The war is full of wonders, and to-day we publish a description of the new British motor-car that reads like a traveller's tale of olden times. This war machine is like a dragon, and can ram and trample and shoot, and is impervious to everything but a direct hit from a heavy shell. It seems not only to have helped our men, hut made them laugh heartly even in the midst of battle. It was a grim joke. ...
Article : 495 wordsTo-day's German communique says:— There was yesterday increased Russian firing activity along the whole of Pfince Leopold's, front southward of Pinsk. The ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Roumanian troops advancing in Transylvania have occupied the town of Fogaras, which is 40 miles to the cast of Hermannsberg, and captured ...
Article : 36 wordsTo-day's Bulgarian communique says: —After desperate lighting the enemy have taken Malkandzeplanina (mountain). We repulsed attacks on Bohovo ...
Article : 88 wordsThe United States Government has protested to Great Britain against the opening by the Censor at Vancouver of American official mails from naval ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Germans, in to-day's communique, admit that the Roumanians in the Kukel River sector in Transylvania are advancing on both sides of the town ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Note from the Allies presented to Sweden, protesting against the measures she has taken for regulating the navigation of the territorial waters of ...
Article : 262 wordsTo-day's Italian communique say's:— The enemy suffered severe losses in Friday's fighting in the Sugana Valley. ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. W. D. Howells, the well-known American author, writing in to-day's "New York World," predicts that the war will end in June next. He says ...
Article : 86 wordsAccording to a wireless message, received in Berno (Switzerland) from Budapest, Count Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, has given the members of the ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: The Turks last night (Saturday) attacked our advance guards on our Kara Burun (west of Trebizond) fron, ...
Article : 57 wordsThe South Wales miners have suspended their decision to strike at midnight to-night (Sunday) and will await the decision of the conference between, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe War Office to-day issued the following report on the Salonika operations: — On the Struma front last night our ...
Article : 78 wordsTo-day's Italian communique says:— We made several successful raids yesterday on the Isonzo. Our troops on the Carso Plateau, ...
Article : 77 wordsUneasiness is existing among the German ruling classes owing to the secret revolutionary propaganda which is going on among German workmen. The ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Russians anti Roumanians in the Dobrudja are taking up strong positions on a line from Rasova (on the Danube) to Tuzla (on the sea coast, about 15 ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Norwegian newspaper "Morgenbladet" states that, owing to Sweden's reply to the Note England has strengthened the blockade against Norway. It ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Frederick Palmer, the war correspondent, who is at the British headquarters, cables, in reference to the British armoured car:—Fire was ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs, the war correspondent, describing Friday morning's battle, says: — The British went over the parapets for ...
Article : 655 wordsIn his report-from the British headquarters in Frence this afternoon, General Sir Douglas Haig refers to the Battle of the Somme as follows:— ...
Article : 363 wordsTo-day's French communique states: English reconnaissance parties on the Struma front have been engaged in many successful engagements on ...
Article : 110 wordsThe people of Berlin were bitterly disillusioned when they found no news confirming the Kaiser's melodramatic telegram to the Empress notifying her ...
Article : 134 wordsTo-day's Austrian communique says: —The Italians continue their attacks day and night, but our front remains unshaken. The enemy south-west of ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Bulgarian communique issued today states:—We continue to pursue the enemy in the Dobrudja. The Germans in their communique ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is reported that the Belgians, after severe lighting, have driven the Germans out of Tabora, on the main line of railway from Dar-es-Salaam, the ...
Article : 93 wordsDuring the months following the fall of Gorz 30,000 Italian engineers toiled day and night, and mostly under fire, constructing cement platforms for their ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Kiev correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the apparent object of the enemy in the Dobrudja is the famous bridge over the Danube at ...
Article : 127 wordsThis morning's French communique states:— On the Somme front there is artillery activity in the Berny on Santerre ...
Article : 241 wordsItalian troops have occupied the town of Paliacastro, near the important Albanian town of Argyrokastron. The latter place in 47 miles to the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe American Commission for the Relief of the Belgians is appealing to citizens of the United States to subscribe 1,000,000 dollars a month in order to ...
Article : 119 wordsNearly all the members of the newlyformed Greek Cabinet under M. Kalogeropoules belong to the party led by the late M. Theotokis, and early in the ...
Article : 122 wordsA return issued by the United States Government shows that Americn exports of cotton cloths to Australia for the fiscal year of 1916 were valued at ...
Article : 68 wordsThe German newspapers state that General Von Mackensen's success in the Dobrudja was the result of a double flank envelopment. The Roumanians ...
Article : 101 wordsIn reference to the report that the Italian Alpini troops on Friday last climbed a precipice on Monto Caurio, and captured a strong position on the ...
Article : 195 wordsA telegram received at Freiburg, in Switzerland, states that General Gaede, the Commander-in-Chief of the German troops in Upper Alsace, is dead. ...
Article : 34 wordsA special wireless despatch from Berlin, which is printed in to-day's "New York World," says that large American importing houses who have contracts, to ...
Article : 89 wordsMarshal Von Hindenburg, interviewed by a representative of the "Berliner Tageblatt," referred to Germany's tasks on the Somme and elsewhere as most ...
Article : 74 wordsThe French have again distinguished themselves south of the Somme. where they made such remakable headway last week. On Sunday afternoon they launched an attack, which was crowned with great success in that it witnessed the complete capture of Vermandovillers (south of Herleville, about a mile along the road shown on the map to the cast of that place), and also of Berny. These are villages which the French had previously penetrated, but only held in part. There was also violent fighting on Sunday for several strong trenches held by the Germans around Vermandovillers, Deniceourt (on the map ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsTo-day's German communique says:— There is lively fighting along the front occupied by the Archduke Albrecht of Wartemburg's army, and also on the ...
Article : 142 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states: There is stubborn fighting on the right bank of the Zlota Lipa. To the southward of Brzezany we ...
Article : 143 wordsSummonses have been served on Andrew Peacock, city coppersmith, charging him with false protences. The allegations are that he pretended he had ...
Article : 99 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig has forwarded the following message to the King in answer to His Majesty's congratulations:— ...
Article : 45 wordsAs evidence of how seriously the British Government and people regard the necessity for a vigorous prosecution of the war, and of the subordination of ...
Article : 127 wordsFirst Out and Still Outrunning All Others. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 19 Sep 1916, Page 5
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