Reuter's representative at British Headquarters on the western front, describing the battle on Friday evening, says that the British and the Australians advanced beyond ...
Article : 175 wordsA street in Verdun, the town that has been more battered by incessant bombardment than any other place in history. The buildings have been [?] knocked apart, and the village is to-day the most desolate prate imaginable. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 122 wordsA French correspondent of Reuter's relates an interview that he had with a Highlander who took part in the attack at Pozieres. He said that the Germans were ...
Article : 198 wordsThe artillery preparation for the advance from Pozieres lasted form dawn until sunset, levelling the wenches and destroying shelters The objective was to push the enemy well ...
Article : 68 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in a comm[?] issued last night states that the British pushed forward east of Trones Wool and fighting on the outskirts of Guillemont is ...
Article : 144 wordsThe correspondent of the Paris "Liberte" says that there were the fiercest counter attacks north of Pozieres on Sunday. The Australians once more covered themselves. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Paris "Liberte states that the Australians took six lines of trenches and stormed a big work at the junction of the Thienval and Moquet roads, connecting with ...
Article : 119 wordsReuter's special correspondent on the Western front says:— "The attack at Pozieres was delivered at the moment of sunset. Shddenly a ...
Article : 172 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at British headquarters in France describing the fierce but futile counter attacks against the Australians and Territorials north of ...
Article : 141 wordsReuter's representative in paris writes:—The importance that the enemy attached to the recaptured plateau at Pozieres is gangable from an army order circulated by the ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. McAlpine, "Daily Mail" correspondent at the Western front from Paris telegraphs that the prisoners now exceed 700. and the enemy losses were considerable. The British ...
Article : 60 wordsA message from New York states that an American correspondent who has returned from Berlin quotes a German captain as saying:—"The bravest man I never saw was at ...
Article : 179 wordsAn official communique reports violent artillerying in region of Chauvines. German attackers on the Thianumont work were thrown back to their own trenches by our curtain of ...
Article : 97 wordsThe stories by Australian wounded officers from Poziers agree in asserting that the Anzacs did what they liked in their weekend advances, only losing slightly and ...
Article : 228 wordsGeneral Sir Dough Haig reports that the situation is unchanged We retain the ground won yesterday. A hostile bombardment between the Ancre and the Somme against our ...
Article : 102 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Amsterdam says that thousands of leaflets have been issued throughout Germany headed:— "GERMAN PEOPLE WAKE UP." ...
Article : 97 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig in a communique reports that south and west of Cuillemont our line has been advanced four hundred yards. ...
Article : 100 wordsA communique reports that the French, in the afternoon brilliantly carried a line of German trenches near Hem Wood east of Monacu Farm, capturing 120 prisoners and ...
Article : 78 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in a communique, reports that north and north-east of Pozieres two enemy attacks, after heavy bombardment, were repulsed. After heavy ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Berlin "Tage[?] west front correspondent in a message dated August 1. says: "The Australians attacked bitterly". We did not like the expression on their ...
Article : 133 wordsTo-night's Berlin communique sp[?] of vigorous artillerying at Loos, and heavy British attacks between Thiepval and the Somme, especially at Pozieres, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe German publicist, Maxmilian Harden, in an article on the Second Year of the War, gives a remarkable revelation of the chastened mood of Germany, and pessimistically ...
Article : 83 wordsReuter's paris correspondent states, that General Joffre upon being interview said: Our [?]enemies are showing sings of weakening and they are using up their last ...
Article : 69 wordsA communique reports a strong enemy attack from Fleury to north of Thiaumont Work was checked about Fleury with heavy losses, nut gained a foothold on Thiaumont ...
Article : 132 wordsAn Australian officer found in a [?]out two German officers who had been doped, having committed suicide rather than be captured. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe London LONDON, Sunday Night. of nine solder company the named Victoria Cross[?] Included and have been awarded the ...
Article : 101 wordsSir George Foster, Canadian Minister for Trade and Commerce speaking at luncheon to Canadian Parliamentary delegates, said that the two years after the war would be ...
Article : 57 wordsReuter's Amsterdam correspondent states that the latest Zeppelin tall story is that Zeppelins will soon cross the Atlantic as commerical air-liners. ...
Article : 83 wordsReuter's correspondent at Copenhagen says that a party of Danish Socialists who have returned from a four of Germany, clare that everybody is praying for peace. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 99 wordsThe Admiralty announces that Angro-French naval aeroplanes raided Mulheim on the 30th July and successfully [?] benzel stores and the barracks. Despite the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe "Times" correspondent in Paris says that the Germans at Verdun have passed from the attack to the defence stage. The real character of the French operations ...
Article : 67 words[?] in a four-columing in the "Times" on "The Army Behticle Army." describes the huge sizer and site the efficiency of the British army established ...
Article : 87 wordsThe position in East Africa recently report sented a land eleuched palm upwards.and suddenly opened. The different forces marched down the fingers for one hundred miles. ...
Article : 88 wordsA Paris official message says:—We hold all the southern part of the village of Fleury. The Germans, after an all-day bombardment. Trade two powerful attacks in the wood ...
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Advertising : 90 words[?] official communique says:—French airmen brought down two Germans in the region of Verdun one falling into the French lines and another on No Man's land. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 12 Aug 1916, Page 6
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