The great push on the Somme is being continued by both British and Frech, and further positions have been gained. Leuze Wood has been taken, and our troops are pushing on towards Combles, which place must be now commanded by artillery from several points. Then they are attacking Ginchy, which also must fall, as it is being assaulted from three sides. Captain Bean's report indicates that the Australians lost Mouquet farmstead on Sunday ...
Article : 451 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says:— We yesterday captured a fortified position in the direction of Halicz (at the junction of the D[?]iester with the ...
Article : 80 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique states:— We hold the whole of the Dobrudja frontier. ...
Article : 174 wordsThere are many hearts aching in Athens at the news of the Italian advance into the interior of the Epirus. In their advance the Italians are ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Hungarian newspapers indulge in melodramatic descriptions of the heroio resistance made by the Transylvaman peasants. The "Pestinaplo" (a ...
Article : 131 wordsThe British and French Ministers at Athens yesterday gave the Greek Government a list of 60 Austrians and Gormans whose expulsion from Greece was ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Germans in to-day's communique admit that between the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester the Russians pressed back their centre, and also gained ...
Article : 69 wordsAccording to reports received in Copenhagen from Berlin, King Constantine of Greece conferred with the re[?] sentatives of the Allies yesterday and ...
Article : 49 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: Our troops advancing in the region of Oghnet (north-west of Mush) are inflicting great losses on the enemy. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe official report issued by the War Office on the Salonika situation is as follows:— Yesterday thero were patrol ...
Article : 53 wordsOfficials of the Admiralty examined to-day the remains of the Zeppelin observation car which were found in East Anglia. It is believed that the wire ...
Article : 523 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique states:— After lively fighting in the region of Borszek (Carpathians), we have ...
Article : 68 wordsTo-day's French communique states: There was violent artillery fire yesterday on the River Struma, at Lake Doiran, and along the whole of the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe following report was issued today on the British campaign in Egypt, east of the Suez Canal:— Our airmen raided the enemy's ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is reported from Berlin that three Zeppelins have raided Bucharest, and the Germane claim that some wheat stores were set on fire. ...
Article : 33 wordsThis morning's report by General Haig states:— We have effectively shelled the enemy's hutments at Polygon Wood, to ...
Article : 83 wordsIn his report this morning General Sir Douglas Haig states:— During last night we captured the whole of Leuze Woodl (east of ...
Article : 151 wordsA wireless message received in Rome from Athens states that the Allied Squadron which has arrived in the Piraeus, the naval port of Athens, will ...
Article : 61 wordsThe German newspaper "Lokal Anzeiger" states that the Grand Duke Nicholas is to assume the command of the Russian army operating against ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Turkish Government has ordered a levy on masse on all males in the country, regardless of nationality, between the ages of 17 and 55 years. ...
Article : 36 wordsTo-day's Italian cammunique is as follows:— The first snow has fallen on our front. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe arrival of thousands of fugitives in Budapest has provoked riots in the Hungarian capital. A sensation was caused in the ...
Article : 234 wordsThis morning's French communique states: — Our machine-guns immediately stopped a Gorman attack on Fleury ...
Article : 61 wordsGerman war correspondents emphasise the terrific character of the Anglo-French bombardment. The "Berliner Tageblatt" says:—It is ...
Article : 103 wordsTo-day's Italian communique alludes to the fighting in Albania as follows:— Our infantry, cavalry, and artillery on Monday raided the right bank of ...
Article : 74 wordsAt dawn yesterday the Australians attacked Mouquet Farm and the ridge to the north-west of it. The farm was taken at the first rush, and the line ...
Article : 265 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —The battle on both sides of the Somme was continued yesterday with undiminished intensity. Twenty-eight ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the "Daily Chronicle" war correspondent, sends a vivid description of the capture of Guillemont, Leuze Wood, and Fallemont ...
Article : 731 wordsTrain after train of German wounded pass Liege, in Belgium, every day on the way to Germany. One single consignment which arrived at Liege ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the Central News Agency states that one of the Zeppelins which took part in the recent raid on England was so severely ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, writes:—The importance of our gains since Sunday does not seem to have been sufficiently realised. In the ...
Article : 634 wordsThe directors of the Royal Flying Corps have applied to General Bird-wood, the commander of the Australian forces, for 200 Australians to become ...
Article : 55 wordsThis morning's French communique states:— Our curtain of fire last night broke down many German attacks against ...
Article : 158 wordsThe chief subscribers to the new German war loan are the savings banks ...
Article : 55 wordsWe publish the above [?] to indicate the bearing of the Anglo-French offensive on the Somme when it is complete. When the Allies' have cleared the heights to the north of the Somme the Germans must fall back over the plain which runs away north-east past Cambrai, and then north to Lille. The German forces south, of Peronne—between Peronne and Laon—will be in danger, as their salient will become more acute, and the Allies will either cut or threaten their lines of communication. Thus the Somme wedge threatens the German line both north and south, and if it effects all that is hoped for, it will ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 8 Sep 1916, Page 5
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