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Article : 48 wordsThe war anniversary was commemorated by services of intercession throughout the United Kingdom, including Buckingham Palace, at which the Primate preached and ...
Article : 156 wordsA report by General Haig, issued at midnight, is as follows:—We have gained ground north of Little Bazentin. Strong attacks on the Delville Wood have been ...
Article : 82 wordsFantastic reports are being published in the German papers as to the extent of the Anglo-French casualties on the Somme. Meanwhile a significant silence is ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "Times" correspondent, Mr. Stanley Washburn, writing from Russian headquarters on the StoKhod on the 3rd of August, states that in accordance with ...
Article : 242 wordsThere were not many wounded men on the hospital ship Karoola, which berthed at Woolloomooloo this morning. Most of the patients were suffering from or ...
Article : 144 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports that as a result of minor operations west of Pozieres we gained some ground. There were minor operations north of ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Asquith telegraphed to his constituents:—"We face the third year of the war with an ever growing confidence of final success and with a resolution confirmed by each ...
Article : 151 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports that we are in closest touch with the enemy in the trenches we captured last night west of Pozieres. Many Germans are lying dead ...
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Advertising : 17 wordsThe Sydney office of the Union Trustee Company of Australia, Ltd., has paid to the Commissioner of Stamp Duty a cheque for £4906/8/10, being probate duty on ...
Article : 835 wordsThe crew of a British trawler that was sunk states that they saw a submarine obtaining supplies from a Norwegian steamer. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Admiralty announces a successful attack by a aeroplane squadron against an enemy aerodrome in western Belgium and ammunition sheds at Mierelbeke. Two tons ...
Article : 47 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent states that a determined enemy has made a stand, on the Bug front from Sokal to Back, where already immense defence works are ...
Article : 62 wordsIn a message to tho Press, Mr. A. Fisher, Commonwealth High Commissioner, says:— "Our foes are not yet subdued, but their hopes of victory and world-power have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 688 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at headquarters writes:—This is the third day without a definite offensive. Minor fighting continues in extremely hot weather. We have gained ...
Article : 122 wordsFrench journals contain lengthy comments on the anniversary of the declaration of war. "St. Brice's Journal" states that ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Russians, in the Caucasus, in the direction of Diarbekr, stormed, at the point of the bayonet, the Turkish works between Mush and Mamahatun. They took 300 ...
Article : 63 wordsThe following cable message was despatched by his Excellency the Governor-General to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the occasion of the second anniversary ...
Article : 111 wordsAn official communique reports that fighting continues on the Thiaumont and Fleury front, where the Germans attacked all night long, most stubbornly. Several ...
Article : 198 wordsDespatches from Vionna state that the new appointment of Field Marshal you Hindenburg to the sole command of the Eastern front has enraged the Austrian ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. Jensen), states that on the occasion of two years of war, during which the Royal Australian Navy and the naval establishments connected with ...
Article : 114 wordsReuter's Correspondent at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands that Sir Ernest Shackleton has returned after a third fruitless attempt to rescue those number of his ...
Article : 134 wordsGeneral Sir Archibald Murray reports that two enemy aeroplanes on the 3rd of August attacked shipping at Laketissa, near Ismailia, and many bombs were ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the course of his speech at the Town Hall, Melbourne, last night, at the war anniversary celebration, Senator Pearce said he believed that it was no boast to say that ...
Article : 352 wordsThe Amsterdam journal, "Der Telegra[?] states that there have been further extensive slave raids in the north of France. The Paris "Figaro" mentions that 150 ...
Article : 62 wordsReuter's Washington correspondent reports that a treaty has been signed under which the United States Government has purchased the Danish West Indies for ...
Article : 39 wordsA correspondent at Paris says there is heavy fighting at Verdun. The Germans are alarmed at the methodical French advance in the Fleury and Thiaumont region, ...
Article : 58 wordsMany lobbyists regard the position of the Government as critical. The "Manchester Guardian," which is usually well informed. remarks that many ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Paris reports extensive fighting on the [?]ight of the Meuse. The Germans, he states had previously reached a position on the right bank ...
Article : 93 wordsNew South Wales: Fine and cool, except for showers in the south-east quarter, chiefly over the south-west slopes; southerly winds, and many frosts and fogs. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe germans in anticipation of the War-after-the-war, have their eyes fastened very particularly on the rich markets of South America. A "German-Spanish Society" has ...
Article : 111 wordsKing George has telegraphed King Albert, of Belgium, assuring him of his complete confidence in the united efforts of the Allies to liberate Belgium and restore full ...
Article : 53 wordsThe correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt," describing the Australian attack at Fromelles, mentions that marksmon were specially placed on the breast works to pick ...
Article : 164 wordsThe second anniversary of the war was observed by a public meeting in the Mechanics Institute Hall last evening. The shire president (Mr. F. J. R. Dight) presided over ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Times" correspondent in headquarters reports hot, dry, and trying weather with fitful artillerying at night along with theheavy shelling ...
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Advertising : 55 wordsNotwithstanding the very cold temperature a good number of residents assembled in front of the Post Office last night to join in val of the Empire's determination to continue ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Sat 5 Aug 1916, Page 5
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