The Germans are making desperate efforts on the Somme to anticipate the impending general offensive of the Allies. On Wednesday they attacked the French front from Combles to the Se mme in mass formation, and gained no ground, though they sacrificed men without mercy, The same night they con tinuously attacked the New Zealanders, who have relieved the Australians. These attacks were continued through out the night, and their losses were ...
Article : 384 wordsIt is reported that the Russian and Roumanian forces operating in the Dobrudja have achieved important successes. ...
Article : 89 wordsAt the swearing-in of the 1915 recruits at the Athens garrison barracks yesterday, in the presence of the Queen, the War Minister, and all the officers ...
Article : 90 wordsThe raid of General Villa the Mexican bandit leader, on the city of Chihuahua, has been confirmed. An official report has been received in ...
Article : 312 wordsThe nomenclature of the following A.I.F. units has been changed, and mail matter should be addressed in accordance with the following sample ...
Article : 323 wordsM. Venizelos, in a statement issued to-day, says:—"Neutrality has inflicted all the horrors and sufferings of a disastrous war upon Greece. Her inaction ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 271 wordsReports received in Zurich, Switzerland, state that the Germans are feverishly constructing airships. Four now super-Zeppelins left Friedrichshaven ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe, the war correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," writes from Bucharest:—The Allies' gunfire frustrated attempts by the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe crew of a Danish fishing vessel which returned to Copenhagen yesterday report that they vainly attempted to rescue two aviators belonging to a ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the "Daily Man" says the Bulgarians are murdering their prisoners wholesale, and the victims are mutilated in an ...
Article : 174 wordsA Liverpool journalist, who has recently lost two officer-sons, both of whom had enrned the D.S.O., writing by the last mail to a member of "The ...
Article : 292 wordsSerious rioting took place in New York to-day among the tramway strikers, who are forming flying bands and stoning cars for the purpose of ...
Article : 215 wordsThe "London Gazette" to-day contains the names of the following Australian officers who have been awarded honours for services at the front:— ...
Article : 916 wordsIn his report this afternoon General Sir Douglas Haig says:— Heavy rain is still falling. Throughout last night the Germans ...
Article : 161 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states: The enemy yesterday launched an offensive against the Kovel-Rovuo railway, and were everywhere ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Germans yesterday sustaiued some of the most bloody defeats since the beginning of the Somme offensive. French airmen observed a great ...
Article : 354 wordsIn view of correcting misconceptions it is officially explained that it is not intended to disturb the system of dealing with Home supplies of coal under ...
Article : 124 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique says:— Our retirement has ceased to the south of Petroseny (about 20 miles ...
Article : 71 wordsOwing to the high cost of flour, News York bakers are petitioning Dr. Wilson, the President, and the Congress, to prohibit the export of wheat from ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —The Russian Guards continue their attacks to the west of Lutzk, and sanguinary storming attacks on a 20 ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Minister of Munitions promises to make an official statement shortly of the history, development, and origination of the tank motors. In the ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. W. Leitch, of 6 Arthur-street, Hobart, has received word from the Defence Department that his eldest son, Lance-Corporal W. D. Leitch, of ...
Article : 193 wordsThe hearing of the suit in which Alesander France Maldon Robb, barrister-at-law and an ex-P[?]sbyterian minister at Launceston, Tasmania, sought a ...
Article : 514 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the was correspondent of the "Daily Clronicle," sends a thrilling story of the gallant part played by the Guards in the British ...
Article : 381 wordsThe Salonika campaign is referred to as follows in this afternoon's communique:— The Serbians yesterday repulsed a ...
Article : 157 wordsThe British Foreign Office has issued a statement, which is published by the United Press Association of New York, denying German charges that pension ...
Article : 72 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: We dislodged the Kurds from a ridge to the south-eastward of Mush yesterday. ...
Article : 43 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —There were continuous hand-grenade fights at Courcelette yesterday. We repulsed attacks at Flers, Les Boeufs, ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the Evangelical Free Church Conference which was held yesterday at Mansfield College, Oxford, it was resolved that is is essential, in, any ...
Article : 105 wordsAt an emergency meeting of the Australian War Contingent Association last week it was reported that regret was expressed that the Red Cross ...
Article : 166 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:— At Four de Paris, in the Argonne, the Germans this morning exploded ...
Article : 61 wordsTo-days Italian communique states: We captured a new, position near Santa Caterina, in the hills to the castward of Gorz, yesterday. ...
Article : 53 wordsApplication was made to Mr. Justice Isaacs, of the High Court, to-day, for an order nisi to review a decision of the Melbourne Court of Petty Sessions, in ...
Article : 195 wordsIt is officially announced in Athens that the inhabitants of the Island of Crete have revolted against the Greeks, abolished the authorities there, and ...
Article : 53 wordsThis afternoons French communique states:— We carried out two operations last evening on the right bank of the ...
Article : 54 wordsLady Northcote, wife of a former Governor-General of Australia, opened the Australian War Chest Club to-day at Horseferry-road, Westminster. The ...
Article : 156 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— The bad weather continues to restrict our operations in the Somme ...
Article : 121 wordsA Portuguese expeditionary force which crossed the Rovuma River, forming the boundary between German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa, has ...
Article : 48 wordsThe American newspapers announce that both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft, former Presidents of the United States, will end their historic quarrel and shake ...
Article : 73 wordsOne of the German Attaches at Athens has been found to have been implicated in a plot to assassinate M. Venizelos. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 23 Sep 1916, Page 7
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