There has this week been a revival of activity on the part of the Italians, and they have achieved a great victory. After their capture of Gory, (or Gorizia) a few weeks ago they were checked in their advance eastward and south by the fact that the enemy held a range of hills running nearly parallel with the Isonzo River. The Curso Plateau lies between these hills and the river, and the objective of the recent operations of the Italians has been ...
Article : 509 wordsThe Athens newspaper "Patris" reveals sensational disclosures concerning documents found in a German officer's portmanteau, and seized by the secret ...
Article : 85 wordsIn connection with the death ot Captain Boelcke, the German airman, who was stated to have brought down over 20 of the Allied machines, it is reported ...
Article : 74 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon says:— Despite persistent bad weather, we to-day followed up the advantage ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Secretary of State for War, has combed out civilians under 26 years of age employed at the War Office and its subsidiary ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 308 wordsSecond-Lieutenant Lemon, of the 3rd Battalion (New South Wales) of the Commonwealth Military Forces, has been dismissed from the service. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Parliamentary Air Committee is not satisfied with the attitude of Mr. A. J. Balfour, the First Lord of the Admiralty, towards the proposal to ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that 500 men of the National Army have occupied Ekaterina, on the road try Larissa, and ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the German Reichstag has unanimously appointed a committee, under the ...
Article : 80 wordsAccording to a communique issued in Paris, 171 aeroplanes were lost on the Western front during October. Of the total the British brought down 39, the ...
Article : 51 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —The French have gained a minor advantage at Lesboeufs. Anglo-French attacks elsewhere in the Somme have ...
Article : 33 wordsAn official statement published in Petrograd to-day says:— The enemy have carried our salient on the western bank of the Stokhod ...
Article : 70 wordsDuring the examination yesterday by the House of Commons Select Committee into the Rhodes Estate Bill, under which it is proposed to eliminate the ...
Article : 105 wordsIn to-night's report General Haig says:— The enemy have shelled our front in the regions round Hebuterne ...
Article : 41 wordsAdmiral De Fournet, the Commander of the Allied Fleet in Greek waters, and the Allied Ambassadors, attended the funeral to-day of the victims of the ...
Article : 64 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports to-day as follows:— Our artillery is active to the southward of Armentiers and to the ...
Article : 51 wordsThis afternoon the King wished Godspeed to a battalion of the Household Cavalry (Royal Horse Guards and Life Guards), who are going to the front as ...
Article : 37 wordsA wireless message from Petrograd says that fierce combats are proceeding on the whole Russo-Roumanian front from Volhynia to the Danube for 500 ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Italian bombardment of the Austrian positions on the Carso Plateau (cast of Isonzo) on Tuesday was intense. A clear sky was soon darkened by ...
Article : 329 wordsGeneral Koraka, who is a supporter of King Constantine, and opposed to M. Venizelos, the interventionist leader, acquainted the Allied Ministers [?] ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, the Liberal member for Hanley, asked whether wheat had been sold in London at 80s. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe members of the Court of Common Council of the City of Lon[?] passed a resolution yesterday in f[?] of the realisation of enemy holdings in ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Milan correspondent states that better weather on the Italian front has made possible the resumption of the Italian offensive at ...
Article : 73 wordsAn official statement published in Berlin to-day says:—Under a violent French bombardment we have evacuated Fort Vaux (five miles north-east of ...
Article : 117 wordsA German communique issued to-day says:—We have stormed Russian positions on the left bank of the Stokhod River. ...
Article : 28 wordsYesterday German torpedo-boats in the North Sea captured the Dutch steamer Okkambt, 470 tons, put a prize crew on board, and sent her in the ...
Article : 248 wordsA despatch from Mr. Percival Gibbon, war correspondent, says that since October 23 the fighting to the eastward of Lesboesfs has ebbed and flowed ...
Article : 303 wordsGeneral Sakharoff, the Russian general who has been fighting under General Brusiloff in Galicia, has been transferred to Dobrudja, where he will take ...
Article : 55 wordsAn Austrian official message to-day says that the second and third Italian armies, which have been brought up to full strength by fresh troops since the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Wolfram find in the Northern Territory has greatly interested British high-speed steelmakers in view of Germany's monopoly before the war of the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Miran newspaper "La Sera" states that, in order to avoid complications the Allies have received against the assembly of a peace congress at the ...
Article : 89 wordsTo-day's French communique says: Things are relatively calm on the right bank of the Meuse. One enemy aeroplane has been ...
Article : 94 wordsAn official Austrian message received to-day says:—The Austro-German troops have repulsed Roumanian attacks south-south-east of Kronstadt, on ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Paris "Matin" states that Germany deliberately planned the propagation of tuberculosis among prisoners. A medical eye-witness states that ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" mentions the '[?] Secolo" as stating that, as a sequel to the recent conference of representatives ...
Article : 70 wordsAn Austrian message reports that for three days an Italian bombardment of unheard-of violence has been proceeding from the cast of Gorz to the sea. ...
Article : 81 wordsIn a despatch from Salonika, Mr. G. Ward Price, the war correspondent, says that operations on the Struma began at daylight on Tuesday, the ...
Article : 160 wordsMr. Hilaire Belloc, writing in this week's "Land and Water," estimates that the German troops now in the field number 5,000,000, apart from ...
Article : 134 wordsAn official statement issued in Rome to-day says:— We have attacked Gorz (Gorizia), and reoccupied the trenches on the ...
Article : 155 wordsAt the suggestion of the Royal Colonial Institute the City of London Livery Companies have made arrangements for the entertainment during the winter of ...
Article : 90 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique says:— The situation is unchanged between the Moldavian frontier and Predeal ...
Article : 130 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Paris, correspondent says that seven battalions of Wurtembergers and Silesians participated in the attack on Sailly-Saillised. ...
Article : 105 wordsA White Book which has been published in reference to the exchange of British and German civilian prisoners over 45 years of age shows that the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Milan correspondent says that the Governments at Berlin and Vienna have agreed on the Polish question, and a provisional ...
Article : 84 wordsAn official French message from Salonika says:— The Serbians have repulsed Bulgarian counter-attacks in the region of the ...
Article : 103 wordsA semi-official statement says that the Austrian positions to the east of Gorz were!situated on the summits of steep slopes, interdepted by ravines, and ...
Article : 127 wordsMajor R. D. Brent, son of Mr. H. R. Brent, of Messrs. Roberts and Co. Ltd., Hobart, writes as follows to his parents:—"I am glad to hear that my ...
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Advertising : 32 wordsGeneral Haig in to-day's report says:— Heavy rain is falling to-day. There is nothing to report. ...
Article : 28 wordsDr. E. J. Dillon, in a message from Rome states thit circumstances have made Roumania the pivot of the European campaign and it is dangerous to ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Italians have made another great thrust eastward from their line, extending from Gorizia (otherwise Gorz) to the sea. The Carso plateau begins south of Gorizia, and runs down to Trieste. To the east of Gorz is a range of hills, starting from Tarnova, and going first south, and then trending sharply ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 4 Nov 1916, Page 7
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