Chief interest again centres in the Somme operations, because the British are so near the culmination of the stupendous task they began on July 1. They are attacking Guillemont incessantly, and the Germans are defending the place "with the courage of despair." General Haig reports that the Germans are holding on to the northern end of the village. It is reported from Paris that a British patrol has entered Martinpuich. The British are ...
Article : 317 wordsThe German communique to-day says:—We yesterday stormed the enemy's now positions on the River Shara, near Wipczyna, and took 200 ...
Article : 63 wordsTo-day's report issued, by the War Office on the campaign in Salonika is as follows:— Yesterday we drove in the enemy's ...
Article : 67 wordsGerman bishops in conference yesterday sent a message to the Kaiser, praying the Emperor and the peonle to bold out," The Kaiser replied:— ...
Article : 52 wordsThe newest German device is a bomb which explodes laterally, and causes mutilation or death at forty yards. A flotilla of German aeroplanes ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that for a week past Hamburg has been in a state of semi-revolution, the exasperated ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Italian communique issued today says:— The Austrians yesterday intensely bombarded the bottom of the Astico ...
Article : 116 wordsThe War Office has renewed its contract with the Stanmore Co. of New South Wales for the supply of 900,000 lb. of jam during the coming season. ...
Article : 38 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: With the co-operation of our fleet, we have driven back the Turkish offensive. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe cost of living in the past year in the United States has increased on an average by from 30 to 50 per cent. New York prices show an advance of ...
Article : 72 wordsIn connection with the announcement by the British Admiralty that the commander of submarine E23 had reported that he believed that on Saturday last ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Austrian general staff has recommended that the military age be raised, to 60 years, and lowered to 16 years, in view of the enormons losses which the ...
Article : 43 wordsProfessor Graete and Dr. Niepage, German teachers of Armenian children at Aleppo, protested to the German Foreign Office in October last against ...
Article : 275 wordsThe "New York Times" states that an analysis shows that before the war the banks of England, France, Russia, and Germany held 680,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 59 wordsThe "Journal de Geneve" affirms that, owing to the disastrous defeats she has suffered, Austria has renounced her pretensions to the sovereignty of ...
Article : 108 wordsArrangements have been made in New York for a second commercial credit for France of £5,000,000, bringing the total borrowings of France in ...
Article : 45 wordsBritish progress on the Thiepval front is announced by General Sir Douglas Haig in his report this morning, thus:— ...
Article : 144 wordsTo-day's Italian communique says:— Artillory duels are in progress on the Gorz front. AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE. ...
Article : 48 wordsFurther British successes in the air are announced by General Haig in his report to the War Office to-night as follows:— ...
Article : 110 wordsA German official statement repeats, the story that a submarine severely damaged a British battleship in the recent affair in the North Sea, and ...
Article : 87 wordsOwing to the shortage of pig iron the Imperial Government is taking over many tinplates now being manufactured. The Ministry of Munitions ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Bavarian Socialist newspapers complain that the German General Staff is sending Bavarian regiments to the posts of the greatest danger, and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says:—The German press states that 50,000 Germans are fighting in Macedonia. The meeting ...
Article : 53 wordsGeneral Riedel, the Austrian commander at Gorz, and two colonels, have been court-martialled for absence on a pleasure trip during forty-eight hours ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. E. G. Pretyman, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, replying on the debate in the House of Commons this afternoon on ...
Article : 402 wordsCorrespondence which has been published between the British and Swedish Governments relating to the interference by Sweden with British parcel ...
Article : 423 wordsThe Commission appointed to inquire into the Dardanelles campaign examined to-day General Sir Charles Monro, who was Commandpr-in-Chief of the ...
Article : 33 wordsTo-night's French communique says: To-day we made a brilliantly-conducted attack on the German positions between Fleury and Thiaumont ...
Article : 71 wordsThe German communique to-day states:—We have made good progress in clearing the highlands west of Ostrove, and we have repulsed Serbian ...
Article : 36 wordsThe progress of operations on the Russian front is dealt with in this morning's communique issued at Petrograd, as follows:— ...
Article : 112 wordsA wireless message received in New York from Berlin states that the German trans-Atlantic submarine Deutschland, which left American waters on ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Poarce) to-day made available the following cabled report from Sir Archibald Murray, Commander-in-Chief of ...
Article : 385 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says:—"There have been three days of desperate fighting in the northern part of Guill[?]mont. The enemy are ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Bulgarian Minister at Athens threatens to leave the city owing to the anti-Bulga[?]an demonstrations which are being held there. ...
Article : 30 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— Our grenadiers to-day repulsed a coup de main by the Germans at Hartmannsweiler-Kopf, in Alsace. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is announced by the Greek Government that the Bulgarians have not occupied the towns of Scres and Drama, and the port of Kavalla, east of ...
Article : 44 wordsIn addition to the 5,000 Chinese labourers who have arrived at Marseilles, and will be employed in Frenc[?] war factories, 10,000 Portuguese ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Serbians are standing fast against violent Bulgarian attacks between Ostrovo and Petrisko. The fighting on the west wing is ...
Article : 191 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— Last night there was a heavy artillery duel, which lasted all night long, north and south of Manrepas. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Budapest correspondent of the "Morning Post" says:—The Hungarian newspaper correspondents at Bucharest are flooding the papers here with ...
Article : 74 wordsReplying to numerous questions in the House of Commons last night, Lord Robert Cecil, the Minister of Blockade, said he could say definitely and ...
Article : 128 wordsThe German communique emanating from Berlin to-day states:—The English yesterday yainly repeated their attacks at Thiepval, Pozieres, and ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" has had an interview with M. Joseph Reinach, the noted authority on international affairs, Who takes an ...
Article : 146 wordsDr. Liebknecht, the leader of the German Socialists, who was recently arrested for "treason during war time," has been sentenced to 49 months' ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "Berliner Allgemeine Zeitung" denies that General Von Mackensan is on the Western front, and says he is Commanding against the enemy forces ...
Article : 35 wordsLord Montagu, in a speech yesterday at Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, stated that three or four new 780ft. long super-Zeppelins would be ready in ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" cables:— The heroic struggle of the Greeks who resisted the Bulgarians at ...
Article : 200 wordsGeneral Haig states in report this morning:— We have successfully raided the enemy trenches opposite Lens. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day; that med[?] ...
Article : 35 wordsThe newspapers here, commenting on the situation in the Balkans, emphasise the importance of the attitude of Roumania, and it is generally believed that ...
Article : 85 wordsThe above map, which is a reproduction of one in the "London Times" received this week, sets out very clearly the one in the "London Times" received this week, sets out very clearly the position on the Somme front. It shows the mill at Pazieres, the cemetery to the west, Mouquet Farm to the north-west. From Mouquet Farm the British have advanced towards Thiepval, and hold Hill 136 and Hill 141, which overlook the place. To the north they are on the Courcelette-road. From a point north of Ovillers the British have advanced near to Thiepval from that side. From Bazentin and pozieres the British have advanced upon Martinupich, and it is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 25 Aug 1916, Page 5
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