A communique gives details of the bittle for a height on the lett bank of the Isonzo, commanding Plava, which is at the bottom of a pass, shut in by steep, wooded slopes, ...
Article : 162 wordsGaba Tepe, June 8.—Everything is quiet at Enzac, except at Quinn's Post, where constant hard fighting by small parties goes on. This fighting is almost entirely ...
Article : 129 wordsThe "Matin" publishes extracts from a letter from the German Emperor to a Bavarian court personage—in which he insists upon the certainty of attaining the ...
Article : 100 wordsA communique states: After a very sharp struggle we invested on all sides, and carried by assault Buval Bottom, which the enemy had obstinately defended ...
Article : 155 wordsThe French are advancing on both banks of the Fecht, in Alsace, and the Germans have evacuated Metzeral. ...
Article : 119 wordsA communique states: Our troops on the right bank of the San withdrew fighting across the River Tenev, and on the line of the Dorook Lakes. ...
Article : 60 wordsWith a garrison averaging 30,000, and very powerful natural artificial defences, multi[?]lying the possibilities of resistance, Tolmino is gradually becoming for Italy ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Russians have forced General Pflanger's Austrians who invaded Bessarabia to retreat to Bojan (Bukovina). They captured a great quantity of munitions and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe president of the Upper House of the Prussian Diet stated that it had been repeatedly said that Germany must obtain a peace which would safeguard her against ...
Article : 79 wordsAn Australian trooper, describing the fighting at Gallipoli, says that as a trial for the nerves the campaign was probably more severe than any in the war. From ...
Article : 175 wordsA German communique states: We attacked the Russian position at Grodek. The Russians are still holding out. General von Mackensen defeated the ...
Article : 57 wordsIf we were to judge the position as a purely Russian one we would be inclined to [?] upon it somewhat glumly, notwithstanding the fact that the Czar's armies have not been ...
Article : 361 wordsA communique states The battle of Lubackzowka, on June 15, included a brilliant and bold attack by cavalry upon infantry, in which the whole 91st German regiment ...
Article : 100 wordsA communique states: Our advance in Alsace on both banks of the Fecht continues. Despite a dense mist and torrential rain we bombarded ...
Article : 98 wordsThe delta of the Isonzo is impracticable for warships, owing to its shallowness. Our naval gunners silenced the batteries at Duino by means of floating batteries, ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is reported in Berlin that the Government is considering whether it will prosecute the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne for treason in publishing a special prayer ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Hungarian battalion which was annihilated in the region to the north-eastward of Monte Nero climbed the Vrata Mountain, hoping to outtlank the Italian ...
Article : 344 wordsBerlin newspapers state that the Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian Commander-in-Chief, has brought up splendidly-trained troops from Odessa to Grodek, and is ...
Article : 41 wordsThe "Observer" correspondent at Petrograd says the object of the Lemberg attack is to impress Roumania and Bulgaria. The German staff regards the position on ...
Article : 57 wordsAn Austrian communique says: We have occupied Tarnograd (about 20 miles north of Jaroslav across the Russian border). The Russians between the Lower San and the ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. Lloyd George's powers as Minister for Munitions have been officially defined. He is empowered to organise the sources of supply and the labour available for the ...
Article : 115 wordsA French officer, describing the combat to the southward of Hebuterne, says: "A battalion on our right assailed the enemy with hand-grenades and knives, That ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is officially stated that the Italian fleet ia co-operating with the British and French fleets in the Mediterranean. They are policing the Adriatic, and are ...
Article : 48 wordsSir John French reports:—Fighting on the northern and southern portions of our front was continued throughout the 16th, in co-operation with the Allies' attack about ...
Article : 186 wordsAs far as the British section of the line in the western theatre is concerned, the principal fighting during the past few days has taken place in the vicinity of the Hooge ...
Article : 409 wordsThe "Central News" correspondent at Dunkirk says the French offensive from Lorette to Neuvelle has squeezed 150,000 Germans into a front of four and a half ...
Article : 163 wordsThe whole Empire will regret the death of Flight-Lieutenant Warneford, V.C., the gallant young Canadian, who, after having been in possession of his pilot's certificate only ...
Article : 521 wordsA cable communication has been received by the Navy Office, Melbourne, from the Commonwealth naval representative in London, stating that Lieut.-Commander ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Bonar Law, speaking at Shrewsbury, said that victory could not be won by soldiers and sailors alone. They must be supported by the nation. The country had ...
Article : 55 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" deprecates excessive optimism in regand to the Galician struggle. "We must not forget," the paper says, "that Russia as dangerous, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "New York Herald" states that German agents are buying 12 per cent. of the ammunition at Hartford, fifteen at Bridgeport, and 10 per cent. at the Wnterbury ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that 20 Armenians were executed on Tuesday in front of the Ministry for War at Constantinople on a charge of intriguing to ...
