Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters in France says that a ferocious battle raged the whole of yesterday around Lens. The latest news is that the Canadians are ...
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Advertising : 258 wordsReuter's correspondent at British Headquarters telegraphs that the Canadians around Lens launched another attack, converging upon the western environments of the town ...
Article : 259 wordsThe latest French communique states:—There has been somewhat great reciprocal artillery activity in the region of the Vauxaillon Plateau, Cerny, and Craonne. ...
Article : 169 wordsA French communique states that the enemy at night-time violently bombarded at different points our first line on the Aisne. The Germans made several strong attacks in the region ...
Article : 254 wordsMr. Campbell, the "Times" correspondent, describing the French attack, says:—"We left Verdun at 2 o'clock in the morning and groped our way through the ...
Article : 392 wordsMr. Robinson, the "Times" correspondent, reports that the Canadians' and Germans' battle in No Man's Land was the bloodiest struggle in a bloody corner of the Flanders ...
Article : 274 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent states that infuriated by their defeats at Verdun, Germans have committed a fresh and inexcusable crime. German aeroplanes last night set fire ...
Article : 168 wordsA French semi-official account of the battle of Verdun shows that the enemy meant to resist to the utmost. The Germans had five divisions' in reserve. ...
Article : 115 wordsReuter's Copenhagen correspondent states that the Main Committee of the Reichstag discussed the Pope's Note, which has generally been welcomed by party leaders, Dr. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Press Bureau states that enemy airships appeared on the Yorkshire coast last night. One attacked at the mouth of the Humber, dropped bombs, and went seaward. ...
Article : 203 wordsMr. W. C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce, issued a significant statement to-day containing an incidental reference to peace terms. He said that "The Germans have a ...
Article : 97 wordsThe body of a newly-born infant was found on the railway line near Ashfield with a piece of calico twisted twice round its neck and tied. It is believed the body ...
Article : 58 wordsField Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: Early this morning we attacked and captured the enemy's positions on a front of 2000 yards westward and north-westward ...
Article : 163 wordsThe situation is slowly but gradually improving locally so far as the railway service is concerned. More goods are now being handled, and a quantity of hay was loaded to-day, for ...
Article : 198 wordsThe French sailing vessel Cambronne on a voyage from Brazil to France was bombarded and sunk by an enemy submarine on July 8, 120 miles from the French coast. The ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Parramatta Coroner commenced an inquiry to-day concerning the death of the jockey Leslie Bragg from injuries received in the smash at Canterbury Park ...
Article : 42 wordsIn an earlier communication, Mr. Campbell says that the French in their attack north of Verdun revived the tactics they so successfully employed last ...
Article : 180 wordsFor the week ending August 19 arrivals at Italian ports were 489, and sailings 457. Two steamers and three sailing vessels were sunk, two steamers and one sailing ...
Article : 47 wordsA British official report states that one or at most two of the airships which raided the Yorkshire coast last night ventured overland. Twelve high explosive and 13 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsPresident Wilson has tentatively fixed the price for domestic coal at the pithead at 9/ per ton. A British-American syndicate has bought ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Beach Thomas, London "Daily Mail" correspondent, says that the [?]rish paid the highest sacrifice on August 16, after Dhugemarck. Advancing eastward from Frozenburg ...
Article : 112 wordsThe many friends of Mr. S. H. Bendeich, who for the past few years has been on the teaching staff of the Cessnock Public School, will be pleased to hear of ...
Article : 377 wordsSearchlights quickly picked up a Zeppelin last night at an attitude of two miles, and subjected her to a hot fire. Only a few bombs were dropped, mostly incendiary, when ...
Article : 117 wordsReuter's correspondent at French [?]quarters described the French artillery fire in the small hours of the morning, before the infantry left the trenches. It reached ...
Article : 510 wordsReuter's Copenhagen correspondent states that a German official report states that the Kaiser has visited Wilhemshaven and the North Sea, and Heligoland fleets. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe weather information received at the West Maitland Telegraph Office up till 9 a.m. to-day reported fine at all stations. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe recovery of Lens and St. Quentin from the enemy should have an interesting result. Both towns have (or had) extensive sugar factories—in fact the whole district towards which we are ...
Article : 86 wordsA wireless Russian official report states that the Germans took the offensive at Inkkun and drove back our cavalry advance posts. There is vigorous German artillerying on the Dvinsk ...
Article : 75 wordsMeteorological Bureau, Thursday. New South Wales.—Except for a few light showers on the south-western slopes, generally fine, with frosts and fogs in the north-eastern ...
Article : 241 wordsThe "Times" correspondent says:—The Austrian defences are cracking at various points. The defence is unable to concentrate guns at threatened places, owing to the ...
Article : 108 wordsBolivia has a strange connection with this country in the fact that the English sovereign is the standard gold coin. This is minted from local gold at the capital of the country, La Paz. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe new scheme for commercial service, mentioned on August 17, has not yet been published, but it is generally understood that it provides for a new and more efficient ...
Article : 169 wordsAn unparalleled conflict continues to rage incessantly on a forty miles front on the Isonzo. Thousands of guns are thundering unceasingly and no battle has ...
Article : 88 wordsAmerica's purchase of the Danish West Indies was very opportune, for it means that there is now a semi-circle of islands, stretching from the coast of Mexico to Trinidad, which forms a ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Thu 23 Aug 1917, Page 5
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