The pressure of the Allies upon the lines of the enemy is everywhere being maintained, and to-day important victories are reported.froth the British, French, Italian, and Salonika fronts. ' Further details of the British victory on the Somme on Friday and Saturday show that the German losses were immense. It is estimated that they lost eight times as many man as we did. The British on Sunday improved their ...
Article : 521 wordsIt is officially annouced in Berlin that German hydroplanes last night successfully dropped bombs on hostile warships Off the Flemish coast, and[?]hit ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is reported that the Italians have broken the Austrian third line defences in the Montialcone region, and are fiercely fighting their way to Trieste, ...
Article : 52 wordsIn air amendment of the War Precautions Regulatrons issued to-day, power was taken to censor pictures, cartoons, anti designs. The amendment took the ...
Article : 101 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that the Imipenal Govornment proposes taking over the coal industry of the United Kingdom. Prices and wages ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Ministor of Defence (Senator Pearce) gave another denial to-day to a rumour of troublo at Broken Hill. "Thero is no unrest of any kind at ...
Article : 59 wordsTo-day's Italian communique says:— We defeated persistent Austrian counter-attacks- on Del Carse yesterday, and took 30O prisoners. ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Wytho Williams, the "New York Times" correspondent in France, describing the French successes on the Somme, says that the strategic gains ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 235 wordsIt is officially announced that a mobile column ot Anzac mounted troops surprised the Turks on Sunday morning at Birel Mazar, 65 miles from the Suez ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily News" writes:—Military critics in Petrograd are of opinion that General Von Mackensen's "decisive victory" ...
Article : 104 wordsThere is anxioty in Germany regarding the flotation of the war loan. The newspapers, in appealing for subscriptions, deny that the Government ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is estimated that £20,000,000 will be returned to Europe within a your after peace by travelling Americans, according to the statements of officials of ...
Article : 188 wordsln his report this afternoon General Sir Douglas Haig says:— The general situation on the Somme is unchanged. ...
Article : 281 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Secretary of State for War, stated in an interview yesterday that we must not expect too much from the now British armoured ...
Article : 243 wordsTo-day's Russian, communique says: Our fire yesterday frustrated Turkish attempts to attack us in the region of the village of Adisa. ...
Article : 40 wordsNews reached Hobart yesterday of the denth of Sergeant D. P. Cronin. He was in the 26th Battalion, which left for the front in December of last year.He ...
Article : 439 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —The Russians and Roumanians, after a retreat lasting three days, have taken up positions on a line from Rasova to ...
Article : 51 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —On the Somme mighty battles were fought yesterday on a 45 kilometre front (about 28 miles), from Thiepval to ...
Article : 88 wordsGeneral [?]muts, the Commnander-in-Chieif of the British troops operating against the Germans in East Africa, reports as follows:— ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily News" writes:—Marshal Von Hindenburg. the Chief of the German General Staff, believing that the ...
Article : 89 wordsAmerican newspapers point out that the Liowis machine-gun, which is used by the British, and has been such a success in the war, was offered to the United ...
Article : 61 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— In the Verdun region we have seized German trenches on the southern slopes of Mort Homme (Dead Man's ...
Article : 41 wordsLieutenant Raymond Asquith, the eldest son of Mr. Asqnith. the Prime Minister, was killed in the fighting in France on Friday last. His wife and ...
Article : 91 wordsIn to-day's communique the Austrians admit that the enemy have entonad Kochalom, to the northward of Fogaras, without fighting. ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is officially announced by the British Admiralty that a squadron of naval aeroplanes [?]ssfully dropped marny bombs on Sunday afternon on the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe German censors have permitted Mr. Carl Von Wiegand, the Berlin correspondent of the "Now York "World," to cable to his journal reports of the ...
Article : 264 wordsSir F. E: H. Elliott, the British Minister at Athens, interviewed yesterday by a representative of the newspaper "Nea Hollas," states that the new ...
Article : 143 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, replying to a deputation of Labour members yesterday, stated that the demobilisation of the army must be gradual, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe French communique issued to-day refers to the Salonika campaign as follows:— The Serbian curtain and machine ...
Article : 158 wordsA number of Americans who escaped death whon a British steamer was torpedoed and sunk on the 2nd of the present month have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig has issued a special bulletin doseribrng the big advance by the British troops on Friday and Saturday, and emphasising the ...
Article : 623 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, writes:—The Germans have made a couple of attempts against our defences around Marinpuich and ...
Article : 287 wordsAt the Old Bailey to-day the trial was concluded of George James Montague, an. inspector of the Army Clothing Department, who was charged with ...
Article : 119 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— We have taken a German trench to the eastward of Clery. The ...
Article : 287 wordsThe "Magdeburg Zeitung" states that Count Zeppelin has expressed himself dissatisfied with the result of the last raid on England, and that a fresh raid ...
Article : 73 wordsIn to-day's communique the Germans state:— Between the rivers Sereth and Strypa we yesterday repulsed Russian attacks. There was heavy fighting to the ...
Article : 84 wordsThere has lately been a falling off in the number of women offuring their services in the munition factories and other national works. Formerly about ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily. Nows" says:— The Serbians have achioved a most brilliant success in the Florina valley, and their victorious ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 20 Sep 1916, Page 5
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