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Article : 85 wordsA German communique published today says:—French attacks on our new trenches south of Biaches (1½ miles south-west of Peronne), and also at ...
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Article : 108 wordsThe London correspondent of the "New York Times" has had an interview with Admiral Lord Charles Beresford regarding the speech in the House ...
Article : 228 wordsA telegram from Switzerland states that General Von Falk[?]nhayn has asked for heavy reinforcements, as absolutely necessary to check the pressure of the ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —We have driven back the enemy to the north east of Les Boeufs (south of Bapaume, on the Bapaume-Combles ...
Article : 34 wordsIn the Housd of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Bonar Law, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, announced that the Government would introduce ...
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Article : 66 wordsLloxd's reports that the Donaldson liner Cabotia, 4,309 tons, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on October 20, and that 32 of her crew ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 2 Nov 1916, Page 5
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