From to-day's cablegrams we get the interesting fact that General Von Hindenburg was present at the battle of the Somme on Sunday and Monday. We are also told that the German Commander is General Von Gallwitz, who came into prominence during the Russian retreat last year from before Warsaw, as the leader of one of the German armies operating from East Prussia. The battle evidently impressed Von Hindenburg, for he reported it as on a ...
Article : 408 wordsIt is officially announced that the King has awarded the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant William Robinson, of the Worcestershire Regiment and the Royal ...
Article : 1,092 wordsThis morning's French communique says:— Our reconnoitring parties aro active on the right bank of the River ...
Article : 30 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: Our fire and hand-grenades repelled attempted Turkish attacks last night to the westward of Erzingan. ...
Article : 73 wordsTo-day's Austrian communique refers to the fighting against the Italians in Albania as follows:—The Italians yesterday crossed the Viosa River, near ...
Article : 58 wordsTerrible conditions prevail among the population of Eastern Macedonia. A Greek sailing vessel navigating inshore heard cries from the shore, and ...
Article : 92 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: The first encounter between the Russian and Bulgarian cavalry took place on Monday in the Dobrudja ...
Article : 198 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that negotiations are proceeding to establish a working agreement with most of the arms and ammunition businesses in the ...
Article : 57 wordsSir James Mills, formerly chairman of directors of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, in his presidential address at the meeting of the ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says it is understood that the Greek Government has decided to call up five classes of reservists— ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Admiralty, upon closing a tour of the Clyde shipyards to-day, addressed trade union delegates, and said the ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says the chief topic of interest in Athens is the probable fate of the German agent, Baron Von ...
Article : 257 wordsLord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India, presided this morning at the opening of the third Imperial Legislative Council since its reform under Lord ...
Article : 928 wordsThis morning's French communique says:— The bad weather continues, and we are organising the ground we gained ...
Article : 324 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —There wns hot fighting yesterday between Le Forest and the river Somme, and also to-the south of the Somme. ...
Article : 53 wordsA message from Berlin says that German military circles expect a big battle in the Dobrudja district in a few days. It is also stated that the ...
Article : 44 wordsAn Australian officer describes a gallant episode during Sunday's lighting in the region of Mouquet Farm. The Australians advanced several hundred ...
Article : 121 wordsTo-day's Austrian communique states that the situation on the Roumanian front in Transylvania is unchnnged. ...
Article : 22 wordsAnglo-French military experts tegard the battle on Sunday and Monday in the Somme region as the most brilliant since this offensive was commenced on ...
Article : 585 wordsThe United States Government has refused to agree to the proposal of the Entente Powers to regard all submarines as war vessels. ...
Article : 124 wordsThe newspapers deny that Prince Boris, heir-apparent to the Bulgarian throne, is a Russophile. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn his report this morning General Haig says:— We have bombarded the enemy's positions in the vicinity of ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says:—Roumania's action has rearoused the advocates of a separate peace at Constantinople. The ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Italian communique issued to-day states:— In the Dolomite Alps, at the head of Rio Felize valley, on the Upper ...
Article : 97 wordsThe captain of a Danish steamer who has returned to Copenhagen says he saw a submarine engaging four German destroyers in the Baltic, and the ...
Article : 44 wordsThis morning's French communique states:— In the Verdun region the Germans attacked us yesterday to the ...
Article : 84 wordsAt a wool trade conference with the War Trade Department to-day, it was stated that a committee was considering the granting of licenses to export ...
Article : 359 wordsMr. Wythe Williams, the correspondend of the "New York Times" in Paris, has visited the Somme front, and says: —"In their two days' battle, each day of ...
Article : 178 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: We continue our advance in the wooded region of the Carpathians, and have captured several more ...
Article : 133 wordsReporting on the Somme operations this morning, General Sir. Douglas Haig says:— We are now 1,500 yards to the ...
Article : 160 wordsThe British since Sunday have advanced along the Guillemont-Combles road as far as Leuze Wood, the greater part of which they now hold. Between this wood and Combles they have brought up their line by the capture of 1,000 yards of trench. The French are on the western outskirts of Combles, and their line now runs well to the east of Le Forest. The British hold part of Ginchy, all Delville Wood, Foureau (High), Wood, and then passes between Martinpuic and Rozieres to Mouquet Farm[?] It is now reported that all the defensive works on this farm have been taken. Thiepval remains the last of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 7 Sep 1916, Page 5
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