The British offensive north and south of the An[?]r[?] has developed into a great battle over a front probably extending from Arras to the Somme. Our troops are pushing north-east to Bapaume, and north from the An[?]r[?]. From the old line north of the An[?]r[?] to Arras also they are pressing the enemy, who have apparently retired from Gommecourt, the scene of a bloody battle on July 1. In the direst thrust upon Bapaume, which has resulted in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 478 wordsOfficials are sc[?]ptical of the German report that the Yarrowdale has been detained owing to an infectious disease outbreak on board. ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day, rep[?]ying to the Earle of Crowe, Lord Curzon said a further telegram had been received by the War Office to the ...
Article : 218 wordsSenator Stone has introduced in the Senate a bill granting the President the power he has requested. Senator Lafallotte took action which forced the ...
Article : 179 wordsA Russian official wireless message intercepted by the British Admiralty states:- We have repulsed a Turkish attack ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following British steamers have been sunk:- Algiers, 2,361 tons. Headly. 4,953 tons. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Danish steamer Frederick VII. has sailed for Copenhagen. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted the following Russian official wireless messages:- In the region of Smorgon ...
Article : 60 wordsOn the night before last, when the Australians made their last successful small attack, capturing 32 Germans and adding a small length of trench ...
Article : 272 wordsTo-day's report from Field-Marshal Haig states:- We made a further advance to-day, in the course of which we captured ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted a wireless report of a speech delivered in the Reichstag to-day by Dr. Von Bothmann-Hollw[?]g, the German ...
Article : 1,355 wordsMr. Austin Hoy, son of Mrs. Hoy, one of the Laconia victims, has cabled to President Wilson, demanding that the deaths of his mother and sister ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Petrograd newspaper "Novo Vremya" prints an app[?]lling story of German poison gas exterminating the entire population of a Galician village. ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Le Journal" says that the Germans have fallen back to avoid sanguinary disaster. This victory is due especially to the terrifying ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Dutch Foreign Minister has forwarded a Note to Berlin, stating that Holland will hold Germany responsible for the recent torpedoing of the seven ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war co[?]respondent, telegraphing yesterday, says that the British troops are still advancing all along the line on the positions ...
Article : 337 wordsMr. J. W. Gerard (formerly American Ambassador at Berlin) and his party, numbering 40, together with newspaper correspondents and ...
Article : 113 wordsIn to-day's report Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig says:- We to-day [?]aided the enemy's lines to the south-westward of Lens and to ...
Article : 112 wordsFurther particulars is now to hand of the torpedoing of the Cu[?]ard liner Laconia, bound from New York to Liverpool, by a German submarine off ...
Article : 1,095 wordsGermany refuses to guarantee the safety of the American naval vessels Desmoin[?]s and Cæsar if sent to Bei[?]t (on the coast of Syria.) with relief for ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says the German submarine commanders have now apparently been ordered to capture merchant captains, whether or not the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Australian infantry have been moving on all day across the frightful desolation of an area where for five months the opposing sides have faced ...
Article : 527 wordsThe French President (M. Poincar[?]) has telegraphed to King George as follows:- Heartiest congratulations on the ...
Article : 73 wordsThere is a possibility that arrangements may be made for the withdrawal of American diplomatic officers from Aus[?]a if necessary. The belief here ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. R. Lansing, the Secretary of State, went to the White House this morning for a conference with President Wilson. It is believed he was ...
Article : 556 wordsThere was a meeting of the Parliamentary Fr[?]etrade Committee yesterday, those present including Mr. R. McKenna, Mr. Walter Runciman, the ...
Article : 139 wordsCorrespondents at British headquarters state that the British advance was [?]a[?]ked by rather sharper resistance on Tuesday, brisk local encounters ...
Article : 269 wordsAllied aeroplanes have heavily bombarded Zeebrugg[?] harbour and its d[?]pots. Heavy explosions were heard, and the glare of the fires was seen in ...
Article : 35 wordsTo-day's French communique states: We to-day raided the German lines to the south-eastward of Vailly (on the Aisne), bringing back a number ...
Article : 61 wordsOrders issued by the 3rd Australian Divisional Headquarters state that under the King's authority Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Ha[?]g has awarded the ...
Article : 244 wordsA Ro[?]manian communique says:- We have repulsed with heavy losses strong enemy reconnaissances on the north-western frontier of Moldavia. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 1 Mar 1917, Page 5
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