The German High Command must have suffered a great shock when it was discovered that the Anglo-French forces, ignoring the great offensive at Longueval, had resumed the offensive from the Anere to the Somme. Hitherto a German offensive has had the effect of bringing movements elsewhere to a standstill, but on the Somme the original plan is resumed calmly while the attack at Longueval is still in progress. Nothing could better show ...
Article : 370 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the American United Press Association states that a wave of ghastly crime and suicide is sweeping over Germany, due ...
Article : 140 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie, the High Commissioner of New Zealand speaking at the opening of a Canadian hospital at Patney to-day, said the ...
Article : 72 wordsThis morning's communique says:— We have penetrated a German trench to the north-east of Auberive, in the Champagne, and brought back ...
Article : 33 wordsA Petrograd communique says:— We have occupied the town of Kyghy, an important junction of the roads from Erzingan and ...
Article : 111 wordsIn his communique issued last night General Haig says:— At daylight on Thursday our aeroplanes threw many tons of explosives ...
Article : 159 wordsMr. T. J. Macnamara, the Secretary to the Admiralty, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that a German submarine minelayer would ...
Article : 77 wordsA report issued by the British War Office says:— There is nothing to report from Mesopotamia. The heat there is ...
Article : 37 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 275 wordsA few days ago it was reported from Buda Pesth, the Hungarian capital, that Count Karolji, President of the Independence Party, had resigned, and ...
Article : 94 wordsThe House of Commons was crowded this afternoon, in anticipation of the debate on Sir Edward Carson's motion for the appointment of a Select ...
Article : 1,229 wordsThe new blow inflicted by the Russians on the enemy in Volhynia, opens up possibilities of action in the Vladimir-Volynsky and Lemberg regions. ...
Article : 173 wordsA majority of the leading German newspapers new support the anti-annexation policy of Dr. Von Bothmann-Hollweg, the German Imperial ...
Article : 56 wordsA decree that has been issued by the Italian Government forbids the passage of German goods into Italy. The authorities are also taking ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig's report this morning runs as follows:— We have regained a little ground in the Delville Wood and at ...
Article : 219 wordsBoth the British and the French people are delighted at the news of General Foch's capture of five miles of ground on the Somme frent. The ...
Article : 281 wordsOn the recommendation of a Select Committee, the House of Lords has passed a bill revoking the cedicil of the will of Mr. Cecil Rhodes providing ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, questioned in the House of Commons this afternoon as to the war expenditure of £6,000,000 a day, ...
Article : 69 wordsViolent cannonading was heard on Wednesday night between Landsort, on the coast of Sweden, and the island of Gottska Sando, to the north of ...
Article : 87 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: Seventeen enemy aeroplanes bombed a hospital and lazaret at Zamiren, north-east of Baranowitchi, ...
Article : 142 wordsReplying to a deputation yesterday Mr. R. McKenna the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the British Government was now paying £80,000,000 ...
Article : 73 wordsA memorial, which has been extensively signed by distinguished men and women, not, however, connected with temperance societies, has been ...
Article : 105 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. T. J. Macnamara, the Secretary of the Admiralty, stated that the British had taken prisoner 136 German ...
Article : 52 wordsM. Balof, a French Red Cross commissioner in Armenia, reports that he visited 45 villages round Trebizond, and out of 8,343 people in these ...
Article : 84 wordsMajor-General Sellheim, of the Commonwealth military forces, who has been on a visit to Switzerland for the purpose of securing the exchange of ...
Article : 59 wordsGeneral Haig, in his report this morning, announces raids in which Australian troops played a part, as follows:— ...
Article : 164 wordsIt is reported from Cologne that Russian guns have wrecked a Zeppelin at Riga. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:— We captured trenches from Hardecourt Knoll to the River Somme, and ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Germans, in attacking Longueval and Delville Wood, launched several regiments in mass formation on a narrow front. The British were ...
Article : 59 wordsThe captains of steamers arriving at Copenhagen report the presence in the North Sea of a large number of German submarines, apparently of a bigger ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Germans in Volhynia have hurled back enemy forces coming from the westward of Svidniki (west of Sokal), in a northerly direction. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Frankfurther Zeitung" states that British prisoners participated in a riot at an unnamed camp. The German guards fired, and killed two of ...
Article : 38 wordsFredk. Russell Holland, secretary of the No-Conscription Fellowship, was in the District Court to-day fined £15, with £8 8s. costs, on a charge of ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs, the war correspondent, reports from France:— In the great offensive the British Territerials proved themselves great ...
Article : 649 wordsThe Italian communique issued to-day states:— The persistent bad weather has interfered with the activity of our troops ...
Article : 111 wordsPrivate A. D. Ford, of the 47th Battalion, who was one of the soldiers who returned to Tasmania by the t.s. Loongana on Thursday, but was detained at ...
Article : 116 wordsThe French communique issued this morning states:— West of the Meuse the Germans are continually bombarding Avocourt ...
Article : 125 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —The English have again penetrated the village of Longucval and Delville Farm, but our counter-attacks ...
Article : 106 wordsA young Launceston artillery noncom., writing from the rest billets behind the firing line in France, after a spell of duty in the gun-pits, ...
Article : 707 wordsA War Special will be Published as usual on SUNDAY at about midday. The Price is: ONE PENNY. ...
Article : 22 wordsThough the Germans are still attacking at Longueval, the Anglo-French troops have resumed the general offensive. The British are advancing from a poinh north of Ovillers, to Bazentin, to Longuevel, to Hard court. Between Bazentin and Longueval the British have advanced 1,000 yards, and from Hardecourt to the Somme (on a south-easterly line) the French have captured the enemy's first line of trenches on a five-mile front. The French, also have had successes ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 107 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 22 Jul 1916, Page 7
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: