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Advertising : 487 wordsThe Times correspondent in Paris writes:-- "Every village in the River Somme fighting area is a fortress. Not one was given up without a struggle. "The wedge in the Gorman lines south of the Somme is now four miles wide, from ...
Article : 202 wordsPetrograd messages state that the Russian General Staff estimates the Austrian losses at more than half a million for the month. Russian military critics are most optimistic of the prospects. The Russian guns are pounding away at the Baranovitchy front on three sides at four-miles range. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Times correspondent at the Press Camp on the western front writes:-- "Attention has heretofore been concentrated on the southern attack, in the area ...
Article : 436 wordsThe official Petrograd message says:-- We have had successes in many sectors from Riga to the Carpathians. A thousand of the enemy were taken prisoners in the Baranovitchy region. The enemy on the right bank of the Dneister has been routed, and hundreds ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Paris communiques report:-- A German counter-attack gained two small woods a mile north of the village of Hem, while we captured a wood on the edge of the village. A German counterattack at Belloy was easily repulsed. ...
Article : 82 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports:-- We made a further slight advance near Thiepval. South of La Bassee Canal, after a discharge of smoke and gas, wo made successful raids upon the enemy's line. In these operations the Royal Welsh Fusiliers ...
Article : 78 wordsAn idea of the gigantic scale of the fighting on the eastern front may be gained from the statement of a wounded Russian airman. He relates that in the terrible battle near Lutzk he saw two entire Russian army corps (80,000 men), charge with the bayonet. On the following day he watched a furious melee between seven regiments of Russian cavalry ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Times correspondent at Amsterdam states that the Germans are constructing numerous cement fortifications on the Dutch frontier near the coast. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn eye-witness describes the prowess of the Ulster Division during the great assault. He says time the wood in which they were drawn up before the advance was ...
Article : 295 wordsThe German official messages grudgingly admit the British progress near Thiepval, the evacuation of the village of Hem, and the French capture of Belloy. Fighting for Estrees is proceeding. The communiques speak of heavy fighting on the Russian front, and reveal that ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Times correspondent at Petrograd witnessed the commencement of the offensive at Baranovitchy, and pays a great tribute to the Russian artillery preparation, which, he says, completely smashed through the lanes of barbed-wire entanglements. The Germans were completely out-gunned, and the fire culminated at midnight in ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. J. D. Bourchier, the distinguished Balkans correspondent of the Times, telegraphs from Constantinople:-- "Political discussions are prohibited and ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Italian official message says:-- "Our offensive between Lazarina and the Suzana Valleys continues. Our pressure on the Adige and Astico obliged the enemy to ...
Article : 40 wordsReuter's special representative on the western front says that the struggle at the Somme is assuming the proportions of the biggest battle of the west. The Germans are rapidly flinging in new forces, but these appear to be all coming from other parts, the enemy not daring to weaken his legions opposite our front. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Petunia, Neward Castle, Nancy Hunnan, Watchful Girl, and Bessie, all fishing boats, have been Bunk by German submarines in the North Sea. The Petunia attempted to ...
Article : 57 wordsThe crews of herring-boats which were sunk by a German submarine state that the commander said that he was formerly an officer in a P. and O. liner. ...
Article : 61 wordsFrom an authoritative source it is learned that the French on both banks of the Somme have opposed 97 battalions of Germans. Since the first reinforcements were brought up ...
Article : 78 wordsAn Army Order has been issued to the effect that wounded officers in future shall wear a gold braid stripe on the left arm sleeve and an additional stripe for each ...
Article : 42 wordsParis messages show that the defenders of Verdun knew on June 12 that the Russian offensive was about to begin. The fact was broadly hinted in an army order issued by ...
Article : 77 wordsA Danish newspaper announces a great international peace celebration, to which representatives of all countries will be invited. It is planned to be held after the war at the ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Fri 7 Jul 1916, Page 1
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