The reports received from various sources this morning convey a clearer idea of the extensive nature of the enemy's effort along the 50 miles or more of front between the ...
Article : 332 wordsThe news from the battle front this afternoon is of a more reassuring nature. A message, timed 2.55 p.m., says that the British ate holding well in the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe light dotted line to the westward indicates the position of the Allied front prior to the Somme offensive. The heavy dotted line to the eastward re presents approximately the front occupied prior to the enemy's attacks of Thursday last. The heavy black line in the middle shows the approximate front reached by the enemy as indicated by the latest cables received at the time the map was prepared. The enemy claims to have captured Chauny, which lies ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 102 wordsThe German attacks were continued in great strength throughout Sunday. South of Peronne the enemy crossed the Somme, and north of that town the British withdrew fighting to ...
Article : 107 wordsAn eye witness, narrating a description of the action off Dunkirk on the 21st inst., says:- The British destroyers Botha and ...
Article : 328 wordsThe country over which the British have retired up to the present offered few facilities in the way of a continuous strong defensive line along which such an effort could ...
Article : 326 wordsSir Douglas Haig, reporting at noon on Sunday stated: There was no material change in the battlefront during the night, though further fighting occurred at a ...
Article : 394 wordsA New York message says:—The Navy Department announces that the vessel seized in the Pacific was a sixty-foot motor boat named the Agassiz. She sailed from a West ...
Article : 67 wordsSir Douglas Haig on Monday reported: Our night-fliers all night long bombed hostile concentrations, dumps, and large guns. Over 34 tons were dropped, of which ...
Article : 215 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Sir Walter Davidson, before commencing the proceedings at the annual meeting of the Edith Cavell, Memorial Association, over ...
Article : 322 wordsA German official report, issued on Sunday afternoon, stated: In our victory near Monchy, Cambrai, St. Quentin, and La Fere, the English Third and Fourth ...
Article : 318 wordsThe forces which have fallen back from the Tortille River, northward of Peronne, have still the valuable high ground of the famous Thiepval ridge in their rear, and other ...
Article : 377 wordsA Paris message says that when the struggle was proceeding southwards of their position the Canadians deluged the enemy betweon Lens and Hill 70, ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, telegraphing on Sunday, stated that the enemy is continuing his attacks all day long on the whole battlefront. He progressed at various points in ...
Article : 1,906 wordsPalm Sunday in Britain was a day of most intense anxiety. Special prayers were offered in all the churches for the success of the Allied arms. A special Litany was read in ...
Article : 497 wordsThe long-range quarter-hourly bombardment of Paris was recommenced at seven o'clock on Sunday morning at a range of over 120 kilometres (75 miles). There ...
Article : 167 wordsThe resumption of the offensive activity by either side after a long spell of inactivity is often marked by the introduction of some new weapon at a time when the effect of ...
Article : 367 wordsColonel Repington, writing in the "Morning Post," says the Germans gained eight miles in two days, being half the first day's objective. They also gained an indisputable tactical ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. Ward Price, telegraphing from Italy, says:—The snows will be off the mountains, in three weeks, when the campaigning season will commence. ...
Article : 63 wordsA French communique issued on Sunday afternoon states:—After a violent bombardment the enemy unsuccessfully attempted a surprise attack south of Juvincourt. There is ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Percival Phillips telegr[?]phed on Sunday: The enemy between La[?] Fere and St. Quentin had one assault drivis[?]on opposed to each British battalion Throug[?]out Thursday, ...
Article : 1,152 wordsA report from Palestine states that on Sunday and Friday dismounted yeomanry made two darling raids on trenches near the Nablus road. A strong position at Amuries ...
Article : 180 wordsCopenhagen newspapers, commenting on the German communiques, in which victories are claimed, say that, comparing the masses of attacking troops, the result must be ...
Article : 107 wordsA Vancouver message states that the captured raider is reported to be of a type able to sink any merchant ship in the Pacific. It is believed to have been fitted out on the ...
Article : 80 wordsA further rise in the price of beef during the winter, due to the Scarcity of bullocks, was predicted by Mr. Arthur E. Smith, a grazier of Pyramid Hill. In giving evidence before ...
Article : 69 wordsFighting is proceeding between the Germans and the Red Guards near Abo. The White Guards occupwd Tammerfors. Bolsheviks returning from England have ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, states for th[?] information of relations and friends of the war workers and reinforcements who embarked at Melbourne on ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 26 Mar 1918, Page 7
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