The commander-in-chief in Egypt reports:—The pursuit of the Turks defeated in the battle of Katia continues. We pressed back the Turkish rearguard to the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Italians have begun a great offensive from the Isonzo to the Carno plateau, over a front of 60 miles, for which they prepared for several weeks. Tney ...
Article : 364 wordsA French communique on Tuesday morning stated:—We stopped successive strong German attacks at Fleury and Thia[?] Work, which were accompanied by heavy ...
Article : 96 wordsA Petrograd message says: We took the offensive southward of the Dniester on a front of sixteen miles. We penetrated the trenches and pursued the ...
Article : 515 wordsThe dotted line represents approximately the front occupied by the Southern Russian armies prior to the commencement of General Bruss[?]f's offensive. The heavy line shows the approximate position of those armies at present, as indicated by the cablegrams. The shaded area represents the ground gained by the Russians ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 181 wordsAn intense bombardment on the Somme front is said to be a prclude to a renewal of the Anglo-French advance. ...
Article : 167 wordsThis morning's news is particularly pleasing especially that portion of it which con[?]s the Russian and Italian fronts. It is difficult to say whether the two Russian ...
Article : 338 wordsEarly this morning airships raided the English east coast and another the Scottish coast. Three women and a child were killed and 14 persons wounded. No ...
Article : 88 wordsCaptain C. E. W. Benn, the official correspondent with the Australian Imperial Forces, cabling from the British Headquarters in France, under date o[?] August ...
Article : 377 wordsIf the Russians were able to bring about this rather improbable result, their offensive would achieve a success compared with wvhich the mere capture of Lemberg or Kovel ...
Article : 325 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his report of midday on Wednesday, says:—There is no change in the situation at Guillemont. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Portuguese Parliament was opened to-day. The Finance Minister announced that Britain was advancing loans for war ...
Article : 221 wordsThere are great rejoicings over the success of the Italian offensive. Its beginning had been whispered about since Friday, and results have been eagerly and ...
Article : 617 wordsThese converging advances of the Russians are still in a very early stage of development, and may be brought to a halt before they seriously affect the enemy's communications. ...
Article : 281 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, writing to the London "Dally Chronicle," states:—Before the Kents advanced on the enemy trenches north of Pozieres they donned gas masks. ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Admiralty announces that British sea-planes, co-operating with the French, successfully bombarded benzine stores and barracks at Mulheim on the 30th. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Berliner "Tageblatt" says that the trade submarine Bremen, which left Germany for America some time ago, and has not arrived at her destination, has ...
Article : 134 wordsA message from Paris on Tuesday night stated: The allied artillery has been delivering an exceptionally severe bombardment curing the past 48 hours ...
Article : 410 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson (President of the Education Board) has resigned from the Ministry. It is understood he considers his labour missions, on behalf of the ...
Article : 114 wordsAn action heard in the courts, and involving the right to ship munitions from Jersey City, disclosed the fact that one company alone has a contract with ...
Article : 49 wordsCardinal Hartmann, replying to the Pope on behalf of the German Government, says that owing to the difficulty of feeding the dense populations in the towns of France ...
Article : 71 wordsThe British dispersed Bulgarian patrols at Doljeli, west of Lake Doiran. There was bomb and bayonet fighting on Monday night. ...
Article : 45 wordsReplying, in the House of Commons, to a question whether in the terms of peace the Allies would insist on taking from Germany an equal amount of shipping ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the main Italian theatre of operations, along the I[?]o and Carso fronts, a most promising offensive has begun, which is already attended with important successes. It ...
Article : 471 wordsIt is semi-officially stated in Constantinople that 615 officers and 12,597 men were taken prisoners by the Turks on the capitulation of General Townshend at ...
Article : 40 wordsCounsel for the German Government has filed a formal appeal against the decision of the United States Supreme Court, in the Appam case. Lieutenant Berg has ...
Article : 47 wordsA Rome message states:—The Servians drove out the Bulgarians from Presba and occupied the town. [Presba is situate 20 miles south-east of ...
Article : 37 wordsIn order to safeguard the power works at the Niagara Falls, which supply the Canadian munition plants, a ring of barbed wire entanglements has been constructed. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe House of Commons this evening voted £6,000,000 for supplementary pensions after Mr. M'Kenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer) had stated that the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Danish passenger boat Ydun (645 tons), while returning to Copenhagen with 200 school boys and girls who had been spending a holiday in Jutland, was ...
Article : 45 wordsThe steamer Cufie has left London for Brisbane. The new steamer Cumberland has left Liverpool for Brisbane. ...
Article : 23 wordsRepresentative Bennett, speakiug in Congress, favoured the use or the navy to break the black list. He said that a ship carrying black-list goods should be guarded ...
Article : 38 wordsThe most important development along the front in the Artois-Somme sector this morning is the heavy artillery bombardment mentioned in an unofficial Paris message. It this ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Y.M.C.A. has made arrangements to entertain suitably and take care of Anzacs who are Spending their leave in London. On an average 4000 visit the metropolis ...
Article : 42 wordsStatements of German prisoners show that the troops in the trenches have one day weekly without meat, and those behind up to four days a week. The meat ...
Article : 116 wordsReplying, in the House of Commons, to questious by Sir K. Kinloch [?]ke regarding settling soldiers on the land, Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State ...
Article : 96 wordsMuch interest is being shown in the despatches of Karl von Welganu, the "World's" Berlin correspondent, whose recent cables have shown how Germany is ...
Article : 93 wordsAlbany, the sculler, has been killed in action. The King has conferred the Military Cross on Lieut. Stanley Wootton, 17th ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 10 Aug 1916, Page 7
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