The general offensive of the Allies is still in full force, the Russians attacking on the Eastern, and the Anglo-French on the Western front, and both making progress. Having crossed the Stokhod River, the Russians have pressed on towards Kovel, and a great battle is raging there. It is said the Germans are fighting with the utmost desperation to save their line from being broken. Like ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Turks, in their communique issued to-day, claim to have captured enemy vessels laden with food on the River Euphrates, near Kyrnia, killing ...
Article : 38 wordsSir Edward Carson, in an article in the "New York American," says there should be a general election in England before the end of the year, as the ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. T. J. Macnamarn, the Secretary to the Admiralty, in a speech in London on Saturday, said the murder of Captain Fryatt had filled all minds, and ...
Article : 61 wordsAccording to a reply to a question given by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day, the qualified moratorium in respect of advances for ...
Article : 90 wordsA society called the League of Britons is being formed in Liverpool for bringing the Kaiser and his fellow-criminals to trial and punishment for ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Serbians, advancing to the northward of Vodeno, in the province of Salonika, and 40 miles to the southeast of Monastir, have captured Fort ...
Article : 95 wordsThe New York newspapers, which contain lengthy reviews of the two years' war, emphasise the relatively strong position of the Allies as ...
Article : 169 wordsFederal Ministers have, it is understood, decided to give effect to their decision to disfranchise naturalised aliens of enemy origin by the issue of ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "New York Herald" says that Captain Fryatt's murder adds another to the German assassinations, and is the crowning Teutonic atrocity. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" says: General Brusiloff has straightened his front, which runs along the Kolomea meridian. It ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 392 wordsReports received in Athens state that the situation in Albania is daily becoming worse. Hunger is raging among the people, owing to the Austrian army ...
Article : 92 wordsCommenting on the murder of Captain Fryatt, the "Daily Mail" asks when will the British Foreign Office learn that a cannibal is not to be reformed by ...
Article : 132 wordsThe liner Appam and her cargo, seized by the Germans, but by order of the United States Courts to be handed over to the British owners, are ...
Article : 41 wordsIn accordance with the demands of the Allies the Greek Government has appointed ten new prefects in the principal provinces. Most of the new ...
Article : 58 wordsTo-day's German communique on the Russian operations is as follows:— General Von Hindenburg's fire prevented strong Russian patrols crossing the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe King and Queen paid a visit to the West Ham Hospital, and spoke to 17 Anzacs there, and inquired into their progress. ...
Article : 34 wordsTo-day's Italian communique states: We have shelled enemy railway stations in the Lagarina Valley. We have attacked northward of ...
Article : 56 wordsIn his report this afternoon, General Sir Douglas Haig says:— Last night (Saturday) we heavily bombarded the German positions ...
Article : 176 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in France, recently cabled to the Commonwealth Government an expression of his ...
Article : 94 wordsA new memorandum which has been issued by the British Government regarding black-listed firms who supplied the German trans-Atlantic submarine ...
Article : 65 wordsThe correspondent of the "Morning Post" at the front records: Trouble arose two nights age in the prisoners' camp. The Prussian prisoners ...
Article : 73 wordsA German wireless message states that a squadron of airships dropped bombs on the middle English East Coast counties, including railroad ...
Article : 98 wordsThis afternoon's report by General Haig states:— Canadian troops last night successfully raided the German trenches at ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says the Russians have taken 400,000 prisoners in the last eight weeks. The enemy's losses in ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Secretary of State for War, has contributed a "foreword" to a book on "Welfare Work," by Miss E. D. Proud, formerly of the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe correspondent of the "Morning Post" describes the heroic work of the chaplains accompanying the Army Medical Corps, their noble example in ...
Article : 181 wordsThe War Office has issued the following report on the operations in Egypt: There were several patrol engagements on Friday, in one of which New ...
Article : 56 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— In the Verdun region we have stopped an attack at Fleury. ...
Article : 117 wordsReferring to the barbarous action of the Germans in making the girl slave raids at Roubaix and Lille and the murder of Captain Fryatt, of the ...
Article : 112 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— There were eleven fights yesterday (Saturday) on the Somme front, and ...
Article : 161 wordsA Tyenna correspondent writes:— "A large gathering of friends and relations last week assembled at Maydena-hall (lent by Mr, Abbott for the ...
Article : 463 wordsIn connection with the second anniversary of the declaration of the war, the Mayor of Launceston suggested to the Premier (Hon. W. H. Lee) that ...
Article : 103 wordsTo-day's Russian communique on the operations in Asia Minor states:— We have repulsed two Turkish attacks westward of Gumushkhana ...
Article : 57 wordsEstimates made in America show that the total number of casualties since the war started is 16,000,000, and that of these 3,300,000 were deaths. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe enemy are concentrating at Kovel, and the battle now developing is becoming the fiercest of the campaign. The battle for Kovel threatens ...
Article : 133 wordsThe correspondent of the "Morning Post" on the Western front writes:— In capturing Delville Wood the British discovered many Germans in dug-outs ...
Article : 147 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, sends further details of the fighting at Delville Wood, which the "Devil's Wood." He says:— ...
Article : 672 wordsThis afternoon's Russian communique states:— Twelve German aeroplanes have raided Dvinsk, and dropped 70 ...
Article : 197 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —Between the Rivers Ancre and the Somme the enemy's fire has increased to very great intensity. The English ...
Article : 51 wordsOn Sunday the British and French forces, after a heavy bombardment, began a now offensive movement. The British struck eastward on a line from Delville Wood (Just north of Longueval) to Hardecourt, and the French advanced on the line from Hardecourt to the Somme (a little south of Maricourt). Both armies gained ground, and the French reached the outskirts of Ma[?]repas, on the Combles-road. The British objective is Guillemont, on the road from Longueval to Combles, so that the combined operations are bearing towards Combles. There has not been further infantry ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 1 Aug 1916, Page 5
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