wednesday. Out of 15 ...
Article : 64 wordsThe High Commission for Australia (Mr. A. Fisher) entertained a party of Russian journalist at Bostal Heath on Friday. The Australian ...
Article : 67 wordsGerman casualty lists for the month of February show the names of 10,211 dead, 21,635 wounded, and 3,362 prisoners or missing ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Russians are still steadily progressing in Asia Minor and are closing in on Trebizond. while they have also captured some important ...
Article : 71 wordsThe London "Spectator," commenting on the unexpected outburst by Colonel Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on Wednesday, ...
Article : 101 wordsA German wireless message, reviewin gthe air battles which took place in February, declares that six German machines were lost, and then proceeds ...
Article : 64 wordsThe British War Savings Committee has made yet another appeal against extravagance, particularly as regards women's dress, hats, boots and ...
Article : 57 wordsOne especially interesting event during the past week is the state of war that has been arisen between German and Portugal as the result of ...
Article : 70 wordsLord Montagu of Beaulieu, who is a leading authority on aviation, raised a debate in the House of Lords on Friday on the subject. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Pope, writing to Cardinal Basil Pompili, says: We are throwing ourselves among the belligerents as a father between his sons at strife. We ...
Article : 62 wordsThe success of the Russian Caucasus campaign is. as was expected, greatly relieving the position in Mesopotamia, where the British ...
Article : 39 wordsColonel Churchill interviewed Mr. Asquith yesterday and decided to return to the front to-day. ...
Article : 22 wordsA message from Amsterdam states: "It is understood that serious rioting is taking place daily in Berlin since the German failure at Verdun." ...
Article : 28 wordsAccording to advices reaching Amsterdam the German press is dissatisfied, with the attitude adopted by the German Foreign, Office towards ...
Article : 48 wordsThe attempt to send two new Austrian dreadnoughts through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea is really an endeavor to deprive Russia of the ...
Article : 87 wordsTravellers arriving in Amsterdam from Germany report that serious riots have occurred in Cologne. It is supposed that they are the outcome ...
Article : 81 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Amsterdam says: "The secret service and German organisation are attempting to establish a sort of ...
Article : 66 wordsWith the view of supplying the needs of her own army Roumania has sized 150,000 waggon loads of cereals recently sold to Germany. ...
Article : 30 wordsA historic scene was witnessed in the Portuguese Parliament yesterday. At the instance of the Premier, Parliament unanimously formed a ...
Article : 159 wordsIn consequence of the raid by Mexican band, under General Villa, on the Mexican town of Columbus, the United States Cabinet has ordered a ...
Article : 71 wordsThe well-known correspondent, Joseph Reinach, writes that Verdun is no longer a battle. It is a butchery. At least 400 German ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is officially announced that a conference between the three Scandinavian States has strengthened their good relations and given fresh ...
Article : 35 wordsA Petrograd message states: "The Germans have established a battery of naval guns near Schlock. The fact that the position is remote from the ...
Article : 91 wordsIn view of the number of conscientious objections to enlistment, the War Office has formed a non-combatant corps at the usual rates of pay ...
Article : 34 wordsA Paris semi-official statement has been issued exposing, seriatim, a number of German official lies. It is observed that these untruths have ...
Article : 41 wordsThe late Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, formerly of New South Wales, who died in February, 1915. left unsettled estate valued at £256,297, and net ...
Article : 71 wordsParis communique of Saturday report: The enemy furiously assaulted Corbean wood. Our infantry and machine guns repulsed several successive ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 268 wordsLord Northcliffe, in a message to the "Weekly Despatch," contrasts the fine physique and bearing of German prisoners at the Marne with the ...
Article : 68 wordsAn. official Petrograd communique states: "We bombarded the moving batteries eastward of Czernowitz. Explosions were observed among the ...
Article : 22 wordsBrazilian newspapers are pointing out that Germany owes Brazil the sum of .£4,800,000 for coffee shipments. They suggests that with the view of ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Verdun battle seems to mark the opening of a new phase in the war. It shows the desperate straits to which Germans are rapidly being ...
Article : 421 wordsA Petrograd communique states: "In the region of the Upper Strypa, east of Kosloff, we repulsed an enemy attack in force, inflicting heavy lsoses." ...
Article : 30 wordsA better tone prevailed at the second series of London wool sales to-day. Bidding was more general, and prices were slightly harder all ...
Article : 31 wordsAn officer who fought at Verdun says: "For over 17 days the Germans hurdled masses against our unshakeable wall. Notwithstanding the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Germans are evacuating Ispahan, in Persia. ...
Article : 13 wordsMr. Jean Herbette, writing to the "Echo do Paris," points out that a month ago Germany declared in a brutal irrevocable fashion that her ...
Article : 73 wordsThe American Embassy at Constantinople, states a Washington advice, reports that the Russian occupation of the Turkish Black Sea port of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe wheat market is steady. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe general situation at Verdun from the French viewpoint is excellent. Expert are of opinion that the Germans are now up against the ...
Article : 54 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports: "We exploded three mines eastward of Vermelles with satisfactory results. Mines and artillery on both sides are ...
Article : 53 wordsThe blizzard in Derbyshire continues. A train has been snowed up at Minninglow station for a week. Gangs of men endeavoring to dig it ...
Article : 55 wordsBelated advices which are coming to hand in Athens report the destruction by fire of the railway offices at Adana (South-East Asia Minor), an ...
Article : 41 wordsThe barque Ville du Havre has been sunk, and two members of the crew drowned The liner Douisian and the ...
Article : 36 wordsA message from Berne states:— "There are great movements of troops along the Rhine confined to an almost uninterrupted series of trains passed ...
Article : 50 wordsGeneral Haig reports that 31 aeroplanes made a successful attack against the railhead billets at Carbion 7 miles north-east of Sedan. It ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" correspondent at Petrograd states that the Russians are 27 miles from Trebizond. The fleet continues to shell the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Mr. W. Runciman) has announced that at the end of 1915 the tonnage of British shipping ...
Article : 41 wordsThe police and detectives engaged in endeavouring to solve the motor car tragedy report that they are following up certain information which ...
Article : 43 wordsA German wireless states: "During the clearing of Crow's wood and the enemy trenches at Bethincourt and east of the Mouse, we took prisoner ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Admiralty announce that the British destroyer Coquette (335 tons, one 12 pounder and five 6-pounder guns) and the torpedo-beat No. 11 ...
Article : 59 wordsA Turkish communique states: "The enemy attacked with his main forces on the 8th from the right bank of the Tigris. The enemy temporarily ...
Article : 84 wordsThe German aviation claims are officially denies. The French actually lost six aeroplanes in February, four of which fell owing to motor faults, ...
Article : 36 wordsA German communique says: Our seaplanes bombed a Russian squadron eastward of Varna. Some hits were observed. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn official announcement made in London states that General J. C. Smuts, the British commader-in-chief in East Africa, reports that after the ...
Article : 83 wordsA French communiques states:— One of our aeroplanes in the Donaumont district brought down a Fokker machine which fell in flames in the ...
Article : 28 wordsWe hold a limited stock of the following lines at last year's prices, which cannot be repeated. World-noted Borsalino Hats, from 12/6; ...
Article : 149 wordsA message from Conenhagen says: It is stated that the German fleet in the North Sea included the new Dreadnought Hindenburg. ...
Article : 115 wordsReports from Cologne state that one of the Zeppelins did not return after the last raid on England. ...
Article : 22 wordsLater French communique state: "The Germans debouched from Villeaubols and attacked our salient at Bois des Buttes. We threw them back ...
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The Warrnambool Standard (Vic. : 1872 - 1879 ; 1914 - 1918), Mon 13 Mar 1916, Page 3
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