This afternoon's French communique states:— Enemy aviators yesterday dropped 25 bombs on Belfort, but the damage ...
Article : 29 wordsThe war news to-day is very important, more from what it indicates than what it states. Everywhere the enemy is undergoing an enormous pressure; on the Somme, and doubtless elsewhere on the Western, Front; on the Eastern front from the Pripot River to the Dniester; in the Dobrudja province of Roumania; on the Salonika front; on the Italian front, and in Asia Minor. The enemy are being bled to death on more than two ...
Article : 557 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique states:— Violent lighting continues in the Dobrudja. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe British troops had hardly settled down in Jenikoi (cast of the Struma) when, across the plain from Topalova, 3,000 Bulgarians advanced in ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that General Brusiloff, in his third great move, is now irresistibly forcing a path through ...
Article : 165 wordsTo-day's Italian communique states: On the Trentino front the enemy are quiet in the Travignolo Valley, after Wednesday's reverse. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that it is impossible to say what part Lieutenant Brandon, who is a New Zealandor, took in the destruction of the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe French communique issued today states:— The British have forced the enemy to retreat on the Struma front. ...
Article : 116 wordsA wireless message received in Rame to-day states that the Roumanians who crossed the Danube between Rustchuk and Tutrakan last week returned ...
Article : 56 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states:— Our offensive in the Dobrudja continues, and we have taken 300 ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Serbians have occupied the station at Kenali, on the main line from Salonika to Monastir, about 10 miles from the latter place. ...
Article : 34 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says:— Fierco battles are raging in the regions of Peuiaki, Gulevitse (on the Stokhod), and Mylnovce. The enemy, ...
Article : 108 wordsColonel Zablonsky writing on the Zeppelin raids on England, explains that they are most frequently undertaken on Saturdays and Sundays, the ...
Article : 63 wordsA semi-official announcement has been made as follows:—The latest Italian communique indicates further progress towards the Avisio Valley. ...
Article : 134 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —The Bulgarians have evacuated villages on the left (eastern) bank of the Struma. ...
Article : 80 wordsMessages from Bucharest state that General Von Mackenson is delivering a series of conntor-attacks to prevent his flanks being turned. ...
Article : 31 wordsDuriug the recent raid by German aviators on Bucharest, one of the bombs dropped killed an American subject, and the American Minister has ...
Article : 44 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that from the 13th to the 22nd of hist month British seaplanes carried out a series of attacks on the Bulgarian coast. ...
Article : 37 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique states:— There have been violent engagements in the upper Tornova Valley. ...
Article : 86 wordsA semi-official statement warns the public against expecting a rapid development of events in Volhynia and Galicia, and adds:— ...
Article : 88 wordsThe "Aeroplano" newspaper states that Mr. Orville Wright, the famous American aviator, has presented the patent rights taken out by himself and ...
Article : 97 wordsThe following report on the campaign in Egypt was issued to-day:— A patrol of Australian mounted troops on Wednesday captured some ...
Article : 87 wordsThis morning's report by General Sir Douglas Haig says:— In the Somme region we have advanced to the north-east of ...
Article : 243 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —Only portion of the Roumanians who crossed the Danube have returned. The remainder fled east, and were ...
Article : 95 wordsThe artillery battle in the Somme region during the past 36 hours has been most violent. The bombardment extended beyond the recent front of ...
Article : 50 wordsYesterday a German squadron, comprising 60 ships, including light cruisers, torpedo-boat destroyers, and many armed trawlers carried out ...
Article : 110 wordsTo-day's German communique is as follows:—West of Lutzk the enemy are quiet. We have captured in a few days 608 machine-guns. The enemy ...
Article : 135 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —The Austro-Hungarian forces have defeated the Roumanians in the Gyergyo sector, and recaptured a position ...
Article : 96 wordsTo-day's report on the Salonika front states:— The enemy are inactive on the Struma, front. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the following:—An authoritative source explains the reason of the comparatively small British casualties in the recent ...
Article : 169 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says:— In the Caucasus we continue our coastal advance towards the river between Kharshut and Ardasa ...
Article : 49 wordsAt Buckingham Palace to-day the King invested the following Australian and New Zealand officers with the undermentioned honours:—C.M.G., ...
Article : 46 wordsKing Constantine of Greece is endeavouring to form a Ministiy among the friends of M. Venizelos, who, however, demand that M. Venizelos hall ...
Article : 93 wordsOwing to Great Britain requiring certificates of the Swedish origin of all goods shipped to England, Swedish exporters have been forbidden to fill in ...
Article : 108 wordsThe following official report on the Mesopotamian campaign was issued today:— Our aeroplanes yesterday dropped ...
Article : 84 wordsTo-day's German communique says:— East of the Ancre River the enemy thrice made futile attacks yesterday. We sanguinarily repulsed a French ...
Article : 92 wordsIn this morning's report General Haig states:— We have discharged gas against the enemy to the eastward of Loos ...
Article : 91 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— To-day one of our reconnaissance parties penetrated a German support ...
Article : 245 wordsThe German submarine U53 reached Newport News, in the State of Virginia, yesterday. She flies the German flag, and carries a gun. She anchored ...
Article : 611 wordsTo-night's French communique says: Our heavy artillery in the Woevre effectively shelled enemy military roads and railway stations to-day ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs, the war correspondent, tells a grim story of the capture of Eaucourt L'Abbaye. He says: There were three days and nights, of ...
Article : 499 wordsThis morning's French communique says:— There was great artillery activity in the Verdun region last night. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "big push" in the Somme region was advanced another stage on Saturday, when the British and the French co-operated in an attack along the front from the Albert-Bapaume Ram road in the neighbourhood north-east of Le Sars, to the Peronne-Bapaume main road south of Bouchavesnes. It is evidence that the Allies are making a bold bid for the possession of the Peronne-Bapaume road, along the west of which from Trausloy to Bapaume, in a line almost parallel with the road, the German fourth line of defence is strangly established. In Saturday's advance both the British and the French ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 9 Oct 1916, Page 5
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