The British continue to p[?]sh the Germans back north of the Ancre. Pressure is being applied [?]ast of Gommecourt, and the Germans are retreating. In conjunction with this movement north of the Ancre, the British also have attacked at a vital point—at Bouchavesnes, north of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 179 wordsThere has been an explosion at a French munition factory near Vert le Petit (south-west of Paris). Two people were killed and 19 injured. ...
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Article : 235 wordsOwing to the sudden breaking of the ice from Varberg to Anholt (in the Cattegat), ice floes have carried hundreds of fishermen in the direction of the sea. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Senate at noon to-day adjourned sine die, without passing the Armed Neutrality Bill to empower the President to arm merchantmen. ...
Article : 296 wordsA Flemish deputation has asked Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg (the German Imperial Chancellor) to grant Flanders autonomy on the basis of the Dutch ...
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Article : 250 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported last night as follows:- We to-day attacked on a 1,200 yard front to the eastward of ...
Article : 101 wordsAfter the adjournment of the Congress sine die, President Wilson took the oath of office for his second term. The ceremony was of the utmost ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Berne newspapers state that the German General Staff has been transferred to the Western front, where the Kaiser, and Generals Von Hindenburg, ...
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Article : 156 wordsThe French Minister has discussed with M. Lambr[?]s the payment of damages arising out of the events of December 1 last. M. Lambr[?]s preferred ...
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Article : 135 wordsMr. Philip Gibb[?], in a despatch yes terday, says:—The weather still favours the German withdrawal, the thick fogs making it hard to see 50 yards ...
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Article : 85 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" publishes an interview with Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of England[?] in the course of which he said:—"It needed ...
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Article : 421 wordsMr. Oxenham (secretary to the Postmaster-General's Department) stated today that many inquiries had been made as to whether there were any mails from ...
Article : 80 wordsA wireless message from Berlin intercepted by the British Admiralty, states that Lieutenant-General Wild Von Hohenborn, the German War ...
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Article : 60 wordsPresident Wilson has made a statement, as follows:—"The termination of the session has disclosed a situation unparalleled in the history of the country, ...
Article : 322 wordsThe "Daily Express" correspondent at the British Headquarters in France says that the South African native labour battalion have achieved great ...
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Article : 48 wordsA message from Berlin states that He[?] Zimmermann (Minister of Foreign Affairs), in the course of an interview, said it was impossible to discuss the ...
Article : 120 wordsThe British front now extends from north of Ypres to Roye. Roye, a town with a population of about 6,000, is situated on the Aure ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 6 Mar 1917, Page 5
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