The British have attacked again, and taken Contalmaison, and they have also retaken the whole of TronesWood (east of Montauban), except the northern end. When the British advanced on July 1 they created a, number of salients—that is, their front became saw-shaped—and it became necessary to clear the ground between the gaps. They now have a new front, from Orvillers near the Ancre River, and past Montauban to the French left at Hardecourt, ...
Article : 510 wordsAn analysis of the recent Russian strategy and tactics shows that the general method is to attack with great vigour a particular point until the ...
Article : 574 wordsThe German submarine U4 has sunk the Dutch lugger Geertruide. The submarine fired 20 shots at the lugger without waining. The Geertruide was ...
Article : 62 wordsTo-day's French communique states: In the Lorraine district the Germans attacked our salient east of Roillon, and penetrated the first line ...
Article : 102 wordsTo-day's Italian communique states:— Owing to our pressure in the Trentino region and on the Isonzo the Austrians are recalling the troops ...
Article : 106 wordsYesterday an enemy submarine shelled one of the coastal towns of Durham, but little damage was done. ...
Article : 27 wordsTo-day's French communique states: In the Vosges we have occupied the enemy's first line trenches, and penetrated their supporting trenches ...
Article : 72 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states: One of our mail packets anchored on the Caucasian coast has been sunk by an enemy submarine. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe correspondent at the Roumanian capital of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the general offensive of the Allies has deeply stirred Roumanian public ...
Article : 103 wordsThe American Naval and Customs officers, after an inspection of the Deutschland, have submitted the following report to the United States ...
Article : 85 wordsM. Aucher, of Sydney, who fought through the France-Prussian war and has a son in the Australian army at the front, has described the Somme country ...
Article : 922 wordsBig German guns are heavily bombarding the front southward of Hulluch and La Bassee. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe progress of the Russian operations is thus described in to-day's official communique:— The enemy have received ...
Article : 115 wordsIt is reported that the Kaiser and the Emperor Francis Josef of Austria have made on urgent request to King Ferdinand that he should despatch ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Berlin "Vossische Zeitung" says that the Allies have submitted a protest against the Deutschlands presence in an American port. The newspaper ...
Article : 161 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig records the recepture of the village of Contalmaison (north-east of Albert) in his report this morning on the British operations ...
Article : 353 wordsGeneral Sarrail (the commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces at Salonika, was aloft in an aeroplane for three hours yesterday making an inspection ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Germans are fighting at a disadvantage, as they have their backs to the river Somme (to the north and south of Peronne), and the majority ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. Perceval Gibbon, the British war correspondent with the Russian forces, says that through trains are running from Brussels to Kovel and are tearing ...
Article : 117 wordsA Berlin communique says:—It is quiet at Riga and Pinsk. The Russian announcement about the evacuation of Pinsk is false. Strong forces attacked ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Allied Ministers at Athens have protested against the Greek militaiy authorities at Florina having handed over to Bulgarian officers the 150 ...
Article : 64 wordsAt to-day's proceedings of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the British air service, Lord Montagu of Bailleau called an anonymous ...
Article : 76 wordsIt is reported that the insurrection against the Austrians is general in Montenegro. It is said the Austrians have burned Cettinje, the tapital, ...
Article : 39 wordsA German communique says:—Between the Ancre and the Somme the English have launched strong attacks over a wide front, but they were shot ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Russians recently captured some Bulgarians, who had been compelled to advance against their will under the threat that they would ...
Article : 221 wordsAn American despatch to Amsterdam says that Germany will inaugurate in August a trans-Atlantic passenger and freight service by means of Zeppelin ...
Article : 35 wordsRussian torpedo-boats in the Baltic have captured two German steamers, the Lissabon (5,000 tons) and the Worms (9,000 tons). ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Neue Freie Presse" of Vienna complains bitterly of the failure of the Germans, Bulgarians, and Turks to show a livelier interest in the Russian ...
Article : 58 wordsLieutenant F. E. Grimwade, son of Mr. E. Norton Grimwade, of Toorak, who early in the war enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, was captured by ...
Article : 406 wordsMr. Carl Von Wiegand, in a despatch to the "New York World," from Berlin, says:—Germany is in a vice-like grip of pressure, which is likely to increase ...
Article : 546 wordsThis morning's French official communique states.— The French region on the Somme is at present calm. The prisoners we ...
Article : 80 wordsDr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor of Germany, in a statement in the "North German Gazette," says he has officially abandoned ...
Article : 81 wordsIn this morning's communique the situation at Verdun is dealt with as follows:— There is great artillery activity at ...
Article : 157 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent on the Western front, sends the following further particulars of the movements of the ...
Article : 538 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says Biaches lies at the foot of a declivity on the edge of the Somme Canal, opposite Peronne, ...
Article : 189 wordsThe capture of Contalmaison now makes the Allies' new line complete from Ovillers to Barleux (south of Peronne). It runs through Ovillers, Contalmaison, Montauban (or, rather, Trones Wood, a mile and a quarter to the east), and Hardecourt, to the Somme, Biaches, and Barleux. The original line is shown in black. The British advance ranges from 1,000 yards to 2½ miles, and the farthest point gained by the French is about six miles. The Germans hold part of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 13 Jul 1916, Page 5
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