The British have been heavily engaged north of Thiepval, the Germans making a stout resistance. Our troops gained ground on the ridge overlooking the valley of the An[?]r[?], and made some hundreds of prisoners. They are also advancing down the Pozieres-Bapaume road, and are near Le Sars. On the eastern wing of their front the British have captured 500 yards of trench eastward of Les Boeufs. On Saturday German counter-attacks were ...
Article : 323 wordsAccording to the newspaper "Il Roma," which is published in Naples, Greece, with King Constantine in agreement, has declared war against ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Russo Roumanian pressure on the enemy's forces in the Dobrudja has not been relaxed, and the enemy's losses are serious. ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. J. W. Gerard, the American Ambassador to Germany, sailed from Copenhagen to-day for the United States. There is much speculation on ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, in a series of three articles in the "Sunday Herald," makes a stirring appeal to all classes to ...
Article : 822 wordsPETROGRAD, September 29. To-day's Russian communique states: South-west of Smorgon (east of Vil[?]a) our airships raided the enemy's ...
Article : 110 wordsTo-day's French communique refers to the Salonika campaign as follows:— The Bulgarians yesterday renewed their attacks on the heights of ...
Article : 121 wordsA life-pres[?]rver marked "Bremen," the name of the German submarine expected to arrive at an Atlantic port, has been picked up off Cape Elizabeth, ...
Article : 230 wordsMarshal Von Hindenburg, the Chief of the German General Staff, is now in Dobrudja, conferring with General Von Mackensen, the commander of the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that it is more than probable that when all the horrors perpetrated by the Bulgarians and the ...
Article : 320 wordsAn entire Greek Flying Corps, with twenty officers, has joined the Allies fleet. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe following official report on the Mesopotamia campaign was issued today:— Our aeroplanes on the Tigris have ...
Article : 63 wordsZeppelin and aeroplane attacks on Bucharest continue daily. A number of boy scouts have been killed, and a Hungarian church partly destroyed. ...
Article : 35 wordsA German newspaper, which will be published daily, is to be established shortly in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. ...
Article : 29 wordsDuring their recent advance at Courc[?]l[?]tt[?] the Canadian troops captured from the Germans two trench mortars of a now and special type. ...
Article : 33 wordsGeneral Haig, reporting this afternoon, says:— This morning we captured a strongly-defended farm south-west of Le ...
Article : 324 wordsThere is a lull in the fighting on the Anglo-French fronts, and it has afforded an opportunity for the war correspondents to make a general survey of ...
Article : 312 wordsDr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Chancellor, in his speech at the opening of the Reichstag yesterday, admitted that the offensive on the West ...
Article : 589 wordsThe statement made by Mr. Lloyd George, the British Secretary of State for War, to the London representative of the United Press Association of New ...
Article : 113 wordsThe "Morning Post's" correspondent at Athens says that General Danglis, Minister of War in the last Venizelos Ministry, and Chief of the General Staff ...
Article : 138 wordsThe French Commander-in-Chief (Field-Marshal Joffre) has sent the following message to General Haig:— Congratutations on the brilliant ...
Article : 61 wordsIn to-day's communique the Germans state that the enemy's resistance is weaker in the region of Hermannsberg, and that they have driven the ...
Article : 197 wordsMajor-General Sir Newton Moore, commander of the Australian troops in England, has just returned from a visit to General Birdwood, on the Western ...
Article : 82 wordsThe statement made by Mr. Lloyd G[?]orge has caused a great outburst of anger in the German newspapers, and especially his warning to neutral ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Island of Tenedos has joined the new Government. Order has been restored and the new Administration established in all ...
Article : 227 wordsGeneral Sir O'Moore Creagh, late Commander-in-Chief in India, in an article in the "Weekly Dispatch," says four Waterloos are easily swallowed up ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "British Medical Journal" gives details of a remarkable invention whereby it is made possible in broad daylight to obtain detailed pictures of ...
Article : 204 wordsReferring yesterday to Mr. Lloyd George's announcement of the British war policy, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said:—In his stirring words Mr. ...
Article : 448 wordsThe communique issued at Berlin today says:—The battle of the Somme has slackened. Strong English attacks to-day between the An[?]r[?] River and ...
Article : 350 wordsThe King has sent a message to the Czar of Russia heartily thanking him for his congratulations on the recent victories of the British army in ...
Article : 41 wordsThe newspapers are sceptical of the extent of Germany's success at Hermannsberg. General Von Falkenhayn's presence in command of the enemy ...
Article : 109 wordsThe "Matin" says that Lieutenant Guynemer, the French aviator, has brought down three enemy aeroplanes in three minutes, and narrowly escaped ...
Article : 60 wordsA wireless message received in Rome to-day says that the Greek volunteers have already arrived at Salonika. During the conflicts in Crete ...
Article : 83 wordsThe dead bodies of 3,000 Germans were found at Combles, and many of them had been dead for more than a week. ...
Article : 84 wordsGeneral Von Falkenhayn, formerly Chief of the German General Staff, now commands the Austro-German forces in the H[?]rmannsbery district. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn this afternoon's report General Haig says:— A London Territorial battalion carried out a successful raid last night ...
Article : 51 wordsAn interim report of the Board of Trade Committee on the increased prices of commodities recommends th[?] need for the hastening of the ...
Article : 306 wordsTo-day's report issued by the War Office on the operations in Salonika States:— On the Struma front the enemy ...
Article : 130 wordsMessages from Petrograd show that the Russian newspapers are impatient at the apparent slackness of the diplomacy of the Allies with Greece. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe communique issued to-day says: We made further progress yesterday between Fregiecourt and Morval. PARIS, September 30. ...
Article : 91 wordsM. Pichon, former Prime Minister of France, describes Dr. Bethmann-Hollw[?]gg's speech as a demonstration of weariness, anxiety[?] and impotence. ...
Article : 87 wordsTo-day's Italian communique says:— In the Trentino the activity of the enemy in the Adige valley is increasing. ...
Article : 66 wordsCount Tisza, the Hungarian Premier[?] stated in the Di[?]t yesterday that the food question in Hungary was undeniably precarious, but the Government ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 2 Oct 1916, Page 5
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