Continuing his stories of the recent flight, Mr. Keith Murdoch referring to a visit to New South Wales troops says— Their first wave "hopped it" at dawn on ...
Article : 686 wordsEvery [?] gained in Friday's battle was worth a mile ordinarily. Some of the British fought forward for seventeen hundred yards. When they returned none dared to follow so ...
Article : 174 wordsMr. Pirric Robinson (the "Times") states this year's fighting has reclaimed 50 square miles in Belgium. The next campaign will open with the positions in ...
Article : 126 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent reports that a steamer carrying 559 passengers, including Algeriah soldiers, some prisoners of war, and a crew of 67 has been torpedoed in the ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Keith Murdoch, United Service correspondent at Anzac Headquarters, under Sunday's date states that since Friday, comparative quietness has enveloped the battle ...
Article : 1,069 wordsReuter's correspondent at Udine states that premature winter has begun, with snow, storms and gales in the Trentino and rain and floods in the Isonzo and on the Carso, ...
Article : 74 wordsOur war correspondent under Saturday's. date continues his story of the fighting. The New Zealanders on the left of the British troops similarly gained valuable territory and ...
Article : 322 wordsA German submarine torpedoed the Italian steamer, Bari, and also sunk several of the lifeboats. Fifty survivors have gone to Corfu, and one hundred and fifty have gone ...
Article : 82 wordsField Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—The Irish troops made a successful raid north-westward of Bullecourt. There was considerable hostile artillerying at night-time ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Bench Thomas, "Daily Mail" [?] correspondent, writing from British [?]edquarters in France on Saturday, says it has been a glorious but very hard fought day for the ...
Article : 921 wordsA French communique states that on the Aisne front reciprocal artillerying is less intense. On the left bank of the Meuse we repulsed an attack north of Hill 304. On ...
Article : 66 wordsA British, official Message, dealing with the Salonika front, states that Scottish troops successfully raided Homodos, to the south, westward of Seres, taking 143 prisoners. Our ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Percival Gibbs ("Daily Express") states that the Germans are not moving at night time. They do not dare to rely on flares, because they do not give sufficient ...
Article : 300 wordsA. British official report from Salonika states that the Scottish troops successfully raided Homodoz, south-westward of Seres, taking 143 prisoners. Our casualties were ...
Article : 39 wordsLieutenant Mott, of the A.I.F. who has reached England, has told a remarkable story of pluck, endurance, and physical strength which enabled him to survive and escape ...
Article : 952 wordsIn connection with the gravel affair in Holland, Reuter authoritatively learns that the Netherlands Government has admitted that if the sand and gravel were used ...
Article : 241 wordsField Marshal Haig reported to-night:—Eastern County troops successfully raided enemy lines southeast ward of Monechy-le-Preux. ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. C. E. W. Bean, Australian official correspondent, reporting on Sunday, states:-Last night and to-day rain fell in an almost continuous series of showers and ...
Article : 274 wordsA telegram from Amsterdam is to the effect that an early settlement of the gravel controversy is anticipated on the lines indicated in Holland's reply, as it is understood ...
Article : 64 wordsA great meeting of sailors and firemen has been held at Cardiff to devise the post-war punishment of Germans for their U-boat crimes. It was resolved to ask employers to ...
Article : 120 wordsA French communique reports that on the Aisne front reciprocal artillerying has continued very lively in the region of Pladaux between Aides and Craonue. On the right ...
Article : 73 wordsUnder Saturday's date our United Service war correspondent states:—Aeroplanes report to-day that there is Always obscurity after such heavy costly fighting. An aviator ...
Article : 405 wordsParliament is to reassemble to-morrow, in is expected that the early business will include a request by the Government for an extension of the life of Parliament for six ...
Article : 84 wordsLieutenant W. Geake, a New South Wales railway engineer, who was lent by the A.I.F. to the Munitions and Inventions Department, heroically tried to rescue a soldier from ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that, the Board of Trade has increased the price of coal at the pit's mouth by 2/6 per ton, to meet the cost of the war wages recently ...
Article : 59 wordsWriting on Monday. Mr. [?]th Murdech states that in drenching rain the Australian and New Zealand troops clung throughout the night and day to their poor lines of ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Admiralty reports that the sweeping sloop Begonia is overdue, and it is considered that she has been lost with all hands. ...
Article : 119 wordsAlice and Claude Askew the popular authors and contributors to numerous periodical, who wrote in collaboration, have been killed through an enemy notion at sea. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that our naval aircraft carried out a considerable number of patrols yesterday and encountered several enemy formations. We drove ...
Article : 88 wordsThe imports to the United Kingdom for the nine months ending Sept. 30 amounted to ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 20 Oct 1917, Page 2
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