General Haig funishes a summary of recent operations on the Somme front. These mostly centred upon the struggle for Schwaben redoubt, on a ridge overlooking the valley of the Ancre Rivulet, to the north of Thiepval. Running east for 5,000 yards from this redoubt were the Stuff and Rogina trenches, with redoubts of the same names. These trenches and the redoubts in them have been captured, but it is not yet clear whether the British ...
Article : 479 wordsThe Wheat Commission has appointed a number of firms as Government agents to- sell Indian, (Argentine, Pacific, American, and Canadian wheats. At ...
Article : 131 wordsAdditional votes to the number of 51,120 were counted throughout the Commonwealth yesterday in connection with the Military Service Roferendum, and as a ...
Article : 297 wordsA report from Salonika received by the War Office to-day says:— We have captured Prosenik (four miles east of the Struma, and 10 miles ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, stated in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon that he was unable yet to announce the intention of the ...
Article : 42 wordsRelies of the Zeppelin which was destroyed at Cuffley, in the north of London, realised £3,010 on October 19, bringing the total collections by the ...
Article : 51 wordsA French communique published to-day says:— The English have captured Barakli Djuma (on the left bank of the ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Bonnr Law, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, said an experienced official of the Colonial Office ...
Article : 54 wordsDespatches received in Now York from Berlin state that an agitation for democratising the Reichstag is rapidly growing. There are indications that the ...
Article : 207 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, said it would not be in the public interest to make any statement as to the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe German newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung," in a propagandist article, says it foresees the partition of the South Sea islands, and says:—One of ...
Article : 134 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— The Serbians have repulsed counter-attacks on the Cerna. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn Ellendale correspondent writes: —"During the past week two farewell socials have been given to four voluntrees from this district, the first to ...
Article : 248 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Milan correspondent says that, except on the Oarso Plateau, winter conditions have set in on the entire Italian front. The troops ...
Article : 55 wordsPersons at Zurich, in Switzerland, who are in close touch with Germany, assert that Germany's food shortage is accumulating. Many commodities are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsLord Rosebery, in a speech at Edinburgh yesterday, said that at the end of the war the Empire would find itself. There, was nothing so unifying as blood ...
Article : 151 wordsA survivor of the British steamer Marina, 5,204 tons, of Glasgow, which was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans-off the coast of Ireland on ...
Article : 351 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in a despatch summarising recent operations in the Somme, says that there has been heavy rain almost daily, and the chalk ...
Article : 330 wordsCount Von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador an Washington, has suggested that the German-American mails be carried in future in merchant ...
Article : 340 wordsOn the committee stage of the Special Register Bill in the House of Commons yesterday, all amendments extending the franchise to include soldiers and ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. and Mrs. T. Jarvis, of New Norfolk, have received a telegram from the Defence Department, of which the following is a copy:—"Officially reported ...
Article : 180 wordsIn a statement on the Federal political crisis, the Rt. Hon. Joseph Cook said to-day:—An outstanding feature of the referendam polling is that the War ...
Article : 237 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— On the Verdun front there is a most, violent artillery duel proceeding in the Douaumont sector. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that Germany is preparing for another enormous effort, and will probably make a mass levy, by ...
Article : 164 wordsA German communique published to-day states:—The Russians have five times failed in their attempts, to recapture the ground on the east bank of ...
Article : 43 wordsGeneral Haig, in to-day's report, says:— We have bombarded the enemy's trenches to the southward of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Architects and Builders' Journal" publishes the correspondence of Mr. Newton, the President of the Institute of British Architects, with the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that a German submarine has torpedoed another Greek vessel, Kiki Issaiss (2,993 tons), without ...
Article : 180 wordsA Roumanian communique issued to-day says:— We have repulsed an attack in the Prahova Valley (south of Kronstadt), ...
Article : 181 wordsIn to-day's report General Haig says: In conjunction with the French we have made a local attack to the eastward of Lesboeufs. We gained some ...
Article : 105 wordsA French communique published to-day says:— We have smashed up a violent attack to the south-west of Altkirch (in ...
Article : 33 wordsThe South Welsh coal mineowners have demanded a reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages of the miners, who have already domanded a 15 per cent. ...
Article : 148 wordsA Russian communique published to-day states:— There has been fierce fighting south of Brzezany and east of Swistelniki ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is stated in Berlin that the German submarine U53, which was recently operating on the coast of America, has returned to Germany. ...
Article : 34 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— We have made progress to the north-east of Lesboeufs, south of Bapaume, on the Bapaume-Combles ...
Article : 208 wordsGerman submarines ard now operating off the coast of Portugal. Yesterday a Norwegian steamer was sunk, but the crew landed safely. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that continuous and hard fighting is proceeding on General Brusiloff's front, with regard to ...
Article : 314 wordsA German communique published to-day says:—West of the Predeal road the Austro-Hungarians have broken the Roumanian resistance, capturing 10 ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the Prahova Valley, to the southward of Kronstadt, the Russo-Roumanians have assumed the offensive, and the Roumanian communique states that progress has been made at Dragoslavele, to the south-west of Predeal. The enemy have been forced to retreat from Kampolung, and according to a press report, the pursuing Roumanians annihilated four battalions during the pursuit. The Austro-Germans have made further progress in the Alt Valley, where they have ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 3 Nov 1916, Page 5
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