Prisoners are still coming in from Gorz in a trembling, dazed condition, and suffering from the terrible effects of the battle. The town of Gorz is still ...
Article : 113 wordsGeneral Haig reports no change on the Somme front, but his troops are consolidating the position. He refers doubtless to Mouquet Farm, in the angle formed by the Bapaume and Thiepval roads at Pozieres. This farm is on a plateau from which the country falls slowly north and west to the valley of the Ancro. Tho French report says that this was the last German position of advantage in this quarter, and that it commands Thiepval, Courcelette, ...
Article : 366 wordsThe Kaiser's chief chaplain, the Rev. Dryander, has returned from the Western front, and has preached an indignant sermon in Berlin Cathedral. He ...
Article : 77 wordsA Fortnight ago the workmen engaged on the erection of the new Commonwealth offices in the Strand declined to work until a sub-contractor ...
Article : 173 wordsThe following, the 194th and 195th, casualty lists were released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The addressee ...
Article : 42 wordsA White Book which has been issued by the American Government gives a definite official statement ot the real leusons for the dismissal of Captain ...
Article : 321 wordsReports from Vienna state that two important Cabinet meetings were held there yesterday, and discussed the question of a separate peace with Italy, in ...
Article : 43 wordsLord Robert Cecil, the Minister of Blockade, stated in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon that the British Government had been informed that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 593 wordsThe War Office has issued the following report:— The situation on the Tigris and Euphrates lines is quiet and ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the United Press Association of America states that no news has been received of the German trans-Atlantic submarine ...
Article : 71 wordsMessrs. J. P. Morgan and Co., the Now-York financiers, announce a new loan to Great Britain of £50,000,000 at 5 per cent., redeemable in two years. ...
Article : 211 wordsTo-day's Russian official communique says:— An offensive movement by several enemy detachments in the Kala ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the discussion in the House of Commons this afternoon on the motion for the second reading of the Parliament and Local Elections Bill, which ...
Article : 444 wordsMr. Carl Von Wiegand, the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," cables as follows—The French and British artillery on the River ...
Article : 177 wordsIn his report issued this morning General Sir Douglas Haig states— With the exception of minor infantry engagements in the vicinity of ...
Article : 91 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" states that the Kaiser has visited Cologne, and in acknowledging from a window of his train the salutations of the crowd, he ...
Article : 50 wordsThe minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) said to-day that the recent events in Egypt, where the Australian Mounted Division had successfully ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Russian communique issued this morning states— We have occupied some places on the western bank of the Zlota-Lipa. ...
Article : 130 wordsOur Oatlands correspondent writes: —"Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Burrill, of Oatlands, have received word that their son, Private Harold Burrill, has been ...
Article : 398 wordsNew York bankers expect that a new loan for Russia will be placed on the American market shortly. ...
Article : 29 wordsM. Zaimis, the Premier of Greece, has protested to the Turkish Ambassador at Athens against the persecution of Greeks in Asia Minor. ...
Article : 37 wordsThis mornings French official communique says— Last night was calm along our front in the region of the Somme. ...
Article : 169 wordsTransactions in scrip of the New South Wales loan of £2,500,OOO at 5¼ per cent., 80 per cent of which was taken up by the underwriters, took ...
Article : 79 wordsTo-day's German Communique from Berlin states—The English continued their fruitless attacks at Poziercs yesterday morning. A night attack by ...
Article : 38 wordsA report received in London from Flushing, in Holland, states that at half-past 3 this morning two encounters between British and German ...
Article : 37 wordsThis morning's French communique states— Last night was calm along the greater part of our front. ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is officially announced that General Brusiloffs armies (operating between the Pripet and the Pruth), between June 4 to August 12, made prisoner ...
Article : 52 wordsAn Order-in-Council issued to-day establishes control of the woollen manufacturing trade, with a view to limiting prices. The schedule of the order ...
Article : 78 wordsln the House of Commons this afternoon, Sir Edward Carson moved a motion, which he gave notice of on Friday last, urging the Government to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 562 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states—Last night the British reoccupied the [?]enches north of the Thiepval-Pozieresroad, and Mouquet Farm fell into their ...
Article : 59 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —We have broken up Russian outposts cast of Kisselin (south of Kovel), and made prisoner 164. North of the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe German newspaper "Berliner Tageblatt" states that nearly 10O arrests have been made in Berlin and West Prussia in connection with ...
Article : 72 wordsThere are 122 German divisions on the Western front, approximately 2,440,000 men. Of these 20 divisions (400,000 men) oppose the Anglo-French ...
Article : 64 wordsThe National War Savings Committee points out that the British nation is spending £182,000,000 a year in drink, and appeals for a reduction in ...
Article : 41 wordsIt was recently reported that, as the outcome of the visit to Vienna of Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Chancellor, and Herr Von Jagow, the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" has interviewed the German Commander-in-Chief on the Somme, who says—"I hope the British ...
Article : 100 wordsThe townspeople of Halluine (a French town on the Belgian frontier) are refusing to work for the German army, and have invoked the Hague ...
Article : 91 wordsTo-day's Italian communique states: We have captured enemy trenches on Monte Peckina and in the areas of San Caterina and San Marco. We ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, in the course of a further article on the recent visit of His Majesty the King to the Western front, says—The, King witnessed a ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. Hilaire Bello[?], writing in "Land and water," says—The Allies on the Western front continue to prove their ability to seize successive narrow belts ...
Article : 91 wordsThe French communiques state two facts which are of importance, though ignored in the British reports. A combined advance has been made by the British and French north of Maurepas, presumably on the line from that village to Hardecourt, and they reached "certain points on the Maurepas-Guillemont-road." This road passes through Combles, and as the advance must have been along the Maurepas-Combles-road, it is to be presumed that the road between Combles and Guillemont has been reached. The communique also states that the French made a big advance on a wide front ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 18 Aug 1916, Page 5
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