Article : 49 wordsA communique states: The enemy on the Bzura front (south-west of Warsaw) spread a cloud of asphyxiating gas along a front extending for six versts. ...
Article : 34 wordsDuring the nine days following the closing of the Belgian-Dutch frontier, 400,000 German troops traversed Belgium, of whom 300,000 were sent to the fighting line where ...
Article : 95 wordsAn officer of the 13th London Territorials describes its share in the advance at Bois Grenier and Festubert in the operations against Richebourg, which took place ...
Article : 367 wordsA naval couimunique states: The Austrian fleet bombarded the lighthouse at the mouth of the Tagliamento. Our destroyer flotilla repulsed the attack, afterwards ...
Article : 73 wordsLieutenant Warneford, V.C., was accompanied by Mr. Henry B. Needham, an American writer, when he met his death. The machine fell 800 feet, the bodies ...
Article : 154 wordsThe trial of Henry Wilson and his partner Robert Hetherington (whose name was previously stated as Irvingdale) on a charge of selling iron ore to ...
Article : 162 wordsThe steamer Dulcie (1634 tons), bound from Shields to Havre, laden with coal, was torpedoed off Orford Ness. A fireman was killed. The rest of the crew landed ...
Article : 54 wordsThe position in the eastern theatre shows no material change, notwithstanding the tremendous Austro-German effort that is being made to reach Lemberg. The main ...
Article : 413 wordsA communiqe states: Austrian scouts and destroyers bombarded the completely undefended towns of Pesarlo and Rioni, but damaged only a few houses. ...
Article : 35 wordsA Germnn communique states: We recaptured Ember Menil, destroyed the French fortifications, and retired on our former positions. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Admiralty states that the German submarine whose loss was reported on March 25 was sunk by a British warship. ...
Article : 23 wordsFor the week ending June 16 the vessels arriving and departing from Britain totalled 1347. Eight were sunk, aggregating 26,076 tons. Five fishing vessels were ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. John Elliott Terry, of Bond-street, has written to the Lord Mayor, asking him whether it would be possible to open a list of the names of those men who would be ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Medusa, which was sunk by an Austrian submarine, is reported to have been the fastest submarine in the world. The two submarines were under the ...
Article : 64 wordsReuter's correspondent, at the British Headquarters, says that the cartridge belt of a German machine-gun was picked up in the Ypres area. The lead of all the ...
Article : 76 wordsDetails of the air raid on Karlsruhe state that the first bomb fell near the Emperor's monument in Kaiser Platz, and tore up the tramway and killed two people and ...
Article : 90 wordsReplying to the German Note relative to the ship William P. Frye, the United States Government says it does not admit that any American ship with contraband on ...
Article : 45 wordsArrivals: At London, Clan Macarthur, S, at Cardiff, Argyllshire, s,. LONDON, June 19. The steamer Moana, which left Sydney ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Sofia correspondent of Reuter's Agency states that Ministers of the Entente met and exchanged views regarding the Bulgarian Note. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Government favour the present Parliament being extended a year. There will be no municipal elections in November. ...
Article : 120 wordsNewspapers here demand a clear statement of the Government's attitude, with regard to the torpedoing of Norwegian vessels. ...
Article : 27 wordsCasualty lists were published to-day containing the names of 81 officers and 2576 men of both the military and naval service. ...
Article : 74 wordsEmile Cauvolier and his wife, two Belgians, and Henry Gouraerdt, a native of Dunkirk, all conducting a potato business at Capelle, have been sentenced to death ...
Article : 72 wordsIt was freely stated in the Parliamentary lobbies last week that something was afoot with legald to the probablity of another Minister being added to the Commonwealth ...
Article : 40 wordsPublic opinion is becoming more angry on account of the destruction of merchantmen by submarines. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is officially stated that the last 12 Prussian lists contain 71,483 casualties, bringing the total to 1,409,480, apart from Saxon, Bavarian, Wurtemberg, aud naval ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is stated that 115,000 people are employed at Essen, especially in the manufacture of big guns of very long range. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Ironmasters' Association met on Friday evening, and gave consideration to the question of helping in the manufacture of munitions. It was decided to telegraph to the ...
Article : 56 wordsAdvices from Germany state that the mails from the Thorsten, which was seized by the Germans, have been handed to the Swedish authorities unopened. ...
Article : 29 wordsEven if the great battle now being waged in Galicia resulted in a victory for the Russians throughout the line—and there seems to be no possibility of such a complete ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 21 Jun 1915, Page 9
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