There is little news to-day from any quarter. The most important operatious have taken place south of the Somme, in the Ablaincourt district. Here the French have again captured positions. It is evident that the Germans are making the most desperate efforts in the defence of Bapaume, and that the British have to fight hard for all their gains Several times now General Haig has referred to the heavy bombardment of the British lines, which ...
Article : 275 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: Enemy attacks on the Stokhed River have been repulsed. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Mr. Leslie Scott, the Unionist member for the Exchange division of Liverpool, moved in favour of ...
Article : 819 wordsThe executive members of the Imperial Air Fleet gave a banquet last night at the Bath Club to Sir Joseph Ward, the Treasurer of New Zealand. ...
Article : 399 wordsAn Italian official statement published to-day states:— We have found among the booty abandoned by the Austrians on the ...
Article : 193 wordsIncluded in the mails despatched from Australia by the Arabia was a quantity from Tasmania, and this included letters and parcels for the troops on active ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 420 wordsIt is officially announced that between August 19 to September 30 61 Swedish ships, of an aggregate of 73,000 tons, were lost by mines or torpedoed by ...
Article : 91 wordsThe following communique, dealing with Italian naval operations, was issued to-day:— Italian and French air squadrons ...
Article : 74 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports today:— The German artillery is active on the whole front south of the Anere. ...
Article : 77 wordsReplying to questions in the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. E. G. Pretyman, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, stated ...
Article : 243 wordsThe collections taken up in London on France's Day reached a total of £100,381, which was handed yesterday to M. Paul Cambon, the French ...
Article : 35 wordsTo-day's communique states:— We have advanced to the southward in Dobrudja. Enemy seaplanes have attacked ...
Article : 47 wordsAn Italian official statement issued to-day says:— We have evacuated the observatory position destroyed by enemy artillery ...
Article : 45 wordsAt question time in the House of Commons yesterday several members called attention to speeches made in America by Whitehouse, the ...
Article : 98 wordsA French official message from Salonika says:— Bulgarian attacks on the Serbians in the loop of the Cerna have been ...
Article : 54 wordsThe P. and 0. liner Arabin, 7,933 tons, which left Sydney on September 30 for London via ports, has been torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean ...
Article : 637 wordsAn offcial message published in Berlin to-day says:—British night attacks between Le Sars and Gueudecourt have failed. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn official statement issued in Berlin to-day says:—The French have gained giound at Ablaincourt, and occupied Pressire. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Frank Wild, who was second in command of the Shackleton Imperial trans-Antarctic expedition, and his 10 companions who wero rescued by Sir ...
Article : 349 wordsA wireless message received in Borne (Switzer land) states that Count Von Reventlow, the militant German writer, at a Pan-German conference in Berlin ...
Article : 91 wordsThis, morning an Australian force attacked the German trenches on one of the lower knuckles of the main ridge beyond Flers, down which the battle ...
Article : 253 wordsIt is reported that the Allies have arrested M. Kalamasiotis, the member of the Greek Chamber of Deputies, for the Piraeus, who is alleged to have been ...
Article : 217 wordsA Berlin official message claims that the Germans have achieved a great success by an aerial night attack on Cerisyla-Sille (in Normandy), a centre of ...
Article : 61 wordsAt a meeting of shareholders to-day in the Australian trading firm of Messrs. Henry Bull and Co., Mr. Bull, who presided, said the time had ...
Article : 125 wordsSir Joseph Ward, the Treasurer of New Zealand, in proposing the health to-day of Mr. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at a luncheon given by ...
Article : 89 wordsArrangements are being made for the despatch of one hundred men for service at Rabaul, who will be despatched in batches of twenty-five by steamers ...
Article : 294 wordsTo-day's French communique states: On the right bank of the Meuse there has been a particularly lively artillery engagement in the region ...
Article : 38 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique says:— A furious bombardment is in progress in the Prahova Valley (east of ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Hungarian military authorities have forhidden cinema theatres to exhibit portraits of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, in consequence of ...
Article : 41 wordsA wireless message received in London from Bucharest states that Professor Cantacuzene and the Director of the Bacteriological Institute have examined ...
Article : 88 wordsThere is enthusiasm among the Greek residents of Egypt for M. Vanizeles, and already 8,000 men have volunteered for the army of the National ...
Article : 72 wordsPrince Henry of Bavaria has died of wounds. ...
Article : 18 wordsTo-day's French communique states: North of the Somme a concentration of the enemy cast of Saillisel (1,000 yards south of Sailly-Saillisel, ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the Australasian Fruitgrowers' Conference, held at Melbourne last week, the following business was transacted, in addition to our cabled ...
Article : 200 wordsRecently the Germans sent the German steamer A[?]to to the Dutch port of Flushing for internment. Dutch shipping circles suppose that the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe British and French Ministers at Athens have presented, a new Note to the Greek Foreign Minister, who admits the seriousness of the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Milan newspaper "Corriere della Sera" states that the recent German menace to Norwegian neutrality has contributed to bind together the ...
Article : 127 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— The enemy have heavily bombarded our new positions on the Ablaincourt sugar refinery sector (two miles north ...
Article : 280 wordsAt the meeting of the council of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday evening letters were received from the United Workers, London, ...
Article : 318 wordsPrince George has been on a visit to the Courts of Bavaria, Saxomy, and Wurtemberg, and will shortly visit the Kaiser. Everywhere he has been ...
Article : 45 wordsSystematic robberies are taking place in Germany, and there have been burglaries at the municipal offices, where bread, meat, and milk tickets have been ...
Article : 60 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —The enemy have gained small advantages on the Tolyges Pass sector (in the Carpathians on the frontier of Northern ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 10 Nov 1916, Page 5
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